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Crumbling Utopian Pipedream Kindle Edition

by Scott Wozniak (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
Outlaw poetry is a dirty body on clean sheets

Scott Wozniak's "Crumbling Utopian Pipedream," is a book of poems born of the streets. It unflinchingly celebrates gritty realism while detailing some of life's hard won battles, and continually urges the reader to face the obstacles life puts in our way, and to realize that we have the strength to overcome any and all hardships.

Praise for Crumbling Utopian Pipedream

"I was an artist, and felonies, my canvas."

Rob Plath calls Wozniak’s work “authentic outlaw poetry”

Outlaw poetry is a dirty body on clean sheets. It draws you in because it feels real, it has a pulse. Wozniak’s short lines are that pulse, typically 2-3 words each, you are paced and pulled along as the poet reflects on dysfunctional vignettes without apologies.
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  1. Print length
    84 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    April 20, 2017
  5. File size
    1.9 MB
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About the Author

Scott Wozniak is an award-winning spoken-word artist, poet, short story writer, chaos enthusiast, and champion monkey-wrench thrower. He lives in Oregon.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0722CD27R
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Moran Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 20, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.9 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 84 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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    3.8 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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  • WZL
    5.0 out of 5 stars A grenade waiting to blow
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018
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    This collection is raw. Unafraid. And fierce. It isn't often I finish a book in one sitting, but I couldn't put it down. Though bleak at times, this collection gives you a hard dose of real living. Grab it, you won't regret it.
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  • Wayne F. Burke
    4.0 out of 5 stars a twinkle in his eye
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018
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    short pithy poems with a subtle rhythm written in language unadorned and close to the bone. A story of redemption by a self-described "dope fiend," with "misplaced pride," who is "determined /to dance/through the chambers of madness." A sudden choice of life over death, brings our narrator to "hope...alive (but) bleeding...somewhere/out there/on the borderlands." "Half-a-chance" appears, lying "down/ a dead-end street." A glimpse of "brighter days" ahead...But it is not so easy to get there. Not easy at all, because the "darkness/between/stars" still attracts, and the demons within still demand a hearing. Can the "scrap heaps/nonsense/and mistakes" of the past be used to create new "masterpieces" (new life)? Can the "spectral past " even be escaped? Is this a story of redemption or merely reprieve? Our narrator appears to be waffling in "My Brain Off Drugs," feeling "trapped" in a new emotional "even keel," antithesis of previous chaos and madness. Is his glimpse of a utopia only a pipe dream? A search for answers to these questions creates drama that drives these poems, and the reader, straight through, beginning to indeterminate ending...A wild ride.
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  • justin martin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2017
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    This collection hits you were it counts.
    Don't sleep on the wildly entertaining, train wreck of a read!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2017
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    the genuine article
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  • Lynn Alexander
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outlaw poetry is a dirty body on clean sheets
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017
    "I was an artist, and felonies, my canvas." Yes.
    Rob Plath calls Wozniak’s work “authentic outlaw poetry” .Outlaw poetry is a dirty body on clean sheets. It draws you in because it feels real, it has a pulse. Wozniak’s short lines are that pulse, typically 2-3 words each, you are paced and pulled along as the poet reflects on dysfunctional vignettes without apologies.
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  • Jenny S.
    5.0 out of 5 stars This was by far one of the best poetry books I've read in a long time
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2017
    This was by far one of the best poetry books I've read in a long time. Raw, gritty, and heartbreaking at times, a tempestuous ride into the heart and soul of the poet.
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