The Death Jazz is a collection of poems and short stories clustered around the character of Joe Oroborus, a hapless 21st-Century everyman who works a regular job and dreams of being the All Being. Written over the course of five years, the book was conceived in the spirt of Surrealist revolt, Dadaist subversion and good old American ingenuity. Alex S. Johnson's influences cross an esoteric spectrum, from Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred Jarry, T.S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman to Michael McLure, Philip Lamantia, Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Charles Bukowski, Scandinavian heavy metal and...
The Death Jazz is a collection of poems and short stories clustered around the character of Joe Oroborus, a hapless 21st-Century everyman who works a ...
Allow me to open the door, guide you inside, and introduce you to a little Wicked Candy. "This is a sweet designed for the discerning Bizzarro fan's tastes, and I promise, you will not be disappointed " --Mimi Williams, author of Beautiful Monster "A short collection that both traverses the genre lines and melds them together into one masterpiece. Jam packed with horror, laughs, pop culture history and more, this one is a must have for lovers of the macabre, the bizarre and the hilarious." --Jeff O'Brien, author of Bigboobenstein
Allow me to open the door, guide you inside, and introduce you to a little Wicked Candy. "This is a sweet designed for the discerning Bizzarro fan's t...