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84 pages
ISBN-10: 098010985X
ISBN-13: 978-0980109856 $12
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About the Author

F-Stein
By L.J. Moore 

Excerpt

III. Frank Teen Sin

did I tell you I                            fell in love with language
he hatched                                           in the basement of a house

it had moist stone walls and a kind of phosphorescence    enough to read by
oh and firelight                       (a thing california girls crave more than horses)

he lived in the dark with the kind           of live things you know by touch
prone to excess fur                                        spare parts

which came up through the drains                                 and holes in memory
ideas like radio waves15              things do not unmake themselves

only pass out of range                           down a well               into the woods
the house itself was technically                              living

there was the memory of its wood frame         and that it reproduced
it was a pastiche                            that had grown a mouth

15 “In free spacea all electromagnetic waves obey the inverse-square law which states that an electromagnetic wave’s strength is proportional to 1/(x2), where x is the distance from the source. Doubling the distance from a transmitter means the strength is reduced to a quarter, and so on. Propagation on earth is also affected by a number of other factors determined by the wave’s path from point to point. This path can be line-of-sight or over-the-horizon, aided by bouncing off the ionosphere. Lower frequency, long-distance propagation follows the curvature of the earth.” (http://radiopropagation.quickseek.com)

a Free space is a theoretical perfect kind of emptiness where only the phenomenon you are considering
exists.

Reviews

"Built from the runoff of pop culture with resurrected familial history and electrified by anagrammatic hijinks, F-Stein reanimates the shape of the book. Here is a serial poem in which the recto-verso division highlights the mind's oscillation between information gathering and creative impulse: musically-driven, memory-drenched lines meet internet-heavy notes and nods."
—Noah Eli Gordon, Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado, and author of Acoustic Experience