Bøger udgivet af Hip Pocket Press

My physical limitations make it impossible for me to go off and promote this book, so I feel that I can't ask HPP to bear the costs of publication of a book that can't be promoted by the full capacity of the press. Rather than participate in the editorial process, I chose these poems myself, and I am publishing this chapbook. These poems are an expression of my current process: how cancer left me immunocompromised in a pandemic, and Parkinson's disease has created "waking dreams." Glaucoma, which would seem to be the least dangerous, has cost me the most. I can't read nor write nor drive a car nor play tennis nor do anything to enjoy the full spectrum of what life has to offer, so I remain indebted to the poetic process to find life's significance, learning to embrace what remains.

This highly stylized, intelligent and witty debut collection of poems is at times humorous, at times insightful, always fresh and sophisticated. Betsy Scholl has said of Keith, "His poems are both skeptical and grateful, full of wonder and irony." Keith has been on the poetry scene for years and formerly co-edited both the Columbia Review and Cutbank while earning his MFA at Montana. He has been a member of the avant-garde theatre group, New York Art Theatre Institute, and his often surprising turns of phrase reflect this quirky experience.

Modern, playful and accessible, these poems fuse nature and the mundane clutter of the world. Broad range demonstrates both poignancy - as in the poems of his father's decline and death - and outright hilarity ('Platonic Love, ' 'The Auto Body Shop'). Original, fresh, funny and poignant, Anderson anthropomorphizes objects and emotions so that you read the lines and think "Yes! Ha!"

A three-decade romance captured in poetry.

This is a collection of thirty-two essays, memoirs, and poems about tumultuous times. Universities were under attack and free speech was in question. The byword of the culture rang out, "Question authority." It was also a time to come together and discuss such things as the worth of a word in a poem. The young writers who started The Berkeley Poets Cooperative decided to have a say-so about what was important in literature and in the culture. The combined voices form a patchwork quilt of a unique era in Berkeley, California 1960-1990. Why revisit literary history? Nearly half a century since the founding of the Berkeley Poets Cooperative, the difficult times have returned. The Great Recession of 2007, the rise in poverty, a rise of the super-rich, inequality of the 1% versus the 99% --the culture is beginning to fear the closing down of the "American dream." The intention is to share this amazing period in history, from the point of view of poets and writers who were there and lived the experience, and remind the reader of the optimism of "the way we were," when everything seemed possible.

John Smith's words are stepping stones into the natural world, bridging it and drawing from it insights that resonate in the human mind and soul. His empathetic accord with the environment, coupled with his imagery and word play, make each and every one of his poems as enticing as April woodlands and as honest as December sunlight. Pete Dunne, VP of Natural History, New Jersey Audubon Society

Ex Vivo (out of the body) is a crazy quilt of a poetry book. What could unify such a varied collection of narrators -- inebriated monks, famous painters, suicides, bad girls, and a woman who feels no pain? What could stitch together subjects as disparate as organ donors, middle names, anonymous corpses, keyholes, the "suspicious grieving," pocket knives, and trees? In this collection, the binding thread is language itself, which functions not only as an instrument of communication, but as character, as place, as metaphor, as architecture, as song. Cheryl Dumesnil, author of In Praise of Falling, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize