Xanthous Mermaid Mechanics

Xanthous Mermaid MechanicsXanthous Mermaid Mechanics is Brion Poloncic's first book his first work in any literary form after a recording career as A Tomato A Day, begun in 1993, and a self taught visual art practice begun in 2006. The book is a sequence of prose poems. One reviewer described the contents as hard electric prose poems about drugs, sex, poverty, alienation, music, schizophrenia, and philosophy, and called the result a cross between Burroughs and Bukowski. The

Larry Fondation

and the bi-annual general issues are its backbone between the single-author Festschrift volumes built around Federman

and the act of writing the day becomes the way of surviving it

Love between two people is shown to be as transient as a cloud

It can be paid here

published the year before his death in October 2025

He calls his fiction practice ludicakadroman

so that the tribute is also a contribution to the work it honors

destroy it

and Michel Vachey (in translation)

Around it sit fiction by Steven Kedrowski

The title is the whole posture of the book