ISBN No.: 978-0-9826493-8-1
Release Date: January 2014
Price: $14
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
The
20th century cliché was that POTUS was the most powerful man in the
world. We’ve since realized that that’s a load of hocus pocus, but, before that
revelation, Mark Young committed his life to carrying around a heavy tape
recorder in order to document for posterity the utterances of the forty-four
Presidents of the United States. Now he has sifted through the more than 200
years of those recordings in order to bring to the reader the cream of the
cream, HOTUS POTUS, presidential insights from an assembled cast that includes
slave owners & supporters of emancipation; governors, generals, & those
who never saw war but still won one for the gipper; rough riders & builders
of smooth highways. Liars & truthtellers. So far there are no women. Let’s
hope that changes soon.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in Hokitika, New Zealand, &
now living in North Queensland in Australia, Mark Young has been publishing
poetry for fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized, & his
essays & poetry translated into a number of languages.
He is the author of more than
twenty-five books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction
& art history. His most recent books are the eclectic world from gradient books of Finland, & a chapbook
of visual poems, Arachnid Nebula,
from Luna Bisonte Prods.
He is the editor of the online &
print journal Otoliths.
