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|  | | El Pagano and Other Twisted Tales
The first collection of short stories by RD Armstrong. Written in the style of pulp fiction (genre), these stories feature characters from the seamy side of life.
A collection of short stories and flash fiction. Titles include: Art Fag, Hand Jive, Hey Elmo Get a Load of This, El Pagano, The Manx Tales and Magic Fingers. | |  | | Fire and Rain - Selected Poems 1993-2007 Vol. 2
Poetry from 2000 to 2007, this second volume completes the "best of" sequence by small/underground press poet and publisher RD Armstrong.
What does fifteen years worth of poetry look like? It looks like FIRE AND RAIN.
"Armstrong is a powerful blend of urban reality, aging and high art that he never allows to take over and blur his messages." -- Hugh Fox | |  | | Fire and Rain Selected Poems 1993-2007 Vol. 1
It's poetry, folks. It's about life and death and all that goes on in between.
A comprehensive view of the poetry of RD Armstrong aka Raindog. Volume one contains 184 poems and includes poems from The San Pedro Poems,Paper Heart and Bone, as well as many previously unublished poems. | |  | | On/Off the Beaten Path
This book encompasses three long poems about road trips I took in 1999, 2000, & 2001. They were originally published in three separate books.
On/Off the Beaten Path contains the title poem, plus A Journey up the Coast and RoadKill (the epic long poem published in 2002). Each poem describes the sights and sounds of three trips made between 1999 and 2001.
Each trip was taken to meet poets and see the sights - in 1999 it was to meet A. D. Winans of San Francisco; in 2000 it was to meet Todd Moore of Albuquerque; and in 2001 it was to meet Leonard J. Cirino of Springfield, Oregon.
Most of the trips were uneventful (as uneventful as any adventure can be), but the last one happened to be eclipsed by the events of 9-11, which occur | |  | | PAPER HEART #4
Further research into what makes this ol' heart of mine "take a lickin' and keep one tickin'..."
Picks up where Paper Heart #3 leaves off. Includes many new poems about falling into and out of love and Raindog's Guide to Lovin' the Ladies (a must read)! | |  | | The Hunger
A collection of poems about secret love affairs.
"Each poem becomes something more than a glance back in time, as Armstrong breathes life back into each memory with a combination of hard-won wisdom, brevity, and true tenderness."
Marie Lecrivain, editor, poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles
“These are charming, sensitive, and moving truths we have all dealt with.”
Leonard J. Cirino
| | | | The Lummox Journal -- All Poetry Issue
"One of the best monthly magazines in the Small Press." --Lindsay Wilson (UNWOUND Magazine)
This annual issue is the biggest ever, with over 100 poems (by 100+) poets from around the USA and the world.
Poems by Lyn Lifshin, Larry Jaffe, Linda Lerner, A.D. Winans, Gerry Locklin, Scott Wannberg, John Levin, and many others | |  | | The Manx Tales
Manx was a cat who thought he had no tale.
The Manx Tales is a collection of micro-fiction stories, each one no longer than 1000 words. In fact the shortest one is only 324 words long.
The stories detail the lonesome existence of Manx, as he survives the daily rituals associated with life in the urban landscape, in the latter days of the 20th Century.
This volume also contains several illustrations by the author. | |  | | The San Pedro Poems
Back in the daze when I was known only as Raindog, I lived in a little town at the end of the Harbor Freeway. I was blissfully happy. Then something happened and everything changed, forever.
This collection originally appeared, in part, under the title Pedro Blue (published by VHP Press). I have republished it with some updates and new poems, because it had gone out of print and the previous publisher had no interest in reprinting it.
It contains some of my earliest poems from around the time that I came out of poetry-hybernation in 1993-94. Many of these poems still hold up today, in my opinion.
The theme here, loosely, is life in a small town: the characters, the locales, the insights and delusions. San Pedro, it's not just for breakfast anymore. |
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