R. L. Crow

BOOKS

Leaning Against Time

love at gunpoint

-Roxy

AUTHORS

By nila northSun

love at gunpoint:

nila northSun's poems are written with emotional honesty and biting elegance; they embrace her tribal identity and confront the challenges of being a contemporary American woman. Her poems are a confession of the extremes of her life: the highs of a first kiss - the lows of coming home to an empty house. They tell how it feels to hold a rebellious child, to wait too long for a too late lover and to miss a tomorrow that is already gone. They tell what it is to love at gunpoint.

Praise for love at gunpoint


	By Ann Menebroker. Introduction by W.S. Gainer. tiny teeth, the Wormwood Review poems: Ann Menebroker's – tiny teeth, the Wormwood Review poems, chronicles the challenges of a young woman as she struggles, fights and loves her way through a decade and a half of life. The poems are tough, soft, bold, shy, playful and often sensual to the point of being erotic. Ann caresses the moments of her life with a language so honest and a voice so clear that you can feel the warmth of her breath on the page. These poems remain as relevant today as when first written – a testament to the wisdom of Marvin Malone's editorial judgment and the strength of Menebroker's work.
**Named- One of the 80 Goddamned Good Things of 2004 by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Byron Coley Arthur Magazine, Bull Tongue, Issue 15, March 2005, USA Reviewed in: - Thunder Sandwich by A.D. Winans - Rattlesnake Press by B.L. Kennedy - Poetry Now by Carol Frith - BookZen by John Bennett**

By Neeli Cherkovski.

Leaning Against Time:

From Los Angeles to San Francisco, from 1953 to now – Neeli Cherkovski uses bar scenes, café insights, family confessions, heartbreak and redemption, meditations on morality and the acceptance of self to transform memory, time and myth into an intimate poetic-memoir. He creates a window to the past and explores how time has shaped who he has become. It is here – the power of Cherkovski's talent surfaces. It is here – he finds himself, like an old friend in a warm embrace –

Leaning Against Time.

Reviewed May 8, 2005 - San Francisco Chronicle

Winner 2005 Pen Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award

Phil Cousineau’s Pen Oakland Presentation Speech

By Todd Cirillo, W.S. Gainer and Will Staple.
Introduction by Ann Menebroker.

Roxy:

Roxy is After Hours Poetry; when the lights go down and the memory of last call has faded into the exhaled smoke of a bummed cigarette - Roxy comes to life. The poems are rooted in the street, caress (no Slam!) the frailties of the human relationship, lean toward the erotic and show that honest poetry, feelings and emotions, cannot be confined by political correctness. In fact, Roxy is not a politically correct collection. Cirillo, Gainer and Staple don't tell those gentle lies.

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W.S. Gainer reads poems. Listen Now

W.S. Gainer sample poems from "Poetry Now"