One or two things needed to be salvaged from the defunct smog.net blog, so I pulled all the old posts up, went through them and thought, "Hmm, some of this doesn't suck - why not salvage a bunch of this stuff?" So this well thought-out volume came to be. It's best not to think too much, and this nasty little bottle rocket is proof of that. If I'd a thought about it, I never woulda done it, as Bob Dylan said. Carry the entire Internet - the good bits anyway - in your pocket! Just like our forefathers would have, if they'd been smart enough to invent these things.

I Hate Your Blog! :)

My first book with a real publisher had a very long gestation period. Problem was, I'd told a lot of people that it was coming out about a year and a half before it actually did. In the meantime, I took it upon myself to make these chapbooks. It was an attempt to get something out there, outside of the lit magazines. There were 50 copies of each of the three books. I know that doesn't sound like much, but it was a lot of work, and if I'd thought about what was actually involved in assembling the things, I never would have started. I sold the sets cheap, so they went fast and they've been "out of print" for 15 years. This electronic book format seemed like a good excuse to re-release them. I resisted the temptation to re-write everything, so what you get here is what I put out there in 1996. Which is to say, not the most polished and beautiful work, but an honest snapshot of where I was as a young writer.

Desert Dog Press Chapbooks

Près de deux siècles après sa mort, William Blake est le plus célèbre mais aussi le plus secret des génies d'outre-Manche. Tout à la fois poète, graveur et peintre, Blake incarne l'inspiration hallucinée propre au romantisme anglais. Son influence sera déterminante au XIXe siècle chez les Préraphaélites, puis sur la modernité prônée par André Gide, André Breton et les surréalistes au XXe siècle. Blake doit sa célébrité à ses manuscrits enluminés dont le graphisme tendu est rehaussé d'un chromatisme puissant. La parfaite réponse du verbe et de l'illustration, la poésie onirique des images et sa palette résolument neuve cristallisent les éblouissements d'un œil visionnaire. Intransigeant, excentrique, solitaire, Blake proclame avec éclat son exaltation passionnée. Il privilégie jusqu'au vertige le trait néoclassique pour nourrir les pages les plus héroïques de la Bible et de Shakespeare comme de Milton et de Dante.

William Blake (1757-1827) : Le Génie visionnaire du romantisme anglais

If you're looking for a poetry and short story collection where trains hit cars, garbage men find heads in trash cans, women throw groceries at men, gurus sheer their flocks, and little girls want to grow up to become dinner plates, this is the book for you. If you aren't looking for those things, you really should be. Phillips blends the all-too-real with the fantastic to deliver one of the weirdest, strongest collections you'll read this, or any year.

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