DOWNTOWN SWANS and Other Black Sheep What happens when story and language get the best of you and steal away an entire decade of your life? In 2011, JSJ was forced to pause and reflect on the joys and collapses which make up this oblong existence.  The result is a delicate month by month blend of memoir, prayer and screed.  Downtown Swans honors honest attempts at fiction, essay, poem, correspondence, conversation and confession.  This book is meant to inspire you to keep climbing the mountain set before you, even if you can feel yourself already losing grip, anticipating the fall.  You can read the first 10 pages in a preview here. Special thanks to Jon Larson, tattoo artist, writer, musician and amigo.  Much love for the paintings on loan from the talented Madi. Suggested Soundtrack while you read: Arc the Sun … FIORISI …  Sunlight in Architecture … Velvet Blue Music All proceeds from Downtown Swans orders benefit our new adoption fund-raising efforts. Paperback edition ISBN 978-1-105-31553-4 Hardback edition ISBN 978-1-105-33968-4 EPUB edition ISBN 978-1-105-33994-3 PDF edition YHF08

DOWNTOWN SWANS and Other Black Sheep

What happens when story and language get the best of you and steal away an entire decade of your life?

In 2011, JSJ was forced to pause and reflect on the joys and collapses which make up this oblong existence.  The result is a delicate month by month blend of memoir, prayer and screed. 

Downtown Swans honors honest attempts at fiction, essay, poem, correspondence, conversation and confession. 

This book is meant to inspire you to keep climbing the mountain set before you, even if you can feel yourself already losing grip, anticipating the fall.  You can read the first 10 pages in a preview here.

Special thanks to Jon Larson, tattoo artist, writer, musician and amigo.  Much love for the paintings on loan from the talented Madi.

Suggested Soundtrack while you read: Arc the Sun … FIORISI …  Sunlight in Architecture … Velvet Blue Music

All proceeds from Downtown Swans orders benefit our new adoption fund-raising efforts.

Paperback edition ISBN 978-1-105-31553-4

Hardback edition ISBN 978-1-105-33968-4

EPUB edition ISBN 978-1-105-33994-3

PDF edition

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SPIRITS IN BONDAGE is a semi-autobiographical performance art album.  I sure as heck didn’t write it: a young C.S. Lewis did, under the name Clive Hamilton.  The story found within echoes in my heart and terrifies me.  I’ll be working on these mythic poems until I’ve strangled each of them dead. This first collection of 12 tracks was born in a studio apartment ON ROOSEVELT ISLAND, ‘tween Manhattan & Queens.  The singles, if you would be so kind, would have to be “Spooks”, “Night (one)” and “Ode for New Year’s Day”.  via iTunes via Amazon YHF03

SPIRITS IN BONDAGE is a semi-autobiographical performance art album.  I sure as heck didn’t write it: a young C.S. Lewis did, under the name Clive Hamilton.  The story found within echoes in my heart and terrifies me.  I’ll be working on these mythic poems until I’ve strangled each of them dead.

This first collection of 12 tracks was born in a studio apartment ON ROOSEVELT ISLAND, ‘tween Manhattan & Queens.  The singles, if you would be so kind, would have to be “Spooks”, “Night (one)” and “Ode for New Year’s Day”. 

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