MR. JASPER'S
PARKING LOT
2011
ANTARES

A selection of poems written in the period from 2007 to early 2011.




"...You could see the city from a distance, blue, and wonder about all that went on there: Schools for dance and drama in brownstone buildings nestled in the shade between high rise business in the center of the city. The smell of burned sugar. Men wearing ties carrying briefcases with papers with hundreds of thousands of carefully chosen and typeset words. Further out the garbage heaps with seagulls flocking over them..."

(31 pages, English.) Read it online here.

2011
LIGHTS / OUT

"Exterminate all rational thought." that is the conclusion Bill Lee has come to with regard to writing, in David Cronenberg's movie adaptation of Naked Lunch. Charles is forever busy using what appears to be sleeping gas on himself and those around him in an attempt to apply Bill's conclusion not to writing but to a vacation into nonsensical bliss.

(98 pages, English, b&w.) Read it online here or buy a hardcopy for $5.95  here.

2010
CATALOG OF DRUNK BIRDSONG

What if a zombie, put together from parts of Robert Crumb, George Herriman and Chester Gould, attempted to make a comic strip with a Hemingway-like narrative, in the setting of a Bukowski novel while Harvey Pekar is looking over it's shoulder constantly criticizing. Now add an aversion to plot and a craving for postmodern fragmentation. Well, it probably would be great... This is all there is.

(70 pages, English, b&w.) Read it online here or buy a hardcopy for $5.95  here.

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