CAMELOT KID'S TRIGGERTOPIA by David S. Pointer

Camelot Kid's Triggertopia

Poetry by
David S. Pointer
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David S. Pointer's latest work from Propaganda Press showcases the sadness and decrepitude of America's trailer parks and projects, the lower middle ground and the sorrowful struggles of the painful politics that keep a man standing there.  Pointer's words find the parallels in the global lower class, from the modern sex trades of developing countries to the glass ceilings and corporate ladders that keep us standing on the lower rung to lessons in economics as we try to explain away a war with lies and propaganda. Pointer dissects businesses, corporations, the loaded interviews, and the big-picture of the money-making world as it relates to the little people, from the perspective of a former project kid growing up in a slum called Camelot, the irony ringing out like the loud words making up this politically-charged, yet personal book.  Included, as well, are photos from David's past, ranging from photos of his parents -- his father, a bankrobber -- to photos of himself, and then on down to photos of his daughters, wrapping up three generations of Pointer's life as the cycle continues.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with several free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art and inside illustrations by leah angstman.

Poems by David S. Pointer:

A Slice of the Modern Sex Trade
Major CEO: Basic Job Description
Banjo Dan 
Jocko's
In A Perfect Small Press World
The Patient First?
[untitled haiku 1]
What's Up Economically
The Call of Contemporary Duty
[untitled haiku 2]
Love Has Landed
[untitled haiku 3]
[untitled haiku 4]
WWII Russian Military History
Not Quite Catsville
Destiny and Breanna
[untitled haiku 5]
The Replacements
Triggertopia
Camelot Kid Rides Again (Into the Revisionism of Family History)
One-Minute Manual for Aspiring Political Poets
Destination New Daybreak
[untitled haiku 6]
[untitled haiku 7]
[untitled haiku 8]
[untitled haiku 9] 
Another Hard Shift
Breakout
Former Project Kid Still Hears the Boss
Removing Rot in Excessive Riches
Love From Above
Quick Surgery Syndrome
[untitled haiku 10]
Attitudes of a Frequently Absent Party Girl
Wall Street-Washington    

A Review:  Published on Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene blog and in Wilderness House Literary Review #4, by Mignon Ariel King.

Sample poem: 

Love From Above

In Okinawa,
the nights
uncoiled out
of smoky control
like a sex swing
swirling on an
indulgent
stage of
intoxicated
disbelief
as another
hard-charging
Marine
gave his
green pay glob
to a money
box bookie
by a lift chair
lasso strap
before mounting
& becoming the
libido ranger
riding a night
nympho in a
spotlighted
leaking sky.

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POEMS FROM THE LEFT BANK: SOMERVILLE, MASS. by Doug Holder

Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass.

Poetry by
Doug Holder
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Doug Holder's words are of the everyday on the colonial East Coast, breathing the slightest sighs into the women at the checkout counters and putting the sluggish steps into the old folks drudging through the streets of the yet-to-be-gentrified Somerville, a homey-feeling town snuggled against the liberal and youthful hips of Cambridge and well over the bridge from the harshness of Boston. Somerville wants so very much to be its own, as the quiet hipster squares and coffee shops are filled with poets, artists, lovers on computers, the old Portuguese community, and the young lower-to-middle class, each struggling alongside one another for a place in this world. Holder's words paint frames around these individuals, their joys and sadnesses, their static yet cyclic lives each crashing full-throttle into one another without ever realizing the kinetic flow of their buzz and hum. You meet these people on Holder's pages -- the women with their shopping carts; the patrons of the local pet store; the bottle ladies; the modern cafe lovers; the ghosts in the ancient colonial graveyards; the walkers; the bus riders -- portrait after portrait of each delicate individual, handled with detail and humor to come to life between these covers.

Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $5 (plus $2 US shipping; $4 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with three free random books from the archives while we clean house.

This book includes:

Cover art by Richard Wilhelm:
Somerville Yard

Poems by Doug Holder:
OLD WOMEN AT MARKETBASKET
PET STORE
TWO OLD WOMEN
BOTTLE LADY, SCHOOL ST., SOMERVILLE
OLD WOMAN OUTSIDE THE FAMILY DOLLAR STORE
HAMLET ST., SOMERVILLE
ROOMMATE WANTED
MODERN LOVERS
THE GRAVEYARD ON SOMERVILLE AVE.
"DADDY, IS HE A MONSTER?"
SPRING ON SCHOOL STREET
SOMERVILLE: WALKING TO UNION SQUARE
MOTHER LEADING HER BOY TO THE WOMEN'S ROOM
A WEED IN THE CONCRETE
DOZING AT THE GRAND CAFE
LOOKING AT A LONE WOMAN IN A BAR
FALLEN CHERUB OUTSIDE A LIQUOR STORE
DICK'S APARTMENT
I KNOW BERNIE, I CAN GET YOU IN
ON THE LAWN

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~~Reviews and mentions: Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass. by Doug Holder got some kind words from Dan Sklar HERE, a review in the upcoming Wilderness House Literary Review HERE, and some exposure on The Word HERE; The Sagging: Spirits & Skin by Jason Fisk was reviewed at Poet Hound HERE; and Alternating Current was mentioned in a Mighty Mercury article HERE.

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