cat's Impetuous Books closed just shy of 5 years in business. Not due to the economy, not due to lack of support from the literary community, not due to a lack of passion of myself. cat's Impetuous Books closed due to the city of Kent opting to erect a hotel/convention center upon its location. That was 6 years ago last month. To date, my old building still stands. The city of Kent owns my dream and rents out space to my old tenants. There is no new hotel, no new convention center, and the area they initially called "blighted" stands as I left it... minus the charm, minus the flowers, minus cat's Impetuous Books.
In the year of my 40th birthday, I opened my life's ambition to the public in the only place I felt would understand it. Kent, Ohio. Stocked with most of the titles those big box stores & their ilk deemed not mainstream enough (ie; independent presses) I began my first year as an entrepreneur. With the help of Suzanne DeGaetano at Mac’s Backs Paperbacks in Cleveland Heights, I connected with all the distributors of all the books a college town like Kent hungered for. Staffed with volunteers, I filled my magazine rack with zines and chapbooks, comix and anarchy. I sold incense and oils, tarot decks and poetry CD's. I hosted readings & musical performances, showcased artwork and put out a monthly newsletter of events and schtuff. We drank wine and beer. We ate cheese and grapes. We poeticized in the alley and sang dirges from the balcony. Poets slept on my floor. Bands practiced after hours. Locals partook of the solitude with keys handed out at random. My cats welcomed everyone that entered my doors. Books were signed, videos taped, and history made.
E-mail me for stock/pricing of what's still left at catsbooks@aol.com. OR send me your wish list and I'll see if it's here.
An art review/interview done by myself, Cheryl Townsend, on/with NE Ohio artist, Rebecca Urbanski is in the newest issue of Oranges & Sardines. Full color glossy reproductions of selected pieces are available for viewing and your own analysis at :
And do check out the mighty fine poets and various delectable writings also within its pages. Buy your own copy.. it's always better to snuggle in with a good book than with a computer screen. Besides that, Mz Didi Menendez deserves your support for the simply mahvelous publications and dedicated nonstop work she continues to produce.
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"Maybe, I needed to lay dormant like the other giants and sow the seeds for the complete destruction of this vampire class. Or, maybe, I needed immediate gratification by finding the richest neighborhood with some pig in the biggest house and lay my gun right down his throat. I’d tell him my compassion was left at my brother’s burial site as the trigger snapped." - from A Rebel Life: Murder by the Rich,
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