| Publisher | Crossroad Press |
|---|---|
| Year | 2014 |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Pages | 88 |
| Country | USA |
| ISBN | 978-1-941408-09-4 (hardcover) |
Notes from The Cat House
Stephen Sondheim wisely said that content dictates form, and sometimes something short and tight is what seems necessary to what I want to say at that particular moment – not something a novel or novella would explore, nor even something the length of a short story.
What’s left but poetry?
Notes from The Cat House collects 60 poems from Jack Ketchum.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Johnnie Mack Brown
- Hoboe’s Memoir
- When I Am A Boy
- Arthur
- KU
- KU Two
- 11/11/87
- Announcement
- Beast
- Contact
- Cats Hide Nothing
- Sleeping Woman
- Fireflies
- Hearts
- For Caity
- Christmas Day, 1969
- To Lance And Cathy’s Child On The Afternoon Of Her Birth, July 9th, 1970
- Billy’s Dad
- Bethel, New York, August 16, 1969
- A Terrible Thing
- Wings
- Michou
- An Honest Word
- Dreams The Luna Moth
- Mondo Cane
- St. John
- Greece
- Sword and Sandal
- Cats’ Haiku For Paula On The Road
- Question
- Second Virgin
- Rehearsal, Marat/Sade, 1969
- Poetic
- TV Guide
- Mathematics
- Vinni
- Tragedy
- The Teacher, 1969
- Crisis
- For Cujo
- M.D.
- Walk
- Bethel, New York, August 16, 1969
- Janis
- A Promise
- Morning Star
- Imperatives
- On “The Gates”, NYC
- Catskill Morning Observation
- The Letter
- Clocking
- Imperatives Two
- Note
- For Abbie Hoffman
- For Julius Hoffman
- KU You
- For K.
- Rituals
- That Moment
- For Philip H. Schreyer, 1924-2005
- Old Age
- Suicide Note #1
- Empathy
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- Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
- Afterword: from Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
- By Way of an Introduction (A preamble to Winter Child)
- Winter Child
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Before there was Jack Ketchum there was Jerzy Livingston, a writer new at his craft but thoroughly jazzed to it, living in a very strange time in a very strange New York City, going straight to hell in a handbasket and loving every minute, writing stories for the likes of Swank, Cavalier, Genesis, Nugget, and High Society. Dark, black-comic stories mostly, the kind you might almost expect of the Ketchum who was waiting in the wings. The Sexual Revolution was lost by then -lost on all fronts- and only a few had noticed. He had. He was whistling in a graveyard.
Contents:
- The Hang Up
- The Heat
- Skin Game
- Bosom Buddies (aka The Burn Artist)
- The Rubdown
- Fixing Her Plumbing (aka Never Trust a Smart Cunt with Two First Names)
- Fish
- Dancing’ (aka Old Men Dancing)
- The Liar
- The French
- The Christmas Caller
- Head Games (aka East Side Story)
- Dead Heat
- The Making of a Religious Cult (lettered edition only)