In the sixth publication in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series, Cajun poet Micah Ballard's Waifs and Strays recombines the allure, fixations, and diction of the metaphysical poets with the alert and streetwise urban fracturing and amazements instantaneous in contemporary San Francisco. With the haunted elegance of Charles Baudelaire and the handmade warmth of Semina, Waifs and Strays is a rejection of a slick and disposable culture.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Micah Ballard studied at New College of California, working with David Meltzer, Joanne Kyger, and Tom Clark. He currently co-directs the MFA in writing program at University of San Francisco. He co-edits Auguste Press.

Waifs and Strays (City Lights Spotlight, 6)

Literature & Fiction

Ballard, Micah

Poetry

City Lights Publishers

Verse by Micah Ballard. Volume 2 in The Page Poets Series.

The Michaux Notebook (The Page Poets Series)

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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. How does one live a life between the lines of what one speaks and reads? How can the imagination, through experience, discover truth and beauty? In this second edition of NEGATIVE CAPABILITY IN THE VERSE OF JOHN WIENERS, originally published as a manifesto in 2001, the work of the poet John Wieners tries on the various robes of Negative Capability as sewn and tailored by the poet John Keats.

Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners

History & Criticism

Bootstrap Press

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