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...and they lived happily ever after. Smith & Lady: poets, artists, photographers & adventurers.
Our relationship was forged to the soundtrack of Yoko Ono's magic,
frenetic, love-laden song, "Walking On Thin Ice." ( play song )
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Archive for the ‘Publications’ Category
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Zen Over Zero, 2008 – foto Smith
Zen over Zero
Dog week later in mourning kitchen pouring
Coffee into my veins with a dull cup
A daze of morals and Moses
Whines and Rosicrucians
It’s raining cats and gods
And I am a fine unman
– Smith, 1974
My first book of poetry that Lady published in 2008 was titled after this poem.
Zen Over Zero, Steven B. Smith, Selected Poems 1964 – 2008
69 poems & 22 collages spanning 44 years, $12 + shipping, 6″ x 9″, 84 pages
To order: lulu.com/shop/steven-smith/zen-over-zero/paperback/product-3765106.html
“Smith, in poetry’s whorehouse of many rooms, you belong in the philosophical-scientific wing with us.” – Jim Lang
“Let’s face it Smith, if the song ‘My Way’ were written about your life, it would be lyrics by William S. Burroughs & music by Laurie Anderson, as performed by The Velvet Underground. The 45-RPM vinyl would have been a blue corrosion color rather than black, with Voodoo Lounge as the cover and ‘Voodoo Child’ as side B. And THAT my friend would be one highly collectible single.” – Steve Reynolds
Here’s the first poem in the book, so you’ve only 67 poems and 21 collages to go.
Grasshopper’s Tale
My life’s dog food for do gooders
Hot dodgers dogging God’s zone
Fur sure of itself
Per path and position
Point portion pursued
We who rise in heat from dream
Lick recollection loose
From cold fire’s template
Futility’s fog
We bleed in abandon
Dance dawn’s dapple light
— Smith, 1989
Zen Over Zero, pp 6-7 – foto Smith
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Anthology Green Panda Broad Sidling 2013
I got a poem published I didn’t write and never submitted . . . man, this poet gig’s a lot easier than I thought.
I left a FaceBook status Monday . . . three days later I receive the new Green Panda Press anthology in the mail and there’s my FaceBook comment reformatted as a poem.
Descartes Race
I don’t know if I exist or not .
. . perhaps I am but a weed
dream from some godz pipe.
But whatever I am or ain’t,
still gotta pay the bloody
rent and plod on from sun
thru moon.
Smith, 3.11.2013
Check out facebook.com/pages/Green-Panda-Press/298247310214183.
That lucky old sun – art & foto Smith
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
front of new NightBallet Press 40-poem chapbook
foto by poet Dianne Borsenik
Here you go, *Hip Cat Femur Whack Give a Doc a Bone* — a 48-page, 40-poem, $5 Smith chapbook published 1.13.13 by NightBallet Press . . . Dianne Borsenik publisher, editor, layout artist & front cover photographer.
A mere 12.5 cents per poem, 10.41 per page . . . real kulchur one can afford, and we ain’t talking yogurt.
48 years of my life with one poem 1965, rest eight year past.
It’s a delight to me because I forgot many of these since I wrote them one night and polished and blogged them next morning, not often re-reading because they were minor notes. Through Dianne’s eyes, they are less minor than I thought.
Anyway, $5 — plus $3 shipping. You can order through NightBallet Press at nightballetpress.blogspot.com/2013/01/hip-cat-femur-whack-give-doc-bone-1-in.html or their FaceBook page facebook.com/nightballet.press.
back of new 40-poem NightBallet Press chapbook
foto by poet Geoffrey Landis
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Smith’s Farm – foto Smith
Dianne Borsenik’s NightBallet Press is within a week of publishing my new chapbook *Hip Cat Femur Whack Give a Doc a Bone* featuring 40 poems – one from 1965, one from 2005, two 2006, one 2009, four 2010, seventeen 2011, and fourteen 2012 . . . 47 years of poet Smith from age 19 through 66.
Excited because I gave her all my poems and let her choose . . . it is a great gift to see what other poets choose of your work, a chance to see old words in new light.
It’s likely more than 50 pages, so it’ll be $10, or 25¢ per poem (if under 50 pages, $5).
Half the poems I didn’t remember because I usually start a poem the night before, finish it next morning and immediately blog it, then go on to the next poem, frequently forgetting what’s been posted. Averaging 8-20 poems a month lately; in the old days before our 31 months of travel I was writing 5-10 poems a year.
Haven’t seen the cover yet, but believe this to be the poem flow:
Cleveland Gray
Cliff Notes
Formulating Future
Ego Disease
The Rejeculation Blues
Do Wrap
The Owl & the Pussycat Have Sex
To Every Man Who Seeks Cosmic Funk
Bio
Sofa Satori
The Doers of Perception
Six Senryu in Search of an Umbrella
House of Seven Veils
Scat Box
Running from the Quantum Cop
Rumi by Way of Dr. Seuss
On the State of the State
UnHip
Hip Cat Femur Whack Give a Doc a Bone
The Wolf Who Cried Human & the Pack That Wouldn’t Believe
Rosary Candle Cable Wick
Jump Start Cable
Pome Skool
Dalai Lady
Lady
Get Me to the Witch on Time
Laptop Dance
Herb 4:20
Life Lines
Out at the In-laws
Out at the In-laws 2
Seven Year In
Walking the Wanting Wheel
IOUIO Me
In Throe of Woe
I’m Not as Bad as All That
Head Light Tail
High Wind Whether
My Children of the Me
Tonight’s Advice to Tomorrow’s Me
Just washed my face & can’t do a thing with it – foto Smith
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
Street Maps For Lost Souls by John Dorsey
Smith foto on cover
This makes 12 (of 29) Crisis Chronicles Press publications that use my fotos for their cover art.
And below is one of my two 1985 covers for the WSCB radio program guide. Can’t find the other one yet.
And now a commercial break:
Coming Soonest! The proof copy of my memoir of the first 60 years of my surreal life arrives in the mail tomorrow. We’ll quickly correct the typos and be in business, which means probably within a month “Stations of the Lost & Found – a true story of armed robbery, stolen cars, outsider art, mutant poetry, underground publishing, robbing the cradle and leaving the county” by Smith & Lady will be available.
As editor Tisha Nemeth said on CoolCleveland.com back in 2003, I am “everything your mother warned you about.”
You may not like me very much for much of the book, but you will remember the story.
Smith collage on cover of 1985 WCSB radio program guide
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