Dawn Peyote

About the Book

This book is far and away the most lyrical one I’ve ever writt en.Dawn begins about a month before Ant Man ends. So chronologically Ant Man comes fi rst followed by this Dawn Peyote “book” andthen its Stewart Coates, one two three…my first thirty some years of being a nutshell, huh.

Dawn Peyote, hmnn, its difficult to summarize what I was trying to say way back seven, maybe even eight years ago. There’s straight narrat ves but mixed in in extreme doses are stream of consciousness jazzy lines, like Kerouac I suppose, who was my main fountainhead at the time back Zen. I was a much more dreamy creature,more vague and unsure, rolling with the night waves, when writi ngthis book.

I just wrote prett y much anything that popped into my mind and heart, there’s no self-censorship whatsoever with this one, like dominoes laid up all random yet revealing the precision of my feelings my confusions and my loves and hates, even. It was the fi rst book I’d writt en totally on a computer too, which felt more smooth and classical compared to the electric percussion electric typewriter,you know?

Dawn Peyote is a very searching voyage. Searching within to glean the true essence of my individual being, being tossed about in the unknowable ocean ways of societi es both secret and overt. The war on the Middle East was just starti ng up when I was into writing this book, opinions were flying all over the map, religion I found thinly veiled the war-monger attitudes of many in this provincial town.

The flower of justice, nonetheless, grows where you least expect it.

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