{"product_id":"smith-ed-ed-trinidad-punk-rock","title":"Smith, Ed: Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems \u0026 Notebooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eTurtle Point Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by David Trinidad\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: June 11, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe irreverent, tweetable, ludicrous, painful, wondrous work of the L.A. punk poet--widely available for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePunk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, David Trinidad brings together a comprehensive selection of Ed Smith's work: his published books; unpublished poems; excerpts from his extensive notebooks; photos and ephemera; and his timely \"cry for civilization,\" \"Return to Lesbos\" put down that gun \/ stop electing Presidents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd Smith blazed onto the Los Angeles poetry scene in the early 1980s from out of the hardcore punk scene. The charismatic, nerdy young man hit home with his funny\/scary off-the-cuff-sounding poems, like \"Fishing\" This is a good line. \/ This is a bad line. This is a fishing line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd's vibrant \"gang\" of writer and artist friends--among them Amy Gerstler, Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan, Mike Kelley, and David Trinidad--congregated at Beyond Baroque in Venice, on LA's west side. They read and partied and performed together, and shared and published each others' work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd was more than bright and versatile: he worked as a math tutor, an animator, and a typesetter. In the mid-1990s, he fell in love with Japanese artist Mio Shirai; they married and moved to New York City. Despite productive years and joyful times, Ed was plagued by mood disorders and drug problems, and at the age of forty-eight, he took his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd Smith's poems speak to living in an increasingly dehumanizing consumer society and corrupt political system. This \"punk Dorothy Parker\" is more relevant than ever for our ADD, technology-distracted times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817261871127,"sku":"9781885983671","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81xrPGAy1SL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773527263","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/smith-ed-ed-trinidad-punk-rock","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}