Poetry. "[Kyger] is one of the finest practitioners of the art of poetry conceived (after Whitman and Williams, among others) as the preservation of experience in language. The scale of Kyger's poetry is human existence, spoken language provides its measure, the animating force is curiousity. Out of these materials she has accomplished something magnificent and beautiful. She has many peers but no betters" -- Ben Friedlander "She's one of our ...
This book is a treasure trove of information about places close at hand but not usually thought of as travel destinations. Its content, pertinent to anyone wishing to visit these overlooked areas, includes lodgings, restaurants, day hikes, flora and fauna, historical context, local cultures, useful tips, and more.
Poetry. Inspired by Guillaume Apollinaire's 1913 Cubist poem Lundi rue Christine (Monday Christine Street), RUE WILSON MONDAY is the result of a stay at the Hotel Chevillon, an artists' and writers' retreat in the small town of Grez-sur-Loing. Hybrid day book, informal sonnet sequence, and extended, laminated' essay-poem, these poems converse back and forth between Hollo's witful observations, verbatim speech, found text, and ye ol' common sen...
Cultural Writing, Literary Criticism.WILD FORM & SAVAGE GRAMMAR collects ten years of essays from an increasingly important crossroads where art and ecology meet. Topics include recollections of Allen Ginsberg and Joanne Kyger, pilgrimage to Buddhist India, and the possible use of hallucinogens among Paleolithic artists. These writings weave together an underlying commitment to ecology studies, Buddhist teachings, and contemporary poetry. "And...
Poetry. Translation. "In TRILOGY, Saarikoski takes an extended, amused, bemused, and unpretentious look at some of the thousand things' previously sidestepped or unnoticed: the chores of dailiness, in a way often reminiscent of Paul Blackburn's Journals (another great last work'), his both familiar and unfamiliar--northern but Swedish--surroundings, memories thought long buried, and the Masks of God' he is reading about in Joseph Campbell's th...
A good rat is hard to find, and an even better one will come back to those who love her. Love finds a way, or a scent, or whatever it takes. Written and illustrated by a seven- and eight-year-old sister and brother, this book is hard to resist no matter how you feel about rodents.
Poetry. Underneath the art of poetry exists the tradition of the journal -- the attempt to capture and reveal the world as it passes by. Observations, reflections, and ideas accumulate to form connections and reveal process, content and story. UNHURRIED VISION is a record of the year 1999, and continues Michael Rothenberg's experiment with the journal. This is the year Philip Whalen became terminally ill and Rothenberg began taking care of him...
One Wave Standing" follows an extended metaphor as it passes through the literal geographies of ocean and desert, and the figurative one of love and family. A meditation on the nature and art of life and land, Fox alternates autobiography with the theoretical physics of growing up, marriage, and divorce. Permeating the whole is the presence or absence of waterfrom Point Reyes to the Great Basinhow the world is made of oceans or, as in New Mexi...
This book brings together thirty years of writing: two previously released chapbooks"A Lovers Quarrel with America" and "Dostoevsky & Other Nature Poems"along with new work from the last decade. All of it bears Frumkins signature stoic humor. These poems have emanated from nature are meant to be a tribute to nature: the nature of the four elements human nature, art and artists as facts of nature, and the nature of language itself. Described as...
Fiction. "Far more than a mere history novel, this book holds up a mirror for all Americans who read it. One sees in the mirror the western landscape coming alive, a sense of adventure, and the villainy that animated westward expansion. The story of Eliza Pelham is the story of those few humans who achieve some sort of triumph over their own problems and limitations. Neither superficial, predictable, nor optimistic, instead we find a steady an...
Poetry. Thomas Fitzsimmons went into World War II as an underage merchant seaman just after Pearl Harbor and was discharged from the USAAF just after Hiroshima. IRON HARP is a book about the memories, hard and sweet, which linger throughout a lifetime. One man's century -- from a depressed New England mill-town in the 1920's through the spirit-splintering insanities of World War II, to renewal in love, and on to glimpses of grace in Japan, alo...
John Triticas poetry extends from the place where context meets cortex in the joyous practice of observing outside. With the compression of haiku, these poems reveal the sensual lushness of the world and reflect the poets continuous attempt to locate the intersection of possible and actual. These are poems from the garden of real life: car alarm, compost, leaking roofs, Chianti, marigolds. Tritica paints his residency in the high desert landsc...
Larry Goodell is nearly legendary in New Mexico for his poems, songs, and performances. Personable, ornery, and mystical as a shovel, he has been called the "Aristophanes of the juniper/pinon scrublands." Here he writes about his garden, his ditch, tending to the basics with pollen and myth. These are sonnets with roots in buttermilk sky, Gertrude Stein, and boogie woogiea selection of acrobatic verse without a net.
Poetry. "BEAT THING is David Meltzer's truly epic poem -- an engagement with history and his own participatory and witnessing presence"--Jerome Rothenberg. David Meltzer began his literary career during the beat heyday in San Francisco, reading poetry to jazz accompaniment at the famous Jazz Cellar. Books edited by David Meltzer and available at SPD include READING JAZZ, THE WRITING JAZZ, SAN FRANCISCO BEAT. He teaches in the Humanities and gr...
