Discovered on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Gone Sane Christal Rice Cooper River King Press 195 pgs $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-9650764-4-9 The Ressurection The blood thickened and chilled her body. His seed branded her tight white thighs,Stinging—more potent with each spill. Oh, what a sexy guy! He makes her say itover, over. Her blonde-boned body convulses in the snow, and an owl calls from the bloody bed. Run! She tries, leaves her corpse dead stiff, and stands in places where men are insects to crush. She rips at his wings with her teeth, and watches h... read more »
Discovered on Saturday, February 04, 2012
The Distance BetweenJulie Valin Six Ft. Swells Press Grass Valley, CA 50 pgs $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-43672-1-473 ScarsYou promisedyou would kissevery one of themif you could find them. I would scar theminto me all over againif I believed you. According to the brief biological note at the end of this collection, Julie Valin is a literary harlot. When she isn’t writing poetry, reading two books at once, playing Word Mole on her smart phone, or reading bedtime stories to her little girl, Julie is a freelance cop... read more »
Discovered on Monday, January 30, 2012
The Accidental NavigatorHenry Denander Lummox Press San Pedro, CA125 pgs$15.00 ISBN: 978-929878-88-8The Last StanzaI had a letter from a magazine saying hepassed on my poems, which is fine of course, butin the end he added that he really liked one of my poems up to the last stanza which he didn’t like at all. I liked the letter from the editor except his last stanza.Let me say this right up front; Henry Denander is one of my favorite poets. I know-- I know what you’re going to say. A book reviewer should... read more »
Discovered on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Round Earth, Open SkyKirpal Gordon Giant Steps PressFreeport, NY185 pgs $14.95ISBN: 978-0 615-47673-5The memory of the nights I had drunk blood and eaten flesh under the full moon became firmly lodged in me: a compulsion, a menace always waiting there, a grief and a fare too ancient, a sorrow bred into the essence of the race, a lodestone too old for any individual to fight away from, or even to know and place accurately. First off, let me say that I really enjoy novels that I cannot find in my local bo... read more »
Discovered on Monday, January 16, 2012
Vindicated in the Blood of the LambJohn Bennett Bottle of Smoke Press Dover, DE$10.00 On the Seventh DayAnother weekin the tar pitsHere I stand with a kerosene-soakedrage, ready toclean myself up for a day of rest To say that John Bennett is one of my favorite writers is doing the man a great disservice. Bennett is one of those writers who pulls no punches. He is all gut and grizzle, and this small little book (and I do mean small) from Bottle of Smoke Press is an absolute charm, handsomely bound, and be... read more »
Discovered on Friday, January 13, 2012
The Map of TimeFelix J PalmaAtria BooksNew York, NY609 pgs $26.00 ISBN: 978-1-4391-6739-7Andre Harrington would have gladly died several times over if that meant not having to choose just one pistol from among his father’s vast collection in the living room cabinet. The Map of Time, in my opinion, recalls the science fiction of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, then takes these early masters and turns them on their heads with a brilliant and breathtaking new voice. This is an inventive and luscious story with ... read more »
Discovered on Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The Exegesis of Philip K. DickEdited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem Houghton Mifflin HartcortBoston, MA 944 pgs $40.00 ISBN: 978-0-547-54935-5 Reviewed by BL KENNEDY4:1 In Ubik the forward moving force of time (or time-force expressed as an ergic field) has ceased. All changes result form that. Forms regress. The substrate is revealed. Finally! After years of waiting, the estate of Philip K. Dick releases the closest thing we will ever have as far as an insight goes into this very original America... read more »
Discovered on Thursday, January 05, 2012
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The LettersEdited by Bill Morgan and David StanfordViking Press 499 pgs$14.95ISBN: 978-1-61129-305-0Oh shit, another collection of letters from Jack Kerouac. I can’t say no; I mean, after all, I graduated the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. So you might say that my mind swells with Kerouac. You know, it wasn’t that long ago I was living in the Bronx and walking with my buddy the late Michael Dyson, who was a great writ... read more »
Discovered on Wednesday, January 04, 2012
The Dime DetectivesRon GoulartThe Mysterious PressNew York, NY 247 pgs$17.95ISBN: 0-89296-191-0The hare-boiled private eye, cynical, and yet often sentimental, made his initial appearance as a fully evolved character in the 1920s. His first showed up in the untrimmed pages of the pulpwood fiction magazines, but within a decade he was to be found between the covers of hardbound books issued by respectable publishers, on movie screens across the nation, and even in the funny papers. I have a serious addict... read more »
Discovered on Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The Cabinet of What You Don’t SeeTantra Bensko ISMs PressManchester, UK $5.00 Drawer SevenNotes to put under the dresses of the dolls. To pin in there, to their vaginas. To give birth to words. To give birth to the story. Cut into strips with little scissors. These don’t glow in the dark. They lie there and do nothing. You can’t read them. You often believe you can read them in your dreams. They almost tell you the answer. It is no secret that I have a soft spot in my heart for Tantra Bensko. The author ... read more »
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