"The lyric missives that make up this collection are poems of place as substantive as beach sand or the crackle of gun fire. I see Opstedal in an old car in a pal-lined beach parking lot in a gray mist south of Point Dume listening to an eight-track of rare surf music and writing it all down; "The Poems" tattooed on one bicep" -Lewis Macadams

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Literature & Fiction

Opstedal, Kevin

Poetry

Uno Pr

Poetry. This collection of new and selected poems by Santa Cruz-based poet Kevin Opstedal will be many people's first introduction to this legendary Bay Area poet and small-press publisher. Full of West- Coast surf vernacular and the dark, hypnotic pull of waves breathing, Opstedal's poems manage to float from Donne to the Romantics and Rimbaud, then wash up on the shores of the New York School in Bolinas. At 200-plus pages, this book will give a thorough introduction/reintroduction to Opstedal's enormous output of chapbooks and two full-length collections, as well as new poems from a lone, reclusive voice that might otherwise find itself lost to its own time.

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Dreaming as One: Poetry, Poets, and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967-1980 (The Divers Collection)

Biographies & Memoirs

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