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Newsex. A dramatic farce

By Isham Cook on November 27, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

X-rated dramatic farce set in a sexual re-education camp in a future Liberated California Republic.

Gu Cheng, selected poems (trans. Isham Cook & Zhao Shufen)

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( 1 Comment )

China’s mad poet who savagely murdered his wife.

August Stramm, poems (trans. Isham Cook)

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Poems like teeth grinding away grammar: Germany’s Expressionist poet who died on the front in WWI.

Isham Cook, poems 1986-88

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Bizarre experiments in poetry while under the influence of cannabis.

The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 1: New Gary, IN

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

The protagonist discovers he’s a convicted pedophile incarcerated in the city-wide concentration camp of former Gary, Indiana.

The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 2: Xinluoma

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

The protagonist finds himself enslaved in a full-scale replica of Ancient Rome in China.

The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 3: Zigaago

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( 1 Comment )

The protagonist finds himself enslaved in a Cantonese-speaking Chicago 100 years in the future.

The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 4: Chicago

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

A bullet removed from the protagonist’s brain is replaced with a pedophile-tracking nanochip.

The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 5: Xinluoma

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

The protagonist slave gets a tour of China’s Ancient Rome and trains in massaging its female patrons.

The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 6: Gwongzau

By Isham Cook on November 26, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

The condemned protagonist is fattened up during the ocean crossing to Canton.

The persistent. A short story

By Isham Cook on November 25, 2011 • ( 11 Comments )

What happens when one gets sexually involved with women of the obsessive variety.

The exact unknown. A short story

By Isham Cook on November 25, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

A casual affair with a student engenders inexplicable difficulties.

The apology. A short story

By Isham Cook on November 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Communication problems at a gift shop spiral out of control.

iProstitution. A short story

By Isham Cook on November 25, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

iProstitution: the granting of romantic or sexual favors in exchange for the latest Apple product.

Incident at Dongwuyuan Fuzhuang Shichang. A short story

By Isham Cook on November 25, 2011 • ( 3 Comments )

The nuisance of the uncooperative customer.

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