Razovskyville #4: The Inspiration Cha-Cha

My first full-length poetry collection, The Inspiration Cha-Cha (ECW Press, 1996), was a pretty crazy mélange of poems written over the preceding 10 or 15 years. Like most first books in those days, as opposed to in these days, there was no rhyme (absolutely none) nor reason for the assembly. It was basically just a big heap of poems by me that Michael Homes at ECW, who saw me as a primarily comedic poet, I think, was gracious enough to help out into the world.

I should note that I'm pretty proud of the cover for this book, by artist Charles George. I wanted the whole thing hand-drawn or hand-painted, in homage to NY poets' books from the 1960s and 1970s.

Over and out.

Razovskyville #3: More chapbooks and ephemera

I've really fallen behind here. My brother died a month ago, and there has been a lot of ugly fallout in the wake of that so it's been kind of hard to work and to mourn. But I'm making some progress, at least on the former. Soon, I hope, I'll be able to meditate in peace about my (mostly) sweet brother.

I've continued to do my weekly Razovskyville livestreams on Facebook (Thursday at 7:15 p.m. EDT at facebook.com/razovsky), and those have been rare hours of serenity and pleasure.

In the third instalment, I focused on the chapbooks and other ephemera I published in my twenties and up into my early thirties.

Over and out.