Beer Songs For The Lonely

“Obviously a book meant to read while you’re drinking beer, but Needles’ poetry is redolent of Paris, red wine and camembert bien fait. For me it conjures long conversations in Parisian apartments, over plates of roasted turkey legs, garlic and sweet potato soup…Endless rows of empty wine bottles and endless plans to buy more over steak and eggs in the raw mornings..If you love the real Paris, what’s left of it, not the prepaid touristic packages of the Latin Quarter, but the much lesser known arrondissements to the east, north and south, take a walk with Needles. You won’t be disappointed…”

R.T. Mitchell, author of ‘Tattoing Violet’.

“Applause, applause to new poet on the scene, F.K. Needles for taking poetry off of its pristine pedestal and bringing us all back to earth. Beer Songs for the Lonely is a visceral, sometimes shocking, collection of poems written about everyday moments, moments we don’t usually think of in terms of poetry

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An Ode to the Camembert

Unctuous creamy
heaven
with a slight note
of sourness;
And to Marie Harel,
creator or not,
she is
the appointed saint,
goddess
of fresh
whole-milk
curdled and deposited
in little wooden boxes.

Un-pasteurized
elasticity
from the farm
and rolling
green hills
of the Pays d’Auge.

The udders
of grazing cows
flopping about
underneath them;
those silent
female
mastodon saints
of olden
forgotten
silent
times
carrying their heavy bags
silently waiting
to be freed
of their milk,
mas
ticating away.

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Neurotica

The psychosexual dramas that have become Beach s oeuvre are the subject of her first book-length publication, Neurotica. This short story cycle is a provocative collection of explicit stories chronicling the narrators intimate journey from sensual awakening to spiritual transcendence. I wanted to capture the reality of my own spiritual travels through a fictionalized accounting of the sexcapades I have both lived and imagined.

Elva Maxine Beach - Author

Here’s a taste of Maxine’s book:

A Quote From the Story ‘Can I Get a Hallelujah?’

A strange sensation surged throughout my body. My impulse to pee vanished. My awareness that I was sitting between Mom and Pop in the middle of Sunday evening service vanished. I heard nothing, felt nothing, knew nothing except for this one moment. My entire body convulsed. And then, I was back, I was shivering, awake, aware. Confused. Satisfied. Happy. Anointed.

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Merry XXX-MAS Show! With Elva Maxine Beach

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Thanks To Sonny’s Vintage Music and Clothing Store

The staff at Sonny’s Vintage Music and Clothing store have sold more copies of both “Neurotica” by Elva Maxine Beach, and “Beer Songs for the Lonely,” by F.K. Needles, than anybody else in town. They can barely keep the books on their shelves. If they keep up at this pace, I’m going to have to print a lot more books!

We, here at New Belleville, are HUGE fans of Sonny’s Vintage Music and Clothing store!

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Go say hi to them! And tell them Francois from New Belleville Press sent you!