Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS

Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS, published in 1991 by Sivullinen in Helsinki, Finland. It underwent a 2nd printing a couple of years later by a different Finnish publisher who paired it with a small work by Charles Bukowski in an ombudsman that can be found on FINNA, the Finnish National …

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THE US REVIEW OF BOOKS Gives a RECOMMENDED Review to Scott C. Holstad’s SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN

Prolific author and poet Holstad has…continued to maintain his somewhat cult-favorite status as the dark troubadour of the rebellious underbelly of contemporary American poetry. Much of this poetry can be instantly and favorably compared to the poems of Bukowski or some of the messier-around-the-edges work of particular beat poet extraordinaires, such as Kerouac and Burroughs. …

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KIRKUS REVIEWS reviews Scott C. Holstad’s SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN

A raw poetry collection with an unrelentingly bleak point of view. Holstad combines character studies with dark inner monologues… the poet effectively blends brutality with compassion..”. Holstad excels at visceral descriptions, like that of Bianca, who had “so many track / marks, it looked like a / river of small lakes on / her torn …

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Scott Holstad talks 1990s Long Beach/L.A. & reads 4 poems featured in The Long Beach Union

US Review of Books: RECOMMENDED REVIEW of Scott C. Holstad's Surviving Immortality Again!