We are at a new moment in architecture, one when many cultures are contributing to the unfolding of modernism. This enriching influence is broadening the mix, extending the range available to architec
"Thom Gunn, Barbara Guest, Robert Creeley, Philip Lamantia, all ghosts now, are invoked without sentiment and with plenty of wry humor." Kevin Killian,Attention SpanA power ballad was a hair
A power ballad was a hair metal band's voyage into the softer side of rock, compromising to the integrity of the genre, but genuine and trailblazing. So too is Caples'Power Ballads. His poems and pros
"I adore [Caples's] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging."?Don Share"Caples is part of a younger generation of writers reinvigorating contemporary poetry b
"I adore [Caples's] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging."?Don Share"Caples is part of a younger generation of writers reinvigorating contemporary poetry b
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Poetry. Question: When is a poet's first book a reader? Answer: When you're Garrett Caples, whose poetic persona is often-perverse, decidedly-decisive, randomly-rule-breaking and impoetically-casual.
A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States."Penelope Rosemont has given us, better than anyone else in the English langu
Preserving Fire recounts the life and thought of Surrealist, Beat, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works. Ranging from poetry to politics to mythology to
Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. Tau is Philip Lamantia’s mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his evolv
"Frank Lima is an American Villon."David ShapiroProtege of Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Allen Ginsberg, the streetwise Puerto Rican/Mexican poet Frank Lima was the only Latino mem
Interwar relations between Hungary and the Soviet Union did not determine the subsequent fate of Europe. In fact, the two countries failed to maintain diplomatic contact for most of the period. Yet an
Poetry. Music. SKIN & BONES is a collection of lyrics by songwriter/artist Jeff Mellin. Named for a lyric from his album Jeff Mellin Saves the World (Stereorrific, 1999), the book covers songs fro
“A true poet of modern classic culture in mid-twentieth century U.S.A.” —Allen Ginsberg“At their best the poems have an intensely oral, I would like to call it glossolalic, fre
The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of
