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Visions of Joanna Newsom AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Visions of Joanna Newsom

184pp.; paperback; $19.95

The singer-songwriter, harpist, and composer Joanna Newsom can't help being controversial. No other artist in recent years has evoked such a range of responses, both positive and negative. Yet her distinctive, often jarring voice and ambitious musical sensibility have attracted a worldwide following whose devotion is both intense and intellectually engaged. Visions of Joanna Newsom--a selection of personal, scholarly, poetic, and artistic responses to her work--reflects this obsession. It is a tribute to a unique talent, but also a testament to the deep reflections and powerful emotions her followers and critics have experienced while under her spell.

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Crow Song NOW AVAILABLE

Crow Song

Zoe Keithley
70pp.; paperback; $12.00

Zoe Keithley's volume of poems Crow Song is a powerful and ironic meditation on a lifetime's worth of relationships. These relationships are of many sorts: familial, romantic, erotic, aesthetic, spiritual and artistic. What they have in common is the simultaneously intimate and cosmic perspective in which Keithley views them. In this book we find a complete and satisfying portrait of a poet in love with life in all its forms, one that testifies both to the extreme demands the world places on us and to the dazzling rewards we may reap if we rise to the challenge.

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Swimming the Mirror NOW AVAILABLE

Swimming the Mirror:
Poems for My Daughter

Brad Buchanan
70pp.; paperback; $12.00

In this collection of poems chronicling the birth and growth of his daughter, poet Brad Buchanan offers a finely wrought double portrait of father and growing child. The volume's 56 poems range from the earliest apprehensions of begetting to the mysteries of a young child's own language play. "The poems will charm you," says Julia Connor, Sacramento Poet Laureate (2005-2009). "In just that way, they are, like all true love, dangerous." Buchanan's exploration of the languages of parenthood, love and childhood, combines toughness and vulnerability, wry humor and whimsy, challenge and grace.

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