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This book is a humble attempt to show appreciation for all the
support received in 2012 for the author and Punk Hostage Press.
This modestly priced collection is available to you in order to
promote the works that Punk Hostage Press plans on putting forth in
2013 and beyond. Enjoy.
The first verb in SB Stokes' magnum opus, A History of Broken Love
Things, is "wanna." He is a poet of hope, expectation, and desire,
which prepare us for the erratic path of life as it is actually
lived: "a large weepy beast, / a guy with some hats, / a
stark-raging husband, / an ineffectual queen." In the beautifully
titled poem, "dark magick / a solitude by duke," he writes, "The
piano pounds its own heart into bits." But even desolation offers
its glittering souvenir. Read this book and prepare to have your
life lifted, your heart broken. Paul Hoover, editor of Postmodern
American Poetry
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Fractured (Paperback)
Danny Baker; Edited by A. Razor, Iris Berry
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R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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This is a book of language/concrete post-modern paradox poetry that
has the ability to transport the reader into a multi-dimensional
experience of the literary extreme. Carolyn Srygley-Moore is
well-versed in the art of succinct imagery with pertinent line
formations that create an inner and outer exploration in every
verse.
With wit and candor, Hollie Hardy writes for her life. "Break up
your own little tedium," these poems remind us. With their riffs on
existing literature and recurrent crises, Hardy's poems show us
what can be gained from trying old tricks in new ways. Hardy shows
us how to survive a life lived just over the edge. These poems are
playful in the way tussling wolf cubs are playful. They are
physical and practical. They are recognizing and revealing
strength. Camille T. Dungy, author of 'Smith Blue' and 'What to
Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison'
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Blood Music (Paperback)
John Dorsey; Illustrated by Sb Stokes; Edited by A. Razor
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R371
Discovery Miles 3 710
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A collection of Frank Reardon's most recent work that covers the
transitions of the poet as he has traversed the country and
developed his style into a diverse and heartfelt voice that creates
hope inside the turmoil of modern living while painting vivid
images for readers to walk into like a road worn pair of shoes
gifted to a barefoot traveler in order to make it a little bit
further down the road. "Read Frank Reardon at your own risk. He'll
open your heart with a corkscrew and leave you wide-eyed and
longing for more." -Dan Fante, author of Chump Change, Mooch,"86'd"
and Spitting Off Tall Buildings
This book marks the 50 year anniversary of A. Razor in this world.
There are 50 poems in this collection, 'one for each year of my
life', as the author puts it. They are pieces of work written in
the 50th year of this writer's life and shared with readers in this
fund raising effort for Words As Works, a non-profit group that is
dedicated to bringing books, readings and workshops on writing
& publishing to people who are struggling against adversity in
their lives, primarily people in shelters, jails, prisons,
treatment programs, literacy programs and the like. Full proceeds
of this book's purchase go to fund these activities.
"How do we translate the unspeakable language of grief? In the
short, harrowing lines of MOTH WING TEA, Dennis Cruz gives us his
answer. This is the poetics of survival: no adornment, no
romanticizing; only the simple, methodical imagery of a poet saying
out loud. The juxtaposition of fresh paint, chrome, and a suffering
body. The world as explained by one who knows there is more to this
life than simply getting up for work. The unvarnished descriptions
of violence. The voice of Dennis Cruz weaves together a patchwork
of tragedies into a manifesto for poets in the 21st century. As the
poet says: "the fear was never/meant/to dissuade you, /but only/to
heighten/your senses." Read this book, and get to work." -Rich
Villar, Executive Director, Acentos
In this book you will find a diverse style and approach to poetry
and prose writing that speaks of a lyrical lifetime experience not
usually apparent in a premiere collection for a writer. Along with
the experience, there is the craftsmanship of a songwriter, a
modern bard of contemporary musicality. This book is an amble down
the open road as well as the dark alley ways and then across a soft
beach sand and on into vibrant sunsets that shine on contoured
boulevards of dreams both broken and healing. 8th & Agony is a
broad tapestry of wordsmithing that has been assembled here in an
open parade of personal triumphs and pitfalls that coincide with
the scope and vision of a writer who has tuned his work through the
trials of performance in a way that has shared this experience with
numerous audiences and now has been laid bare for the record here
in these pages. Rich Ferguson is a well-heeled spoken word
performer that brings a thespian musicianship to the stage along
with a storied amount of influence and knowledge of the word, hence
the diversity of style and content in this collection. This work is
an exploration of poetic road mapping that convenes inside the
travelogue of a life experience that touches on all the muses have
to bring to bear in this world.
Men in the Company of Women: A Provocative Anthology of Praise
& Persuasion, is a surprisingly, candid, honest and cutting
edge collective of contemporary literature written by men from
across the globe. Each passage is an open door, allowing the reader
a glimpse into the psyche of the male gender and the impact of
women upon it relayed with cinematic vision etched upon the pages.
In often voyeuristic articulation, this compilation of poetry,
short stories & memoir present rare perspectives shared by over
100 brilliant male writers. From wicked to wise, this tome reaches
daring new vistas of insight and intrigue; a full spectrum
anthology certain to leave a searing imprint of unique viewpoints,
never to be forgotten.
The long awaited book from Punk Hostage Press founding editor Iris
Berry, entitled the Daughters Of Bastards, is a ride through the
dirty streets of 1980s Hollywood that never stops delivering the
real taste of a womanhood claiming a place for itself surrounded by
the perverseness of a crumbling mystique that was once a golden
tinseled dreamland.
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.
A Collection Of Prose and Poetry from A. Razor, who has published
and written and shared his work on the road and from inside prison
for many years, now here is the writer's work in one book that
presents many styles and influences all worked out with a genuine
love that has driven a lifetime struggle for peace among the words
of this world.
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