BOOKS I WISH I'D WRITTEN

The Dwarf: Per Lagerkvist
Ice: Anna Kavan
The Death of Napoleon: Simon Leys
Empire of the Senseless: Kathy Acker
The Restraint of Beasts: Magnus Mills
The Guards: Ken Bruen
Journey to the End of the Night: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Onion-Eaters: J.P. Donleavy
Tintin In the New World: Frederic Tuten
All Strange Away: Samuel Beckett
Krapp's Last Tape: Samuel Beckett
Abel's Island: William Steig
Alien Tatters: Clark Coolidge
A Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami
How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life: John Fahey

Post-Empire

His knees encircled with blood seas. Some days, he says, are troubled, counter to, rather than survival and the continuation. Fighting to keep his lips from quivering.

Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld.

POST-EMPIRE, my prosaic, poetic & visual meditation on the graspings and the whitherings of the tentacles of empire, has just been published by Blue Lion Books (Espoo, Finland & West Hartford, Connecticut) as a print-on-demand book available through CaféPress at:

http://www.cafepress.com/bluelionbooks66

Cover design is by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen and text design is by Peter Ganick.

Blue Lion Books publishes experimental poetry, visual poetry, and fiction. They specialize in books over 250 pages long, believing that an idea, if expressed, should be expressed in its fullest manner. Visit http://bluelionbooks.info for catalogue and submission info.

Firestarter I waver in front of l'Hotel-God, between l'ambiance hatched in the clutches of pure physics and the mergez/frites which assembles me. Noise, speech, rumors appear suddenly on the street.

The moment of turbulence is imagination scattered all over the swerve, charging and releasing accumulated energy. Then c'est the hard return towards closed eyes and the rain fall to n'en more.

I am réincarnée thirty thousandths times the bad beer and Blaster Ghetto d'avant war (Gulf. The First.) on the quays of Seine, the crowned whole in the grip of unimaginable shit-crossed discrepancies of scale.

Other recent written work of mine is online at:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/xstream/?skip=8
http://www.20six.co.uk/mdr/archive/2005/09/
http://www.20six.co.uk/mdr/archive/2005/10/

and some older visual work is at:

http://collageworks.blogsome.com/