We Are Billion Year Old Carbon : A Tribal-Love-Rock-Novel Set in the Sixties on an Outpost Planet Called Memphis

by Mesler, Corey

• ISBN13: 9781931982610
• ISBN10: 1931982619
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-31
• Publisher: Livingston Pr

Summary

So you think you know the 60's? Mesler's collage-novel of stories, poems, and "music reviews" will carry you through the entire rollicking and devastating gamut of that period, using the microcosm of Memphis, city of the blues--and city where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated to end what many viewed as the innocence of that time period. If there were such a genre as a coming of age collage, this would be it, for it gives us a ride that is by turns comic, frazzled, inane, and tragic.

Table of Contents

Johnny Niagara and the Bible of dreams	p. 1
On the first morning after On the road	p. 15
At home in the sixties	p. 16
Elvis in Elvisland	p. 17
Camel Jeremy Eros and the ghost of the Piggly Wiggly	p. 19
1964	p. 35
Return of the son of the monster magnet	p. 36
Captain beefheart	p. 37
The recrudescence of Camel Jeremy Eros	p. 38
Seadogs and cruor	p. 41
Satori at the bitter lemon	p. 42
The trip	p. 45
Woodstock nation	p. 58
Love store	p. 60
Sixties, front lines	p. 62
Creole Myers	p. 65
Years later	p. 68
Beatlemania	p. 69
Richard Brautigan	p. 70
Memories of three days	p. 71
Sleeping in a jar	p. 73
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out	p. 75
The day after the night Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees	p. 76
A visit from R.B.	p. 77
The day John Lennon died	p. 79
Young in a time of formication and war	p. 80
Madame Sabat's grave	p. 81
Pregnant with death	p. 88
The growth and death of Buddy Gardner	p. 89
Richard and Camel take a vacation	p. 100
We are billion-year-old carbon	p. 107
Memphis Satori	p. 122
1968 : the bitter lemon	p. 123
Look if we think really hard maybe we can stop this rain	p. 136
Blues for Wendy Ward	p. 137
The couch trip	p. 138
Life by the Mississippi	p. 147
Johnny Niagara's adventures underground	p. 148
Late night riff for Jack Kerouac	p. 166
It is not dying	p. 168
Even after Altamount	p. 182
Camel's hitchhiker	p. 183
The end	p. 185
The end of time	p. 195
Coda : an old Brautigan paperback	p. 197
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