Poetry. With his new collection, Neeli Cherkovski continues the exploration started with his award winning LEANING AGAINST TIME. He once again opens the window to the self and takes us deeper into his search for reason, redemption and love--Cherkovski takes us on a journey through his innermost being, leading us FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD. "I squirm against blurb words like 'magisterial' and 'fully realized' and God knows--'profound,' but Neeli Cherkovski's new book is a deeply rich work which reminds me of the best of Rexroth's nature poems, which to me is a major accomplishment. But more than that, there's a deep philosophical and elegiac edge to the beauty of the words & lines"--David Meltzer.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Neeli Cherkovski is a longtime contributor to the West Coast literary scene. Emerging from the Los Angeles underground of the Sixties, Cherkovski is an applauded poet, critic and literary biographer. He has written eleven books of poetry, including FROM THE MIDDLE WOODS, FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD, the award-winning LEANING AGAINST TIME, ELEGY FOR BOB KAUFMAN, and Animal; two acclaimed biographies, Bukowski: A Life and Ferlinghetti: A Biography; his book Whitman's Wild Children (a collection of critical memoirs) has become an underground classic. In the late 1960s Cherkovski co-edited the poetry anthology Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns with Charles Bukowski. Since 1975, Neeli has lived and worked in San Francisco. For ten years he was Writer-in-Residence at New College of California, where he taught literature and philosophy.

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