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Self-Portrait As the Artist Afraid of His Self-Portrait
In poems that springboard from cultural and pop cultural icons like Chagall, Turner, and Andy Warhol, Catlin creates a crazy quilt of strange, terrifying, yet wonderfully surreal, and always consistent associations. These are poems like no other: like kaleidoscopic snapshots into the frenzied mind of the White Rabbit, glimpses of madness that somehow always seem brilliant and ultimately make perfect sense. Part of the fun of reading Self-Portrait of the Artist Afraid of His Self-Portrait is trying to figure out where Catlin's agile mind is going to land next and always being more than pleasantly surprised at the imaginative leap he's forced us to take. --Robert Cooperman, author of The Long Black Veil
Playing Tennis with Antonioni
Imagine a great masterpiece of film re-imagined by a different director. Or a classic piece of cheese-on-celluloid in the hands of a master. These are poems about those films.
Bad, Mad and Dying
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Wallking Among Tombstones in the Fog
Alan Catlins latest collection of poetry reflects both the humanistic concerns of his previous work as well as the expanded tone and vision of a wiser older poet. Catlin applies his detailed observation of others to a wide variety of human situations. There is a particular theme of womens lives and their meanings. The collection is populated with women and their stories. Some of the poems are even written from a female perspective. Catlin is known for his dark tone, combined with a concern for humanity and the quality of human lives. His use of language is utilitarian but elegant in its clarity. Over the decades, he has become one of the most popular independent poets, in large part because of his commitment to realism and personal honesty. We believe that readers will find this book to be Catlins best yet. This volume demonstrates why Alan Catlin has earned the right to be called one of the best poets of his generation.
Memories Too
Poetry. "Alan Catlin's MEMORIES is a dream book that leaps from right now to way back. In short, bursting vignettes he lets his mind and words play across memory and all the randomness memory triggers. From an opium dream to Candace Bergen, from a side glance at racial tensions to a parting glance at Mrs. Robinson, Catlin floats his readers down a stream of memory bubbles, then reaches up and pulls them into a fractured world beneath the surface. This book exhilarates with startling images and jazzy, jagged cadences." --Mike James
Asylum Garden
"Poetry: Ekphrastic poetry responding to various artists and photographers, real and imagined"--
Satan's Kiss
The opening poem, Bloody Murder, brings you into the spirit of Alan Catlin's appropriately named collection, Satan's Kiss. Each poem title a bar drink related to life stories he encountered during his extensive bartending career. Images hold and pull like from Tequila Sunset-his eyes are/hard as freeze-dried spit/glazed by a gale force wind. Catlin's style is narrative free verse with a heavy dose of hard times lived by hookers, vets, and the regulars, often people surviving on the edge. These poems capture the era and the reality of those days today. Catlin lays bare bitter truths in the human experience-simply stated, universally understood, and in the work humanity finds a window, sometim...
Poets on Paintings
Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 2500 poems on paintings are catalogued, by type of publication in which they appear and by poet. Also included are 2000 entries on the secondary literature of ekphrasis, including works on sculpture, music, photography, film, and mixed media.
Bar Guide for the Seriously Deranged
Alan Catlin worked for the better part of 34 years in his unchosen profession as a barman in and around the greater Albany, NY area. He has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books focusing on his work and the people he met while laboring in the trenches of bar warfare.
