David Spicer
David Spicer has, over the years and in pursuit of the word, worked as bookseller, bottle loader, burger flopper, carpet roll dragger, dishwasher, ditch digger, eleventh- and twelfth-grade English teacher, furniture mover, gas pumper, librarian’s assistant, Manpower flunky, printing-company and medical-journal proofreader, record warehouser, tutor, typesetter, and weather observer. He has had over six hundred poems published in periodicals such as Alcatraz, The American Poetry Review, Chiron Review, CircleShow, Delta Poetry Review, Gargoyle, The Midnight Boutique, The Naugatuck River Review, Ploughshares, Reed Magazine, Santa Clara Review, Synaeresis, Yellow Mama, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized in Silent Voices: Recent American Poems on Nature (Ally Press, 1978), Homewords: A Book of Tennessee Writers (The University of Tennessee Press, 1986), Homeworks: A Book of Tennessee Writers (The University of Tennessee Press, 1996), Ten Poets (The Wing & Wheel Press, 1999), Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing From Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), and A Galaxy of Starfish: An Anthology of Modern Surrealism (Salo Press, 2016). He has been nominated for a Best of the Net three times and a Pushcart. He is the author of Everybody Has a Story and six chapbooks, and a collection of sestinas is forthcoming in 2021 from FutureCycle Press. The former editor of raccoon, Outlaw, and Ion Books, you can find more of David at the following links:
Website: David Spicer
Books Published through Hekate
American Maniac
Spicer’s title character leads us on a road trip in an ironic and iconic white Cadillac, traversing through the underbelly of America in this panorama of love gone wrong, sex, perversion, rock and roll, drugs, bigotry, radical politics, hypocrisy, and violence run amok. Often depicted in hues of indicting black humor, wicked satire, and twisted passion, American Maniac promises a wild and wacky roller-coaster ride across the highways of the American psyche that have become more common with each passing day.
Available in paperback.
Product Information:
Paperback: 79 pages
Publisher: Hekate Publishing (July 6, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1912017202
ISBN-13: 978-1912017201
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
Waiting For The Needle Rain
A collection of seventy surreal, wildly imaginative poems that depict with black humor a world not unlike the one we inhabit today: obsessed with love and sex, conflict, violence, crime, and pre-apocalyptic meanderings. In these tender but provocative dramatic monologues, the narrator invites and almost dares the reader to travel with him through the dark amusement parks of these poems. It’s an impressionistic landscape: We won’t know absolutely what the narrator means, but he gives clues and lets us decide what we want to depart with after we finish these enigmatic tableaus.
Available in paperback.
Product Information:
Paperback: 89 pages
Publisher: Hekate Publishing (January 14, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1912017776
ISBN-13: 978-1912017775
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches