ArsePoetica

Join Date: 3/19/2010

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  • ArsePoetica

  • New York

  • Jesse R. Steck



  • English

In short

  • I'm an outspoken atheist, anti-authoritarian US Navy Veteran, multilingual, musically inclined versatile original voice who lives and writes by his own rules.  Rather than sorry attempts at literary pathos, I am concerned with projecting spirit and an original point of view with the utmost aggressive confidence amidst a myriad of Kerouac and Salinger wannabes.  For me, it's about innovation, not imitation.

  • My greatest asset is versatility.  I paint with all colors: humor, pathos, cynicism, optimism, dadaism, transgressive art, satire, from mundane everyday events to more relevant political, social and philosophical issues.  I write fiction, poetry and plays covering the entire spectrum of emotion and perspective and character depth.

    I am an outspoken atheist with a sharp tongue and an often cynical, dry wit.  I do not sugarcoat my thoughts or opinions and go about philosophical, political, and religious discourse mercilessly, with gloves off and both fists clenched.  I also find offending stupid, narrow-minded, clueless uninformed people with intentionally skewed perspectives and laying waste to their protective coating of wishful thinking to be the most hilarious experience imaginable and would love to do it on a larger scale.  I can't be the only person alive who thinks offending people and making waves is humorous, or that intentionally bad writing for satirical purposes is amusing.  Offensive, dadaistic, transgressive, satirical work is prevalent on the market now, but I do believe that with the recent success of comedians like Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Doug Stanhope, a similar perspective in literature--outspoken, irreverent and pleasantly devoid of tact will be successful.  What offends and enrages those on one extreme of any issue is amusing and/or humorous to the other, as evidenced by the success of polarizing figures as Ann Coulter or Bill Maher.  (Please note that I do not liken my work to that of any of the figures I have mentioned here, only a potential similarity in controversial success.)

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • 1. Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    2. Stephen King, The Body (novella)

    3. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

    4. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

    5. Charles Bukowksi, Pleasures of the Damned (anthology)
  • Howard Zinn, People's History of the United States

    and

    Henry James, A Turn of the Screw
  • Anywhere, as long as I'm left alone.
  • Novels, short stories, poetry, plays, the occasional editorial.

  • Fiction: Experimental, General, Humor/Satire, Literary, Political, Short Story

    Non-Fiction: Entertainment, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Music, Politics & Current Affairs, Religion, Sports & Adventure

    Screenplay: Comedy

    Poetry: Experimental, General, Personal / Confessional, Political

  • Randall Patrick McMurphy
  • Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Hunter Thompson, John Irving, Jonathan Swift, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, T.C. Boyle, John Kennedy Toole, John Updike, George Orwell, Jim Carroll, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen King, Tom Wolfe, Harlan Ellison, Edgar Allan Poe, Miguel de Cervantes, Langston Hughes, H. P. Lovecraft

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