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13
Jun

Pegasus Award Recognizes Robert Duncan Books

Big congratulations are in order for Peter Quartermain and James Maynard, the respective editors of Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays and Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose. The two books received the Poetry Foundation’s …

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05
May

Albie Sachs Honored by Governor Jerry Brown

Here is UC Press author Albie Sachs conversing with Governor Jerry Brown at a dinner honoring Sachs and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the transition to democracy in South Africa. His memoir, The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter, which …

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02
May

Top Graduation Gifts

To Repair the World Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices …

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29
Apr

Lamantia and Music

To conclude our celebration of National Poetry Month, we asked Andrew Joron, one of the co-editors of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, to reflect on Lamantia’s poetic development and the sources of …

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22
Apr

Poets Gone Wild

In honor of National Poetry Month, please enjoy this archival footage of a young Michael McClure reading to lions at the San Francisco Zoo from his 1964 collection, Ghost Tantras. The clip …

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