“Poet Laureate Of A Dirty Garage” by Wayne Mason, erbacce-press, 2009. Wayne Mason has been lauded as a working man’s poet and that is clearly defined in this collection of poems published by erbacce-press. Poet Laureate Of A Dirty Garage is equal parts blue collar factory man, lone writer, and side-car Buddhist. He is at [...]
Christopher Luna: Collage, in Full of Crow Galleries. “Revved -Up Revisionists” Christopher Luna is one of the featured artists for 2009 in the Full of Crow Galleries, a virtual showcase for artists of diverse backgrounds working with mixed media and formats: mail art, collage, digital art, photography, vispo, graphic art. Luna’s art shares elements with [...]
“Acres” by Bill Shute, Kendra Steiner Editions, #131, 2009. What have we become? If observing the industrial minicosm of Bill Shute’s Acres can tell us anything, it’s that we are increasingly a society as he concludes: without ideas, only things. And so he takes us through a setting of things: buildings with their smoky windows, [...]
Bill Shute: “Point Loma Purple: The Life And Work of Katherine Tingley, An Imagined History in Mosaic Verse” . Poetry. 2007. Word Mechanics. This 2007 volume by Bill Shute is a work to revisit. He achieves something very magical in Point Loma Purple, but keeps it accessible: he tells us a story. In these “mosaic [...]
