David J. Widmann

nature, man, machine
in urban discord there is
unheard harmony

“… captures the essence of urban life in a quiet, still way.”
-Cynthia Gould, Now Magazine 2004 Visual Artist of the Year

“… simple, yet inspiring.”
Ravi Persaud, music composer for the film Sugar.

Life in the city can be overwhelming — a cacophyny of sights, sounds and smells blurred through a haze of rush and worry.  Published in 2004, Urban Discord is a collection of haikus; my attempt to slow down and focus on the individual moments that give urban existence its unique essence.

Cover art designed by Ravi Persaud.

Urban Discord is currently out of print.

You know all those poems of high school pain and college angst they say you should never, ever publish?  In 2004, I published mine.

Scraps is, in fact, a collection of scraps — snippets of verse, prose and song lyrics scribbled onto the backs of envelopes, cigarette pack flaps, ATM receipts… anything that happened to be at hand when an idea struck me.  In the book, they are presented unedited and formatted on the page as closely as I could emulate their formatting on whatever they were written on.

Scraps also represents my first foray into the world of digital self-publishing.  Within eight hours of disovering that CafePress had added book publishing to their list of services, a digital copy of Scraps was created, formatted, uploaded and ready for sale online.  Within a few days, I had high-quality (I’m speaking striclty of paper and binding here) copies of my very first book in my hands.  What’s more, the slim volume of Scraps takes up a lot less shelf space than that shoebox full of crumpled paper.

Scraps is currently out of print.