Bøger af John Dorsey

Working class poems set in Missouri. As fellow poet Shawn Pavey says in the Foreword, Dorsey "loves our beat up and rusted out cars, the dive bars and chicken joints which are the only places we can really afford even though settling the tab always brings on that discernible stab of anxiety." His "subjects would be off center, off balance, and blurred just a little in grainy black and white." Yet amid life's failures are the small triumphs that make it all worth living.

A graphic novel which seeks to awaken the higher consciousness that exists within all of us.

John Dorsey's new book The Prettiest Girl at the Dance is a wonderful meditation on love, as well as life. It is as hopeful and powerful as love itself can be. What makes these poems so special is that Dorsey writes about these women not as simply objects of desire, or conquests, no, he is writing about women and love like the way a sailor loves the sea, or an artist loves the museum. The poems are about interactions as often as relationships, we are not sure if these are women John knew or maybe just met or maybe just saw? It does not matter because they become real and concrete in his images, "she is the cry of a barn owl that once thought it might die alone". The Prettiest girl in Hastings has the face of a ravaged lion! The interaction with these women can be short, but their memories live long in his heart. There is true magic in these poems, real music and the mysteries we all experience, but often cannot find words to express. John Dorsey has all those words and we are so lucky that he has written them down.-Matthew Borczon, Author of A Clock of Human Bones

The Gasconade Review is a literary and arts publication based out of the Osage Arts Community (http://osageac.org/), located on the Gasconade River, just outside of Belle, Missouri. It appears twice annually, focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on writers and artists from the region and state, but occasionally also features folks what ain't from around here. All submissions must be hand delivered between the months of April and October and the hours of 3pm to 6pm. A decent bourbon is appreciated. Proper river attire required. Don't worry, the dogs won't bite.

The Gasconade Review is a literary and arts publication based out of the Osage Arts Community (http://osageac.org/), located on the Gasconade River, just outside of Belle, Missouri. It appears twice annually, focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on writers and artists from the region and state, but occasionally also features folks what ain't from around here. All submissions must be hand delivered between the months of April and October and the hours of 3pm to 6pm. A decent bourbon is appreciated. Proper river attire required. Don't worry, the dogs won't bite.

Memento meets Groundhog Day, Dream Lover is the story of Lionel Trimmer, a Wild West Casino cowboy caught somewhere between reality and a world set on repeat in a dream that's ever changing, piece by piece, where he must choose between the woman he loves and his very existence, all the while being followed by the pint sized "keepers of the dream code" who will stop at nothing to make sure the world as they know it keeps going around in circles like a crazed carnival ride wrapped in mystery.An Original Screenplay by John Dorsey