Wars. Threesomes. Drafts. & Mothers plays with September 11. It’s a book on war. A book of hate toward the United States. A book of love toward ghosts. Several stories are triggered around the war against Iraq, among them the story of a couple of…
Category: Volume 3
These poems take the form of obituaries mourning lives that have been lost in the current War in Iraq. Attempting to exclude no group from this public display of grief, alongside obituaries for Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police, there are obituaries for American soldiers, suicide…
Gary Sullivan came over for a visit and we talked about blogs. He said, “Get an idea of what you want to do and a title and go with that.” Walking around Central Park on a cold day in January 2003, I thought about my…
Chanteuse / Cantatrice is a book about collaboration and complicity. Chanteuse starts with the surreal singer or radio operator giving voice to whose message, why, and ends with the absurd message of war and peace we hear, perpetuating it. “Ni de votre guerre, ni de votre paix.” Cantatrice begins…
Between a Cadillac and a Valiant sitting idly in the snow, Scrapmetal takes a provisional journey through the experience of work and the untangling of vampiric forces that sever life from our record of it. Part primer and part example, Scrapmetal offers a method of…