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I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur Paperback – July 4, 2011

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Fiction. "In this joyful critique of a Randian, post-industrial society, Mathias Svalina comments on both the compulsive desire to make the inconsumable and the often intangible recalcitrance of our attempts to create something useful in a world increasingly characterized by a manufactured sense of lack, anomie and disaffection, where we are daily beset by 'a kind of numbness, a shadow of desire or fear offset against a blank world.' Svalina refuses this numbness and offers something else, something completely stunning, in its place"—Gabriel Gudding. "This is a subversive and necessary book: the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of individualist American capitalism is revealed as an inherently poetic construct, one that rests on theater, liminality, imaginative drive, contradiction, and failure. I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR is poignant and brilliant; it's worth the investment"—Christian Hawkey.

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Mathias Svalina was born in Chicago. He is the author of I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR (Mud Luscious Press, 2011) and DESTRUCTION MYTH (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2009). He has also published numerous solo and collaboratively-written chapbooks, many of which were authored with Julia Cohen. With Zachary Schomburg, he co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He currently teaches writing and literature in Denver, Colorado.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mud Luscious Press (July 4, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0983026351
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0983026358
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.25 x 7 inches

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Coleman E. Mcfarland

Haunting and Hilarious

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A collection of absurd, darkly comic business "value propositions" from the first person, a serial entrepreneur. The self-starter entrepreneur is celebrated in our culture, but where are the borders between fearlessness, creativity and pathological madness? This book explores that notion with poetry and fiction.

Also, I laughed out loud several times. Recommended for employees and self-aware business owners alike.