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Forgotten Stars is the highly anticipated collection of new poems from Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton.Raw, deep and profound - these poems bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human condition.As author Nick Tosches once wrote, "Jack Norton is my hope for the future of America."
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Butchers On The Moon was originally published as a 40 page manifesto of sorts from an impossibly young poet, songwriter and filmmaker from Minnesota named Jack Norton. Sold mostly at his concerts, only one copy of the original chapbook is known to exist today and can be found in the archives at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Jack burned all writings (poems, songs, short stories and a novel) he worked on before 2008, so these lost gems are...
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I climbed very high, to eat from the tree. And at the tallest branch, I looked down to see, that I had climbed so high there was no one else. Only me, only me!
So begins a stanza from the highly anticipated collection of new poems, Play While The Grass Is Blue.
Raw, deep and profound - these poems bleed unflinching truths from the typewriter of critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton.
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Glorious. Blank. White. is the highly anticipated collection of new poems by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton.
In this collection the poet experiments with the infamous "cut-up technique" first used by the Dadaists of the 1920s and later in the 1950s by writer William S. Burroughs.
Raw, deep and profound-these poems bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human condition.
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In my truck again, filled with notebooks and sin. I write you out of my life, as easy as I wrote you in. In my truck again, filled with dogs memories and gin. I write just to survive, as easy as death's black grin.
So begins a stanza from the highly anticipated collection of new poems, Unamazing Grace.
Raw, deep and profound-these lyrical poems bleed unflinching truths from the typewriter of critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton.
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The beauty of a song is the end. While silence follows and the melody lingers on forever. She is like a sparrow, all bitter and petite. A song with no melody can only be sung by the hungry and the damned…
So ends a stanza from the highly anticipated collection of new poems, Sad Girls of the New World Order by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton.
Raw, deep and profound - these poems bleed unflinching truths direct...
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The Good Time Girl And Her Sweet Forever is the highly anticipated collection of new poems by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton.Norton's work has been called, "smutty, beatnik influenced noir poetry that offers a sharp reflection on the chaos of love and life in our modern times."Raw, deep and profound – these poems and scraps bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human condition.As...
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This collection finds the poet contemplating life in the modern era: smartphones, social media, the false positivity of influencers and the noise of American life.
Raw, deep and profound-these poems and scraps bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human condition.
As author Nick Tosches once wrote, "Jack Norton is my hope for the future of America."
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Cue The Joy is the highly anticipated collection of new poems by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton.
In addition to more traditional poetic structure, this collection finds the poet experimenting with "scraps" - short bursts of thought which flow like bebop jazz on a warm summer night.
Raw, deep and profound - these poems and scraps bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human...
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