Chapbooks on Fire

The Tequila Chronicles

A 12-month compendium of drunken reflection and observation, edited only a dash from its original scrawl. Some call the chapters poems, others Romantic rambling. Most, however, just call it "out there." Self-published a few years ago, it has received reviews ranging from tepid to scalding. It did, however, manage to snag honorable mention in The Art Exchange Project (2004) hosted by Carbon Based Mistake. For more information, check out its own website.

Justin Barrett, former editor of .remark magazine, calls it

"...a wonderful hybrid between a diary entry and a prose poem. A perfect mix between drunken reverie and philosophy. The bastard child of poetry and fiction."

I Want To Look Like Henry Bataille

Another experiment in form and function, this time published by Little Poem Press (August 2006). Left-hand pages contain more open-ended, chronological vignettes. Their facing-page foils are more formal poems, for those who enjoy such things. More information available here.

Poet and Podcaster Larry Winfield had this to say:

"[Gause's] new book takes you on a journey through an interesting mental landscape from the first poem, through striking juxtapositions between intention, experience and obsession...there's not a bad poem in the bunch."

Eve Anthony Hanninen, Editor of Centrifugal Eye, says:

"Most readers will react: intellectually, emotionally or sensorially. Gause's poetry is visual poetry; sometimes words are lost, disappear from the page, form doesn't matter . . . you are just involved in what pans before you,..."



	CHAPBOOKS are small books or pamphlets of popular tales, poetry, etc. originally hawked by chapmen or merchants as far back as the 18th Century. They are still widely circulated today, offering readers a taste of an author's work in a modest and often creatively bound package. Currently, I have two such things available...
	The Tequila Chronicles A 12-month compendium of drunken reflection and observation, edited only a dash from its original scrawl. Some call the chapters poems, others Romantic rambling. Most, however, just call it "out there." Self-published a few years ago, it has received reviews ranging from tepid to scalding. It did, however, manage to snag honorable mention in The Art Exchange Project (2004) hosted by Carbon Based Mistake. For more information, check out its own website. Justin Barrett, former editor of .remark magazine, calls it "...a wonderful hybrid between a diary entry and a prose poem. A perfect mix between drunken reverie and philosophy. The bastard child of poetry and fiction." I Want To Look Like Henry Bataille Another experiment in form and function, this time published by Little Poem Press (August 2006). Left-hand pages contain more open-ended, chronological vignettes. Their facing-page foils are more formal poems, for those who enjoy such things. More information available here. Poet and Podcaster Larry Winfield had this to say: "[Gause's] new book takes you on a journey through an interesting mental landscape from the first poem, through striking juxtapositions between intention, experience and obsession...there's not a bad poem in the bunch." Eve Anthony Hanninen, Editor of Centrifugal Eye, says: "Most readers will react: intellectually, emotionally or sensorially. Gause's poetry is visual poetry; sometimes words are lost, disappear from the page, form doesn't matter . . . you are just involved in what pans before you,..."