Halos of Debris

Literature & Fiction

Gray, Darrell

Poetry

Poltroon Press

Halos of debris

Trance & Recalcitrance: The Private Voice in the Public Realm -- 20 Years of Poltroon Press

History & Criticism

Cultural Writing. This bibliography tells the story of ZEPHYRUS IMAGE, a Northern California press operated through the nineteen-seventies that was the brainchild of Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers. With their own idiosyncratic methods they produced subversive, anarchic works of great wit and elegance that lampooned the foolish. Poets Ed Dorn and Tom Raworth were strongly allied with them, and they published a varied and eclectic range of work from such authors as Robert Creely, Joanne Kyger, Fielding Dawson, Robert Bly, Lucia Berlin, Gary Snyder, Stan Brakhage and William T. Wiley.

Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography

Johnston, Alastair

Biographies & Memoirs

When venture capitalist Ted Valmont is belatedly informed that the Chief Scientist of NeuroStimix--a biotech firm in which he as invested--is missing, it's not just business, it's personal. Not only is the Chief Scientist an old school chum, but his disappearance jeopardizes the development of NeuroStimix's most important product: a device intended to aid spinal cord injury victims. Since Valmont's twin brother Tim was paralyzed in a college diving accident, finding the Chief Scientist and getting him back into harness is of the utmost importance to both brothers. 
Valmont engages private eye August Riordan to assist in the search and the men soon discover that the disappearance is part of a larger conspiracy to use NeuroStimix technology for perverse applications. Terrorism. Prostitution. Slave labor. These are just the beginning. And when a beautiful, mysterious young woman comes onto the scene, it's impossible to say whether the technology will provide the ultimate means to save them all or be the catalyst for tortuous, self-inflicted deaths...

Vulture Capital (August Riordan Mystery)

Mark Coggins

Cultural Writing. Essays. "This is the book I've been waiting for. I've spent years tracking down Johnston's essays, photocopying them from magazines, stapling, stacking, and unstacking. Now, here they are. [ELLIPSIS] ... is drawn from a variety of ephemeral publications on subjects dear to the heart and concerns of Johnston. Where else can you find a collection that thoughtfully reflects on an ensemble as eclectic as Basil Bunting, Joanne Kyger, Lucia Berlin, Bob Grenier, Darrell Gray, H.N. Werkman, W.A. Dwiggins, Wallace Berman, Asa Benveniste, and Jack Kerouac?"--Kyle Schlesinger.

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Literary Nonfiction. United States History. Book Arts. Between the American Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century a population of rootless craftsmen drifted from town to town working as typesetters, editors and printers in newspaper offices. Some like Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Horace Greeley became famous authors; others driven by drink or personal tragedy became the stuff of legend. This collection gathers the stories of these adventurers in engaging and sometimes farcical tales from the diamond mines of South Africa to the mean streets of Nevada City where you had to step over bullet-riddled corpses on your way to the bar.

Typographical Tourists: Tales of the Tramping Printer

History

Americas

Transitional Faces: The Lives & Work of Richard Austin, Typecutter and Richard Turner Austin, Wood-Engraver

Arts & Photography

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