Maggie Dubris

Weep Not, My Wanton, the final book to be published by John Martin's legendary Black Sparrow Press, contains eight short stories: The Dream Book, The Final Miracle, You Can't Spell Mess Without E-M-S, What's New Pusscat?, The Mighty Up, The Rolling Stones Learn to Relate, Give It Up, and A Man Does Not Choose When to Have a Heart Attack, along with a 50 page prose-poem, WillieWorld, based on the author's experience as a 911 paramedic in New York City. The final section of the book is a 70 page series of linked poems, Toilers of the Sea, concerning extinction, time, comic books, and the passage of the old world into the new.