Category: Ink Dribblers
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The Maximus Poems: Charles Olson’s Gloucester Epic
Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems made Gloucester, Massachusetts the site of a difficult American epic built on projective verse and total civic obsession.
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Troia: Bonnie Bremser’s Brutal Beat Mexican Memoirs
Bonnie Bremser’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs records prostitution, flight and motherhood in prose that her own husband edited and titled without her oversight.
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The First Third: Neal Cassady’s Unfinished Autobiography
Neal Cassady’s The First Third is the Beat era’s most famous muse attempting authorship, a fragmentary memoir revealing as much by failing as succeeding.
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The Jacob’s Ladder: Levertov’s Turn Toward the World
Denise Levertov’s The Jacob’s Ladder brought the Eichmann trial into her exacting lyric mode and enlarged Black Mountain poetics into public conscience.
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For Love: Robert Creeley’s Decade of Difficult Poems
Robert Creeley’s For Love collected a decade of stripped-down lyrics and made Black Mountain poetics impossible for American verse to ignore any longer.
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Fast Speaking Woman: Anne Waldman’s Borrowed Chant
Anne Waldman’s Fast Speaking Woman turned a Mazatec healing chant into a feminist performance text, raising a question about borrowing it never answers.
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Naked Lunch: William Burroughs and the Book That Broke Form
William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959) is a deliberately disordered, frequently revolting novel that won its obscenity trial and reshaped postwar fiction.
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The Word for World Is Forest: Le Guin’s Angriest Book
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World Is Forest (1972) is an anti-colonial novella she herself called a preachment, and still one of her fiercest books.
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: Jack Spicer’s Collected Poetry
My Vocabulary Did This to Me (2008) collects Jack Spicer, the San Francisco poet who denied authorship of his own work and is named by his dying words.
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Howl and Other Poems: Ginsberg’s Moloch and the 1957 Trial
Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems (1956) survived a San Francisco obscenity trial to become the founding document of the Beat Generation in printed form.
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Minor Characters: Joyce Johnson Rewrites the Beat Story
Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters (1983) tells the Beat story from the women’s side of the room, and is the best-written book the movement produced about itself.
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The Opening of the Field: Robert Duncan’s Made Place
Robert Duncan’s The Opening of the Field (1960) opens in a meadow that is also a poem, and begins two sequences he would deliberately leave unfinished for life.
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Silent Spring: Rachel Carson and the Book That Made Ecology
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) turned pesticide chemistry into public argument, and the chemical industry attacked the woman rather than the evidence.
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On the Road: Kerouac’s Scroll and the Myth It Created
On the Road made Jack Kerouac famous overnight in 1957. The legend of its three-week composition obscures six years of revision, and its treatment of women.
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Memoirs of a Beatnik: Diane di Prima’s Deliberate Provocation
Diane di Prima wrote Memoirs of a Beatnik as paid erotica to Olympia Press specifications, and said so herself. What she smuggled in is the real document.
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Arthur Rambeau, Arthur Rembo, Arthur Rambo — How to Spell the Name of the Most Misread Poet in English
Arthur Rambeau? Arthur Rembo? Arthur Rambo? It’s Rimbaud — and he’s worth spelling right. A review of Illuminations by the most misread poet in English.
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The Last Vagobond Post
Dear Vagobond Fam, After more than two decades of writing, creating, and wandering under the name Vagobond, the time has come to lay this identity to rest. This isn’t a…
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Introducing the Pader’s – Baoist AI Personalities
I’ve created some AI Baojis – come interact with them! We have a lot going on in the Baoism Discord server. There is the Lamsterverse – which is a collaborative…
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Future World 2323 – It’s Darker and Stranger Than You Think
I’m excited to share a project that has been in the works for years. Future World 2323 started with one of the the novels I wrote during the pandemic Notes…
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A Little Trip to America for Thanksgiving
There is one big reason I come back to America. I love my daughter and honestly that’s reason enough. My most recently completed book could easily be labeled roman a…
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A Bibliography of CD Damitio
It occurred to me that some of you have not been on this journey with me from the beginning, so I want to take a moment to share my book…
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On Sharing Too Much – About My Life and About Other Things – also – mass commercial tourism – ick!
People are always surprised by my writing. “It’s so honest!” “Are you always this open?” “It’s refreshing to have someone share their experience without filters.” Those are just a few…
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I Moved to Japan (and Carl the ape came with me!)
I’m back at the Hotel Villa Fontaine at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. I know this is an airport hotel, but it’s really deserving of praise for many reasons. A…
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The Tender of Khepri – A Nethraverse Saga
My friend and collaborator E.R. Donaldson recently asked me if I would be interested in writing within the universe he has created. I’m used to creating my own worlds –…
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