Tuesday, October 23, 2012

BALLOON POP OUTLAW BLACK AND THE PUPPEYE CHALLENGE

THE DAY HAS FINALLY ARRIVED


Balloon Pop Outlaw Black is out! This is what it looks like:


The cover art was drawn by Lisa Hanawalt who is a huge genius. I specifically hunted her down like an animal because I love her art so bad and I said "Lisa, will you draw a book cover for me," and she said "Sure, as long as you're fine with it depicting a bestial herd of naked romping puppeyes on all fours"

AND THEN SHE DID IT

AND I SAW IT AND I GASPED

AND THIS CONVERSATION HAPPENED

(OR SOME APPROXIMATION THEREOF)

Me, whispering: The little four-legged puppeyes are so beautiful 
Lisa: Look at the chins that are also butts 
Me: Look at the BUTTS that are also butts 
Lisa: The bare butts 
Me: Look at the butt of the main puppeye -- I want that butt on my body as a second butt 
Lisa: Get a tattoo of it 
Me: GET A TRAMP-STAMP OF IT 
Lisa: GET A TRAMP-STAMP OF IT IF YOU SELL ALL THE BOOKS 
Me: But I have never had a tattoo and my mom would say my body was ruined 
Lisa: Your body WOULD be ruined, with a second butt 
Me: It's so tempting 
Lisa: Do a Challenge do a Tattoo Challenge 
Me: DO A TRAMP-STAMP CHALLENGE

SO THERE IT IS: If I sell all the books before January 31st I will get a simply enormous tramp-stamp of a four-legged puppeye with a bare butt tattooed on me. Oh my god why would I even do this



It would look a little something like that except it would be on my body and my mom would be crying and I would be crying

DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS BAD THING

Octopus Books is the best place to buy it because shipping is free and they're currently running a promo where if you buy my book and Ben Mirov's book you get a 3rd book free!

SPD is also a good place to buy it because that counts toward the Small Press Poetry Bestsellers List!

Amazon is NOT a good place to buy it but if for some reason you can't buy from the first two places that option also exists

SEE YOU IN HELL

17 comments:

John Dantzer said...

Good luck on reaching your goal. I would love to hear the convo. between you and your mom when she discovers you have a tatoo.

At first I read "genius" as "penius". Lisa's art is great, but would be greater if a huge penius was doing all the art.

JMH said...

Okay. I bought this.

Maybe poetry is cool again. Maybe that ridiculous Swede-girl from high school will like me because I'm passing around Wallace Stevens' great-great-great-granddaughter's text (time passes faster on the Internet).

I'm awaiting, eagerly, its delivery.

Elisa said...

Is there a way to buy negative copies of your book? I feel protective.

Patricia Lockwood said...

POETRY IS NOT COOL AGAIN DON'T WORRY

Ahahaha Elisa hurl yourself in front of my lower back and do NOT let me get a fucked-up dog on it

JMH said...

Why do I keep saying "The oldest living cartoon character is the word 'popeye?'"

In front of my friends. It's insane. And then I try to describe the part about the ink and the negative space.

The bottom line is that I have no idea what this means or why it has been written. But it's electric when I have your book in my hands. No one knows what's coming next.

Anonymous said...

What is 'Balloon Pop Outlaw Black'?
Is it related to 'Bring Your Own Booze'?

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