Virga

Literature & Fiction

Zieher, Scott

Poetry

Emergency Press

The voices in IMPATIENCE are a friendly squad of famished rats chewing through a stack of old magazines. Herein, some people die alone in the middle of the ocean, others buy the most fashionable dishwasher, some people sell wooden forks and others eat Bermuda onions with fresh New Jersey tomatoes and a touch of sugar. Small narratives, real and imagined, crop up throughout the poem's 52 sections-- there's a recipe for curried chicken and a receipt for fried bologna sandwiches delivered by a Manhattan hotel room-service bellboy named Chet. These are shuffled in with leaves from an obscure middle-western train stationmaster's dream diary complete with redheads from Yonkers in pencil skirts and a brief appearance of Three Martini Marlow in a road race with Road Hog Roger. Awards are given for salesmanship while open calls for summer swimming camp compete over first place with headlines for the death of a famous Hungarian magician who told reporters he was from Wisconsin. Reading this book you will scan all 50 of the United States and our two protectorates with a peripatetic gaze--dive into the brimming waters, the pace is brisk but the competition is cordial. Based loosely on a map of the 1965 World's Fair, this is the second in a thirteen volume sequence of book-length works, following 2005's acclaimed Emergency Press Book Contest Award winner VIRGA. An interview with the poet follows IMPATIENCE, with insights into his fascination with the number thirteen and a disambiguation on the inherent contradictions in the concept of projective verse via Charles Olson's chain-smoking. To read this book sit back, open a can of beer and a foil-wrapped envelope of processed cheese food to smear on your wax-wrapped sleeve of enriched flour crackers and enjoy your heritage like a true patriot.

Impatience

Gentry

In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the effects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs, presented for the first time in Band of Bikers, offer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of an entire generation at its carefree zenith. Newly aware of muscle and biker magazines and their heavy-handed eroticism, photographer and photographed brim with a subtly vibrant, chromatic pride. The photographs as a whole bring into focus a brief, specific period of relative innocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more often than not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones of their most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual light cast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality and underground motorcycle chic, to vernacular photography’s pop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spirit of camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Like a real-world set for Scorpio Rising casually captured by an unpretentious extra, presented as Band of Bikers and accompanied by an essay by Zieher, this found cache of old-school, leather party snapshots attains archeological significance.

Band of Bikers 1962/1972

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

powerHouse Books

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