ISBN 978-1935084-57-0
\n 150 pages: $16.00
\n May, 2014<\/p>\n
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Owen Hill\u2019s short satirical poems make their point with sly insouciance. Gleaned from many years of chapbooks, pamphlets, and appearances in underground literary magazines they nudge, prod, delight, and sometimes stop just short of insult. Hill is also a crime fiction writer and there\u2019s a more than subtle whiff of the mean streets in his verse.<\/p>\n
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It is a tremendous gift to have so many of Owen Hill\u2019s elegant utterances\u2014 and George Sanders\u2019s, and those of the wittiest kid, aka the class pessimist\u2014 gathered in one loving volume. It makes the world a slightly, but crucially, larger place.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014Jonathan Lethem<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Owen Hill may stroll among the spurious, but his poems ring no false notes. From the taut epigrammatic to the beachy lyrical, this minimalist symphony in nine movements is informed by Hollywood\u2019s classic character actors, Renaissance courtly love poems, and the spare language of the Moderns. A sly, mordant humor refreshes the line; desire trumps all. Hill\u2019s work could be the love child of Oscar Wilde and Apollinaire.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014Gloria Frym<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n You know how somebody quietly does their work for decades and then one day it all appears at once before you as a testament to fidelity and perception?\u00a0A Walk Among The Bogus<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0lays out the gems of one of Bay Area poetry\u2019s best-kept secrets\u2014 finally! \u201cMinor poet,\u201d nothin\u2019\u2014 Owen Hill\u2019s got spleen and song for miles and miles and miles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014David Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I love hearing the world (its broken beauty is born) through Owen Hill\u2019s ears\u2014his poems make a perfect fusion of song and epigram\u2014they are wise and furious and always just ahead of everyone else.\u00a0 And you want to be there with him\u2014you want to know what he knows.\u00a0 He is a magic and necessary poet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014Joseph Lease<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Owen Hill comes from a line of Left Coast noir writers who\u2019ve skulked from Hollywood to San Francisco, unafraid to \u201cwalk among the bogus.\u201d Like Chandler, Hammett, Ross MacDonald, beneath the hard-boiled narrative of his novels (the great Chandler Apartments series) runs a precise indictment of corruption, money, and political power. Here is Hill\u2019s poetry\u2014 the same no nonsense tone, voice full of gunpowder, ripping the cover off the industrial-entertainment complex. These flinty poems would do a union organizer proud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014Andrew Schelling<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Owen Hill
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