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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Naked Boy Press

Here's a couple of nice mentions of the Naked Boy Part 1 leading up to the signing tomorrow night.

Casey Jarman in the Willamette Week and Sarah Esterman in The Daily Vanguard .

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Monday, January 4, 2010

RACC 2010 Project Grant

Cumbersome Multiples has just been awarded a RACC Project Grant for our collaboration with poet Rafael Oses. For more details go to the Cumbersome Multiples site.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

January 13 Naked Boy Book Signing and Release

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'm doing a signing and release party for The Naked Boy Part 1 at Bridge City Comics in Portland, OR.

Wednesday January 13, 2010

6-8PM

3725 N. Mississippi Ave.
Portland, OR 97227

Hope you can make it!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Bigfoot and the Green Man

Here is a link to a very cool piece about the history of the Green Man and its connection to Bigfoot. This is from Big Foot Lunch Club. The analysis of my work is really good.

The Naked Boy

The Naked Boy is a birth of the nation story. The Naked Boy is spit out of the mouth of a whale. The Naked Boy is given the mission to follow the railroad west to kill the Great Bear. There are two narrative voices throughout the story. The first is the omniscient narrator, the poet. This voice uses the device of epic, heroic poetry. The second is Preacher Smith, a syndicated talk radio preacher. Preacher Smith is never seen, he broadcasts locally from everywhere the Naked Boy finds himself. Preacher Smith is the main agitator against the Naked Boy.

The Naked Boy Part 2

Summer is in the air as The Naked Boy saga continues. The Naked Boy grows older as he crosses the continent to kill The Great Bear. In this episode he meets a family of escaping slaves en route to Freedom City. Freedom City has another knickname- The City of Big Men, and the City of Big Men is the heart of a vast military industrial complex. The Governor of Freedom City is going to run for president and the Naked Boy is the key to his campaign. Ursula and The Great Bear try to find out who is keeping them from contacting The Naked Boy directly. And the Naked Boy continues to lose body parts as he rambles West in this exciting second chapter of this American epic.Click on picture to order. $10.00

The Green Man of Portland

Since Portland’s founding, sightings of small green archers have been reported throughout the city. Very few documents exist to confirm these rumors. Along with the archers, a celestial stag, a phantom building and a huge tree have been spotted, time-to-time, throughout Old Portland. Whenever the archer hits someone, her vision changes. An aura of flowers grows from the heads of passersby. Suddenly a building called “The Greenwood” is visible where there was no building before. A giant tree larger than any buildings in town towers over the city. On certain nights, a great white celestial stag is spied in the skies over Portland. The Green Man's arrows pierce the secret history of Portland.