Poetry. I want to scream why no one asked me--/ how it comes to be I am blown aside/ by the mere suggestion of flight, by a wing/ contrived from the resin of flowers,/ by Gabriel's flurry, the flux of his silent rape (Joseph Speaks His Mind). Eve Wood's new collection of poems takes the harshness and disappointments of the day-to-day world and revitalizes them with a language that is equally at home in discussions of history and pornography, nature and linguistics.

Paper Frankenstein

Literature & Fiction

Wood, Eve

Poetry

Beyond Baroque Books

Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015", Wide Awake draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted newer writers—one hundred twelve poets of Los Angeles and its surrounding territories—whose work speaks to the humanity, pathos and comedy, of what may be the most romanticized and scorned, disparaged and exalted, of the world’s great cities. With respect to style, the selections range from the narrative to the more open-ended or non-sequential, classic formal verse to robust vernacular, and in this way speak to the lively state of North American poetry in our age. Poets include David St. John, Wanda Coleman, Cecilia Woloch, Lynne Thompson, Timothy Steele, Kate Gale, Gail Wronsky, Terry Wolverton, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tony Barnstone, Robin Coste Lewis, William Archila and Melissa Roxas.

Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Pacific Coast Poetry)

Pacific Coast Poetry Series

Poetry. The fifth anthology of poetry to come out of the Venice Poetry Workshop, featuring work by James Kostovny, FrancEye, Julian Edney, Ron Bloom, Peter Layton, Sarah Maclay, Paul Lieber, Holaday Mason, Robert Lipton, DuVergne Gaines, Steven Macomb, Jessica Pompei, Allison Lubas, Dafydd McKaharay, Curtis Baruth, J. Hansen, David Weinreb, Gene Serdena, Michelle Pilar Hamill, Belinda Reser, Carol Lewis, Norman Rosenfeld, Ruth Wire, Judith Martin Straw, Elizabeth Balogh, Maria E. Fattorini, Sakada, Mark E. Rhodes, Doe Exee, Nate S., Billie Dee, Jan Wesley, Margaret Wesseling and Bill Bitting.

Echo 681

Poetry. Fiction. Performance Texts. Gay and Lesbian Studies. PRINCESS FREAK is the first book by Nancy Agabian, a performance artist and writer who formed the performance art-punk-folk band Guitar Boy with Ann Perich in Los Angeles in 1998. PRINCESS FREAK documents the coming-of-age of a shy, funny, bisexual Armenian-American woman who flees the small town of Walpole, Massachusetts to tell the stories of her family. Agabian's paternal grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey in 1915, and much of the work in the book carries the impact of this devastating event. "She pays close attention to what most of us overlook--in her hands the ordinary explodes into beauty and complexity"--Holly Hughes.

Princess Freak

Agabian, Nancy

United States

Poetry. Poems "funny, stark, spot-on and utterly beautiful" comprise her collection, OUR FOREIGNER, "a brilliant and dark comedy." This is Betsy Sholl's apt description for the poetry of Nance Van Winckel, one of the Northwest's foremost poets and writers, and her latest release—from The Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books. Van Winckel's own relatives traveled west enduring the hardship and tests of character that confronted those who made such treks in the 1800's. OUR FOREIGNER explores, among other conditions and anomalies, ideas of journey, progress and regress, travel both physical and psychological. A variety of voices populate this collection, speakers from the past, or bright, sassy, contemporary folks talking as if all they have to do is open their mouths and out flies poetry. They manage, these poems, to be at once plain-speaking and brainy, lucid and deeply mysterious.

Our Foreigner: Poems (Pacific Coast Poetry Series)

Van Winckel, Nance

Poetry. African American Studies. A native of Los Angeles, California, K. Curtis Lyle became a founding member of the Watts Writers Workshop and a principal member of the Los Angeles renaissance. Lyle's lyrical pieces have been widely adapted to music, and draw from and utilize traditions of ritual and performance. ELECTRIC CHURCH is a compilation of selections from a number of books and chapbooks from Lyle's career since 1967.

Electric Church

K. Curtis Lyle

In Order of Disappearance is a meditation on life and death, on identity in all senses of that word, on making art out of the unthinkable. On surviving and not surviving. Historical moments are not fixed history, but a fluid and present condition all occurring in the living present. I did not see hopelessness. I saw life. And even with the suffering, there is great beauty and ultimately redemption. This is a book of prayers and incantations; it is a document of witness that for me illuminates the darkness. The book raises questions regarding death, guilt, and the meaning of suffering. It is history made present and personal.

In Order of Disappearance: Poems (Pacific Coast Poetry Series)

Topal, Carine

The Writing Life: 55 Years at Beyond Baroque

Arts & Photography

Baroque, Beyond

History & Criticism

Poetry. Fiction. Politics. Essays. Art. Abandon all preconceptions, ye who enter here. This "Truth"-themed issue attempts to summon, Diogenes-like, a lantern in the darkness that editor Dewey calls "a time of lies." Bound as a soft-cover, the mag features works from Israel, Mexico, France, Germany, and China, poems by and interviews with Simone Forti and Jack Hirschman, poems-in-translation by Jean-Luc Godard and Yan Li, and pieces by Claro, Ammiel Alcalay, Wanda Coleman, Daniel Berrigan, Diane Di Prima, Majid Naficy, Sue Spaid, David Meltzer, Linda Albertano, Sami Shalom Chetrit, Edgar Rincon Luna, Will Alexander, Meng Lang, Yi Sha, David Lloyd, Keith Morris, Philomene Long, John Thomas, and Fred Dewey.

Truth Etc.

Here is a collection that reveals what happens when skill meets substantial talent. And what, precisely, is it that happens? The unpredictable—from poem to poem, line to line, a cascade of surprises. Mischief, memory, dream and lusty desire come into play here, and one recurring feature: in virtuoso displays of heady language, the blood and bone of the animal and natural world.

What Happens Next Is Anyone's Guess

Potter, Carol

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