The poems seem to smack the hard-ass contemporary world up against a deep spiritual sense, until we see they re one and the same. Fleda Brown, author of.

Was on the road with his psychedelic punk blues band, The Saint James Catastrophe, when he picked up the heroin smoking habit. This inevitably led to a California high desert penal colony where he reinvented himself as a writer of the darkly absurd. December 30, 2010 -. Which is given to the writer with the most surprising and unusual work of the year! February 14, 2009 -.

I began writing again in the year 1999. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Email check failed, please try again.

There Are Many Things In This World That You Must Do Alone. 8220;I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room. Heather Bell has been writing for a long time. She eats mountain lions and kills baby seals.

Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including the short story collections.

Swallow with vulnerable intimacy,. Dreams that lose our feelings. While lives span and loved rain. We watch, quiet,. The heart of ordered storms. To feel like oceans,. Folded into skin and bone. To make a warmth of. We are going, we say. Love and skies, shells of bodies,.

Sunday, 14 September 2008. This place was born out of anger, bitterness and not a little madness. Plus, the design sucks bears. I know I could probably pimp it up a little - and maybe even make the pictures fit on the damn page - but I fancy a clean break.