I always have lots of trouble trying to merge my poetry with music. Sometimes, it gets lost in the music, and sometimes it doesn't go well enough with it. Since 1998 I've been trying out things and ideas, but nothing really came close to the "right viision" of events, except maybe the 2014-recorded "Stoned Gypsy Wanderer".

For this collection of 13 recordings, I tried to take examples of my writing 2000-2021 and present them in voice/guitar aesthetic - just "demos", or "just" demos, recorded over the years.

I was thinking of all the beautiful chapbooks with my writing Bill Shute of Kendra Steiner Editions used to publish 2008-2013, and they all cost 5 dollars.

So, for 5 dollars, you can now have my most recent "audio chapbook".
Some things change, others don't.
For 5 dollars, you get a beautiful work of art, one you can carry with you, and enrich it with your presence and attention, and in return it'll do the same for you. Spend 5 dollars on poetry, give it 5 minutes, and you'll never be the same.

Hope you enjoy. Thank you.

"With so much poetry out there falling into one of three categories—-bad imitations of Charles Bukowski; tiresome conceptual faux-avantgarde swill coming from MFA programs and the creative writing industry; and performance-oriented poetry slam antics that can often be entertaining live but are not conceived of in terms of the page—-it’s not surprising that poetry fails to find much of an audience in its printed form. More poets need to wake up and wipe the slate clean and realize that the possibilities of poetry are infinite. They just need to stop trying to curry favor with whomever they are trying to suck up to in the poetry hierarchy, create their own system of poetics from the ground up, and build on that foundation…and stay with it and ask no one for acceptance. The poets KSE publishes all do that in their own inimitable ways, and nobody exemplifies the KSE aesthetic better than A.J. Kaufmann: he is rooted in Beat poetry and psychedelia, he knows the important avant-garde traditions of the last 150 years, he reflects the particulars of his culture/region (and also such important areas for him such as Berlin and Paris), and he takes those elements and creates 100% original work from them, work that apes no one else’s work and that has a form and a feel all his own. Yes, his work can be surreal; it can have the post-Rimbaud rock’n’roll decadence of a Leonard Cohen or a Syd Barrett or a Jim Morrison; it can have a psychedelic spiritual exuberance in the tradition of Roky Erickson/Tommy Hall or of Sky Sunlight Saxon. But it’s always 100 % A. J. Kaufmann. Having worked with the man on three collaborative chapbooks, and a fourth chapbook that was a joint work but one where we both worked from similar prompts, I can testify to his amazing imagination, his devotion to craft, and his dedicated work ethic, even while living a lifestyle that would kill or sideline a lesser man." (Bill Shute, Kendra Steiner Editions).