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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.


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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