THE TRICK CLOCK is an excursion in twenty-four stories through varied landscapes formed and sometimes distored by the pressures of time and the desire for human connection. As in Schwarzenberger's previous collection, HAPLESS MALES, these tales, mos...
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Poetry. "As though related through profane ángeloi, these messages, borne of feeling, at times nakedly freewheeling, and in multifarious forms, are truly a 'pantheon of the common glorious real.'"—Sidney Mertz
Poetry. Translated by James Mitchell. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is considered one of the great German poets, yet his works and reputation are not well known outside Germany. This is the fourth published edition of James Mitchell's highly regar...
Poetry. California Interest. This first book of poems was written over the last 15 years, and its aim is to represent the intersection of biological and cultural history expressed in individual human cognition and universal mythology. The poems also...
Fiction. In the San Francisco of the new millennium, nineteen-year-old Roxanne lives in a closet that costs all her paycheck and half her tips. It's temporary. A generation older, Martin is similarly untethered. He is breaking up with irrepressible ...
Poetry. Drama. Art. LGBTQIA Studies. GAY SUNRISE presents a collection of work by 32 writers and artists published originally by the Hoddypoll Press, a San Francisco small press cheerfully agitating for gay liberation as early as 1968. The book insi...
Poetry. John Mellor is a fisherman who owns his own boat. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, has spent his life fishing and boat owning and, somewhere along the way, writing poetry. He takes photographs too, companions to a visceral intensity...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. San Francisco Arts Commision award-winning poet Tony Robles focuses on a hunger strike held in April and May 2016 in protest of a number of local police killings. Robles also speaks of incarceration with a uni...
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by James Mitchell. Francesca Rosa's passing in October 2016 brought to an untimely end the career of one of the more remarkable and overtly political authors associate...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Blasphemy is holy—and exciting, outrageous literature in TREYF PESACH (Unkosher Passover). Novelist Paul Auster declares that this book "strikes with all the force of an exploding bomb—because it speaks the truth." This colle...
Fiction. A collection of sly, seductive, stories that establish Schwarzenberger as a conjuror of the cautionary tale. These are portraits of guys we all know, for better or worse, the querulous and the quixotic, the angry and the hilarious, the resi...
Fiction. When an old flame from Eritrea shows up at Reporter Bill Haywood's door in San Francisco, he reluctantly agrees to let her stay with him. But there is no room in his life for a former paramour with a jealous husband. Haywood would prefer we...
Fiction. COME TO ME is a tale of a woman just sprung from prison who finds her way back to a once familiar San Francisco. Gina seeks out her old friend Francine whose rooming house is a refuge for women who are devotees of Santeria, the religion bro...
Poetry. San Francisco poet, literary critic, educator, librarian, blogger and longtime resident Robin Tremblay-McGaw presents a carefully crafted selection of poems which "discovers a contrapuntal history in the displacements of (gendered) language"...