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Ragged Lion: Recreates Jack Micheline's 40 hard years on the streets of America and in the process paints a unique portrait of the Beat Generation as it was and as it exists now on the threshold of the Cyberspace Millennium. A must for anyone interested in American literature in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Over 80 Beat and Beat affiliated writers, poets, artists and photographers. Click here for feedback on Ragged Lion,
Black Messiah:
A tribute to Henry Miller, including contributions by Norman Mailer, Erica
Jong, Alfred Perles, Noel Young, Jan Kerouac, John Krich, Jack Saunders,
Curt Johnson, John Bennett and others.
Six Poets:
Drawings by Charles Bukowski. Poetry by Al Masarik,
Ann Menebroker, Lyn Lifshin, Ronald Koertge, Maia Penfold and John Thomas.
The Vagabond Anthology : The best of the first
decade of Vagabond magazine, 1966-1977. Including such legends of the small-press
underground as Charles Bukowski, Jack Micheline, Doug Blazek, Curt Johnson,
Jerry Bumpus, Marcus J. Grapes, Ann Menebroker, Maia Penfold, William Wantling,
Kell Robertson, Kent Taylor, T.L. Kryss, d.a. levy, Norm Moser, Lyn Lifshin,
Al Masarik, John Bennett, Linda King, etc.
"A classic of the small presses, The Vagabond Anthology is the best of a revolutionary era, the sixties, and a gem of a collection."
Booklist, American Library Association."It's a better anthology than City Lights or New Directions ever did, goat leaps above the various New York trade book ones that have come out, and probably the best single collection of American writing that's possible fresh out of the last 11 years..."
D.E. Steward, Princeton, NJ.
Betrayal's Like That - John Bennett
Dark-side love poems.
"Betrayal's Like That ought to be required reading for sex education classes in high school."
Doug Martensen, prospector."There are some images in Betrayal's Like That that are so sharp and real, I don't have the words to comment on them."
Glenn Starry, stock investor, Tallahassee, FL."Betrayal's Like That is killer. I'm so impressed with this book that if you order it and you don't agree with me, I'll send you whatever you feel you overpaid."
Joe Grant, "Lit Happens", WORT-FM, Madison, WI.
Rodeo Town - John Bennett:
Fifty-three interview-based stories about the cowboys, old-timers,
eccentrics, artists, athletes, actors, disc jockeys, paramedics, jazz musicians,
rock musicians, opera singers, criminologists, trout fishermen, stock-car
drivers, Vietnam Vets, etcl, of a hight mountain valley...
"Rodeo Town is a collection of small-town profiles...a moral book without being a didactic book, accomplished through sheer honesty and a clear love of people."
Small Press Review, Paradise, CA.
Tripping in
America - John Bennett: A cross between Blue Highways
and Travels With Charley. A warp-speed travel journal written
across the face of America.
"I thought Tripping in America was one of the best heightened documentaries I've read in post-guru America."
Charles Plymell, Cherry Valley, NY."Tripping is a work of art. Art. I say it this way after cooling down. Some. Kerouac has nothing over Bennett. Nothing."
Greg Oldham, Portland, OR.
Rug Burn(John Bennett) Shard rap with musical backup from the group Log Hog. Eighteen steamy, hard-hitting cuts. Quantum leap material...
Click the link to hear a MP3 sample track (you must have RealPlayer, or another MP3 player)
(available through Vagabond Press)
"You've fought a harder, cleaner fight than anybody that I know....you're a prime example of what pure guts can do--you put light where none is supposed to be....Like you said to me once while we were sitting in this bar, 'You take the guys at the bar, and I'll take the guys at the tables...' " Charles Bukowski, letter excerpts.
BODOThe Smith Publishers, NYC
Paperback edition: $14.95.
(also available in London and Prague editions)
A novel about a German war orphan who grows up in America and self-destructs in a burst of flashbacks in the sixties.
"Bodo is as well-told and movingly described a story as many a ballyhooed book stacked in shiny covers in major bookstores." San Diego Reader, San Diego, CA.
"Bennett's writing is fluid and often movingly perceptive..." Publisher's Weekly.
"Bennett brings to his novel a hard, clean style, knowledge of history, a satirical edge and unusual tact." Los Angeles Times.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCEFoursep Publications, Milwaukee, WI.
$10.
The second major collection of shards, a new writing form Bennett metamorphosed into in the mid-nineties. Shards are genre fusion with a poetic hard drive...
"Domestic Violence is engaging, energetic, challenging, disturbing, tight and brash....here's an individual masterful in his approach and balls-out in his style." Small Press Review, Paradise, CA.
KARMIC FOUR-STAR BUCKAROOPudding House Press, Johnstown, OH
$10
Kissing cousin to Domestic Violence. The first collection of shards to see print.
THE MOTH EATERSAngelflesh Press, Grand Rapids, MI.
$10
Never-before collected Bennett stories from the seventies. A major collection.
"I finished reading The Moth Eaters this morning, and wanted to let you know I thought it was an ass-kicking collection of stories. It really is excellent." Ian Griffin, Green Bean Press.
THE NEW WORLD ORDERThe Smith Publishers, NYC
$10.95
Contains precursor shard writing as well as three stories that are among the best Bennett has ever written. A sleeper that one day will be a collector's item.