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Clocks Stopped at a Strange and Savage Hour Fulton Street and Other Stories

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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.

"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...