Al Ferber: 16 books

"Al Ferber has created a world as seen through the eyes of Gus. Gus is irascible, nasty, haunted by ghosts, and transformed by his loves. Gus shamelessly invites us into his richly textured fantasies to witness his pain, his doubts, and his exuberance for living. Ferbers Gus is a master of the...

Accounts of eye witnesses to The Avalanche: It wont even vaguely remind you of SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS. Hop Wechsler, Poet, Coconspirator Al Ferbers poetry, often brittle reflections on the nature of being, the meaning of life, relationships, spirituality, capture the mystique, the exuberance and claustrophobic...

Reading Al Ferber poems, one has to be ready for a trip of chutes and ladders because hes nothing if not energetic. Youll find yourself running after the train and waving your ticket, only to find its already left the station, hellbound and whooping. Al waits for no one to catch up: its hang on and...

The streets do not prettify, they test. Growing up in the streets of Philadelphia, Al Ferber learned theres nothing so valuable as a fast punchHes a street kid all the way, and his writing style bears that out. The words jab and dance. Ignore the chidings of any coach. More often than not, Al will...

Between beatitude and oblivion, between war and orgy, between the waking and the dead was the Jazzed Generation: Bernard Corset, Yank Bivouac, Rupert Rugburn, Helmut Bungholes, and Beatrice-- Bernard's muse and soul. Between ON THE ROAD and CATHOLIC BOY, between HOWL and OEDIPUS, between CATCHER IN...

L Strange Cafe represents over 200 pages of Al Ferbers work (mainly GUS) and about 150 pages of work by 16 other poets (Gus L Strange Poetics Orchestra & Blues Band) from Orefield, PA to the North & South ends of Bucks County to Center City to South Philadelphia to New Jersey to Maryland to...

The beast is always there, waiting to consume and digest the least aware among us, the least careful, most unguarded, most distracted. Distracted by song, art, love, and in some rare cases, happiness. Their ultimate destruction is the ultimate goal of the beast. Before digestion he engages through...

Catholics are born with tainted souls besmirched by a strange unspecified thing called original sin. Buddhists see all of life as suffering. The spirit is dragged through life enduring a seeming endless series of indignities occasionally supplanted by temporary short lived delusions of love, joy and...

For eons and millennia the moon has overlooked the earth in all phases of development. All the creatures, however strange that have occupied the varied environs. Humans the strangest of creatures by far have over their short time on the planet provided the moon with moments of both euphoria and despair....

Unbearable Lyric is composed of the darkest, unavoidable angst, pain, loss , and disappoitment - an emotional concentration camp where all news coming from the outside says the Allied Armies dont stand a snowballs chance at bringing liberation, ever. Its the expression of the most hideous disaster...

We are all on a roller coaster ride. We are all passengers on a runaway train. We are drivers under the influence, of something: love, hate, ambivalence, jealousy, lust, some element of emotion, unbridled passion. We are all careening toward the abyss. We are all on a crash course with isolation,...

I have been described as being Beyond Redemption. I have been described as the devil incarnate. I have been defying all the rules of modern and classical poetry for over forty years. In terms of success the only difference between me and Charles Bukowski is my lack of an angel such as Black Sparrow...

Gus has been on hiatus for several years. He remained silent during that time. However, in the past year, he has made a thunderous comeback, producing enough material from his adventures, misadventures, thoughts, dreams, musings, nightmares, observations, recollections, and the various other sundry...

Gus has been on hiatus for several years. He remained silent during that time. However, in the past year, he has made a thunderous comeback, producing enough material from his adventures, misadventures, thoughts, dreams, musings, nightmares, observations, recollections, and the various other sundry...