Product Description
LG Williams is a vivid storyteller. He has written another characteristically startling fresh book with a provocatively happy ending. You can not read a book more enthralling, more moving, more unforgettably illumined by profoundly human truths than these poems on the rise, the fall , and the ultimate redemption of first-rate American stereotypes. Particularly impressive are LG's passions, allegiances and assessments, which are finally being heralded after years of recrimination, marginalization and slander.
Is this really LG Williams, the blinding beacon in the dank, dark, sticky folds of the derailed and overturned contemporary psyche? Perhaps he's right. Perhaps narcolepsy, hypocrisy, alcohol and sentimentality — forget divine intervention or scientific logic -are the perversely simple secret survival codes for the everyday American "raison d'eter".

About the Author
LG Williams received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis nearly twenty years after the school's most famous graduate Bruce Nauman. He has showed at various national and international venues, among them The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, Klaipedos Kultury Komunikacijy Centras, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Super Window Project, Gloria Maria Gallery, Lance Fung Gallery, Steven Wirtz Gallery, and Gallery Subversive, Cologne Art Fair, Artissima, LISTE, Art-O-Rama, and ARCO. A major European exhibition, LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams, Anthology: 1985-2012, was organized in 2012 by Baron Osuna (Super Window Project) for Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan; the catalogue essay was written by Dr. Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester.
An heir to West Coast and Beat Generation art, LG Williams is one of the youngest member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, whose membership includes Bruce Connor, Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, and Manuel Neri. Williams has taught at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, Arizona State University and the University of Hawaii. In March 2009 Cengage Learning / Wadsworth published Williams's Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages -- an innovative pedagogical tool designed to facilitate learning art history through drawing. In 2011-12 Williams was the art critic for The Tokyo Weekender, the oldest free English publication in Japan. In 2016 Williams (PCP Press) published Wasted Words and Dust Bunnies by Dave Hickey, edited by Julia Friedman, which was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement.
More information can be found at www.lgwilliams.com
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