In a world where autoerotic suicide has become the pinnacle of celebrity - and tape has all been burned away by spinning laser discs - from WWE pro-wrestler "Adorable" Adrian Adonis to adult film transgender star Bailey Jay, Women's Cowboy Video Revue obsessively documents the dizzying web of association lines between gender, media, masculinity, and celebrity.
This first collection of poetry by Appalachian writer Wm. Earle Wheeler is an examination of borderline personalities, satirizing the rise of the retro-media VHS movement and its perceived loss of maleness through a cultural lens crafted by Valerie Solanas, William S. Burroughs, and John Hinckley Jr.
The revised edition collects all three chapbooks in the Women's Cowboy Video Revue series ("Denimagnetics," "Adios/Visual," and "Letters to Cinema") with new illustrations by North Carolina artist Andrew James.