Absurd, humorous, vulgar and illuminating, the strange tales in this book, bubbling underground for a decade and finally forced into the light, are the products of two native Minnesota writers bent on destruction of the normal. These six stories and one mini-epic poem will introduce you to: feuding bootleggers with altruistic hootch, gangstas disguised as farmhands, a dubious cop and a fashion designer hunting down a kidnapped banker with a taste for dark pleasures, a fiendish Surgeon General and his despicable exploits, grand theft dental in outer space, crooks, boxers, brothels, bottomless...

This is an anthology of favored pieces from seven books and one chapbook spread out from 1989 to 2003. Mostly poetry, with some tiny stories, they cover the ground of ending small-press journal submissions after a decade and doing my own books. Travels between St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, in Minnesota, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Northwestern Wisconsin make up the exterior map, and a marriage, divorce, other live-in relationships, lots of strange jobs and the freedom of finally getting it right out in the country make up the interior map. Quite an ego stroke, being able to pick your high...

Ruth Peterson Baker was a voluminous chronicler of her life and times with a restless mind interested in everything the world had to offer her. Beginning in 1922 at age fourteen and continuing until just days before her death at age 89, she wrote numerous journals and mountains of letters where she pours out her passion for the grand and the minuscule. Politics, religion, philosophy, literature, music, child rearing and farming were a few of her interests. Ruth was also an artist whose medium was primarily watercolor but also oil, graphite, charcoal, and pen and ink. Fortunately for us, Ruth...

Five blistering stories waist-deep in satire and packed with absurdity, graphic behavior, vulgar behemoths, off-world unpleasantness, questionable sex, disguises, off-brand liquor and double-anti heroes. Sci fi, detectives, revenge, various types of love and a heroine in the form of a sentient can of wax beans. What else do you require?

A compilation of three books of poetry and prose from 1991-1994. Free verse, sex/love/absurdity/satire/social criticism/nature/politics/experimental.