Bøger af Daniel Heller

Set in the sordid world of Phoenix suburbia, The Spitbag Affair tells a teenage tale of woe, twisted in the romantic wreckage that was the author's high school love life. A true story about friendship, betrayal and loyalty, The Spitbag Affair takes us back to the late 1990s, to an America whose biggest worry was in regard to the president's honesty and infidelity-motifs mirrored in the lives of The Spitbag Affair. It exposes examples of the seedy, violent underbelly of the once elite WASP culture and tells how teenage boys become men in the face of such violence. We see an America where boys created fraternal bonds through the fellowship of skateboarding and underage binge drinking, and how one girl can test the fragility of such bonds...along with the dignity of the boys who created them. This is the true story about that girl, about the sinister forces that fashioned her, and about a punk rock show that changed the author's life forever, where he discovered the dark, terrible secret of his on-again, off-again high school girlfriend, Scarlett Spittle.

This second and final installment of the Christ-Like Egg adventures picks up exactly where the first left off-in eternal damnation. Continue the voyage through the lives of the broken egg shells. Smell the burning sulfur of lost egg souls searching for meaning in a world devoid of an all-loving hen, smoky bars or goth-country music. Get a whiff of the rotten deviled eggs perfuming the air with a poetic stench that only reality's corpse provides. These dark saints of the here and now will spoil both yokes and whites as they sing their X-rated nursery rhymes about plane crashes, bombed Mexican women, hangovers in wheelchairs and pagan blasphemers. Come taste the fire and brimstone of salvation found in a frying pan. For thy eyes shall be opened, singing both good and evil, becoming as egg gods.

Have you ever opened the refrigerator door in your cozy first-world home and found-to your utter surprise!-God's presence in the cracked eggs of a carton your bratty kids broke open just to piss you off? Ever been captivated by the divine and ancient rhythms of the ocean as it drowns a seagull? Is there a universal, primal spirit of Love that drives all of humanity and Mother Earth to sail together in the cosmos of pornography? Packed with poems of sacred intoxications, sacrificial invocations and live volcanoes that eat decent people for a living, The Christ-Like Egg Collection promises to deliver you from your daily torments of hope and faith in a heavenly utopia to the pleasures of a very real and living hell. Unearth your own dark redemption by savoring these poetic eggs if you dare.

A conventional family collapses into the chaos of the contemporary world. A young man dialectically digs into the past of his own childhood to unearth the reasons why. But does he really want to know the answers to the questions he seeks? An avant-garde thriller that tears into one man's psyche, The Electric Seesaw Dynasty is a play for postmodern audiences searching for a dark deliverance from disorder. Seek here, and you shall find a dissociative mystery, somnambulist visions, repressed memories and perhaps redemption...through a nightmare.

The Skies Don't Care breaks away from the world as we wish it to be and presents instead an airy realm of wonder and mystery that most people can't see-the world as it is. Revealed through the author's dreams, poems and narrative essays, this kingdom of reality will release the reader from any and all responsibilities he feels for his denial of a beautiful darkness that exists around him: the earth, the trees, the birds and the sea of abortions floating in the pool of his own backyard. The reader is free to dive into these muddy waters glistening with bloody adventures through Arizona, Texas, Bali, and the depths of the author's subconscious mind. In the end, be warned, after taking the plunge into these moonlit tales of poetic miscarriages, one will feel an immediate release of cosmic gravity, an elation into the atmosphere of midnight, to ascend in time beyond modern citadels into the carefree clouds of dawn.

Let Us Break Out These Broken Windows surrenders the author's perceptions to the chaos that is the English language. These are poems of existential nudity composed with outlaw lyrics. They do not welcome the easily offended but wish to be cherished by the moist, hot spirits of wild cats, kangaroos, whooping cranes, and other mud-stained creatures who strike apocalyptic fear into the hearts of grownups, responsible leaders and other respectable figures of civilization. These poems desire nothing else than emancipation, whether found through the silk crevice of female anatomies or bootlegged whiskey bottles, trampolines, cigarettes or Cheshire cat smiles in the face of obliteration. All are welcome to help them fight or fly underground, below society's shadows, for their naked liberation. (But, let it be known that, most of these poems prefer to fly and fornicate at the same time.)

Essays about sexual homeless girls and stealing from the homeless. Poems of children making sense of their psychedelic sense impressions with a theme park rodent. Stories about love, loss, skateboarding and Jesus-these are just a few flashes of the mythical mayhem you'll find in this compilation of creative writing called A Typical, Sweltering Phoenix Afternoon. Prose poetry, free verse, short fiction and nonfiction-there's something here for everyone, no matter if you were once a godless, degenerate teenage punk who raged through city streets on LSD and alcohol, or an obedient, cheerful Boy Scout who hiked with the Holy Spirit in the mountains of Arizona. This all-American collection of youthful treason and irreverence wants you to read it all, to join in the fun, and revel in its dark, spiritual, literary freedom.

A poetic celebration of individual chaos against the masses of democratic order, Lunar Light I Am and Fire travels to the strange, exotic world that is the author's life. Balancing experimental prose poetry with some light doses of formalism, this selection of verse explores the sensual language of voluptuous, carnal nightmares, Thanksgiving visions of suicide, dreams about sex with a dead friend's sister, the black magic of animals, old-fashioned diction, and green highlighter pens with the power to time travel. A couple narrative essays are thrown into the mix for good fun, making for an assortment of creative writing that brings gladsome tidings sung in gothic songs to rejoice at the vacuous nullity of modern mankind.

The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.