Poetry. Mark Spitzer's bold and colorful verse globetrots from the millennial Beatnik joints of Euro-Bohemia to the eagly mountains of Colorado to the junkyards of the West to the swamps of the Deep South and beyond. Sometimes lyrical, sometimes narrative, sometimes in-your-face, other times reverent, political and surreal, you can't help slapping your knees and laughing out loud when some annoying neighbor tries to sell his bbq sauce, when quiche is metaphoric for whence we all come, when muscle cars crash in Flashbakistan. This book is already a cult classic, a brick through the corporate window of America, a tribute to scum-sucking bottom feeders while the Twin Towers burn "in a genetic/jet fuel/inferno."

Author Hometown: CONWAY, AR USA



About the author: Mark Spitzer is a professor of creative writing in the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He has translated books by Jean Genet (THE GENET TRANSLATIONS, Polemic Press), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (THE CHURCH, Green Integer), Arthur Rimbaud (From Absinthe to Abyssinia, Creative Arts), Georges Bataille (The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille, Dufour Editions; Divine Filth, Creation Books) and Blaise Cendrars (Films Without Images, Green Integer). Spitzer's novels include CHUM (Zoland Books), CHODE! (Six Gallery Press), and BOTTOM FEEDER (Creative Arts). He has also published the following nonfiction collections: PROZE ATTACK: SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS, POLEMICS, RANTS AND RED- HEADED STEP-FICTIONS 2004-2010 (Six Gallery Press), Season of the Gar (University of Arkansas Press), Writer in Residence (University of New Orleans Press), AFTER THE ORANGE GLOW (Monkey Puzzle Press), and RIDING THE UNIT (Six Gallery Press). Spitzer has published two volumes of poetry as well. A former editor of the legendary EXQUISITE CORPSE literary franchise, he now edits the literary annual TOAD SUCK REVIEW. Spitzer has starred in the "Alligator Gar" episode of Animal Planet's River Monsters series and is an avid fisherman.

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