Book 1: New California Voices Series

You Notice the Body (Book 1, New California Voices Series)

Entrekin, Gail Rudd

Hip Pocket Press

An anthology of poetry and prose of the Sierras. Includes diverse work from such writers as: Gary Snyder, Jane Hirshfield, Utah Phillips, Alicia Ostriker, Steve Sanfield, Sands Hall, Molly Fisk, Karen Joy Fowler, Jeff Kane, Molly Giles, Oakley Hall, Jame D. Houston, Louis B. Jones, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Susan Wooldridge, Charles Entrekin, Bruce Hawkins, Gary Short, and many others.

Sierra Songs & Descants

Literature & Fiction

Gail Rudd Entrekin

Kathryn Napier Stull

United States

Truth Be Told: New & Collected Premortems A forthcoming collection of new and selected epigrams. In Truth Be Told: New & Collected Premortems, Thomas Farber extends a career-long narrative impulse to cheerfully merciless conclusions. Reverberating with deceptive economy and relentless wit, his subversive brevities evoke French epigrammists, Zen koans, and the pithy wisdoms of Country music. Unflinching, these beyond-short stories insist on the saving grace of language, the consolations of (gallows) humor. Included here as well are the author's three essays appraising the qualities of his ten-year love affair with these retorts, repercussions & wrys.

Truth Be Told: New & Collected Premortems

Farber, Thomas

Poetry

Editor: Gail Rudd Entrekin. Poetry by six Northern California Poets: Kirsten Casey, Gary Cooke, Cheryl Dumesnil, Judy Halebsky, Iven Lourie, Scott Young. Another anthology put together by the fiercely independent Hip Pocket Press, this book, according to poet Molly Fisk, "...includes poems of childhood, love, travel, myth, reminiscence and landscape. But its essential nature is commitment -- to experience, sensation and language -- beautifully encompassed by the closing line of Judy Halebsky's DOWN THE MOUNTAIN: "...whatever I came with I spent."

Yuba Flows

Dumesnil, Cheryl

Halebsky, Judy

Molly's voice is crisp and decided yet relaxed and just close enough somehow ... and the pieces all are impeccably shaped and written. Fearless, clear-eyed work. - John Updike The inimitable Molly Fisk, known for the quirky warmth of her radio essays, revered as the mentor-coach of the on-line Poetry Boot Camp, is a poet who writes with her whole heart, making her second volume a tour de force of sensuality and hard fact. The More Difficult Beauty returns emotion to the American poem with its supple lines, tempering the difficult - death, and love - with the zinnias of bright, ebullient imagery. Fisk is luminous and loud, lucid and soft, driven and wandering. Candor and humor are her hallmarks in these poems, marvels of sheer whimsy and broad, wicked observation. - Molly Peacock Whether coming to terms with middle age, an abusive childhood, or pondering the 'conspiracy' of the Truckee River's 'ten thousand drops', Molly Fisk's careful eye takes it in. This poet braves the more difficult places and in doing so reveals the world's simple truths. - Dorianne Laux

The More Difficult Beauty

Fisk, Molly

This is a collection of thirty-two essays, memoirs, and poems about tumultuous times. Universities were under attack and free speech was in question. The byword of the culture rang out, "Question authority." It was also a time to come together and discuss such things as the worth of a word in a poem. The young writers who started The Berkeley Poets Cooperative decided to have a say-so about what was important in literature and in the culture. The combined voices form a patchwork quilt of a unique era in Berkeley, California 1960-1990. Why revisit literary history? Nearly half a century since the founding of the Berkeley Poets Cooperative, the difficult times have returned. The Great Recession of 2007, the rise in poverty, a rise of the super-rich, inequality of the 1% versus the 99% --the culture is beginning to fear the closing down of the "American dream." The intention is to share this amazing period in history, from the point of view of poets and writers who were there and lived the experience, and remind the reader of the optimism of "the way we were," when everything seemed possible.

The Berkeley Poets Cooperative: A History of the Times

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Portrait of a Romance

Entrekin, Charles

This highly stylized, intelligent and witty debut collection of poems is at times humorous, at times insightful, always fresh and sophisticated. Betsy Scholl has said of Keith, "His poems are both skeptical and grateful, full of wonder and irony." Keith has been on the poetry scene for years and formerly co-edited both the Columbia Review and Cutbank while earning his MFA at Montana. He has been a member of the avant-garde theatre group, New York Art Theatre Institute, and his often surprising turns of phrase reflect this quirky experience.

Storyland

Dunlap, Keith

My physical limitations make it impossible for me to go off and promote this book, so I feel that I can't ask HPP to bear the costs of publication of a book that can't be promoted by the full capacity of the press. Rather than participate in the editorial process, I chose these poems myself, and I am publishing this chapbook. These poems are an expression of my current process: how cancer left me immunocompromised in a pandemic, and Parkinson's disease has created "waking dreams." Glaucoma, which would seem to be the least dangerous, has cost me the most. I can't read nor write nor drive a car nor play tennis nor do anything to enjoy the full spectrum of what life has to offer, so I remain indebted to the poetic process to find life's significance, learning to embrace what remains.

Poems from the Threshold

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Café Dissertation

Smith, D. James

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