my fists r free: 186 Twitter Poems

THE THIRD VOLUME IN THE PCP Press ditions Du Pir tes poetry series explores Raymond Pettibon's Twitter poetry, written between November 27, 2012, and July 28, 2016.

Appearing for the first time in a PCP Press paperback edition, my fists r free collects 186 poems from Pettibon's Twitter account. Included are such favorites as "More Oral?," "I play golf w/ Truympf n OJ. Both cheaters," and "Balls Don't Lie," along with Pettibon's signature dazzle of satirical exposition, love poems, and syntactical provocations.

In this landmark volume of Pettibon's monumental Twitter masterpiece, the character "Raymond Pettibon" migrates to Twitter, where-having left his wife-he leads a solitary artistic existence. He forges friendships with fellow Twitter users, including Nietzschean intellectuals and baseball fanatics, while tracking down major and minor figures of Western civilization, past and present, who fascinate him deeply.

At heart, my fists r free is an art love story-the story of Pettibon falling in love with his own artistic gifts. Yet these poems also tell other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at creative vacations, of the emotional strain of art gallery parties for admirers, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life that both obstruct and nourish his work.

This publication delivers on an unlikely promise: that hundreds of pages later, readers will be left breathlessly demanding more from this unrivaled American poet.

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Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn; June 16, 1957, Tucson, Arizona) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. He first rose to prominence in the early 1980s Southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art for SST Records, which was founded by his brother, Greg Ginn. Pettibon has since become a major figure in the contemporary art world, known for drawing upon American iconography-from literature, art history, and philosophy to politics, sport, and sexuality.

LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist and recently the Endowed University Instructor at The Academy of Art University; Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, CA; and the Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. LG has exhibited in various national and international venues, including The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia, and has appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Japan Times, Los Angeles Times, La Stampa, Bookforum, Purple Diary, Mousse Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail among others.
PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world's most respected authors and cultural institutions - including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, Shepard Fairey, LG Williams, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Luscerne Kunstpanorama.

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