la morte vivante by david mclean
Cover art by Rebecca Jonas, USA. author, david mclean is a Welsh poet who has has lived in Sweden since 1987. He is the author of "Cadaver's Dance," "Eating Your Night", soon to be published, "pushing lemmings" and an e-book, "Poems Agaionst Enlightenment." Details of 600 poems in or forthcoming in 260 magazines online or print are at htpp://mourningabortion.blogspot.com. Cover artist, Rebecca Jonas (Greenville, SC, USA) Receiving a BA from U of Wis, she first came to SC to teach art. She continues to promote the arts by serving on the boards and committees of Greenville’s Upstate Visual Arts, and Metropolitan Arts Council. Versed in many medias it was in pastel she developed her representational style over a variety of subject matter. As a full time artist she has explored the combination of different media. "Taking what is known and expanding the application is what creative thinking is all about." This can be seen in her unique use of pastels, color changing washes on walls, to sculpting in sheet rock mud and fabric. "There are happy accidents in art, though if you can repeat them, they become a technique." This has given birth to her newest direction... Photo Nouveau. limited edition numbered and signed by both the poet and cover limited edition numbered and signed by both the poet and cover artist. 22 poems, 37 pages. $6.95 shipping within the US $9.95 international shipping Praise for "la morte vivante:" "Memorize the name David McLean, and thus, you will have etched into your mind a poetic disposition of extraordinary prolific abilities, a mind whose innate talent splays into intelligence and philosophical keenness, and a sharp eye for ascertaining the milieu for existence's many unseen entities. The poems in this profound collection reach into understanding death, aliveness, and the aliveness of death, capturing beyond mere top-layer topography regarding what it means to show one's life to all in a naked symbolism. And like those absent of one sense, forcing the others to become heightened into hyper-sensitivity, these poems read themselves to the reader, teaching lessons of frightful reality in a beautiful poetic sensibility, writing across your eyes the pain and the beauty of life's dichotomous dead/alive reality." — Felino Soriano, author of Exhibits Require Understanding Open Eyes, Among the Interrogated and Feeling through Mirage Using a zombie girl from a horror flick & madman & drunkard French poet Verlaine as his two muses, McLean once again gives us a book of well-carved out & blasphemous-in-every-way poems. To quote David himself from one of these poems, "Treason against politically correct erections is what a poem is," & I couldn't agree more after reading this collection. 'The Living Dead Girl' is another intense chapbook full of haunting poems "delivered by the devil.’" -- Rob Plath, author of Ashtrays and Bulls, An IV Bag Full of Bile, Whiskey and Clay, and Squeezing Blood and Ashes in the Dark. David McLean's newest chapbook, La morte vivante is an ingenious work of poetic art. He writes of the vampire Catherine Valmont, who rose from the grave in the 1982 French film of the same title. Like Valmont, these poems are angst driven and deal with the rise and fall of our humanity. McLean's poems also pay tribute to 19th century French Symbolist poet, Paul Verlaine. Verlaine was leader of the Decadents, and McLean's work is in the same decadent voice of that movement. He uses gritty, earthy, almost musical language that paint extreme sensation and capture unique impressions. This is free verse at its crafted best and moves the already heralded David McLean up another notch among today's internet poets. - Travis Blair, author of “Train to Chihuahua” "Goddamn. McLean's poems just keeping better. I don't have any money but I'm going to peddle my ass outside Wal-Mart so that I can buy this fucking book!" -- Misti Rainwater-Lites –Editor/Instant Pussy “Only David McLean can mix up vampires, decadence, death, drugs, god, godlessness, and love. It not only works, it moves fluidly though the reader’s vein’s, like vampire songs. Suns fall from skies, lovers die mad tonight, vampires drink deepest and meditate on the night. McLean writes without sentimentality, without a wasted word. He pulls the reader in and suddenly we view the world in our own vampire eyes, neither guilty or innocent, neither completely dead or totally alive we are all guilty and innocent, but only the dreamless corpse is free "David McLean is one the most brilliant, articulate, masterful poets today. His new collection is vivid, precise and utterly amazing in every way. Each poem is taut, evocative, emotive, and rich with skilled wordplay and language. Undoubtedly one of the great voices of this generation, or any other really, La morte vivante is not to missed." 
la morte vivante
by david mclean
(the innocent guilty girl) — Puma Perl, author of "Belinda and her friends"
Jack Henry, editor of Heroin Love songs and author of "chasing screaming monkeys w/out any clothes"
