Abstracts of an American Pageant

By Jim Lopez

Perhaps this collection of transgressive abstracts is the liturgical confessions of a man whose life has always been snug on coin; nevertheless, he may have found but then abandoned love in Italy, only to return to a perfidious life in the United States, where his childhood memories revealed a higher meaning to value. It's possible that his predisposition for freedom was in opposition to a relentless hysteria that tried to distort his concept of worth, so perhaps he killed a man and became a tosspot toastmaster honoring Crack Whores. Heroine may have slammed through his friends, never overcoming their addictions. Perhaps a new world lover in a DMT universe touched him as the pangs of aging surprised his trousers. Or, maybe, he simply joined the Shoe Shine."As for Abstracts of an American Pageant, I think it's terrific and one can say, At the bottom of the world, where civilization reaches with tendrils of flesh and mind altering tentacles, is born a specie of super aware human war machine, whom Jim Lopez is the official chronicler. Lopez writes about the incarnation of the real in its most realistic state of divine damage.' Reading this book made me high, sick and reckless." ~Andrei Codrescu, author of "Whatever Gets You Through the Night""Abstracts of an American Pageant is wildly funny, and at least for a moment will remind you of the Beat writers. But unlike the Beats, whose narratives were largely driven by a personal sense of alienation, Lopez's sense of alienation is much deeper, more ancient, and interwoven with the Profane and the Sacred. If C. Wright Mills and Marshall McLuhan smoked out Charles Bukowski on St Julian Street, in downtown L.A., they may have conceived of the sociologically abstract and bizarrely paradoxical gentleman-pervert that Jim Lopez has so raucously created."~Michael Perelman, author of The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism "One thing you can say for Political Correctness is that it has presented writers with something to confront again. Jim Lopez has splendidly seized the opportunity to refuse any attempts at thought control. He is in the great tradition of Henry Miller, the Beats, Bukowski and all the bad boys."~Michael Wilding, author of "National Treasure"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061562054X
• ISBN13: 9780615620541
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: F10F Books
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.3"