Great Balls of Doubt: Poems and Prose Poems

Author: Mark Terrill
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
Published: 07/21/2020
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781891241666
Age Range: 14-UP

About the Author

MARK TERRILL is a native Californian and former merchant seaman. He has lived in Germany since 1984, working by turns as a shipyard welder, a cook, for the post office, and as road manager for rock bands, all the while publishing numerous collections of poetry and prose, such as Bread & Fish (The Figures, 2002) and Diamonds & Sapience (Dark Style, 2017). His work has appeared in print and online in more than a thousand journals and anthologies, including City Lights Review, Bombay Gin, Empty Mirror, Jacket, Diagram, Rattle, RHINO, and Talisman, and been translated into French, German, and Portuguese. Terrill is also the English translator of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-75, Parlor Press, 2011).

JON LANGFORD is a musician and visual artist who lives in Chicago. Born in Newport, Wales, he first came to prominence with art/punk music collective the Mekons, who met at Leeds University in 1976 and have been performing together ever since; their most recent album is Deserted (2019). He has also released many recordings as a solo artist and with other bands (the Three Johns, the Waco Brothers, Four Lost Souls, and more). Langford's art has been collected in two books, Nashville Radio (2006) and Skull Orchard Revisited (2010). In 2015 he was the artist in residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame, which commissioned him to paint a series of portraits for its exhibition "Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City." He is represented by Yard Dog Gallery in Austin, Texas.