POTTS, CHARLES - Little Lord Shiva

"Charles Potts has been a cyclonic poetry force for 35 years. As a writer, editor, publisher and polemicist he has hit many high points over that time, but few people have had access to some of his highest moments, those achieved in Berkeley, CA in the late 1960s. Originally published in an edition of 475 copies by Richard Krech and John Oliver Simons Noh Directions Press, Little Lord Shiva is one of the eras defining documents of personal and social apocalypse. Half of the text presented here is a straight reprise of Shivas hard-hitting poetic critique of the underground, the other half is contemporary material that was unavailable to Noh Directions at the time. Combined at last, these two halves form a most perfect union; one instilled equally with dread for the dawn of the Age of Nixon, and acceptance of the cracked visionary beauty that resulted from attempts to dodge societys bullets. - Glass Eye. Recent publication from Byron Coleys Glass Eye imprint.