Santa Monica Poems

Literature & Fiction

Steve Richmond

Poetry

Sun Dog Press

The Old Ways. Sun Dog Chapbooks, No. 1

Kathleen Ripley Leo

Spinning Off Bukowski

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Richmond, Steve

Crafts & Hobbies

Poetry. ELEGY FOR BOB KAUFMAN is poetry of elegance and feeling, a beautiful tribute to a "gone world." It speaks to the author's youthful memories of a great poet, Bob Kaufman--an enormously complex and difficult man. Cherkovski brings to life San Francisco's bohemian community in the late fifties and early sixties. "Neeli Cherkovski has written a magnificent tribute to the memory of Bob Kaufman. Neeli and Bob were close friends and true colleagues in the art of poetry. This gathering of poems is an expression of an era in San Francisco's North Beach literary community. I recommend it to all readers"--Eileen Kaufman.

Elegy for Bob Kaufman

Cherkovski, Neeli

Lust in America and Other Odd Views of Reality

Garrison, Randall

Short Fiction. SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: The stories within contain unrestrained thoughts, unleashed fantasies and unfiltered ramblings which may lodge between the moist folds of your cerebrum. Call it a literary free fall without a parachute, taking the id on a walk without a leash. This is the way Robert Steven Rhine writes, channeling his subconscious onto the page. The stories range from science fiction to contemporary, fantasy to detective, comedy to horror. But what they all have in common is a dark vision and comedic bent which suck the reader unflinchingly into the extreme of consciousness. Be sure you're ready to taste the stories inside. You can't read just one. DOSAGE: TAKE TWO STORIES AT BEDTIME, NOT TO EXCEED SIX STORIES IN 24 HOURS. May cause night sweats, anxiety, sleeplessness, uncontrollable howling, spontaneous combustion and sheer terror.

My Brain Escapes Me

Rhine, Robert Steven

United States

Fiction. By daring to give everything of himself, his most painful and secretive thoughts, Billy Childish has broken through to a whole new expression never before seen in English writing. Highly personal and uncompromising, NOTEBOOKS OF A NAKED YOUTH is narrated by one William Loveday, an acned youth, possessed of piercing intelligence, acute self-loathing and great personal charm. Haunted by sexual desires, William Loveday leads us on a naked odyssey from the "rust belt" of industrial North Kent to sleazy sex clubs of Hamburg's Reeperbahn--a twilight world of murderous pimps and tattooed hermaphrodites--and a final descent into an expressionist hell. Childish's "fantastic biography" achieves what only the most foolhardy would ever attempt: the unholy union of punk rock, Knut Hamsun and Celine. The result is a hilarious, drunken, un- English voyage into the human shadow--the ultimate antidote to the Oxbridge pretenders and mindless hype of drug culture. One thing separates Childish's voice from all those of his contemporaries: he can write like the devil!

Notebooks of a Naked Youth

Childish, Billy

Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In New York his life is a train wreck and is turned into an upheaval when he gets the call from Los Angeles that his screenwriter father is in a coma and not expected to live. The next three weeks on the streets on the streets of L.A. will change Bruno Dante's life forever. The book expresses the bewilderment of its hero and its author with rawness, crudeness, and shock, and also serves as a very beautiful and touching homage to Fante's famous father John Fante.

Chump Change

Fante, Dan

Cultural Writing. Interviews. Noted Italian critic, translator, and author Fernanda Pivano, came to the United States in 1980 to interview one of the world's singular writers, Charles Bukowski. The complete transcript of that remarkable interview is included in the book, revealing Bukowski to be frank and sometimes shocking. In lengthy and productive sessions, she discovered a man both the same and different than his published works. Surrounding the interview is a generous helping of comment, critique, and warmly worded appraisal.

Charles Bukowski: Laughing with the Gods

Pivano, Fernanda

Religion & Spirituality

Cultural Writing. Memoir. Howard Bone was a sideshow magician virtually his whole working life. During a long, eventful, and adventurous career he lived every aspect of outdoor show business in its golden era. SIDE SHOW captures the flavor of those boisterous times -- the characters, the scenes, the scams, the dodges, the joys and sorrows of carny ways as only an insider could know them. An appealing, amusing and down and dirty glimpse into the rarely depicted nether regions of show business -- Ricky Jay, magician, actor, and author.

Side Show: My Life with Geeks, Freaks and Vagabonds in the Carny Trade

Bone, Howard

Waldron, Daniel

Teller

Humor & Entertainment

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