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, Managing Editor of Exquisite Corpse Annual, is the author of 11 books, ranging from novels like CHUM (Zoland Books) to poetry books like AGE OF THE DEMON TOOLS (Ahadada) to translations of Rimbaud, Celine, Bataille, etc. He is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. For more info, see his website at www.sptzr.net.