Mood Vertigo [Paperback]

Richard Peabody (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 5, 1999

A collection of poems by Richard Peabody. Part of the Argonne Hotel Press Chapbook Series of 500-copy, individually numbered limited editions.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Adobe Days
All Day Stalk
Approaching Masturbation
Bathroom Dreams
Bruiseography
Buteos
End Of The Line
Fin-de-siecle
Fish Sisters
Flattened By The West Texas Sky
For My Truck Driving Uncle Gone Blind
Greek Pastry
Grocery Cowgirl
Herotica
Hook Boy
Knee Gestures
Last Night I Dreamed That I Was Kate Bush
Offerings
On Flint
On The Road To Georgia O'keeffe
Planet Akron
Reasons To Live
Sopapillas
Tarte Citron
Trapped In An Elevator With Yvette Mimieux
Waiting For Janice And Lance
Waiting For The Popeye Effect
We Are Attacked By Men With Sandwiches
When Roses Dream
Why I Stabbed Monica Seles
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

In resisting the grand gesture, the significant detail, and Yeats passionate syntax, Richard Peabody reminds us that the pleasures of poetry do not necessarily depend upon intellectual rigor, literary device, and linguistic muscle. The love-child of Marcel Duchamp and Frank OHara (but raised by Little Richard), he insists again and again, upon the post-modern pleasures of cultural mayhem and pop-trash worship tempered with traditional Yankee humor and invention. Who among us, then, could resist this sharp and sexy book? -- Michael Waters, author of Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum

About the Author

Richard Peabody is listed on the worldwide web as a Bizarre Fringe Small Press Lesser Known Poet. In Washington, D.C. (where he was born) he is well-known as a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and editor, and has published four books of poems and two books of stories. He currently teaches fiction writing in the Johns Hopkins University Part-time Graduate Writing Program and at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Peabody is the founding editor of Gargoyle Magazine, and co-editor of the Mondo series (Mondo Barbie, Mondo Elvis, et al.) for St. Martins Press. His most recent book is Open Joints On Bridge, a collection of stories published by the Argonne Hotel Press. Peabody lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Margaret Grosh. Drop him a line at: [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Argonne Hotel Press (November 5, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 1887641394
• ISBN-13: 978-1887641395
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,584,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Just wanted to mention that there are a few spoken word/music Gargoyle CDs on Amazon as well. Gargoyle #52, #49, and #46. You'll find them in Music.