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About Jack

Jack Mueller


North Beach legend Jack Mueller is a well known poet among poets, long active in San Francisco as an organizer of many poetry events. He is presently in refuge in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, in the midst of a ten year vow of incomplete silence. He is the inventor of live ant art.


Previous Publications

  1. -Venus © 1981 (photographs by Judith Faust) published by Greenlight Press

  2. -Traces © 1982, published by Deep Forest

  3. -Prussian Blue © 1983, published by Deep Forest

  4. -The Paramorphs © 1985, published by Gingko Books

  5. -Who Said Hawaii? Small Sketches © 2007, published by The Lithic Press


Also Featured In

  1. -New Blood # 10


Forthcoming

  1. -The Budada Manifesto

 
Lichens at Ridgway



Whacking The Punch Line: Compression Sketches click to enlarge

Boxwork


13


I will not decompose to coal

or be a tar pit

holding fauna

from an age more innocent than mine


I will obey the spiral in my blood

I will converse with everything




This is the final stanza of a much longer work: to read ‘Boxwork’ in its entirety, please click here.

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