This book is a collected works of poetry and prose that appeared on
the now defunct Drew Blood Press, Ltd. imprint in 11 different
chapbook titles from 1985 until 1995. It is representative of the
diversity in voice A. Razor developed early on as a poet and prose
writer. The meticulous work to use form and create new styles
within those forms in order to better describe the environment that
the writer was immersed in. A. Razor was out on the streets of
Southern California at a pivotal time in the development of
underground music, art and philosophy that was not attached to the
academic experience for support. As the writer traveled out into
the world more extensively, making alliances with other people that
had a similar experience, he learned to share his viewpoints in
various forms, here the example being the poetic. A. Razor was
supported in his efforts by many in the marginal, anarchistic
community that he was close to, as well as those that stumbled upon
his work through the zine culture that thrived in the 80's. The
most significant form of support came from Drew Blood and his
press, run out of Drew's apartment in Riverside, CA until his death
in the late 90's. This book is a collection of many of the pieces
and a chronology of how they appeared, along with the titles of the
chapbooks they appeared in, up to the year 1995. The author did not
publish any writing again, outside of a few small lit zines and
some on the internet, until 2012, when A. Razor became committed
with Iris Berry to form Punk Hostage Press. A. Razor is now writing
and publishing again, but this collection is a look at where he
came from, where the work first bore it's meaning, where he first
found community and fellowship among other writers, as marginal as
they might have been. It is also a slight window on a time before
the internet, when there were still writers that wrote letters to
each other and traveled around the world seeking out the word in
person, as if their lives depended on it, risking death,
imprisonment and the maltreatment of a status quo that did not seem
to have a need for them. These words have survived, but many of the
people and places that inspired them have not. After some time in
and out of prison, A. Razor just barely survived to bring these
words back into the light. So, if this is anything at all in these
pages, it is a humble testament to that survival and to those that
didn't make it, but are still remembered in these words forever.
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