Books and stuff Michael Phillips
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Michael Phillips
PO Box 218
South Pasadena, CA 91031
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I hate your blog! :) Do you miss the old blog that used to be here at smog.net? Of course you do. You are human. We all feel pain in the face of traumatic loss. But there is hope. There is an answer. It's right here in this essential, pocket-sized collection of the best (as if any of it was bad!) of the old blog. Page after page of sheer genius. 181 pages, 7 x 4.25", perfect bound, $9.95 |
No. 2236 Flying Wedge A timeless and important story that has the power to create world peace and bring you unlimited personal wealth. A heart-wrenching tale of a boy and his guitar, this small, handmade book is destined to be handed down through generations as a precious, venerated heirloom. 16 pages, 5.5 x 4.25", hand sewn 
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Riding Out the Dumb Silence TIME magazine called it, "Perhaps the most important poetry collection ever created by upright walking hominids." Humility prevents me from commenting, but everyone who has read it enthusiastically agrees. 120 pages, 9 x 6", Paperback $9.99, deluxe hardcover with original art $79.99 |
alternative man An early classic, a jaw-dropping collection of poems and short stories that affected the earth's rotation and knocked it off its axis when it was published. The earth has recovered, you may not. Brutally suppressed by the Secret Service and Interpol, a few copies have been acquired for your enjoyment. 71 pages, 8.5 x 5.5", perfect bound, $8.95 |
Desert Dog Press chapbooks A set of three books containing 24 poems and one breathtakingly brilliant short story that was criminally overlooked for the Pulitzer prize in its year of publication. Sold for a mere $10 in the 1990's, this set now fetches well over a million dollars at auction. Lloyd's of London insured the author's copies for 500 million dollars, which Sotheby's calls "a ridiculously low valuation." Sorry, sold out |
I WRITE THIS POEM DIRECTLY IN THE STICK It's not every day that a renowned and revered author will get his hands dirty to create a work. But I would do anything for you, so I painstakingly hand typeset and letterpress printed this incredible three color work. Never before in history has a poem been written while setting the type! In the hands of a lesser writer this would be a disaster. In my hands it is, quite naturally, pure poetic bliss. LIMITED EDITION - $29.95 |
ANTI-WAR letterpress set A set of letterpressed cards by various printers, and a timeless, gripping poem written and printed with these two hands, selflessly, for the benefit of mankind. The contributors to this set were introduced by a Russian double-agent who has since been assassinated by his own co-conspirators. He died like the filthy, diseased dog that he was, but this set remains, unsullied by his wretched despicability. EXTREMELY LIMITED AND RARE - $79.99 |
Still No Sign of Osama bin Laden Written and printed in 2002, this eerily prescient masterwork shakes its fist at the powers that be, demanding to know the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. A burning question that is still relevant today, more than seven years later. These are overrun from the ANTI-WAR letterpress set, available on their own for the first and last times. When they are gone, they are gone forever. Like your innocence. EXTREMELY LIMITED - $9.95 |
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I hate your blog! :) Essays, 2003 - 2009 One or two things needed to be salvaged from the defunct blog, so I pulled all the old posts up, went through them and thought, "Hmm, some of this doesn't suck - why not salvage a bunch of this stuff?" So this well thought-out volume came to be. It's best not to think too much, and this pocket-sized bottle rocket is proof of that. If I'd a thought about it, I never woulda done it, as Bob Dylan said. 181 pages, perfect bound, with a full color black and white cover featuring some creepy Holga photos. It is yours for a pittance here on this site only. Carry the entire internet - the good bits anyway - in your pocket! |
| Riding Out the Dumb Silence Poems and short stories, 1996 - 2005 The paperback edition is 120 pages, perfect bound with a groovy full-color cover. The special hardcover edition is limited to 26 signed, lettered copies and includes a bookmark that contains a poem not in the paperback edition, and a one-of-a-kind original ink poem tipped in (that means it's attached to the inside of the book, baby). If you really think you might want the hardcover, you might want to pick one up sooner than later because much of the edition is gone. Yes, I know, I am as surprised as you are. |
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Limited edition letterpress poem
I WRITE THIS POEM DIRECTLY IN THE STICK is a hand set and letterpressed poem that was actually written as the type was picked up out of the case. The poem will be available only on these cards - it will never be published anywhere else!
This unique piece is 8 x 6 inches, set in 10 point ATF Century Schoolbook type, and printed in three colors on 80# laid ivory cards, on an 1890's era 5 x 7 platen press. It is limited to 50 signed, numbered copies (though only 40 were made available for purchase).
Comes complete with genuine uneven letterpress printing!
And a real spelling error!
Be one of only 40 people in the world to own this poem, art work, printing project, conceptual art piece...however you define it, there is nothing else like it. Guaranteed by mjp!
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alternative man
Poems and short stories Mother Road Publications ISBN 0-9636829-5-4 71 page perfect bound trade paperback After 10 years I have finally tracked down the remaining, brand new old copies of alternative man. They were found in a sealed box in the corner of a decommissioned ICBM silo in New Mexico, but that's all I can say about it. Let the rejoicing begin. Or something. Musician turned writer has a keen eye for humor, pathos, & the bizarre in these short pieces. - Bookpeople [alternative man] contains some of the best stuff by a new writer in or out of the small presses. - Andersen Prunty, Absent magazine Imaginary reality and the hard, cold merge in tales dominated by characters whirled in confusion and odd determination. An old-school punk, tempered (slightly) and swollen with skill. - Christopher M., First Class magazine let me tip the hat to the poet Michael Phillips! the book - 'Alternative man' was a great read - I'm going to share his stuff with my crowd. - Ulvis Alberts The fiction has to be the strangest...the five star fucked-up award goes to "anything for a quid", about a guy who visits a prostitute in England who turns her clients on with a monkey puppet made of socks. - Michael Halchin, Bleeding Velvet Octopus magazine |
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ANTI WAR A collection of dissident work by letterpress printers 
Edition of 250 set consists of 21 5" x 5" cards Featuring work by letterpress artists Tara Bryan, Tim Dunn, Bryan Hutcheson, Michael Phillips, Boris Savic and Gail Watson. Includes the mjp poem Still No Sign of Osama bin Laden, hand set and printed on my late 1800's letterpress! Astounding, yeah? Well, interesting anyway. And a lot of nice work on the other cards (samples below -- note that not all of the cards are pictured here). 
This beautiful set was three years in the making, and is not available to the public anywhere but right here. I only have a couple of them that I can let go. That's why it's expensive, and that's why you should pick it up now and add it to your extensive collection of dissident letterpress work. Johnny Brewton's letterpressed X-RAY collections sell on the secondary market for $150 to $200 per issue. This collection is equal in quality to the very best X-RAY releases, in my humble (and extremely biased) opinion. |
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Hand printed poem, "Still No Sign of Osama bin Laden"
If this looks familiar it's because it is the overprint from my contribution to the ANTI-WAR set. An edition of only 19, signed and numbered. Normally the overprint for a limited edition would be destroyed, but I saved these. Long story. Now you can benefit from my paranoid, pack rat behavior! |
desert dog press chapbooks
don't quit your day job 12 poems - 28 pages porcupine quill pen 12 poems - 24 pages Oscar Night short story - 16 pages Set of three chapbooks. Edition of 50, numbered and signed, with original hand made block print covers. I made these myself because alternative man was over a year and a half late in being published and distributed and people were openly mocking me; "So...where's that book you are always talking about? Ha ha ha!" Had I stopped to think about how much work it would actually be hand print 150 covers and assemble 150 books I would have never started, but once I was ankle deep in it I couldn't stop. I think I sold these sets for $10, which, in retrospect, seems insane. But I'm like Crazy Eddie, man, slashing prices to the bone! At least back in those days. Sorry, sold out |
PO Box 218
South Pasadena, CA 91031
(No personal checks! I don't trust you! No one does!) Contact: