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ISBN 1-877655-07-4 (US hbk),,, 1-877655-06-6 (US pbk)
poetry, collage, slipstream, avant-pop, postmodern, cyberpunk
Poetry and Collage. Laminated hardcover limited edition, lettered A-Z, signed by the author. Perfectbound edition, 68 pages. Includes the 1990 Rhysling Award winning long poem, "The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire".
"The Firefighter's Call to Adventure" by David Memmott
(originally published in a slightly different form in Oregon East ),
"Occupied Territory" by David Memmott
(originally published in the SPWAO anthology Poets of the Fantastic ),
"Imperfect Deity Awaiting the Perfect Avatar" by David Memmott
(originally published in Star*Line ),
"Beaters in the Bush" by David Memmott,
"Intimations of the Subtle Body" by David Memmott
(originally published in Heavenbone ),
"The Low Sun" by David Memmott
(originally published in Heavenbone ),
"Hanged Man" by David Memmott
(originally published in The Kindred Spirit ),
"Insomnia" by David Memmott
(originally published in a slightly different form in Oregon East ),
"The Storm that Put the Phones on Hold" by David Memmott,
"The Zombie Glass" by David Memmott,
"There Lies a Deep Canyon" by David Memmott,
"High Flier Swinging Low" by David Memmott
(originally published in Do-Rag ),
"Mannequins" by David Memmott
(originally published in Urbanus ),
"Old General Waiting for War" by David Memmott,
"Night Bombing" by David Memmott
(originally published in Gypsy ),
"At The Epicenter" by David Memmott,
"The Horn Player Lays Down His Wings" by David Memmott
(originally published in Z Miscellaneous ),
"The Flophouse Prophet Prescribes Booze as an Alternative Fuel for Interdimensional Travel" by David Memmott,
"The Gray Panther Advocates A Canon of Youth as Illusion" by David Memmott,
"The Disc Jockey Relives an Old Tune" by David Memmott,
"The Night The Cheerleaders' Karate Kicks Silenced The Patriarchs of Rage" by David Memmott,
"Speak Truth to Power" by David Memmott
(originally published in Colorado North Review ),
"Some of the Worst Crimes Don't Happen in the Streets" by David Memmott,
"The Window Washer Witnesses a Seduction" by David Memmott,
"The Shadowdance of Subatomic Particles" by David Memmott
(originally published in Star*Line ),
"But It's Not Only Me" by David Memmott,
"Slurring the Meaning of Praise" by David Memmott
(originally published in Rampike , Canada),
"The Day You Realized the Answer Couldn't Be Found in Church" by David Memmott
(originally published in Oregon East ),
"Where Dark Dogs Chase Their Tails" by David Memmott
(originally published in Oregon East ),
"The Self-Made Man Sings America Electric" by David Memmott,
"The Last Stubborn Descendent Watches as the Archeologist Excavates His Sacred Ground" by David Memmott
(originally published in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry ),
"The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species" by David Memmott
(originally published in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry , and appeared in the Rhysling Anthology ... received a 1990 Rhysling Award in the Long Poem category),
"Looking Through Windows to Windows" by David Memmott
(originally published in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry , also appeared in Works , England),
"Running the Lights" by David Memmott,
"Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light" by David Memmott
(originally published in the anthology Fourth Annual Collection of the Best Fantasy and Horror edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, St Martins, 1990).
"Employing both crystalline imagery and meticulous craft, House on Fire showers us with incandescent poems. Cast up by a firestorm of creativity, perhaps, but caught in that moment when the wind chases them across the dark heavens and they fall, each an omen, each an ember of personal mystery that flares before it dies. I found them revealing. Our blood secrets can be read between Memmott's lines." --Robert Frazier.
"Here we find no versified SF stories; none of Memmott's poems depict generically typical SF situations. Instead, each poem weaves a language-pattern correspondent to a soul in crisis; here, interesting and brilliantly colored planes of discourse slide past one another in a (speculatively conceived) carnival of existential doubt." --Ignatz Mees (in Science Fiction Eye ).
"Richly textured and imaginatively compelling. His language sensibility is outstanding." --Mark Rich.
"When you feel these poems shake the world
Enraging Richter
You know you have hold of the epicentaur." --Brian Aldiss.
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