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    Can You Sign My Tentacle?
    Can You Sign My Tentacle?
    Can You Sign My Tentacle?
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    Can You Sign My Tentacle?

    By Brandon O'Brien

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    Cthulhu meets hip-hop in this book of horror poems that flips the eldritch genre upside down. Lovecraftian-inspired nightmares are reversed as O'Brien asks readers to see Blackness as radically significant. Can You Sign My Tentacle? explores the monsters we know and the ones that hide behind racism, sexism, and violence, resulting in poems that are both comic and cosmic.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInterstellar Flight Press
    Release dateAug 20, 2021
    ISBN9781953736055
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      Book preview

      Can You Sign My Tentacle? - Brandon O'Brien

      Cover art for Can You Sign My Tentacle? By Brandon O’Brien. Black man with tentacles surrounding

      Praise for Can You Sign My Tentacle?

      All the poems in O’Brien’s collection, like tracks in a poetic album: entertains, amuses, enlightens and inspires. More than anything else, his Author’s Note is the perfect ending for this Album of the Year for me, sharing the poet’s journey in the realm of science fiction, the impact of Cthulhu mythos and the relationship to Blackness & racism. I will sign any tentacles he waves in my direction.

      —Linda D. Addison, award-winning author, HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and SFPA Grand Master.

      Dreamlike, visceral, and emotionally moving. An intoxicating poetic journey and a heartbreaking ode casting your fave hip-hop artists juxtaposed with chilling and beautiful imagery through the haunting lens of tangible pain, loss, grief and love. 

      —Tlotlo Tsamaase, author of The Silence of the Wilting Skin

      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.

      CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE?

      Text Copyright © 2021 by Brandon O’Brien

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author and publisher, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Edited by Holly Lyn Walrath.

      Cover design by Trevor Fraley.

      Published by Interstellar Flight Press.

      Houston, Texas.

      www.interstellarflightpress.com

      ISBN (eBook): 978-1-953736-05-5

      ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-953736-04-8

      Can You Sign My Tentacle?

      Poems

      Brandon O’Brien

      Interstellar Flight Press

      Contents

      Hastur Asks for Donald Glover’s Autograph

      because who she is matters more than her words

      Cthylla Asks for Drake’s Autograph

      the repossession of skin

      The Sailor-Boys

      Lovecraft Thesis #1

      postcard 20xx, where there are no dirges

      hunting dog

      Hastur Asks for Lord Kitchener’s Autograph

      the lagahoo speaks for itself

      Lovecraft Thesis #2

      That Business They Call Utopia, Part Two

      Birth, Place

      Cthulhu Reminisces Upon The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Melody’s Autographs

      postcard 20xx, of our garden and beach

      Cthulhu Asks for Kendrick Lamar’s Autograph

      Young Poet Just Misses Getting MF DOOM’s Autograph

      Kanye West’s Internet Bodyguard Asks Hastur to Put Away the Phone

      the one

      Cthylla Asks for J. Cole’s Autograph

      Lovecraft Thesis #3

      The Metaphysics of a Wine, in Theory and Practice

      time, and time again

      tar baby

      That Business They Call Utopia, Part Three

      Lovecraft Thesis #4

      Lovecraft Thesis #5

      That Business They Call Utopia, Part One

      drop some amens

      Acknowledgments

      Author’s Note

      About the Author

      About the Cover Artist

      Interstellar Flight Press

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      Hastur Asks for Donald Glover’s Autograph

      a‖

      In his house at Stone Mountain, real hip-hop Gambino

      stays woke.

      In floaters, he can see spacetime on opposite

      ends of a line of scrimmage, watch them collide into

      nebulae

      to the point where he can’t even find himself out of that mess.

      He doesn’t really know sleep. There’s too much to know.

      Before the entourage parks outside the 2013 version

      of Sway In

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