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Welcome to our featured books page! Here we will feature books by our upcoming and recent readers. Please e-mail us any additions or corrections. When possible, we have linked to the publishers or Santa Cruz-area independent bookstores. Outside of the Santa Cruz area, you can still order online from our links, or you can visit BookSense.com to find independent bookstores near you.


Lucille Clifton

  • Voices (BOA Editions, November 1, 2008)
  • Mercy (BOA Editions, 2004)
  • Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, 2000)
  • Next: New Poems (BOA Editions, 2000)
  • Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (BOA Editions, 2000)
  • The Terrible Stories (BOA Editions, 1996)
  • The Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 1992)
  • Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (BOA Editions, 1987)

 

Ed Pavlic
  • Winners Have Yet to be Announced (UGA Press, 2008)
  • but here are small clear refractions (Kwani? Books, 2007)
  • Labors Lost Left Unfinished (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006)
  • Paraph Bone and Others Kinds of Blue (APR/Honickman First Book Award, 2001)
  • Crossroads Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

 

April Ossmann
  • Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007)

 

Brian Turner
  • Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005)

 

Francisco Aragón (editor)
  • The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (The University of Arizona Press, 2007).  Includes work by Adela Najarro, David Dominguez, John Olivares Espinoza, Scott Inguito and 21 other emerging Latina and Latino poets writing in English.  Available at Capitola Book Café.

 

Christopher Buckley
  • Rolling the Bones (Eastern Washington University Press, due in 2008)
  • Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007 (Tupelo Press, due October, 2008)
  • Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young, (Greenhouse Review Press, 2008)
  • And the Sea (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006)
  • Sky (Sheep Meadow Press, 2004)
  • Star Apocrypha (TriQuarterly Books, 2001)
  • Fall from Grace

 

Nickole Brown
  • Sister (Red Hen Press, 2007)

 

Dan Gerber
  • A Primer on Parallel Lives (Copper Canyon Press, 2007)
  • A Voice from the River (a novel, Michigan State University Press, 2005)
  • Trying to Catch the Horses (Michigan State University Press, 1999)
  • A Last Bridge Home; New & Selected Poems (Cark City Press, 1992)

 

Nin Andrews
  • Sleeping with Houdini (BOA Editions, 2007)
  • Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane (Web del Sol, 2005)
  • Spontaneous Breasts (Pearl Chapbook Contest)
  • Any Kind of Excuse (Kent State University chapbok contest, 2003)
  • The Book of Orgasms (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2nd edition, 2001)
  • Why They Grow Wings (Silverfish Review Press, 2001)

 

John Balaban
  • Path, Crooked Path (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
  • CA DAO Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2003) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Remembering Heaven's Face: A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam (University of Georgia Press, 2002)
  • Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong, translated with Ho Xuan (Copper Canyon Press, 2000) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1997) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 

John Menaghan
  • She Alone (Salmon Poetry, 2006)
  • All the Money in the World (Salmon Poetry, 1999)

 

Jay Leeming
  • Dynamite on a China Plate (The Backwaters Press, 2006)

 


Robert Bly

  • Turkish Pears in August (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007)
  • My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (Harper Perennial, 2006) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations (HarperCollins, 2004)
  • The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (HarperCollins, 2001)
  • Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2000) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Iron John: A Book about Men (Da Capo Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (Beacon Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, with Jane Hirshfield (Beacon Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Ralph Angel

  • Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (Sarabande Books, 2007)
  • Poem of the Deep Song by Federico García Lorca, translation (Sarabande Books, 2006)
  • Twice Removed [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Neither World [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 

Michael Hannon

  • Trusting Oblivion (if publishing, 2002)
  • Ordinary Messengers (Floating Island, 1991)
  • Poems & Days , (Isis Press, 1986)

 


Dorianne Laux


 


Joseph Millar


 


Lola Haskins

  • Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press, 2007)
  • Solutions Beginning with A (fables about women with images by artist Maggie Taylor) (Modernbook, 2007)
  • Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2004)
  • The Rim Benders (Anhinga Press, 2002)
  • Extranjera (Story Line Press, 1998)
  • Hunger (University of Iowa Press, 1993)
  • Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (University Press of Florida, 1990 and Betony Press, 1992)
  • Hunger (University of Iowa Press, 1993)
  • Castings (Countryman Press of Florida, 1984 and Betony Press, 1992)

 


James Hoch

  • Miscreants (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • A Parade of Hands , (Silverfish Review Press, 2003)

 


Phyllis Koestenbaum

  • Doris Day and Kitschy Melodies, (Questa Press Poetry Series, 2001)
  • Criminal Sonnets , (Jacaranda Press, 1997)

 


Kate Gale

  • Mating Season, (Tupelo Press, 2004)
  • Fishers of Men , (Red Hen Press, 2000)
  • Selling the Hammock, (Red Hen Press, 1999)
  • Where Crows and Men Collide, (Red Hen Press, 1995)

 


Troy Jollimore


 


Jim Moore

  • Lightning at Dinner, (Graywolf Press, 2005)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Writing with Tagore above the Flamina , (The Press at Colorado College, 2003)
  • The Long Experience of Love, (Milkweed, 1995)
  • The Freedom of History, (Milkweed, 1988)
  • What the Bird Sees, (Momentum Press, 1978)
  • The New Body, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975)

 


Robert Priest

  • How to Swallow a Pig, (Ecw Press, 2004)
  • Tongue'n Groove , (CD) (EMI Heritage Artists, 2002)
  • Time Release Poems, (Ekstasis Editions, 1998)
  • Scream Blue Living, (Mercury Press, 1992)
  • The Mad Hand, (Coach House Press, 1988)
  • Man Who Broke out of the Letter X, (Coach House Press, 1984)

 


Jeffrey Harrison

  • The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2006)
  • Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books, 2006)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • An Undertaking (2005)
  • Feeding the Fire (Sarabande Books, 2001)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Signs of Arrival (1996)
  • The Singing Underneath (1988)

 


Susan Rich


 


Kathleen Lynch

  • Hinge (Black Zinnias Press, 2006)
  • How to Build an Owl (Small Poetry Press)
  • No Spring Chicken (White Eagle Coffee Store Press)
  • Alterations of Rising (Small Poetry Press)
  • Kathleen Lynch—Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications)

 


David Barber


 


Matthew Zapruder


 


Matthea Harvey

  • Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf Press, 2004)
  • Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000)

 


August Kleinzahler

  • Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems: 1975-1990 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Green Sees Things in Waves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Red Sauce, Whiskey & Snow: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Girouxs, 1996)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Earthquake Weather (Moyer Bell Ltd., 1989)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Storm over Hackensack (Moyer Bell Ltd, 1985)

 


Kevin Prufer

  • Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2005)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Finger Bone (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2002)
  • Strange Wood (Louisiana State University Press, 1998)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, with Joy Katz (University of Illinois Press, 2006) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The New Young American Poets: An Anthology (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Kevin Boyle

  • A Home for Wayward Girls (New Issues Press, 2005)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Lullaby of History

 


Malena Mörling

  • Astoria (University of Pittsburgh, 2006)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Ocean Avenue (New Issues, 1998)

 


Joel Brouwer

  • Centuries (Four Way Books, 2003)
  • Exactly What Happened (Purdue University Press, 1999)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Willis Barnstone

  • Sweetbitter Love, Poems of Sappho with Carolyn Kizer (Shambhala, July 1, 2006)
  • The Gnostic Bible, with Marvin Meyer (New Seeds, 2006)
  • We Jews and Blanks: Memoir with Poems (Indiana University Press, 2004)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Lifewatch (BOA Editions, 2003)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The New Covenant, Vol. 1 (Riverhead Books, 2002) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (University of Illinois Press, 2000)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light (New Directions, 1999)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Sappho: Lyrics (Green Integer Books, 1999)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Algebra of Night (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999)  [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Tony Barnstone


 


Vern Rutsala

  • How We Spent Our Time (University of Akron Press, 2005)
  • The Moment's Equation (Ashland Poetry Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Lewis Turco

  • Fantaseers: A Book of Memories (Star Cloud Press, 2005) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court (Star Cloud Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry (University Press of New England, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • A Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs (Star Cloud Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (University Press of New England, 2000) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Joshua Beckman

  • Your Time Has Come (Verse Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002) with Matthew Rohrer
  • Something I Expected to Be Different (Verse Press, 2001)
  • Things Are Happening (American Poetry Review, 1998) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Matthew Rohrer

  • A Geen Light (Verse Press, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002) with Joshua Beckman
  • Satellite (Verse Press, 2001)
  • A Hummock in the Malookas (Verse Press, 1995)

 


Jane Hirshfield


 


Sarah Arvio


 


Vijay Seshadri


 


Gary Gach

  • Ten Thousand Lives, by Ko Un, with translators Brother Anthony of Taize, Young-Moo Kim and Gary Gach (Green Integer, 2005)
  • What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, edited by Gary Gach with foreword by Peter Coyote (Parallax Press, 1998) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Pascale Petit

  • The Huntress (Seren Books, 2005)
  • The Wounded Deer: Fourteen poems after Frida Kahlo (Doorstop, 2005)
  • The Zoo Father (Seren Books, 2002) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Zoo Father (Seren Books, 2002)

 


Robert Minhinnick


 


Gabrielle Calvocoressi


 


Peter Campion


 


Al Young

  • Literature of California: Vol. 1, Native American Beginnings, ed. with Jack Hicks and James D. Houston (University of California Press, 2005) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs, with Janet Coleman (Limelight Editions, 2004) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000 (Creative Arts, 2001) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • African-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology (Longman Publishing Groups, 1997) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-1990 (Creative Arts, 1992) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Additional books

 


Victoria Chang


 


Alicia Ostriker

  • No Heaven (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Volcano Sequence (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser (Palgrave MacMillan, 2001), ed. with Herzog, Anne F. and Kaufman, Janet E. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (University of Michigan, 2000) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Crack in Everything (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Sara Berkeley


 


Mary Szybist


 


Jerry Harp


 


B.H. Fairchild


 


Nils Peterson

  • Driving a Herd of Moose to Durango (Jotunheim Press, 2005)
  • The Comedy of Desire (Blue Sofa Press, 1993)
  • No Ordinary Rejoicing (No Deadline Press)

 


Martha Rhodes


 


Daniel Tobin


 


Robert Thomas

  • Door to Door (Fordham University Press, 2002)

 


D. Nurkse


 


Brian Teare

  • The Room Where I Was Born (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)

 


C. Dale Young

  • The Second Person (Zoo Press, 2005)
  • The Day Underneath the Day (TriQuarterly Books, 2001)

 


Geri Doran

  • Resin (LSU Press, 2005)

 


Frank X. Gaspar

  • Night of a Thousand Blossoms (Alice James Books, 2004)
  • A Field Guide to the Heavens (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999)

 


Ilya Kaminsky


 


Cecilia Woloch

  • Late (BOA Editions, 2003) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Tzigan: The Gypsy Poem (Cahuenga Press, 2002)
  • Sacrifice (Cahuenga Press, 1997)

 


Gail Wronsky

  • Poems for Infidels (Red Hen Press, 2004)
  • Dying for Beauty (Copper Canyon Press, 2001) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Love-Talkers (fiction, Hollyridge Press)
  • Again the Gemini are in the Orchard

 


Meg Schoerke


 


Claudia Keelan

  • The Devotion Field (Alice James Books, 2004)
  • Utopic
  • The Secularist
  • Refinery

 


Donald Revell

  • My Mojave (Alice James Books, 2004)
  • Arcady (2002)
  • There Are Three (1998)
  • Beautiful Shirt (1994)
  • Erasures (1992)
  • New Dark Ages (1990)
  • The Gaza of Winter (1988)
  • From the Abandoned Cities (1983)

 


Eva Salzman

  • The Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004)
  • One Two II (Wrecking Ball Press)
  • Bargain with the Watchman (Oxford)
  • The English Earthquake (Bloodaxe)

 


Thomas Cleary and Bannie Chow

  • Autumn Willows: poetry by women of China's golden age (Story Line Press, 2003)

 


Catherine Barnett

  • Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2004)

 


Susan Browne

  • Buddha's Dogs (Four Way Books, 2004)

 


Kim Addonizio


 


Steve Kowit


 


Alice Jones

  • Gorgeous Mourning (Apogee Press, 2004)
  • The Knot (Alice James Books, 1994) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


klipschutz

  • twilight of the male ego (Tsunami Inc., 2002)

 


Natasha Sajé

  • Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004)
  • Red Under the Skin (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Peter Pereira


 


Clemens Starck

  • China Basin (Story Line Press, 2002) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Journeyman's Wages (Story Line Press, 1995)

 


Mark Turpin


 


Virginia Chase Sutton


 

Erika Meitner
  • Inventory at the All-night Drugstore (Anhinga, 2003).

Melody Lacina
 


Jenny Factor


 


Toi Derricotte


 


Diane di Prima


 


Maria Mazziotti Gillan


 


devorah major


 


Opal Palmer Adisa


 


George Bilgere

  • The Good Kiss (University of Akron Press, 2002) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Big Bang (Copper Beech Press, 1999)
  • The Going (University of Missouri Press, 1995)

 


Greg Hewett


 

Sesshu Foster
  • City Terrace Field Manual

 


William O'Daly [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

  • Still Another Day by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
  • The Separate Rose by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
  • The Sea and the Bells by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
  • Winter Garden by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
  • Yellow Heart by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
  • The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2001)
  • A Separate Rose by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 1988)
  • Still Another Day by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 1984)

 


C. G. Hanzlicek

  • The Cave: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Contemporary Mexican Poetry: Two New Anthologies

  • Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, edited by Monical de la Torre and Michael Weigers (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Sin Puertas Visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women, edited by Jen Hofer (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Jane Mead


 


Barbara Ras


 


Estelle Gershgoren Novak (ed.)

  • Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era (University of New Mexico Press, 2003) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Anita Barrows

  • Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1997) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

 


Rick Barot


 


Sam Hamill


 


Mary Lou Taylor

  • The Fringes of Hollywood (Jacaranda Press, 2002)

 


Jennifer Michael Hecht

  • The Next Ancient World (Tupelo Press, 2001)

 


Aliki Barnstone

  • Wild With It (Sheep Meadow Press, 2001)
  • Voices of Light: Women's Spiritual Poetry From Around The World (Shambhala, 2000)

 


Ellen Dudley

  • Slow Burn (Provincetown Arts Press, 1997)

 


Cornelius Eady


 


Meg Kearney


 


Alan Stephens


 


John Wilson


 


Chryss Yost

  • La Jolla Boys

 


George Evans


 


Daisy Zamora


 


Alison Luterman


 


David Alpaugh


 


Amy England

  • The Flute Ship Castricum -- On the shelf at Bookshop Santa Cruz

 


Jack Foley


 


Paisley Rekdal


 


Janet Holmes


 


Terry Ehret


 


Valerie Berry

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