A Love Song for an Inked Doll: A Book of Poetry & Prose

Product Description

A Love Song for an Inked Doll plays out like an honest movie set to lyrics of all the love songs ever sung. It is filled with euphoric highs of romance, love and lust juxtaposed to confusing lows of lonely nights in dive bars. The back and forth roller coaster of emotion is a universal set of feelings everyone has experienced. As the ups and downs of a relationship takes center stage in a brilliant and simple set of words designed to highlight love in the alternative culture of dive bars, inked women and artists found in Portland. The author takes us on a journey with him as he bares his heart and soul through poetic words as he attempts to win the love of his life, a gorgeous inked doll as debaucherous as The Fresch Klesch himself.Words of Praise for A Love Song for an Inked Doll:The Sweet Pinkham“I am 100% in love with this book, it’s the best fucking book ever!”” Beautiful, Breathtaking and Swoontastic! It plays out like a tragic love story with ups and downs so full of hope, which makes it so hard to put down.”Azure“A crack in the skull, in which one can see the vein riddled grey matter churning pre-apocalyptic montage of the menage a trois, man versus self versus woman often concerned with both the visceral experience and euphoric reflection of Love Lust Liquor and a Lady.”

Review

Words of Praise for A Love Song for an Inked Doll:

The Sweet Pinkham

“I am 100% in love with this book, it’s the best book ever!”

” Beautiful, Breathtaking and Swoontastic! It plays out like a tragic love story with ups and downs so full of hope, which makes it so hard to put down.”

Azure

“A crack in the skull, in which one can see the vein riddled grey matter churning pre-apocalyptic montage of the menage a trois, man versus self versus woman often concerned with both the visceral experience and euphoric reflection of Love Lust Liquor and a Lady.”

From the Author

This book started on a Saturday morning, as I sat in the rare warming sun of February in Portland.  I wanted to write about the growing feelings that had me smitten.  It was as much an experiment in style writing about a crush, as it was a declaration of unrequited love while I pursued her through the dive bars of Portland.   It was a cathartic wish to feel anything at all during these days, and while the subject matter are word play are similar to my first two poetry books.  It was a grans departure from my more complex style of my first two poetry books.  This change of styles to a more simplistic version for this book of poems, was an intentional step to be more connected with the folks I wanted to read it.  It became a personable reading of lovely words, devoid of structure and pretense, the language is something everyone has felt and is easily relatable.  It is full of lush words and imagery, that carries the reader to a time and place that is no longer available as the heyday of Hipster Portlandia is long over.  I finished the book less than a year later, and quickly started on a companion to it, entitled “An Instance of Emo,” which is currently in manuscript form but may never be published.

About the Author

Lucas “Fresch” Klesch began to learn photography the makers way from a young age of seven, from his father, who learned from his father, and so on. When he turned ten years old, his beatnik grandma introduced him to coffee and poetry as a birthright. Over the years of writing poetry, he learned that his heritage included Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas. From here he moved on to being a climate scientist and has fought most of his adult life for a sea change in human thinking through applied climate solutions. He is a painter of abstract art focussed on the quantum message left over from the universes formation. In his mid twenties, he embraced the Bukowski life and the dive bar alternative culture of Portland. This gave rise to his first three poetry books, a pioneering genre of photography entitled Twisted Pinups, and he can claim