The Nothing That Is
by John Olson

Description

John Olson has written, or conjured, his uniquely styled autobiography from the perspective of an observer. Fans of John’s exhilarating, outlandish, strange and inventive prose poetry will not want to delay dipping their toes in this treat of a read; fans of Seattle, as it used to be in the era before Microsoft, will not want to miss it.

The secretary to John Ashbery wrote to request a copy–we think that says a lot.

Excerpt:

The Nothing That Is

You love movies. Theater. Drama. The inexpressible expressed in espresso, kakemono, and ancient ruins….You love ice cream. Open-ended stories. The glowing eyes on the masks of Neptune overlooking the audience at the Neptune Theatre.