death of the composer's wife, followed by the composer's own death. The novel, if such it is, consists entirely of quotations from other sources (many of which are, however, invented). Degenerescence (2009) appears as a kind of endpoint of this alienated phase, where the author has finally turned away from the last of his own recognizable mannerisms, in favor of pseudo-ancient repetitive incantation about how the invention of narrative story causes the destruction of the hymn foundation of the world: what might be called a home-made Sumerian myth. The Rat Veda (2010), for all its dire setting (its "hero" is a rat in the subway), in fact marks a change for the brighter, in that as the rat waits to transcend his self-made imprisonment, he worships beauty in the form of an idealized love, a dancer who seems to exist just over his head. Qurratulain (2012) might be seen as the last in a "religious" trilogy (Degenerescence having drawn imagery from Sumerian myth, and The Rat Veda from devotional Hinduism). A Christian priest in the time of the monastic Desert Fathers falls in love with the title character, and together they go to the desert to pray and argue with God. As in Rat Veda, beauty and ecstatic love seem to outweigh all other aspects of existence. Novels Our Plague (A Film from New York) [1993] The Walls Collide as You Expand, Dwarf Maple [1993] Glass (Pray the Electrons Back to Sand) [1994] In Candyland It's Cool to Feed on Your Friends [1998] Daughter! I Forbid Your Recurring Dream! [2000] Stet [2006] How is This Going to Continue? [2007] Degenerescence [2009] The Rat Veda [2010] Qurratulain [2012] In anthologies Avant Garde for the New Millennium, edited by Forrest Armstrong (Raw Dog Screaming Press) [2008]. Hatter Bones, edited by Paul Jessup (Evil Nerd Empire) [2009]. Chapbook Don’t Give Up & Die, Don’t Push Me Into the Blackness, No, Life Is Impossible, We Agree, Stay With Me in Hiding, Exile Together Is Better than Death, They Won’t Find Us, They Won’t Mock at You Again, They Won’t Kick Me Again, We’ll Float Above Them, We’ll Feed Each Other with Fruits They Don’t Know How to Find, We Won’t Speak Their Language Anymore, Our Lungs Will Fill with Light (ML Press, 2008) As publisher Chapman also operates Fugue State Press, a publisher of "advanced and experimental fiction" which has published a peculiar assortment