Mostly poems following WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? 3-year Buddhist retreat - back to work, musings on new love, Marilyn Manson mosh pit, death of Burroughs, hearing skateboard punks hurtling in the night like falling stars.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
...secrets of therapy, Eastern mysticism, life as art, the comings, goings and meditative rantings of brilliantly creative sinister intellect. -- Pat Cohee, Laguna Poets Series #115, 1999
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.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
This is America and this is the Mutant visiting on X-mas who loves his Father weary of life in the supernatural dawn, his father of asthma hacking into the automobile, his father of old tan skin hung melting from his old skull, goodbye American and father goodbye all forms, goodbye SONG OF KIN SON OF KONG on the last movie hour, dawn comes and one gathers for the nest party, the New Aeon, where things are no longer recognizable, waking in my own room a stranger even to myself... Read the first page New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
This is America and this is the Mutant visiting on X-mas who loves his Father weary of life in the supernatural dawn, his father of asthma hacking into the automobile, his father of old tan skin hung melting from his old skull, goodbye American and father goodbye all forms, goodbye SONG OF KIN SON OF KONG on the last movie hour, dawn comes and one gathers for the nest party, the New Aeon, where things are no longer recognizable, waking in my own room a stranger even to myself... Read the first page New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
