{"id":5572,"date":"2018-06-04T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:19:41","slug":"one-legged-poetry-by-jacko-monahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/one-legged-poetry-by-jacko-monahan\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Legged Poetry by Jacko Monahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.left-thumbnail img {display: none; }\n<\/style>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10px\" width=\"760\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"140\">\n\t\t\t<center><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Fkg%2BUuabL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"One-Legged Poetry\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/center><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t<em><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tList Price:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t$13.50<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0998482919\/\">Purchase from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field_error\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"field_error\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<h1>One-Legged Poetry<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1986811271\/\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-width=\"140\" data-show-faces=\"false\" style=\"display: inline; width: 140px; margin-left: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p>   \t\t<b><\/p>\n<p>               Authored by<br \/>\n               Jacko Monahan<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/b><br \/>\nTo experience Jacko Monahan reading his poetry live, which he did every month for more than twenty years at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, N.J., was to experience what a number of auditors have called his \u201cword-uzi.\u201d In One-Legged Poetry: Tragedy, Politics &#038; a Sea Monster, Monahan has published his first full collection of poems, so that readers can experience his highly readable work in print virtually for the first time. Jacko once said, \u201cLife is pain, and you have to learn how to survive it.\u201d The poems in One-Legged Poetry are, more than any others he has written, about working through pain\u2014the pain of losing his sight, the opening of old tar burns on his legs, and the loss of his leg to flesh-eating bacteria, all the while remaining intensely alive, human, and creative. Monahan\u2019s voice is unique and powerful and these poems break new ground.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t  \t\t\t<b>About the author:<\/b><br \/>\nJacko Monahan was born in Passaic, N.J., and grew up on the streets of Palisades Park. During the 1980s, he was the front man and lyricist for the punk rock\/hard core bands Fatal Rage and Dirge. Fatal Rage put out a single eponymous LP in 1983, but the latter band released numerous recordings, including two LPs\u2014Flesh Crawler and Soul Storm. Having begun his musical career as a teenager in Palisades Park, Monahan has worked in some forty different bands in a variety of genres, writing original lyrics for them all, and has appeared on at least thirteen recordings. He also served for twenty-three years as the booking agent at the Brighton Bar, an original music venue in Long Branch, N.J. He estimates that he put on 10,000 shows at the Brighton and other venues, such as The Saint and The Stone Pony in Asbury Park and The Court Tavern in New Brunswick. Among these shows were the monthly poetry readings at the Brighton Bar. Monahan started writing poetry when he was fifteen and has continued to produce poems at a prodigious rate ever since. \u201cI had a fascination with words from an early age,\u201d he says. His work has appeared in Wanderlust, This Broken Shore, and The Idiom. A number of his poems appeared recently in Palisades, Parkways &#038; Pinelands: An Anthology of Contemporary Poets (Blast Press, 2015). <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"data_dictionary\" id=\"book_estore_details\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Publication Date:<\/dt>\n<dd>May 04 2017<\/dd>\n<dt>ISBN\/EAN13:<\/dt>\n<dd> 0998482919 \/ \t978-0998482910\/dd><\/p>\n<dt>Page Count:<\/dt>\n<dd>178<\/dd>\n<dt>Binding Type:<\/dt>\n<dd>US Trade Paper<\/dd>\n<dt>Trim Size:<\/dt>\n<dd>5.5&quot; x 8.5&quot;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd>English<\/dd>\n<dt>Color:<\/dt>\n<dd>Black and White<\/dd>\n<dt>Related Categories:<\/dt>\n<dd>Poetry \/ American \/ General<\/dd>\n<\/dl><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>CreateSpace:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.createspace.com\/7178744<\/p>\n<p>Amazon:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Legged Poetry\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"695\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_z6LfX1G9s4fm2M&#038;asin=0998482919&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To experience Jacko Monahan reading his poetry live, which he did every month for more than twenty years at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, N.J., was to experience what a number of auditors have called his \u201cword-uzi.\u201d In One-Legged Poetry: Tragedy, Politics &#038; a Sea Monster, Monahan has published his first full collection of poems, so that readers can experience his highly readable work in print virtually for the first time. Jacko once said, \u201cLife is pain, and you have to learn how to survive it.\u201d The poems in One-Legged Poetry are, more than any others he has written, about working through pain\u2014the pain of losing his sight, the opening of old tar burns on his legs, and the loss of his leg to flesh-eating bacteria, all the while remaining intensely alive, human, and creative. 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