Category Archives: Anthology
Working Words
“Working Words is the kind of spark we need these days—a rich, intense and inspiring collection for and about those who get their hands dirty every single day.” —Michael Moore
Beats at Naropa
“At Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, there has long been an illuminating, dynamic, ongoing exchange of ideas about the history and legacy of the Beat Generation—an exchange fortunately that has been carefully archived and preserved. This valuable anthology does not further embalm the ‘legend’ of the Beats. Instead it allows its readers to hear authentic voices—Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, John Clellon Holmes, Diane di Prima, Philip Whalen, etc.—as well as introducing the thoughtful and responsible work of leading Beat scholars.” —Joyce Johnson
Civil Disobediences
“Here is the true Department of Peace. Intellectual though and devotion to poetry as activist goodwill. Prayers for the warmongers.” —Thurston Moore
Screaming Monkeys
Screaming Monkeys sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it illuminates the diverse and often neglected history and culture within the Asian American diaspora.
Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours
Coffee House Press invites readers into the world of Native American postmodern poetry in a groundbreaking anthology sampling the work of twenty-two authors who lead us into new conceptual terrain. Visit Teepee Town is the first anthology dedicated solely to postmodern North American Native poetry and poetics.
Paul Metcalf, Volume III
“Like Nathanial Hawthorne or William Carlos Williams, Black Mountain poet Paul Metcalf accrues literary authority out of an acute sense of American history, as if that history were itself the fabled last frontier, a wilderness of wealth, massacre and movement to be traced, ultimately, in a verse as direct as the names on a map. . . .those who know his work already will be excited to have these pieces all in one place.” —Publishers Weekly
Paul Metcalf, Volume II
“The second installment in an invaluable three-volume collections of a neglected American original presents seven of Metcalf’s inspired and spirited textual collages. Deeply immersed in American history and the paradoxes of our culture, Metcalf stretches narrative beyond traditional limits in an attempt to give voice to the cacophony of the past, the clamoring of the present, and the mind’s quicksilver processing of memory, thought, and fantasy. To that end, his writing is boldly improvisational and sporadically surreal, sparking with shifting emotions and perspectives.” —Booklist
Cranial Guitar
“Ravaged by the random sufferings of the American street and warmed by the casual glance of Eros, cool in its quiet truth to consciousness and wild in its classic command of poetic phrases and tuning, this is work that echoes an unlikely range of American songsmiths from Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker to T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane.” —Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino & Filipino American Poetry
“Returning a Borrowed Tongue is a necessary addition to our rich Asian American cannon. It is an exciting tapestry of Filipino American poets from all walks of life—from the urban centers to lush rural settings; from the veteran activist generation to fresh young poets now blossoming from universities. . . . This volume should be an inspiring read for both poetry students and ethnic students alike.” —Marilyn Chin, author of The Phoenix Game, The Terrace Empty
Paul Metcalf, Volume I
“My excitement and pleasure is such that I would like to emphasize here my very great respect for Paul Metcalf’s writing and the unique significance of its publication. . . . Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination.” —Robert Creeley
The Green Lake Is Awake: Selected Poems
“This book will be a wonderful surprise for readers new to Ceravolo’s work and an opportunity for his old fans to see how really great he is.” —Ron Padgett
Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan
Previously announced and finally available, Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan, edited by longtime friend and colleague Anne Waldman, is a moving tribute to an important poet. “Let none regret my end who called me friend,” wrote Berrigan in “Last Poem”: this is, instead, a celebration of Berrigan’s high-energy life and work.
