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38 Bar Blues

Author : C.R. Avery
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904094
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book 38 Bar Blues written by C.R. Avery and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.R. Avery's audaciously charismatic second book, 38 Bar Blues, is a tome of poetry loaded with bar stool musicality and brass knuckle poetry. Welcome to a clear glimpse into a motel 50 miles outside of town, a window into the life of a modern troubadour and the courage of a young father trying to keep the highway of diamonds shining while singing the song of innocence. C.R. Avery's writing flows like a Tennessee Williams stage play, from haiku-size poems to longer erotic tales that sink the reader deeper into backstage smoke of Avery’s worlds. 38 Bar Blues is like a Bob Dylan setlist; a play constructed like a Charlie Chaplain silent film; a book built to make the reader laugh and cry. It all comes out as true music. 38 Bar Blues is the perfectly crafted journal of a living legend. Enter the back-room of an old Italian cafe, where dirty dirty politics, outlaw love, and outrageous beauty are all in the cards.

38 Bar Blues

Author : C. R. Avery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935904083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book 38 Bar Blues written by C. R. Avery and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.R. Avery's audaciously charismatic second book, 38 Bar Blues, is a tome of poetry loaded with bar stool musicality and brass knuckle poetry. Welcome to a clear glimpse into a motel 50 miles outside of town, a window into the life of a modern troubadour and the courage of a young father trying to keep the highway of diamonds shining while singing the song of innocence. C.R. Avery's writing flows like a Tennessee Williams stage play, from haiku-size poems to longer erotic tales that sink the reader deeper into backstage smoke of Averys worlds. 38 Bar Blues is like a Bob Dylan setlist; a play constructed like a Charlie Chaplain silent film; a book built to make the reader laugh and cry. It all comes out as true music. 38 Bar Blues is the perfectly crafted journal of a living legend. Enter the back-room of an old Italian cafe, where dirty dirty politics, outlaw love, and outrageous beauty are all in the cards.

Live For A Living

Author : Buddy Wakefield
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904876
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Live For A Living written by Buddy Wakefield and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tender, jarring and deeply human, Live For A Living is a book of poetry that is pulsing with the same electricity and honesty found in Buddy’s live performances.” - Andrea Gibson; International Poet-Activist

Ceremony for the Choking Ghost

Author : Karen Finneyfrock
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904809
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Ceremony for the Choking Ghost written by Karen Finneyfrock and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her sister to heart failure, Karen Finneyfrock was unable to write poems for three years. Her voice came back, whispering at first, then screaming. Ceremony for the Choking Ghost contains the sound of that voice returning, bringing poems about grief and its effect on the body, the body politic, memory and, of course, poems about love. From the intensely personal, “How My Family Grieved,” to the political, “What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t a Pillar of Salt),” Finneyfrock engages the reader with the chiseled images of a precise storyteller. Finneyfrock writes poetry with muscular verve and narrative push. The depth and breadth suggested in just a few polished images placed next to each other will make you reconsider what poetry can do. -Paul Constant, editor The Stranger If you've never enjoyed poetry once in your whole life-if even the word "poetry" makes you want to fall asleep, or die-you should read Karen Finneyfrock's new book of poetry, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost. -Paul Constant, editor The Stranger ...Finneyfrock's poems, then, are Shields's perfect novels: a shelf full of long, elaborate, heartfelt books that have been whittled down to their bare, sharp skeletons. -Paul Constant, editor “The Stranger”

Help in the Dark Season

Author : Jacqueline Suskin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342220
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Help in the Dark Season written by Jacqueline Suskin and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Help in the Dark Season expose lessons of adult and childhood trauma, relationship joys and failures, and the all-around hard work of true togetherness. Help in the Dark Season explores the pathway of human love as it begins in the dark, moves into parental hands, transfers into to experiments of the heart, grows, breaks, and ultimately transforms us more than any other experience we withstand. Each poem walks us into Jacqueline Suskin’s world, where dreams and sacred visions are just as important as reality, where planet earth is an active character and spouse, and every attempt at love adds up as wisdom worth remembering. There are so many ways for us to access love; these poems map this personal process, uncovering the helpful tools and healing realizations that Suskin has gathered while conjuring up and relentlessly believing in love. Even when it hurts us the most and causes the worst confusion, even when it’s laughable and foolish, these poems aim to provide proof that human connection is crucial and always worth the risk.

City of Insomnia

Author : Victor Infante
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904817
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book City of Insomnia written by Victor Infante and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Insomnia is a book about being lost and what you find when you’re lost. Poetry that explores the landscapes of California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, Infante transforms city streets, love, America’s fractured politics, and his father’s death, unearthing questions about love and loss for which there are no good answers, but near endless emotional terrain to explore.

The New Clean

Author : Jon Sands
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904272
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The New Clean written by Jon Sands and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Sands has traveled into a ridiculous world, where nothing is too hilarious to not be honest, and nothing is too honest to not get you pregnant. Best of all, he’s packed us in his suitcase. He represents an ever-changing population of those raised elsewhere who find themselves beckoned by the history, mystique, and magic-makers of New York City. These poems inhabit their own contradictions, and exquisitely navigate the many complicated sides of what it means to be alive. Jon Sands is a high-stakes, honest poet of wild range. Sands possesses the remarkable ability to celebrate just as deeply as he mourns & whichever city he moves through in his poems ... one can be certain that there will be some singing. That's just what these poems do. - Aracelis Girmay, author Sands scours buses in Queens, faceless bullets, and a city full of “back talk” to find a place where we can all “fall madly in Jon,” and we do. Always fresh, The New Clean is a poetics of triumph - Michael Cirelli, Executive Director of Urban Word-NYC

Working Class Represent

Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904736
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Working Class Represent written by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz celebrates the ups and downs of being a poet with a day job. Whether exulting the mundaneness of office life ("Rules of Slack"), musing about hidden perks of college poetry gigs ("Ode to College Cafeterias") or hilariously defending the use of humor in poetry ("To the Guy Who Said that Funny Poetry Ain't Poetry"), this book continues Aptowicz's tradition of witty, honest and idiosyncratic work. Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz's poems about her working class roots are so entertaining, so poignant, so perfectly incisive, that I almost wish I didn't have a trust fund! - Taylor Mali, The Last Time As We Are ...Cristin's voice is authentically hers. Cristin is better than any robot that vacuums your floor, better than any natural or artificial sweetener. She is better than most tables, which tend to wobble after a while. -John S. Hall, author/musician King Missile

A Choir of Honest Killers

Author : Buddy Wakefield
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342239
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book A Choir of Honest Killers written by Buddy Wakefield and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choir of Honest Killers, Buddy Wakefield's first new book of prose and poetry in eight years, is an episodic novel exploring his creative climb out of the gritty underbelly of anger and shame, into the dissolution of tragedy addiction and the unmistakable clearing ahead. Having toured the world performing poetry for the last eighteen years, navigating the blunt loneliness of life on the road and a rotating cast of unlikely antagonists, Buddy keenly unpacks topics like the intense overcompensation of his masculinity, growing up terribly queer in the south, the detriments of public shame, a toxic fear of intimacy and the devastation of a failed major relationship. Wakefield revs up for his relay race to the light with refreshing humor and insight by finding meditation as the love of his life, accepting bliss and learning to let go. While the poetry in A Choir of Honest Killers undeniably throws plenty of insightful punches, it's the through-story about moving from devastation to frequent serendipity that gives the book pace. But it's worth noting, as Wakefield writes, “Perfect probably isn't what you think it is.” Wakefield is ultimately catapulted through collective misery, landing in a sustainably joyful life governed by awareness, equanimity and a constant thorough understanding of impermanence. A Choir of Honest Killers is the result of a lifetime of intense work, fervent seeking and largely takes aim at an exodus from tragedy addiction, into the transmutation of his self-admitted density.

Over the Anvil We Stretch

Author : Anis Mojgani
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904884
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Over the Anvil We Stretch written by Anis Mojgani and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the country in the shape of his wild surreal poems. These are memories of a life, captured through the blue green filter of the bayou. Mojgani's latest poems are tinged with the sound of crickets spying on us in the darkness. They move forward honestly, brutally and sweetly. The reader will be led into briar patches as well as the moonlight just on the other side. Anvil is a book of poetic truth, packed with humor and insight. It is a juggling act of the epic and the intimate. I read it and it echoes. Shut up so I can hear more. -David Gordon Green, filmmaker, All the Real Girls and The Pineapple Express Anis Mojgani, Andrea Gibson, and other young poets of their talent are the future of American poetry and frankly, that fills me with joy! --Thomas Lux, Guggenheim Fellow & recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book Split Horizons He’s probably the best poetry slammer alive. The intellect, optimism and humility with which he speaks feel like proof of the relevance of “spoken word” as a genre. He processes the world in slices of beauty, frustration and sympathy... -Willamette Week Newspaper

In Search of Midnight

Author : Mike McGee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912292
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Midnight written by Mike McGee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive and incomparable collection from "Mighty" Mike McGee, the class clown of spoken word and poetry slam's geek champion. This debut includes his most notable performance poems, stories, humorous anecdotes and how-to's. This handbook moves between serious love tomes, like "Open Letter to Neil Armstrong" and "Every Day," to his most irreverent and requested works, like "Puddin'" and "Like." A true road-dog, McGee travels with words and camera, many results of which are captured in this collection. The humor contained in these pages are a campfire on a lonely winter night, the poetry – a reason to shout about love.

Sunset at the Temple of Olives

Author : Paul Suntup
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 193590423X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Sunset at the Temple of Olives written by Paul Suntup and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Suntup, like many great artists of their time, has spent years in near obscurity with respect to his poetry. The publication of Paul's first full length book of poetry will finally establish this man as one of the most original and gifted voices of his generation. The imagery and cadence in Paul's poems is nothing short of miraculous. With very few words he is able to speak to our senses in a way that is at once reminiscent of some of the great poets, and at the same time, delivered in his own fiercely original and inventive voice. This long-awaited first book will please fans who have already discovered his writing, and will also open the doors for new readers to enjoy. This collection of poetry will become one of the more prized and admired works from a modern day poet. The world needs to KNOW what a fantastic writer this guy is. Seriously. One of the great unheralded writers of our time. - Victor D. Infante, “City of Insomnia” There is an abiding innocence throughout Paul's work that is impervious to the cynicism of our times, and that is the best thing of all, for it makes him one of the most gifted and original voices of our generation - AmÃ©lie Frank, author

Spiking the Sucker Punch

Author : Robbie Q. Telfer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904930
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Spiking the Sucker Punch written by Robbie Q. Telfer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spiking the Sucker Punch, Robbie Q. Telfer's first published collection, the author profiles the modern comedian from the inside out - starting with the innards and moving toward a damaged laughter. His work blends surrealism and narrative, bending grammar and expectations along the way. These pieces interrogate identity, place, and lead the reader to a much higher understanding of bears. This gloriously bellowed lyrical and linguistic chaos, this ‘mess of crossed wires and mixed seagulls,’ will make your status quo ache, your perceptions implode, your horizons widen and shatter. -Patricia Smith, “Blood Dazzler” Robbie Q, our dazzling shooting star sparking the gritty Chicago heavens, crackling with the surprising and contradictory rhythms of life on the run and in the heat. Keep on, Brother Q, dance the dialectic, your wild inspired unruly convergence and conspiracy. -Bill Ayers, activist/educator/author In Spiking the Sucker Punch, Robbie Q. Telfer rocks out a bestiary of antic poetics all his own. In his open and generous hands, speech acts zoom in and out of our collective desire to live and love. You will feel alive again reading it. -Daniel Nester, “How to Be Inappropriate”

Yesterday Won't Goodbye

Author : Brian S. Ellis
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904132
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday Won't Goodbye written by Brian S. Ellis and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian S. Ellis' second book, Yesterday Won't Goodbye, explores the author’s wild origins and punk rock Americana in powerful poetic form. Brian Stephen Ellis is borne of Gelfling and gutter punk. Unwashable stain ...His poems speak with an unbridled urgency yet come to you patient, coy, brimming with wisdom-and acutely aware of their own necessity. Read these poems. You've never been so alive." -Jeanann Verlee, "Racing Hummingbirds" ...Ellis expertly shifts between free verse poetry and creative non-fiction, consistently producing work that is captivating and original, all while having one of the most dynamic, affective, and unapologetically raw live performances anywhere. -Jared Paul, "Prayers For Atheist"

Rise of the Trust Fall

Author : Mindy Nettifee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904914
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Rise of the Trust Fall written by Mindy Nettifee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mindy Nettifee's second book, Rise of the Trust Fall, her poems possess a magic that can only come from a seasoned writer willing to share more on the page than she’s comfortable with. Whether exploring the strange alchemy of healing, the perils of self-actualization, or the contemporary experience of womanhood, the poems in this daring collection are gorgeous and vibrant, bitingly funny, and unflinchingly honest. Rise of the Trust Fall challenges more than our understanding of ourselves. It calls us to connect to our humanity, to celebrate its flaws, and then to demand more of it, in every well crafted line. Rise of the Trust Fall by Mindy Nettifee is the linguistic orgasm we've all been waiting for, no clit-stims necessary. -BUST Magazine Mindy Nettifee is destined to be the next Dorothy Parker. -Poetic Diversity When award-winning poet Mindy Nettifee speaks...you’re powerless-you have no choice but to raise your wine glass high over your osmosis head and join her pledge of allegiance to graphic truth. Her poems have the grace of cursive letters and the guts of a truck driver. -District Weekly

These Are The Breaks

Author : Idris Goodwin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904159
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book These Are The Breaks written by Idris Goodwin and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Are The Breaks is the debut essay collection of NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and critically acclaimed “indie” rapper, Idris Goodwin. Diverse in scope and wickedly satirical, Goodwin’s poetic essays sample race, class, and culture, transcending the page with hip-hop musicality. A rhythmic blend of biting wit and break-beat poetry, Goodwin’s prose pulses with purpose. Remixing broken dreams and distorted legacies, Goodwin cross-fades past and present, personal and political: Motown’s last vinyl factory juxtaposes against Bronx rap legends battling in open-air arenas; Chicago’s Public School system contrasts against Santa Fe’s tourism industry; an Egyptian child drowns in the Dead Sea as Nat Turner sprints across Death Valley. These Are The Breaks is the literary mixtape of our cacophonous times. These Are The Breaks creates a new literature entirely fresh, authentic and important. Essays from one of hip-hop’s deftest public intellectuals contributing to the fields of prose, creative memoir, race theory, and music history. -Kevin Coval, “Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica) Street smart, culturally sophisticated, ironic, and iconoclastic Idris Goodwin is one of the most talented and multifaceted young artists working today. His work, like the best art practices, helps us to see what we thought was obvious in a new and different way. -Calvin Forbes, “The Shine Poems,” (A) refreshing... powerful and down-to-earth voice. -National Public Radio

Learn Then Burn

Author : Derrick Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904868
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Learn Then Burn written by Derrick Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we’ve heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble with rough language and themes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the F’s and the S’s and the B’s and the Z’s. We’ve provided poems from national slam champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the best of what’s around. We’ve also included some amazing lessons in its companion book for the teacher, sold separately.