THE DEAD DIE YOUNG
by Jeffrey A.
Zable
In his
introduction to the book Jack Hirschman talks about the poet's "tone of
terrifying whimsy", and he seems right on the mark. Something is
breathing on these pages, something more than poems clipped from
magazines and pasted together. Carousel Quarterly, Louis McKee
Selected poetry 25
pages, collages.
$1.50 ISBN
1-879594-00-5
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STRETCHING THE AGAPE BRA
by Steve Abbott
Unless I am
suffering from only a momentary rapture, Steve Abbott is a genuine
"find" a gay poet in whose work there is a "perpetual wedding of risk
& surprise", a relentlessly radical vision that is ever in the
process of accommodating itself in -- or beyond the boundaries of --
form. Gay Community News, Rudy Kikel
Selected poetry 52
pages, comicbook poem.
$2.95 ISBN
1-879594-01-3
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DUTCH SONG
edited byRonald Sauer
In the best small
press tradition ... Dutch Song an anthology of 26 contemporary Dutch
poets ... Some of the poems are written in English or translated by the
poets themselves. The others, however, were seamlessly translated .... S.F.Chronicle,
Alice Polesky
Translation of
contemporary Dutch Poetry 76 pages.
$5.00 ISBN
1-879594-03-X
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REAGAN POEMS
by Allen Cohen
I like your calm,
compassionate voice that runs thru the moral outrage and despair and
holds as poems - not just shouts or shrieks! Well done. Gary Snyder
Selected poetry 31
pages, $3.50 A 18x24 four color silk-screen poster. $2.50 ISBN
1-879594-11-0
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with wine & songs & strange people rushing thru me
by Fred
Pietarinen
Fred Pietarinen
chronicles a decade-long flight from sobriety via an abundance of
anecdotal detail. He writes about himself and about his friends, about
sudden raptures midst a chaos of booze and pills and dreary
mornings-after. My favorites are the poems in which a workaday surface
yields to the disheveled similitude of dream and fantasy. Poetry
Flash, Michael Koch
Selected poems 40
pages, Drawings by Judith Lindbloom.
$2.50 ISBN
1-879594-07-2
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WHITE SHEETS
by Rebekka
Whetstyne
Rebekka captures
"that stark, startled moment of total illumination when" intimacy and
trust dance that fine line between love and perversity. With camera and
pen she fixes this moment into a moving statement about the courage to
love.
Poetry &
photographs 24 pages.
$1.50. ISBN
1-879594-08-0
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BODY LIGHTNING
by Mel Clay
Mel Clay has
produced a collection of stories both hallucinatory and philosophical.
From every page the reader is stabbed by New Age global bolts ranging
from the casual violence of teenagers in love, to the shocking beauty
of amino acids, to the ruthless manipulation of drug dealers.... Appeal
To Reason, Gerald Nicosia
Short stories 67
pages, collages.
$2.50 ISBN
1-879594-06-4
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CHAPEL PERILOUS
by Kenneth Weichel
Ken Weichel's new
book is a foray info "the portals of dreams" to describe "what never
happened, but is likely to happen." ... a Wonderland of erotic little
girls, deserted Victorian bedrooms, religious artifacts ... He manages
to strike a Baudelairian note, ... At his best, Weichel is reminiscent
of Borges or Kafka ... Pinchpenny, Randy Schluter
Short stories 40
pages, collages.
$3.00 ISBN
1-879594-09-9
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ASCENT OF THE PRIMAL EYE
by Joel Levin
An experimental
prose piece that has received favorable mention from John Barth, whom
Joel Levin studied under at John Hopkins University. Joel has published
several short stories, articles.
Short story 30
pages, collages.
$3.00 ISBN 1-879594-04-8
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JAZZ - JAIL AND GOD
An Impressionistic
Biography of Bob Kaufman
by Mel Clay
Mel Clay's book on
Bob Kaufman . . . is a work which answers the unique call of Kaufman's
own -duende- inspired vision, giving back to the Poet & to the
reader the Poet's life as a Poem. The book is as much poem as Biography
and Mel gives us tight language running riffs of what we used to call
"the real jingo" (as in lingo), making all the necessary ganglionic
synapse jumps which lead us to hallucination and inspiration. Third
Rail, Ira Cohen
Impressionistic
Biography 108 pages Photographs and bibliography $15.00 ISBN
1-879594-12-9
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IN THE ABSENCE OF A SURFACE
by Laura
Beausoleil
Not unlike a
secret voyeur do we observe in stunning close up Laura Beausoleil's
dance of lyric beauty in these skillfully crafted poems . . . In
reminiscence but superior to Erika Jong's Fruits And Vegetables, Ms.
Beausoleil's poems evoke the true subliminal richness of the mystery
and power of the female body and psyche. New World Press, Noni
Howard
Selected poetry 64
pages, collages.
$4.50 ISBN
1-879594-10-2
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ZABLE'S FABLES
by Jeffrey A.
Zable
Irreverent,
sometimes shockingly so, Zable's wildly imaginative fables and prose
miniatures offer an ironic vision of a world "peopled" by animals and
inanimate objects, yet strangely devoid of human communication and
understanding. While frequently hilarious, they invoke the kind of
uncomfortable laughter that often ends introspection. Greg Boyd
Fables 50 pages
$5.00 ISBN 1-879594-15-3
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VIEW ASKEW
Postmodern
Investigations.
by Steve Abbott
View Askew is
fitting peer to Abbott's earlier Lives of the Poets and Skinny Trip to
a Far Place. It redefines the grounds of the subjective essay. Data,
opinion, ideas about the world (theory of theory, ecology, commodity
inroads in daily life) swirl gracefully about a fascinating
autobiographical core. Essayist as storyteller. A wonderful book! Bruce
Boone
Essays and
interviews 195 pages
$9.95 ISBN
1-879594-13-7
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GNOSTIC HORIZONS
byKenneth Weichel
The ten selections
in slender volume of poetry, convey the emotions discovered in the
search for self-realization in sharp sensual image. Each piece reveals
another struggle with love and doubt, passion and despair. While the
goal, the receding horizon, of self-knowledge remains firmly in sight.
Selected poetry 40
pages
$4.50 ISBN 1-879594-16-1
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AZRAEL
by Geoffrey Cook
In these 53 finely
honed poems, Geoffrey Cook has skillfully crafted his intense emotions
into a series of lyric songs. Songs the ancient Roman, Catullus, might
sing to his lover Lesbia.
Selected poetry 56
pages
$5.00 ISBN 1-879594-17-X
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CROSSROADS OF THE OTHER
by Ken Wainio
The very title Crossroads
of the Other, suggest that the poet has found the way to mediate
composition, to paraphrase Andre Breton, from "communicating vessels"
of unconscious sources of inspiration and conscious activity. For
Wainio the erotic-marvelous arrives on dove's feet, branded with
suffering, clear-obscure, even, yet flashing redolent sparks. Philip
Lamantia
Selected poetry 47
pages
$6.00 ISBN 1-879594-18-8
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Across The Great Divide
by Tobey Kaplan
Tobey Kaplan has
long been one of the undiscovered treasures of California poetry. Across
the Great Divide will change all that, for Kaplan's work, collected
at last, is too strong to ignore. She is an angelic poet blessed with
great powers of sympathy for all earthly creatures; living, dead, and
in between. Reading this book of "tender, ragged memory" may change the
way you walk and think and love in the world. Kevin Killian
Selected poems 72
pages
$10.00 ISBN
1-879594-19-6
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This Happened Everywhere
by Remco
Campert
Translated by Manfred Wolf
Remco Campert is
one of a wave of poets who swept to the fore in the Netherlands in the
1950's. The Dutch have called these "Fiftiers" experimentalists ever
since, but Campert does not read like an experimentalist. An accessible
poet, with an attractive lightness, he is a lyricist of everyday life.
Selected poetry 88
pages
$10.00 ISBN
1-879594-20-X
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Vaudevilles Noirs et Fantastiques
by Alfred
Robinson
I have known
Alfred Robinson since the days when the Living Theater was encamped on
Saint Felix Street across from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. By then
he had long been turning left into darkness. Years of trauma later he
has wound up with a "slender volume of verse" Vaudeville noirs et
fantastiques, the title o which gives away his past, living in a
theater of sorts, as a way to reclaim a mind ravaged by alternatives. I
attend the gestation of many of these vaudevilles, and can attest to
their catholicity and at times witty intelligence. Alfred has grapled
with his demons and now they are learning to speak through him in
amaze. Ivan Arguelles
Selected poetry 35
pages
$6.00 ISBN 1-879594-21-X
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