Mark Lanegan has announced the release of Leaving California, a poetry book “sequel” to his 2020 grunge memoir.The former Screaming Trees frontman released the book Sing Backwards And Weep last year, detailing in it his time in the Seattle music scene in the ‘90s.Leaving California will be published by Heartworm Press, whose website says new tome merges “the lines of harsh reality and paranoia, beauty and reflection, and the wisdom of the escape artist”.The 76-poem collection is also said to be “in many ways” the second part of Sing Backwards And Weep, “where loose ends are tied and others left for dead”.“A brilliant work of true transformation, these poems also chronicle Lanegan’s exit from California for the literal greener pastures of.
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