gorelets Registered User
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(6/10/02 7:10 pm) Reply
Kurt's Poetry
I'm think I'm Kurt Newton's biggest fan. And that's pretty scary. I loved DARK DEMONS and it was fun to write the intro for it. But just about EVERYTHING I've seen of his has been pure unadulterated quality. Always shocking or disturbing. Keep it coming, Kurt!
If anyone reading this hasn't read Kurt's work before, you can find some good online stuff at kurtnewton.com
Wow, I sound like a salesman or a publicist! I'm really just a fan.
-- Mike Arnzen
Demonboy
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(6/12/02 8:44 pm) Reply
salespitch
Thanks Mike! I hope having my hand up your spinal column wasn't too uncomfortable.
I just finished reading your chapbook FIVE SPOTS ON THE NEWT & OTHER POEMS OF A CURIOUS NATURE.
All I can say is you are sick, twisted, and immensely talented. I hope to read every word you ever publish.
Randy
Demonboy
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(6/19/02 7:00 am) Reply
IMMENSE TALENT FOUND UNDER ROCK IN NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT!
Thanks Randy. Did I send you that copy of FIVE SPOTS? Or did you find that somewhere in your on-line travels? Either way, I appreciate the promo.
Oh, well, what the hell...If anyone's interested, I've got about 80 copies left of the original 150 numbered, signed edition. $5.00 each postage paid. Fantastic artwork by Roddy Williams. Jeffrey Thomas said it best:
"Five Spots on the Newt is astonishing in its beauty...it blows away almost everything I’ve ever seen in the small press (my own books included). These lengthy poems each tell a tale — so that the collection almost takes the form of a book of short stories...disturbing, chilling short stories.”
Two of the poems contained in the collection received Year's Best Honorable Mentions from Ellen Datlow.
Use the following email address if you'd like to order a copy: erdoni@snet.net. Now somebody stop me before I self-promote again!!!
Mysterious Rock Crashes Through Publisher's Roof
Kurt,
It was the strangest thing. This huge ass black rock crashed through my damn roof and cracked open right on the kitchen floor! Inside was a copy of your chapbook. I figured I had better read it before 4 more rocks came down on my head!
Seriously though, I bought it from Shocklines.com (Matt Schwartz, if you are reading this let me just say...You Rock!).
Now you say you have 80 copies left? Well, we need to sell those suckers! E-mail me and let me know what kind of deal I can get for the DarkVesper Bookstore.
Randy
gorelets Registered User
Posts: 12
(6/22/02 2:40 pm) Reply
influences?
Kurt: What are your biggest influences? (literary ones, natch.) -- Mike A.
Demonboy
Unregistered User
(6/22/02 8:54 pm) Reply
influences?
Good question, Mike. When I think back to college days, I can remember being impressed by only one poet: Elizabeth Bishop. Not really a dark poet, but her sense of observation and wonder and her conversational style struck me. It wasn't until I began reading the small press horror magazines of the late 80s, early 90s -- Grue, Thin Ice, Deathrealm, Eulogy, Crossroads -- that I discovered the poetry of John Grey and Holly Day, whose styles convinced me that I could possibly try my hand at this. I was never a big fan of the classic poets -- they always seemed to take too long to say what was needed. Lots of waxing eclectic. Among present day poets still working in the genre, I like Scott Urban, Craig Sernotti and Mike Arzen (who?). A poet I'm in awe of is Charlee Jacob, she knows absolutely where dreams and terror and whole show comes from. Reading her work can be difficult, at times, but I always walk away inspired.
Newton vs. Shakespeare -- An Mtv Deathmatch Exclusive!
Kurt,
One thing I love about your poetry (and something that I definitely don't see enough of these days) is that you always tell a story rather than just trying to put together words that sound pretty. Every time I read your poetry I walk away with a sense that I just read a short story rather than a poem, and you pull that off without sacrificing your verse and stanza structure (I hate poets who try to write paragraphs in their poems, ugh). In the case of "Denizens of the Cityscape" I came away with the feeling that I just finished a novel.
But don't let all this praise go to your head Kurt, it's big enough already.
Demonboy
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(6/28/02 5:58 am) Reply
Mike Arzen?
That's Mike ARNZEN. (A couple posts back.) Just wanted to clarify -- in case someone reading this has never heard of Mike Arnzen before. If you haven't...one of the best places to start would be FREAKCIDENTS coming soon from DarkVesper Publishing!
Ahhhhh! I did it again! I'm infested with promoparasites! Mike, help!
Demonboy
Unregistered User
(6/28/02 6:10 am) Reply
Shakespeare's Great Great Great Grandson Found Living Under.
...A Rock In the Northeast Corner of Connecticut!!!
(Damn subject headers!)
Thanks Mr. DarkVesper Publisher Man. I guess the bottom line is that I've always been a storyteller. And the shorter I can tell one the better. I'm trying to develop a way to tell a story (write a poem) in a single line without punctuation or spaces, just a single airhorn blast of consanants and vowels to the brain! Or should that be: justasingleairhornblastofconsanantsandverbstothebrain!
Soccer Fan Dies in Freak Air Horn Accident...News at 11
I just love these subject headers, reminds me a column I used to write for my high school newspaper. I'd take real current events from the school and turn them into crazy tabloid like fictional articles.
What were we talking about? Oh yeah, Kurt's crazy poetry scheme. Ithinkthatitsaprettycleveridea.
By the way, Kurt, have you ever read any of e.e. Cummings' poetry books?
Mr. DarkVesper Publisher Man
(Jesus Kurt, you make me sound like a pimp) Edited by: DarkVesper at: 6/28/02 11:44:59 am
Demonboy
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(6/29/02 7:46 am) Reply
Pimp Dies in Freak Fog Horn Accident...
yeh, e.e. cummings. Just selected works here and there. There was one about a grasshopper I remember that was kinda...unusual. In fact, I still have my X.J. Kennedy edited LITERATURE text book from my college days. I dip back into it now and then when a name comes up and I don't know who people are talking about. Just the other day someone referenced a poem by Wilfred Owen called "Dulce et Decorum Est" ("It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"). Owen was in the British infantry in World War I and was killed in action. The poem has to do with a battle where they get nerve-gassed and his buddies are dying "gargling from froth-corrupted lungs". It's a great poem, lot's of "gas"stly imagery (get it?). The best line is: "incurable sores on innocent tongues". I'm thinking about using that as a title for a poetry collection. INCURABLE SORES ON INNOCENT TONGUES: A Collection of the Perverse.
Well, you've got to get back to your ladies. Oh, wait, you got killed by a fog horn, that's right....
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