Newt is a frightening ride through the hopes and horrors of a troubled American immigrant. Set in Seattle's loft art scene, two young lovers, Alysha and Newt, discover that the past is prelude to oblivion. Switching elegantly between Alysha's horrific past and her frenzied present, Newt delves into doomed love and taboo lust.
A Caribbean woman loves a Seattle sculptor. Their romance should end with slurred daquiri kisses. But there's this little problem. Someone else wants her—the guy in the aqua Thunderbird. The color of his ride clues her who's driving. Her first lover. Someone related.
Professional Reviews
The Seattle Weekly, December 4, 1991
"Ron Dakron does wonders with sweat. In his new novel, Newt, the best moments occur when Dakron’s restlessly sensual prose zeros in on a restlessly sensual moment; a steam bath, sex, the silent moments after sex . . . No action is described with a conventional verb. No event takes place within a conventional time frame. The results are challenging, aggravating, and hypnotically resonant."
The Stranger, October 14, 1994
"Ron Dakron’s sentences are lines short, rhythmic, poetic . . . Dakron’s storytelling technique gives the reader a perspective that shifts from the mundane concerns of Will she get away? and Will they marry and breed? The question is, Will Dakron’s lines dazzle to the end or burn out the patience of classification-bound readers who must have either story or poetry? Newt is daringly and relentless opposed to plain language."
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
