James Reich

James Reich is the author of the novels "The Song My Enemies Sing," "Soft Invasions," "Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness," "Bombshell," and "I, Judas" published by Anti-Oedipus Press and Soft Skull Press. He is the founder and publishing editor of Stalking Horse Press, and the chair of Creative Writing and Literature at New Mexico School for the Arts. He is completing a Master’s Degree in Ecopsychology at Naropa University. James was born in England in 1971, and has been a resident of the US since 2009.

The Peacock Feathers and 3 other poems

James Reich

The Peacock Feathers Whose eyes fanned evil from the house, petrol Blue at the edge of green, the lapis on the lawn Of the Raj, now we drink tea at summer’s end In a pinched house where a man has died, you’re So...

The Prisoner

James Reich

I remember his gallows thighs. His cock swung like a rope. The camp was weighted with snow and silence, settled with barbed wire, starvation in its planks and silted soup. Among the black beds, in cover of crowding, we fucke...

The Cowboy

James Reich

Here came a cowboy with sun-saddled skin. He had killed but once, but had killed simply, in Santa Fe where the turquoise tells. The cowboy was young with a jackrabbit’s poise, a buck-toothed boy, spring-heeled and dun. It ...

Blood and Soil, Trump and Incest

James Reich

Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933/1943) poses a question familiar to many Americans bewildered by the presidency of Donald Trump and the igneous qualities of his base. That the question was answered so l...

Blade Runner 2049: The Enigma and Exegesis of ‘K’

James Reich

Zwei Selle wohnen ach! In meiner Brust. (Two cells live in my chest.) ... I must go on being a Christian, acting out the role of a genuine revolutionary apostolic Christian, as a strategy: in order to overthrow the Black Iro...

Essay

Jack the Ripper, Performance, Participation, Fans and Trolls

James Reich

During the autumn of 1888, the period of the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, London, an ephemeral canon of “Ripper letters” was established, notably the so-called “Dear Boss” letter delivered on September 27t...

We Are All Alice B. Toklas

James Reich

Toklasization, being the condition of failing to materialize in one’s autobiography, or of being ghostwritten out by a biographer with more vanity than ours, has become the most significant cause of suicide and psychopatho...