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Love is the Coldest Whore of All
Love is the Coldest Whore of All
Love is the Coldest Whore of All
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Love is the Coldest Whore of All

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                                             Love is the Coldest Whore of All
                                                        by Kirk Alex
                                  Blue collar free verse without the fakery
                                                 & pretentious bullsh*t.

 

Won't find any of that bogus/tough-to-discern metric and/or rhyming crap here that way too often is squeezed out by certain academics with the cushy gig to impress their pals. Guess what? Most of us have no use for it. Scream it from the gut, or else don't bother.


The author has been a cabbie/factory worker/warehouse shipping clerk/bread delivery driver/plant nursery flunky/printshop gofer/meat plant packer/shelf stocker/jackhammer operator––to mention a few jobs he's toiled his way through over the years in order to subsidize the writing. It's called paying dues. Hand-to-mouth. It goes on. Wage slaves like me, millions of us, get it.


This is for readers who relate to writers like Louis-Ferdinand Céline/Knut Hamsun/Nelson Algren/Eddie Bunker/Derek Raymond/Jim Thompson/John O'Brien/Nathanael West/James M. Cain/Horace McCoy/Donald Goines, et al, who nailed it raw & real without the convoluted agenda & word trickery.


Kirk Alex is also the author of Blood, Sweat & Chump Change –– L.A. Taxi Tales & Vignettes; Lustmord: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher; the Edgar "Doc" Holiday private eye series, the Chance "Cash" Register Working Stiff series, and a few other novels, short story collections & volumes of free verse.

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Release dateDec 19, 2021
ISBN9780939122394
Love is the Coldest Whore of All
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Kirk Alex

Instead of boring you with a bunch of dull background info, how about if I mention a few films/singers/musicians and books/authors I have enjoyed over the years.Am an Elvis Presley fan from way back. Always liked James Brown, Motown, Carmen McRae, Eva Cassidy, Meat Loaf, Booker T. & the MGs, CCR. Doors are also a favorite.Some novels that rate high on my list: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Hunger by Knut Hamsun; Street Players by Donald Goines (a street noir masterpiece, a work of art, & other novels by the late awesome Goines); If He Hollers Let Him Go by the incredible Chester Himes. (Note: Himes at his best was as good as Hemingway at his best. But of course, due to racism in the great US of A, he was given short-shrift. Had to move to France to be treated with respect. Kind of sad.Am white by the way, but injustice is injustice & I feel a need to point it out. There were so many geniuses of color who were mistreated and taken advantage of. Breaks your effing heart. I have done what I have been able to support talent (no matter what the artists skin color was/is) over the years by purchasing records & books by talented folks, be they white/black/Hispanic/Asian, whatever. Like I said: Talent is talent, is the way I have always felt. The arts (in all their forms) keep us as humans civilized, hopefully). Anyway, I need to get off the soap box.Most of the novels by Mark SaFranko (like Lounge Lizard and Hating Olivia; his God Bless America is one of the best memoirs I have ever read, up there with Ham on Rye by Buk);The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; A Farewell to Arms also by Ernie; Mooch by Dan Fante (& other novels of his); Post Office by Charles Bukowski; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; the great plays of Eugene O., like Iceman Cometh, Long Days––this system has a problem with the apostrophe, so will leave it out––Journey Into Night, Touch of the Poet; Journey to the End of the Night by Ferdinand Celine (not to be confused by the Eugene O. play); Postman Only Rings Twice by James M. Cain; the factory crime novels of Derek Raymond (superior to the overrated Raymond Chandler & his tiresome similes & metaphors any day of the week; Jack Ketchum; Edgar Allan Poe; The Reader by Bernhard Schlink; Nobody/s Angel by Jack Clark; The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester, et al.Filmmakers: Akira Kurosawa (Ihiru; Yojimbo); John Ford (almost anything by him); horror flicks: Maniac by William Lustig and Joe Spinnell; original Night of the Living Dead; original Texas Chainsaw Massacre; original When a Stranger Calls; The 400 Blows by Francois T.; the thrillers of Claude Chabrol; A Man Escaped by Bresson; the Japanese Zatoichi films;Tokyo Story by Ozu . . . and many other books, films and jazz musicians like the amazing tenor sax player Gene Ammons; Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Jack Sheldon, Stan Getz, Paul Desmond; singers like the incomparable Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Horn, Dion Warwick; Al Green, Elmore James, Lightnin Hopkins . . . to give you some idea.However, these days though, tv does not exist at all for me, nor do I care for most movies, in that I would much rather pick up a well-written book. I get more of a kick from reading than I do watching some actor pretend to be something he is not.Having said that, I confess that as a young man I did my share of wasting time watching the idiot box and spent my share of money going to the flicks. But those days are long gone, in that there is no interest in movies (be they cranked out by the Hollywood machine, or elsewhere).Final conclusion when it comes to celluloid? Movies are nothing more than a big waste of time (no matter who makes them). Reading feeds the brain, while movies puts the brain to sleep. There it is.

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