Flotsam and gomorrah (parlour tricks and other mysteries)

Book Details

Author: Bill Campana
Published: 2018
Publisher: Brick Cave Books
Pages (Paperback): 168
Genre: Poetry
Reading Level: Adult
Paperback ISBN-13: 9781938190414
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Official Description

Always the wizard with words, Bill Campana releases his 4th book of poetry filled with observations of the folly of man, Haiku sharp enough for a sewing machine and the first ever released collection of Deviant Words, which you’ll just have to read to believe.

Excerpt

poem with commentary
today will arrive
in alabaster porcelain
to wed a room full
of gloss red virtuous
female forms.

tomorrow winged
angelic toddlers
will enter through
open windows to
hover in the rafters.

the numbers aren’t in yet
but i’m going to guess
that half the people
raised by other people
are twice as dangerous
as those raised by wolves.

Misc. Haiku

silver moon, the ink
of night has stained you,
and the clocks have all gone home

the electric chair
has taken a back seat
to lethal injections

be careful, children
that pinata may contain
Nitroglycerine

Additional details

The book is the third book in the informally named 'Plain Paper Series'
This was Bill's fourth published book, following Poems From Deep South Scottsdale

Cover Art

The cover art (scanned cover of a notebook from Bill's childhood as background) was composed by designer Bob Nelson. Bob would go on to create the cover art for the additional books in the series:

Availability

The book is no longer in print from Brick Cave.
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