Product Description: Poetry. Down midnight trails to the still reeling seawall, past campfires in the Western Jungle, with voice work from Judy Collins, Nicholas Ray, Aphra Behn, Noah Purifoy, Johnny Cash, William F. Buckley Jr. and a sadistic Black Bart impersonator along the way - WAY TOO WEST is the first major poem of the long century now unfolding on Earth's runaway twin...read more

Product Description: Poetry. EL GOLPE CHILENO is Julien Poirier's first book, not counting chapbooks and a newspaper novel. It runs naked through letters and cartoons dated 1991-2009. The title comes from a thief's trick practiced in Barcelona in the 1980s.

Product Description: Poetry. "This fellow human named Poirier weaves his days and nights throughout every page. His words are visitors to the reader, accompanied by his cartoon sketched characters who tag along for the ride scattered with frequent delight"--Patrick James Dunagan.

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