Love Songs To The Dead

This surreal collection of vintage poetry and nightmarish prose is really a fly-on-the-wall glimpse into a down-and-out teenage junkie artist's world, written by Shaw in another lifetime -- mostly in early 1970's Los Angeles when Shaw was a hard-living kid running with the likes of Charles Bukowski, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison and the Manson Family. Originally spawned from a beat-up thrift store typewriter and written in decrepit Hollywood rooming houses where they were used for years as place mats for needles and spoons, marked with carbon stains and dried blood, silent witnesses to death and psychic devastation, the poems were eventually thrown into a cardboard box and left there to die in the place of their author, who somehow moved on to abandon them and travel the world by tramp freighter and thumb. Forgotten for more than 30 years now, these writings were reluctantly resurrected by Shaw only recently -- if for no other reason than as an authentic look into Shaw’s own troubled