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GOD NEVER DIES: Poems from Oaxaca
by Joanne Kyger.
One of California’s greatest poets takes
her resilient
consciousness to Oaxaca.
These are essential
poems.
2004. Paperback,saddle-stapled. $6.
A POEM
FOR THE DAWN OF THE
TERROR
YEARS
by Lewis MacAdams.
Outrage and terror
equals the clear-eyed, courageous truth of Lewis
MacAdams in these post-9/11 poems. 2003. Paperback, saddle-stapled, $5.
THE LITTLE
BOOK OF
RENAISSANCE
PAINTERS
by Ken Botto.
Introduction
& Notes by Donald Guravich.
Bolinas artist
Ken Botto’s quirky ink sketch
renditions of
famous Renaissance paintings,
with a set of
droll, tongue-in-cheek notes
written by Donald
Guravich. 2006. Paperback,
saddle-stitched,
$5.
20 / 20 YIELDING
by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux.
New work by the New Orleans poet stranded in San Francisco. The South has not seen such verse in twenty-five years. Lyric beauty with a razor blade of truth. 2005. Paperback, saddle-stapled, $5.
IN THE
KINDNESS OF NIGHT
by Micah Ballard.
Deep and dark
musings from the Louisiana/San Francisco poet. Gothic Elizabethan hip-hop with a Cajun accent.
2003.
Paperback, saddle-stapled, $5.
ABANDONSHIP
by Harris Schiff.
This refugee from the second
generation New York School presents his first collection of poems in over 20 years. Full of swaying treetops,
gut wrenching honesty and straight-ahead lyric terrorism. Poems that make your heart stutter. 2005. Paperback, saddle-stapled, $7.
DOUBLE IMPACT
by Michael Price & Kevin Opstedal.
The collected collaborations
of the progenitors of Blue Press, the last true friends of Lee Marvin. Lyrically jangly,
like the fusion of Art Pepper & Oscar Robertson. 2005.
Paperback, perfect bound. $15.
ON THE EVE OF THE DEATH
OF MICHAEL PRICE
by Michael Price.
Poems that grease the wheels
of Eternity. A mix of Sam
Peckinpah and Sir Thomas Wyatt fed through the in-dash radio of a
’68 Impala convertible. 2004. Paperback, saddle-stapled, $5.
OPEN HEART SURGERY
by Bobbie West.
Midwest
epiphanies channeled through rarified West Coast atmospherics. "Uncanny tides
of luminosity". 2000. Paperback, saddle stapled, $5.
PROMENADE THROUGH A PRECIPITOUS PARK
by Mary Kite.
Short poems in a loosely linked sequence strolling amongst the higher reaches of a refuge that quite
possibly doesn't exist.
2006. Paperback, perfect bound. $12.
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MARY SHELLEY’S SURFBOARD
by Joe Safdie.
A sequence of 24 sonnets dropping in
on the perfect wave. This smooth ride
weaves across a 19th century version
of CNN filtered through the superfine
haze of a 21st century San Diego twilight.
2006. Paperback, saddle-stapled.
$5.
THE FAMILY TREES
by Lewis MacAdams.
Art by Kim Abeles.
Elegiac lyrics upon the death
of the poet’s mother. Unbelievably
tough, real and tender. Accompanied by full color photographs of astounding work employing
leaves, paint & collage by the artist Kim Abeles. 2001. Paperback,
saddle-stapled, $6.
BLUE CHIPS
by Donald Guravich.
These short prose pieces promote
Canadian Truth distilled through Northern California Arbor-esque landscapes
of beauty and height melancholia, all summed up by John Keats with
a chainsaw in the
rain. 2003. Paperback, saddle-stitched, $5.
INNERVISIONS
by Noel Black.
Taut incantations of 21st
Century angst mixed with lyric intensity not seen since Dante and
The Ramones. 2003. Paperback, saddle-stapled, $5.
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NEW POEMS
by Micah Ballard.
Is it a wicked take on post-postmodern poetry
or a new graphic art form? I'd say it's both.
Take a hit of swamp water and enjoy this
cool little work from the San Francisco based
Louisiana poet.
2006. Paperback, saddle-stitched. $5.
GOOD
MANNERS
by Duncan McNaughton.
San Francisco
Renaissance Poet displaying why he is the unsung
master of verse and heart. Truly one of the great
poets in these United States. A collection of interlinked short prose pieces with flutes, landslides and mystery. 2005. Paperback, saddle-stitched, $5.
29 BRIEFS
by Michael Price.
The Dharma and “the
poems” and the straight-up admission that “American Letters
are Fucking Dead”. 2004. Paperback, saddle-stapled, $5.
MONK DADDY
by Michael Rothenberg.
A cup of Dharma with a pinch
of salt, these poems are almost translucent. 2004. Paperback, saddle-stapled, $5.
MEN WHO FOUND OUT
by Adam DeGraff.
These are the poems that you
wished you had written when you were standing in the rain in San Francisco drunk off your rear and wishing you were a singer/songwriter from King City. 2005. Paperback, saddle-stitched, $5.
THE BAMBOO LIBRARIAN
by Mary Kite.
Poems that slyly divert your attention from the
threat of discourse to green scenes with
extenuating circumstances.
2006. Paperback, perfect bound. $15.
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