Forward

by Cheryl Townsend

editor, Impetus Magazine

Janet Kuypers is a tenacious, stedfast perpetuator of the written word. She conquers poetry, photography, performance art, singing, collage work, publishing, and more. She’s a renaissance woman to the nth degree. Herein we get minute selections of her previously published and first viewed poems, varied writings and artwork. Kuypers is topical while she runs the gamut of emotions; pain, loss, relationships in good, bad or indifferent motifs. She offers up honest slices of life in poems as in “A Child In The Park”, opening some of her own wounds in sake of her readership. I was pleased with the inclusion of work from Sulphur and Sawdust, which I feel to be her most powerful collection. Dealing with the battles of AIDS, rape, and politics in general, she prevails a mighty sword against injustice and the agony of having those scales tipped against you.

Kuypers is adept at placing herself in the emotions of others, as in Close Cover Before Striking’s “Hancock Suicide, Chicago” where she is “witness” to a horrible death and tries to deal with its impact.

The Blister and Burn collective would almost have to be called the book of relations, with “Can’t Answer That One” being almost the lament of women in majority.

For the multi-bilingual, you can enjoy the writings in UNRELEASED WRITINGS: THE TRANSLATIONS.. which I can’t comment on because I couldn’t read any of them..alas.

Rinse and Repeat is stoked with anger and emotion while Survive and Thrive departs with a warm, erotic interlude with “Morning Be Kind”.

There are also interviews with various magazines, radio shows and such. The best, most revealing one being that with Nation Magazine.

OEUVRE

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copyright @ 2004 Scars Publications and Design
writings @ 1979-2004 Janet Kuypers
book design @ 1998-2004 Scars Publications and Design

This book, as a whole, is fiction, and no correlation should be made between events in the book and events in real life. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.

Information about past books is available upon request through Scars Publications and Design. Materials from the literary magazines “Children, Churches and Daddies” and “Down in the Dirt” are available on line at http://scars.tv, as are .mp3 files, .ra files, .aif files, .au files, .wav files .mov and mpeg files of Kuypers, both reading her work and singing with three sets of musicians.

Oeuvre is published through Scars Publications and Design, whose publisher is a member/minister through the Universal Life Church. Scars Publications and Design, the logo and associated graphics @ 1979 - 2004. All rights reserved. Kuypers and Scars Publications and Design welcome your comments, tips, compliments or complaints. Direct all comments and suggestions to the e-mail addresses listed above.

The definition of oeuvre (the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole) is from the Websters Unabridged 2001 Dictionary.