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Poetry
Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and Frames Jazz Idiom showcases the intimate photography of Charles L. Robinson. A friend to many of the jazz musicians photographed, he often caught them in moments of candor: Charles Mingus, goateed and pensive, hunched over a Steinway, phrases dancing in his...
A Sweetness Rising:
New and Selected Poems The first retrospective of the life's work of Roberta Spear (1948-2003), A Sweetness Rising includes newly published work as well as poems from her previous volumes. Nationally acclaimed and admired by both readers and peers, she wrote poems that touch...
The Smokehouse Boys Love begins upriver, at Katamiin, the Karuk center of the world. Here creation was danced into existence; here "the might of a bulldozer does not equal the will of ten thousand years." Shaunna Oteka McCovey is a river guide to...
Skin Tax Out of California's Great Central Valley comes the bold new poetic voice of Tim Hernandez, already an established performance poet and community activist. Skin Tax is a powerful print debut of a poet with a mature and complex talent immersed...
River of Words: Images and Poetry in Praise of Water Water—in all its splendid forms—is the subject and inspiration behind the alluring artwork and astounding poetry presented in River of Words: Images and Poetry in Praise of Water. Rivers, lakes, oceans, rain, and tears come alive in pages of verse...
Pleasure With subtlety and a big heart, Young pokes around a subject that is seldom written about with the same care and attention to detail as the darker themes of death and pain—pleasure. In No Other Life, Young examined the scary,...
No Other Life "She took my two hands in hers, pressed and caressed them as if she were bathing me. I held hers as mine were held, stroked her knuckles, her palms, then realized that the finger I lightly traced was my own....
The High Sierra of California The High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers. Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut techniques, Killion has created stunning visual images of the Sierra that...
The Geography of Home:
California's Poetry of Place The Geography of Home brings together the works of seventy-six important figures in contemporary California poetry, including Philip Levine, Peter Everwine, Mark Jarman, Adrienne Rich, Dennis Schmitz, Carolyn Kizer, Gary Soto, Al Young, Kim Addonizio, Charles Wright, Carol Muske, David...
The Dirt is Red Here: Art and Poetry from Native California "Grandma slammed the bottle down on the table, and it burst into a wind of green shards caught in candlelight" The Dirt is Red Here brings together works by many of today's finest artists and poets of California's Indian communities....
Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader William Everson (1912-1994), aka Brother Antoninus, was a poet, monk, letterpress printer, and a quintessential Californian. Originally from the San Joaquin Valley, Everson was part of the Beat poet movement in San Francisco during the 1950s. Charismatic, Everson was a...
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present is a groundbreaking new book presenting the work of 101 writers, the first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive survey of California poetry. An authoritative yet accessible collection, it brings together...
The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk Berkeley is a wellspring of literary and artistic history. As a way of preserving and celebrating that history, the City of Berkeley called on former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass and award-winning artist David Goines to design a series of...
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