I've been crazy busy the past five weeks and haven't had a chance to get online very often, but one thing I've been able to make a little time for is finally unpacking some boxes that have been in storage for the past few (okay, many) years while trying to find old contributor copies of …
Author: Scott Holstad
An Announcement Regarding Some Of My Books
Announcement! Some of my out-of-print books will soon be available for purchase again. Watch here for more info. Also, TREATS! Screenshots of some pirate sites ripping me off & a slideshow of over 20 of my books, textbooks & anthologies for people to amuse themselves. Hey, some of the covers are pretty funny!
On Thomas Ligotti’s Book, Death Poems
I'd been told I would love this book, I guess because I’ve had some “horror poetry” books published over the years. I do like the themes, tone, morbid world view, but that doesn’t make this guy a good writer nor this poetry remotely good, professional or successful in accomplishing what the author appears to be attempting. It fails, but is salvageable. Read to discover one area Ligotti falters in while successful authors with some similarities are mentioned as differentiations that could inspire Liigotti to up his game, improve his writing and hence his poetry and become more effective at what he does without losing "his voice."
Reflections on Lyn Lifshin’s Cold Comfort: Selected Poems, 1970-1996
Cold Comfort: Selected Poems, 1970-1996 by Lyn Lifshin My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love this book. I've known Lyn personally going back to the 1980s and as "Queen of the Small Presses," I saw her in every damn magazine I came across for decades. And I would buy, obtain or she'd send me …
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Some Quotes of Mine
Excerpt from the Pittsburgh Quarterly (1993) Excerpt from Street Poems (1991) Excerpt from Shadows Before The Maiming (1999) Excerpt from The Napalmed Soul (1999) Excerpt from Shadows Before The Maiming (1999) Excerpt from Cells (2004)
