Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

art from pain: songs from the gulf coast




My friend DjNeonLeon said to me recently: "Where are all the raps about the Gulf?"

Here you go Leon. I'll post more as they become known to me.





(Later that same day) So I says to myself I says, what's Mos Def been up to?