My Pleasure

Literature & Fiction

Chester, Laura

Poetry

The Figures

Italy

Drucker, Johanna

River Through Rivertown

Gilfillan, Merrill C.

Back to Forth

Frym, Gloria

Selected Works 1976-1982

Arts & Photography

Gus Blaisdell

Individual Artists

FROM THE BACK COVER: Part carnival, part war, the clamor of the world is loud in these works, submitted by a rigorous and passionate intellect to the clarities which only language can yield from details this fast and dense. Philosopher-harlequin, the poet speaks plainly, having just now invented the line. What other writer can give us this much of the real? by Ron Silliman

Four Lectures

Rodefer, Stephen

<p>Poetry. A reprint of this 1982 book of prose poetry by the nearly legendary avant-garde stalwart Clark Coolidge still exudes freshness. "A long-time master of the jazzy long work, Clark Coolidge has this time turned the long poem in prose into a non-fiction novel or tomb full of buried things taken with you of the new existence of old logic and present looking, all sung by a free man wortking alone and trapped as one is in cave with finite supply of oxygen, food, breath &amp; luck"--Bernadette Mayer on MINE. Coolidge's many other titles available from SPD include ALIEN TATTERS, WAY OUT WEST, ON THE NAMEWAYS, and ON THE NAMEWAYS VOL. 2.</p>

Mine: One That Enters the Stories

Coolidge, Clark

United States

Poetry. "Paul Hoover is an important sustainer of the comic tradition and one of our linguistic champions. He presents such a fresh and heightened choice of language, it makes reading feel like wind-surfing. He comes replete; he has as many parts of speech as there are events in the world. Always drama, always the shock of encounter. Phrases of equal brilliance glare at each other (it's we who are speechless). This volumes containes the best movie poem ('Tribal Item') since Frank O'Hara's 'To the Film Industry in Crisis' or 'Ave Maria,' only written for a VCR generation. 'Heart of Darkness' and 'After Cotton Mather' are among the most vigorous reexaminations of language we've got. There is the affirmative 'Urge,' the sustained scintillation of 'Sunlight in Vermont,' the luxurious virtuosity of 'From a Gazebo.' Hoover takes language out for a walk and exercises it. He offers the wisdom of wit. That's his accomplishment—no matter how entertaining, he's also clinchingly true"—George F. Butterick.

Idea

Hoover, Paul

Poetry. " What else is poetry for if it doesn't provide us with new ways of thinking? There is a social issue to Stephen Rodefer's poems, a comedy of manners. The result is a relentless critique of social attitudes and literary determinism. As an example of the speed-up of human life and what effect it might have on its artists, here is a poet who has experienced three (or more) revolutions in poetic consciousness, who conversed as a young man with Robert Frost, studied with Olson and Creeley, and now lives and writes among the very lively poets of the Bay Area. From horse to teleportation in one lifetime"-George Butterick, SULFUR.

Emergency Measures

Rocks and Deals

YOUNG, Geoffrey

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