Paul Corman-Roberts is an Oakland, California writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction about people living their lives outside and between the margins of society’s institutions. He is the author of "Neocom(Muter)" (Tainted Coffee Press, 2009.) and "Coming World/Gone World" (Howling Dog Press, 2006). His short story "The Deathbed Confession of Christopher Walken" was the runner-up in Canada’s most prestigious "outlaw" fiction contest, and will appear in issue #52 of subTerrain Magazine (2009.)

While he wishes to establish no cult of worship for anything or anyone, he will be happy to give a shout out to his influences, in no particular order, being: Roberto Bolano, Emily Dickinson, Mary Shelley, Ruben Dario, William Wordsworth, Ken Kesey, Hypatia, Bukowski, D.A. Levy, & Lisa & Hannah.

 
      "Would you like to record the death of Western man?
      Take a number and stand in line
      Work sets the self-analyzing
      Monkey free in this elegy
      Poet, seduce thyself and
      Know the inner Heaven cylinder
      Is the place you will see
      Through constructs"