Cold Eye Anthology Ready

By nightfall, Cold Eye: A Generation of Voices should be up at http://lulu.com/. I'm happy to finally have finished this project (unless little problems emerge, which they usually do.) It was fifteen years in the making, and only became doable with the advent of POD.

Thanks lulu. Thanks all you genius web developers and imaginative folks out there who actually contribute something of value to society. (There is a school of thought that says POD sites are a menace to writing and publishing, a school run by Random House, Knopf and their ilk, along with their snooty clan of sycophants.)

Fuck them.

Cold Eye is a nice 70 page tribute to the writers, many of whom still live in Portland, whose work I published over thirty years ago in a small tabloid newspaper in Northwest Portland. It includes three interviews, with Katherine Dunn, Walt Curtis and James Bash, fourteen poems, and a short story by Mark Wilson.

I hope this book finds its way into the public consciousness some way. The writers were, many years ago, mostly young. They had talent and a real desire to say something of significance, and they took poetry very seriously. Their efforts ought to be recognized.

The above photo by Idaho photographer, Lee Santa, is on the book's cover.

TS