Posts Tagged ‘Rob Plath’

Friday, February 26th, 2010

wolfgang carstens | evicted from paradise: a review of a bellyful of anarchy

A BELLYFUL OF ANARCHY By Rob Plath | 302 pages | $25.00 | Epic Rites Press
birth is
an evil
kidnapper
who
snatches you
from kind
mother nothing
& sticks
yr innocent
nothingness
into a
human meat
straitjacket
called a body
& then
for decades
you are
slashed by
the horrible
machete of
consciousness
(from life is a bad slasher flick)
One of the dominant themes in Rob Plath’s a bellyful of anarchy is birth portrayed as a [...]

Monday, January 25th, 2010

todd moore | glistening with blood | a bellyfull of anarchy by rob plath

Some books are written in ink.
Some books are still banged out on the typewriter, a glass of beer pushed off to the side, the floor swimming with old papers and books. It really doesn’t matter how you get the words down, if they don’t have the taste of blood smeared on them they’re [...]