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In these seven stories and the novella "My Literary Life" Aram Saroyan glances back at a glamorous but troubled youth spent among the bright lights of Manhattan and the luxuriant palms of Beverly Hills. With a Blakean freshness of vision Saroyan deftly captures the life and times of this "artist in trouble".

The renowned author revisits the places and key moments in his life, evoking his encounters, friendships, marriage, travels, and especially, his experiences as a writer

Karma, " writes Tom Clark, "simply means that you don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing." Existence--a.k.a. "getting through to tomorrow"--simply means "that your left hand wouldn't want to know anyway." Cracked consciousness vs. the crazy subconscious, fractured karma vs. our chipped, sad, shopworn existence--these are the dynamics underlying this rich and varied collection of lyricsHere are light-hearted nature poems ch...

The author, a lawyer, and writer recounts his experiences during the period from 1936 to 1945.

To the Reader: I am concerned to examine in practice how through the composition of poems the organs of enlightenment begin to open, begin to work for the benefit of all. For the benefit of all, not just the talker, the poem shapes itself in syllables, breath patterns, deep metabolic rhythms it borrows from the writer - signal of what is personal (body) transcending itself into what is sharing, shared... -RK

John Sanford juxtaposes reminiscence with documentary material on earlier American heroes and heroines to build an impressive mosaic of the past, giving back full multi-dimensional vividness to history by returning it to the intimate field of experience, registered through his unique prose construction method: that elusive quality of vanished time which he himself has aptly termed "the color of the air."

Breaking away from his typical first person autobiographical narration,  Virginia Dare is marked a new stage in Fielding Dawson's career, a stage in which he employed third person narration, and open endings through transitions. In his introduction Dawson explains that both the random topics of his stories and the unrelated characters make this collection a truer reflection of the human order, because in reality loose ends are not always tied up.

Ann breaks up with her first husband, Ben, and tries to start a new life, first on her own and then married again.

First published in 1959, Fade Out is a stunning, surreal criticism of American life in the materialistic, youth-and money-crazed 1950s. Its hero is Dick Twombley, a 74-year old retired bank clerk who struggles to retain what remains of his dignity in a world that regards old age as an embarrassment. When he is mistakenly accused of kidnapping two little girls he has befriended, Dick's daughter packs him off to a suburban New York City retireme...

From the moment survivors of Captain Cook's third voyage of discovery found that sea otter skins procured from the Northwest Coast Indians would bring $100 apiece on the Chinese market, the future of the coast, the Indians, and the sea otters was irrevocably altered. Tom Clark's serial poetic history of the maritime fur trade (1785-1810) documents and elaborates that change, linking white world fur traders with indigenes in extended metaphors ...

This landmark volume of correspondence by the great Objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) sheds light on the difficulties of a dedicated artist trying to keep afloat in a materialistic society, and on the relation of poetry to a wider culture during the turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Most of the letters here date from the 1920s and 30s, when the young Reznikoff, an NYU law school graduate employed sporadically as editor o...

Written during his time in a monastery,  Prodigious Thrust is a work by William Everson that incorporates both prose and poetry with a monastic point of view. According to Everson in his preface, "What was conceived as essentially a book of poetry supported by an autobiographical context, came, through the incorporation of so many digressions, to swell out of all proportion, until the poems survive only as a kind of archipelago awash in an oce...

Art Criticism. Following The Diary of James Schuyler (declared by the New York Times as a "treasure"), Black Sparrow has brought out "Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler, " edited by poet Simon Petit, this book presents Schuyler's essays and articles composed mostly for the influential trade periodical Art News during his tenure as associate editor (1957-1962). It is a vivid composite portrait of the New York art scene of that time. This s...

A novel by Fielding Dawson.

Nancy Boutilier's first Black Sparrow book, According to Her Contours (1992) landed her on the map as an important new writer. Nominated for a Lambda Award, the collection of stories and poems was hailed by Booklist as "an exciting exploration of relationships, gender identity, and the politics of clothes from a woman who chose high tops over high heels and has the courage to love her family and her lesbianism".The intense, disarming new poems...

This comprehensive scholarly edition gathers all the verse, including previously unpublished pieces, written by Everson during his eighteen years as a Dominican lay brother, Brother Antoninus. Taken together, these poems provide a passionate record of Everson/Antoninus's struggle to maintain strict vows of celibacy. That struggle is fraught with dramatic tension, as the poet strives to establish a fragile equilibrium between opposed psychic po...

In this "intriguing collection of 13 short stories" (Library Journal) Chinese-American poet and author John Yau tackles the problems of being an outcast from society and of the essential difficulty of establishing communion with another human being

Poetry. This second volume of William Everson's Collected Poems includes five books, as well as a selection of uncollected and previously unpublished poems. Albert Gelpi, of Stanford University, has commented that "if T.S. Eliot is the most important religious poet in English in the first half of the twentieth century, Everson/Antoninus is the most important religious poet of the second half of the twentieth century." In his 1978 preface to "T...

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