“Quatroche is primarily an oral poet, influenced by and working in the tradition of Whitman, Sandburg, Ginsberg, Frelinghetti, Ken Nordine, Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and similar experimenters in the American oral tradition. His work expresses a strong element of social criticism–sometimes angry, sometimes ironic or absurd, with the element of the highly personal and lyrical. One of his greatest strengths is the effective use of telling details and powerful images and metaphors to bring us face to face with our foibles, our failures and our loves- David Lunde Professor Emeritus SUNY Fredonia. Internationally published and recognized poet/translator. 1992 Rhysling Award recipient Five time Nebula Award nominee. Additional info Cyber Vanity mirror @ www.rubbereden.com
3 Nylon Lemons is divided into three sections: A collection of poetry written forty plus years ago- Some fragments of my fathers’ writing I discovered in his personal archives after his passing-and current work of my own collected since 2020 publication of Retread Rubber Eden. Lucky Ward (a constant theme named after a beloved teenage companion) is a series of prose snap shots of a Nursing Home I worked in as a very young man called Villa Care in Bellingham Washington in the late 70’s. Terrible Now that advanced age has visited me, I can only look back at those words and shake my head in amazement. The fiction of those days has become Stark Reality. With some very minor editing the original perspectives remain intact. This collection concludes with current prose/Poetry and stories that emerged from our post-pandemic world.
Willie, an Irish-Indian-Negro-Chinese boy born in an obscure corner of the American Southwest rises to prominence as an athlete, religious leader, and peacemaker
Vincent Quatroches collection of poems and stories are artfully rendered, bitter-sweet and at times disturbing. The works included in this collection are involving presentations that resurrect poignant images of human experience. Previously Quatroches prose was presented in a verbal/audio montage via cassettes. The transition here to the page of those pieces and much more has been quite successful. Working in the context of the post modern world, Quatroches works range from the sentimental and melancholic treatments of love and relationships, to insightful portrayals of the everyday, to critical parodies of the techno-consumer society. Although inspired by personal experience and reflections, they touch on common sentiments, human universals and shared dilemmas from the inside of human existence. This collection is an examination of common life, the taken for granted, the hidden and repressed contradictions of our experience. At times, in some poems and passages, the text reads like Thomas Hart Benton´s paintings look. This collection emanates an aura of our beginnings in oral discourse, before the written word when time was slower. In order to appreciate the emotional terrain of this collection one must surrender to the ordinary world, not unlike listening to neighbors story, sharing in personal and private, covering social and psychological terrain. It poses opportunities for sorrow and celebration, agreement and difference, laughter and compassion. A certain quality of intangibility reverberates like an echo in the readers consciousness. There are some intensely original images rendered here that communicate something distinctly human in an increasing impersonal world. - Dr. Joseph Chilberg Associate Professor of Communication SUNY - Fredonia NY When Vincent Quatroches voice begins to scratch the groove, you realize youve had an itch you didnt know about. Maybe you would rather not know that itch; but Vincent does not care. Either way hes going to keep doing what hes been doing these past couple decades --putting down the best writing in the United States, unassuming, cutting, hilarious. Real poems from a real poet. - Bob Holman Nuyorican Poet NYC Quatroche is primarily an oral poet, influenced by and working in the tradition of Whitman, Sandburg, Ginseberg, Ferlinghetti, Ken Nordine, Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and similar experimenters in the American oral tradition. His work expresses a strong element of social criticism--sometimes angry, sometimes ironic or absurd, with the element of the highly personal and lyrical. One of his greatest strengths is the effective use of telling details and powerful images and metaphors to bring us face to face with our foibles, our failures and our loves. - David Lunde. Internationally published and recognized poet/translator. 1992 Rhysling Award recipient Five time Nebula Award nominee Director of Creative Writing Program State University of New York @ Fredonia The work included in this volume represents, in part twenty years of self-expression, reflection and observation. Rather than launch into a dramatic monologue that might be given by a dying blond Replicant as heard in the finale of Blade Runner, I can only remark that I lack the discipline, inclination and disposition that cultivating a widely spread cultural exposure demands of a creative individual with aspirations. I find most self-promotion at this somatic level of expression pretentious, vulgar and distasteful. Perhaps it is a matter of the basic question of why an individual succumbs to the desire to create in the first place. Whatever my talent is or can be defined as a poet, it certainly is not as a purveyor of self. I am haunted by the question; if one creates for the market place, then do they simply become another product for consumption in that market place? I know more about what I am not, than what
Serving as a primer for generational revolt and poetic expression, this collection brings readers the words, visions, and extravagant lives of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, and slackers. 50 photos & illustrations. Readings.
A surreal novel about a family, and Time and Art and Science, Religion, Philosophy and Current Events spanning from 1940-1990, and pivoting around the 60's. Its locations are New York City, Rome, Italy, and their near countrysides.Wish For Amnesia chronicles five equally-weighted major characters: three family members, one artist and one rogue, two of whom behave supernaturally at times, one of whom murders another. The father, about whom the cast revolves, first appears as a hippie-leader at Columbia University. The book opens two generations before the main events, spans the lives of two characters, and closes in an unearthly (although unnamable, non-referent, and unmistakably fictional) dimension.It is gripping, funny, and not autobiographical, traditional in sentence structure but metaphysical and told almost like a fable. Several forms comprise the text: omniscient narrative, letters, journal entries, fictitious NY Times articles, aphorisms, quotations, definitions, dreams, and dialogue.
Fiction. Greta Gupenheimer is a contestant on the reality show Überchef USA. As she embarks on her surreal journey through the ups and down of manufactured television, Greta is forced to confront a dark past she can no longer suppress.
