Mad Boys

text by Jamie Reid
collages by Gregg Simpson
Boy and the Moon collage
The bound version of Mad Boys features all thirteen collages (12 by Gregg Simpson, one by Jamie Reid), with a full colour cover, saddlestiched, 40 pages. It is a limited edition of 200, available for $15.00. You can also tip Jamie Reid and/or Gregg Simpson if you've enjoyed their work here. Yes, tip them, encourage them, it's a fine way to keep authors online and excited about you, the new cyber-reader.
Jamie Reid was one of the founding editors of TISH, a fixture on the Vancouver poetry scene since the early sixties and author, most recently, of Prez: Homage to Lester Young (Oolichan Books, 1993) & The Man Whose Path Was on Fire (Talon Books, 1969). The chbooks website version of Mad Boys also includes Reid's hilarious homage to bill bisset, th konsept of meening. To send email directly to Jamie Reid <dadababy@netcom.ca>.

Nice things said by nice people
His [Reid's] declaration "I have always believed in poetry as a local and collective art" is a heartfelt aesthetic, and promises to be a generative principle in this time during which we do not have anywhere near enough belief operating for the production of poetry.
-- George Bowering
His early work was a poetry of real excellence, but his most recent writing is stunning, particularly the poems he is writing in the personas of the writers in Vancouver.
-- Pat Lane

Gregg Simpson's paintings and collages have been exhibited internationally since the sixties. When he is not running for the Vancouver Parks Board he can he heard as the drummer in various free jazz ensembles in that city. His work can also be viewed online at:
http://www.larts.co.uk/simpg.htm
http://www.maikon.net/wcfma/simpson/

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