Buyer’s remorse is self-inflicted tease: the snow job of a prologue
(permit fee not included) of a hobnob with a prologue.
Envisioning a thin undercoating of viridian, lazuli, and pure red,
A painter sneaks to the canvas for the daub job of a prologue.
To corroborate—fuck that—to caress all that flesh is heir to
Ay, that’s the inadmissible, soggy rub of a prologue.
Overnight, the privacy of despair is so useless a fiction that death
Regards your bucket list as no more than a blow job of a prologue.
One by one, Bill, final wishes banter on bleachers at the stage’s rear
and stretch out, eyes closed, to memorize their solo: a sob of a prologue.
poems, prose poems, and creative prose have appeared in dozens of magazines, including
Antioch Review, Blue Mesa Review, Caliban onLine, Miramar, Santa Monica Review,
Sonora Review, and ZYZZYVA.
In addition to a spoken-word collection, Vehemence, issued by New Alliance
Records, individual collections of his poetry include Hidden Proofs (1982)
and Bittersweet Kaleidoscope (2006). In April, 2015, Bonobos Editores in
Mexico published a bi-lingual edition of his poems, Pruebas Ocultas. His
account of West Coast poetry, Holdouts: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance
1948-1992, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. And his
writing has been featured in over a dozen anthologies.
From 1974 to 1988, Mohr worked as editor and publisher of Momentum Press. He has
a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently
an Associate Professor at CSU Long Beach.
The author blogs at:
www.billmohrpoet.com
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Part One: The Publisher Speaks
with Poet & Lit Historian, Bill Mohr at IF SF Publishing (27 March
2012)
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Part Two: Let’s Not
Deceive Ourselves about the Lack of Engaged Literacy in this Country at IF SF
Publishing (28 March 2012)
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Part Three: A Poem Is Language
Occupying the Architectural Infrastructure of Language... at IF SF
Publishing (29 March 2012)
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Why the Heart Never Develops
Cancer, in Luvina; two-minute video reading at YouTube by www.Poetry.LA
(May 2010)
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Three Poems in Moonday,
Moonday Poetry (2006); includes “Naked Chef,” “Your
Skin,” and “Big Band, Slow Dance”
