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BEACH BLANKET MASSACRE
by Kevin Opstedal
Special limited/signed edition
Originally published in 2001, re-
printed in 2003 by Smog Eyes
Press. Nineteen poems.
2003. Paper, 5.75" x 7.5", saddle-
stitched. $10.00
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.
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.
OUT OF PRINT
from Smog Eyes
Books
RARE SURF, VOL. 2
NEW & USED
POEMS
by Kevin Opstedal.
“If poetry is the Atlantis of the arts, then
Kevin Opstedal can breathe under water, and
each poem is a pair of shades
for a beach
blanket apocalypse.”
–Noel Black.
Cover art by Pamela Dewey. 2006.
Paperback, perfect bound, $12.
IT'S LIKE THIS
by Micahel Price, Micah Ballard
& Kevin Opstedal.
Three poems by three poets.
A conversation.
Cover & illustrations by Kevin
Opstedal. 2008. Paper, 5.25" x 8",
saddle-stapled. $7.00
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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5 POEMS BY JOSE RAMOS SUCRE
Translated by
Cedar Sigo & Sara Bilandzija.
Five prose poems
by the Venezuelan
Rimbaud, Jose
Ramos Sucre (1890-1930).
Luminous translations
of this brilliant,
little-known
poet.
Cover drawing by Christine Schmidt.
2008. 5.25" x 7". Paperback,saddle-stitched.
$7.00
THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2007
Edited by Michael Price & Kevin Opstedal.
A dozen poems by a dozen poets. The best of
the best by such household names as
Valerie Bang, Rachel Donner & Morrison Lopez.
2008. Paper, 5.25" x 8", saddle-stapled.
$7.00
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.
SANTA CRUZ
by Kevin Opstedal.
Fifteen poems from the rusty razor's
edge of the California coast.
2008. Paper, 5.25" x 8", saddle-stapled.
$7.00
DARRELL: a poem
by Micah Ballard.
A long elegy of remarkable depth
and power. Ballard brings it all together
with lyric dexterity and eternal flames.
2007. Paper, 7" x 9", Japanese hand-
stitched binding.
$7.00
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.
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.
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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