Poetry; Pages: 12 pages; Published 1976
So Long at the Fair & Down at the Palomino Club & Other Poems by David Omer Bearden
This limited edition chapbook is out of print. A digital facsimile copy is forthcoming.
“So Long At The Fair & Down At The Palomino Club & Other Poems is a new chapbook from David Omer Bearden. This is a very exciting book by a poet who has been there and back again. Bearden was last seen in S.F. in a metaphysical comic strip with Neal Cassady. He burned as fast as Neal and has written these new poems from the afterburner of reality. The title poem is a very unusual experimental poem that is a burst of poetic fireworks. David Bearden covers a lot of sky between this poem and his lyrics for Judee Sill.” — Charles Plymell
About the Author
David Omer Bearden is the surviving brother of twins born in the desert town of Blythe, CA in 1940. He dedicated his creative life to writing poetry, starting from the post-Beat era, until he passed away in 2008 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1958-1962 he studied English Literature at the University of Tulsa, where he discovered the writings of the “Beats” and began publishing his own poems in numerous literary magazines and journals. Bearden published three poetry chapbooks of his own: So Long at the Fair & Down at the Palomino Club & Other Poems, 1976, The Rosace in a Star Chamber, 1981, and Redress, 1983. He edited and published anthologies Le Feu Du Ciel, 1965, and Smoking Mirrors, 1974, as well as Dominion, a collection of poems by Alan Russo in 1977. A novel titled The Thing In Packy Innard’s Place was the last manuscript he completed in 2007. He is known as the “Apocalypse Rose.”
To learn more about the author visit: davidbearden.com