RD Armstrong © 2008
ISBN 978-1-929878-97-0
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the author’s written permission, except in the case of review.
First Printing. Lummox Press PO Box 5301 San Pedro, CA 90733
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Acknowledgments: The author gratefully thanks Tom Armstrong for his help in bringing this project to fruition, Chris Yeseta for doing the layout and the editors of the following for publishing some of the poems contained herein.
Books: Unkissed By The Angels; And Love Is Dancing Just Out Of Reach; LAST CALL: A Legacy of Madness; PEDRO BLUE; Mozart at 22; The Bukowski Page; Paper Heart; In Memoriam; Fool’s Paradise; Bone; Eyes Like Mingus; Maytag Heights; Lost Highway; The San Pedro Poems; LUMMOX Journal; Last Call: the Legacy of Charles Bukowski; The Hunger.
In the following magazines and anthologies: Random Lengths; REPORT TO HELL #10 & 11; SHEILA-NA-GIG #10; GENRE; Pearl 24; Chiron Review; Pearl 25; ON TARGET; Spillway; SIC; One Dog Press; Black Cross; bender #1; California Poetry Calendar; Nerve Cowboy # 6; LUMMOX Journal; Wooden Head Review #8 & 10; Pitchfork; Vertigo Orb; Haight Ashbury Lit. Journal #17; Raising The Roof (anth); Poet Noise; Sex In Public #2; The Cherotic (R)evolutionary; Blue Collar Review; ZZZ ZYNE; CER*BER*US; ArtLife Vol.19, #6; Lucid Moon; Unwound; Drinking With Bukowski (anth); The Anthology of Orange County Poetry; Quercus Review; Louisiana Review; Flash!Point; Bukowski Review; Poesy; Comme Ca Et Autrement; Gros Textes 30; San Gabriel Valley Quarterly; Beyond the Pale #1; An Eye For an Eye (anth); So Luminous the Wildflowers (anth); I Love Your Poetry; Long Beach Press Telegram; Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts; St. Vitus Dance #2; Zen Baby; Cedar Hill Magazine; Poultry; Meat; Black Ace #8; My Time – The Lunch Break Book (anth); Telluride Watch; The Beatnik Cowboy #3; Poems-For-All #850.
In the following electronic magazines: Black Cross E’zine; Yoni; Onedog Press; Zero City E’zine; The Open-ended It; Spokenwar; Poetry Mining Co.; Poetry Webring Webzine; Thunder Sandwich; PoetrySuperHighway; Eroplay; Poets On the Line; Jazz Zine; The Ragged Edge; Author’s Den; Lazy Beat; Poetz; S.P.A.M.; Abalone Moon; Poetic Diversity; Poets Against the War; DUFUS; Deliric; The Poets Encyclopedia; Moonday; Juice Online; Metropolis France; St. Vitus Dance; CP Journal #1.
“You have a way of describing other people because you know yourself pretty well and can relate. A fine big book — glad it’s out there and I hope lots of people read it.” —Leonard J. Cirino
“Upon dipping into Fire and Rain, I could not help but take note of the quality of this collection: the quality of the poems and the clear writing style that the reader is offered with this book. Armstrong is ever the social critic, and the 185 poems included in this manuscript are a testament to his original vision. Working from the sweat of life, Armstrong is a talent that plants itself in your mind with his rough-and-ready voice of delicate lyric and refined narrative. He is a poet who does not creep from behind but is fullfrontal in his twist of a line and his blue-collar sensibilities. To not recommend the work of RD Armstrong to new readers would be sinful and sad, because here is a poet with a voice that will challenge even the most hard-ass critics of poetry.” —B. L. Kennedy
RD has been laboring in the trenches of the Alternative Small Press since 1996, both as editor/publisher of The Lummox Journal and as publisher of the Little Red Book series with nearly sixty titles by some of the ASP’s best/least known poets. In the Lummox Journal’s one hundred and twelve issues, he interviewed nearly one hundred poets, writers and artists, always with the emphasis on their creative process. Although he has been writing off and on since 1968, his most prolific period began in 1993. Since then he has written poetry, short-fiction and essays. Some of those poems appear in this volume. Three of his long road poems are included in On/Off the Beaten Path. RD Armstrong’s books include PEDRO BLUE (Vinegar Hill Press), Paper Heart (Lummox Press), In Memoriam (The Inevitable Press), The San Pedro Poems (Lummox Press), RoadKill (12 Gauge Press), Last Call: the Legacy of Charles Bukowski and The Hunger (both by Lummox Press). His poems have been published in over one hundred small press magazines and on over sixty websites. This year also saw the publication of Fire & Rain Vols. 1 & 2, as well as El Pagano & Other Twisted Tales (short stories). Visit www.lummoxpress.com for a complete picture of RD’s empire.
Sample: Fire and Rain Vol. 2 – eBook sample (17 pages)
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