Poetry. This book includes a gorgeoussuite of drawings by San Francisco artist Will Yackulic with poems by some of America's finest established and emerging poets: John Ashbery, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, Clark Coolidge, Joanne Kyger, Alice Notley, Lisa Jarnot, Brandon Downing, Anselm Berrigan, Jordan Davis, Brenda Coultas and many more.

Author City: Woodacre, CA USA

ALBERT FLYNN DESILVER has recently begun his tenure as Marin County's very first poet laureate. He is the author, most recently of Letters to Early Street (La Alameda Press, 2007), and Walking Tooth & Cloud (French Connection Press, 2007). Albert has published more than one hundred poems in literary journals worldwide including Zyzzyva, New American Writing, Jubilat, Jacket (Australia), Poetry Kanto (Japan), Van Gogh's Ear (France), Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, and many others. Some of his letters in correspondence with the poet Paul Hoover will be featured in the new book Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008).

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