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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Direct Lines to Hell: The Early Poetry of R. W. Watkins, Volume One

Direct Lines to Hell: The Early Poetry of R. W. Watkins, Volume One

Watkins, R. W.

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ISBN10: 1502916703
ISBN13: 9781502916709
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: May 30 2015
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before he introduced 'goth' and 'grunge' elements into the haiku world and helped popularise Persian poetry in the English language with his journal Contemporary Ghazals, R. W. Watkins was writing a jazzy, erotic free verse derived primarily from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jim Morrison and Dylan Thomas. Direct Lines to Hell is the first of two volumes consisting of those (mostly) unpublished poems written between the mid 1980s and mid 1990s. Volume One focusses on the longer and more surrealistic verse that is most representative of Watkins's early style. It comes complete with a lengthy commentary and scans of early manuscripts and pages from Watkins's notebooks.

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