Description
Poetry. BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC features poems from ninety poets, including Killarney Clary, Wanda Coleman, Peter Everwine, Richard Garcia, Amy Gerstler, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, Mark Jarman, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Morton Marcus, Czesław Miłosz, Luis Omar Salinas, David St. John, Joseph Stroud, Amy Uyematsu, Diane Wakoski, Charles Wright, and Al Young, among many others. This great anthology also includes twenty-two essays from poets, including Robert Bly, Maxine Chernoff, Mark Jarman, Diane Wakoski, Charles Harper Webb, and more. "Speaking is natural; writing is not. Prose and poetry will forever combine and recombine to express what utterly needs to be told"—Al Young.
Author Bio
A versatile poet and book artist, Gary Young also edits for the Greenhouse Review Press. His work has been featured in magazines including The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review, and his printing appears in major museums. In 2003 he won the William Carlos Williams Award for No Other Life, also available from Heyday Books.
Author City: Santa Cruz, CA USA