Bøger af Gerald Locklin

New and collected poems from Gerald Locklin spanning from 2010-2015. Topics include jazz, art, and life.

This is the second of two volumes of Gerald Locklin's poetry that was published in Coagula Art Journal in the late 1990s thru the Aughts of the 21st century. Countering the entire critical establishment in the visual arts, this self-proclaimed "Anti-Expert" uses artworks as points of departure to discuss life in all of its beauty, foibles and complexities. Volume One began with ancient art and continued chronologically thru the classics up to the middle of the 20th century. This volume presents art and themes loosely associated with the visual arts from 1960 up until the recent past with special sections on the art of David Hockney and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Other chapters present Pop Art and other meta-approaches and strategies adopted by the leading artists of the author's times - always filtered thru Locklin's cynical wit and inimitable economy of language.

Last Tango in Long Beach completes Gerald Locklin's trilogy of post-modern novellas that began with The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen and continued with Come Back, Bear. In this final story, Locklin explores the 1970s sex drama but backs away from his classic humor to take an inside look at the politics of a real couple. It takes a painfully accurate view of the way life can be in the long run even with people who love each other.

Come Back, Bear is Gerald Locklin's long awaited sequel to The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen. Where Locklin explored the subconscious and the idea of the detective novel in the first novella of the series, here he delves into the Western novel and the idea of loyalty. Locklin is at his best here as he becomes irreverent in his relationships, his love of the classic cowboy novel, and his view of America.

The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen is Gerald Locklin's classic post-modern epic of Los Angeles and gumshoe detectives. At once homage and spoof, the novella follows Bear, a private detective, as he searches for the eponymous blue Volkswagen through the meanest streets of the West Coast and into a more dangerous world, his subconscious. The novella is at once a comedy, a discussion of the detective genre, and a look into the various cultures and subcultures of the 1970s.