The living room of a student house in London. Emma sits holding a mug of tea. Robbie stands looking out of the window holding a bottle of beer. She is twenty. He is sixty.
ROBBIE: …{read more}
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Review – Son of Kerouac, Woodstock and God: A Memoir by James Crockett
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Son of Kerouac, Woodstock and God / James Crockett / 978-148125581 / 261 pages
As a young man about to embark upon a summer-long hitchhiking trip through the western United States in the mid-1970s, James Crockett was given a second-hand …{read more}
My Father
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Franz Kafka wrote a long letter to his father. It said a lot of what I wanted to say to my father but did not have the words or self-composure or courage to say. So I left it on his …{read more}
splake’s Magic Box
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splake fishing in america. Rockford: Presa Press, 2013
only in my dreams. Springfield: Gage, 2012.
Beyond Campfire Ashes. Battle Creeek: Gage, 2012.
Backwater Bard Loft Musings. Fort Wayne: The Moon, 2009.
Le Metrop 2012. Ed …{read more}
Jenny Lynn
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Cold wind is building and ready. It is not understood the pent feelings that have suddenly surfaced after long and even further back and then along the slow moving world and probably before the long awaited return of a Gypsy …{read more}
Straight Pool
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It was nineteen-sixty-two, Saturday, a hot afternoon.
“Whadaya want to do?”
“I don’t know. Whadaya want to do, Kenny?” I answered. “Maybe we could go up to New Rochelle and play pool.” I was addicted to pool at that time. …{read more}
Poetry Book Review: SPRUNG by Laura Madeline Wiseman
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SPRUNG by Laura Madeline Wiseman / San Francisco Bay Press, 259 Granby St. Suite 200, Norfolk, VA 23517 / 2012 / 100 pages / 978-0982829578
There’s fun in these irreverent poems, but also a serious look at gender and sexuality. …{read more}
Hear That Lonesome Whistle
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I started drinking while the Wyoming sky was pink and you could still see forever. Earlier that day I found just enough smack to keep me from being sick. It got me moving. It got me out in the sun. …{read more}
from a novel-in-progress . . . .
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We backtracked from the northern path after losin’ our way, me n’ my brother, to Tempest County. We’d been on n’ indian trail for three days, movin’ by night, restin’ in orchards n’ groves n’ swamps and two times …{read more}
Review – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver
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Raymond Carver’s classic short story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, was originally published in 1981 and has been the subject of some controversy over the years, with questions raised about the importance of editor …{read more}
Typewriter Experiment #1: Getting to Know You
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A few months ago I bought an Olivetti typewriter with the goal of experimenting with the way the creative process changes when writing on a typewriter versus writing on a computer. This image is a scan of my first attempt, …{read more}
Wankers, Burds, and Skag: Heteroglossia in Trainspotting
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Mikhail Bakhtin, a twentieth century Russian philosopher and semiotician, was a theorist who worked heavily in literary theory, as well as the philosophy of language. One of his major concepts regarding the philosophy of language addresses the variations and dialects …{read more}
Review – The Beauty of being Hated by Jack Leaf Willetts
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Many of the poems in Jack Willetts’ debut poetry collection, The Beauty of being Hated, explore the way we label and think about feelings. Here are the pain and hope that spring, intertwined, from the aftermath of failed relationships …{read more}
An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts
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Jack, your new poetry collection, The Beauty of being Hated, has just been published. What can you tell us about it?
It was hard to live and hard to write. It was written out of a series of negative …{read more}
7 Examples of Constrained Writing
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Constrained writing has drawn both glowing support and vehement opposition. Some claim it to be an evocative demonstration of the notion that less is more. Others see it as a cheap parlor trick that limits expression and creates a screen …{read more}
‘Seven Years in Tibet’ by Heinrich Harrer – Book Review
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‘Seven Years in Tibet’; or ‘Siben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama’ in its original German edition, is the autobiographical adventures of Austrian explorer Heinrich Harrer, between 1944 and 1950. The story is probably best …{read more}
Poetry Review: Waterloo, by J.T. Welsch
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Waterloo
J.T. Welsch
Like This Press
Saddle-Stitch, 36 pages
The twenty-four numbered but untitled poems, and almost as many monochrome images, of J.T. Welsch’s Waterloo begin with a wake. The first poem quickly makes clear that though a death may …{read more}
The Beauty in Hatred: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Theory in De Profundis
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Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.Psalm 130
Composed in January through March of 1897 in Reading Prison, Berkshire, De Profundis is a letter …{read more}
Uncle Fred
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[Editor's note: F.N. Wright was a novelist, artist, and poet, whose work was published widely in the small press.]
Uncle Fred and I once thought up a name for our dream bookstore. It would be called Tangents. I’ve always thought …{read more}
Jack Kerouac’s Books
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This is a listing of Jack Kerouac’s books, arranged by their date of publication. We’ve also noted the date(s) when the book was written. If the book covers a particular period of time, we’ve noted the approximate dates. …{read more}
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Lawrence McGaugh
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Bay Area poet Lawrence McGaugh was the author of “A Fifth Sunday” and other volumes.
Lawrence McGaugh Selected Bibliography
A Fifth Sunday
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. Beautifully Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 500 copies. Stapled in …{read more}
Review – Time Adjusters & Other Stories
by Bill Ectric
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The modern fables that make up Bill Ectric’s new collection of stories, Time Adjusters, are difficult to classify, in the best way possible. They seem a comic-book mishmash of science fiction and magical realism, one turn of the screw …{read more}
Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)
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Jim sat at the library table with his head in his hands. He didn’t want to go to jail. Yesterday morning he prided himself in caring nothing for possessions, but today, all the people who could have been his friends …{read more}
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I first found Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind while an undergraduate, finding the wry attacks on the established order refreshing and invigorating. Ferlinghetti protests and rages against the madness of the nuclear age, against the misuse of …{read more}
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac is primarily lauded for his keen understanding of male friendship. The female characters of On the Road or The Dharma Bums never really achieve the reader’s interest the way the males do. But Kerouac is also a writer …{read more}
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
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Like a weird, mutated ogre muttering to himself by the roadside, Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Cody stands apart. As the author states in his short introduction, “I wanted a vertical metaphysical study of Cody’s character and its relationship to the …{read more}
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
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When Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 was written in 1967, an overweight and severely alcoholic Jack Kerouac had only two years to live. Chronicling the years just before his adventures with Neal Cassady, his last complete volume takes …{read more}
Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac
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Dr. Sax is one of Jack Kerouac’s most troubling books for readers, peering behind the curtain of his childhood rather than exploring those later years of Beats and bodhisattvas. Nevertheless, it remains a startling achievement, unique not only among Kerouac’s …{read more}
Bill Ectric – Tamper
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Tamper, the new book by Bill Ectric, frames itself as a boy named Whit’s effort to comprehend his past. Did he have a prophetic dream about a bag of bones on the side of the road? Did his friend …{read more}
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Here you can view my reviews on Amazon.com – Denise
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Poetry Review – Unhurried Vision by Michael Rothenberg
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Unhurried Vision
La Alameda Press, Alburquerque, NM, 2004
Unhurried Vision, and in this manner so it reads, from one new year to the next scribing a journal of living (1999) poetically in the moment, a creative endeavor of complex …{read more}
