Splatterhead

by Chris Mosdell

Splatterhead is a Bomb-BARD-meant to push the limits of language into the wondrous sensations of TOKYO Splatterhead will take you from haiku to hedonism, from space and silence to cluttered cacophony, from tradition to high-tech industrial environs. Through these poems, the modern city of Tokyo today emerges as a brand new phoenix, a species both endangered and evolving into a great futuristic hybrid over yonder horizon. In his first American release, Chris Mosdell disseminates stereotypical imagery in lieu of hard-core discoveries of “The Eastern Way of Seeing.” He illuminates by example, the gulf that separates the literary outlooks of the East and West. Splatterhead brings the reader into an exotic culture as the new dimensional poetry pushes the limits of language to arouse emotion as kindling for the fires of modern truths. Through the voices of Captain Distortion, Boy Abyss, Gun, and the Dagger Poet, Tokyo day and night breathes and dies, climbs out of the pages of Splatterhead and captures every sensation experienced or imagined. Mosdell is a master poet in the tradition of the great bards of his British homeland. His poetic voice has been created anew as years of Japanese culture have woven their exotic wonder into his language. This electrifying book places the reader in the middle of Tokyo—mesmerized, by the thoughts of strangers passing on the street, charging the air. In the award-winning poem Aorta Avenue, the reader burrows into the mind of a modern prophet who, from his seat in a small café, turns himself on the main thoroughfare of Tokyo. Thousands of cars pass as he blesses every driver, every hurried I bless you with the sign of the Golden Rampage Fountain Spilling the Tribes of Blather
I bless you with the sign of Ungirdled Delirium, Mouth Ziggurats, Scream Realms
I bless you with the sign of the Recipes for the Steaming Hormone Pie
I bless you with the sign of the Blizzard Tunnels through the Visceral Homeland
I bless you with the sign of Mother Volatility with her Passions Geysers Howling Splatterhead is divided into eleven sections spreading the spectrum of the volume into an echelon of Tokyo. The reader is repeatedly confronted with striking and foreign images, subtle and innovative language, and screaming passion—leaving little to hide from, lost in a sea of barefaced ideals. Splatterhead is the definitive statement of the “poetic” for 2001.
Prepare yourself…
You are about to experience
SPLATTERHEAD

280 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2001