Phase Language

Lee Ballentine

Pantograph Press

Poetry. "Adelle Foley's haikus show us humanity. Their vitality and imagination shine from her compassion; from seeing things as they truly are"--Michael McClure. "Adelle Foley has taken the miniature form of the haiku and used it as the building block to create short lyric sequences of evocative power and memorability"--Dana Gioia. "In ALONG THE BLOODLINE, Adelle Foley transplants the 16th-century Japanese haiku form to 21st-century America with grace and humanism Foley honors the 'bloodlines' of the form while making it very much her own, and we're all the richer for it. Basho's spirit is alive and well, spinning out verses in Oakland"--Leza Lowitz.

Along the Bloodline

Literature & Fiction

Foley, Adelle

Poetry

Poetry. "As quiet as it's kept, Mary-Marcia Casoly has become one of the most soulful poets around. She doesn't miss a thing. Through her big picture, all things walk, but process talks. 'I spread myself out like a petal,' she confides ('Window Bangkok). What might not count to most, she counts. Her gorgeous utterances—emotionally charged with unblinking blinks and unpredictable beats between beats—milk the very vowels of silence and wonder. Mary-Marcia Casoly is an American original"—Al Young.

Run to Tenderness

Casoly, Mary-Marcia

Literary Nonficton. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. California Studies. VISIONS &amp; AFFILIATIONS: A CALIFORNIA TIMELINE 1940-1980 is the first of a two-volume chronoencyclopedia of a scene that stretches over sixty-five years. People, ideas, and stories appear, disappear, and reappear as the second half of the century moves forward. Poetry is a major element in this kaleidoscopic California scene. It is argued about, dismissed, renewed, denounced in fury, asserted as divine, criticized as pornographic. Poetry is as Western as the Sierra foothills, and the questions raised here go to its very heart. Beginning with the publication of Kenneth Rexroth's first book, this all-encompassing history-as-collage plunges us forward into the 21st Century. California authors keep generating massive anthologies in an attempt to tame the chaos of California, to pretend it isn't there. Yet there it is—staring them in the face like a great bear, alive, hungry and more than a little dangerous.

Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line Part One

Foley, Jack

ADRIFT (nominated for a Northern California Book Reviewers Award)

Greatest Hits 1974-2003

Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve

and "A Disordered City

History & Criticism

Literary Nonficton. Poetry History & Criticism. California Studies. VISIONS & AFFILIATIONS: A CALIFORNIA TIMELINE 1980-2005 is the second of a two-volume chronoencyclopedia of a scene that stretches over sixty-five years. People, ideas, and stories appear, disappear, and reappear as the second half of the century moves forward. Poetry is a major element in this kaleidoscopic California scene. It is argued about, dismissed, renewed, denounced in fury, asserted as divine, criticized as pornographic. Poetry is as Western as the Sierra foothills, and the questions raised here go to its very heart. Beginning with the publication of Kenneth Rexroth's first book, this all-encompassing history-as-collage plunges us forward into the 21st Century. California authors keep generating massive anthologies in an attempt to tame the chaos of California, to pretend it isn't there. Yet there it is—staring them in the face like a great bear, alive, hungry and more than a little dangerous.

Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line Part Two

BEA, " chapbook included in AHADADA READER 3. His books of criticism include the companion volumes

Poetry. "Ivan Argüelles's work has always affected me like fire pouring from some unmapped stellar helix. The existences he engenders seem to open up death, to pave the way for an unlocking, for an ascent, so that our minds can live in fearless play. Argüelles lives in Mayan ritual craters, speaking in green lunation cycles, growing suns and dates from the power of chimes. It is a world replete with ruses, temperatures, species, where the force of language takes over without judgement."—Will Alexander

Hapax Legomenon

Argüelles, Iván

Except for Memory

Price, Laurie

Poetry. "The literacy, intelligence, and sensitivity displayed by the contributors make this a moving and provocative anthology; an important boost for those both inside and outside who are carrying on the struggle against prison repression and institutional torture. One comes away feeling both anger and hope" -Michael Parenti, author of AGAINST EMPIRE, LAND OF IDOLS, and numerous other books.

Extracts from Pelican Bay

Poetry. "These poems don't shirk the great responsibilities, and even challenge them - to make perception new. As form, they exactly fill a page with clarity after clarity, satisfying the eye and ear as well as mind. That tool of the new age, the computer, has found, at last, its poet" -Ronald Johnson, author of ARK.

Decision Forest

Cornford, Adam

Contemporary

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. Art. California Studies. This large-format book, which comes with a CD, is full of rich insight into San Franciscos's literary culture. Well-known as the host of KPFA's literary radio show "Cover to Cover," author Jack Foley has lived in the Bay Area for nearly four decades, and his historical, critical, visionary, and poetic observations are born of personal involvement as much as active research. The essays, talks, and interviews of O POWERFUL WESTERN STAR are introduced by Dana Gioia. "Foley is doing great things in articulating the poetic consciousness of San Francisco"—Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

O Powerful Western Star: Poetry & Art In California

Jack Foley

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