John Olson

John Olson's 7th volume of poetry and prose poems selects the best from his prior books and includes a significant amount of new material. He continues to push the boundaries of language as image after image bombards the reader in what poet Clayton Eshleman descibes as ..a volcanic, fresh, and scalding rush. Olson's growing legion of fans will not be disappointed.

New and Selected Poems

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Tony Cohen

'The most obsessive, single-minded character I've ever seen, outside of the mirror' -Nick Cave 'I first met Nick Cave ... at Richmond Recorders in January. I appeared shoeless, red-eyed and late. As usual. The grand piano was overflowing with bits of metal, microphone stands, anything that wasn't nailed down. "That should sound interesting," I said. It was the start of a great love affair.' Masterful music producer-engineer Tony Cohen defined Australia's punk and rock sounds in the late '70s and '80s. His long and celebrated career took him from the studios of Melbourne and Sydney to West Berlin and London's Abbey Road, working with innumerable bands up until his death in 2017. In candid reflections, Tony's decades-long relationship with Nick Cave and his bands - The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - -is well documented, along with behind-the-scenes classic recordings by The Ferrets, Laughing Clowns, Models, The Reels, The Go-Betweens, Hunters & Collectors, Cold Chisel, Beasts of Bourbon, The Saints, X, The Cruel Sea, Paul Kelly and so many more. Half Deaf, Completely Mad is an exuberant, hilarious, tragic and triumphant memoir that reveals a chaotic genius who lived hard and LOUD.

Half Deaf, Completely Mad: the Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer

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Bud Hanzel

"This satirical self-help guide is a humorous look at the apocalyptic rise of the un-living, flesh eating hordes. With tongue firmly in cheek the guide takes a logical approach to defining zombies and laying out just what needs to be done to survive."--Amazon website.

The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

Olson reviewed one record per day for one year . . death metal demo tapes to the Staple Singers gospel

Life Is a Rip Off

If the philosophy textbook you kept from college managed to conceive a child with a dime-store Western, you¿d find yourself in possession of Souls of Wind, a novel where the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud sits across a dining car table from a pistol-twirling Billy the Kid; where "All Along the Watchtower" is composed and sung around a campfire one hundred years before Bob Dylan is even born, and where persistent attempts to photograph a man result in the small, perfect image of a hummingbird. John Olson, with his story of Rimbaud¿s inner agitation and quest for beatitude in post-Civil War America, creates a novel of historical surrealism. Rimbaud takes to the frontier in an odyssey of heart, heat, and radical hunger with a paleontologist and his Nietzsche-loving daughter, seeking mammoth bones, enlightenment, and adventure.

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