the poetry killer from oilcan press
‘the poetry killer & other stories’ by edgar oliver is a small handmade book of stories. approx. 6in by 9in. 44pps. linoleum block printed coverstock of varying colors sewn with grace pages of painted nineteenth century paper. it’s the most words in an oilcan press production yet. each book is a unique work of art.
art by: sarah moskowitz, helen oliver adelson, aaron howard & edgar oliver
edgar oliver by ludovic fremaux (c) 2010
The Road
There is a road in Prospect Park that I love. It leads from the concert grove to the bridge over the lagoon. It leads uphill from the concert grove, curving slightly – and then it reaches a stretch that I consider to be a lost place – a place along a road that leads nowhere. If you go forward you will reach nowhere. If you turn and go the other way – you will reach nowhere. Either way along the road you will reach nowhere. This is the lost place. The road crosses it – leading either way towards no place that can be known. There is no turning back. This is the lost place. Here my heart is at ease. Here I am content. Here I wander. This is the road that crosses the lost place.
Sometimes in the summer I sit down in the grass beside the road, stunned by the sun in the grass, stunned into stillness by the sun lying gold in the grass. I lie down in the grass and feel the hot gold beneath me. I cover my face with my straw hat – and feel the hot gold lying on top of me. I lift my hat and look up at the branches above me – at the green of the leaves gone gold in the light. I am content to lie there in the green-gold grass. It is a summer afternoon along the road to nowhere.
“Edgar Oliver’s stories of Savannah family witchery and madness give a new meaning to Southern Gothic. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to hear Edgar’s unique voice and tales in The Moth have some idea what to expect, and know that we are in for a treat.”
- Neil Gaiman
edgar oliver: ‘the statue’
a reading
tuesday april 5, 2011
8pm
$10
@
Gershwin Hotel
7 east 27th Street
NY 10016
