Full Description
A power ballad was a hair metal band's voyage into the softer side of rock, compromising to the integrity of the genre, but genuine and trailblazing. So too is Caples' Power Ballads. His poems and prose pieces are bizarre and hilarious, in which Dylan and Bowie sit alongside the French surrealists, with the occasional turn into heartfelt romanticism.
Contents
AVID DIVA
HYPNAGOGIC BOSTON
PAUL SCHEERBART
LOVE IS MADE OF SKY
THE CHOSEN
THE HYDROPATHIC WAY
CHIEFLY
ROAD SONG FOR JUAN & THE PINES
RICHARD O. MOORE IMAGINED AS A BOB DYLAN SONG
LOST POEM
HOMAGE TO ROD ROLAND
DARK CANDLE
FEEL MY PAIN
MY BLACK DIARY
GARRETT CAPLES RIDES AGAIN
BLAP
OAKLAND
NOD OFTEN
MARGIN OF TERROR
AMERICA THE POEM
TRIUMPH OF THE WILLING
PARABLE
GUT OF BRANDO
SELF-PORTRAIT AS DAVID LETTERMAN
PAUL BOWLES IN EL CERRITO
SELF-PORTRAIT AS JAMES BOND
ZEN OF NEZ
TRACTATUS
TEN TEN-LINE POEMS FOR PHILIP LAMANTIA
THE CANTOS, THEN TACOS
CELTIC LOVE SONG FOR SUZANNE
