Apocalypse Soon: The Mostly Unedited Poems of Ezra E. Lipschitz
Language: English
Published by Mezcalita Press, LLC, 2017
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- Title
- Apocalypse Soon: The Mostly Unedited Poems of Ezra E. Lipschitz
- Author
- Lipschitz, Ezra E
- Publisher
- Mezcalita Press, LLC
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0997643625
- ISBN 13
- 9780997643626
Ezra Lipschitz was born in 1955, then mostly raised as a Catholic with a Jewish last name in Colma, California--a necropolis for the city of San Francisco. An early-life concoction that he claims was a short road to eventually becoming an atheist. He completed a degree in English at UC Davis, but doesn’t recall getting his diploma. He travels the Southwest as a folk musician and storyteller. And drinker. When he stays in one place for any amount of time, it is usually in his cabin at the foot of the Rockies in Southwestern Colorado, near the border of New Mexico.
Apocalypse Soon is the third book in a trilogy that began with the collection I Shouldn’t Say… and followed with Arse Poetica—a trilogy he did not necessarily want to put out. However, Nathan Brown, owner of Mezcalita Press, asked permission to do it for him, because the timing of the pieces about Donald Trump is simply too important.
The book is divided into three chapters. The first is “A Serious Laughter.” The second is “Among the Ruins.” And the final chapter is called “According to St. John the Divine.” The poems in this collection speak to climate change and its effects on coming generations, and they seek to laugh among the ruins. The closing chapter, however, is a direct “call and response” to various verses from every chapter in the Book of Revelation. A journey likened unto Nathan Brown’s early book Not Exactly Job, in which he does the same thing with the Book of Job.
The fact that Ezra is a prolific poet goes hand in hand with his cantankerous and contentious soul. And, when Brown approached him about letting him do this trilogy, Lipschitz initially said “No.” However, he later agreed, saying, “Well… as long as I don’t have to edit the damn things.” And no readings. He would do no readings. Poetry readings are “insufferable marathons of the waning spirit and dying soul” as far as he is concerned. So, don’t bother asking again.
Brown, however, insists that the world will be better off with these terribly raw and honest poems in it. So… release the inner curmudgeon.
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About the Author
Nathan Brown is an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, and he served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013/14. Nathan has published fourteen books. Most recent are And Honest Day's Prayer; I Shouldn't Say... The Mostly Unedited Poems of Ezra E. Lipschitz; and Don't Try, a collection of co-written poems with Austin Music Hall of Fame songwriter, Jon Dee Graham. Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. His earlier book, Two Tables Over, won the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award. Naomi Shihab Nye said about Nathan's book, My Salvaged Heart: ."..attraction and romance, ineffable magnetism, mysterious as ever - but doused with a savory dose of Nathan Brown humor, a tilted long-ranging eye that sees the next bend in the road even when he's standing right here, firmly planted."
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