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The Book

Post by Artguy » October 21st, 2010, 8:34 pm

I have decided to go through what will likely be a long process of producing a book. Each open page will be a painting on one page and a poem/rant on the other. Below is page 1 & 2......I only hope I have the patients.




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Racing through the bop soaked night they got high with words so many words to feed the minds of "angel headed hipsters" to mountaintops clinging to earthly rocks under a puff pillow sky and summoning the Buddhas of the past present and future none of which exist in the railroad riding world of flesh and craggy old bones sitting in jump seat of speeding cars down Russian hill to north shore to sit in the jazz aura of Bird Parker who like the Bodhidharma came from the east with solemn eyes to sit in wall gazing wonder at it all from a perch in a Berkley cottage where he hid his marijuana and with wide peyotl grin chased poems out to sea and howled at gallery windows drunk in china town eyeballing exotic food with magic sticks pouring from the brown paper bag in every glass until empty yet it's all empty really no real you no real me just the starry night above and his worn old shoes below and there's nothing to do a nothing so sweet can be nothing but virtue and merit rolled into the next joint...and so they went beat saintly and haggard...........with "A Love Supreme"

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Re: The Book

Post by Arcadia » October 21st, 2010, 8:57 pm

:D a toast for the paciencia!!!!!!! :wink:

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Post by judih » October 22nd, 2010, 12:00 am

absolutely great idea. celebrate your art, your words and it'll be a trip.

i'll write a forward, probably most of us here and other places would write you a forward. and scream when you need encouragement.

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Post by revolutionrabbit » October 22nd, 2010, 1:02 am

yum

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Post by Lightning Rod » October 22nd, 2010, 11:41 am

looks like a winner, kurt

have you considered getting a Wordpress site? I'm finding that the software is very useful for compiling and editing and organizing the three books I'm working on right now. Plus, when you get done, you have an Ebook already that will translate to iPad or iPhone for distribution as an App. By the time I am ready to publish these books, nobody will know what a book is anymore. Publishing will be all about Apps.

here are the books I'm working on:

http://www.truthandbooty.wordpress.com

http://www.lrod11.wordpress.com

http://www.thepoetseye.wordpress.com

first one is memoir, second is a poetry collection, third is essays

Good luck with your project. Don't get overwhelmed. Books are written one page at a time.
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Post by Artguy » October 22nd, 2010, 12:32 pm

Thanks L-Rod, I was wondering what approach I would take.

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Post by mtmynd » October 22nd, 2010, 12:36 pm

excellent, Kurt! great beginning... you'll end in a firework explosion of joyousness evaporating into the void with a smile bigger than the universe itself. :)
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Re: The Book

Post by Artguy » October 23rd, 2010, 12:18 pm

I'm thinking this will take a year.

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Post by short timer » October 23rd, 2010, 12:50 pm

I can't wait to see it. Could you please post new pages as you go?
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