by A.D. Winans A.D. Winans talks candidly in his own words about his friendships with such literary luminaries as Alvah Bessie, one of the Hollywood 10, Bob Kaufmaun, the renowned poet of the San Francisco Renaissance, Jack Micheline, poetic raconteur of the greatest magnitude, and Charles Bukowski, the legendary poet and novelist whose legendary shadow…
by Nadia Bruce Rawlings Introduction by Michele McDannold Cover design or artwork by Geoff Cordner Edited by Iris Berry SCARS is a reminder. Though they fade through time, how they got there never changes. You can make up other stories. You can pretend they’re not there. You can douse the memories in one addiction or…
by A. Razor “Tis’ the season…being born on December 25th can give you a little insight into the biggest shopping holiday in the world. The insight is never a complete overview of anything at all, other than all the things a child gets sold on that wash away into lost dreams for the adult. There…
by Pleasant Gehman Showgirl Confidential chronicles just some of Pleasant Gehman’s amazing adventures, from over thirty years spent constantly on the road. From cross-country punk rock tours in the early 1980s to her belly dancing escapades in Cairo during the Arab Spring, from dressing room antics at burlesque shows to unnerving paranormal experiences, this memoir is as finely crafted…
by Lee Quarnstrom Former beatnik, a former member of novelist Ken Kesey’s famed Merry Band of Pranksters, retired journalist and one-time Executive Editor of Larry Flynt’s notorious Hustler Magazine, Lee Quarnstrom has jammed a lot of living into just one life! Now available, his memoir WHEN I WAS A DYNAMITER, or How a Nice Catholic Boy…
by Hollie Hardy Introduction by Toni MirosevichCover design or artwork by Donald Morey, Tom Madsen, Hollie HardyEdited by A. Razor With wit and candor, Hollie Hardy writes for her life. “Break up your own little tedium,” these poems remind us. With their riffs on existing literature and recurrent crises, Hardy’s poems show us what can…
by Maisha Z Johnson Cover design or artwork by Geoff Melville, Edited by A. Razor Maisha Z. Johnson’s elegant meditation on human difference, No Parachutes to Carry Me Home, opens with an epigraph from June Jordan’s On the Black Family — we came and we come in a glory of darkness around the true reasons for…
by S.A. Griffin S.A. Griffin’s words shoot across the page, piercing readers directly through the heart and brain. His writing is the literary version of a Jackson Pollack painting, only instead of paint, S.A.’s work is made of blood, sweat and tears. Sardonic and sharp, forlorn and joyous, he writes like an angel-eyed demon with wings made…
by SB Stokes The first verb in SB Stokes‘ magnum opus,A History of Broken Love Things, is “wanna.” He is a poet of hope, expectation, and desire,which prepare us for the erratic path of lifeas it is actually lived: “a large weepy beast, /a guy with some hats, / a stark-raging husband, /an ineffectual queen.” In…
by Joel Landmine I hate poetry. I usually find it self-indulgent, navel-gazing, cloying pap, an archaic art form that’s long outstayed its relevance. In this brave new technological world where writing has evolved and anointed screenplay as endgame, poetry has been reduced to little more than a freakish sixth toe, as useful as an appendix….
by Michele McDannold Introduction by Bill GainerCover design or artwork by Kari Spencer, James GriffinEdited by Iris Berry Michele McDannold’s, Stealing the Midnight from a Handful of Days is the recollection of a young woman for whom each moment, breath, event of the day is trapped in memory. She greets sin as common, sorrow as…
by Danny Baker Danny Baker, a runaway at 14 from the facade of a gilded house in the hills above Los Angeles, has seen life from the gutters to the towers. A high-school dropout, he landed on Wall St. at 20 in a move that only served to add to the dissonance of a rebel…
by Alexandra Naughton Edited by A. Razor Cover by Geoff Melville “If I were to make a diorama of ‘I Will Always Be Your Whore,’ I would construct three slightly run-down Victorians: one for past, one for present, one for dream. I would make a spooky ghost figure representing Billy Corgan and suspend that over everything….
by A. Razor This book marks the 50 year anniversary of A. Razor in this world. There are 50 poems in this collection, ‘one for each year of my life’, as the author puts it. They are pieces of work written in the 50th year of this writer’s life and shared with readers in this…
by A. Razor Introduction by Bucky SinisterCover design or artwork by Geoff MelvilleEdited by Iris Berry A Collection Of Prose and Poetry from A. Razor, who has published and written and shared his work on the road and from inside prison for many years, now here is the writer’s work in one book that presents…
by Jack Grisham Anything bad you think you’ve done Jack Grisham has done worse. Trust me. Any edged-up, fucked out, terminally violent, self-lacerating hell-party you may have staggered into, Grisham got his mail there before you arrived and long after you slimed out. The legendary author’s experience doesn’t just inform Untamed, it-par-boils every sentence….
by Carolyn Srygley-Moore This is a book of language/concrete post-modern paradox poetry that has the ability to transport the reader into a multi-dimensional experience of the literary extreme. Carolyn Srygley-Moore is well-versed in the art of succinct imagery with pertinent line formations that create an inner and outer exploration in every verse. Order now: miracles…
by Yvonne de la Vega Foreword by Ray Manzarek Poet Yvonne de la Vega’s body of work is compiled in her first book. The book’s Foreword is a wonderful contribution by Ray Manzarek of The Doors. An author himself, the forward is a beautifully written piece of prose that is an ode to Jim Morrison’s…
by A. Razor This book is a humble attempt to show appreciation for all the support received in 2012 for the author and Punk Hostage Press. This modestly priced collection is available to you in order to promote the works that Punk Hostage Press plans on putting forth in 2013 and beyond. Enjoy. Buy now:…
by A. Razor An up and down poetic ride through the life and times of an American writer living in the margins and his sometimes surrealist/situationist/realist view of the world around him.This book contains so many styles, forms, variations on themes and images that it is in a category all its own. It is apparent…
by Rich Ferguson In this book you will find a diverse style and approach to poetry and prose writing that speaks of a lyrical lifetime experience not usually apparent in a premiere collection for a writer. Along with the experience, there is the craftsmanship of a songwriter, a modern bard of contemporary musicality. This book…
by Iris Berry The long awaited book from Punk Hostage Press founding publisher Iris Berry, entitled the Daughters Of Bastards, is a ride through the dirty streets of 1980s Hollywood that never stops delivering the real taste of a womanhood claiming a place for itself surrounded by the perverseness of a crumbling mystique that was…
by C.V. Auchterlonie This book a refreshing and invigorating journey into imagery and emotion as layered in the language of the soulful living in the moment, with a grand visage of the past and hopeful beacon into the future. The poetics here are exemplary and profound, with a spirit that endures and heals as it…
by Alexandra Naughton Cover by Geoff MelvilleEdited By A. Razor “Alexandra Naughton’s poems are subversive, honest poems. They are in the spirit of resistance to dudebro culture and beef pizzle literature. This book is a heartless and utter rejection of the white cis male death grip on all our lives.” ~ Dena Rash Guzman, Life Cycle…
by Frank Reardon A collection of Frank Reardon‘s most recent work that covers the transitions of the poet as he has traversed the country and developed his style into a diverse and heartfelt voice that creates hope inside the turmoil of modern living while painting vivid images for readers to walk into like a road…
by A. Razor This book is a collected works of poetry and prose that appeared on the now defunct Drew Blood Press, Ltd. imprint in 11 different chapbook titles from 1985 until 1995. It is representative of the diversity in voice A. Razor developed early on as a poet and prose writer. The meticulous work…
by Dennis Cruz “How do we translate the unspeakable language of grief? In the short, harrowing lines of MOTH WING TEA, Dennis Cruz gives us his answer. This is the poetics of survival: no adornment, no romanticizing; only the simple, methodical imagery of a poet saying out loud. The juxtaposition of fresh paint, chrome, and…