Jack Bowman

When the engine of a 737 tears itself apart at Los Angeles Airport, Tom Patrick is in the wrong place at the wrong time â?? playing poker at a nearby casino. Heâ??s been losing at cards and probing pipeline leaks ever since his big mouth led to his fall from grace as the National Transportation Safety Boardâ??s top air-crash investigator.

Newest selected works from dark Los Angeles poet Jack G Bowman.

At once both luminous and surreal, Jack Bowman's poetry leads an urgent mission from the freeways of Los Angeles to the ocean depths of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where Cousteau's Calypso lies anchored. Hawaiian shirts and neon beer signs compete with Patsy Cline on the jukebox, and faceless commuters pop anti-depressants like neurocandy while a lone child in the park silently lip-syncs the nightsongs of a million dragonflies.

In Thanatos on a Southland Freeway the reader senses a range of dark, brooding cloud poems on the horizon, and as the wind blows each moves overhead and deposits its contents on the reader below. A sense of interesting dread and a mysterious forest of words attempt to lure the reader in, and keeps him there trapped.