And, Oh yeah...
Back in late Autumn of '08 I entered a poetry chapbook competition hosted by the kind and talented folks at the late, lamented online 'zine ADAGIO VERSE QUARTERLY [http://www.geocities.com/adagioversequarterly/], (Patricia Gomes, You RULE!), submitting my cycle of poems entitled CONDEMNED OF HEAVEN. The competition completed in late December '08 and the winner was announced, a writer named JUDITH SKILLMAN for her chapbook "Any Kind of Kindling" [http://www.geocities.com/adagioversequarterly/p21.html]. Along the way, my submission took an Honorable Mention!!
CONDEMNED OF HEAVEN is a cyclic collection of loosely-connected dark free verse centered on the themes of anger, madness, alienation, emotional psychopathology and cynicism in spirituality. It's not a "happy" book to be read sitting in a field of flowers under a shade tree... unless the field of flowers is outside a mental hospital and hiding a freshly murdered corpse and the limbs on the shade tree are festooned with the bones of dead animals.
Since then, the chapbook has been published and is available at both Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble.
Without further ado, here is a look at the cover art and a link to the URLs for CONDEMNED OF HEAVEN:
At AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Condemned-Heaven- ... 0578013665
At Barnes & Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Condem ... 0578013664
