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Dennis Weiser's
CRASH DUMMIES
Literary Emporium
Dennis Weiser (Author-Publisher)
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
United States
sita.dcw@gmail.com
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Print: $17.00 When Marty Kayo agrees to deliver $4 million in cash to the Contras, rogue FBI and CIA agents plan to kill him for the money. A volatile mix of arms and drugs is about to combust in a quaint Honduran village with a tortuous Indian name no one seems able to spell—a town steeped in ancient iniquity, exotic betrayal and sorcery—as freelance operatives Bruce Leighton and Mira Urbaniak race to Central America. Will they arrive in time to save Marty? Assassins are already en route—the only ones who know the courier's identity!
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Print: $16.00 In his fifth collection of original poems, the author of Chin Music and Verdigris displays his mastery of form in short works like “Poetry’s Dark Side” and “Form for Fiction,” eleven English sonnets, and an ode to French romantic writer Jacques Prévert. Many delights and surprises await the reader—from a gnome-like remembrance of poet Howard Nemerov to a discovery of the Muse in the routine of domestic life. “On the Inability to Distinguish Child from Fetus”, “What Your Abiding Quest” and “The Difficulty of All Things” display a gift for grasping America’s cultural quandary and the eternal plight of youth. There is something here for every age and taste. This is a poet who finds lyrical majesty and mystery in the commonplace: an elegy for the family dog, the elegant simplicity of “The Girl on the Bicycle” and—not least of all—the stunning universal poem that gives this work its title.
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Print: $17.00 ALLEGORY
What is love? What is suffering? What is a human life for? Felix Weimar seeks the answers to these questions as he struggles to find his place in the world. Yet the more he contends, the more he is overwhelmed and perplexed by the ruthless rush of events, a futile circling back of memory, and the worm of self-annihilation at the base of desire—drawing him back into a legend or parable where he must confront the ultimate mystery of his own existence.
Felix’s journey combines the realistic and surreal as his life unfolds episodically before our eyes, evoking both the glorious heights and tragic depths of experience. A modern roman à clef, Allegory chronicles a perilous adventure and quest for the elusive meaning of family values, the search for love, and the inescapable demands of spirituality.
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Print: $17.00 What is the relationship between an artist's life and the imaginative work he creates? Here are 15 fictions that explore various facets of this question, including…a Twilight Zone-esque parable of race hatred and genocide, blended family values, a fateful college acid trip, an evocation of a deckhand's life on the Mississippi, a father-son fishing trip with existential overtones, and a risque send-up of Frank Capra's holiday classic.
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is/2is/2 (book)
Print: $16.00 Two volumes of original poetry, Chin Music and Verdigris, each with its own preface; the original preface to KYKLOPS; plus a brand new preface to the overall volume; nonsense verse; mythology; Greek mythology; Norse mythology; love; romantic love; religiosity; spirituality; current events; Bush regime castigated; Elian Gonzales; Columbine; death penalty; corporate multinationals and transnationals; Exxon-Mobil; Microsoft; CIA, GTO; WTO, INF, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Chevron-Texaco; corporate democratic state; Vietnam; George Bush, Laura Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld; Texas; barbecue; tea; The Odyssey; politics; baseball; Ronald Reagan; Reagonomics;"The Wolf Man"; lawyers; Lon Chaney, Jr., Ralph Bellamy; Claude Rains; Bela Lugosi; Evelyn Ankers; childhood; Alzheimers; entrepreneur's primer; the Muse; humor; Edward Lear; Lewis Carroll; Louis Simpson; William Stafford; Howard Nemerov
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Print: $16.00 A scifi-fantasy novella & grim satire of corporate culture, the adventures of Sam Marz and the superior beings who come to save Earth from itself, and human beings from their darker side.
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Print: $16.00 "I am no naturalist," I blatantly announce…For me, poetry has everything to do with intellect, spirit and—especially—feeling.…45 poems dealing with childhood, love, nature, language, mortality, eternity, aesthetics and the sublime. From the author of is/2 {Chin Music and Verdigris}, Allegory and Crash Dummies.
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Print: $16.00 A collection of poetry from the "Taoist master of the sentence" with a new preface, "A Few Hot Hands."
Small discourtesies, mother may I?, my mother's clouds, in the color of each day, elegy for todd, heir, for my father, new world, fifties baby, 9 new poems, second sight, the station, brigit, alzheimersville, chin music, seeing-eye girl, three tears for the viner, voice, hidden song, after the dawn, texas barbecue & tea.
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Print: $14.00 A refreshing and entirely original work in practical theology, which takes seriously the eschatology of Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and offers a modern interpretation of three key concepts of Christian theology: faith, death and resurrection. Weiser examines classical arguments of Anselm, Aquinas and Descartes, providing an appendix on logic and epistemology. Also considered: atheism, gods and goddesses, Calvinism, Jesus' mission, intelligent design, Christian ethics, science and religion. This is a book that clears the air of cant and drivel, consigning the evangelical bunk of Pat Robertson and Jack Van Impe to the flames.
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Print: $12.99 The first published collection of poetry by distinguished poet, Paul Lawrence Stebbing.
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Print: $16.00 30 new poems written since 2001, about love, reflection, contemplation, awe, humor, irony and the sublime. Original cover design by the author.
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SCRIMSHAW PRESS
Poetry Belles-Lettres & Fiction
a discerning publisher for discriminating writers and readers…home of imprimaturs October Surprise and ParOusia Press.
CRASH DUMMIES
Now there's a metaphor for the age—and maybe the ages.
Crash Dummies suffer…so we might live.
New, from October Surprise!
Poet, novelist and philosopher, Dennis Weiser is a former editorial page columnist at The Kansas City Business Journal and book reviewer for NPR affiliate KCUR-FM in Kansas City, Missouri. Dennis has published articles, poetry and fiction in Chouteau Review, Thorny Locust, Abramelin, New Letters and p.r.n., as well as several anthologies from Outrider Press. “Excellence”, a parable of genocidal race hatred, was the featured “Original Fiction” in the April 2004 issue of The Illuminata, a webzine of science fiction and fantasy from Tyrannosaurus Press. Dennis has read at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Prospero’s Books, The Way Out Club and Venice Café. An excerpt from his novel, Crash Dummies, won first prize for prose fiction at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago and was published in Things That Go Bump in the Night (Outrider Press 2004). His profile was recently included in Who’s Who in the World (2007). His most recent publication, “Hidden Song”, appears in a work of architecture/criticism, The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City: Topo/Graphis Press 2007). Dennis holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Westminster College and an M.A. in Philosophy from The University of Kansas. Currently finishing a screenplay adaptation of Crash Dummies, Dennis lives and writes in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is a member of The Writers Place.
"…funny, provocative, sordid, and steamy. Though set in another, equally duplicitous time, CRASH DUMMIES is as modern as the Imperial Presidency.…a profound satire of immoral lives and amoral times."
—Dexter Schraer, 25-year veteran writing teacher, St. Louis, Missouri
“…a well-executed…funny, libidinous farce & ascerbic satire. As Tom Conti observes in Ruben!Ruben!, ‘There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.’”
—Thomas Mitchell, Northwest Pac
"Simply wonderful. Dennis Weiser is…a Taoist master of the sentence."
—James Inman, author of Greyhound Diary
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