Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: skies
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 157423174X
ISBN-13: 9781574231748

Author: Robert Kelly
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: words
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 1983-10-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 087685594X
ISBN-13: 9780876855942

Author: Diane Wakoski
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: books, movies, archaeology, vol, sailor, jason
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1993-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0876859023
ISBN-13: 9780876859025

From "His Bedroom Voice":He leaves a message on our answering machine,a simple one, plain, expedient, he needs aletter of recommendation, but as I listen withoutmuch thought/I realize I don’t mind anything he asks of me

Author: Alfred Chester
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: desire, heart, jamie
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-06-30
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1574232061
ISBN-13: 9781574232066

Alfred Chester’s masterpiece, The Exquisite Corpse, was one of the literary sensations of the 1960s, a surreal, homoerotic phantasmagoria that became a cult classic. It was preceded by this, his only other novel, a work more straitlaced in literary form but just as shockingly original in content. It tells the story of a cynical Brooklyn undertaker, Harry, and the object of his affection, a beautiful and deceased young man named Jamie. But does Jamie really exist, or is he merely Harry’s fantasy, the illusion that makes his life endurable? Harry’s friends are divided on this m

Author: John Yau
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: entries, forbidden
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1997-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1574230166
ISBN-13: 9781574230161

poetry: incl ’Hollywood Asians’ & ’Dream Hospital’

Author: Wanda Coleman
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: believe, hips, mambo
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1999-08
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1574230948
ISBN-13: 9781574230949

Fiction. Wanda Coleman’s powerful new novel chronicles the friendship between two women -- one from the black ghetto of Los Angeles, one from its white middle-class suburbs. Both are aspiring writers, both scramble to pay their bills by pickup jobs like waitressing and editing pulp magazines. For two decades they share each others’ troubles and triumphs in and out of work and love. Coleman focuses primarily on the white protagonist’s point of view; as the story unfolds and the characters’ roots are unearthed, however, we learn that there’s no such thing as "pure"

Author: Gerard Malanga
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Keywords: diamonds, three
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1991-06-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 087685837X
ISBN-13: 9780876858370