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…
“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…
“Part of the serious ‘uncreative writing’ canon, for sure. The first section is normal poetry, yes, but the second is comprised of the recommended interests based on my browsing history according to Instagram and sections of my browser history memoir.…
“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…
“This was all the research into mondo film ads, originally made for [redacted] to use for bootleg t-shirt ideas.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
“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…
“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…
“Hectic, cybernetic chaos. A website 404’s and this is the book you asked for. Largely comprised of jumbled bot text that dominated my old website after it was hacked and turned into a scam-store for North Face jackets and male…
“This was printed for a reading, but I can’t remember where – 100% during the era where I was ‘offline’ and didn’t keep track of these things. Anyways, poems about sex, vitamins, light pollution, utopias, retail therapy, and learning to…
“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…
“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…