CRASH DUMMIESSCOTT MILLION'S LITERARY EMPORIUM
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SCOTT MILLION'S LITERARY EMPORIUM
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"…funny, provocative, sordid, and steamy. Though set in another, equally duplicitous time, CRASH DUMMIES is as modern as the Imperial Presidency.…a profound satire of immoral lives and amoral times."
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“…a well-executed…funny, libidinous farce & ascerbic satire. As Tom Conti observes in Ruben!Ruben!, ‘There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.’”
Thomas Mitchell, Microsoft
"Simply wonderful. Dennis Weiser is…a Taoist master of the sentence."
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"Scott's scope of imagination and in-depth understanding of many genres of literature, politics and entertainment make his work a delight to read. From fiction to poetry, Scott has a creative flair that makes his clever writing stand out from the crowd. Having taught at the collegiate level in the past, he is also able to enthusiastically impart his knowledge of the literary world to others." October 27, 2008
Victoria Prater, Director of Communications, Bloch School, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Print: $17.00 Download: $7.00 ALLEGORY
What is love? What is suffering? What is a human life for? Felix Weimar seeks the answers to these questions as he struggles to find his place in the world. Yet the more he contends, the more he is overwhelmed and perplexed by the ruthless rush of events, a futile circling back of memory, and the worm of self-annihilation at the base of desire—drawing him back into a legend or parable where he must confront the ultimate mystery of his own existence.
Felix’s journey combines the realistic and surreal as his life unfolds episodically before our eyes, evoking both the glorious heights and tragic depths of experience. A modern roman à clef, Allegory chronicles a perilous adventure and quest for the elusive meaning of family values, the search for love, and the inescapable demands of spirituality.
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is/2is/2 (book)
Print: $16.00 Download: $6.50 Two volumes of original poetry, Chin Music and Verdigris, each with its own preface; the original preface to KYKLOPS; plus a brand new preface to the overall volume; nonsense verse; mythology; Greek mythology; Norse mythology; love; romantic love; religiosity; spirituality; current events; Bush regime castigated; Elian Gonzales; Columbine; death penalty; corporate multinationals and transnationals; Exxon-Mobil; Microsoft; CIA, GTO; WTO, INF, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Chevron-Texaco; corporate democratic state; Vietnam; George Bush, Laura Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld; Texas; barbecue; tea; The Odyssey; politics; baseball; Ronald Reagan; Reagonomics;"The Wolf Man"; lawyers; Lon Chaney, Jr., Ralph Bellamy; Claude Rains; Bela Lugosi; Evelyn Ankers; childhood; Alzheimers; entrepreneur's primer; the Muse; humor; Edward Lear; Lewis Carroll; Louis Simpson; William Stafford; Howard Nemerov
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Print: $17.00 Download: $7.00 What is the relationship between an artist's life and the imaginative work he creates? Here are 15 fictions that explore various facets of this question, including…a Twilight Zone-esque parable of race hatred and genocide, blended family values, a fateful college acid trip, an evocation of a deckhand's life on the Mississippi, a father-son fishing trip with existential overtones, and a risque send-up of Frank Capra's holiday classic.
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Print: $16.00 Download: $5.00 A scifi-fantasy novella & grim satire of corporate culture, the adventures of Sam Marz and the superior beings who come to save Earth from itself, and human beings from their darker side.
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Print: $16.00 Download: $6.25 "I am no naturalist," I blatantly announce…For me, poetry has everything to do with intellect, spirit and—especially—feeling.…45 poems dealing with childhood, love, nature, language, mortality, eternity, aesthetics and the sublime. From the author of is/2 {Chin Music and Verdigris}, Allegory and Crash Dummies.
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Print: $16.00 Download: $6.25 In his fifth collection of original poems, the author of Chin Music and Verdigris displays his mastery of form in short works like “Poetry’s Dark Side” and “Form for Fiction,” eleven English sonnets, and an ode to French romantic writer Jacques Prévert. Many delights and surprises await the reader—from a gnome-like remembrance of poet Howard Nemerov to a discovery of the Muse in the routine of domestic life. “On the Inability to Distinguish Child from Fetus”, “What Your Abiding Quest” and “The Difficulty of All Things” display a gift for grasping America’s cultural quandary and the eternal plight of youth. There is something here for every age and taste. This is a poet who finds lyrical majesty and mystery in the commonplace: an elegy for the family dog, the elegant simplicity of “The Girl on the Bicycle” and—not least of all—the stunning universal poem that gives this work its title.
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Print: $16.00 Download: $6.50 A collection of poetry from the "Taoist master of the sentence" with a new preface, "A Few Hot Hands."
Small discourtesies, mother may I?, my mother's clouds, in the color of each day, elegy for todd, heir, for my father, new world, fifties baby, 9 new poems, second sight, the station, brigit, alzheimersville, chin music, seeing-eye girl, three tears for the viner, voice, hidden song, after the dawn, texas barbecue & tea.
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Print: $16.00 Download: $6.00 30 new poems written since 2001, about love, reflection, contemplation, awe, humor, irony and the sublime. Original cover design by the author.
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Print: $6.00 Download: FREE Two groundbreaking essays on the future of capitalism versus globalization by the author of PLUM SKULDUGGERY and THE THIRD AWAKENING.
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Print: $14.00 Download: $6.00 A refreshing and entirely original work in practical theology, which takes seriously the eschatology of Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and offers a modern interpretation of three key concepts of Christian theology: faith, death and resurrection. Weiser examines classical arguments of Anselm, Aquinas and Descartes, providing an appendix on logic and epistemology. Also considered: atheism, gods and goddesses, Calvinism, Jesus' mission, intelligent design, Christian ethics, science and religion. This is a book that clears the air of cant and drivel, consigning the evangelical bunk of Pat Robertson and Jack Van Impe to the flames.
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Print: $12.96 The first published collection of poetry by distinguished poet, Paul Lawrence Stebbing.
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SCOTT MILLION'S LITERARY EMPORIUM
SCOTT MILLION (a.k.a. Dennis Weiser) /
Westport, Kansas City, Missouri 64111 USA
(816) 213-9279
Scott Million is the nom de guerre of former regular business humorist for The Kansas City Business Journal, Dennis Weiser. An excerpt from PLUM SKULDUGGERY won first prize for prose fiction at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago and was published in Things That Go Bump in the Night (Outrider Press 2004). His parable of genocidal race-hatred "Excellence" was the featured "Original Fiction" in the April 2004 issue of The Illluminata. (Editor Bret Funke called the tale "Twilight Zone-esque!") He has read at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Duff's, Prospero's Books, The Way Out Club, Venice Café and Westminster College. His poems, short stories and articles have appeared in Chouteau Review, p.r.n., Interview, Abramelin: The Journal of Poetry and Magick, Thorny Locust and New Letters. His poem "Hidden Song" is included in The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Topo/Graphis Press 2007).
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