Got Abstract?

By Vincent Quatroche

Got Abstract? is Vincent Quatroches look at the linguistic shadow world between the relationship of language and meaning in a literal sense of fundamental comprehension. Questioning the accuracy of the written word within the readers perception his concept of composition as taking emotional stenography relates to method rather than theme. Fragments abound, vague implications, aftershocks, repercussions, and a dark foreshadowing endeavoring to balance a few laughs (intentional or otherwise) the usual suspects are reinvented as old dwarfs for a new ceremony, some questionable propositions and an extended holiday for non-sequiters. In short the collection is an abstract painting speaking. The author provides the lines and invites the reader to color. While the instrument of this act will range from a flame thrower to a fire extinguisher this is your chance to circle dance in Trace/Schemata Tarantella. For some the title Get Abstract? Will invoke a dairy product advertising slogan, to which the author counters with Robert Mitchum in the kitchen growling a voice over Copelands Hoe-Down from the Rodeo suite..Beefits whats for dinner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499054903

Vincent Quatroche

Coughed up somewhere in the Terrible Now the public at large and critics agree that probably Vincent Quatroche doesnt really exist other than a rather speculative wild fiction were limited attention spans stare into electronic 3.2 inch plastic rectangles. Embracing both encroaching age and perpetual obscurity is every beat poets dream without either the benefit of reasonable perspective or rationale behavior. Career Educator and Poet Vincent Quatroche refuses to just get lost. A truly disturbing afterthought he insists in sticking around like duct tape. While insolence as persistence is hardly a virtue, he will seldom read you the same poem twice, unless you are asking for it. Originally from Long island he is currently languishing in over-State NY teaching at regional colleges. He is a published author of numerous creative projects, including Books, CDs & Videos. His poetry has been distributed and pulverized into the Cyber Void throughout the United States and abroad.

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Copyright © 2014 by Vincent Quatroche.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2014913195

   ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-4990-5491-0

      Softcover   978-1-4990-5492-7

      eBook   978-1-4990-5490-3

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Rev. date: 07/31/2014

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Pervious Works

Forward

Does the Universe have a Sense of Humor?

A New Law for Murphy

All Souls Day

Dreaming in Paintings

Dust in Color

Good Night for Smoking in Brooklyn

If Dreams Came Through

Notice of Vacancy

On a Rocky Shore

Stan Mack’s Real Life Po

Those Yellow Jackets in my Memory

Can I ask a Small Favor?

Get that Poem…

Remembering Edison

New Year Fragments 2012

My Disturbing Presence

Un-decorating

You Must Remember This……

January Letters 2012

Strange Winter

Awake in a Dream

Pully Pushy Slappy Scientology

Adult Toys

March Fragments 2012

There’s a grudge born

Every Time He

The Joy Kill Division

Film Noir Quote #1

Film Noir Quote #2

Locks

Out of the Strange Random Blue

Cunnlingus Interruptus

Bad News Dwarfs

More Short Dogs Marching

Those Clowns in Mid-Town

Your Gender Shovel

Lost & Found Classified 2014

Deaf as the Moon

Telecommunication

You Can Never

March is made of

Defuse this Spring

The Proposition

This next Note Book

Let’s Talk Gratitude

That Easter Sunday

The Lamb of God ended up in Chop

(Thou shall not Park in the Handicapped Slot)

Blues for the 3rd Sunday in Advent

Lost March Marbles

Get Your Mind Right

Last Butt in the Box

Miracles are

Premonition

Red Flame in the Rain

Near the Door of Spring

After forking over a Grand in Taxes & Fines

Lost/Found Fragments 2012

And there he goes-

Shallow End of the Pool

He thought….

Just Ask The Romance Accident Reconstruction Team

How should you pitch in your Dreams?

Still Sweating those….

Other Than…

Still he thinks…

On the very Limited Lake Shore

Let the Dragon Speak

I know Dad

Digging Johnny DC

Memory

Your Jar of Corks

Sister in Gemini

The Yellow Sting Ray

At the end of turned pages

June Fragments

What kind of Guy was He? 3.0

Some People

Let me tell you something there pal…

1st Day of Summer

Did you Ever?

Type Wrote

The Open Casket of your Face

Her Headstone

June sent packing again

Summer Shorts 2013

She Ponders a Relationship

Dinosaurs

He Once Thought-

No Future for You

The Poets Woodpecker

And This Pixilated Penis

Sticking Points

June shot off in her Shorts 2014

High Wind Warning Memory in the Parking Lot

The Next Time

Tell Me I’m Wrong Here

Kafka Would like this…

Where’s my Judge Judy?

What Kind of guy was He? (4.0)

Fuchsia Facialized

It Rains Diamonds on Jupiter

Codependence Day

July Fragments 2012

Just so much Space

His Yellow Tonka Truck

Remembering Herman

Fighting back with Art

Duck Dvorak Duck !

Got Your Ordnance Hanging

My Doctor Said…..

Port Stain Sour Wine

Of Conversation and Fucking

Minor Quake

Yank on the August Angst

So go ahead…..Ask me about my garage

Hard Fall

Chilly Kiss

Falling Shorts 2012

In Synesthesia

Cancelled Cooking Show

October is…..

The Spider leaves home

Remember we are not….

Never be

Bitten off

These Goddamn Gnats…..

October is fronting again

The Music has Stopped

Film Study

Across the street

Meaningless Games 2.0

October whispered behind his back

Cop a little B-Rock

Of Political Prosthesis,

Prospectus and Prognostication

Amtrak Men’s Room

Depew 7:30 AM

12/12/12

Bloody Air Radio

Just Last Christmas

Broken Ornaments

You had your Wine and Roses

Upon the Shores

So where do you get your ideas?

Yeah……But…..

Ever See That Sign?

Stark Reality

More out of Date Everyday 2.0

Got Abstract?

All poetry is misrepresentation.

~Jeremy Bentham

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Facit indignatio versum. -Indignation leads to the making of poetry.

~Juvenal, Satires, I. 79.

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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground

~Noah Webster

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"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered"

~Al Capp

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When I say artist I mean the one who is building things … some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen."

~Jackson Pollock

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

~Plutarch

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There are three sides to every story

your side

my side

And the truth.

~Mookie Wilson

Acknowledgments

Cover Art- Vincent Quatroche Sr.

- Original title Prez & Dizzy

circa 1953

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Author Image – Photograph 2014 by Brandon Perdomo

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Assistant Editor – Melissa Ann O’Hara

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