85 short stories, poems, essays and recipes that are trippy, funny, cryptic, delicious, creepy, and passionate. Standing has an interesting viewpoint, that of the prophet, passionately standing apart from the world- one might even say, passionatelyMore85 short stories, poems, essays and recipes that are trippy, funny, cryptic, delicious, creepy, and passionate. Standing has an interesting viewpoint, that of the prophet, passionately standing apart from the world- one might even say, passionately detached.
From this perspective, Standing explores themes such as affluence, loneliness, callousness, romance, creepiness, Americas relationship to the Third World, and above all his beloved San Diego, his geographical mistress, alma mater and whipping boy all rolled into one. San Diego itself, it seems, comes to represent the spiritual conditions of affluence and callousness, as an embodiment of what America is at its most American. --From the Introduction