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Schopenhauer said life is pain. Starkweather says Pain: The Board Game.
About the author
Sampson Starkweather is a new American meta-realist poet born in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He is the author of The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather and a founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press. He is the author of 9 chapbooks, including Flowers of Rad by Factory Hollow Press, the collaborative audio poetry album Flux Capacitor from Black Cake Records, and Until the Joy of Death Hits, a multi-media website of pop/love GIF poems from Spork Press. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Summary
Schopenhauer said life is pain. Starkweather says Pain: The Board Game.
Foreword
Galleys:
Galleys will be available on request and sent to reviewers prior to release including Rolling Stone, New York Times, New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Rumpus, Bomb, and more.
Media:
A download page featuring audio recording of his poems will be available.
A professionally produced book trailer plus video for a select poem will be available.
Touring: Starkweather reads regularly and plans to tour in Summer of 2015. We will be trying to include Starkweather on festival dates with JAck White where possible. For example, Starkweather read at the Newport Folk Festival when Jack played in 2014.
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