About the Book
Assembled from soundbytes, lists, landscapes, and found objects, Craig Foltz’s writing chases the day to day lives of our contemporaries down absurdist avenues. Imagine a world where words pass through walls; where the banal and the analytic co-exist on delicate, but sturdy tethers. Wry, beguiling, and evocative, We Used to Be Everywhere provides a transcript for the post-language milieu.
In 2018, we offer this title along with Coming Up for Air, a special hand-made edition of Craig Foltz’s prose and Shelton Walsmith’s drawings produced by Loudmouth Collective in 2001. See here for more information.
Author
Craig Foltz
Craig Foltz is a writer and multi-media artist whose work has appeared in numerous journals, galleries, and performance spaces in both hemispheres. His collection of poetry postcards, The States, was released by UDP in 2007, and a collection of his fiction, We Used to Be Everywhere, was published by UDP in Fall 2013. He also published two chapbooks (“The BBQ Killers” and “Coming Up For Air”) on the now famously hard-to-spot Loudmouth Collective. He lives on the slopes of a dormant volcano in New Zealand where the progeny from Kahikatea will always be king.
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Excerpt
The girl tells you she wants boys who are pedicured, trimmed, and close shaven. She wants somebody who is not French but has French attributes. She says, “I’ve heard it said that willow grubs fall from willow trees. I’ve heard it said that nostalgia is just an excuse to linger in the past tense.”