Ryan

JONES, Rhydderch T

Black Mountain Press

Fly Pool

McALLISTER, JOHN

Gone to Earth

Gary Allen

Simulcast Strategy

Lund, Jack

After the Octopus is the action-packed, stand-on-its-own, laugh-riot sequel to After the Orange Glow. It’s also the final installment in Mark Spitzer’s four-part series about living the life of an outlaw poet forty years too late.   It’s the age of Grunge and the setting is underground Seattle, where our narrator discovers that MIA thieving nympho who blew his mind in Literary France, scrambled his brain with hash in Morocco, and sent him packing to the Abyss. Adventures ensue with Lily again, danger again, lots and lots of sex again. Madness, death, weirdos, fear! But this time our femme fatale is way more human, and so is our protagonist―who remembers what she did to him, so refuses to be whipped again.   Meanwhile, earthquake omens erupt from the crust, llamas abound, and addicts clash. Gangs, abortions, porn and angst! Till fighting the sultry suck of her spell, our hero retreats to the fabled Mountain Palace, where things have changed. Especially when Lily, down and out, shows up in the Rockies. Spitzer, however, makes a shocking decision, which leads to the Ultimate Revelation.

After the Octopus

Literature & Fiction

Spitzer, Mark

Literary

Without Leave chronicles the stories of two alienated young people during 1967-70-David, who goes AWOL from the Navy where he'd hoped to find training and focus for his life but finds only boredom and disillusionment during deployment on an aircraft carrier and an artist, Diane, who drops out of college after a brutal rape and the death of the black man she loved-who meet and fall in love in the Haight-Ashbury region of San Francisco in 1967 only to find they cannot escape their past: David cannot be free while a fugitive and Diane cannot be free in a segregated society at war with itself.

Without Leave

Fleming, Deborah

Land of Ashes and Diamonds: My Apprenticeship in Poland followed by 26 Letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba : By Eugenio Barba Land of Ashes and Diamonds publishes for the first time a series of letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba. Written during the early 'Theatre Productions' phase of Grotowski's work in the 1960's. The letters are contextualised in an extended autobiographical essay by Barba, which chronicles his early contact, and lifelong friendship, with Grotowski and his close collaborators, and charts their deep significance to his own life and work. Detailing the precise, concrete, sustained, and measured work upon which the Grotowski laboratorium was founded, Land of Ashes and Diamonds offers new insights into the work of two great masters of twentieth century theatre.

Land of Ashes and Diamonds, My Apprenticeship in Poland / 26 Letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba

Eugenio Barba

Theatre: Solitude, Craft, Revolt (European Contemporary Classics Theatre)

Book of poetry about getting and living with cancer

The Gift of Cancer

Gleich, Debra Lynn

Health, Fitness & Dieting

In Big Life, Sam Dodson offers us appreciations, historical reflections, and kind, affectionate, sometimes aching, reminiscences of an Omaha childhood and his dearest friends and family. Alternately funny, incantatory, and deeply elegiac these are, in Sam Dodson's own phrase, poems of the soul. 
-Ron Hansen, Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. Professor, Santa Clara University. Author of "The Kid," "Mariette in Ecstasy," "Atticus," and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". 
Sam Dodson's Big Life is a remarkable book. Its subtitle identifies the work as "A Poetic Memoir," and, as a result, many of the poems are reminiscences, often painted with a tender charm, but, given the nature of human existence, just as frequently soiled by a rueful sense of loss-of family members, of friends, and of mentors. The range here encompasses what Dodson calls "windows of color / glass lead & story light & art." Details strew the poems with physical debris (hot plates, green stamps, waxed linoleum, and bomb shelters) and cultural artifacts (works by Yeats, Pollock, Kerouac, and Joni Mitchell) which memorialize the middle of the twentieth century. A "doubting faith" and "broken worlds" provide no answer to the traditional ubi sunt theme, except for the delights and disappointments of family, the pecan trees whose roots yearn for rain and the stars which cannot always guarantee inspiration. In lives where "night will always come," Dodson's poems recognize the joie de vivre of Harold and Maude and the "calm of language" that help us to survive and to thrive, which these poems herald as our true mission in the Big Life of all of us. 
-Michael Skau, Emeritus Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and author of " 'Constantly Risking Absurdity': The Writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti," "Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso: 'A Clown in a Grave, ' " and "Old Poets". 
Sam Dodson is a terrific poet and a consummate storyteller. The "little worlds" that he crafts in Big Life steadily, delicately cohere into an enthralling memoir - a story that conjures up the pieces and the places and the people that have shaped him, and that inspire him still. 
-Thomas Schatz, Professor of Film, The University of Texas, and author of "Hollywood Genres," "Boom and Bust," and "The Genius of the System".

Big Life

Dodson, Sam

Poetry

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