A newly expanded edition of an enduring classic, Robert Duncan in San Francisco is both a portrait of the premier poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and a fascinating account of gay life in late 19
Carla Harryman is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer. Her works include Memory Play, Animal Instincts, In the Mode of, Vice, The Middle, Property, Under the Bridge, and Percentage.
The Zapatista Army emerged from the jungle on New Year’s Day, 1994, and provoked a national crisis in Mexico. At a demonstration in Mexico City, over 100,000 people marched together and shouted, First
"Lisa Jarnot . . . suggests that Language Poetry may be mutating, back to the modernism of Stein and Joyce, having been permanently inflected (or deflected) by a late twentieth-century sharpness and e
"Her witty, compassionate voice haunts me like no other."?Joan LarkinTheo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture wher
Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction."The Beautifully Worthless is an outrageous act of kindness."?Eileen Myles"She's insanely talented, it's mad. The Beautifully Worthle
We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "news" has degenera
In A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain’s history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious
In writings, speeches, and an interview conducted in the wake of the famous Camp Casey summer in Crawford, Texas, Cindy Sheehan embraces her personal transformation into America’s most outspoken advoc
Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exiting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generation
"Heidi Boghosian's Spying on Democracy is the answer to the question, 'if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you care if someone's watching you?'"?Michael German, Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU
Charged with swagger and sensuality, tenderness and cold fact, the 10th Spotlight series installment, Here Come the Warm Jets, is the brash debut volume by Bay Area poet Alli Warren. Taking its title
"Peering into her life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. In this collection of vignettes, Lisick expolores the bad judgments a
"Praise for Michael McClure:"Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence."-Robert Creeley" McClure's poetry is a blob of
"Giroux is society's teacher and conscience."--Lawrence Grossberg, University of North CarolinaThe Toronto Star has named Henry Giroux "one of the twelve Canadians changing the way we think.""America
Part Unabomber, part van Gogh, David Felsenstein yearns to create an unforgettable masterpiece. He spends his days in the Chicago Public Library, browsing the stacks in search of connections between o
As if done with sumi ink, these verses by John Wilson are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical masters. Each poem faces a reproduction of a work by an artist of mythic stature, am
"Nochita shimmers with humor and delight, she burns with stark raving intelligence."?Mary Gaitskill"In Nochita, Dia Felix builds an extraordinarily rich and inventive language to carry the kaleidoscop
The MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition.2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the ori
