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Literature & Fiction

Northup, Harry

Poetry

Cahuenga Press

You and the Night and the Music

Cushing, James

SACRIFICE is Cecilia Woloch's first collection of poems, hailed by poet-critic David St. John as "an extraordinary debut... The exquisite sensuality of these poems is matched only by [thier] heart-breaking delicacy ... Cecilia Woloch's poems unveil the wreckage of love after what has been sacramental turns sacrificial ... they are prayers spoken to, and on behalf of, a difficult world."

Sacrifice

Woloch, Cecilia

History & Criticism

Poetry. Of the poems in THE LENGTH OF AFTERNOON, Cushing writes: Most of the poems in this book concern the way human time astonishes with its simultaneous creation and dismantling of meaning, cycling its children through dreaming and waking, dancing and sitting still, living in intimacy and living in solitude, acting in history and in one's imagination, being borne from the water to the shore and then back: 'activity, not communication' (John Cage). The scared schoolteacher poets and literary hustlers who control the poetry scene in this country will have to choke on this book. Cushing's work proves that one can be part of the insular atmosphere of the academy and still write with brave, bold, noble strokes of poetic integrity -- Michael C. Ford. Cushing is the 1994 winner of Renegade magazine's Warlord of Subculture award, and teaches on the English faculties of California Polytechnic State University and Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo County.

The Length of an Afternoon

Poetry. HOMELANDS is an odyssey honoring the world's muses. Jonathan Cott's lyric poetry has a deep connection with the Eternal Feminine. HOMELANDS moves through places such as Bali, Israel, Palestine, Kyoto, Greece, Denmark, and Tibet. Each movement reflects spirit/place in its own unique form. Cott, a well-known journalist, author, and editor, is also a splendid, original poet. Jonathan Cott is a great navigator of the soul -- Richard Gere.

Homelands

COTT, JONATHAN

Poetry. Ann Stanford's poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker, and she saw eight collections of them acclaimed in her lifetime. DREAMING THE GARDEN completes an impressive body of work that earned its author a Shelley Memorial Award. Few poets today better exemplify the criteria of 'wholeness, harmony, and radiance' that the great philospher said all art should possess. Hers is an intimate but luminious vitality -- James Cushing.

Dreaming the Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Stanford, Ann

Gardening & Landscape Design

Poetry. "It makes sense that one of the best poets ever to come out of Los Angeles would be a fine character actor like Harry Northup. Northup is the poet laureate of east Hollywood - of streets like Normandie and Mariposa and Fountain. His poems are lit by flourescent street lamps and TV screens glowing from apartment-house windows. I don't care what anybody says about Charles Bukowski. Quiet, clear-eyed, Northup is like a spy, sitting in the back of the No. 1 bus, writing it all down" - Lewis MacAdams, L.A. Weekly. "[I]t's my life to be a poetry bookworm, a movie nut, a tv addict/ it's my life to have worked as an actor in some good films/ it's my life to say it's rare and honorable even though I have/ not made a lot of money: I have made a living as an actor for/ 25 years and this emptiness is that I have not worked in a movie/ for 10 months/ it's my life to love my wife, my son, poetry and movies" - from "it's my life then."

Reunions

Northup, Harry E.

Poetry. LIVELIHOOD explores the experience of teaching in a large inner city high school in Los Angeles. These poems chronicle the stories of students and classes, faculty meetings, and the tragedies that occur in the course of a school year, as well as the Los Angeles Unified teachers strike of 1989. The third part of the book is a journal in verse of one year in the classroom. "Congratulations to Phoebe MacAdams for these journeys through her creativity with their fine attention to the enormous importance of well-versed daily detail."—Ed Sanders

Livelihood

MacAdams, Phoebe

Poetry. A stunning retrospective of Prado's lengthy, productive creative life,THESE MIRROS PROVE IT includes selections from all her major works, aswell as material too long scattered in now out of print magazines. Shewrites with a lyricism inspired by her ability to move into the depths ofthe psyche and bring back the messages found there. Diane DiPrima haswritten, about Prado's book ESPERANZA: "These poems hold a sweet ripeness,a vast dark promise that poetry will heal us, will heal the world." RobertPeters' response to previous writing has been, "Her writing is done,metaphorically speaking, with a unique, knife-sharp edge. Prado is bothpassionate and visionary." This book makes available Prado'sstrongest, most generous writing; it comes into the world at a time when weall need the healing true poetry and poetic-prose can offer.

These Mirrors Prove It: Selected Poems And Prose 1970-2003

Prado, Holly

Poetry. UNDERCURRENT BLUES is made up of both a sequel to his previous work, You and the Night and the Music, as well as a series of newer works written from 1997-2002. "Cushing's work proves that once can be a part of the insular atmosphere of the academy &amp; still write with brave, bold, and noble strokes of poetic integrity"-Michael C. Ford. Cushing is the author of two previous books of poetry, and teaches literature and creative writing at Cal Poly.

Undercurrent Blues

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