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Greetings! You’ve arrived at the primary info source for new projects at Very Little Press, aka CSM Press. Our mission is to take an expansive view. We present the best, most engaging literature and art we can find. We especially delight in presenting compelling, timely and edgy writings that have been glossed over by the mainstream. The very best of new and unknown American literature today.

We’re pleased to announce pre-publication of Tinker Toy Souffle. This is a new book by an inventive and remarkably prolific poet prankster, rob lane wilder. wilder has a unique creative history using a variety of pen names and pseudonyms. He is also the founder of a sparkly fresh, neo beat vernacular called Fauxbrow.

George Grosz: a poem by rob lane wilder

a genius not averse to flopping
headlong into human folly,
shining light on everything,
grosz a prophet of his day.

a glorious insightful visionaire
who’d positively shine,
his canvas putting needles on
civilization in decline.

in dramatic ways he’d frame injustice,
brushstrokes large and bold…
grosz unequaled social critic
prescient, foretold.

pointing up the truth around
the worst degeneration,
bureaucrats misguided,
moneyed interests waving fists

toxic sorts grosz saw into
wiping goodness from our midst!

 


Above illustration by George Grosz, originally done in 1932
for Bertolt Brecht’s children’s book, The Three Soldiers

 

-All text above- copyr. 2022 by rob lane wilder