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Oblivion Sun is a collection of the poems I have
written over the years. Kit Watkins has created a beautiful cover for the
book, and I am pleased to offer it to you here. Limited quantities are
available for $10.98 plus $3.00 for shipping in the US. For international
orders shipping is $5.50. Here is Todd Fahey's jacket review. "Years ago, beachside Santa Barbara, relaxing with a strong joint to late-night Pirate Radio, I bade witness to an aural tapestry so unique, I could not be sure I was living still within the realm of Consensus Reality--a soundscape of a rich inner life, a tone poem from a parallel universe, the hollow clock-clock of a wind-up doll which marches amidst vapors of exquisite blue. Found out later that I hadn't lost my mind at all: It was the story of Happy The Man--a Virginia-based jazz-rock quintet, an Amerikan tragedy, and I devoured it, for two decades took it up as part of mySelf. For me and for many thousands of others, life would not be complete without this Song. Frank Wyatt, pianist/composer/lyricist and woodwinds guru for the newly revived Happy The Man, has lived and died the death of so many creative geniuses. He is, in a sense, Eliot's `J. Alfred Prufrock'--an enervated innocent, a spirit too pure for the jaded economy; or, as Beckett said, `I can't go on/I'll go on.' Oblivion Sun is that haunted, familiar chronicle: of encroaching madness, desperation, bitterness, lost love, and an exquisite-blue vista--God-granted or self-generated, I don't know, doesn't matter--which, somehow, keeps the devils at bay. We don't know why we are here, any of us, or why we are granted gifts that others hold as valueless. And those who are as gifted as Mr. Wyatt suffer for it more strongly than most. In Oblivion Sun, his first volume of poetry, we are reminded again of the porosity of consciousness, sanity's fragility, the magic of creation, and of God's mysteries, as channeled by the mystic. This dream, what is it?" Reviewed by Todd Brendan Fahey, author, Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel (Far Gone Books, 1996) |
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