Juliana Spahr and David Buuck. City Lights, $13.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-87286-629-4
This avant-garde debut novel from poets Spahr and Buuck eschews convention while containing flashes of surprising humor and insight. The novel opens and concludes with the story of Demented Panda and Koki, two “mediocre” San Francisco Bay Area poets
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Juliana Spahr, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $12.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6524-2
An understated, careful examination of the individual in the troubled nexus of the law, community, culture and, centrally, language, Spahr's follow-up to 1995's Response
continues that book's search for the verbal means to realize...
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Juliana Spahr, Author . Univ. of California $45 (86p) ISBN 978-0-520-24295-1
Innovative, incantatory, politically charged and decidedly accessible, Spahr's new volume consists of two linked prose poems, "Poem Written After Sept. 11, 2001" and the longer, more ambitious "Poem Written from November 30, 2002 to...
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Juliana Spahr, Author . Atelos $13.50 (223p) ISBN 978-1-891190-26-1
Spahr's latest is a fascinating poetic memoir along the lines of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
, charting the personal and political transformation that is at the root of books like Spahr's tender, blistering This Connection of...
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Juliana Spahr. Black Sparrow/ David R. Godine, $17.95 trade paper (156p) ISBN 978-1-57423-217
Spahr's fifth book of imaginative writing (both poems and prose) should be a blockbuster, a lasting disturbance; a work of crisp wit, bizarre conjunctions and ultimately enduring moral authority; it is also the best, and perhaps the most widely...
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Juliana Spahr. Commune Editions (AK Press, dist.), $16 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-934639-17-7
In clear-spoken songs, this latest collection by critic and poet Spahr (This Connection of Everyone with Lungs) moves between poetry and prose as it inhabits the space of the “Non-Revolution.” Whether marching with a child in protests that approach...
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