American Porn by Heathcote Williams (2017) (Epub) Gooner

Publisher: Thin Man Press (1 Feb. 2017)
Author: Heathcote Williams
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0993014186
ISBN-13: 9780993014185
ASIN: B071KH8SRJ

‘On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.’
H.L. Mencken Baltimore Evening Sun 26 July 1920

The world was shocked by the election of President Donald J. Trump but was it really that surprising? In this timely collection of ‘investigative poems’ about American history, culture and politics, Heathcote Williams suggests — with characteristic wit and literary invention — that a nation which owes its very name to an early Italian pornographer, and which has been steeped for centuries in violence, artifice and greed, has reached its apotheosis in selecting such a leader.

‘Williams is a gadfly, wit, dazzler, libertine, an erudite, mellifluous polemicist, anarchist, republican, anti-war, vegetarian Puck with a reverence for nature, an empathy for the marginal and a remarkable capacity for the imaginative verbal lash.’
Timothy O’Grady, Irish Times

‘Scourge of the establishment for 50 years, Heathcote Williams is back with a vengeance...’
The Independent