Poet and underground cult figure Raegan Butcher began writing in his mid-teens. His first collection of poetry, End of the World Graffiti, appeared in 1991. Five years later, he was convicted of armed robbery and spent seven years in prison. While incarcerated, he composed the poems for his next book of poetry, the highly regarded, Stone Hotel, published in 2003 by the anarchist collective, CrimethInc.
Foreword by Raegan Butcher:
You hold in your hands my earliest collection of poems, written between 1986 and 1991. Some of the songs were written as late as 2001 but are included here for the first time because, well, I just felt like including them. I think the first poetry that I ever admired was that of Edgar Allan Poe, when I was in the seventh grade. Then someone gave me a copy of A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and I really liked it. Poetry, hmmm. Seemed kind of neat, playing with words. I started writing songs (some of which are included here) when I was fourteen but it wasnt until I was seventeen and Patty Schemel introduced me to the poems of Leonard Cohen that the poetry bug really bit me. These days I no longer concern myself with rhyming but I think these old poems and songs arent too shabby. What do you think?
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