Pocket Lint: a modest book of verse

By Arik Bjorn

"Pocket Lint" is Arik Bjorn's first book of verse.

From the introduction:

"Language is my love. What if I weaved words through an abstract loom, and the aesthetic result resembled Babar hanging from a bent steel crane? That is the risk of poetry--of sin. "I have no idea whether my poetry is good or bad, whether it's worth the while of any reader. I know accomplished poets, yet I would never burden any of them with an invitation to write an introduction for this work. My verse deserves no vicar.

"As to title, why 'Pocket Lint' instead of, say, 'Slaying Pachyderms'? If I'm being honest with myself (what other approach to poetry is there?), what are harrying mammoths to me are perhaps just tucked-away dust bunnies to you. Language has survived many onslaughts, many sieges. Mine won't be the last.

"Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on myself. I didn't ask for these phantoms that only exit my head by way of nocturnal keyboard stabs. Poetry is also self-defense. Sometimes one sins to save oneself."

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Arik Bjorn has published ten books. His most recent title, THIS IS NOT A SELF-HELP BOOK: AND YOU CAN TOO , is a Jesus take the wheel (of cheese) health recovery journey memoir. If you're going to lose 85 pounds, might as well write about it.

He also recently published, UBER NIGHTS, about his late-night rideshare adventures in the Deep South. In South Carolina, you never know if your next passenger will be a naked lady with a toothbrush, a banana spider, or a punch-drunk redneck.

Bjorn is now holed up in New York toiling away on a Long COVID recovery memoir, BRONX NIGHTS.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985628295
• ISBN13: 9781985628298
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"