Tales of the surreal await you in Brian Spaeth's new book Clocks Stopped at a Strange and Savage Hour: Fulton Street Re-Visited. Like Ginsberg meets Kafka meets Bruno Schulz, the sagas in this volume of poems and short stories will lead through a city that has turned against its own, as offered by one of its dispossessed denizens. Framed by a crumbling and poisoned city on the verge of shedding its marginalized artists, its lost citizens, and those remembering a childhood that led them to their current state of mind, Clocks Stopped at a Strange and Savage Hour will bring you to a remarkable place of dreams, nightmares, imagined fears, and frightful realities.
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Brian Spaeth is a poet whose first love is language.His diction is the eloquence of a word lover, as opposed to a wordsmith. People who read this provocative collection will discover that because Mr. Spaeth lets words be words, any one of these poems can be jarring, wry, and evocative all at once.I am struck by his ability to weave classical and contemporary imagery together as he ruminates on decay, desolation and often bitter disappointment. I am also consoled by his ability to both uncover and impart a sense of how noble this world has been, and can be again. I envy his choice of words,but I don't let that get in the way of my admiration for his artistry. Read this book out loud. J.R. McCarthy --jayarespoems
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Brian Spaeth is a graphic designer, painter, musician, and composer, currently living in Brookyn, New York. He is the founder and guitarist of The Crazy Pages, an East Village-based rock band formed in 1988. A decade-long series of unbelievable misfortunes, catastrophies, endless poisonings and toxic deleriums, hospitalizations, chronic illnesses, curses, deaths of loved ones, persecutions, betrayals, bankruptcies, poverty, homelessness, lost wanderings, several near-death experiences, entanglements with madmen and madwomen, miraculous healings and cures, spiritual rebirths, and wondrous visions and revelations, all combined to awaken in him the mad impulse to become a poet and writer, which was his true calling all along. This book was written in the belly of the beast, during some of the author s darkest and most desperate & delerious days days that don t appear on any calendar! He believes that if people acted the way you wanted them to, that they would be even more intolerable than they are already. His greatest regret is that The facts of life seem to be unevenly distributed.
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This review is from: Clocks Stopped at a Strange and Savage Hour Fulton Street and Other Stories (Perfect Paperback)
This is an amazing read by an author who has been to hell and has not yet made it to the mountain. Spaeth's poems and stories are often strange, sometimes surreal, touched by humor, and full of an autobiographical truth that brings us street-level to the inner mind of one of New York's disposed citizens.
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Brian Spaeth's tale of life at his lowest points,
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This review is from: Clocks Stopped at a Strange and Savage Hour Fulton Street and Other Stories (Perfect Paperback)
"Clocks Stopped and a Strange and Savage Hour: Fulton Street and Other Stories" is author Brian Spaeth's tale of life at his lowest points, when the future seemed unbelievably grim. His poetry reflects on these times of drugs, selfishness, homelessness, and worse. "Clocks Stopped at a Strange and Savage Hour" is a must for any poetry fan seeking something different. "Hot-Spectrum Extrapolations": Latitudes of burning oil and last chances/Dreaming at the hot end of the palette/Particle accelerators at the Fulton Street Cyclotron/Sulfuric night-chant/Fulminating bismuth and churning conjecture/Robustus Contamiensis: the Wilder's Song and crackling-torch accompaniment/Books dropped in oil and set aflame/Human candles burn, sputter, and flicker - then expire in front of your /troubled eyes!//Hot colors disturb our sleep...
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