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Sleep The stories in Sleep represent twenty-five years of work by one of America's best experimental fiction writers. The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise themselves as they speak, in sentences that cross themselves out and start over, as his narrators examine and explore every possible alternative, to the point where these texts become palimpsests, recording not only what is or was, but what might be. And it is left to the reader to determine which is which. Is which.

Clifford's Blues If there is an undiscovered aspect of the black experience, it will be found by John A. Williams. Told in journal form, this novel is the story of Clifford Pepperidge, a gay musician performing in Europe during the thirties. After he is caught in a compromising situation with a American diplomat, Clifford spends the duration of Hitler's reign in Dachau. He escapes the worst horrors of the camp by working as the houseservant to an SS officer.

Prayers of an Accidental Nature Whether urban or rural, rich or poor, young or old, the characters in Prayers of an Accidental Nature are driven by perpetual yearning: for love, sex, healing, even for death. This virtuoso collection of cutting-edge short stories with a subversive undercurrent is marked by dazzling versatility.

87 North The poems in Michael Coffey's 87 North map a complex journey-by car, by train, in spirit, in a poetics-from New York City, where he lives, to the environs of his youth in the Adirondacks, where he was raised by adoptive parents in a town of about seven hundred people.

Visit Teepee Town Coffee House Press invites readers into the world of Native American postmodern poetry in a groundbreaking anthology sampling the work of more than twenty authors who lead us into new conceptual terrain.

'66 Frames Part record of the New York underground art scene, part history of contemporary American avant garde cinema-Gordon Ball's vivid memoir lays bare the soul of a decade that redefined the photographic image. Featured within '66 Frames are encounters with Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and many others as-in the words of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti-"the young Southern innocent sets forth in all his whiteness to find himself among visionary New York poets and other flaming creatures."