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Welcome to The Amusement Park Of The Mind (Essays On Thought, Feeling, And Experience) by Greg Bachar (pronounced "BOCKER"). The park is divided into three areas. Use the sky bridge to navigate your way between them: THOUGHT: Velimir Khlebnikov, Rene Daumal, Andre Breton, Jacques Vache, Katy Masuga, Henry Miller, Martin Heidegger, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Jean Baudrillard, Jurgen Habermas. FEELING: Henri Alain-Fournier, Paul Leppin, Raymond Radiguet, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Seamus Heaney, John Ashbery, C.K. Williams, Andre Breton, Jean-Joseph...

When he was eight years old, Greg Bachar (pronounced "BOCKER") wrote, "My machine would do my writing for me. His name would be Mr. Machine. He would be made from steel. He would be a big machine. The color would be silver. The magic button would be on the side with the other buttons. I would not tell anybody about my magic machine." Decades of production later, Bachar presents a collection of essays on the sleight of hand that fuels his writing machine's engine. Press the magic button and climb inside.

This volume contains a selection of poems, stories and experiments by Greg Bachar (pronounced "BOCKER"). Bachar's "curiosisosities" capture moments in a world where cows replace clouds, magnesium sparks fly from eyes, live wasps are served at dinner parties, the moon cries tears for its first love, the Earth, and winged clocks fly through the air like hummingbirds. "Maybe it was the years spent in Europe or his voracious appetite for the Surrealists, their contemporaries, and their literary antecedents, but much of Bachar's work has a continental feel to it. Daniil Kharms comes to mind, for...