Revile it if you will, laugh it off but heavy metal's influence and audience just keep on growing. And nowhere is its brash outrageousness better expressed than on its album covers. This chunky compendium is a dungeonful of metal overload, complete with leather- and spandex-panted, huge-haired rockers, drooling beasts, and plenty of skulls. Charting a visual course of the genre, Heavy Metal Thunder shows the best album art from its youthful incarnation in the late '70s through the MTV era, when glam and hair metal ruled; to the punk-inflected revolutions of thrash and Nu Metal (with a grunge side trip); to the gory contemporary genres of grindcore, black metal, and doom. Page after page of aggressive and excessive album graphics makes this the perfect gift for both current metalheads and nostalgic (if embarrassed), thirty-and forty-somethings with headbanging memories.

Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums

Arts & Photography

Sherry, James

Aldis, Neil

Music

Chronicle Books+

Popular Fiction

Literature & Fiction

United States

Roof Books

In Case

Sun & Moon Press

Converses

Sun Moon Pr

Poetry. "ENTANGLED BANK opens with a set of five line poems dedicated to the 'beauty' of various poets, a nuanced and generous version of Joseph Kaplan's infamous KILL LIST, and concludes with a wrenchingly honest prose piece on Sherry's correspondence with the late poet Stacy Doris on the limits of empathy. Between these gestures towards a troubled yet significant human connection, Sherry places poems in a variety of styles, as if styles were species in an ecosystem, a veritable 'entangled bank.' Often he writes with scathing wit on the degradation of the environment and the fraudulence of the financial system. One line admonishes, 'Wake up, this is about you.' And it is. You're going to want it." &mdash; Rae Armantrout "Taking his theme from Darwin's 'entangled bank,' James Sherry pries open present life on the planet to reveal a tangled flow of vegetation, money, politics, beauty, selves, distributed networks, fish, nation states, death and friendship. 'Couching nature as bundles and linkages,' he does not side&ndash;step the perils of hybridity but dives in head first: 'Tamales of Sparta rolled global.' A dazzling display of formal invention leads up to an intimate, brutally candid chronicle of friendship and illness that is as clear-headed as it is passionate. And how can you not love a poem called 'Memoir' that begins, 'Dawn again / Fuck!'" &mdash; Kit Robinson

Entangled Bank

Poetry

Chax Press

Flavors of Ecstasy III (Ellora's Cavemen)

Angelia Sparrow

Erotica

Elloras Cave Pub Inc

Our Nuclear Heritage (New American Poetry Series)

Comin' 'Round: (Selected Writings)

This book uses the structure of Machiavelli’s The Prince to show how governance has changed over the last 500 years. If Machiavelli focuses on power concentrated in the hands of the republic or principalities, The Oligarch looks at how states and companies today function as oligarchies. Rather than dealing with the form of government, it addresses the operations and networks of governance for both states and corporations as a single set of common processes. The author links politics, ecology and literature, by using the literary device of appropriation to raise awareness of ecology and the overreach of powerful people, offering both wielders and critics of power a common ground based on how people in power actually conduct themselves.

The Oligarch: Rewriting Machiavelli’s The Prince for Our Time

Business & Money

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection

History & Criticism

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