Composed and published 23 March 2012 in a limited edition of 30 hand-numbered copies, Lens
is a handmade chapbook featuring a four-page dramatic poem (also called
"Lens") by Crisis Chronicles Press publisher John Burroughs, a.k.a.
Jesus Crisis. It was not for sale, but given away beginning at the 27 March
Nia Coffeehouse event Poems of Power, Words of Life at St. Alban Episcopal Church, 3555 Euclid Heights Blvd. in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Click here to see video of John performing "Lens" at that event, accompanied by Vince Robinson and the Jazz Poets.
Lens is inkjet printed in black and red ink on white recycled paper. Its cover uses "metallics" card stock by Wassau Paper: Sparkling Merlot on the outside b/w Black Knight on the inside. John drew the title and eye glyph with a red Sharpie. He didn't print more copies because he couldn't find matching card stock. But you can find a copy at Amazon for an exorbitant price.
In December 2012, "Lens" was republished as part of John's first full length poetry collection, The Eater of the Absurd, by NightBallet Press, who nominated it for a Pushcart Prize.
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