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Doug Draime. Rock 'n Roll Jizz. Propaganda Press,
2010. $6.00. 76 pages.
Item #Z0145. Quarter-page-sized, laser-printed,
saddle-stapled poetry chapbook. Dim.: 4 1/4” x 5 ½”; 76.0
pages.
Lang.: English
ISBN: N/A
order from:
Alternating Current/Propaganda Press
PO Box 183
Palo Alto, Ca 94302
http://alt-current.com/pp/pp_item.html#rock_n_roll_jizz
About Doug Draime
Doug Draime has been a presence in the 'underground' literary
movement since the late 1960's. His most
recent books in print are: For A Dream Ended (Kendra
Steiner Editions), Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980
(Covert Press), and Rock 'n Roll Jizz (Propaganda
Press). Draime was awarded PEN grants in 1987 and 1991. He was
nominated for five Pushcart Prizes in the last three years. He
currently lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon.
Commentary
Doug Draime is a
poet for the ages, whose words of yesteryore are not filled with
if-only's and shoulda-woulda-coulda's, but instead are
blistered, bleeding, and broken through the skin with pure
punk-fucking-rock. This book defines a generation raised on
Elvis and Robert Johnson, air guitar and hard nightlife, James
Dean and Marlon Brando, with a chug of whiskey, a dirty syringe,
a couple of lonesome sighs, and a swift kick to any throat
that's lost for words and fumbling for drink.
In Rock 'n Roll Jizz, Draime nails the nostalgia without
clinging to the sentimental, makes those moments when rock 'n'
roll was young seem accessible to anyone, as if it were the
firsthand experience of the whole world, without sounding like
an already-overdone spinning record of remember-when. You'll end
up wanting to dust off those musty blues 45's, drop one needle
on the record and one in your arm, sport that patched-up leather
jacket, and walk yourself to Basin Street via Positively 4th
Street, not forgetting to hit up Peggy Sue at Heartbreak Hotel
and swing by Blueberry Hill on the way.
When rock 'n' roll was young, there was a romantic magic in the
wild hearts of the generation's youth that will never be found
again. It was a time period on the verge of bridging one of the
greatest generation gaps in modern history; and if you weren't
there, you weren't there. Until now. Draime's in-depth look at
the generation, music, influences, atmosphere, and pop culture
that shaped him will take you there. With a side of rocks. And a
few stitches.
Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $6
(plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or
money order made out to Angstman Arts, and mailed to Alternating
Current, PO Box 183, Palo Alto CA 94302 USA; or via PayPal with
the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our
press receive royalties for each copy sold.
~Propaganda Press
For only $6 you
will never look at rock 'n roll the same again. Be the first
rocker on your block to own one. Help spread the word , Elvis
and I are counting on you, And we thank ya' very much for your
time.
"Draime never
ceases to amaze. Rock 'n Roll Jizz is raunchy, profane,
and revolutionary".
-~Jake Wilde, Box Top Five
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