Peter Marra’s writings explore alienation, addiction, the function and misuse of love and attraction, the curse of secrets, the pain of victimization and the impact of multi-obsessions. He has had over 300 poems published either in print or online in over 25 journals.
He has published the poetry collections approximate lovers (downtown materialaktion), Peep-O-Rama: Sins of the Go-Go Girls, Vanished Faces (a performance of occult infections) and Random Crucifixions: Obsessions,Dolls and Maniac Cameras.
A new poetry/prose collection, A DIRTY DIARY OF ORDINARY DAYS has been published by INCUNABULA BOOKS.
He has published the poetry collections approximate lovers (downtown materialaktion), Peep-O-Rama: Sins of the Go-Go Girls, Vanished Faces (a performance of occult infections) and Random Crucifixions: Obsessions,Dolls and Maniac Cameras.
A new poetry/prose collection, A DIRTY DIARY OF ORDINARY DAYS has been published by INCUNABULA BOOKS.
“I really enjoyed the opportunity to read more of your work, I have to say it's quite unlike anything else I've ever read, the chaotic No Wave NY energy certainly flows through your pieces in a unique way and you manage to tackle sensitive, dark themes in a way that many botch or do unnecessary violence to, your words instead feel carefully planned and precise, they bear deep purpose, not just shock for the sake of. I don't usually go on and on like this but I really respect your body of work.
--- James Diaz, Editor, Anti-Heroin Chic
--- James Diaz, Editor, Anti-Heroin Chic
In the tradition of Italian film horror masters Mario Bava, Dario Argento and Sergio Martino, comes
A NAKED KISS FROM A BROKEN DOLL, a new hyper-surreal giallo from acclaimed New York City poet Peter Marra .
Two women in an unnamed metropolis. Two lost souls unchained and free-floating. They were unknown to each other until yesterday when fate forced their paths to cross. Two broken dolls on a perilous expedition to nowhere. They share three mutual desires: sex, addiction and murder. These women are on a noir psychotic trip morphing into lurid Eastmancolor, speeding towards unknown pleasures, experiences and victims. These women don’t care who is the target as long as their ravenous appetites are satiated. Hands encased in shiny black leather destroy the night as unknown screams penetrate the atmosphere. A stiletto gleams in the moonlight. A straight razor silently performs its atrocious deeds. Children of sin lost in the shadows cry out in anguish. Blood drips silently onto asphalt. Your mind will twist and convulse under the avenging neon of the decaying city. This is a tale about creatures from the underground. The people we never meet. The ones who are only whispered about. These two cursed females are trapped in a barbed wire of sex, addiction and murderous violence, ensnaring both the innocent and the guilty. You’ll cringe as the two femme fatales indulge their wildest fantasies as the body count grows. Feel their passion and rage. Feel their guilt and the torment of their original sin as their shadows follow you home. A NAKED KISS FROM A BROKEN DOLL will haunt you from the first caress to long after the final scream.
Available at AMAZON, published by Hammer & Anvil Books
A NAKED KISS FROM A BROKEN DOLL, a new hyper-surreal giallo from acclaimed New York City poet Peter Marra .
Two women in an unnamed metropolis. Two lost souls unchained and free-floating. They were unknown to each other until yesterday when fate forced their paths to cross. Two broken dolls on a perilous expedition to nowhere. They share three mutual desires: sex, addiction and murder. These women are on a noir psychotic trip morphing into lurid Eastmancolor, speeding towards unknown pleasures, experiences and victims. These women don’t care who is the target as long as their ravenous appetites are satiated. Hands encased in shiny black leather destroy the night as unknown screams penetrate the atmosphere. A stiletto gleams in the moonlight. A straight razor silently performs its atrocious deeds. Children of sin lost in the shadows cry out in anguish. Blood drips silently onto asphalt. Your mind will twist and convulse under the avenging neon of the decaying city. This is a tale about creatures from the underground. The people we never meet. The ones who are only whispered about. These two cursed females are trapped in a barbed wire of sex, addiction and murderous violence, ensnaring both the innocent and the guilty. You’ll cringe as the two femme fatales indulge their wildest fantasies as the body count grows. Feel their passion and rage. Feel their guilt and the torment of their original sin as their shadows follow you home. A NAKED KISS FROM A BROKEN DOLL will haunt you from the first caress to long after the final scream.
Available at AMAZON, published by Hammer & Anvil Books
Random Crucifixions: Obsessions, Dolls and Maniac Cameras
Available from Amazon. Published by Hammer and Anvil Books.
The startling new poetry collection from Peter Marra, RANDOM CRUCIFIXIONS depicts the author’s experiences with the bad, the bare and cruelly beautiful in the erotic nightscape of a decaying city. You will enter a world where morals have been destroyed, where pain is queen and sins are rammed down your throat. This oneiric haze of 58 poems offers up a narcotic cocktail of love often lost and occasionally reclaimed, relationships shattered and yes, the rare epiphany. Make the sign of the cross and pray for forgiveness in the abandoned homes and the decaying hotels as you devour RANDOM CRUCIFIXIONS...
Available from Amazon. Published by Hammer and Anvil Books.
The startling new poetry collection from Peter Marra, RANDOM CRUCIFIXIONS depicts the author’s experiences with the bad, the bare and cruelly beautiful in the erotic nightscape of a decaying city. You will enter a world where morals have been destroyed, where pain is queen and sins are rammed down your throat. This oneiric haze of 58 poems offers up a narcotic cocktail of love often lost and occasionally reclaimed, relationships shattered and yes, the rare epiphany. Make the sign of the cross and pray for forgiveness in the abandoned homes and the decaying hotels as you devour RANDOM CRUCIFIXIONS...
PEEP-O-RAMA: Sins of the Go-Go Girls
Available now from Amazon! Published by Hammer and Anvil Books.
Available now from Amazon! Published by Hammer and Anvil Books.
“raw and emotional / chanting a sound / invisible and raw torn.” These few lines express perfectly the visions Marra shares in this book. He writes with an intensity that sparks equal parts of empathy and shock with every poem. As I read, the innocent and guilty melded into one unsettling vision of lost souls. The poet blended the beautiful and shocking so skillfully that I can’t stop thinking about this book long after the last page was read.
Peep-O-Rama is for mature adult readers only. It gives readers an honest, unvarnished picture of a social, sexual and psychological aspect of life that few have seen first hand, and does so without judgment.
Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review
Peep-O-Rama is for mature adult readers only. It gives readers an honest, unvarnished picture of a social, sexual and psychological aspect of life that few have seen first hand, and does so without judgment.
Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review
Vanished Faces, the new poetry collection by Peter Marra
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Writing Knights Press
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Amazon
Order from (click name below to be taken to the site):
Writing Knights Press
or
Amazon
Available at LULU