Chapbook (n): small, inexpensive booklet formerly sold by itinerant dealers, or chapmen, in western Europe and in North America, containg tales of popular heroes, legend and folklore, reports of notorious crimes, ballads, and other popular matter.
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.
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."
Shoot me an email if you are interested in receiving a copy.
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.
For reviews and purchasing information, go 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,..."
