{"product_id":"out-of-print-city-lights-spotlight-no-14-paperback","title":"Out of Print: City Lights Spotlight, No. 14 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulien Poirier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third full-length collection by Julien Poirier, \u003ci\u003eOut of Print \u003c\/i\u003eis a truly bicoastal volume, reflecting the poet's years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary California surrealism, a series of quips intercepted from America's underground poetry telegraph, or an absurdist mirror held up to consumerist culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Welcome Julien Poirier! What a distinct inspired voice. His work is abundant in surprise. His musical, often bonkers play of language is, for me, a source of delight \u0026amp; revelation.\"--\u003cb\u003eDavid Meltzer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Julien Poirier's poems calibrate the vernacular in a sublime mathematics of commonalities. The effect is that of feelings on the run, enunciated clearly. In a sudden down-draught--'You're wind, you melt on my tongue'--he'll take the contemporary love poem into new stretches of believability while knowingly calling to account the failings that, whether perennial or merely topical, hem round ourselves to disastrous effect. For, no mistake, \u003ci\u003eOut of Print\u003c\/i\u003e means business: a forceful wake-up call, allowing as how for this old world the time for meaningful action may well have run out and we've joined the fabled damned, lost but for such eloquence, affection, and mad, mad laughter in Hell's despite.\"--\u003cb\u003eBill Berkson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOut of Print\u003c\/i\u003e's unexpectedly a love poem, its humor sharpening into dissonant pleasure. And what a pleasure! Julien Poirier's weirdly direct and directly weird poems notice what an event is, whether it's four square monks in a Coupe de Ville or becoming the Invisible Hand, and render that event into a sensual and searching landscape. You are really there, no \u003ci\u003ewhere\u003c\/i\u003e, but there, in poetry as a means to think differently, and maybe, absurdly, hope.\"--\u003cb\u003eKaren Weiser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulien Poirier has taught poetry in the New York City and San Francisco public schools and at San Quentin State Prison, and was a founding member of the Ugly Duckling Presse Collective. Previous books include \u003ci\u003eWay Too West\u003c\/i\u003e (Bootstrap Press 2015), \u003ci\u003eStained Glass Windows of California\u003c\/i\u003e (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012), \u003ci\u003eEl Golpe Chileño\u003c\/i\u003e (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010), and the newspaper novel, \u003ci\u003eLiving! Go and Dream\u003c\/i\u003e (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005). For Ugly Duckling, he has edited such volumes as Jack Micheline's \u003ci\u003eOne of a Kind\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), Steve Dalachinsky's \u003ci\u003eIn Glorious Black \u0026amp; White\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and two editions of Cedar Sigo's \u003ci\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e (2003, 2005), as well as co-editing the periodicals \u003ci\u003e6x6\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York Nights\u003c\/i\u003e. With Garrett Caples, he is the co-editor of Frank Lima's \u003ci\u003eIncidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (City Lights 2015). He lives in Berkeley with his two daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758110834976,"sku":"9780872867048","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8c32d352a5676108de270d4dc41a0b9c.webp?v=1780118281","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/out-of-print-city-lights-spotlight-no-14-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}