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The Critic And Other Stories by Ólafur Gunnarsson

James D. Casey IV

The Critic And Other Stories by Ólafur Gunnarsson will be available on June 17th!! I’ll share the link when it goes live.

This gripping collection of 13 gritty short stories will keep you on the edge of your seat! Cynical tales that will stick with you long after reading. Some readers may even find some of the material disturbing. Each story sparks a different emotion, touching on a wide range of topics. Featuring stories of bitter love, hard life lessons, death, business trip savages, assault on a critic, a serial killer novelist, crime family disputes, religion, politics, and more. Narrated from the point of view of various characters in and around the district of Reykjavík.

This book is translated from Icelandic by David McDuff and the Author except for “The Nazi” by Philip Roughton and “The Wrath of Jehova” by Sola Bjarnadottir O ́Connell. “Death Comes At Daybreak,” and “Into the Fire” are translated by Steven Meyers

The cover art is a painting titled “Head of Medusa” by Caravaggio. Commissioned as a ceremonial shield by Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in 1598.

Ólafur Gunnarsson held various jobs before becoming a full time writer upon the publication of his first novel in 1978. In 1970 he had published his first collection of poetry. In the following years he would publish an acclaimed trilogy, consisting of the novels; The Trolls Cathedral 1992. (English translation in 1996, nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award a year later) This was followed by; Potters Field in 1996 and The Winter Journey in 1999. Ólafur would go on to write more novels, among them; The Ax and the Earth 2003, for which he received the Icelandic literary price. Ólafur has also written a series of children’s books about a whale that can fly. The first one, The Beautiful Flying Whale was published in 1989 and nominated for the Nordic Children‘s Literature Award. Ólafur lives and works on a small farm a few miles out of Reykjavik. He is the Icelandic translator of Jack Kerouac. His two part novel The Painter & Sinner was published in 2012 and 2015. From 2013 untill 2018 Olafur was a consultant on the TV show Vikings.

7.2 SkullQuake by Michael E. Duckwall

James D. Casey IV

7.2 SkullQuake, a chapbook of poetry and artwork by Michael E. Duckwall, drops next Tuesday!! Look for it on Feb. 27th, I’ll share the Amazon link when it goes live. Brother Duck will also have author copies soon if you want a signed book!

Michael E. Duckwall offers up pieces of his soul in artistic and poetic form between the pages of 7.2 SkullQuake. You’ll find musings about the darkness and light of the human condition in this collection. Liberated shadows, dug up and set free from deep within the roots of his own being. Here’s how Michael describes his poems: “I don’t write, I release. I’m not sure if I could hold any of this in, even if I wanted to. Poetry.. my therapy, my friend, my release.”
—JDCIV, Editor-in-Chief of Cajun Mutt Press

!!COVER REVEAL!!

James D. Casey IV

Fear Of Falling Backwards by Ian Mullins will be available on September 19th!! This collection is an internal boxing match between the author’s thoughts. As he goes toe to toe with darkness and light. 15 rounds with life itself. I’ll have a copy soon to post more pics of.

Fear Of Falling Backwards by Ian Mullins

I drew the cover art. It’s a reference to the closing poem . . .

Rabbit Punch

How did round one go?

Not so bad; took a few
stiff shots, a couple
below the belt the referee
never noticed, a gouge
to the left eye, some spit
in the right, tried to jab

but fell a little short:
knocked down twice
but bounced back up
before they could
rush the count,

so who is this guy
I’m fighting anyway?
When he held me in a clinch
before he bit off my ear

I believe he whispered
he was me.

I’ll share the link once it goes live on Amazon. Please leave a review if you grab a copy! A list of all CMP titles can be found by following the link below:
https://cajunmuttpress.com/…/cajun-mutt…/

Love Y’all, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚

“Ian Mullins renders the brutality of being. Like Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon, William S. Burroughs before him, Mullins chronicles bleakly the human condition. His self crucifixion, lowered sights with little to no expectation, does not lead to a personal resurrection or salvation. Yet in the darkness a radiance is revealed in lines like, “remembering how you love cloudless nights, when even the stars glow cold.” The Fear of Falling Backwards is a journey through darkness. The brilliant poems of Ian Mullins are worth the toll for the road.”
—Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate

“The poems in Ian Mullins’ book take us to dark places where he pulls off a masterful balancing act between mystery and joy, and futility and impending doom. There are fighting words between these pages and some fine writing too.”
—Mark Berriman author of Holding the Door for Barbarians

Vital Decay by Timothy Dodd

James D. Casey IV

I thought Tuesday was the 16th for some reason!! So, I’ve already submitted the files for final review today. That means Vital Decay by Timothy Dodd will be published on the 15th instead of the 16th! It should be available on Amazon by tomorrow sometime. I’ll share the link when it goes live, but I’d prefer y’all to get copies directly from him. If possible. He’ll have author copies in a few weeks.

Reworked the cover a bit as well. It looks way better! The blue was just too void. It needed something. I’ll have a copy to post pics of soon. I’m ordering one tomorrow from the sales page. They ship quicker that way. KDP takes forever to ship out author copies because they’re print-on-demand and not a priority.

I also had to call in a favor from one of the old dogs. He pulled out the big guns and helped me out with an ISBN. Huge thanks, brother. You know who you are. Don’t want to name names and have people trying to hit you up and ask for stuff. I truly appreciate the help. I owe you one.

Keep your eyes peeled! I’ll post more about it tomorrow, and have a copy soon. Y’all keep kicking ass out there.

Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚

Front Cover Art by Timothy Dodd
Cover Design by JDCIV

“Timothy Dodd writes with the energy and frenzy of a man being chased by assassins, hell hounds, the police. His words race across busy highways. They jump from tall buildings but land on their feet. They vanish into dead-end alleys as though a door opened in one wall then closed behind him. The poems in this book are vivid descriptions of scenes mixed with meditations on life-meanings and interplays between the sacred and profane. Dodd stares into the abyss and doesn’t blink. Vital Decay is a marvelous collection and a wild ride. Strap yourself down for this one.”
—Ace Boggess, author of The Prisoners and Escape Envy

“Timothy Dodd plays with words, to play with readers’ perception and reception, not unlike Gregory Corso, but at times his observations are also acerbic, not unlike Charles Bukowski. His overall concept of the people populating his poetry as full-blown characters — not mere extensions of himself, the poet — is a semi-biographical approach that reminds somewhat of Edgar Lee Masters. To combine elements of such poets as these in one voice, and then to have a unique voice in the midst of such influences is no mean feat.

VITAL DECAY will push you, as much as pull you along. Some poems lean towards prose, while others are highly imagistic, and some concrete, while others near a blend of magic-realism. This explains lines such as “Like a Halloween mask / she arrived at pavement…”

Dodd namechecks Denton Welch, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Ronnie James Dio, and you can see their shadows looming over some poems. There is little distinction between high culture and low culture in the inspiration and the references in many of his poems, and in so doing this poet’s voice is less encumbered by the cultural bias and classism, that makes the street poet and the academic poet most easily recognizable, quantifiable, and readily fitted for a label – anything from Camus to Marvel Comics shows up in Dodd’s poems. These approaches encourage a certain unpredictability, that in turn opens one up to being caught off guard, one’s cynicism challenged, coerced into an openness of possibility: one never knows what the next poem will bring.”
—David Alec Knight, author of LEPER MOSH (Cajun Mutt Press, 2022), recipient of The Ted Plantos Memorial Award For Poetry, 2021.

Coming Soon from CMP, Vital Decay by Timothy Dodd

James D. Casey IV

Sorry for stumbling on the names and poems. I’ve been running the ship full-speed-ahead for y’all since being home from Gonzofest! I’m getting tired, but I plan on going until the sails fall down.
🏴‍☠️

Big Love, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚
🦉🎟️🦇

Vital Decay by Timothy Dodd will be released on August 16th!! Which also happens to be Charles Bukowski’s birthday! Everything just fell into place that way. I thought that was pretty cool. Keep your eyes peeled for more details! Hope y’all dig the poems I chose from each section. Sorry if I fucked them up, brother Dodd, and Ace’s name.

Vital Decay by Timothy Dodd
cover art by Timothy Dodd

“Timothy Dodd writes with the energy and frenzy of a man being chased by assassins, hell hounds, the police. His words race across busy highways. They jump from tall buildings but land on their feet. They vanish into dead-end alleys as though a door opened in one wall then closed behind him. The poems in this book are vivid descriptions of scenes mixed with meditations on life-meanings and interplays between the sacred and profane. Dodd stares into the abyss and doesn’t blink. Vital Decay is a marvelous collection and a wild ride. Strap yourself down for this one.”
—Ace Boggess, author of The Prisoners and Escape Envy.

“Timothy Dodd plays with words, to play with readers’ perception and reception, not unlike Gregory Corso, but at times his observations are also acerbic, not unlike Charles Bukowski. His overall concept of the people populating his poetry as full-blown characters — not mere extensions of himself, the poet — is a semi-biographical approach that reminds somewhat of Edgar Lee Masters. To combine elements of such poets as these in one voice, and then to have a unique voice in the midst of such influences is no mean feat.

VITAL DECAY will push you, as much as pull you along. Some poems lean towards prose, while others are highly imagistic, and some concrete, while others near a blend of magic-realism. This explains lines such as “Like a Halloween mask / she arrived at pavement…”

Dodd namechecks Denton Welch, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Ronnie James Dio, and you can see their shadows looming over some poems. There is little distinction between high culture and low culture in the inspiration and the references in many of his poems, and in so doing this poet’s voice is less encumbered by the cultural bias and classism, that makes the street poet and the academic poet most easily recognizable, quantifiable, and readily fitted for a label – anything from Camus to Marvel Comics shows up in Dodd’s poems. These approaches encourage a certain unpredictability, that in turn opens one up to being caught off guard, one’s cynicism challenged, coerced into an openness of possibility: one never knows what the next poem will bring.”
—David Alec Knight, author of LEPER MOSH (Cajun Mutt Press, 2022), recipient of The Ted Plantos Memorial Award For Poetry, 2021.