Author Inkblot Hurricane Invites Readers to a Swashbuckling Poetic "Promenade"

The medicine show comes to town, and with it Inkblot Hurricane, a man who weaves a tale painted in carnival colors of a generation ago. From poet-author Hurricane, aka Martin Abramson, comes "Promenade", a wondrous collection of poems, song & blues penned between the early 1960s & the present day. Though distinctly American in its rhythms & language, his poetry traverses half a tumultuous century & much of the globe. In a unique blend of styles & voices, Hurricane writes of emotion, of burning bridges, love & romance, rhythm & blues, territories of social situation, cartesian localities & indestructible ideals in a signature style that rarely fails to draw readers to his poetry. Readers will find "Promenade" intimately approachable, thought provoking & chock full of the author's wry, remarkable insight and honesty.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The day before Pearl Harbor, Marty Abramson's family of Jewish immigrants arrives in the City of Angels from the Bronx. At fourteen, set on becoming a cowboy, he leaves home for Arizona with his father's blessing & hires out as a wrangler. After serving in an army recon unit on the East German border he's back home in LA. He boxes Golden Gloves, runs games as a carney & acts at the Hollywood Playhouse. He drives a cab until an eccentric Palm Springs oil heiress hires him away to be her chauffeur & bodyguard. Still fresh on the job, he uncovers a plot by local gangsters to steal the widow's fortune. In an episode of hard-boiled intrigue not unlike the noir fiction of his favorite prose writer, James Cain, Hurricane busts their game & foils the plot.

At the height of the beat era in the late fifties, poetry & jazz supply heady oxygen to Abramson's Venice West neighborhood. Selling encyclopedias door-to-door, Martin is an after-work regular at the VeniceWest Café where he is exposed to words as poetry & as performance art. Inspired by poets like Stuart Perkoff & Charles Bukowski, he begins to write & recite on his own-soon accepted as a poet among poets. In refreshing contrast to the common practice of reading off a printed page, Abramson earns his street creds reciting his poetry by heart & instead of standing at a podium, he moves amongst the patrons sitting at their coffeehouse tables. Mid-sixties finds Abramson active in the poetry scenes of San Francisco & Berkeley. Friend & neighbor, Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti films & tapes Martin & sells his chapbooks at his legendary City Lights Bookstore. Back in LA, Abramson transforms his growing repertoire into the Inkblot Hurricane Poetry Revue, adopts Hurricane as his nickname & takes the show on the road. Just as his work begins to see considerable publication, he drops out & disappears from the scene & turns up in Idaho working in the world's deepest silver mine. Later, he hits the road again-this time with his young son, David-busking on the street, performing his review in nightclubs, theaters & art galleries throughout North America, Europe & Israel. In the mid-eighties he returns to Jerusalem where he lived for over three decades. Hurricane Abramson continued to devote himself to his poetry, teach guitar & perform on stage until the very last months of his life. PROMENADE, this vital treasury of his life work, ricochets with captivating, page-turning passion.

(©Copyright, D. Smith, 1988, 2011)

Promenade * by Inkblot Hurricane
Book of Poems, Song and Blues
Publication Date: 9/27/2013
Trade Paperback; $27.18; 550 pages; 9781453556344
Trade Hardback; $43.18; 550 pages; 9781453556351
eBook; $6.38; 9781453556368

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