Collected prose excerpts and poetry 1976-1991 mostly performed in San Francisco with musician Gary Schwantes. Obsessions with sexy punk vampiras, struggles with alcoholic recovery & madward, Tibetan Buddhist pilgrim practice, Hollywood break-heart screenplay efforts.
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...built of precise observations and hair-raising detail - a fugue of inner voices... -- Steve Silberman, POETRY FLASH
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About the Author
Allen Ginsberg said "MARC OLMSTED inherited Burroughs' scientific nerve & Kerouac's movie-minded line nailed down with gold eyebeam in San Francisco.
" Olmsted has appeared in CITY LIGHTS JOURNAL, NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY, OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY, SIGNS OF LIFE (a Manic D Press anthology), PROCESSED WORLD, Flesheater Chris D's BONGO CHALICE, BLUE SATELLITE and a variety of small presses. His work includes the books MILKY DESIRE (Subterranean Press, 1991) and RÉSUMÉ (Inevitable Press, 1998).
He has also made two short films, BURROUGHS ON BOWERY, a portrait of the NAKED LUNCH author, and AMERICAN MUTANT, with Burroughs, Ginsberg & Leary.
Olmsted appeared at the L.A. Ginsberg Memorial along with Tom Waits, Exxene and Johnny Depp. His new book, WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? - POEMS FROM 3-YEAR RETREAT (Valley Contemporary Press, 2001), has an introduction by Ginsberg.
Olmsted is a senior student of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. Olmsted has studied Buddhism since 1974 and completed a 3-year retreat supervised by his teacher. Afterwards, he was encouraged to teach in the San Francisco chapter of Tharchin Rinpoche's students, Last Chance Gompa.
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- The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambala Pocket Classics) by Chogyam Trungpa on page 11
- The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry by Alan Kaufman in Back Matter
- Signs Of Life: Channelsurfing through '90s Culture by Jennifer Joseph in Back Matter
- Wordland Dossier Book#4 by Maketa Groves on page 1
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