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Ten years of poet and critic Garrett Caples’s writing on neglected figures of art and poetry.
List of contents
Prologue: Wittgenstein, a Memoir
A Man of Firsts: Arthur Jerome Eddy
Pamela Colman Smith at the Dawn of Modernism
The Exotic Victor Segalen
Roger Fry and the Invention of Art History
Vachel Lindsay with the Submerged
Surrealism¿s Island: Martinique
Gordon Onslow Ford: Cosmos and Death
Surrealism and the Abstract Truth
A Footnote on Jimmy Ernst
Sylvia Fein and the Death of the White Knight
Philip Lamantia and André Breton
Mysteries of the Six Gallery: Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman
Apparitions of Marie Wilson at City Lights
Barbara Guest in the Shadow of Surrealism
Circles: Richard Tagett and Richard O. Moore
Becoming Visible: Jean Conner
¿Death Will Be My Final Lover¿: The Life of Alden Van Buskirk
The Incorrigible Torregian
John Anderson, Master
The Hyphy Hump
Theory of Retrieval
About the author
Garrett Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999), Complications (Meritage Press, 2007), and Quintessence of the Minor (Wave Books, 2010). He is the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (University of California Press, 2013). He is the poetry editor at City Lights Books, and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He is also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Oakland.
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Ten years of poet and critic Garrett Caples's writing on neglected figures of art and poetry.
