Eternal Poet

By devorah major

SEPT 2019 | Books

Bob Kaufman is a poet; Bob Kaufman is a man steeped in a mythology sprinkled with a few facts.

The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

By Tony Leuzzi

NOV 2019 | Books

It has been thirty-three years since Bob Kaufman died semi-homeless of a pulmonary embolism. In America, the poet is often remembered for observing ten years of silence following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In France, upon the publication of his first, most-famous book, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness (1965), he was christened “The Black Rimbaud.”

Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet, Or, The Origin of the World By Lucy Ives

By Elizabeth Block

JUNE 2019 | Books

By employing a classical theatrical technique of dramatis personae, rather than “realistic” novel characters, perhaps Ives is able to move between so many registers that enable her unusual “mash-up” to excel as at once philosophical and planted in the mud.

Anemone

By Norma Cole

MAY 2019 | Poetry

Norma Cole is a poet, translator and visual artist. Her most recent books of poetry include Fate News, Actualities, Where Shadows Will, and Win These Poster and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. TO BE AT MUSIC: Essays & Talks appeared in 2010. Her translations from French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then, Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France and Jean Daive’s White Decimal. Her visual work has been shown at 2^nd floor projects in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. Born in Toronto, Canada, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.