I'm tempted to say that this prospective collection of thoughts and scribbles will veer from the ridiculous to the more ridiculous. But that would be a slur on the creator, and so I shall refrain from such malignity. Often, very often, I've been told that I over-introduce my tropical topics with a blizzard of disguising digressions. I'm informed variously that this is helpful, too helpful, not helpful at all, and by Jacko Monahan to "just shut up and read da po-EM."
Inexpicibly, I'm collecting these various thought-episodes into a short prose collection of essays and introductions (and, here and there, a stray letter let loose in the direction of an attentive ear). One feels that these tidbits and tiddlywinks must fare better on their own then when attached like an irreverent dingy to the majesterial ship of a book of poems. Much can already be spotted or skimmed from this website and the various collections from which these words were originally taken. I will be dusting them off and re-writing them for the sake of coherency and tang. What was only hinted at before in the emergent wood of a metaphor shall now be hunted down and turned to trophies.
Partial Contents list:
- The Burning Anvil (Poem)
- Intro
- Meet Me in Botswana: What Is Blast Press?
- Poets at War
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Why Corporations are Right-Wing
- What, Me Talk About Terri Schiavo?
- The Culture of Grievance
- To All the Harried Angels of the Earth
- Poetry and Science Essay
- A Miers Meltdown
- Fuck You, Glory
- John Kochansky, an Appreciation
- O Manifesto! (with Dan Weeks)
- No Plato's Republic
- Questioning the Questions
- Reflections on Reflections
- Stupendous Punk
- Telephone Bar Reading
- The Curse of the Gilded Lily
- The Ideal of Perfect Love
- Vim And Vitriol
