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Description
This Drawn & Quartered Moon takes pre-millenial San Francisco as its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named Othello, a Mafia don, a drug mule en route to jail, Elvis Presley (the poets father was his doctor), a Sculptor of the Lower Fillmore Head Shot, a dying Arab king and Courtney Love. Autodidact and gregarious loner klipschutz alternates personal with public poems, satires with romance, dramatic monologues with prose poems, street swagger with delicate songs that carry their own music. Over ten years in the making, this collection evokes the restless spirits of predecessors such as Nicanor Parra, Gregory Corso and Kenneth Patchen.
Contributor Notes
Klipschutz (pen name of Kurt Lipschutz) is the author of three previous volumes of poetry, Twilight of the Male Ego, The Good Neighbor Policy, and The Erection of Scaffolding for the Re-Painting of Heaven by the Lowest Bidder. His work has appeared in periodicals in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and numerous anthologies. Also a songwriter, he co-wrote Chuck Prophets 2112 critically acclaimed Temple Beautiful, a love letter to San Francisco stained with tears. Born in Indio, California, he lives in San Francisco, his home of thirty years.
