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REVOLUTIONARY ALCHEMY
collected poems 1967-2012 Foreword by Jack Hirschman, former San Francisco poet laureate364 pages, Homeward Press, 2012 ISBN-13-978-0615704142From the foreword by Jack Hirschman: "I think I can say a few words about what makes American poetry tick (or be ticked off), and by way of that indicate the importance of this book and John Curl in the pantheon of revolutionary poets... it is “transform, transform” that John Curl is forever sounding and resounding with his depth charges... We’re talking about transforming a society totally in which process poetry serves as a beaconing forward. Curl’s signature achievement linguistically, it seems to me, is to have developed a language where lines of images often are contrary to one another and that friction or opposition does more than 'surrealize' the lines (Curl knows the techniques of all the avant-garde poetry movements of the 20th century)—what he is writing is often a poetry of dialectical motion itself. The singular intent behind John’s writing is to actualize in poetry the urgent need for working-class consciousness,... and Curl succeeds in so many poems and in so many imaginings in this book that one realizes that Revolutionary Alchemy is a book of major importance. John Curl... has earned a place—with this book of poems—among the foremost revolutionary American poets since the end of WW2." |
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FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
Uncovering
the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and
Communalism in America
Second
expanded editionWith a new foreword by ISHMAEL REED Including a new chapter: Food For People, Not For Profit The Attack on the Bay Area People's Food System and the Minneapolis Co-op War: Crises in the Food Revolution of the 1970s PM Press ISBN 978-1-60486-582-0 • 6X9 • Paperback • 592 pages • US History “It is indeed inspiring, in the face of all the misguided praise of ‘the market,’ to be reminded by John Curl’s book of the noble history of cooperative work in the United States.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States “Curl surveys all, and explains much...Get this book and read it, Curl will do you good.” —Paul Buhle, author of Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero “John Curl has done it again with a vital look at America’s great history of communalism and co-ops. ” —Harvey Wasserman, author of Solartopia! “Curl blends the three strands of his historical narrative with aplomb... For historians, Curl’s book is a must; for young women and men considering the idea of starting a business they own and manage; and for the philosophers among us.” —Frank T. Adams, coauthor of Putting Democracy to Work |
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MEMORIES
OF DROP CITY
The first hippie commune of the
1960s
and the Summer of Love a memoir iUniverse, 262 pages, ISBN: 0-595-42343-4 "John Curl’s characters in Memories of Drop City aspire to be ‘100 years’ ahead of the rest of us, but Curl shows, through his highly crafted and brilliant novelistic memoir, that they often succumb to the same social flaws as the rest of us. This might be the most balanced memoir or novel yet published about the Sixties." — Ishmael Reed, National Book Award nominee "With this compelling evocation and portrayal of breathing people, John Curl unpacks the boxed lunch myth of America’s alternative lifestyle Sixties, and restores the day to day flavor of a deeply fabled era still key to understanding the way we live (and don’t live) now." —Al Young, poet laureate of California, emeritus |
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ANCIENT
AMERICAN POETS
translations from Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, and Quechua with biographies of the poets The Flower Songs by Nezahualcoyotl (Nahuatl) The Songs of Dzitbalche by Ah Bam (Yucatec Maya) The Sacred Hymns of the Situa by Pachacuti (Quechua) With commentaries on the lives and times of the poets. Each poem is presented in its original language and in translation. Bilingual Review Press ISBN:
1-931010-21-8
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Poems
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Festival
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