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Mordecai of Monterey re-released
Read More →: Mordecai of Monterey re-releasedIn August 2024 Mordecai of Monterey was re-released and is available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon. Mordecai of Monterey is a comic novel set in 1973, during the height of the Watergate scandale. From the landscape that inspired Cannery Row, the hero Mordecai discovers that he has been gifted with melanoia – the opposite of paranoia.…
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A Package from Keith’s Friend Tim Hildebrand
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Read More →: A Package from Keith’s Friend Tim HildebrandIt is a very kind gesture and I appreciate it. Author and photographer Tim Hildebrand sent package of my father’s materials, books and photos, and even a copy of his own book, Rotwang. I am looking forward to reading it!
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Ease and Peace, A Poem
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/ PoemRead More →: Ease and Peace, A PoemAfter Keith’s mother came to visit, he wrote the following poem.
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A Poem: Leonard Elwood Abbott Jr.
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/ PoemRead More →: A Poem: Leonard Elwood Abbott Jr.This poem by Keith Kumasen Abbott appeared in Erase Words and is read by Persephone Abbott. The video is a view of the back of X-Cel Feeds Inc in Tacoma which was founded by Leonard Elwood Abbott Sr and business associates in 1965. Leonard Sr died in 1967.
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What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?
Read More →: What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?It’s coming up to the fifth year anniversary of Keith Kumasen Abbott’s death. In honor of my father I have re-released his comic novel Mordecai of Monterey. Working with a friend, the new cover is a reflection of the original cover. Water was a significant theme in my father’s later art work. His ashes were…
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Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?
Read More →: Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?In Keith Kumasen Abbott’s comic novel Mordecai of Monterey a character by the name of the Widow Lazarchuk is presented. Knowing that Keith often inserted his friends into his novels, I looked up the name Lazarchuk and came to the conclusion that the Widow Lazarchuk was a bit of a “wink” towards the punk rock…
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YOU WERE
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/ PoemRead More →: YOU WEREThis poem by Keith was written in August 1967, a few months after the death of his own father who died a week after Keith’s daughter Persephone was born.