Saturday, February 07, 2009



my publisher New Star has also made available in pdf form the exciting & entirely original Henry Pepper by Justin Lukyn--

From a train crossing where the dispossessed "swear at the train like
they didn't have time for it, like it came to them as a great financial
loss," to the brutal economy of evacuating in alleyways where the
ground cover has been systematically pared away, the imaginary Pepper
is a ribald, mordant participant observer. The architecture of his
alleyways, from the ubiquitous telephone poles to the dumpster serial
numbers titling each poem, becomes Henry Pepper's doorway and
windowsill. Smithrite, Monica's Hair Salon, gumboots and puddles are
his daily newspaper, dishes, chairs.
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