What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? What if they mutated into giant... More > shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI, raised Burroughs’s wife from the dead, and tweaked the H-bombs of Los Alamos? A wild beatnik adventure, compulsively readable, hysterically funny, with insane warps and twists—and a bad attitude throughout.< Less
Jack Kerouac, the Patron Saint of the Road, the archetypal beatnik, really did say it best in "On the Road," the Holy Bible of wanderers and free spirits seeking something more:... More > “Behind us lay the whole of America and everything I had previously known about life… We had finally found a magic land at the end of the road and we never had dreamed the extent of the magic.”
Amen, brother. And we were only getting started.< Less
Mi hanno chiesto di parlare un po' del beat, di come a Lucca si svolse, delle cose che furono fatte. E io ho accettato volentieri, anche se vorrei buttar giù a ruota libera solo quello che mi... More > viene in mente. Certo è che la città di Lucca, sonnolenta e conservatrice, sembrerebbe la meno adatta ad ospitare un fenomeno del genere. Però proprio in questa città, anche nel passato vi sono state delle sorprese.< Less
Mi hanno chiesto di parlare un po' del beat, di come a Lucca si svolse, delle cose che furono fatte. E io ho accettato volentieri, anche se vorrei buttar giù a ruota libera solo quello che mi... More > viene in mente. Certo è che la città di Lucca, sonnolenta e conservatrice, sembrerebbe la meno adatta ad ospitare un fenomeno del genere. Però proprio in questa città, anche nel passato vi sono state delle sorprese.< Less
Fractured Thoughts And A Broken Typewriter is a collection of experimental poetry from the author of Nucleus Metropolis. At times the work of Jason Crane can be serene and beatific, at other times... More > showing a sorrowful strain of emotion while delving into the depths of his psyche, to bring the reader through a strata of perceptions, only to be brought back to the clarity of the self.< Less
Fractured Thoughts And A Broken Typewriter is a collection of experimental poetry from the author of Nucleus Metropolis. At times the work of Jason Crane can be serene and beatific, at other times... More > showing a sorrowful strain of emotion while delving into the depths of his psyche, to bring the reader through a strata of perceptions, only to be brought back to the clarity of the self.< Less
Poems about hope in the face of disappointment from award-winning performance poet and Literary Death Match winner , with a lyrical confessional style that takes in equal amounts from Ferlinghetti,... More > Tracey Emin, and Patti Smith’s Just Kids. These poems celebrate the healing powers of time, non-violence, and remembrance but above all carry a simple message:
Celebrate the lives of those you love because one day they won’t be with you any longer and you’ll be left writing poetry about how you wish you’d loved them more.< Less
Rumor has it that Ryan Connell could easily defeat a bear in hand to hand combat, but one will never know. He always talks to the bear, befriends it, and then takes it sailing.
Another, more... More > relevant, thing about Ryan Connell is that he writes poems sometimes. Some poems are funny. Some are serious. Some are funny even though they were meant to be serious.
This is his book. You should buy it.< Less
Rumor has it that Ryan Connell could easily defeat a bear in hand to hand combat, but one will never know. He always talks to the bear, befriends it, and then takes it sailing.
Another, more... More > relevant, thing about Ryan Connell is that he writes poems sometimes. Some poems are funny. Some are serious. Some are funny even though they were meant to be serious.
This is his book. You should buy it.< Less
Jack Kerouac’s Confession chronicles the journey of a burnt-out poet-journalist whose descent into madness and desperation is interrupted when he re-discovers a long-forgotten connection with... More > the young Jack Kerouac. The reader is taken on a riveting road trip of white-hot passion, betrayal and near-death, leading finally to Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac’s hometown, where the poet hears Jack Kerouac’s confession and learns the world’s greatest secret.< Less
