[HANASHIR:14447] STOLEN MUMMIES: New Book and CD by RICK LUPERT released

[Rick Lupert <Rick...>]

looking forward to seeing a portion of the 400 plus of you in a few 
days...in the mean time, it's been 2 years or so since I shamelessly 
used the list to promote something...so before we get to that 
promotion, allow me to remind you that 'poetry' and 'song' are the 
same in Hebrew which makes the following shameless promotion wildly 
appropriate for this list.

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ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF

        STOLEN MUMMIES: The Poet's Experience in London
        Book and CD by Rick Lupert
        with an introduction by Brendan Constantine
        Perfect Bound / 64 Pages + 45 minute CD
        Ain't Got No Press, May 2003

        It's my first new book since September 2001's "Brendan Constantine
        Is My Kind of Town" (Inevitable Press) and in the style of
        "Paris: It's The Cheese", "Mowing Fargo", "Up Liberty's Skirt",
        and "Feeding Holy Cats", it's a travelogue of poems written
        during the experience, immersed in the city, this time...London.

        Further in the style of my first book, Paris: It's The Cheese,
        Each copy of Stolen Mummies is accompanied by the STOLEN MUMMIES
        CD AUDIO COMPANION; 45 minutes of "often uninspired" commentary,
        sounds and observations recorded on the fly in the UK.  (Including
        a recording of my participation in an open reading at the Poetry
        Cafe in Covent Garden, plus a bonus mp3, supermixed, of one of
        the poems from the book.  (Plus a track with a bunch of Londoners
        saying "You bastard.")


READ FREE SAMPLE POEMS (BELOW) AND LISTEN TO A COUPLE OF THE AUDIO TRACKS

        at http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/sm.html  You can even download
        the 2 mp3 sample tracks and keep them forever without telling me.


BUY THE BOOK

        online by visiting http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/sm.html and
        clicking on "order"

        Each copy of STOLEN MUMMIES with the CD AUDIO COMPANION is
        $10.00 (USD) and can be ordered securely online with your credit
        card.

        or

        directly through me via PayPal at $10.00 + $1.50 shipping (plus
        .50 cents for each additional copy) to my PayPal payment address:
        Rick (at) PoetrySuperHighway(dot)com (Please include your shipping
        information.

        or

        via US Mail Order, send check payable to "Rick Lupert" for $10.00
        (USD) + $1.50 shipping (plus .50 cents for each additional copy)
        to:

                Rick Lupert / Stolen Mummies
                5336 Kester Ave. # 103
                Sherman Oaks, CA 91411
                USA

        or

        pick it up any Tuesday Night at the Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park, CA
        where we invite you to participate in our weekly open reading
        with wildly generous time limit and no content or format
        restrictions.


FREE SAMPLE POEMS (in the spirit of giving)


        LET'S GO LONDON

        I

        Airplane wings
        look like diving boards
        except instead of swimming pools
        you plummet to your death


        II

        On the way to London
        I read through the dictionary
        I should be fluent by the time we land


        III

        My Mother's Last Words of Advice:

        Don't f*ck Big Ben.


                COVENT GARDEN AUGUST

                The women of London
                all in summer dresses
                spaghetti strap strings
                every one of them

                It is amazing
                it is wonderful
                it is stupendous
                It is orchards of still life

                under cloud-free sky
                It is hourglass curves
                accentuated with
                new millennia fashion

                It is standing outside
                The Covent Garden Tube Station
                Giving Athena the forty P. she needs
                for the ride home


        LETTER FROM STONEHENGE

        Dear Reader
        I write to you from Stonehenge
        Salisbury Plane
        Where five thousand years ago
        pre-historics moved stones
        heavier than a lions ego
        to this circle to tell the months
        or chart the universe
        or slaughter the living
        never dreaming of
        gift-shop
        or even England

        They don't let you touch the stones any more
        modern humans chipping off souvenirs
        like it's the Berlin Wall.

        I have the Berlin Wall
        re-assembled in horseshoe circle
        in my back yard
        put together from bits
        I've chiseled off of historic sites
        around the world

        Every night I dress in secret clothes
        and run from one side to the other
        cheering
        I'm free
        I'm free
        I'm five thousand years old
        I'm English field full of oblivious sheep
        I'm driving the A303 to London
        I'm a spinach pie
        I'm layers of clothing
        I'm black woman with yellow jacket
        I'm heavy rock
        lying down
        on holiday
        married to history
        I'm free
        Twenty minutes to the next bus
        Swords in the forest
        Umbrella larger than life
        Second floor transportation
        I am Ringo
        I am Charles
        I am writing you from Stonehenge
        Kiss all the babies
        write back
        see you soon


http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/sm.html


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