Junkyard Ghost Revival - Softcover

Mojgani, Anis; Wakefield, Buddy; Brown, Derrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981521363 ISBN 13: 9780981521367

Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

This book contains poetry from a small team of wildly unique, talented and award-winning authors who have been touring the world for years. They have united for a once in a lifetime tour to perform their work and to charge the hearts of America with gut-splitting, lust wrangling, socially active verse. This is the Junkyard Ghost Revival.

About this title

About the Author:

Anis Mojgani is a two time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A Pushcart Prize Nominee and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts Writer's-In-The-Schools program, Anis has performed at numerous universities, festivals, and venues around the globe. His work has appeared on HBO, NPR, in the pages of RATTLE magazine, and alongside Laureates Ted Kooser and Billy Collins in Spoken Word Revolution Redux. Originally from New Orleans, Anis currently lives in a white pointy house in Portland OR, where he sometimes has a beard and sometimes does not

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

This is the book from their most infamous tour. Below is a journal entry from Buddy Wakefield highlighting one of their sweeter moments. This book holds the fantastic poems read on the road.

Andrea Gibson sure is glory. Glory glory.

Mercy. And no mercy.

I swear she eats trumpets.

One time she let me write a blurb for her book

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns.

I said somethin' like, "Andrea Gibson

does not just show up to pluck your heart strings.

She sticks around to tune them.

If being floored is new to you, ya might wanna grab a cushion.

Whatever the opposite of fooling someone is, Andrea does that.

Beware of the highway in her grace

and the crowbar in her verse.”

With Andrea there was the opening show at Lewis & Clark

where Timmy Straw (the reason for the poem "Jean Heath”) played piano,

and there was running through the rows of trees to Spokane,

stocking up on food from her fans to Idaho, and the ghost towns

with the writing on the wall and stuffed beavers in the bar,

and the joy of heckling her vegan face in the Powell, Wyoming grocery store parking lot,

throwing rocks over railroad tracks, breathing life with her onto the stage in Boulder

and hearing her poem "Thank Goodness”, and meeting her girlfriend Heather

and gasping for breath with them from laughing at Derrick and Anis

after the Sigur Ros concert at Red Rocks, where Derrick bought Anis that sweet

cash money necklace light and made him wear it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0981521363
• ISBN 13: 9780981521367
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164