Hearts Amok: a Memoir in Verse (audiobook edition)

by Kevin Spenst

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1.	Apologia from Hoboken, Christendom 01:21	info	buy track
2.	A Worshipful Deriding of Flimflam 02:41	info	buy track
3.	In the Boxcar of Surrey around Guildford Castle 01:05	info	buy track
4.	A Goatherd’s Palaver Clackety-Clacks 01:14	info	buy track
5.	A Goatherd's Palaver Clackety-Clacks Synthcake Rendition 03:06	lyrics	buy track
A Goatherd’s Palaver Clackety-Clacks And thus I see among these pleasant things, Eche care decayes, and yet my sorrow springs. - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey In those Alpine times of youthful feelings, our hearts yodeled blandishments of agony. To make mores worse, I learned in church that unless I paced a fine line following choice Bible verses, I’d be dicing a bad-order to hell. At fourteen, I prayed for the gaze of the new girl whose mullet jostled like a rollercoaster. I dreamt a Song of Solomon: her cheeks spun like roller-skates in the Whalley Stardust, her mascara as occluding as Phoenix Metaphysical Books, her hair, a stage for heavy metal quakes and pyroclastics. I sweated hours into drawing her flowers of my affections. Prayers unanswered, my soul slouched into an iron maiden forgery.
6.	To Risk Throwing the Guts 01:13	info	buy track
7.	Summer Crashes High School 01:20	info	buy track
8.	Cupid: the Duke of Trauma 01:12	info	buy track
9.	To Buss, Snog or Suaviate in the Language of Yes 01:08	info	buy track
10.	The Blinding Light Cinema! (1998-2003) 01:24	info	buy track
11.	Lucky Means Finding 00:55	info	buy track
12.	The Waverley Pub 01:18	info	buy track
13.	Epithalamium 01:24	info	buy track
14.	What Persons Are Fit For Love? 01:20	info	buy track
15.	Falling Asleep For Ten Years 00:50	info	buy track
16.	Soggy Bottom Boy 01:29	info	buy track
17.	The Opposite of Face Blindness 01:24	info	buy track
18.	Bee’s Knees to a Tillandsia 02:01	info	buy track
19.	To Victoria Park’s Glad Rags 00:49	info	buy track
20.	Lumbering Upstairs 01:02	info	buy track
21.	Rom-Com To Pemberton 00:57	info	buy track
22.	As If The Candid Camera Of Some Religion 01:00	info	buy track
23.	Quiddity 00:55	info	buy track
24.	Spiralling Bright 00:52	info	buy track
25.	The Hobo’s Tale 00:59	info	buy track
26.	Right and Lefty on the Pump Trolley 00:55	info	buy track
27.	The Word Trinity Isn’t Mentioned Once in the Bible 01:02	info	buy track
28.	Holding it Together on a Tragicomic Tour 01:15	info	buy track
29.	Disorientations 00:57	info	buy track
30.	Another Number of First Dates 01:12	info	buy track
31.	Saint Maroun Was A Mystic Who Crowd Surfed On The Hands Of Date Number Five’s Ancestors 00:59	info	buy track
32.	Lover, Beloved, Baloney Free Kisses 00:53	info	buy track
33.	How Do I Lust After Thee? 00:50	info	buy track
34.	Read this With Your Device Held Horizontally 00:51	info	buy track
35.	You’ll Hate This Because It Sounds Like A Story 01:35	info	buy track
36.	The Architecture of a Rock 01:13	info	buy track
37.	The Last First Date 00:57	info	buy track
38.	On the Road of Sighs Around False Creek 00:54	info	buy track
39.	Above Picasso and his Tussie-Mussies 03:12	info	buy track
40.	That Summer I Dated Everyone (Part Two) 00:49	info	buy track
41.	Out of One’s Tree 01:42	info	buy track
42.	The Woman Who Once Lived In a Bus 00:47	info	buy track
43.	Hurricane-Held Abodes 01:42	info	buy track
44.	General Theories of Love 00:52	info	buy track
45.	i love you, i’m uncomfortable. 03:46	info	buy track
46.	Ducks and Rabbits Facing East and West 02:51	info	buy track
47.	Epilogue Logos Flip and Sigh 01:32	info	buy track
48.	Popping Proposals in the Boodle of Now 01:03	info	buy track

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This is the vast majority of poems from the book Hearts Amok, with a few surprises that will be added over the next month leading up to the official release! If you want a physical copy of the book, please mosey over to my publisher's website: www.anvilpress.com/books/hearts-amok

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released July 14, 2022

Produced by Jason Zumpano (unless otherwise credited) For more: jazrecords.com || Hearts Amok cover art made by Shauna Kaendo: heyshauna.com || All line drawn doodles done by Kevin Spenst.

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Kevin Spenst Vancouver, British Columbia

Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong, and Hearts Amok: a Memoir in Verse (all with Anvil Press), and over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye, Ward Notes, Surrey Sonnets, and most recently Upend. He occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic with RC Weslowski, on Co-op Radio. He lives in Vancouver on unceded Coast Salish territory. ... more