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    Backyard Poetry

    By George Pappas

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    About this ebook

    This is the first provocative poetry collection from controversial author and novelist George Pappas. This book brings together many of his long form poetry dating back to the late 1990s that Pappas has shared on his poetry blog BACKYARD POETRY and in smaller pieces on Twitter as @gpwriter.
    In the following collection, you will not find poems that adhere to poetic convention either in subject matter or execution.
    Pappas explores controversial subjects of modern life in intriguing ways such as wondering if the Crucifixion would have been televised or reimagining ethnic cleansing and Guantanamo Bay as sardonic ads.
    Pappas’ challenging poetic works feature the same honest, unflinching style and prose as his novels MONOGAMY SUCKS, RELATIONSHIPS SUCK and DEAR HEF.
    Above all, it is collection seeking to strip away poetic pretensions.
    Or as Pappas writes in the first stanza of the title poem BACKYARD POETRY, “I despise the poetry of exclusion.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeorge Pappas
    Release dateAug 8, 2017
    ISBN9781370991945
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    Backyard Poetry
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    George Pappas

    George Pappas is a Los Angeles-based novelist, blogger, poet, and lyricist. Pappas is the author of novels JAKE'S WAR: JULY 4, 2076, ROBOT TROUBLES, MONOGAMY SUCKS, its sequel RELATIONSHIPS SUCK, DEAR HEF, YOUNG, HORNY & MORMON, SWINGING WITH THE SUPERNATURAL, LETTERS FROM CYBERSPACE, short story collection CAR DODGING AND OTHER STORIES, AND poetry collections TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF HEARTBREAK, THE TRUMP YEARS, BACKYARD POETRY, THE HOLLYWOOD HOMELESS, MIMI'S DILEMMA, and BODY PARTS. You can find out more about this and his other works on his blogs -- www.monogamysucks.wordpress.com, https://backyardpoetry.wordpress.com, and https://robottroubles.wordpress.com He can also be found on Twitter: @gpwriterPappas is a lifelong resident of southern California and has been writing fiction since he was 15. When he's not writing, Pappas enjoys traveling, music, reading his favorite novelists and poets Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, among others, watching films, exploring life's many adventures and pleasures, and living near the ocean.

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