Independent publisher Gary Cummiskey (Dye Hard Press) has done SA letters a service by garnering some review space in a major newspaper for the prolific Aryan Kaganof, another independent publisher (Pine Slopes Publications), and most recently the author of 12Shooters and The Ballad of Sugar Moon and Coffin Deadly.
As anyone who has explored his extraordinary website at Kaganof.com (which includes the best kept secret in the SA avant art world: Kagablog!) will know, Kaganof is active in any number of mediums, and appears to be ruled by his id, albeit one that’s ever-so-lightly restrained.
Here’s a deserved carrot from one die-harder to another:
The two latest publications from the often-controversial, multitalented Aryan Kaganof — filmmaker, novelist, poet, publisher and visual artist — offer some interesting contrasts and similarities.
The Ballad of Sugar Moon and Coffin Deadly is an unusual work: a book-length narrative poem in four sections; the first section composed in the traditional four-line stanza form of the ballad, though telling a story that is anything but traditional — it is instead mind-blowing, bizarre, hilarious, as well as often offensive and outrageous.
Coffin Deadly, a former member of 32 Battalion, is now a bank robber who, by his own admittance, enjoys killing people.
While taking his girlfriend to an abortion clinic in Sandton, there is an immediate attraction between Coffin and Sugar Moon, who is temping as a receptionist at the clinic.
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