Genii in the Heartland
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We Seek Authenticity.
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For David Spicer from Hekate and Alex Z. Salinas
/Last month David Spicer sent me his Mad Sestina King, a book of poetry just published. I loved it and wrote him a note to that effect but didn’t hear back. This week, Nancy, his wife, replied using his email address: David had two massive strokes and was placed on a ventilator at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. She was told he likely wouldn’t survive.
Hearts go out to David and Nancy.
Hispanic sonnet, or End of American maniac
By Alex Z. Salinas
for David Spicer
David, you’re dying / but it feels as tho
You’ve written yourself out of death.
Sestina King, American Maniac, your
Mind let go but the machines keep you
Breathing. For now. Not much longer.
Remember you told me how in 1980
You accompanied Denis Johnson to an
Arizona prison to visit a mutual friend? You
Said Denis was a marvelous man & writer
And minutes later that Hollywood’ll fuck
Anything up, Shelley’s Frankenstein as
Proof. You blurbed I had cojones to publish
Poems about God. Naw. David, I have to
Tell you, before goodbye, grab the nearest
Partner. Dance. This life. Unbearably sad. Precious.
Jefferson Dylan Iwanski, Michael D. Davis and Coates Walker
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I’ve asked three of our artists to share work from their notebooks.
Read MoreHekate: Two Thousand Twenty Something
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. . . learn how to make things disappear for real. . .
Read MoreEddie du Montparnasse and Coates Walker: Memory of the Future
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In a room of black smoke thought flew overhead & the ticking sound of past time slept . . .
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Coming soon, Michael D. Davis' The Seriously Deranged Series.
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Shortly, it begins. . .
Cartoons, and nothing but cartoons, all illustrated and captioned by the brilliant
MICHAEL D. DAVIS.
Read MoreComing soon, Coates Walker, Collection One
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Hekate has had the honor of working with Coates Walker over the past several years and wish to feature several books of his images. We’ll start with color plates and follow with black and white. Mr. Walker has been working as an artist since the 60s, has come to full maturity, and is recognized for his relentless output. He renders our media and technology-driven world like no other.
Read MoreMy hair is falling out . . .
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We’re borderline unprofessional. I’d like to keep it that way.
Read MoreThe New Overcoat
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The year 1922 was considered a literary milestone: Modernism began, at least to an entitled circle of literary critics. The great works, subsequently read in school, were written, arising during, and in the aftermath of, the First World War (World, to the extent Russia, Japan and the United States were involved), the Spanish Flu (Mrs. Dalloway had it) and the recognition of indifferent and hostile mass culture. The state of being uprooted, exiled, and the idea of a lost generation was discussed. Images of wastelands became the context for certain writers. A diagnosis was made and Literature at the time set out to reconcile its world with a world of the past, to find a cure.
So what now, almost one hundred years later? Do writers have a different world on their hands?
Read MoreDavid Spicer and Alex Salinas again take on time and place
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Marianne Moore: “Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
Shortly to be released, in tandem, are David Spicer’s American Maniac and Alex Z. Salinas’ DREAMT, or The Lingering Phantoms of Equinox.
For Hekate, all roads (unfortunately for you) lead back to Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The author was arrested in 1849 for reading politically sensitive documents in public, sentenced by the Tzar initially to death, then to ten years of Siberian hard labor and upon his return (an altered man), entered what is recognized to be his mature cycle of writing. One of the initial works, Notes From Underground, was originally intended as a critical response to Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s novel What is to be Done, a thinly disguised socialist manifesto (which Lenin loved) referencing a certain type of ‘underground man.’ Dostoyevsky had a big bone to pick with ideologies that forced-people-to-be-happy. The author could not bring himself to
Read MoreHekate, Amazon and Bitcoin
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We recently have been honored to work with Rosario Melgar O. on a book describing an abduction of family members during the Salvadorean civil war. As a song writer and painter in her native land, we wished to present not only her words, but to illustrate the book with photographs of her paintings, most of which hang, in her honor, along the hallways of the nursing home where she resides.
For ebook distribution, we have worked with a wonderful company over the last five years, ebookpartnership. Matt, the owner, is one
Read MoreHekate in the New World order: A note from the publisher
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…….irony, to an extent, has replaced the oxygen in the air we breath…..
Read MoreCindy Rosmus, Crime Writer - Authors on the Air
/Wonderful writer interviews including Cindy Rosmus of Yellow Mama E Zine! Listen!
“Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is proud to partner with author Marietta Miles and DO SOME DAMAGE for a celebration of women writers for Women's Her Story Month.”
Marietta Miles & AOTA present WOMEN WRITING THEIR OWN HER STORIES!
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Michael D. Davis
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Great to read article featuring this promising young author-artist Michael D. Davis concerning his latest, as featured in Tama News Herald. We’re looking forward to working with Michael on a book of illustrations. You can read the article here
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