Surly Petunia

By Nissa Annakindt

Sail away in an indigo inkwell to a poetic world where paper dragons worry about their flammability, opium grows on cacti, poison mushrooms are delicious, and atomic bombs wonder about their victims. Dropping in to a vat of melted lawn furniture, you will meet neophyte carpet prostitutes and motorcycle gang accountants, Buddhist spiders and crucifix heroes and a local bolshevik tsaritsa. 24 poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nissa Annakindt
• Release date: Sep 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311968548

Nissa Annakindt

Nissa Annakindt is a published poet & compulsive blogger, and person with Asperger Syndrome. Her poems were first published in ‘Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature’ in the Winter 1989/90 issue and her work has appeared since in ‘Social Anarchism’, ‘HEATHENzine’ and a fair number of outhouse walls. She lives on the land— well, on a house on the land— in Menominee county, in the state of Upper Michigan, USA, with her many barn cats— Umberto, Jon-with-Rice, Eleanor, Declanna, Charybdis.... and her pet gander Attila. She is a Catholic. On purpose.

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Intro

Welcome to my chapbook! What is a chapbook? Traditionally a chapbook was a small booklet containing stories, poems or other material. Chapbooks were sold by chapmen, which was another name for peddlers.

Today, chapbooks are commonly used in the poetry community. A poet self-publishes a chapbook— a booklet full of poems— as a sample of his work. It’s commonly an intermediary step between getting individual poems published in small literary magazines and publishing a full book of poetry.

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