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Doug May is a member of the neurodivergent community. He has worked a lot of different jobs, everything from production typing to answering the phone, delivering flowers, emptying bedpans, mopping floors, stocking display shelves and performing covers of Charlie Daniels and The Rolling Stones. His poetry has appeared in Breath And Shadow, Wordgathering, Raw Art Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cathexis Northwest, and many other poetry publications.

Akbar del Piombo - illustrious subterranean luminary, mysterious, pseudonymous author of six darkly comic, wildly satirical collage novels, together with half-a-dozen volumes of steamy prose. Akbar del Piombo - preposterous, portentous name, once widely believed to be a nom-de-plume of William S. Burroughs. Akbar del Piombo - the name itself a kind of collage, fittingly inconsonant for a virtuoso of the incongruous. Concealed behind the Akbar del Piombo pen name were the mordant eye and fertile brain of Norman Rubington (1921-1991.) Annotations herein based on a correspondence between Rubington and Gregory Stephenson.

Doug May writes intense, acute poems both in regular metre and end-rhyme and in free verse. His language is by turns casual and conversational and richly imagistic. Many of these poems surprise with the sudden dexterous swerve of a simile. Realistic surfaces suddenly fracture, opening into something else. He says of this volume: These poems were written over a period of 40 years. No chronological order is implied.This book is not intended to come after the others. Which are not finished. Though maybe completed.It may or may not be the most recent in time. Or the final item in a series.It may even last. But last is not given. Listen to the music of Morton Feldman for additional possibilities....

Essays on six neglected books and their forgotten authors. Novels and autobiographies by Barbara O'Brien, George Mandel, Loran Hurnscot, M.K. Joseph, Anna Kavan, Finn MacMahon. Plot summaries and critical analyses.

A study of the work of spoken word artist Ken Nordine.