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Perservering against great odds, he finally summits those mountains and discovers, to his astonishment, a landscape of forgiveness, compassion, love and--joy.

Ben desperately wants to fight in a war “to experience something that would transform me into something else.” He is exploited by Sergeant Mice (in a relationship similar to Lennie and George from Of Mice and Men) because of his physical strength. Ben lives his life according to ideas or myths, which include war, family, the desert, and what it means to be a man in America. The Strong Man wants to show us what’s behind these myths, “Like most things, when I thought too much about them, I didn’t know what they were: mango juice that was mostly apple juice, leather that was mostly plastic,and cheese that was mostly wax.” — Laurie Blauner, author of All This Could Be Yours and Infinite Kindness

Though, as a young boy in Alaska, he learned that the crashing of thrown rocks could be the loudest noise. Very quickly, he would be illuminated by a passion for HipHop that has never waned and this bore much influence on his approach to poetry. The Rev. currently resides in Seattle with his two turntables and a stack of records.

I will never forget those words. We were in Arenys de Mar staying in a rooming house. There were three of us in one room: Imanol, 14 years old, Duni 11, and me, 9 and a half. We had to go to eat in a soup kitchen in town. The town was packed with refugees of the Spanish Civil War that had started in the Summer of 1936, when I was 7 years old. We were bombed out of the Basque Country. My mother had died in the bombing of Carranza (Vizcaya). We were in a farm house when the bombs began to fall while we were eating “arroz con leche” (rice pudding), my favorite dessert. There were many bombings, including the most notorious: Guernica, the city that symbolized Basque ethnicity, was destroyed with incendiary bombs. There was an outcry all over the world, because the planes that were used were mostly German. There were thousands of victims of the Axis nations: German, Italian and Franco-Spain.

This is the story of one of the many thousands of refugees who left Spain for camps in France, and later, to a new life in the Dominican Republic and the United States.

Girdles, instruments of torture that impede the breath, and imprison joy were emblematic of her repressive influence. Even when she lay dying, she had the energy to tell me to put my knees together."

Sometimes a sense of the absurd was all she had, but finally the elastic was no longer binding. It had taken 35 years to extricate herself from a repressive fundamentalist upbringing, an emotionally disturbed mother and an alcoholic father. In her late forties, Elena finally fell in love with her own life. The influence of an exotic aunt, a Buddhist singing teacher, a psychoanalyst as stubborn as she was, the wisdom of her music students, and the pilot light of her own spirit, hidden for decades under depression, helped her find her way.

A disrpution in the fabric of reality is allowing malign spirits to enter the world, and only Kipijann, Quiess, his farm-girl apprentice and an assortment of unlikely allies are the only ones capable of stopping the creatures. An swath of civil unrest, and an over-zealous military, complicate Kipijann's mission and threaten to undermine the very survival of the human race.

- Comprehensively expanded from original dead/asleep titles printing, including draft lyrics for unrecorded songs - Includes complete Wormwood discography - Features woodcut illustrations in the public domain - Perfect-bound, 60pp