Steve Brooks (Abhaya) – Poetry, Prose & Art

November 2, 2008

101 Ways to Avoid Reading Self-Help Books

Filed under: Art,Book,Fiction,Non-fiction — Steve Brooks @ 10:37 pm

101 Ways CoverWalking in the Barnes and Noble in the Kahala Mall, in Honolulu, I passed the self-help row. It seemed to go on for miles. I thought, “Somebody ought to write 101 Ways to Avoid Reading Self-Help Books.” Then I thought, “You’re a writer. Why don’t you do it?” So I did. This book, if what I’m saying is true, should work, even if you read it and do absolutely nothing it suggests.

The drawings included here have been sold as a coloring book called Have a Seat!

 

 

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101 Ways to Avoid Reading Self-Help Books

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Philip Blanc in San Francisco

Filed under: Art,Poetry — Steve Brooks @ 5:11 pm

PB in SF cover

Philip Blanc in San Francisco was published by Panjandrum Press in 1972. These light surrealist excursions, as someone once described them elicited this response from my mother, “Stephen, were you on drugs when you wrote this?” I said I was not, that I wrote them in the library at San Francisco State on a sunny Tuesday afternoon. The drawings came later. 

 

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Philip Blanc in San Francisco

September 16, 2008

A Likely Story (Altered Egos)

Filed under: Art,Book,Fiction,Humor,Non-fiction,Prose — Steve Brooks @ 5:01 pm

 Altered Egos CoverA Likely Story (Altered Egos) is a collection of mostly fictional stories of the famous and infamous in history, with an added section of stories about contemporary figures.

“After floating for two days on the open sea, kept afloat by parts of her own demolished airplane, Amelia Earhart washed up on an island, where she was rescued by island natives, who had never heard of her and took her to be a blessing from the gods. They thought she was a visitor from an unidentified flying object they’d seen, days before, when it flew low and fast over their heads like a winged canoe in the sky.

Amelia herself finally accepted the role she denied at first, and became the most famous aviator in the world, Amelia From the Heart of the Air, She Who Crossed The Sky in a Winged Canoe.”

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Altered Egos Contents

Altered Egos: Illustrated

 

 

 


September 15, 2008

I Spilled Coffee on the Buddha

Filed under: Art,Book,Poetry — Steve Brooks @ 4:22 am

I Spilled Coffee on the Buddha Cover

 

I Spilled Coffee on the Buddha is a collection of poems written in ’91. Each poem is accompanied by a drawing related to the story line in the poem.

“I reached for my coffee, and in a broken moment, I spilled coffee on the Buddha. Without innocence and without guilt, my fingers knocked against the lip of the cup. I looked up, horrified, my devil of a heart was laughing, and the Buddha was gone. In his place, in the doorway, was a family of hungry patrons, entering the ordinary cafe.”

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I Spilled Coffee on the Buddha (text)

 

 

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