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Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
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ISBN13: 9781885983671
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: Jun 11 2019
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
The irreverent, tweetable, ludicrous, painful, wondrous work of the L.A. punk poet--widely available for the first time.
In Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World, David Trinidad brings together a comprehensive selection of Ed Smith's work: his published books; unpublished poems; excerpts from his extensive notebooks; photos and ephemera; and his timely cry for civilization, Return to Lesbos put down that gun / stop electing Presidents.
Ed Smith blazed onto the Los Angeles poetry scene in the early 1980s from out of the hardcore punk scene. The charismatic, nerdy young man hit home with his funny/scary off-the-cuff-sounding poems, like Fishing This is a good line. / This is a bad line. This is a fishing line.
Ed's vibrant gang of writer and artist friends--among them Amy Gerstler, Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan, Mike Kelley, and David Trinidad--congregated at Beyond Baroque in Venice, on LA's west side. They read and partied and performed together, and shared and published each others' work.
Ed was more than bright and versatile: he worked as a math tutor, an animator, and a typesetter. In the mid-1990s, he fell in love with Japanese artist Mio Shirai; they married and moved to New York City. Despite productive years and joyful times, Ed was plagued by mood disorders and drug problems, and at the age of forty-eight, he took his own life.
Ed Smith's poems speak to living in an increasingly dehumanizing consumer society and corrupt political system. This punk Dorothy Parker is more relevant than ever for our ADD, technology-distracted times.
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