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The Greatest Art is to Endure

“This was a short-run for a reading – poems about being unable to focus, not going on vacation, slang, and gin and tonics. All of this was absorbed into other books, i’m sure.” (2020) The Greatest Art is to Endure, 56…

Transparency 2000

“Transparency 2000 is a collection of scanned transparency sheets used to burn screens – i’d say the bulk of these t-shirts would date from 2008-2012. I partially just wanted to get rid of them, knowing i’d never reprint any of…

Video Nasty

“This was all the research into mondo film ads, originally made for [redacted] to use for bootleg t-shirt ideas. These were too good to just forget.” (2020) Video Nasty, 160 pages / Desire Assistance BooksSecond Edition: 2021PurchaseFlip-ThroughPDF

The Winner of Every Single Poetry Prize

“This was definitely made for a reading – probably 50 of these exist, no more. Poems about nosebleeds, virtue, and apocalypse scenarios, definitely reprinted in another form sometime after.” (2020) The Winner of Every Single Poetry Prize, 63 pages / Desire…

Hypochondriac

“Locktown turned me a bit loopy. I was convinced I was dying, but not from Covid – instead I was dying from a thousand minor ailments at once. This pretty much details my WebMD-induced hypochondria and the hunt for aftermarket…

Perversion to Match the Curtains

“This is the first notecard novel, probably – assembling my notes, culled from other books and the news and whatever else I had been reading, into somewhat of a David Markson-esque book of mental detritus. For mine, however, there is…

‘Tesoro,’ Meaning Sweetheart

“This is a classic Karakostas ‘flexible-narrative’ – a man contemplates head injuries, switching jobs, moving apartments, fast food and seemingly unrelated things while sitting on his computer and taking an inventory of his house. Every object reminds him of a…