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“If you’re losing your soul and you know it …”

“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.”

— Charles Bukowski, in his short story “A Dollar and Twenty Cents,” Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1967

 

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Cover to “Batman” #26, Brian Stelfreeze, 2007

DC Comics.

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My poetry will be included in Newington Blue Press’ “100 Years of Bukowski” chapbook!

I have some really damned cool news, guys — two poems of mine will be featured in an upcoming limited-edition chapbook in Europe commemorating what would have been the 100th birthday of Charles Bukowski!  Newington Blue Press announced today that it will release 100 Years of Bukowski (100 Jahre Bukowski) next week.

The chapbook will be 68 pages long, and this initial run will consist of just 100 numbered copies.  Its featured writing and art were selected to showcase “a conversance and artistic involvement with the phenomenon of Bukowski.”  The poems of mine to be included are “Guerrilla Poet” and “First Smoke.”  I am grateful indeed to Newington Blue Press for allowing me to be a part of such a unique publication.

You can pre-order an advance copy of the chapbook via the publisher right here.

Newington Blue Press is based in Germany and the United Kingdom.

 

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Photo credit: GFreihalter / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Study for “Memory of Ivancice,” Alfons Mucha, circa 1903

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Authorizing these books was truly the wisest decision I’ve ever made.

Even the wardrobe is spot on.

 

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Cover to “Blackest Night” #1, Ivan Reis and Oclair Albert, 2009

DC Comics.

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EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM.

Author: Laurence W. Britt.

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Cover to Stephen King’s “Mr. Mercedes,” 2014

Scribner.

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“Männlicher Akt mit Flöte,” Franz von Stuck

“Male Nude with Flute.”

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