M G Stephens

Poetry by M.G. Stephens and collages by Archie Rand. Old Popeye cartoons are the subject, satire verbal and visual is the intent. Popeye and Olive Oyl, Bluto and Wimpy all gather in the present as an epipsychidian flavored with American ease and powerful punches that land, Blam , directly on the lantern jawed.

"Michael Gregory Stephens teaches us how to look at things we have never seen before-and to make them part of what we know about ourselves." -Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy

King Ezra takes the reader from Ezra Pound's incarceration by the U. S. military after World War II, up to his final days in Venice in the early 1970s. M. G. Stephens draws upon his literary reserves as a poet, fiction writer, and playwright to tell this tragic story of a flawed genius.

Stephens has written about the Cooles before, and perhaps he will do so again, continuing to supply a necessary if nasty corrective to one of the myths of the moment. In a strange way his grimness nearly makes this book a political statement.