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    Antisocial
    Antisocial
    Antisocial
    Ebook60 pages22 minutes

    Antisocial

    By David Blaine

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    From David Blaine, who professes to be just another bush league poet pressing the virtual flesh and hoping to become internationally famous, comes a third chapbook, ANTISOCIAL. Forget the pseudo-intellectualizing verbosity too commonly associated with poetry. ANTISOCIAL is straightforward and digestible, yet not against encouraging a bit of self-reflection. Plus, it just might make you laugh.

    Rated M for language, drug use, sexual content, and violence.

    Parents strongly cautioned.Contains references to incest, drug use, prostitution, under age drinking, teen pregnancy, car theft, alcoholism, murder, war, politics, infanticide, corporate greed and bestiality. (No sheep were harmed in the writing of this book.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOW Press
    Release dateMar 12, 2011
    Antisocial
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    David Blaine

    David Blaine was born in a pizza patch in the Bronx, New York. When he was young, mafia hoodlums roughed him up and stole his middle name. His parents were too poor to buy him a new one. Dave’s family moved to Michigan when he was three. He attended his grandfather’s alma mater, Whasamata U, with a degree in history. It only took three years because, back then, there was a lot less history to learn. Don’t believe that? Fine: David Blaine’s poetry, prose, interviews, reviews and essays have been published widely in print and online. David lives in rural Michigan where he works in the family’s hardware business with his wife and children.

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      I have seen David Blaine's name floating around the literary universe for a couple of years now, but it wasn't until asked to write this introduction that I dug more deeply.

      While all writers tend to be antisocial—at least in my experience—the title of this collection truly doesn’t do justice to Blaine's work. In between these pages, you will find poems of true isolation but with a genuine connection to human nature. That said, I don't think these poems are antisocial; they just happen to exist in a world they are at odds with, perhaps like the author

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