Brooks, Steve

As a young man, Steve Brooks discovered that whenever he thought of himself as a poet, the word disappeared. He thought of poetry not merely as an occupation but as something essential. He discovered he was a poet, not by its definition but by its reality. His first book was Philip Blanc in San Francisco (Panjandrum Press, 1972) surrealist poems and drawings. His next published work was as part of an anthology, Five on the Western Edge (Momo's Press, 1977). The Cock Poems by Georgio Vesta was published by Love Lights Magazine in 1973. His second one-man show, "The Blood & Turnips Poetry Festiv...