The authors present a breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes.
Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Foster's childhood, comes a new collection of poetry and prose that takes on gentrification, modernization and globalization, as told from the same corner of this rapidly changing metropolis.Winner the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, 2019 These poems are, in the poet'...
Poetry. "This stuff is crackling! Foster's brilliant eye for the essentially human and his crisp blue-collar imagery create an important, powerful, moving prosody-the best since Kerouac and beyond"-Wanda Coleman. Sesshu Foster grew up in City Terrace and taught English in nearby Boyle Heights for ten years. He received an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. ANGRY DAYS (West End Press), Foster's first collection of poetry,...
