David Colosi read his twisted soup novel in Miami.

“Soup is Served!” the call goes, and the reader finds Miss Pumpernickel Bread naked with a ladle serving an entire town from her bathtub. The final portion, which has been absorbed by her body, she serves directly from her bladder into the bowl of a seven-year-old boy. Amidst a standing ovation, Kevin eats his soup, Miss Pumpernickel Bread dies and a legend begins. Kevin’s stomach becomes the site of a personal and social identity crisis that not only causes a lifetime of psychological indigestion but also captivates the media and bolsters the economy of newly named Souptown.

DAVID has been an artist in the Fountainhead Residency (2009), exhibited drawings at Dorsch Gallery (2002) – both in Miami – and has been a poet-in-residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach (2002). He is the author of two exhibition documents, Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions (2011) and The Life and Thoughts of a Retired Apostrophe (2010); a theoretical work, Towards a Three-Dimensional Literature, Part 1, (2012); a poetry collection Laughing Blood (2004) and his poetry has been anthologized in From Totems to Hip-Hop: a Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (2003). Miss Pumpernickel Bread is his first novel. In 2009 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for his artworks that unite literature and visual art.

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