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Campus Quest and Other Poems

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Campus Quest is a surreal search for love, enlightenment and coffee in Berkeley, CA. The twenty-four poems are whimsical, humorous and downright entertaining. Lee’s insights into everyday life are unlike anything you have ever experienced. According to noted performance artist and poet Frank Moore, Lee “writes, reads, exists in a "strange" state of purity, innocence, and an indirect directness which is fueled by a child-like passion.” H. D. Moe has called Lee “the American Kafka,” however we feel Lee’s work lacks the bitterness and despair of Kafka’s vision. Lee’s irrepressible love of life shines through every poem. So enjoy this magical mystery tour of Berkeley, led by a master entertainer.Lee's literary influences are writers like Richard Brautigan, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, etc. Lee says: “I started out doing prose. Most of the writers who influenced me were other prose writers. I have read many different writers of poetry but I feel that my poetic style was more formulated on my own than by any of the writers I have read. Perhaps there’s a little Kenneth Patchen in there or a touch of Gary Snyder but I’ll let other people judge whether or not that is true. I don’t think about my influences. I just write.”

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