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Title: A Boy's Guide to Arson Author: Jarret Keene Copyright 2008. "...an extraordinary collection. At times elegiac, at time angry. Spiritual. Philosophical. Incantory. Experimental ." --Jim Daniels ISBN: 0-929730-83-6 Price: 13.95 |
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Title: and the whole time I was quite happy Author: Marc Pietrzykowski Copyright 2008. "Many books use this space for marketing blurbs, endorsements meant to influence the prospective buyer via name recognition
This book lacks such blurbs, not because the author has no recognizable friends or mentors to call on, but simply because he has chosen to be contrary, a stance he has found both useful and fun over the years
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Title: As For Us Author: David P. Gollub Copyright 1989. First book of poems on Zeitgeist by a fugitive from academia who became a Babar host. ISBN: 0-929730-16-X Price: 5.95 |
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Title: As Needed For Rage Author: David P. Gollub Copyright 1996. First book of poems on Zeitgeist by a fugitive from academia who became a Babar host. ISBN: 0-929730-60-7 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Ask A Mask Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1999. ISBN: 0-929730-64-X Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Bad Dog Blues Author: Bruce Isaacson ISBN: 0-929730-01-1 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Berkeley Street Cannibals Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1976 by Julia Vinograd. Newly available from Zeitgeist-Press. Selected poems 1969-1976 from someone who could "perhaps be called the quintessential street poet". Capable of "making the rags dance and the dust turn to flame". ISBN: 0-9606346-1-4 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Beside Myself Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 2001. ISBN: 0-929730-67-4 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Blues For All Of Us Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 2000. ISBN: 0-929730-66-6 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Blues For The Berkeley Inn Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1991. Berkeley's veteran street poet writes of displacement from what was long her home, and of other experiences. ISBN: 0-929730-33-X Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Bone Needles Author: Anthology Multiple Authors Copyright 2005. Bone Needles [is] a masterfully arranged collection that touches upon a wide range of themes and reveals a wonderful depth and diversity. From beginning to end, the poems in this collection are finely crafted and certainly dispel those misconceptions that would relegate Las Vegas writers to a status not quite equivalent to artists in other large metropolitan communities. Indeed, it is the personal depths to which these poems take us that should engage the interest of anyone interested in the literary arts. Beyond question, the collections skillfully crafted pieces reveal that Las Vegas community of poets has become home to a number of writers whose works richly deserve our attention and praise. ISBN: 0-929730-75-5 Price: 10.95 |
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Title: Cannibal Carnival Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1996. A choice selection from previous books by the poet laureate of Berkeley's People's Park. ISBN: 0-929730-61-5 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Cannibal Casserole New & Selected Poems 1996-2006 Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 2006. "When we are ashes and people will want to know of the streets in this area of America, it will be Julia's work that will be most read, I assure you." - Jack Hirschman ISBN: 0-929730-78-X Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Dead People Laughing Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1997. ISBN: 0-929730-62-3 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Dogs In Lingerie (expanded edition) Author: Danielle Willis Copyright 1990. "a fierce and dazzling writer who sees the world for what it is." -- Dennis Cooper ISBN: 0-929730-22-4 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Dumbstruck at the Lights Author: Bruce Isaacson Copyright 2008. Who among us hasn't been dumbstruck at the lights in the sky or the light in the refrigerator for that matter? ISBN: 0-929730-X-X Price: 12.95 |
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Title: Evil Spirits And Their Secretaries (chapbook) Author: David West Copyright 1995. "The new blues are gray/There's no money in pain/I feel very little/They just bill me..." -- Excerpt ISBN: 0-929730-53-4 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Flying at Cafe Babar CD Author: Eli Coppola Copyright 2006. CD Recorded in March and June of 1988. Readings by Eli Coppola. Outstanding! ISBN: 0-929730-CD-X Price: 10.00 |
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Title: Ghosts Among the Neon Author: Bruce Isaacson Copyright 2005. "...uses 'pop' language and images from news media, advertising, chews it up and spits it back, for subversion, and no one is slicker or deadlier at that than lsaacson... the ideal poetic guerilla... a master of irony, the offbeat metaphor, poems that keep on ticking on the mind after they end in a sudden silence." --Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash ISBN: 0-929730-70-4 Price: 11.95 |
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Title: Going For The Low Blow Author: Vampyre Mike Kassel Copyright 1990. "...the rightful heir to the mantle of Charles Addams" -- Inland Books ISBN: 0-929730-13-5 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Graffiti Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1988. ISBN: 0-929730-00-3 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Habitat Author: Joie Cook Copyright 2007. NEW from Beatitude Press, Habitat, the long-awaited Selected Works (1981-2006) from poetry firebrand JOIE COOK. Joie's books and performances are legendary in San Francisco, though her habitat has included New York, New Orleans, Baltimore, Provincetown, San Diego, Portland and Seattle. Especially beloved in bohemian poetry communities in North Beach and the Mission district of San Francisco, Joie Cook was the first featured poet inaugurating the infamous Cafe Babar series of the 1980s. Her work is widely appreciated and admired, hence this new Selected Works is cause for great celebration at Zeitgeist Press. Thus, for a limited time, the book is available at the special price of $10.00 (100 pages) in celebration of the classic work by this Zeitgeist author. ISBN: 0-9795651-0-3 Price: 14.95 |
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Title: Hell Soup Author: Sparrow13 LaughingWand Copyright 1996 Sparrow 13 LaughingWand /Manic D Press "His inimitable character portraits and depiction of life on society's fringe are at once haunting and unforgettable." ISBN: 0-916397-43-2 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Horn Of Empty Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1988. ISBN: 0-929730-04-6 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: How Sweet It Is Author: Q.R Hand Jr. Copyright 1996. "we all free to be as we can/lords and ladies in the streets we be in/buildin on facts in all the sounds happenin" -- q.r. hand, jr. ISBN: 0-929730-55-0 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: I Want a New Gun Author: David Lerner Copyright 2006. BACK IN PRINT David Lerner published four books of poetry. His articles ran in the San Francisco Examiner- Chronicle, Mother Jones, California and other newspapers and magazines. He was also a founder and editor of Zeitgeist Press. When this, his first book, was published, he was thirty-six, living in Berkeley, California, and was an energetic participant in the Thursday night readings at Café Babar in San Francisco. David Lerner died in 1997. Want a New Gun David Lerner David Lerner, with poet Anna Wolfe, Cafe Babar, 1987. ISBN: 0-929730-03-8 Price: 12.95 |
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Title: I Want To Kill Everything Author: Vampyre Mike Kassel Copyright 1990. "The creator of 'anti-normal wonder' " -- Scavenger Neweletter ISBN: 0-929730-25-9 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: In the Seasons of My Eye Author: Marty Matz Copyright 2005. Goodie Publications Panther Books. 189 pgs. "The definitive collection by the Beat Surrealist Master. Marty died in 2001, but his inimitable voice and brilliant imagery live on in this collection." ISBN: 978-0-9708476-3-8 Price: 16.00 |
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Title: Kept In The Pocket Of My Poems Author: Paul Landry Copyright 1993. A selection of poems by the late elegant poet of North Beach, opening new surprises with every page. ISBN: 0-929730-46-1 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Love Poems for the Wicked Author: Brian Morrisey Copyright 2007. When Brian Morrissey is in a poems rage, the rage often writes him in the form of new combinations of images which he is simply the receptive vessel for. Such a path is the only one for a socially engaged contemporary poet. Morrisey is such a one and hes on that path. ISBN: 0-929730-80-1 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: My Body Is A War Toy Author: Joie Cook Copyright 1900. Since the age of three, Joie Cook has spent most of her life. She's a well-known firebrand of San Francisco's poetry haunts. ISBN: 0-929730-26-7 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of Sanfrancisco - Poets from Hell Author: New American Copyright 2005. Alan Kernoff. Anthology issued by Trafford Press. Distributed by Zeitgeist-Press. ISBN: 1-41205270-X Price: 23.00 |
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Title: Outlaw Of The Lowest Planet Author: Jack Micheline Copyright 1993. "Micheline sees beauty. Loves life. Testifies to the fallen world made pure through the eyes of a child, eyes of a poet, the vision of a man with the courage to love this modern mess and fill life with song." -- Bruce Isaacson ISBN: 0-929730-44-8 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Panic Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 2009. Julia Vinograd is the well-known street poet and unofficial poet laureate of Berkeley, CA. Her work is acknowledged for bridging life seen from the perspective of the least of us, and the view in common to us all as humans. This book, Panic, in response to the panic too many of us find ourselves in of late, contains a unique depiction of Pan on the cover. To those who have ears, let them hear. ISBN: 978-0-929730-89-9 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Pirate Lerner Author: David Lerner AUDIO CD Copyright 2005 Zeitgeist-Press and the Estate of David Lerner ISBN: BootlegCD Price: 10.00 |
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Title: POESY 30th Edition Magazine Author: Cafe Babar Copyright 2005. POESY is an anthology for poets across the country. Our goal is to unite the Eastern and Western poets across the US. We publish inspirational poetry, photos, reviews, interviews, articles, readings, and whatever fits best. ISBN: ISSN#1541-8162 Price: 2.00 |
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Title: Skull and Crosswords Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 2005. Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 50 books of poetry, and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones, Eye of the Hand, and The Book Of Jerusalem. She received a BA. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She received the 2004 Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. ISBN: 0-929730-69-0 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Some Angels Wear Black Author: Eli Coppola Copyright 2005. Issued by Manic D. Press. Distributed by Zeitgeist-Press. "Eli inspired me to give in to my own wildest nature, my own violent claw at love, my own hunt and impatient struggle. She taught me to pet and expose the part of myself most desperate for love, taught me that desperation for love and its most basic expression, sex, is nothing more than a desperation to live, which is holy." -- from the introduction by Michelle Tea ISBN: 0-916397-71-8 Price: 13.95 |
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Title: Special Effects Author: David P. Gollub Copyright 1992. "These poems are as relentless as daybreak/ or eating a slice of bread. And of the/ processes that have to be done to stay/ alive. And therefore come to be known/ as natural.// They are the mail your mother never got/ from the priest or the game show. But/ Should have. It is our good luck that/ they are now discovered." -- Paul Landry ISBN: 0-929730-41-0 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Step Into My Parlour Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 2002. "She is to Telegraph Avenue what Damon Runyon was to Broadway, Charles Bukowski to the gin mills and racetracks of Los Angeles." -- East Bay Express ISBN: 0-929730-68-2 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Street Samurai Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1989. "Frontline social perceptions Vinograd's verse reports on the total exchange of society's recent invasion of her familiar Telegraph haunts " -- Tom Clark, SF Chronicle ISBN: 0-929730-10-0 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Street Talk Author: Harry Fagel Copyright 1999. ...a street cop gone poet or maybe poet gone street cop...(only you can decide). ISBN: 0-929730-63-1 Price: 10.00 |
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Title: Styrofoam Ghosts Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1993. ISBN: 0-929730-48-8 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Suspicious Characters Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1990. ISBN: 0-929730-19-4 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Tenderloin Rose Author: Kathleen Wood Copyright 1990. "tales from the streets of San Francisco where punk collides with drugs and selling one's body. Kathleen writes of the occasional moments of tenderness amid much fear and sorrow and anger, and she doesn't hide from the truth. Blunt and scary material." -- Factsheet Five ISBN: 0-929730-24-0 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: The Blind Mans Peep Show Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1990. "A true street poet." -- Robert Pinksy ISBN: 0-929730-29-1 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: The Bruised Angels' Almanac Author: Susan Birkeland Copyright 2006. ISBN: 0-929730-77-1 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: The Cities Of Madame Curie Author: Laura Conway Copyright 1989. "Laura Conway is a fine poet, a unique human being whose broad vision encompasses this nation and the world. Her love of life moves out across the cities. Read The Cities of Madame Curie out loud to yourself. Bravo Laura!" -- Jack Micheline, December 1988 ISBN: 0-929730-08-9 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: The Cutting Edge Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1998. " always fresh, exciting, and interesting." -- Ishmael Reed ISBN: 0-929730-65-8 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: The Dead Artist Talks Back Author: Vampyre Mike Kassel Copyright 2010. All poems in the new Zeitgeist book are previously unpublished material found in the Vampyres infamous SF SRO hotel room after his death. Knee-slappingly funny, plus outrageous, even philosophical and poignant, here is the best of one of those who gave his life to the San Francisco arts scene. With a dearth of drawings by Mike, Joseph Mitchell, and others." ISBN: 0-929730-90-9 Price: 14.00 |
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Title: The Eyes Have It Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1995. ISBN: 0-929730-51-8 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: The Graceful Arc of a Missile Author: David Lerner Copyright 2008. It's a neat thing that the book was translated and published in Germany, a great homage to our American Outlaw Poet David Lerner. In English & German (facing pages). ISBN: GermanTranslation Price: 14.95 |
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Title: The Hummingbird Graveyard Author: Maura Oconnor Copyright 1992. "I know this/the way I know/sunrise and sunset/are caused by the endless turning/of the Earth." -- Excerpt ISBN: 0-929730-35-6 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: The Last Five Miles to Grace Author: David Lerner Copyright 2005. "Lerner was a broken-down saint if there ever was one. He was an eloquent screamer, a soft-spoken rageoholic, a madman with a great manuscript. His poetry will always be a reminder of a time when poetry in the Mission was spontaneous, magical, and more than a little bit dangerous." -- Bucky Sinister, San Francisco Bay Guardian ISBN: 0-929730-72-0 Price: 12.95 |
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Title: The Laziest Secretary Author: Jennifer Blowdryer Copyright 2008. Illustrations by Beppi, " hilarious, sexy, honest, and just a hell of a lot of fun to read" --Jonathan Ames, author of WAKE UP, SIR ISBN: 0-929730-87-9 Price: 12.95 |
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Title: The Queen of Shade Author: Sparrow 13 LaughingWand Copyright 1993. "...i love intense print media, hard rock music, poetry, getting high, deep weirdness and movies that leave scars on your brain. My life is rich in friends and awash with drama." --Sparrow 13 LaughingWand ISBN: 0-929730-44-5 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: The Revolution of 1964 Mother-Daughter Poems Author: Lenore Waters and Jennifer Blowdryer Copyright 2007. Anything I Call you ISBN: 0-929730-79-8 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: The Satin Arcane Author: Jack Hirschman Copyright 1991. Jack Hirschman is the author of more than 55 books of poetry and translations from eight languages. He has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets, where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, called, "America's most important living poet." He uses his skills to help awaken the American people to homelessness as an expression of a system that can no longer take care of its people. His impassioned readings challenge his audience. He speaks on the artist's role in social transformation. ISBN: 0-929730-36-4 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: The Underclassified Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 1989. ISBN: 0-929730-14-3 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: The Underwater Hospital Author: Jan Steckel Copyright 2006. Pushcart-nominated writer Jan Steckel is a bisexual activist and a Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and cared for Spanish-speaking families in California at a county hospital and at a large HMO. In 2001, she left the practice of medicine to write full-time. Her poems, short stories and nonfiction pieces have appeared in print and online publications such as Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, So to Speak, Margin and Lodestar Quarterly. She has performed her poems and stories as a featured reader at numerous West Coast venues. Her work has won writing awards and has been widely anthologized. She lives in Oakland, California with her lord and webmaster, Hew Wolff, who designed her web site at www.jansteckel.com. ISBN: 0-929730-76-3 Price: 5.00 |
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Title: Toxic Vaudeville Author: Vampyre Mike Kassel Copyright 2010. "Ajax press book that features Poetry and Prose by the ever-popular writer, musician and creature of the night who passed away in 2008. Some of his most popular pieces are here, including his famous elegy for poet Jack Micheline." ISBN: 0-9801607-0-3 Price: 14.00 |
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Title: Undercover Author: Harry Fagel Copyright 2004. "Enjoy the safety of your armchair now, the streets will look very different from now on..." -- Dayvid Figler ISBN: 0-929730-71-2 Price: 14.00 |
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Title: Virgin Eyes Author: MK Chavez Copyright 2007. Berkeley writer MK Chavez writes poetry about real things, love, strippers, the beauty that can be found in ugliness, the mystery of feeling bad about feeling good, little birds, big consequences. Her work has been anthologized in both print and online literary journals. You can find more information about her poetry at www.littlebrownsparrow.com. ISBN: 0-929730-85-2 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Westering Angels Author: Eliot Schain Issued by Small Poetry Press. Distributed by Zeitgeist-Press. Copyright 2004. "Eliot Schain is a treasure-a poet with a sharp edge and a broad canvass. Some artists have irony, some have vision; Schain has both, and tests them against each other with fire and wit. The results are wild, beautiful, and necessary." -- D. Nurske ISBN: 0-929730-73-9 Price: 14.95 |
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Title: When God Gets Drunk Author: Julia Vinograd Copyright 2007. A new book by poet Julia Vinograd!!! ISBN: 0-929730-84-4 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: When Theres No More Room In Heck Author: Chris Trian Copyright 1990. Chris Trian is a cook a painter a sculptor a libertine a lover of women an anarchist a sexhibitionist and a witch. His religion is freedom, fornication, and food. He lives in San Francisco. ISBN: 0-929730-27-5 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Wheres My Wife? Author: Jennifer Blowdryer Copyright 1989. "... a great observer and a fine writer, sending out reports from circles most of us would never enter." -- Factsheet Five ISBN: 0-929730-15-1 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: whose really blues Author: Q.R Hand Jr. Copyright 2008. "Q.R. Hand's poetry traverses the terrains of form, music, and language. This is an inspired, well crafted poetry that is political in intent and sprited in execution
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Title: Wild Kingdom Author: Vampyre Mike Kassel Copyright 1992. "poetry [of] the supernatural horror story told with color and restraint." --Fritz Leiber, LOCUS ISBN: 0-929730-40-2 Price: 5.95 |
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Title: Without Doubt Author: Andy Clausen Copyright 1991. "The expensive bullshit of Government TV poetics suffers diminution of credibility placed side by side with Mr. Clauseh's direct information and raw insight. Would he were, I'd take my chance on a President Clausen!" -- from the Introduction by Allen Ginsberg ISBN: 0-929730-32-1 Price: 8.95 |
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Title: Wrong Wrong Wrong Author: Jennifer Blowdryer Copyright 1991. "...funny and smart, with a self deprecating tone that's all too often missing from young urban fiction these days." -- LA Reader ISBN: 0-929730-34-8 Price: 5.95 |
