Product Description: "Thom Gunn, Barbara Guest, Robert Creeley, Philip Lamantia, all ghosts now, are invoked without sentiment and with plenty of wry humor." —Kevin Killian, Attention SpanA power ballad was a hair metal band's voyage into the softer side of rock, compromising to the integrity of the genre, but genuine and trailblazing...read more

Product Description: Poetry. COMPLICATIONS is the second full-length poetry collection by Oakland-based poet Garrett Caples. Reflecting the moral disintegration of the post-9/11 world, COMPLICATIONS is an even wilder, darker, funnier exploration of poetic consciousness than its predecessor, THE GARRETT CAPLES READER...read more

Product Description: er, um is a collection of ten poems by Garrett Caples, together with six drawings by Hu Xin, published in a limited edition of 75 copies for trade. Each copy is signed by the poet. The poems include a lyric ode to "China," homages to Philip Lamantia and Barbara Guest, the prose of "Turd Factory," and an "Elegy for George Harrison...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Question: When is a poet's first book a reader? Answer: When you're Garrett Caples, whose poetic persona is often-perverse, decidedly-decisive, randomly-rule-breaking and impoetically-casual. Yet, through it all, the reader experiences the pleasures and charms of reading a forbidden journal, written by a smart young writer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)