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From David Blaine, who professes to be just another bush league poet pressing the virtual flesh and hoping to become internationally famous, comes a third chapbook, ANTISOCIAL. Forget the pseudo-intellectualizing verbosity too commonly associated with poetry. ANTISOCIAL is straightforward and digestible, yet not against encouraging a bit of self-reflection. Plus, it just might make you laugh.Rated M
Parents strongly cautioned.Contains references to incest, drug use, prostitution, under age drinking, teen pregnancy, car theft, alcoholism, murder, war, politics, infanticide, corporate greed and bestiality. (No sheep were harmed in the writing of this book.) |
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Praise Here
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| “With eye for detail, a huge sensitivity, an original approach and a deep sense of absurdity the author relates his story, his truth to the reader. From his own rather cynical point of view he presents us life as it is, avoiding the infamous pitfall of bitterness.” |
| “The social diatribes are eviscerating, but Blaine uses exceptional skill to let the knife pass through with a smile and deep sardonic wit.”
-Constance Stadler, former editor of South and West, current review editor at Calliope Nerve |
| “One of the classic modern chapbooks. Usually I only respect dead writers, but I respect Blaine.”
-David McLean, Poet, critic and editor with Epic Rites Press |
| “…fucking amazing – inside and out!
-Wolf Carsetnes, Publisher, Epic Rites Press |
| “Damn, that’s a fine book, couldn’t stop reading it.”
-David Oprava, Publisher, Greivous Jones Press |
| “This book was written to be read in a place you can swill, and hear bits of other people’s laughter getting you back into listening to him read. You can be amused and re-wounded by your own memories listening to him. You can fade in and out comfortably between sips. Its got a hooker, its got lists of alcohol. It brings Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg back to life and has them not wanting to come back to life to our piss-poor world of faux-individualists. There is a real even-nostalgia-is-effing-dead-on arrival here kind of feeling that one can have a little buzz of schadenfreude about. He is sharing a true sorrow in life; that people can’t move on sometimes because its too late for them.”
-JMWW blog, Emily Peterson Crespo |
| “David Blaine’s ‘Antisocial’ is an intelligent book – a wry look at the world and its misdemeanours, whether greed, political skulduggery or the misappropriation of religion. But it’s not a rant, neither is it polemic; it’s far more clever than that.”
-Poetry Kit Magazine, Gill O’Halloran |
| “David Blaine paints a world in which we are all victorious, defeated, lonely, excessive, shallow, pensive, and indelibly human. Heroes are dead because we killed them, Beats are broken because we forgot to move forward, and the drinks are stronger than we’ll ever be. Above all, and perhaps most importantly, David Blaine paints a world in which we are all culpable. He holds the mirror to our collective face and challenges us, and himself, to become who we are.”
-Mel Bosworth, author of Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom |
The Author
David Blaine was born in a pizza patch in the Bronx, New York. When he was young, mafia hoodlums roughed him up and stole his middle name. His parents were too poor to buy him a new one. Dave’s family moved to Michigan when he was three. He attended his grandfather’s alma mater, Whasamata U, with a degree in history. It only took three years because, back then, there was a lot less history to learn.
Don’t believe that? Fine: David Blaine’s poetry, prose, interviews, reviews and essays have been published widely in print and online. David lives in rural Michigan where he works in the family’s hardware business with his wife and children.
Visit David at his MySpace page or his Blog, “A: Hello, Whiskey.”
The “Bring David to You But Not in a Creepy Way” promotion:
Book clubs and poetry chapbooks – they go together like books and people who like reading books. So what does David want to do to help this magical pairing? He wants to visit you. How? Simple. If you are a book club and you order 8 copies of ANTISOCIAL, David will do a conference call to speak with your group (at reasonable hours, and within the lower 48 states). He’ll answer questions, read some poetry, discuss the weather, or wax eloquently about craft. The best part, he doesn’t know I am writing this, so you can truly have him do anything. He does a great impression of a fog horn.
But don’t let the “Bring David to You But Not in a Creepy Way” promo stop with conference calls. If you live in the Midwest, near Michigan, contact the man for possible private readings. House party not Kid n’ Play enough for you? Invite David. Bar Mitzvah not drunk enough to satisfy your rambunctious guests? Invite David. Reading series not David-y enough for you? Invite David.
Help. You know you want to…
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