Publisher's Synopsis
A new volume in the PCP Press 'Editions Du Piràtes' poetry series explores Pettibon's Twitter poetry, written between November 27, 2012 - July 28, 2016.Appearing for the first time in a PCP Press paperback edition, my fists r free combines 186 Twitter poems from Pettibon's Twitter account. Included are such favorites as "More Oral?", "I play golf w/Truympf n OJ. Both cheaters" and "Balls Don't Lie," along with the usual Pettibon dazzle of satirical exposition, love poems, and syntactical provocations.In the landmark volume of Raymond Pettibon's monumental Twitter masterpiece, the character Raymond Pettibon moves to Twitter, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary artistic existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with other Twitter followers, including Nietzschean intellectuals and baseball fanatics. He also tracks down major and minor figures of Western Civilization and Culture, past and present, who fascinates him deeply.my fists r free is at heart an art love story―the story of Petition falling in love with his artistic gifts. But this poetry also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at creative vacations, of the emotional strain of art gallery parties for art admirers, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his gifts.This landmark publication is a brilliant work that delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later, readers will be left breathlessly demanding more from this unrivaled American poet. Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn; June 16, 1957, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality. Lawrence Graham Williams III (born LG Williams; April 1, 1969, in Shell Knob, Missouri in The Ozarks Mountains in Northeastern Arkansas) received his B.A. from The Kansas City Art Institute, M.F.A. from University of California, Davis, and Honorary Ph.D. from Institute of Subversive Art and Analysis (ISSA), Cedar Rapids, IA.
