Last week, Blood+Honey Magazine published “five poems by Scott C. Holstad.” I wanted to announce that, to thank the editors for supporting experimental & political writing/art, for supporting my work & publishing these poems. It’s a batch I’m pretty proud of. I used the cut-up technique virtually exclusively for all five poems & 11 pages and I think Bill Burroughs would approve were he still with us. You can read the poems on their page at Blood+Honey.
I’m going to list the titles just to give you an idea of what sort of awesome chaos you might encounter upon reading the poems.
- fertilize your blackened hatching lying egg codez — [Another Cut-Up Creation]
- you broke your alien — [Another Random Cut-Up Series Creation]
- randi, quick & easy do they travel
- no wonder terrified eyes
- ant1c1Pat!nG V1chy DC‘s deM1ze — [Another Cut-Up Creation]
[Some of these are poems of protest. I feel we’re living in some of the most violent times in recent history & my ideology and strategy feels that violence must be met with violence in such times, so a warning to those easily offended. If you tend to be, you likely will be & it will be intentional because I can think of nothing more offensive than the bullshit taking place every second of every day in the world in which we presently exist. I can find no other way to describe & address such innumerable senseless atrocities & even at that, I couldn’t possibly do full justice as one might wish. Just an FYI for what it’s worth…]
