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Come Back, Bear is Gerald Locklin's long awaited sequel to The Case
of the Missing Blue Volkswagen. Where Locklin explored the
subconscious and the idea of the detective novel in the first
novella of the series, here he delves into the Western novel and
the idea of loyalty. Locklin is at his best here as he becomes
irreverent in his relationships, his love of the classic cowboy
novel, and his view of America.
Spanning a 40-year timeframe, 1967-2007, GERALD LOCKLIN: New and
Selected Poems features many of this esteemed poet's most iconic
and memorable poems.
The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen is Gerald Locklin's classic
post-modern epic of Los Angeles and gumshoe detectives. At once
homage and spoof, the novella follows Bear, a private detective, as
he searches for the eponymous blue Volkswagen through the meanest
streets of the West Coast and into a more dangerous world, his
subconscious. The novella is at once a comedy, a discussion of the
detective genre, and a look into the various cultures and
subcultures of the 1970s.
Last Tango in Long Beach completes Gerald Locklin's trilogy of
post-modern novellas that began with The Case of the Missing Blue
Volkswagen and continued with Come Back, Bear. In this final story,
Locklin explores the 1970s sex drama but backs away from his
classic humor to take an inside look at the politics of a real
couple. It takes a painfully accurate view of the way life can be
in the long run even with people who love each other.
Ellen sat waiting in the Buick while Fr. Dean Finn checked in at
the motel office. He always registered them as Mr. and Mrs. George
Adams of Syracuse, New York. There was no objection to a couple
without luggage taking a room for a couple of hours at the
Hit-the-Sack. The desk clerk, a poorly-shaven, perpetually smirking
man of thirty-five lewd years, had managed, in the midst of an
ambiance of sexuality which should have inoculated him against
disgust, to cultivate a urinal of a mind. People came to his office
thinking of their affair as a matter of love or fun or nature or
bawdry or even mystical oneness. The desk clerk never allowed these
patrons to raise him to their level of innocence. Rather, he saw to
it that their ecstasies were not unashamed. His grin evoked for
them the puritanism of their parents, the prurience of the
adolescent gang, the hellfire of the preachers, the chancres of sex
hygiene movies, the self-consciousness of the stag party. Finn
hated the man; he was always tempted to sprinkle holy water on him.
Modest Aspirations brings small press veteran, Gerald Locklin, and
newcomer Beth Wilson together in this new collection of poems and
short stories. Fans of Locklin's poems will not be disappointed by
these "new poems" -- he is at the top of his game here. And
complimenting the poems are eight short stories by Beth Wilson.
They have never been published before, so this is Wilson's debut.
48 Poems, two short stories and one disquisition with reproductions
from the author's handwritten manuscript, two full-color and two
monochrome reproductions of photographs by the author, and a
panoramic photo image extending to front and back covers.
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