"Probably no literary collection in history has manifested such overt antipathy to literature. Our defiant intention is not to enhance, but rather to do for literature what Freud did for sex - ruin it utterly."
Edd Preston, "edditor" of the original Broken Star


The mid 1970's were the heyday of the small press movement. Hundreds of groups and individuals published "literary" collections on a shoestring, literally, funded by donations, or in some cases, unfunded and precariously afloat on promises and hopes. Such, too, was Broken Star, published in Spring, 1978, by Boggle Publications for the EFE Writers' Workshop.

This is the "reincarnation" of Broken Star. It is a special section of this site devoted to "guest writings", and will include a selection or two from the first avatar of Broken Star, as well as new compositions by guest authors. It has not yet been decided whether contributions will actively be solicited, due to time and space limitations.

contents

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Waiting For The Light
poem
Delusions
poem
Crane
poem
The Resolution
poem
Untitled
poem
There Is No Coincidence
book excerpt



This new edition of Broken Star is dedicated to the memory of my partner (in Boggle Publications) and good friend, Edd Preston, who died prematurely of a heart attack several years back. He was the author of a biography of Martin Luther King and of the book,
How To Buy Land Cheap, which is still in print after 20 years, in its fourth edition.


"Nevertheless, we feel obliged, for the sake of literature, to reverse its directional trend and return it to the closet from whence it came. There is where we feel most of it belongs, alongside its heavily-breathing creators. Therefore, when we unleash a tiny amount of it upon the world, the reader is doubly blessed. Not only is he treated to that rare creation we let creep through our critical disdain, he is allowed to be grateful for the noxious flowerings we spared him."
Edd Preston







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