Memoir. Cultural Writing. Son and biographer of William Saroyan, Aram Saroyan grew up in a world of celebrities and geniuses. His writings soon placed him among the best known figures in the New York School of poets, and his essays and reviews helped to characterize his generation. STARTING OUT IN THE SIXTIES is a powerful collection of essays, memoirs, and reflections with commentary and anecdotes about publishing, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac, the author's Armenian heritage, his famous father, Jerry Brown, and much, much more. Variously humorous, reflective, and profound, Saroyan's book should prove for years to come, a key guide to the taste and literary values of the generation that 'started out in the sixties.'

Starting Out in the Sixties: Selected Essays

SAROYAN, Aram

Biographies & Memoirs

Talisman House

Poetry. "With his third collection in three years, Bronk is at his philosophical best. Like his previous work, these brief, highly spiritual poems probe the nature (or inanity) of life, and how speech plays a role in shaping what man thinks he is. But, whereas most poets are obsessed with finding the proper names for objects within their range of vision, these poems imply that, since the meanings of words are subject to change over time, any name will do. What matters is action; man alone has the ability not only to move, but to choose his movements, to create. 'To be is the verb to be. The noun pretends.' An English teacher's nightmare, these minimalist poems string together verbs and adverbs, seldom in anything approximating what we usually think of as a sentence. Nouns are often abstract and always general--'truth,' 'sadnesses,' 'poverty,' 'devotion'--yet in the hands of this literary descendant of Louis Zukofsky and the other Objectivist poets, no poem lacks specificity. For the first time in Bronk's work, pronouns include more than the speaker; 'we,' 'us' and 'you' predominate, while the 'I' is 'inanimate, marked for discard.' The fact that Bronk is now 75 years old gives words such as these additional credence"--Publishers Weekly.

The Mild Day

Literature & Fiction

BRONK, William

Poetry

Poetry. "Entertaining, moving, Notley's work engages ever-deepening areas of division and isolation while settling for nothing less than a restoration of wholeness"--Joseph Donahue.

Selected Poems of Alice Notley

Notley, Alice

Nonfiction. VECTORS AND SMOOTHABLE CURVES, the collected essays of one of our foremost writers, brings together "The New World," "A Partial Glossary," "The Brother in Elysium," and shorter works on Thoreau and Oppen. Included are meditations on time, desire, and the roots of American literary thought. Few books in our time are as provocative and rewarding

Vectors and Smoothable Curves: The Collected Essays of William Bronk, New Edition

History & Criticism

Floating City: Selected Poems, 1978-1995

Poetry. "The precision and ordered intelligence of Geoffrey O'Brien's essays are turned inside out in the dream landscapes of his poetry. The result is a kind of spectral tapestry where words and images are stripped to their own inherent valence and deeper codings the better to hunt down resemblances and resolutions. The effects are mysterious, hypnotic, often breathtaking, and, I think, unique in American poetry"-August Kleinzahler.

O'Brien, Geoffrey

Poetry. LIVING INSTEAD was published by North Point Press in 1991 and is now available from Talisman House and from SPD. William Bronk has been called one of America's greatest living poets (Compound Eye). The way Columbus or someone earlier/ came to a place to be called a New World/ though not more new than the old world was/ --there all along and people living there--/ is like the way a poem is come upon:/ you think there's something there, go see what. (from Exploration).

Living Instead

All of What We Loved

Poetry. "One of America's greatest living poets"--Compound Eye.

Ancient Andes Mystery solved! Killarumiyoq, a large rainbow-shaped limestone carving in Peru, has been an enigma for centuries. But a modern analysis of this “Shadow Machine” reveals that is a unique and sophisticated Solar Computer of a kind never seen anywhere else in the world. The secrets of Ancient Andean Astronomers are now laid bare for all to witness. Killarumiyoq still works!

Killarumiyoq: Lost Secrets of the Shadow Machine

History

Andrews Sr., Dr. Arlan

Ancient Civilizations

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