ATLANTA…by James Iredell
ATLANTA
By James Iredell
Achilles Chapbook Series
Issue 5-2008
$4.00 @
www.dogzplot.com
reviewed by scot young
This flash fiction chapbook by James Iredell is a tightly weaved collection of a first person look at America. It is a mini version of On the Road with a tinge of Brautigan’s wit. It is a man in search of what we all are looking for. The thing we sometimes find and if lucky, are able to keep.
In an Atlanta underground bar he writes:
These women wanted you to touch them. They’d been objects so long, only human fingers reminded them that they had skin, and that once it did not look and feel exactly like a brown paper bag.
The trip comes complete with cockroaches in Georgia to the segregated Waffle Houses in Oklahoma. It is blind dates, whiskey and a woman in the underground who reads poetry and smashes beer cans with her tits.
Some may say it does not get any better than that. But it does. This chap is full of unique observations written with an artist’s pen. Buy this book and read it more than once. It is another good one from dogzplot.
This sounds pretty interesting. Is anyone able to tell me how many stories/pages the chap contains, or exactly where to purchase a copy?
I have been informed the chap just sold out as is the norm at dogzplot. The second printing is due out in the fall.
Hey Scott, Thanks for your kind words. Yes, the run at Dogzplot has sold, but, sometime this March should run both “prequels” to “Atlanta.” “When I Moved to Nevada” (The Greying Ghost Press) should be available soon. I had a preliminary run of ten from the press for AWP in Chicago. And “Before I Moved to Nevada” (Publishing Genius Press) should be available shortly, free as a PDF online. The 3 books together form a novel, titled “Prose: Poems, a Novel.”
Blaine: At least, I hope, you can order a copy of the Greying Ghost book!