Jonathan Trenchwheat

From Plastic Tub

Trenchwheat's later work was largely accomplished with the aid of macaroni noodles, glitter and paper plates. The Reactive Prophet, however, was rendered by other means.

Trenchwheat was reknowned for his keen wit and later, for his deepening madness.

Canadian. Born 1927 in Grimsby, Ontario. He comes in reading a book, bumps his nose, laughs, drops a poem discreetly -- no one picks it up. He writes conspirator's notes in blue journal. Moves on: receives? Boots. Form of? A crow.

"There is a bone in your ear which does not belong there!"

- Trenchwheat to Nathanael West, Hollywood, 1939.

"The muthafucka was born in a log-cabin. His Pa, an imposing lumberjack of gargantuan proportions, lurked over his unhappy childhood. His Ma, a flapjack champion, simpered grievously. He was an unhappy youth and shows it in the grimaces and tics he suffers from, a kid of Tourette's, thoroughly debilitating. For all of that he is an enchanting singer, a wallabee. His clarion call ounces thru the rhetoric of space: he is temporal, and deserves to be respected as such, even if he is Canadian."

- Professor Jamal LaKwamée, "Detroit, NT 27". (Negro Time 2004) (i.e. 1977).

Desiderata

Trenchwheat enjoyed snifters of brandy -- to the extreme!

His favorite color was candy.

He played hockey and lacrosse at the championship level.

Known Works

Nostalgia for Death

Lil' AA

See Also

• Jonathon Trechwheat.