Like so many Americans, the citizens of Salvation Station struggled through the pandemic only to find they might not survive each other. Slubber Doffers captures the absurdity of the post-Covid zeitgeist through the public comment monologues presented at school board meetings over the course of a full year. Nearing 100, Crescentia Jensen longs for the good old days. New Age poet/goddess Nulaxia urges meditation and self-care. Fang Strong, the high school principal's bitter son, fights for ...

ve years have passed since Nevin Boyle's wife died and their son disappeared after writing a note, "Sorry but I can't." What was it their son couldn't do––bear his mother's death or continue his struggle with mental illness? Maybe both. Paper Hearts is about Nevin Boyle's efforts to cope with grief and make peace with uncertainty, but it's also a story of love in its many forms: agape, romantic, familial, paternal, and more.

These poems lead us through a constellation of places: hotels, airports, cosmodromes, quarries, abandoned cities, vacated rooms—the dreamlike settings of past events that may or may not have occurred as we remember them. It is what remains when the fundamental categories of time, identity, and history no longer function reliably. In a world that has lost its center of gravity, we drift among the wreckage of value systems now decommissioned, laden with memories from a lost age. Although we ...

A band of college students confronts the status quo on the streets and in the cultural and commercial centers of San Francisco. Students from rural New England throw themselves into the fight for liberation and peace, make love not war, power to the people and you are what you eat are among the cries of their marches and interventions in this novel and memoir of performance artists in San Francisco in 1970. In their late teens and early twenties, living communally, they awake, they self-re...