Bøger af Brad Baumgartner

Schism Press presents Brad Baumgartner's THE -TEMPERED MID-RIFF Portals in time and space open, only to close at the drop of a white Western Gus hat. A twin philosopher and his eccentric sidekick are swallowed whole, only to be spit back out again. Unwitting characters suddenly appear in scenes, only vanish just as quickly. A play disguised as a love story disguised as a "choose your own mis-adventure," The -Tempered Mid-riff tells the strange story of an unusual band of misfit adventurers. It is an intersecting tale of spellbinding love and cosmic voyaging, a brilliant woman and a kind-hearted demon, a sentient tree and a beautiful undine-and how sometimes the best place to be... is nowhere at all.

Stylinaut is a portmanteau term for a modern-day astronaut turned stylite (or ascetic "pillar dwelling" saint). This figure, who is at once within and without our present moment in time, commits to writing as he ascends-and lives upon-the tiers of a desert pillar. It is a hybrid collection of philosophy/poetics that encodes seven separate but interrelated sections consisting of meditative fragments, experimental fiction, poems, and aphorisms. The book focuses on the liminal movement of the stylinaut's alternating experience of dukkhic suffering and its corollary nirvanic bliss, with the ascent culminating at seventy-seven feet above the ground, and ultimately asks us to speculatively open ourselves to the maximal densities of life and all the strangeness/sweetness it tends to encapsulate.

Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text examines the nature of modern mystical writing and explains the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy, and apophatic mysticism.