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Slash / Slash
The collaboratively written poems in this chapbook explore identity, masculinity, fame, and music. Partly a mythologized biography of heavy metal guitarist Slash, partly a fictionalized story of the complex relationship between Slash and his longtime bandmate Axl Rose, these poems dive into unanswerable questions. What does it mean to be larger than life? What matters more: the music you make or whether someone is listening? What is the difference between who you are and who you become?
- GenresPoetry
56 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 2021
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May 29, 2022
A chapbook of poems that take the reader down a nostalgia road with wit, humor, and insight.
from A Guitar Player is Born:
... Rock and roll is the prayer
that wakes the neighbors / terror that starts
as carnage and ends as desire /
celebrating / destroying all that is
holy / in the name of all / that is holy.
from Slash on a Bicycle:
Late 1970s America / divorce is the state
bird of California / boredom is the national pastime /
no worse time to be a boy / no better / no
rules / no reason to come home / I can get away
with anything
from A Guitar Player is Born:
... Rock and roll is the prayer
that wakes the neighbors / terror that starts
as carnage and ends as desire /
celebrating / destroying all that is
holy / in the name of all / that is holy.
from Slash on a Bicycle:
Late 1970s America / divorce is the state
bird of California / boredom is the national pastime /
no worse time to be a boy / no better / no
rules / no reason to come home / I can get away
with anything
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