Henrietta remembers

I have just produced a better third edition of my only currently available novel, Henrietta remembers. I am doing this because Misti really likes it & did a cover for a new edition. There are minor alterations to the text & a considerable improvement in the formatting. 

The book is at present only on Lulu at this link, but will be coming to Amazon soon. Anything by this name on Amazon now will be whatever copies they have left of the second edition. Blurb & cover follow.

I'll preface this with full disclosure. I receive David's cock on a regular basis, he makes better tacos than any Mexican and we are getting married in Capricorn season 2027. I had a weird reaction to Henrietta Remembers. I started sobbing and then I pretended like I was going to punch David in his stomach. I cursed at him in an aggressive Incredible Hulk type voice. I'm angry that he's a better writer than I am! He's from Wales! I'm from Texas! He attended Oxford! I attended The University of Texas at San Antonio! Bastard.

Misti Rainwater

 

Five latest books. Boycott Amazon by the way.

As everybody knows, Amazon are scumbags who do not allow unionization & treat their workers really shabbily. I don't want scabs reading my work, but I shall leave the Amazon links as they are, while I post here the five links to Lulu for the last ones. Later I shall post the Barnes & Nobles links when these are back in distribution. I feel that it is way better to get them from Lulu direct, or B&N.

Here the three about Emma.

pig correspondence at Lulu.

pig correspondence is a collection of poems that deal with McLean's relationship with time & temporality, his nihilistic axiology, moral issues, & a general critique of western values; all of these things seen through the lens of his feelings for Emma, the love of his life. The book was written before McLean took leave of his senses, left her & Sweden in 2017 for a brief interruption in the USA, which is the devil, at page 116. The last few poems were written very recently & represent both resurrection & a return to where one belongs, to Sweden his home, & the home of his biological family & of his Emma, & also a realization that, with her in his life, he & his life were better, & the insane faceless goddess was with them.

 ghosts go home at Lulu.

ghosts go home is David C. McLean's second book about his distaste for temporality, the insane goddess who refuses prayers, & his great love for Emma. There is more of a BDSM theme to this book, along with age play, pop culture references, less philosophy than usual, more sex. Inspiration, apart from Emma, is drawn from Roky Erickson, de Chirico, the Sisters of Mercy, Joakim Thåström, Gertrude Stein, phenomenology, & spanking. 

McLean himself manages to just avoid pornography, although the lady for whom it was written states "The poems are becoming pure deviant pornography. Let it happen."

we dance the ghost, Emma at Lulu.

This is the third book in David C. McLean's first trilogy of poems for Emma. McLean worships Emma, & regards her as his goddess & muse. He has never written better, & he is pretty sure that she is the best muse ever. One can see how, during the writing of this book, McLean suffered a form of nervous breakdown, but that the strength of his feelings for Emma pulled him back together, reassembled his membra disjecta. Love did that. Love heals. Additional themes, as so often, are posthumanism, antinatalism, animals, Lyotard & libidinal economy, & love always, sex & love. The title is, obviously enough, inspired by a song by the Sisters of Mercy. This book is published by POSTHUMAN POETRY & PROSE.

Here is my anti-novel, divinity extractor fan at Lulu.

This is a novel that became an anti-novel. It quotes extensively from Lyotard, Artaud, Nietzsche, & Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy". It explores the posthuman, antinatalism, overpopulation, & ecology. It is primarily an attempt by the author to identify his love for his muse, Emma, in the form of a bizarre prose poem that grew into a bizarre novel. Sacher-Masoch & St. Augustine of Hippo are sampled in & cited, with footnotes & everything. Deleuze & Guattari with their becoming-animal are featured as well, at some length.

& here an extended reissue of an older chapbook, this is called too little beast - too much human ii.

too little beast: too much human ii is David C. McLean's expansion & revision of his chapbook from Black Editions Press, too much human. The manifesto in the introduction has been rewritten to extend it from antinatalism to also include posthumanism. This extension was provoked by his growing dislike for humans & their goddam ideology, & his worship of another non-human, the love of his life, the wonderful Emma, McLean's brilliant muse & inspiration. This revision constitutes what is probably the last poetry book by McLean that will not be part of the poems for Emma series.

Anyway, solidarity with the unions, you little shits, no Amazon please. Not just for that one week, but do not use large multinationals if you can avoid it; use your local mom & pop store, or buy things direct from Lulu or the publishers wherever possible.

If you have to use Amazon, check my author page. None of these five is there now, but they will be there in a few weeks at most.

Here is a link to all the books at Lulu, at the spotlight for Posthuman Poetry & Prose.