MY SOUL IS A BROKEN DOWN VALISE

THE POETRY, ARTWORK & PHOTOGRAPHY OF ROB PLATH

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Posted by Rob Plath at 10:24 AM
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This blog is updated irregularly and has nothing to do with the poet's output. The poet is actually disturbingly prolific. He writes about 5 poems per day. The pages are everywhere, even stacked in the bathtub.

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Praise:

"Read Rob Plath at your own risk. His words will stick behind your eyes. His heart may even expose a shadow you've kept hidden from yourself.”--Dan Fante, author of Chump Change, Mooch, Spitting Off Tall Buildings, 86'd and many more...

“In the war over the heart and soul of modern poetry, Rob Plath will be the last man standing.” --John Yamrus, author of Can't Stop Now, Doing Cartwheels On Doomsday Afternoon, New & Selected Poems and many more...

"Plath is a merciless poet. He is not afraid of drawing blood, even his own. He will blow psychic holes in your being. He will leave you wounded."--Todd Moore, author of Dead Reckoning, The Riddle of the Wooden Gun, Dillinger and many more

death is dead

death is dead
epic rites press 2012

there's a fist dunked in blood beating in my chest

there's a fist dunked in blood beating in my chest
epic rites press 2010

a bellyful of anarchy

a bellyful of anarchy
epic rites press 2009

About Rob Plath:

Rob Plath
New York, United States
Rob Plath is a 45 year-old poet from New York. A former student of Allen Ginsberg, he has published hundreds of poems in the small presses. He has eight chapbooks out: Ashtrays and Bulls (Liquid Paper Press 2003), An IV Bag Full of Bile (Scintillating Publications 2007), Whiskey and Clay (Pudding House Publications 2008), Squeezing Blood From The Alphabet (Erbacce Press 2008), Tapping Ashes in the Dark (Lummox Press 2008), There's A Little Hobo In My Heart Who Forever Gives The Finger To Humanity (d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press), Nicotine Scribblings From A Hammock In The Void (Good Japan Press 2009 ) and Killer Tree Ink Issue #4 (39 poems by rob plath). His first full-length book is A Bellyful of Anarchy (epic rites press 2009) . This is a monster 300 pages in length. His second full-length book of poetry is out from epic rites press: There's A Fist Dunked In Blood Beating In My Chest (epic rites 2010)...178 pages of blood... Rob has just completed his novella SWALLOWTUDE which will be out early 2016 under epic rites press... and there is more stuff in the works...
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Links:

  • http://www.epicrites.org

magazines and journals rob plath's writing has appeared in:

  • 20 dissidents
  • 3 a.m. magazine
  • 63 channels
  • agua
  • arbor vitae
  • art candy
  • barfing frog
  • beat the dust
  • big city lit
  • big pulp
  • black lung
  • black-listed magazine
  • bleed
  • blotter magazine
  • blowback
  • blue house
  • bolts of silk
  • calliope nerve
  • cause & effect
  • cemetery poetry
  • censored poets
  • centrifugal eye
  • cerebral catalyst
  • chiron review
  • city poetry
  • clockwise cat
  • common-line project
  • concrete meat sheet
  • covert poetics
  • criminal class press
  • debris
  • decomP
  • devil blossoms
  • dogmatika
  • dope anthology
  • down in the dirt
  • DWANG
  • envoi
  • epic rites zine
  • erbacce
  • eviscerator heaven
  • evolution
  • falling star
  • fictionville
  • fissure
  • flutter
  • gloom cupboard
  • gnome
  • gutter eloquence
  • h.o.w. journal
  • halving a baby
  • hecale
  • hemingway's shotgun
  • heroin love songs
  • ink sweat and tears
  • inscribed
  • instant pussy
  • juice
  • ken*again
  • kill poets
  • killer tree ink
  • kritya
  • laura hird showcase
  • lines and stars
  • lit up magazine
  • literary chaos
  • literary kicks
  • literary tonic
  • little white poetry journal
  • long island quarterly
  • lost beat poetry
  • lummox journal
  • mad swirl
  • mannequin envy
  • mastodon dentist
  • media cake magazine
  • minnetonka review
  • motel 58
  • motherkisser
  • neo lampshadian outpost
  • neonbeam
  • nerve cowboy
  • non-creative garbage
  • oak bend review
  • off beat pulp
  • open wide
  • opium poetry
  • orange room review
  • origami condom
  • outsider writers
  • parasitic cavity
  • parasitic cavity
  • pearl
  • pigeon bicycle
  • plebian rag
  • poetic diversity
  • poetry monthly
  • poetry superhighway
  • poetry warrior
  • poetrybay
  • polarity
  • pooka press
  • Primal Urge
  • pyschopoetica
  • quillbillies
  • rain over bouville
  • rattlesnake review
  • read herrings
  • red fez
  • red pulp underground
  • rorschach failure
  • sein und werden
  • shine!
  • shit creek review
  • silenced press
  • silent actor
  • skitzo lit
  • slow trains
  • snreview
  • soul fountain
  • st. vitus
  • static movement
  • stickman review
  • straight from the fridge
  • strange road
  • subtle tea
  • target audience
  • telegraf
  • the battered suitcase
  • the beatnik
  • the flask review
  • the gut
  • the idiot
  • the line-up: poems on crime anthology
  • the long islander
  • the maynard
  • the quirk
  • the ragged edge
  • the smoking poet
  • the thin edge of staring
  • the whirligigzine
  • torkstar
  • tree killer ink
  • twisted nipples
  • twisted tongue
  • twisted twin's daily chill calendar
  • type ab+
  • underground voices
  • unquiet desperation
  • viral cat
  • west memphis 3 anthology
  • whistling shade
  • why vandalism
  • winamop
  • wings of icarus
  • word slaw
  • write this
  • yellow mama
  • zygote in my coffee
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