Borrowing Rimbaud’s anvil of hope, he crowns The Uglies with the cap of Revolution, then turns on his heels, cool-style, and marches back up the Glory Hill.
As he had done previously with Blues for Bird, his biography of Charlie Parker, Gray presents Modigliani’s life in the narrative style of an epic poem.
Bauby, who suffered the stroke in December of 1995, dictated these memoirs by blinking his one good eye at an alphabet screen on the wall of his hospital room.
Three intergalactic nymphets scour the Australian prairies in their orange PVC miniskirts, abducting men, women, and animals for joyrides and girly ha-ha’s.
The only drawback of this collection is technical: On the page, his material loses the benefit of his smooth delivery, and that little self-satisfied giggle.
With roughly the same intention as Factsheet 5 (the encyclopedic guide to the zine revolution), there’s no reason why we can’t have two (or more) guides.