A new collection of poems from a true West Coast surrealist. Expect to see pantoums, a cento or two, and appearances by Billie Holiday, Lana Turner, Elton John, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In TANGLED HOLOGRAM, his seventh collection, poet James Cushin...
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Poetry. "'All our souls are simply waiting / to be named,' Harry Northup reminds us in this brilliant and heartbreakingly lovely collection. And he does just that in poem after marvelous poem. Beautifully written, stunningly structured (his incantat...
Poetry. "The last time I saw Holly Prado, whom I'd known forty years, we were part of a group performance of Song of Myself at Beyond Baroque. Now we have her experiment in the long poem, WEATHER, a single, book-length poem in the larger tradition o...
Poetry. "James Cushing's SOLACE is aptly named. However, this is not a quiet book. There is comfort here, but there is also everything that compels us to seek it out. In this astonishing collection, Cushing has upped his game; his instincts for emot...
Poetry. THE LARGE ECONOMY OF THE BEAUTIFUL is a book of poems by Phoebe MacAdams, including selections from her work from the last 30 years, as well as new work. Joanne Kyger has called her work "sorrowful, careful, graceful and romantic."
Poetry. EAST HOLLYWOOD: MEMORIAL TO REASON is a long poem-memoir. The reader walks with Harry through the streets of East Hollywood as he shares his life with us in language that is joyful, sorrowful and rigorous."Harry's poems present American life...
Poetry. "An unrepentant surrealist, James Cushing chisels his wizardry into a tool for tuning in, like a set of special specs... Imagine a voice with two kinds of eyes—one trained on the 'normal'; the other alert to the equally real, yet weirder, wo...
Poetry. These poems offer a personal world informed by prehistory but also by moment to moment contemporary life. Prado's work has been called by critic Robert Peters "both passionate and visionary." The book is the 21st published by Cahuenga Press,...
Poetry. TOUCHING STONE charts MacAdams's journey as she deals with the deaths of three family members, along the way finding mystery and the numinous presence of stone. She says in her introduction that "[f]rom the stillness of stone come words, com...
Poetry. "Harry Northup's new series of poetic meditations is cast in an incantatory mold. The voice of a human coyote railing against the wondrous savage world it inhabits, in order to embrace it before final extinction. This world, although eponymo...
Poetry. "To read PINOCCHIO'S REVOLUTION is to be afloat in a sea of signs and wonders. Cushing infuses his shifting, surreal vision with undercurrents of deep feeling"--Amy Gerstler. "The singer arrives 'with two hands and one guitar,' an encycloped...
Poetry. This book is an acceptance and celebration of life in the city of Los Angeles, a difficult, hard to navigate and sometimes unlovely place, which has, nevertheless, provided a creative force in the life of the author that is constant and that...
Poetry. "In these poems you will not find a trace of cant, bombast, or hype; nor do they argue a position, aesthetic, philosophical or otherwise. They are as plain as the Plains that he was raised on. They record what he ate between Oct. 5, 2002, an...
Poetry. UNDERCURRENT BLUES is made up of both a sequel to his previous work, You and the Night and the Music, as well as a series of newer works written from 1997-2002. "Cushing's work proves that once can be a part of the insular atmosphere of the ...
Poetry. A stunning retrospective of Prado's lengthy, productive creative life,THESE MIRROS PROVE IT includes selections from all her major works, aswell as material too long scattered in now out of print magazines. Shewrites with a lyricism inspired...