Songs of Insurgency

By Spencer Dew

Fiction. The unique voice of Spencer Dew--a slowly simmered reduction of prose poetry with pulp gristle and bits of horror--has developed a loyal underground following. Within this timely--and occasionally unsettling--volume of short stories is a woman who erases history textbooks, painting over horror after horror with a liquid paper brush...a groundskeeper who fishes yet another body out of the lake at a suicide camp...a man who scans through radio channels late at night, longing for the fulfillment of apocalyptic fantasy. SONGS OF INSURGENCY presents a post-9/11 world in the process of being dismantled. Fear segues to paranoia; and alienation to sadism or suicide or a droning, dial-tone numbness. Yet amidst all this dislocation and unease, just audible above the fake moans on the phone sex line, a vision of an authentic alternative existence tests its wings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975571648
• ISBN13: 9780975571644
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Vagabond Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.0"