Rick Lupert

Professor Clown on Parade

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Produktbeschreibung

Rick Lupert's 18th book - a collection of travel poetry written on the go in the wilds of Burlington, Vermont, Portland, Maine and Hartford Connecticut. Force of Nature, Rick Lupert, and his wise wife, Addie, have been let loose in the Northeast, and the result is poetic mayhem of the highest order. These poems chronicle the couple's obsession with food, art, architecture, and each other over an action-packed 12-day roadtrip. "I'm following the Vermont food trail/and am about to pray to a donut," Lupert confesses in "At the Cold Hollow Cider Mill." A brilliant, beer-fogged take on America by one of the funniest, smartest poets around. ps. These poems could also be construed as Lupert's 293 page love letter to his wife. -Alexis Rhone Fancher, poetry editor, Cultural Weekly, seven-time Pushcart nominee Every year I look forward to Rick and Addie's summer vacation. Instead of a slide show or a lousy T-shirt I get another book of poems. What you have in your hands is a travelogue - the newest installment in a series of road books written by Rick Lupert, the minimalist Huell Howser of Van Nuys poetry. Lupert is a comedian with impeccable timing and a poet whose work is deceptively simple. Nestled somewhere underneath the jokes about tour guides, night pavers, Vermont hugs and kisses and Norman Rockwell paintings is an ongoing love story. This is really a book about Rick and Addie. It's a work that's underpinned by a depth and decency you don't see very often in this world, let alone in a book that will make you laugh out loud. -Daniel McGinn, Author "1000 Black Umbrellas", Write Bloody Publishing Rick Lupert has been involved with Los Angeles. poetry since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award and was a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years. He created the Poetry Super Highway and hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years. His first spoken word album "Rick Lupert Live and Dead" featuring 25 studio and live tracks was released in March, 2016. He's authored 20 collections of poetry, including "Donut Famine", "Romancing the Blarney Stone", "Making Love to the 50 Foot Woman" (Rothco Press, May 2015), "The Gettysburg Undress" and "Nothing in New England is New" (Ain't Got No Press), and edited the anthologies "Ekphrastia Gone Wild", "A Poet's Haggadah" and the noir anthology "The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic "Cat and Banana" and writes the Jewish Poetry column "From the Lupertverse" for The Los Angeles Jewish Journal. He has read his poetry all over the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rothco Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781945436024
• ISBN-10: 1945436026
• Artikelnr.: 47584828

Autorenporträt

Two-time Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net nominee Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He was awarded the Beyond Baroque Distinguished Service Award in 2014 for service to the Los Angeles poetry community. He served for two years as a co-director of the non-profit literary organization Valley Contemporary Poets. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Rattle, Chiron Review, Red Fez, Zuzu's Petals, Stirring, The Bicycle Review, Caffeine Magazine, Blue Satellite and others. He edited the anthologies A Poet's Siddur: Shabbat Evening - Liturgy Through the Eyes of Poets, Ekphrastia Gone Wild - Poems Inspired by Art, A Poet's Haggadah: Passover through the Eyes of Poets, and The Night Goes on All Night - Noir Inspired Poetry, and is the author of twenty-two other books: 17 Holy Syllables, God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion, (Ain't Got No Press) Donut Famine, Romancing the Blarney Stone, Professor Clown on Parade, Making Love to the 50 Ft. Woman, The Gettysburg Undress (Rothco Press), Nothing in New England is New, Death of a Mauve Bat, Sinzibuckwud!, We Put Things In Our Mouths, Paris: It's The Cheese, I Am My Own Orange County, Mowing Fargo, I'm a Jew. Are You?, Feeding Holy Cats, Stolen Mummies, I'd Like to Bake Your Goods, A¿Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast (Ain't Got No Press), Lizard King of the Laundromat, Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town (Inevitable Press) and Up Liberty's Skirt (Cassowary Press), and the spoken word album Rick Lupert Live and Dead (Ain't Got No Press). He hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park for almost twenty-one years and has read his poetry all over the world. Rick created and maintains Poetry Super Highway, an online resource and publication for poets (PoetrySuperHighway.com), Haikuniverse, a daily online small poem publication (Haikuniverse.com), and writes and occasionally draws the daily web comic Cat and Banana with Brendan Constantine. (facebook.com/catandbanana) He also writes the weekly Jewish poetry blog From the Lupertverse for JewishJournal.com Currently Rick works as a music teacher at synagogues in Southern California and as a graphic and web designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage.