Oblivion : 200 seasons of pain and magic

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A collection of Beat poetry, haiku and Death Poems from Karlostheunhappy, 2021 Ledbury Poetry Festival slam finalist/runner-up and former editor of 'Beat Surreal' the 1990's underground litzine. This new, definitive collection features his atheistic hymns to the universe, gloomy awakenings, boredom and drunken ennui. Modern Beat poetry touched by influences from the likes of Kerouac and Ginsberg but also Richard Brautigan, Gary Snyder, E E Cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman and the artwork of Andrew Wyeth.Described as "touching and at times transcendent" (Ben Graham, author of A Gathering of Promises: the battle for Texas's psychedelic music, from the 13th Floor Elevators to the Black Angels and beyond), OBLIVIION represents a lifetime's writing purely for pleasure into a single volume. Over 100 pages of poems about death, boredom and baseball, Joan of Arc, political struggle and the nature of being, fully annotated and even a playlist to accompany your reading. Supplementing the Beat poetry is a selection of haiku and senryu.OBLIVION offers an honest, often enlightening view of life and the world we live in. It includes odes to loneliness, nature and jazz and considers the power of consolation in nature.This 200 Seasons of Pain & Magic presents accessible, stylish New Beat poetry and beyond for the everyman and everywoman!