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New & Selected Poems

By: Kevin Opstedal,Noel Black

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New & Selected Poems

By: Kevin Opstedal,Noel Black

Poetry. This collection of new and selected poems by Santa Cruz-based poet Kevin Opstedal will be many people's first introduction to this legendary Bay Area poet and small-press publisher. Full of West- Coast surf vernacular and the dark, hypnotic pull of waves breathing, Opstedal's poems manage to float from Donne to the Romantics and Rimbaud, then wash up on the shores of the New York School in Bolinas. At 200-plus pages, this book will give a thorough introduction/reintroduction to Opstedal's enormous output of chapbooks and two full-length collections, as well as new poems from a lone, reclusive voice that might otherwise find itself lost to its own time.

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1937027805

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Dreaming as One

Poetry, Poets, and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967-1980

By: Kevin Opstedal

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Dreaming as One

Poetry, Poets, and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967-1980

By: Kevin Opstedal

Bolinas, a small coastal town north of San Francisco, became a haven for poets and writers seeking an alternative lifestyle and creative environment away from the urban centers of the late 20th Century. Kevin Opstedal delves into the lives and works of this unique poetic community, known for its countercultural ethos, environmental activism, and dedication to artistic expression. Opstedal's narrative, enriched with photos of and interviews with many of those featured, captures the spirit of rebellion, experimentation, and communal living that characterized Bolinas from 1967 to 1980. Dreaming as One features several influential poets associated with the Bolinas literary scene, including Joanne Kyger, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, Tom Clark, Bill Berkson, and Robert Duncan.

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9798989413386

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The lyric missives that make up this collection are poems of place as substantive as beach sand or the crackle of gun fire. I see Opstedal in an old car in a pal-lined beach parking lot in a gray mist south of Point Dume listening to an eight-track of rare surf music and writing it all down; "The Poems" tattooed on one bicep" -Lewis Macadams

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