The second edition of the 1976 art memoir by performance poet and avant gardist Hedwig Gorski has a slightly different cover inscribed in silver on the front cover and half the price of the first edition. Added are several photos of the second production directed by John Keller at Voltaire's Basement in the early 1980s taken by Mark Christal. If you want to know where and how performance poetry started, read this memoir of Austin when it was still anything-goes art crazy ready for the new and self-discovery by any means. The story of how a hybrid, neo-verse drama using William Burroughs cut-up method and conceptual art theory, became what Gorski ultimately named performance poetry: poetry written for performance and not for the page.

Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street

Arts & Photography

Hedwig Gorski

Other Media

Slough Press

Connie Lane Williams has barred her soul in this sometimes startling, rebellious, often comedic, occasionally dramatic collection of poems in Dancing Backwards in Texas. From the humor of self revelation, to the comfort of tradition, this collection is never boring, but full of the rhythmic twists and turns of the West Texas landscape set against the harmonies of a global consciousness.Not playing by the rules, life is always an adventure for Williams as states her case against social pragmatism in 113 pages of poetry depicted in romantic defiant lyric verse or the structure of the Mass for the Mysterious Muse. From &ldquo;Kosher Dills,&rdquo; a poem about a waitress outside Austin, to &ldquo;Wounded Hawk,&rdquo; an elegy for urban sprawl, Williams dances us backwards through the West Texas flatlands to the hill country of Austin leaving a taste of &ldquo;Origami Moon&rdquo; and &ldquo;West Texas Wind&rdquo; on our lips.

Dancing Backwards In Texas

Connie Lane Williams

A stolen ruby from India, a "talking" cat named Dao, gypsies, drug runners, and a smart and plucky young heroine named Brooke: Jerry Craven's new novel Searching for Rama's Spear has all the ingredients of a first-rate mystery. And the deft plot-twist at the end will surprise and delight even the most experienced whodunnit buffs. With its lush setting in the Big Thicket of East Texas, its gorgeous illustrations by artist Amy Ness, and its beautifully photographed essays on the Big Thicket ecosystem and Indian gemstones, Searching for Rama's Spear has something for readers of all ages to savor.

Searching for Rama's Spear

Jerry, Craven

The Garden Uprooted

Literature & Fiction

Katherine Hoerth

Short Stories & Anthologies

Take a trip with the Barrio Poet from El Salvador to East L.A. and fi nally to Texas in this premiere collection of poems by a man who escaped the fate of many in the barrios of La Lucha and turned those experiences into poetry. This book is as much a story of struggle and survival wrapped in poetic verse as it is a love story for life.

I Took My Barrio on a Road Trip

Edward Vidaurre

Afoot in a field of men and other stories from Dallas east side

LittleDog, Pat

Magic Badge Poems 1953-1984

Norman-Friedman

Poetry

This collection of poetry revisits those uprooted and attempting to adjust to life in the United States, and walks into the lives of the barrio-colonia where canals, orange groves, and streets intersect. It settles in the mexclado of raza: anglos, tejanos, im migrants, chican@s, transients, y mas. Welcome to un topsy turvy poxo world, where the fl awed and perfect speak the same.

Poxo

Chavarria, Isaac

Professed is a novel filled with the struggles and rivalries and oddities and weirdnesses of contemporary American higher education--favor-dodging, ex-girlfriend avoiding, grade-dreading, plagiarist-busting, dissertation-reading, office-mate annoying, litter-box spilling, book-stealing, unprofessional forbidden lusting, unprofessional forbidden lusting-fulfilling, cat-chasing, wrist-breaking, inopportune body-betraying, boyfriend-dumping planning, dead-professor missing, committee meeting texting, bureaucratic student miss-filing, classroom failing, hidden Confederate-history uncovering, book-writing, online teaching-demanding, student-advising failing, professional dysphoria-feeling, drunk-tank loitering, book discussion leading, unwise nasal-behaving, paper researching, academic schooling, sink-fouling, New Years' kissing, celebratory pool-playing, stranger-disemboweling, paper-writing, paper-writing failing, drinking-game playing, incomplete-taking...Yet, as the characters strive  to fit into a rapidly changing institution, medicating themselves as best they can with sex and drugs and literature, learning actually happens. Somehow.

Professed

Lowell Mick White

Literary

Boy Crazy

Winik, Marion

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