If you would like an overview of what’s on this site, click on 66 Covers to your right. Otherwise, scroll down to see a list of what’s here, or if you are looking for something specific, enter the name into the search box to your right, wait a couple of seconds and scan down past the covers page, until it appears. Keep scrolling on this page if you want to wander through the site. Click on the next page and keep wandering. The posts are listed alphabetically.
For Nothing – A One Man Show, a full-length video, click on: http://mcooki.es/216521/
Nothing is a talk that comes from doing my first two shows, Keep Talking, in ’75, and The Blood & Turnips Poetry Festival, first performed in ’82. Nothing was recorded in Seattle in ’03. My son, Jaxon Brooks, made this possible through his diligent effort and the facilities of his wonderful website, MilkandCookies.com, which I recommend for its insightful and often hilarious content.
Artwork is by the author, except for the cover of The Exquisite Poet and The Blood & Turnips Poetry Festival by Alexandra Benjamin, the cover to The Zen of Housepainting by Chris Blum, and the paintings that accompany The Lonely Lion by Christine Schibly. The cover photo for Fearless in Lucknow was taken by Michael Schiesser. The artwork for Let’s Spend Some Time Together is by Gregory Vose.
Steveabhaya.com now contains these complete posts:
101 Ways to Avoid Reading Self-Help Books, 11 pages, suggestions, 1996
A Conversation Among Raindrops, 55 pages, prose poems of awareness, 1993
A Prisoner’s Cave in Heaven, 378 pages, prose combined with the poetry of Alone, 2007
All Fall Down, 55 pages, poetry, 2009 (also 62 pages, open text)
Too Much Beauty, 117 pages, poetry, 2007
Altered Egos, 171 pages, prose, invented satiric biographies of the famous, infamous, and legendary, 2007
American Heretic, college humor magazine, 1963.
Art Work, paintings and drawings, 1990 to the present
Being Itself, 78 pages, prose poems of awareness in being, 1993-2008
Big Head Theatre, 202 satirical drawings, 2001
Borderwalker, 55 pages, parable of loss and redemption, 1989
Café Faces, 60 drawings of café patrons, done at various times
Café Life, 117 pages, Life in the Owl and Monkey Café, SF, 1991
Dear Nadja, 179 pages, autobiography that parallels the fiction of Borderwalker, 1982
Death, 39 pages, poetry, 2000
Elegy of a Young Poet, 17 pages, surrealist transliterations, 1976
Eternal Ruse, 44 pages, poetry, 1985
Fall Awake, 56 pages, drama, 2010
Fearless in Lucknow, 53 pages, prose, in ’92 with Papaji, 1994
Fierce Tranquility, 101 pages, a journal of inner discovery, 1989
Fleshy Blue Boat, 55 pages, poetry, light, early poems, 1972
Half Past Kissing Time, 104 pages, novella, sequel to SWIMMING, 1989
I Am, 48 pages, poetry, 2009
I Became a Florist to Run for the Roses, 25 pages, humor, 2001
I Spilled Coffee on the Buddha, 58 pages, imaginative poems and art, 1991
I Write Poetry, poetry, 2005-2004
I’m Alive, 29 pages, drama, Seattle Playwrights Festival (Honorable Mention) 1990
Invisible Lion, 137 pages, autobiographical prose, starting over, 1985
Joni, 45 pages, biographical prose, 2002
Let’s Spend Some Time Together, drama, Intersection Theatre, 1972
Matisse in LA, 36 poems, 2002
Minnie the Mermaid, 20 pages, fictional prose, short story, 1990
Mother, 608 pages, prose, taking care of an elder parent, 2004
Music Night, 13 pages, abstract art and poetry, in the Honey Bear Bakery Café, Seattle. ’95
Never Mind Gertrude Stein, 200 drawings with aphorisms, 1982
Nothing – A One Man Show, text for video, 2004
On Board the Victoria Clipper, 6 pages, 16 poems, 2010
Ordinary Ecstasy, 157 pages, journalese, The Osho International Meditation Center, Pune, India, 1991-1992
Pardon My French, Illustrations of French Colloquialisms, 1995
Philip Blanc in San Francisco, 6 pp, light surreal poems, drawings, Panjandrum Press, 1972
Poet in America, 390 pages, prose poetry, 1975-85
Prepare to Dance, 32 pages, love poetry, 1993
Regina, 52 pages, biographical prose, 2002
San Francisco Snapshots, 68 pages, short poems, written on the street, 1974
Savage Amusement, a poet’s life in San Francisco, 212 pages, journal prose, 1975
Singing Down the Drain, musical, 2011
Spike’s Eye View, 80 Cartoons for children and others, 2000
Square Roots, 48 paintings, art, 200
SWIMMING, 145 pages, coming of age fictionalized autobiography, 1989
The Blood & Turnips Poetry Festival Anthology, 42 pages, satirical poetry with art, several venues, 1978-88
The Boy Who Named Himself, 8 pages, fable, The Carlton Hotel, Lucknow, India, 1992
The Cartoon Kid, 76 cartoons, 2000
The Chair Outside the Door, 26 poems, 2010
The Cock Poems by Georgio Vesta, 17 pp, poetry, Love Lights Magazine, 1974
The Dancer in the Heart, 89 pages, poetry, 6 paintings, Philos Press, 2001
The Exquisite Poet, 51 pages, poetry, 2008
The Lonely Lion & All the Animals from A to Z, 26 pages, children’s stories and art, 2001
The Lost Poems of Jesus, 45 pages, poetry, 1993, Talking Raven Magazine, ’94
The Ocean in a Bottle, 26 pages, excerpt from Five on the Western Edge, Momo’s Press, ’75
The Queen of the Rhumba, 50 pages, poetry in the city, 1980
The Roomless Room, 30 pages, poetry, after a heart attack, 2002
The True Story of Zenman, 98 drawings with captions, 2001
The Zen of Housepainting, 11 pages, prose, from City Miner Magazine, 1982
Walking in Asheville, 95 pages, poems and photographs, 2011
Walking in Ellensburg, 42 pages, poetry on the streets of Ellensburg, Washingon, 2008
Zenwords, 141 pages, prose, redefining words in Zenthink, 1999-2008
