Complete poems from Jack Grapes' most recent four books, plus new poems written since. The poems run the gamut from personal reflection to urbane surrealism, from abstract to figurative, from personal to philosophical, and from historical to literary, showing the full range of human emotion. This revised second edition includes three additional poems and an afterword by writer Bill Mohr.

The Naked Eye: New and Selected Poems, 1987-2012 2nd Ed.

Literature & Fiction

Grapes, Jack

Poetry

Bombshelter Press

Some Life

Bombshelter Pr

Poetry. "Grapes speaks for the extraordinary in the ordinary, for the life in old shoes, the overcoat you didn't hang up, for whatever life, humanity, possibility that can come from chaos.... In his work and in his presentation of himself, a surface geniality frequently masks something dark and bloody.... This flip-flop from genial buffoonery to commandant of the dark side seems paradigmatic of Grapes approach to poetry"--Nancy Shiffrin, Los Angeles Times.

Trees, Coffee, and the Eyes of Deer

94*COLLECTIBLE! Inscribed and signed by the author. Pages clean and tight. Cover good.

Trees, Coffee, & the Eyes of Deer: New & Selected Poems

Method Writing is a powerful approach to finding your deep voice and activating the creative process. Based on a series of concepts and exercises Grapes has used in his writing workshops over the last 30-plus years, Method Writing does more than describe techniques: it takes you step-by-step through a process that will empower your writing and make it unique.

Method Writing: The First Four Concepts

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Poetry. Art. A chapbook of poems and paintings.

And the Running Form, Naked, Blake

Ulysses Episode 3, Proteus: The 1922 Text Supplemental Notes and Commentary

Geography is the first of three sections of an extended poetic sequence. The haunting world of buried memory gives the poem epic dimension as the poet fuses cultural and historical forces with personal memory... Breaking Down... weaves a narrative form with the meditative lyric and the fragmented visions of the Surrealists.

Breaking Down the Surface of the World

Wednesday, a new literary magazine, presents the newest in poetry, fiction, and journals from a continually evolving, continually working group of Los Angeles writers who meet every Wednesday night inside a nondescript brick building in the heart of the city. There is a literary movement in progress in Los Angeles. Wednesday magazine captures it in its pages.

Wednesday Vol. 1 No. 2

Essays & Correspondence

Jack Grapes is the author of 15 books of poetry, including The Naked Eye: New and Selected Poems, 1987-2012, and Poems So Far So Far So Good So Far To Go. David Ulin, Los Angeles Times book review editor, characterized his poetry as “operating somewhere in the middle ground between pop culture and philosophy.” Jack co-wrote and starred in Circle of Will, a metaphysical comedy about the lost years of William Shakespeare. He is currently working on four new books:, a book of literary criticism on the history of modern poetries, Etherized Upon a Table; a series of critical and personal essays, The Tendor Agonies of Charles Bukowski; and a non-fiction work, How to Read Like a Writer. Jack lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lori.

All The Sad Angels

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