Art

A collection of comics. Part two of of Mother Come Home.

"when the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship goes missing, Ollister & Adelaid lose their post modern marbles. He plots revenge against art patriarch the matypus,while she obsesses over their love affair. Meanwhile the art school set experiments with bad drugs, bad sex and bad ideas. But none of these desperate young minds has counted on the intrusion of a punk named Punk and his potent sex drug. The wild herd of teenagers gets caught up in the gravitational pull of the matypus's sinister White Ball where a confused art terrorism cell threatens a ludicrous and hilarious implosion."

A collection of poems about spending eight days in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

"Harvey Jacobs' compiled columns are beautifully written, thought provoking and memorable. They go to the heart of midwestern America and make us rejoice in its uplifting values."

This book is mostly poetry. The poems in this books are about things in a local situation which are common knowledge nature and activities. It touches on personal, criticism, history levels.

"Dogs & water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path ahas only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation,anger and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few land marks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These concerning the killed and injured. He finds acceptance with a pack of dogs, though their nature is wild and their potential threat is as unsettling as the sudden presence of a massive pipeline on the horizon. In a dream like state,the endless land becomes a vast body of water where his boar is destroyed and his body floats in a subconscious space . On land, the road disappears and only blind circumstance remains. All is uncertain and all can be lost, but he continues on regardless."

"Tara Jean Betts has crafted a manual of sweet lyric, corner doowop and unsettling truths, an unerring guidebook for the colored girl who is born into several worlds at once. Praise this raging poetess for trumpeting that hidden voice, for baring its blade edges and giving it space to scream. Her poems are too true to be kept secret and too stunning to be denied."

Continued contributors: Shaun Martin, Nicole Chicane, Kimberely Norris, Steve Simon, Angelique Renaux, Kiley O'Brien, Angelia Siener, Rebecca Knights, Stacey Ochampaugh, Bradley Quandt, Tyler Grant, Jenny Armstrong, Christyn Heffron, Steve Simon, Melissa Murphy, Cassy St. Clair, Marques Morel, Jenna Haymond, Pat Simon, Sonya Paschedag, Chris Stevenson, Nick Galzin Thoughts from poetry, short stories, artwork and photography.

Book of paintings, sculpture and drawings by celebrated Colombian artists Fernando Botero. His works were displayed at the KN Gallery in Chicago in honor of his 75th birthday.

"There are forty-three heroes in this book...Since I saw these monumental figures as icons...I decided on a size and shape for the hand that would depict them." The personalities and accomplishments of 43 iconic heroes are represented by Kiff Slemmons' jewelry-like pins shaped like hands. Each work stands as an allegory representing the qualities, virtues, and significance of each hero to Slemmons. Included is a biographic essay and poem that serve to give greater scope to the work; a largely pictorial work.