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Please read:
 "The Room in the Attic" in the amazing story collection Dangerous Laughter.

  "...We are abstractions, as if the infinite       
        Had to eat, hold down a day job, ride the bus..."

—"Light Emitting Diode"  >> 		   

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Performances:

Nightmaze
A live-performance version of Nightmaze, created in collaboration with composer Sebastian Currier and projection artist Sage Carter, was performed live in Philadelphia by the Network for New Music (2005), in New York City by Mosaic (2005), and in Chicago by the Fulcrum Point New Music Project (2008).

"...a highway road trip that goes places Thelma and Louise never imagined."

"... admirably inspired... this journey into the unknown is full of arresting imagery... Every turn is breathtaking."

—Philadelphia Inquirer

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Publications:

Epiphany
Bundles of Bronze Sticks >>
Wax and Glass >>

The Yale Review
Light Emitting Diode >>

Southwest Review
Bag of Nails >>

Literary Imagination
At the Motel of the Villa of the Mysteries >>

 

   

Longer Poems:
Wedgwood
 Josiah Wedgwood and the Northeast Corridor
Dark Ice
A 1,001-line, book-length poem (with notes and parodies of notes) in hypertext

 

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More on Nightmaze

A Nightmaze DVD by Mosaic, with narration performed by Rinde Eckert, is in production from Bridge Records.

"Nightmaze is based on a scenario by novelist Thomas Bolt. It has a university student, exhausted by exams, half-dreaming and half-hallucinating about speeding down a highway that has road signs offering exits into remote corners of his psyche and forks demanding a choice between fear and pleasure. When the voyager begins traveling through endless sea and then into outer space, the video element is nearly as indispensable as the music. A similar road was traveled in Jean Cocteau's film Orphee, when a modern-dress Orpheus drives his car into the underworld."

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Suggestions:

> Read Epiphany
For your poetry and fiction needs.

> Read Bomb
And marvel at art, literature, film, music, theater, and archetecture.

 

   

Interviews:

> Brian Boyd
(2000)

> James Merrill
(1991)

> Donald Antrim
(1997)

  
               
               

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