AUTOEROTIC ELEGIES: A blog about the writings, predominantly poems, of David C. McLean. Also about other writers at POSTHUMAN POETRY & PROSE.
The new book by Tanya Rakh has reached Amazon. It's on sale at this link for Amazon USA, & at this one for Amazon UK. See the post below for my introduction & further information.
Amazon, being corporate scumbags, don't pay very well. So, if you prefer the artist, Tanya, to make a little more for her work, please consider buying from Lulu, at this link. They at least pay acceptable royalties, though the price is forced up by Amazon.
It is enormously gratifying that a new book, tundra, by Tanya Rakh is now available from Posthuman Poetry & Prose, with a brief introduction by me. The book is fifty numbered pages, & includes Tanya's own illustrations & cover art. I might as well post my introduction below, after the cover.
The book is available direct at this link, & the proof has been approved so the book is coming to online sites like Amazon shortly. Feel free to buy direct though, because Lulu pay authors much more than Amazon & other major booksellers.
It is gratifying to publish this present volume by Tanya Rakh, a short collection of poems called tundra.
For reasons that I have elsewhere described at great length, it is not possible to capture intensity & fire in the drab garb of the natural languages, but it is undoubtedly possible to adumbrate them via negativa, or to hint at them as the unnameable that hides within the interstices of the text.
that’s the secret
you can paint
with the other
side
(“quill”)
As I have previously written of Rakh, this focus on fire & intensity, on all varieties of passion, means that she produces Dichtung, not Poesie: the work thereby belongs to & reveals earth as it pertains to beast & goddess, not the paltry human world, the scientific world that relies on commensurability to describe everything in terms of quality & quantity, a world blind to intensity.
It is also most gratifying to me to note that this book clearly touches on the eternal return, & does so in a way that is entirely compatible with my own Deleuzian understanding of Nietzsche & the selective, as it were, nature of the divine attention:
yes, it’s always the end, we finally make it and the wind picks up and the mountains peel back to beginning again. how do we stay? what imprints are left after the blood tide? after all these planets close their eyes?
nothing but this, love. a wide-eyed sea. all screaming ghosts of sun flesh swimming through the open dream. a sky arched over water. soft lights twinkling past the edge of a century.
As the above quote illustrates, it is only intensity that is ultimately real, because the energy that constantly emanates from goddess to fuel this illusion that it pleases Her to construct is ultimately fire - it is the eternal & infinite fecundity that quantum physics shows is always already there instead of the grotesque & imaginary void that torments the imagination of the weak & reactive. It is always fang & fury & pain, & this is obviously nothing other than love.
The poem “sulfur” is perhaps the closest this book comes to the Mesopotamian understanding of primal goddess:
I cry my soul
into seven ancient rivers
each opens the mouth
of a burning star—
a sulfur world
that breathes our language
If that isn’t redolent of Lamaštû, the seven witches, then I don’t know who screams in the night or why.
A quick post about three recent books now being available from Amazon & elsewhere.
The new book about Tara is now on Amazon, here at this link for Amazon UK, or at this one for US Amazon. This one is only £9.
A new, longer, & revised version of the Kali book is apparently on Amazon UK at this link & it is here at US Amazon.
The main reason the new version is longer is because I refer to & discuss studies by psychologists. I have always maintained that gurus, & spiritual people in general, are a bunch of fucking narcissists, so it occurred to me to check the research. It appears that I hit the nail on the head. If I erred it was on the side of generosity, since the research is touchingly unanimous.
The Lilītu & Lamaštû book, however, had some fucking issues with the fucking metadata, but is obviously still at Lulu. It's available at this link. It is at last available on on Amazon UK here & on Amazon USA at this link
The new Lamaštû book is being written, but I am deliberately taking my time over this one since it will be my main work about antinatalism & population control, & since Lamaštû is so significant to me.
Coming to Amazon soon enough, & now accepted for global distribution, but at present at this link, here is my book Tara is the fire. Blurb & cover, then six samples, follow. Choosing some fairly arbitrary samples, not the best ones, I must say that this seems to be to be the best I ever wrote. There's quite a lot in this book about non-discrimination, intensity, incommensurability, human narcissism, & the fundamental nature of creation & cosmos, drawing on Karen Barad, among others. A lot of this was revealed to me by Lamaštû, somewhat to my surprise. Lamaštû is the subject of my next book, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, will be pretty much another antinatalist manifesto.
EDIT. This is on Amazon UK at this link, & Amazon USA at this.
This book is about Tara, the second Mahavidya. It continues McLean's series about goddess.
Tara embodies the explosive energy of cosmos that is constantly consumed & constantly renewed.
She teaches us how dualisms are empty, how ritual is unnecessary, & how alignment with goddess offers us liberation.
Delighted to announce a new book of poems by Carolyn Srygley Moore at Posthuman Poetry & Prose. It is now on sale at this link & the proof has been approved so it will appear on Amazon soon. Laying Flowers on the Boundary costs $10, €10, or £8.
EDIT: After much buggering about, it is now here on bloody Amazon. Here it is at USA Amazon too.
As I say in the blurb, this is definitely some of her best work, & Carolyn & I did a good job preparing it, I think. The poems adumbrate a fundamentally aesthetic stance that is innately moral, since moral development is largely based upon aesthetic considerations, & a poem can itself perform a small scale transvaluation. Discriminations are empty & serve to strengthen the insistent falsification that is Maya, & inspiration is arbitrary, so the sense of an aleatory & random imaginary is a great strength of this book. Generally goddess does not care for American writers, because of their tendency to narcissism, but She thinks it's alright for me to publish this & Carolyn's previous here, For All of My Beautiful Ghosts.
The cover, featuring Carolyn's photography & designed by me, is below. I endorse this book.
Here, at this link an interview I did for Global Trumpeter, a digital magazine from Delhi, where I am nothing like as controversial as I can be, for some reason. Horrid picture of me, of course, especially since it was taken before I recently started lifting weights again.
Anyway, here's my Amazon UK page, where some offers are available. Here's the US Amazon page, with more detail.
It's preshadow for Gemini Rx, August the 23rd to September the 15th is the actual retrograde. Since Mercury governs intellection, speech, & communication, this can cause information issues, computer problems, & so forth.
The good thing about this Rx is, of course, the opportunity to reflect & radically reassess & reject parts of oneself. Kali approves of this, & I am always up for regeneration & total transformation (Ascendant contra-parallel Pluto). Generally speaking, it's perhaps best not to finalise new projects during Mercury Rx, but it's a good time to end futile patterns, perhaps in conjunction with Venus Rx. When one receives communication from exes during either Rx, "fuck off" is generally the correct response
Mercury governs Gemini, my Moon sing, & this Mercury Rx is in Virgo, the domicile of Mercury, & also my North Node. This has really got me determined to finish & publish the current book on the 11th September, when we have a semi-sextile with Mars.
Venus is retrograde, & so is Saturn, my ruler, as are Neptune & Pluto, the latter very significant for me since it's now in my ascendant. Neptune being in Scorpio in the ninth house in my natal chart is what gives me a certain awareness of spiritual things that most people don't get access to.
I am currently writing a book about Lalita Tripura Sundari, & I am going even further in a strict one Mother Goddess direction. Kali, Tara, Lalila, Tiamat, Hecate - they're all the same thing. I'd like to recommend here a wonderful website Chapel of Our Mother God - click the link & read, I strongly advise you, it's very interesting though I don't entirely endorse all the content.
In the new book I am also extensively referencing research about spiritual narcissism' There's not much of that done yet, so I'm referring to pretty much all of it, & this has really provoked me to go for the whole institutionalised "guru" nonsense like a rabid hyena, perhaps the noblest animal.
Anyway, here's the latest book, about Durga, Durga sings every night on Amazon & also on Amazon UK.
The North node is now in Aries. My natal North Node is Virgo, & in the eighth house. Naturally, I long ago rejected material values & affirmed transience & the incomplete. It is time for everyone to eradicate trauma bonding & eliminate energy vampires from your life. People-pleasing is stupid. Cut that shit out of your life, & correct any dysfunctional situation where you lose your energy to some worthless motherfucker.
The nodes getting away from the Taurus nonsense is good news for everybody, except narcissists, so it's extra good for the rest of us. The basic meaning of Aries is independence, fire, energy, & courage. Libra is basically to do with partnership & cooperation. The shift means that it is time to affirm your true inner self above the others. Libra tends to people-pleasing, dishonesty to keep the peace, & passivity. Nowadays, cooperating with the other tends to involve adapting to the demands of a narcissistic society. This nodal shift says "fuck that" very emphatically. You affirm yourself & defend yourself. It is not selfish, to be, first & foremost, yourself.
Libra is in my eighth house but governs nothing at all for me. I have never sought to please others, I write for the Divine Mother alone, but I witness now others needing to break away from people pleasing. It's the perfect time to do so until January 2025.
Thankfully the eighth house can be said to govern death & rebirth, as well as sex. The sun is in my second house but, since money is of no interest to me, I am reading this as a very good aspect for weightlifting again &/or the approbation of the Dark Mother, with which She has lately been very generous. More generally, it's to do with self worth. For everybody, though, the North Node in Aries should help you cut away the bullshit people from your lives, & the horses the fuckers rode in on. Own your own part in things, but focus on yourself. The Aries/Libra axis will help you realise the nature of any dodgy interpersonal dynamics.
Had to correct a footnote in Kali breathes this fire, the revised version of which is now uploaded, with a somewhat modified cover. In a few days, the Amazon link will give the corrected version. I have approved the proofs for Durga sings every night & dressed in flesh so these will be on Amazon shortly too. For now they are available on Lulu at the above links. Because Amazon suck ass, not least by paying me a fraction of what Lulu pays, above & beyond treating their employees like shit, I prefer that people buy the things from Lulu. But, naturally, I myself use Prime, like the whore that I am, & I understand if others do so too.
EDIT: Here is Durga sings every night on Amazon & also on Amazon UK.
Here my latest book is now available. Durga Maa is represented by Her yantra, which is the perfect solution for cover images. Here is Durga sings every night, Because of the subject matter, I am fairly stroppy in the introduction, mounting a vicious attack on narcissism, indeed on all forms of fascism, &, equally predictably, on the motherfucking patriarchy with its new egomimetic development into the regime of the brother, first depicted by Juliet Flower MacCannell.
This book by David C. McLean is a complement to the series that he is writing on Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas.
It contains an introduction that relates Durga to Kali, & describes the contrast between the demands of commensurability & intensity, between chaos & order, & between goddess & patriarchal oppression.
McLean argues that the only fundamental wrong is narcissism, & describes the selective eternal return in Deleuzian terms so the ego is excluded, only the partial & fragmentary gets to be born again, only that which is incomplete & process.
Finally got my new book finished after much buggering about, since I need to be comfortable with it, it being about the Divine Mother as it is. But Maa Kali cherishes imperfection & impurity, so that's something of a consolation. I am releasing it now because I have been constantly & obsessively adding to it, & want to hurry up with writing the next book about Matangi instead.
It is on sale here at Lulu, & here it now is on Amazon at this link. It is listed on Amazon UK as well. The book is more expensive than I might wish, £12.50 or $16.50, with other currencies at corresponding rates, but blame the twats at Amazon for that, given that the book is 232 pages in length.
Four poems are on the images below, one of which is on two pages.
The book contains a 45 page introduction about Kali. The introduction does not pretend to be comprehensive but relates the scriptures about Her to posthumanism, & the selective & creative nature of reincarnation, & speaks of the ultimate eternal return after the dissolution, when Her restive & fickle nature will create again. Some of this is drawn from the Posthuman poetry manifesto & adds to that. (Here the manifesto is on Amazon too.) Anyway, as Ramakrishna Paramahamsa wrote, She only saves one in a hundred thousand.
The introduction also includes much ranting about narcissism, neo-colonialism against indigenous peoples, the patriarchy, the caste system, the narcissism of many "gurus", & the disgraceful British empire.
Blurb, cover, & samples follow:
This book is the first about Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas that McLean has written. This is what he proposes to write about in the future.
The book includes a 45 page introduction in which McLean relates the Divine Mother to posthuman themes. There will no full manifesto on the basis of this but the ideas will be developed in later books.
The cover image is Kali's yantra.
We all have a past, Watson. Ghosts. They are the shadows that define our every sunny day.
// Sherlock Holmes;
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
We have just completed a book called For All of My Beautiful Ghosts by awesome American poet Carolyn Srygley Moore. Carolyn actually writes real poems, which is enormously unusual nowadays, & we have done this book for her with higher quality coloured ink for the 177 numbered pages, since it also contains photos.
EDIT: It printed fine &, after final edits, here it is at Lulu, For All of My Beautiful Ghosts. Because of the ink, it's more expensive, though, to cut costs for the buyer, we did at first not sell it from corporate scumbags Amazon we have now made it more expensive & moved it to distribution through Amazon. This is because people are prepared to purchase it there, & evidently prefer to spend more rather than less. The Amazon link is here & the book is now available there. I would prefer that you buy it from Lulu though, since this gives Carolyn a lot more money, ten times more, because Amazon are bloody robber barons, & she deserves it.
I shall almost certainly review it later, but I am currently reading about Kali Maa & finishing my book about Her as primal goddess in the Mahavidyas. Carolyn sets a bloody high bar for me with her wonderful book, but I want it to be my best ever.
Cover, featuring a collage by Carolyn herself, & my blurb follow:
Posthuman Poetry & Prose is delighted to release this book of poems by Carolyn Srygley Moore, a poet & artist resident in New York State.
These poems tell a life, & they are of ghosts in the sense that what one relates to is ghostly; it is the poematic impulse, which is to capture the past, to prove that it was real & that it still is, to produce "a photograph of the feast in mourning", as Derrida so aptly puts it, so there is always poem when the ghosts fade at sunset & earth is there, sustaining the futility that is world.
Delighted to announce the arrival of a book of duets by Tanya Rakh & Ndotono Waweru from Posthuman Poetry & Prose. The poems in Alien Songs, on sale here, & on sale here at Amazon, are of the posthuman diaspora that learns to survive beyond identity. Only the divergent returns. Only what is "alien", in the sense of estranged from humanist traditions, only what is Dionysian individuation - not the I, the self, & their identity - will be validated by the posthuman naissance that celebrates the chaos of the eternal return, where the subject is the Other, & alienated, in principle, from its "self" by the Kantian "Cogito for a dissolved Self: the Self of 'I think' includ[ing] in its essence a receptivity of intuition in relation to which I is already an other." (Deleuze). The chaosmos goddess creates is anarchic; identities are weak, they do not return.
& poetry just is a nostalgia for presence, for simple self-identity, for all the substantial constructs, or so Derrida tells us. But poetry needs to be the inarticulate cry of intensity, the indeterminate, that which is not concealed behind a name or a face but dances its passion in the flame & naked. Poetry needs to capture this, per impossibile - it might scream to that which throbs an instant in the meat & cannot be measured against anything. Otherwise things play real when you look at them & words grow into unreliable maps & forget what stars there are.
Though I publish others on an occasional basis, Tanya is basically the other half of posthuman poetry, & when I return to goddess it is my hope that she will take it over. It is a privilege to publish all of her previous & forthcoming work, & a delight to see how seamless this collaboration with Ndotono is.
Tanya & Ndotono wrote this intro
Alien Songs is a fully collaborative collection of duets in verse. These duets each stand alone as individual pieces, but also join together to create an amalgamated star atlas for a breathing and multitextured extraterrestrial world.
Each of our songs embodies an aspect of this world—some echo an element, others an organ, yet others a phenomena of nature—and there are many more totems to explore. All of these pieces, separately and combined, are calls to a connection beyond the confines of everyday space and time, the heavy matter of humanity.
While the maladjusted soul may not be able to easily drag its accompanying body off this planet for a spell, it can dissolve for a while between astral wind currents when the right words are sung. These duets are incantations, oracles, scribblings on the walls of the heart. By reading them, we hope all lonely Aliens can catch a few glimmers of their home stars.
Tanya Rakh and Ndotono Waweru
The book is absolutely amazing, & the cover is below, with thanks to the brilliant photographer Shaina Sterrett for letting us use her image. Here is Shaina's Instagram where she shares her art.
Here is a sample poem online at Spillwords at this link. Alien Songs is on sale at this link. it can also be found on Amazon at this link. Note that it is better for the writers if you buy direct from Lulu.
I am looking forward to the publication of Tanya Rakh's ghost fractals soon, goddess willing. There will also be a book of visual poetry, vispo, coming from Tanya too, this will be printed with quality paper & ink, everything you do to the moon. It will be awesome.
The manifesto about posthumanism that was posted previously in this blog now serves as the the introduction to my recent book of poems, everything essential. It builds upon the two previous manifestos about antinatalism & posthumanism that were included in the earlier books too much human & goddess says, Emma.
But I have now released a book of prose that isn't a novel. It's a book of theory about posthumanism, focused on deep ecology, goddess, & poetics, There is a fair amount about the varieties of posthumanism, about feminist new materialism, about Heidegger & Derrida's discussion of poetics, about deep ecology, earth & world, becomings-animal, & a discussion of Deleuze & temporality. Also, naturally, there is much about goddess & Tiamat, prior to the patriarchal deities of Babylon & later. All this in detail in the long version that is now on sale, the full version of the introductory manifesto in everything essential.
In this book I try to deal with fairly difficult subjects in a manner that is reasonably comprehensible to the average reader. I don't know if I succeed, but the ambition is to make somewhat abstruse subjects fairly accessible, & avoid too much empty & trendy verbiage.
First, though, here is the poetry book with the shortened introductory form of the manifesto - everything essential at Lulu. Then here is the Amazon UK link, & here is the link to Amazon USA.
Now this is the Lulu link for the full version, A new posthuman poetry manifesto, the proof looking great. Here is the manifesto on Amazon UK, & it is on US Amazon at this link. The covers for both books are directly below too. The table of contents for the full manifesto follows.
The book reviewed below, 205 pages of poems, & including a version of the new posthuman poetry manifesto, is on sale at this link. This link is to the book on Amazon UK, &, of course, this link is to Amazon USA. As always, i would prefer that you buy it from Lulu direct, but, if you hate trade unions or just need free shipping from Prime, you can use goddam Amazon.
Very grateful for this review of my (very soon) forthcoming everything essential by Carolyn Srygley-Moore. Delighted by this, I preserve her formatting as well as possible, given the exigencies of blogging. I would simply point out that I am not a philosopher, & am not sure what that would even mean (thus alluding, & without a trace of embarrassment, to Derrida), & I would add that memory, fairly obviously, is confabulation, telling stories. But still it's real, for, like all illusory constructs, time is perfectly real on its own terms.
Review of everything
essential
A book by David
C. McLean.
By Carolyn Srygley-Moore, author of ‘miracles of the BloG: a series & Ode to Horatio and Other Saviors & other books, also with one forthcoming in the future from Posthuman Poetry & Prose.
“”
I am no
philosopher.
However I’ve been a reader
And appreciator
of David’s poetry for over a decade. (He is a writer of prose and a
fine photographer as well.) We have also become friends. For a few
years we lost contact. In those years David discovered &
embraced
The Goddess.
When, via social
media,
We first began exchanging writings
David professed a
stern atheism; yet he
Arrived to my work (I then
expressed
Myself as a Christian) without a derisive
Attitude;
he was not contemptuous, and
Was able to read my work without
derision.
That’s where I approach his new book.
With a
blank slate attempted if not completely possible.
“”
McLean is a
philosopher.
I arrive to this book with some cognizance
Of
his prior work, and the tangentiality
That work has to this
book.
“Ghosts.”
That is
My echo. From my sense of his past work & the echo I
cannot shake while reading.
“”
This book ,
Emma, & the poet, fuse into an amazement, a carnal revival
occurring
On the head of a pin. There is no time.
Memory
exists in the sensate, the beast,
A celebration that cannot be
named
For language would corrupt that celebration.
“”
David, the
person, tells me that we — humans, beings, sentient —; have no
past.
Maybe all beings, in fact.
Yet memory, in
these poems, is acknowledged. Remember that language
By no fault
—: corrupts.
This is not the
pop psychology of so called “false memory.” For memory in
these
Poems is. Present carnal sacred.
“”
Is Emma (by the
perspective of one who feels constrained by time as construct) a way
of erasing
History per-say ( which David calls to my attention
as “not mentioned” in the book)
Of radically traveling via
Emma & goddess
Into the past, bringing back with him
The
ghosts that riddled his early
Books with a kind of stasis
however
Appreciative of the absurd //; returning
In Emma’s
skirt pockets ghosts that
Have heartbeats without degeneration,
For time, and the past, are not
To be acknowledged. The
Goddess is.
Without time;
with the circularity, the
Regeneration exigent to the
Goddess
Paradigm:
Emma exists past the perversion by
A
language that McLean crafts
Flawlessly, intensely, even
effortlessly.
As the reader I felt
Gratification that
any
Person could experience love
With the transgressive
intensity
Embodied in these poems.
The blaze, the beauty,
and the
Resultant affirmation of what
Truth can be //:
this is what I take
Away. & I am
Happy, especially for
my friend.
“”
Foucault &
Kafka, the incarceration &
The prisoner of the Penal Colony
::
Are crashed into, crushed as shell to
Grit. & we are
freed. We are
Liberated by a manipulator of
Language//
through
Language. We are left without
Corruption &
the
Feeling Is marvelous.
Hence: even to
those who find history
A weight, a presumptive cargo -/:
To
whom trying to see time as not only irrelevant but nonexistent-:
What is remembering?
“”
What is sacred?
Not time. Not the past.
But the dance on the head of a pin,
Beyond carnal, love, all consuming.
Emma is a means
of liberation for
Those who devour these poems.
Where decay
& death are acknowledged,
Even death —: endings are
not.
All is infinite. A comforting, and uncomfortable,
insinuation.
“Here we are
memory” is a poem title
That gives me permission to read
These
poems, & my personhood,
As a dialogue & confrontation &
challenge
To /: my history my past. My ghosts
My memory. It
is a profound
Permission coming from David
McLean, grab it.
Writer. Philosopher.
Hold on.
Prepare
yourself for a festival.
Dark & bright,
Carolyn Srygley-Moore
Here are six samples from my forthcoming everything essential, due whenever we see & approve the proof copy. The cover comes first. The manifesto that introduces the book was previously posted below in this blog at this link. Here it is on Amazon UK. Here on Amazon USA. Now it is lengthened & made more complete, & has grown into a book of its own, A posthuman poetry manifesto which I will post a couple of weeks after this one is out. The book is reviewed above by Carolyn Srygley-Moore in this post.
EDIT: Out now.
I update this post to note that I have approved the proof & allowed the 205 page book via Posthuman Poetry & Prose's storefront, where it is on sale at this link, & made it available on Amazon, Ingram, B&N, etc, where it will appear in due course.
The book is the third book of poems since my return to the UK, & themes & inspirations include nature in North Somerset; goddess Tiamat; posthumanism & postmodernism; Deleuze & Guattari's becoming animal & rhizomes; Foucault's antihumanism & antifascism; Derrida's ethics, poetics, & ethopoetics; Nietzsche in general, especially the return as the return of the dissolved self; Lyotard's intensity; new materialism; indeterminacy; goddess chaos versus patriarchal order; the Enuma Elish; & love, sexuality, & BDSM.
The book is 205 numbered pages, with a 45 page introductory manifesto that took a lot of work. I have edited this & given more attention to it than usual. It's a sort of statement. The manifesto is about posthumanism, goddess Tiamat, chaos, & posthuman poetics, & I try to enact it in the poems - the dissolution of the ego in Deleuze's reading of the Nietzschean eternal return, the intensity, the beast, the ahuman that I am become. It is very clearly a book of poems for Emma, but it is not part of the series; she is muse & motivator, but there is more to these poems, for the sexual intenisty that was always there has now pervaded everything - from goddess to brutality, from butterflies to philosophy.
I have also, as noted, finished a prose book with a more extensive version of the manifesto that I shall publish separately. The manifesto in the new prose version is close to 100 numbered pages & is due to become available once I approve the proof in a while.A new book to be called (probably) we are flesh of Tiamat is being written.
Here is the Lulu spotlight for Posthuman Poetry & Prose. These are the books I have available, as well as books by Tanya Rakh, Carolyn Srygley Mooore, & Linnet Phoenix, here at this link. There is now also a collaboration between Tanya Rakh & Ndotono Waweru. Lulu charge postage, unlike Prime, but this has become much more reasonable than it used to be.
All my extant books from Posthuman Poetry & Prose, & some other places earlier, are there. There are three novels, all fairly weird, basically anti-novels. There are several chapbooks, & a considerable number of books of poetry.
Themes in the books range from antinatalist & posthumanist manifestos, discussions of cPTSD & trauma, the goddesses Tiamat, Lilītu, Lamaštû, & Kali Maa, the great mother, becomings_animal, the beast, sexuality, BDSM, love, libidinal economy, the incommensurability of intensity, anarchism, diverse inequities, & psychiatric fascism. I am indebted to Deleuze & Guattari, Lyotard, Foucault, Mother Juliana of Norwich, Gertrude Stein, Derrida, & others for inspiration.
More books by me are due in the future, & all the future works by Tanya Rakh, who is half of Posthuman Poetry & Prose, & occasional books by some others in the future.
As you may know, Amazon are sleazy & try to prevent unionization so they can carry on treating their workers like shit. They also, in my case at least, frequently list books from the wrong places, like Book depository, so you have to find the Amazon version yourself. As noted, it is way better if you buy them from here, unless relying on prime for shipping. In any case, Lulu are not quite as expensive for shipping as they used to be.
Thanks to Jonathan Rossignol, American occult writer, for this awesome kickass podcast here on YouTube. The bit about me is chapter two of the video, which starts round 29 minutes in. The link in the first sentence starts at the right place for the shoutout to me, but the embedded video below the pigeon starts at the beginning.
Here is his website.
This is great, & it's really kind of him to do this &, yes, I do actually know John Z Pigeon on Twitter.
EDIT. This book is now approved for sale and is available at this link. It is now also on Amazon UK & at this link. On US Amazon is is here at this link.
Here samples from fortchcoming skulls & dust, for Linnet with massive gratitude for saving me, due on the 29th of this month. The blurb follows, a trifle frivolous, & cover comes first.
This book marks the return of Emma to the poems. The book that I am writing now, everything essential, though not part of the Emma series sensu strictissimo, completes her return as my perfect muse, the one that first made me become beast, the fire that is my intensity, the source of the mysticism in the writing now, & the poems about her are mixed in with the nature poetry of the first two books. My intention for the future is to integrate the two threads - to write the poems about nature, the trees, the ghosts here, Somerset, & the goddess, who is here as She is everywhere, but to combine these with the theme of Emma, since Emma is the one that made me beast meat & intensity, madness & animal; she is the one that created me.
This is the second collection of poems written by McLean since his return to the UK this year. It writes of how the goddess is to be seen present in the nature of Somerset. This is a book about flesh & intensity, the fire inside. Some parts are protective magic, & McLean also has issues with the ghost that has always accompanied him, but they are ultimately reconciled.
If you are looking for other writers from Posthuman Poetry & Prose they are linked here in the post in the other blog devoted to the pre...
