Poetry Santa Cruz
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Books

Below is an incomplete listing of books published by Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay poets (present residents as well as writers associated with Santa Cruz). Please e-mail us any additions or corrections.

When possible, we have linked to the publishers or independent bookstores online which carry these books. Click on the bookstore's name to either purchase by mail or pick up the book at the store. Outside of the Santa Cruz area, please visit BookSense.com to find independent bookstores near you.

We have also created a Featured books page to highlight books by our recent and upcoming visiting writers.

Books by Santa Cruz area writers



Frances Payne Adler

 
 
 
 
 

Francisco X. Alarcon

 
 
 
 
 

Julia Alter
  • Walking the Hot Coal of the Heart, 2004, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


 
 
 
 
 

Len Anderson
  • Affection for the Unknowable, 2003, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


 
 
 
 
 

Charles Atkinson
  • Fossil Honey, 2006, Hummingbird Press
  • Because We Are Men, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Series, 2006. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • The Only Cure I Know, 1991, San Diego Poets Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]


 
 
 

Ellen Bass
  • The Human Line, 2007, Copper Canyon Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Mules of Love, 2002, BOA Editions [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Courage to Heal, (prose) ed. with Laura Davis, 1994, Harper Perennial [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • No More Masks!, An Anthology of Poems By Women, edited with Florence Howe, 1973, Anchor Press/Doubleday.


 
 

J. P. Dancing Bear
  • Conflicted Light, 2008, Salmon Poetry).  Available from Salmon Poetry.
  • Gacela of Narcissus City, 2006, Main Street Rag (chapbook)
  • What Language, 2002, Slipstream Press (chapbook)
  • Billy Last Crow, 2004, Turning Point Books [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Blue Hand, 2002, Pudding House Press (chapbook)
  • Gods of America, 2001, Laughing Bear (chapbook)
  • Prospero in Therapy, 1999, Dream Horse Press (chapbook)
  • Disjointed Constellations, 1998, Toth Press (chapbook)
  • What Language, 1996, Toth Press (chapbook)


Nathan Israel Beck

 
 
 
 
 

Rebecca Black

 
 
 
 
 

Barbara Bloom

 
 
 
 
 

Dane Cervine
  • The Jeweled Net of Indra, Plain View Press, 2007
  • What a Father Dreams: Poems of Family, Love & Aging, Xlibris, 2005
  • Moving the Dark God’s Hand, 2005, One Pony Press
  • Speaking in Tongues, 2004, One Pony Press
  • Blue in the Face, 2003, One Pony Press
  • Fiercely Everything, 2001, One Pony Press
    [all titles available at Bookshop Santa Cruz or from the author]

Bryant Clifford
J.C. aka John Cosgrave
  • Wildlife in the Redwoods, 1997, available from the author (831-338-3948)


Bruce Cutler
 
 

Rufus Daigle

 
 
 
Jenny D’Angelo
Sandra Dasmann
  • Praying For Fog, 2003, Spindrift Press

Maria Davico
  • Corpo Sonoro, 2005 (in Portuguese)

Guarionex Delgado
  • Being Human, Poems of Resistance and Renewal, 2001, Rim of Fire Press [available at Bookshop Santa Cruz]

Susan Samuels Drake
  • Fields of Courage : Remembering Cesar Chavez & the People Whose Labor Feeds Us, 1999, Many Names Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

Terri Drake
  • At the Seams, 1998, Bear Star Press [Amazon.com]



Pamela Eakins

  • Heart, Breath, and Graceful Movement, 2006, Wild Girl Publishing.


The Emerald St. Poets
  • Harvest from the Emerald Orchard, 2007, an anthology of the Emerald St. Poets: Julia Alter-Canvin, Len Anderson, Virgil Banks, Dane Cervine, Jenny D’Angelo, Guarionex Delgado, Kathleen Flowers, Robin Lysne, Joanna Martin, Phyllis Mayfield, Maggie Paul, Stuart Presley, Carol Rodriguez, Joan Safajek, Lisa Simon, Robin Straub and Philip Wagner.  Available from the authors.


 
 
 



Dion Farquhar



 
 
 
 



Kathleen Flowers

  • Call it Gladness, (In Celebration of the Muse Chapbook Award, 2008)


Carolyn Brigit Flynn, editor.

  • Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poetry and Sacred Stories by Women. 2008, Wild Girl Publishing. Contributors include Deena Metzger, Gail Brenner, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman, Kate Aver Avraham, Linda Holiday, Andrea van de Loo, Patti Sirens, Carolyn Davis Rudolph, Maria Papacostaki, Mary Camille Thomas, Marigold Fine, Connie Batten, Lisa Espenmiller, Gretchen Sentry, Jean Mahoney.
  • The New Story: Creation Myths for Our Times, 2003, . Available in Bookshop Santa Cruz or from The Kindred Spirit.
    Foreword by Pamela Eakins. Contributors: Johanna Bochner, Cassandra Brown, Melody Culver, Marigold Fine, Carolyn Brigit Flynn, Cara Lamb, Jane Nyberg, Jean Mahoney, Maggie Muir, Judy Phillips, Dawn Roh, Carolyn Davis Rudolph, Caroline Rupp, Karen Sallovitz, Gretchen Sentry, Mary Camille Thomas.



Diana Garcia



 
 
 
 

Peter Gizzi
Bert Glick
  • Cookie Aura: Selected Poems, 1977, Crosscut Saw Press
  • I Used To Be Me: Selected Poems, 2002, Marimbo Communications

Geoffrey Gluckman
  • Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry, Griffin, 2005 [Geoffrey Gluckman contributor, edited by Sarah Bynoe] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]


Patricia Grube
  • The Green Door, 2002, Chartreuse Publications. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz or from the author.


Oscar L. Guzman

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
  • A Most Improbable Life (Finishing Line Press, 2003)

 

Lou Harrison
  • Joys and Perplexities: Selected Poems of Lou Harrison, 1984, Jargon Society [Bookshop Santa Cruz]


Ellen Hart
Diana Hartog
Peggy Heinrich
  • A Minefield of Etceteras, 2006, iUniverse, Inc.  Available in Bookshop Santa Cruz and other local bookstores.


 
 
Daniela Hurezanu
  • Eyeseas [Les Ziaux], poems of Raymond Queneau translated from the French with Stephen Kessler, 2008, Black Widow Press.


 
 

Alta Ifland

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

J. W. James
  • Fish Dreams, or St. Anthony’s Sermon, 2004, Edwin Mellen Press, available through the author with author’s discount


 
 
 
 
 

J. Esmé Jel’enedra
  • Stilt Walking at Midnight, 2004, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


 
 
 
 
Stephen Kessler
  • Eyeseas [Les Ziaux], poems of Raymond Queneau translated from the French with Daniela Hurezanu, 2008, Black Widow Press
  • Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation, (essays) 2008, El Léon Literary Arts
  • Burning Daylight, November, 2007, Littoral Press
  • Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda, translated by Stephen Kessler, 2004, City Lights Books
  • Aphorisms, by César Vallejo, translated by Stephen Kessler, 2002, Green Integer [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Machu Picchu, by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Kessler with photos by Barry Brukoff , 2001, Bullfinch
  • Tell It to the Rabbis and Other Poems, 2001, Creative Arts
  • After Modigliani, 2000, Creative Arts
  • Ode to Typography, by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1998, Peter Koch Printer, bilingual edition
  • Save Twilight: Selected Poems, by Hugo Cortázar, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1997, City Lights Books, bilingual edition [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • From Beirut, by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1992, Pygmy Forest Press
  • Akrílika, by Juan Felipe Herrera, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1989, Alcatraz Editions, bilingual edition
  • The Funhouse, by Fernando Alegría, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1986, Arte Público Press
  • Changing Centuries: Selected Poems, by Fernando Alegría, translated by Stephen Kessler, Latin American Literary Review Press, bilingual edition
  • Widows, by Ariel Dorfman, translated by Stephen Kessler, (novel) 1983, Seven Stories Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Living Expenses, 1980, Alcatraz Editions
  • Beauty Fatigue, 1978, Alcatraz Editions
  • Homage to Neruda, Poems by Fernando Alegría, Efraín Barquero, Oscar Hahn, Osvaldo Rodriguez, Omar Lara, Sergio Macías, Miguel Moreno Monroy, and Pablo Neruda. Translated by Stephen Kessler, 1978, Ediciones Puelche, bilingual edition
  • Thirteen Ways of Deranging and Angel, 1977, Greenhouse Review Press
  • Destruction or Love, by Vicente Aleixandre, translated by Stephen Kessler, 1976, Green Horse Press
  • Poem to Walt Disney, 1976, ManRoot Books
  • Nostalgia of the Fortuneteller, 1975, Kayak Books


 
 
 
 

Rosie King

 
 
 
 
Donna Kuhn

Ron Lampi
  • Memory and Fire 1972-1983.  Available from the author.
  • The Lessons of Psyche 1983-1987  Available from the author.
  • The Birth of Psyche & other poems 1982-1988  Available from the author.
  • The Great Santa Cruz Mountains Earthquake 1989-1990  Available from the author.
  • A Femme Affair 1999-2000  Available from the author.
  • Threshold of the Millennium & other poems 2000  Available from the author.
  • The Cruz & other poems 1988-1990/2001  Available from the author]
  • The Tail of Hale-Bopp, a poem chronicle 1997/2001  Available from the author.
  • On The Cruz, Poems of Santa Cruz 1980s-2001  Available from the author.
  • The Multi Guy on Pacific Ave 2000-2001  Available from the author.
  • The Giant Santa Cruz Poem 1988-2002  Available from the author]
  • Lamp Light, a selection of short poems 2002  Available from the author.
  • Technos & Psyche, A Prelude 1992/2002  Available from the author.
  • Bay of Monterey 1983-2002  Available from the author.
  • Advent 1980s-2002  Available from the author.
  • Poetry Is, A Selection about Poetry & the Poet's Calling 2002 Available from the [available from the author.


George Lober

 
 
 
 
 
Robin Lysne
  • Heart Path: Learning to Love Yourself and Listening to Your Guides (poetry and prose), 2007, Blue Bone Books.
  • Dancing Up the Moon (poetry and prose), Conari Press.
  • Living a Sacred Life (prose), Conari Press.



Nathaniel MacKey

  • Splay Anthem, 2006, New Directions
  • Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews (Contemporary North American Poetry), 2005, University of Wisconsin Press
  • Atet, A.D., 2001, City Lights [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Discrepant Engagement, 2000, University of Alabama Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Whatsaid Serif, 1998, City Lights [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • See a more complete listing at Amazon.com


Morton Marcus
  • Striking through the Masks, 2008, Capitola Book Company
  • Pursuing the Dream Bone, 2007, Creative Arts
  • In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: Collected Poems, by Bert Meyers, edited by Morton Marcus and Daniel Meyers 2007, University of New Mexico Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Shouting Down The Silence, 2002, Creative Arts [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Moments Without Names, 2002, White Pine Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • When People Could Fly, 1997, Hanging Loose Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants : A Journey in Poems, 1988, Coffee House Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Breshnev Memo (Novel), 1981, Dell/Delacorte
  • Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows Cast By Stars: Poems, 1972-1980, 1987, Brown Bear Reprints (in stock at Bookshop Santa Cruz)
  • The Armies Encamped In The Fields Beyond The Unfinished Avenues: Prose Poems, 1977, Jazz Press
  • Origins, 1987, Brown Bear Reprints (in stock at Bookshop Santa Cruz) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Where The Oceans Cover Us, 1972, Capra Press
  • The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, 1992, Capitola Book Company (in stock at Bookshop Santa Cruz)

Donald Marsh
  • An Ice Cream Communion, 1990, Caminito Press
  • The Clouds of Magellan, 1987, Caminito Press
  • The Stone Humpers, 1970, Delacorte Press

 

Joanna Martin

 

Ric Masten


Ryan Masters

Joseph McNeilly
Kat Meads
  • Filming the Everyday, Lightning Tree Press
  • Night Bones, Linear Arts
  • Queendom, Linear Arts
  • Quizzing the Dead, Puddinghouse Press


Hermie Medley
 
 
 

Maude Meehan
  • As If the World Made Sense (Many Names Press, 2003). Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Washing the Stones: Selected Poems, 1975-1995, (Papier-Mache Press, 1996) [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Before the Snow (Moving Parts Press, 1991) [out of print]
  • Chipping Bone (Embers Press, 1985) [out of print]


William Minor

Neli Moody
  • After Altamira, 2006, Ishmael Reed Publishing.

Martina Nicholson
  • Walking on Stars and Water, 2007, Old Mountain Press, available from the author
  • My Throat Is Full of Songbirds, 2007, Old Mountain Press, available from the author

Ekua Omosupe
  • Legacy

Kevin Opstedal
  • User’s Manual to the Pacific Coast Highway, (Seven Fingers Press, 2007)
  • Rare Surf, Vol. 2, New and Used Poems, (Smog Eyes Books, 2006)
  • Jungles (Gas Editions, 1992)
  • Sand in the Vaseline (Mike & Dale's, 1997)
  • California Redemption Value (Blue Press, 1998)
  • Like Rain (Angry Dog Press, 1999)
  • Crush (surfZombie, 2000)
  • Beach Blanket Massacre (Smog Eyes, 2001)
  • Nine Palms (Aurthur Klang & Sons, 2002)
  • Variable High Cloudiness (The Dozens, 2002)
  • 9th & Ocean (Auguste Press, 2002)
  • Next to Dreaming, or The Phone Never Rang (Angry Dog/Midget Edition, 2002)
  • Rare Surf, Vol. 2 (jackmagazine.com, 2003)
  • Heavy Water (Surf Donkey, 2003)
  • Radio Beach (Pelican Press, 2003)
  • El Tsunami (Auguste Press, 2004)
  • The Deep End (Plywood Press, 2004)
  • Straight Up & Down (Blue Press, 2004)

Maggie Paul
  • Stones From the Baskets of Others, 2002, Black Dirt Press.  Available from the author.

Eugenia Hepworth Petty
  • Pamyat Selo (Memory Village), 2007, Premier Poets Chapbook Series: No. 33.

Dan Phillips
  • The Bali in Me, 2005, Dandasana Books.  Available from the author.



Adrienne Rich

Barbara J. Rios
  • Who Is In Charge Here?, 2002.  Available from the author. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
  • Things Could Change, 1997.  Available from the author.
  • Taking It With Me, 1993.  Available from the author.
  • Where Is Love?, 1990.  Available from the author.
  • A Nobody In New York.  Available from the author.
  • It's Anybody's Guess.  Available from the author.

Doren Robbins
  • My Piece of the Puzzle, 2008, Eastern Washington University Press.
  • Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues and Prose Poetry, 2004, Cedar Hill Books.
  • Driving Face Down, 2001, Eastern Washington University Press.
  • Donkey's Tale, 1998, Red Wind Press.
  • Sympathetic Manifesto, 1987, Perivale Press.

Mark Rovan
  • Surfing the Soul, 2003.  Available from the author. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


C. J. Sage

 
 
 
 
 
 

Samuel Salerno
  • Spirithouse, 2007, Lighthouse Press
  • The New World, 2005, Lighthouse Press
  • Pygmalion’s Cross, 2003, Lighthouse Press
  • Janus Dreaming, 1999, Lighthouse Press


 
 
 

Tilly Washburn Shaw
  • Swimming Closer to Shore, 2002, Hummingbird Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


 
 
 
 
 
 
Patti Sirens

Elizabeth McBride Smith
  • Adult ABCs Plus Sins: 7 Deadly and 7 Not Quite So Deadly, Speedbump Press


 
 
 
 
 

Debra Spencer

 
 
 
 
Dona Luongo Stein
  • Topographies
  • Children of the Mafiosi
  • Heavenly Bodies


Joseph Stroud
  • Of This World: New and Selected Poems, 2008, Copper Canyon Press
  • Country of Light, 2004, Copper Canyon Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Below Cold Mountain, 1998, Copper Canyon Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Signatures : Poems (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol 8) [out of print] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • In the sleep of rivers [out of print]

 
 

David Allen Sullivan

 
 
 
 
 

Amber Coverdale Sumrall

David Swanger
  • Wayne’s College of Beauty: New and Selected Poems, 2005, BkMk Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café and Amazon.
  • This Waking Unafraid, 1995, University of Missouri Press. Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Café and Amazon.
  • Essays in Aesthetic Education, 1991, Edwin Mellen Press.


 
 

Robert Sward

Jeff Tagami

 
 
 
 
 
 
Maria Garcia Teutsch (nee Tabor)
  • Surrender Dorothy, available from the author.

David Thorn
  • In C Minor & Other Works

Margarite Tuchardt

Patrice Vecchione
  • Faith and Doubt : An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2007, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Revenge and Forgiveness: An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2004, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize [Vecchione, editor], 2002, Cricket Books. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • The Body Eclectic: An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2002, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Truth and Lies : An Anthology of Poems [Vecchione, editor], 2001, Henry Holt & Co. [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice By Looking Within, 2001, Contemporary Books [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Territory of Wind, 1999, Many Names Press [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Storming Heaven's Gate : An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women [Sumrall and Vecchione, editors] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Catholic Girls [Sumrall and Vecchione, editors], 1992 [out of print] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Bless Me, Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood [Sumrall and Vecchione, editors], 1994, [out of print] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]


Jean Vengua
  • Prau, 2007, Meritage Press & xPress(ed).
  • The First Hay(na)ku Anthology, edited with Mark Young (New Zealand/Australia), 2005, Meritage Press & xPress(ed).


 
 
 
 
 
 

Ken Weisner

 
 
 
 
 
 
Anita Wilkins
  • Talking to the Blindman
  • The Trees along the Road
  • Means of Approach

Elizabeth Willis
Rob Wilson
  • Waking In Seoul, 1998, University of Hawaii Press
  • Pacific Postmodern: From the Sublime to the Devious, Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific in Hawaii, 2000, Susan M. Webster Schultz
  • Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge, 2000, Duke University Press [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge, 2000, Duke University Press [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific (Editor), 1999, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific (Editor), 1999, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers [opaperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational (Editor), 1996, Duke University Press Imaginary [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational (Editor), 1996, Duke University Press Imaginary (Editor) [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, 1995, Duke University Press [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • Asia\Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, 1994, Duke University Press (Editor) [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, 1991, University of Wisconsin Press [hardcover] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]
  • American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, 1991, University of Wisconsin Press [paperback] [Bookshop Santa Cruz]

Michael Wolfe

Gary Young
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