Steve (Abhaya) Brooks – Poetry Prose & Art

Contents by Title

Contents in alphabetical order:

101 Ways to Avoid Reading Self-Help Books, 11 pages, suggestions, 1996

A Conversation Among Raindrops, 55 pages, prose poems of awareness, 1993

All Fall Down, 39 pages, poetry, 2008

Alone, 85 pages, poetry, 2007

Altered Egos, 171 pages, prose, satiric biographies of the famous, infamous, and legendary, 2007

American Heretic, college humor magazine, Grinnell College, 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

Essential Occupation, 28 pages, poetry, 2002-4

Eternal Ruse, 44 pages, poetry, 1985

Fall Awake, 56 pages, drama, 2010

Famous Lost Words, 7 pages, famous expressions as they might have been, 2012

Fearless in Lucknow, 53 pages, prose, in ’92 with Papaji, 1994

Fleshy Blue Boat, 55 pages, poetry, light, early poems, 1972

Haiku Café, 30 pages, poetry, 2012 

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

Invisible Lion, 137 pages, autobiographical prose, starting over, 1985

I Spilled Coffee on the Buddha, 58 pages, imaginative poems and art, 1991

I’m Alive, 29 pages, drama, Seattle Playwrights Festival (Honorable Mention) 1990

Joni, 45 pages, biographical prose, 2002

Let’s Spend Some Time Together, (Beck & Call), drama, Intersection Theatre, 1972

Matisse in LA, 32 pages, poems, 2002

Minnie the Mermaid, 20 pages, fictional prose, short story, 1990

Monkeys on the Temple Stepa, 28 pages, poems. 1993

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, MilkandCookies.com, 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

Pick up the Baby - Catastrophic Healing, 101 pages, a journal of discovery, 1989

Practically Advice, 17 pages, Prose phrases, lines, and aphorisms, 2002

Prepare to Dance, 28 pages, 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

Silhouettes, 50 pages, definitions at random, 2012

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

Taking Care of Gladys, 328 pages, prose, taking care of an elder parent, 2004

The Attack of the Heart, 30 pages, poetry, after a heart attack, 2002

The Blood & Turnips Poetry Festival Anthology, 42 pages, satirical poetry with art, several venues, 1978-88

The Boy Who Named Himself, 8 pages, fable, reading The Carlton Hotel, Lucknow, India, 1992

The Cartoon Kid, 76 pages, cartoons, 2000

The Chair Outside the Door, 26 poems, 2010

The Cock Poems by Georgio Vesta, 17 pages, poetry, Love Lights Magazine, 1974

The Dancer in the Heart, 89 pages, poetry, 6 paintings, Philos Press, 2001

The Exquisite Parody, 30 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 True Story of Zenman, 98 drawings with captions, 2001

The Window Seat, 337 pages, prose, some poetry, 1975-85

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

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