Tag: Naropa
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Beat Scene UK
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Read More →: Beat Scene UKBeat Scene UK Winter 2024. Keith Kumasen Abbott’s article “The Dharma Bums – Kerouac’s Dust Jacket Copy” is included among many others. Read it and enjoy! Excerpt: “Kerouac had a remarkably clear vision of the values found in his novel. By stressing the religious and positive aspects of the noelwith its lovefor nature and solitude,…
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18/53 Book of Songs
Read More →: 18/53 Book of SongsA promo card for Mordecai of Monterey, 1985 Excerpt from Mordecai of Monterey by Keith Kumasen Abbott: An hour later Mordecai was standing at the foot of Rita’s stairs. He did not want to be standing there. Mordecai was having his first crisis with his mental disease. He could not believe that his melanoia had…
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Persephone is still looking for Keith’s missing archival materials in Longmont: Update 29 September 2024
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/ MysteryRead More →: Persephone is still looking for Keith’s missing archival materials in Longmont: Update 29 September 2024From Tacoma to Longmont to Albuquerque – Persephone Abbott is visiting with family and friends.
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Keith Kumasen Abbott Reads of Tales of Oakland and Cocaine
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Read More →: Keith Kumasen Abbott Reads of Tales of Oakland and CocaineKeith Kumasen Abbott reads an excerpt from the novel: “This Music Can Be Heard in Your Area Only”. This fantastic story from the (missing) novel is a reference to Keith’s experiences in the mid 1980’s with his friend, the poet John Veglia (aka Nestor Marzipan). Graphic novelist Mimi Pond produced two books ‘Over Easy” and…
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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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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…