Bøger af Robin Wyatt Dunn

FROM THE BACK COVER: Tell me when and I'll come, should 1968 come again in your heart... But these days most kids and adults think 1968 is an ice-cream flavor or something.These poems are set in the future, or perhaps an alternate past, as dispatches from a populist war.As much as I long for revolution, unlike Lenin I don't want to turn off the Beethoven so the killing can start.So, turn on the Beethoven, or the Rammstein, and come with me to the front, where we're killing the rich. All of the rich..

Robert, a 30-something independent filmmaker in Los Angeles, is hearing voices in his head. Alice Hershlug, a Jewish movie star who recently won the Academy Award, is slowly torturing him via The Grapevine, a kind of mental telephone.Hoovey Weinerschniztel, a movie producer in New York City, is in love with his plastic telephone and blasé about his recent rape and imprisonment in his office closet of one of his former employees.The novel appears to be an Anti-Semitic rant, written by a lonely Jew who has apparently been accused of being a child molester. It cuts rapidly back and forth between the narrator's vitriolic prose poems which accuse American Jews and other plutocrats of ruining the country, the trials and tribulations of Robert as he navigates Hollywood and the mental health system, and the machinations of several Hollywood insiders as they stab each other in the back to rise to the top.The island of Manhattan turns into a sailing ship and blasts through the strait of Gibraltar on the way to visit Jerusalem, a psychiatric treatment facility gets possessed by some kind of evil demon named Cheeto, and Hoovey Weinerschnitzel abandons his religion to found an evil cult.Part political diatribe, part philosophical essay, part picaresque, the novel explores the implications of the new post-2008 U.S. economy on the human psyche, relations between Jew and Gentile, between American and Israeli Jews, between thought and reality, and tries to figure out where the hell America can go next.

A Gypsy Daughter poetry chapbook written by Robin Wyatt Dunn.

"Remarriages" is for the outcast and the disappointed. Dark poems riding wildly through the mind of an angry man who both loves and hates the world. The words reveal a bitter struggle to reconcile with the horrors and the violence inherent in the world. Dunn's poetry is psychological and raw, with a delicate balance between light and darkness. Dunn's poems are valiant in expressing the darkness many fear, yet others embrace. Some of his poems nudge the reader to take time to examine the bizarre existence we call life.

Sunsborne pitches darkly into another world. Often the world and characters is hazy, but ''Sunsborne'' is a true picture of the reality, conflict and tensions. In the midst of a conflict torn situation there is love. Robin Wyatt Dunn presents an uncanny story of past and present, darkness and light. His way with language and its thick opacity create a stunning impact on the mind. If you are looking for ''meanings'', leave it. If you are looking for legerdemain stunts, leave it. But if you are looking for a fabulous world, in mythic settings, here it is, in the manner that only Dunn can achieve - credulity climaxing into incredible and fascinating story. Ananya S Guha Shillong, INDIA.

A poetry chapbook by Robin Wyatt Dunn. Manzanita grows in the California chaparral, a red-barked stiff piece of underbrush with a thick shine, and it will cut you quick if you try to march straight through it. You can make "lemonade" from the berries, which help refresh backpackers on long trips. I learned this at Camp Unalayee, one of the rare places where the 1968 revolution never went south in America, and is still alive with all of its hippies who never went mainstream, hidden away in the Trinity Alps, part of the Russian River basin west of Calahan, California.

Kex is the administrator of the Eidon Academy, a college with an interdimensional porthole on campus, and the intellectual center of a recently seceded Southern California.Roberto and his wife Sasha are busy acting out a bad campus novel, with infidelities and academic intrigues, when the known universe undergoes some fundamental changes.Kex is more than a human being, it appears, but also an avatar around whom mandala-like emanations revolve, frequencies whose meaning Roberto must discern if he is to legitimize his new Department of Cartography . . .

Long ago lived Ing, who gave us Inglish.Eighty generations later, Ing's descendant Hrothbert fights down beneath the surface of another Earth, hunting the Wight, a supernatural being who holds the secret of his people, the Ingaevones. But when Hrothbert encounters the Hrudu Man, a nearly-immortal giant metal rabbit, and Isolde, a beautiful subterranean revolutionary, Hrothbert's quest grows stranger, and far deadlier.To regain his honor and his reason, Hrothbert must recover the lost dreaming of the Rat City of Roth, re-fight War War One with fusion weapons in a parallel New York City, and find out just what it means to rearrive at Howth Castle and Environs in the belly of a ravaged Manhattan ...

Kiss me, you're beautiful. Will you come to Night Island? I've been calling.Tell me, are you there?I am coming but I cannot say what it is; what are you? Do I understand it right, that you are reading me?My name is Dun; I am Dark Knight, I am Dark Island, from Night Island.These words hurt me but they are necessary; tell me, can you feel it too? That something is coming to an end?Hold my hand, won't you?This transmission, this dream, it frightens me--tell me, won't you, will it turn out all right? Will I be bright? And glorious?I am a knight though I do not serve a lord; I am anachronism; I am lost but I am moving. I am moving towards you.Tell me, do you see me yet?I'm coming!

"Debudaderrah takes a concrete hard science future and layers it with myth and spirits and other core elements of humanity; those symbolic leaps that separate us from logic machines ...This is SF poetry with a sense of mystery, of actions unseen like dark planets whose gravitational pulls warp motives in actions seen, but whose reality and orbits must be deduced without firsthand observation.Imagine that the chapters of this book are a disorganized line of sake cups filled randomly with sake or plum wine. And just when you find a proper altitude within which to navigate the astral plane, the next cup is full of single-malt scotch, the kind that's *supposed* to burn."-Herb Kauderer, author of FLYING SOLO--Debudaderrah, far colony, receives a surprise: a sentient robot from some Earth which does not yet exist. The robot has orders to eliminate all life it finds; but the robot is also human, with a troubled conscience. Science fiction poetry by Robin Wyatt Dunn.

Colonel Stierlitz, a ghostly remnant of Semyonov's literary character, comes to life in a dream Moscow, tasked with defending his Motherland against all external threats.A zombie Stalin is haunting the city, and Stierlitz's boss, Semyonov, is treating him strangely. A mission to Los Angeles?A new mistress?Buried in Moscow's dark heart, COLONEL STIERLITZ reveals one layer of the onion of reality, about halfway into the flesh of the fruit of human consciousness, and cutting, still deeper...

A Bildungsroman of many voices, Robin Wyatt Dunn's new short novel WHITE MAN BOOK follows an eponymous "White Man" who speaks in ebonics as he investigates the origins of whiteness and its impact on his life.WHITE MAN BOOK is part jeremiad, part expose, part prose poetry novel. It endeavors to wrestle with the implications of our beloved James Baldwin's observation that the white man is the "real nigger baby.""Nobody knows white man. He ethnic like that. He is special. Nobody like him. Other people, they special their own way. Not like him. He special in white man way. He know the white man things.So let us describe.De White Man Fear."

Julia is fighting for her country. She is twelve years old. On the outside, a burqa. Underneath, satellite communications hardware linked to her AI in orbit.Her mission: overthrow a theocracy.An immersive look at a hyper-religious technological future, JULIA SKYDAUGHTER examines questions of morality and identity in the middle of a blazing fast adventure.

"Refugees from America is an evocative journey through blurred worlds of madness and therapy; this version of the air-conditioned nightmare manages to be satirical and harrowing and moving, all at the same time, a tour de force"--

""Don't be afraid. They're only words. These things that move our limbs: engines of a kind. You can climb in, and rev it up with me, and watch the terror fill the windshield. It's our right, as apes, to see just what it is the sky can do, and these trees, before they both collapse." These words being the journey. death songs is a quiet protest against divisions created by attempts to silence the dark consuming humankind. In an anti-lyrical fashion, Dunn reminds us how much of life is sustained by aspects of our nature under political scrutiny today. From baking bread to pounding meat, cannibalistic violence is omnipresent. This poetry mourns for the fallen self, expositing the death rattle of chains sustaining our slavery to a bored world. These poems are a voice for the lost despair that once annulled life freely. By creating spaces between language and loss, Dunn is a voice to the world a shallow culture shuns for values that do not emancipate. By seeing life's dungeon as inevitable, Dunn sets the reader free from mental bonds that restrict individuality. These poems do not appear personal and view the personal through a lens that is almost anonymous. Dunn's use of language is not elaborate but can sew with threads from multiple looms. His vocabulary is unusual for contemporary poetry, but it is life giving. Nothing else reads like Robin Wyatt Dunn. From tribute to protest, Dunn's poetry is illumined and sharp. In reading, one can connect with the silence of mourning and the chaos of structure. Dunn's use of language is asexual; it is regenerative. The words meet each other in isolation yet are whole themselves. Syntactically, the poems develop from an inner chaos into a complete organic fate. One cannot make sense of them, or even relate entirely. However, the feeling arising from each poem is one of residence in suffering intellect. The mind is its own place-and like Samson Agonistes, we will tear that building down and reinvent from the ruins. Each word is a liberator, a full thought, a pulmonary grief sifting the autonomy of the wreck of beauty"--

John Dee is a magician in Los Angeles. But Los Angeles is gone. With his AI son Albert, he must recover his city, and himself."Weird, avant-garde, poetic and challenging. Robin Dunn's 2DEE fairly bubbles, a surreal experiment that looks and smells like SF. But it's really a fever dream of ghetto genres, broken clichés and ultimately an elegy to the sprawl of urban LA. At first, I wanted more aliens, but everything about this is alien. Arrogant, neurotic, playful, it reads like an SF hallucination, a satire, the last thoughts of a dying man, fragments leading up to the apocalypse. 2DEE is an heir to the 1970's New Wave science fiction movement."--Roger Leatherwood, author of Naked in Hollywood

The city has been burning for months, while Dream researcher Robert is recovering from a 20th Century hangover. But the cure is a deeper insanity. He needs a new job, and a new dog, and a new wife. But he's not going to get any of those things. Instead, like Alice, he must run as fast as he is able just to stay connected to the three worlds that are his: an imagined future London, a World War One past, and a Los Angeles present."A subtle and strangely tender tale, Robin Wyatt Dunn extracts memory and dreamscapes with the adept touch of a seasoned oneironaut. I believe Dunn is a writer worth admiring. His prose is so utterly handsome - and the rising sense of melancholic doom, so utterly palpable - that This isn't one of the stories I remember deserves major attention for his execution skills alone. An existential masterpiece."- Chris Kelso, author of The Black Dog Eats the City

Robin Wyatt Dunn, always the poet of beauty and imagination, offers us a work of splendid topography. A dream, as poetry often simulates, is present within this work. Dunn travels the language of the Earth, its peopled history, to remind us (if we read carefully) that art and life are equal synonyms. The special thing about this collection is it is not only astonishing, it is bare and melancholy. They say sad songs achieve the best effects. This vivid verse compilation is sad, drifting, and mournful at once. The poet's exile is the chief image of the collection-as Christ Himself said, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country." A poet is home in his work. Here, Dunn both enumerates and interrogates the hidden dream we are too distracted to encompass; as simple souls in the brush, we do not wish to disturb the Universe. Yet Dunn did this for us.- Dustin Pickering, founder of Transcendent Zero Press- - And so with darkness, I read Dunn's manuscript contemplating my aches dangling free, albeit grisly and vanishing, "I'm leaving Los Angeles...the decision to love is like an old whisker...with my knife to your back...wracked runt and wired to the max". It is rather sardonically discerning to have these lines put into mind of that vexatious, dreamy, pulsating rhythm, the one which we all at some point or another, struggle to disembark from our conscious of atrophy and decay. Yet, somehow, no matter how vast its burgeoning rust and bankruptcy have eroded our remaining faith and goodness, we still carry on in this archival system of scatological shuffle into something far more dwelt in lies and privation, for we are but beings huddling together to pride ourselves the courage in the dark: I am a writer, but you write me.- Lana Bella, author of Adagio, Finishing Line Press, 2016

"A terse, taut read sometimes miserably bleak splintered with moments of dark humour and heightened poetics." -- Saira Viola, author of Jukebox Love and war in the Middle East: Robert is a disillusioned reporter; Rachel an agent for Mossad. Modeled on the Song of Solomon, Black Dove explores the intricate interconnectedness between love and war, violence and friendship, and the complicated relationship between the United States and Israel. When Robert moves to Jerusalem to chase his beloved, he finds that changing addressees changes something within him, and he abandons the role of disinterested observer to aid in the transformation of the Middle East, and the United States. But what he discovers is that Mossad is actually working against a Jewish-only state, and that to aid the Palestinian people they must subvert parts of their own government. Black Dove reveals how the Middle East is a crucible for change around the world, and in the human heart.

The Night Lands are what you see.The Night Lands are what you eat.The Night Lands are what you breathe.Come in to the Night Lands, and we will show you something different, from your holiday smile, or your most beautiful nightmare, we'll show you the Redoubt, inside your brain: "A tour de force" -- James Blaylock, author of ZEUGLODON.The world has ended; the sun has died, but life goes on.Join Soad and Weel, defenders of the Redoubt, andThe Producer and Woad, a Hollywood producer and a giant whale, on a journey to remake all of reality.

"Desert office politics. We can't be certain the sun will rise, but we can feel it anyway, even if it refuses"--

Love and war in the Middle East:Robert is a disillusioned reporter; Rachel an agent for Mossad. Modeled on the Song of Solomon, Black Dove explores the intricate interconnectedness between love and war, violence and friendship, and the complicated relationship between the United States and Israel.When Robert moves to Jerusalem to chase his beloved, he finds that changing addressees changes something within him, and he abandons the role of disinterested observer to aid in the transformation of the Middle East, and the United States. But what he discovers is that Mossad is actually working against a Jewish-only state, and that to aid the Palestinian people they must subvert parts of their own government.Black Dove reveals how the Middle East is a crucible for change around the world, and in the human heart. "A terse , taut read sometimes miserably bleak splintered with moments of dark humour and heightened poetics."-- Saira Viola, author of Jukebox