Charlie Robert
Microphones Hiss.
Like Snakes On The Take.
Like Hungry Blue Veins.
Like Abels.
And Cains.
From: Coltrane's Last Rap
Bio
Charlie Robert is a writer and poet living in the Bay Area of California. Spare and unforgiving, his work utilizes a punchy rhythmic verse, peopled with characters heroically flawed. He has been published in several literary journals/ small press anthologies, including The Opiate, Milk and Cake Press, The Broken City, and Orchards Poetry Journal, to name a few. Last Rap, which narrates the final demise of various historical and cultural icons ranging from Marie Antoinette to King Kong, is his first poetry collection and he is delighted to have The Opiate Books bring it to publication.
Last Rap
In this unexpected and highly tailored-in-theme collection of poetry, Charlie Robert takes the notion of what an elegy can be and turns it on its ear. Homing in on over forty varied legends across history, Robert finds humor and even joy in the concept of death, as he dances around it with words and wit that dare the reader not to crack a smile.
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