Method Writing is a powerful approach to finding your deep voice and activating the creative process. Based on a series of concepts and exercises Grapes has used in his writing workshops over the last 30-plus years, Method Writing does more than describe techniques: it takes you step-by-step through a process that will empower your writing and make it unique.

Etherized upon a Table is an account of the evolution of poetry from Homer to the present day, with particular emphasis on the periods of history in which poets saw themselves as modern. Whether they were called moderni or neoterics or poetae novi or moderns, every great era in poetry was usually centered around a group of poets who broke with tradition, used the natural speech and diction of their own time, and saw themselves as creating something new. In time, the movement solidified, became establishment, crystallized into the new tradition and repeated the forms that had become successful. Eventually, a new impulse toward the modern ideal re-asserted itself, and poets once again experimented with new forms, incorporated the new vernacular, and called themselves moderns. We tend to think of Modern Poetry as characteristic only of the 20th century, but there have been modern poetries throughout history where modernism as a force has waxed and waned, from the days of Homer to the present time. This book traces the evolution of that basic modernist impulse and charts the fortunes of those poets who embraced the new, and those poets who became locked into the past and adhered to the traditional paradigm. This is volume 1 of a two-volume set.

Elaine Mintzer's Natural Selections is a collection of 89 poems about choices. From pinched fingers, bad movies, . . . chicken or pizza again (Mercy), to the religious proportions of a misplaced piece of paper in Grail, to the intentional amnesia surrounding the loss of a parent, this poet has an eye for the lushness of daily life and the ironic humor of loss. Mintzer has been published in a number of literary journals, and she has been anthologized in 13 Los Angeles Poets. Her work celebrates the process by which we make it through each day.

Another batch of stories, poems, essays, and interviews from the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective. Groundbreaking work for the New Millennium.

Wednesday reveals the heart of our beloved city: the poems, stories, and artwork from the writers and artists who keep Los Angeles alive. Each issue presents the newest works from both known and unknown writers.

Los Angeles-area writers of poetry and prose deliver 120 pages of personal, abstract, formal, unstructured, clandestine, blatant truth and deception.

Zahava Sweet was born in Poland and survived the Holocaust. After the war she lived in Israel and later emigrated to America. She has been writing since childhood. Her poetry was selected by the Bumbershoot Literary Festival for performance and publication. This collection of poems is a reflection on her life. She lives in Monrovia, California. The themes in The Return of Sound are: poems derived from experiences during World War II, poems about family, nature poems, and, poems derived from dreams. The poet heeds the voices of elemental things while also understanding the power of authorial restraint and silence. Out of tatters and fragments of memory, in poems spare and wraith--thin, with lines taut and urgent, Sweet recovers her history of terror and makes for herself, and her readers, a new coat out of song. --Jeanne Marie Beaumont

This book about wisdom brings to life a poetic voice. It springs from the lived-experience of a healer who, like many healers in all wisdom traditions, uses poetry as a vehicle to take us into a sacred space, where we gain the power to remain cool in the eye of a storm. Dr. Carroll puts in plain words how to take on the thousand and one challenges of life and hands over a medicine for life to heal us when we are confronted with illness, death, and dying. (Kykosa Kajangu)

Author Jean Katz writes about the death of her husband of 54 years in this collection of direct, heartfelt poetry which she hopes will help others who will experience their own passage of a loved one.

This 2004 double issue includes a Charles Bukowski album of poems & journal; an interview with John Irving; poems & prose by Richard Jones, Katharine Harer, Lyn Lifshin, Steve Kowit, & many others. Also: translations of work by Yehuda Amichai, Gu Cheng, Krzysztof Karasek, Tahirih; 21 book reviews. Cover photo of Louis Vitale by Robert Durell; back cover painting by Aaron Smith.

Eve Hufnagel Cone was born in Okarche, Oklahoma, and lived on a large wheat and cattle farm while attending Holy Trinity Elementary/High School. At age sixteen she left for Mount Carmel Academy, Wichita, Kansas, and then on to Saint Mary College in Leavenworth, Kansas. After two years there, she joined the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth and taught in community high schools for 15 years, after which she joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Malawi, East Central Africa. On returning to the United States she taught for ten years at John Adams Junior High School in Santa Monica, California. Spiraling is her autobiographical memoir in poetry and prose.

Etherized upon a Table is an account of the evolution of poetry from Homer to the present day, with particular emphasis on the periods of history in which poets saw themselves as modern. Whether they were called moderni or neoterics or poetae novi or moderns, every great era in poetry was usually centered around a group of poets who broke with tradition, used the natural speech and diction of their own time, and saw themselves as creating something new. In time, the movement solidified, became establishment, crystallized into the new tradition and repeated the forms that had become successful. Eventually, a new impulse toward the modern ideal re-asserted itself, and poets once again experimented with new forms, incorporated the new vernacular, and called themselves moderns. We tend to think of Modern Poetry as characteristic only of the 20th century, but there have been modern poetries throughout history where modernism as a force has waxed and waned, from the days of Homer to the present time. This book traces the evolution of that basic modernist impulse and charts the fortunes of those poets who embraced the new, and those poets who became locked into the past and adhered to the traditional paradigm. This is volume 2 of a two-volume set.

This workbook is a companion study guide to Grapes' Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes, which covers all 18 episodes of Ulysses, James Joyce's modernist novel rendered in the stream of consciousness technique. The most famous episode is Molly Bloom's soliloquy that ends the novel, but this workbook focuses on the most dense and difficult Episode #3, Proteus, in which Stephen Dedalus strolls along Sandymount Strand thinking deep thoughts about thinking deeper thoughts, which include memories of Paris, his mother's dying, and the future he faces as a homeless artist. Hundreds of references flash through Stephen's consciousness as he observes cocklepickers on the beach, a ship's wreckage thrown up on the sand, a dog sniffing the body of a dead dog, and a pair of midwives carrying a bag stuffed with afterbirth. Grapes provides several short essays commenting on Ulysses, as well as copious notes on the references that stymie most first-time readers of the book. Also included are nearly 100 photos and graphics.

Poetry from 1965 to 2001. Gnomic, imagistic, oracular, epiphanies and a few longer poems. Organized chronologically and by geographical location; Los Angeles, Vietnam, India, Europe, Iran, the Sierras, Latin America and running the San Juan River.

The final print issue of ONTHEBUS, the literary magazine begun in 1989 by Jack Grapes and Michael Andrews in southern California. This issue includes a section of facsimiles of letters between Grapes and Charles Bukowski, an album of drawings and sculptures by Los Angeles artist Mindy Alper, an interview with Nikki Giovanni, a remembrance of Shakespeare & Co. proprietor George Whitman, translations, reviews, poems and prose by over 150 writers.

The first mo+th (Monday +Thursday) anthology by members of the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective. Includes poems, prose, essays, digital art by Ellen Jantzen, interviews with Jantzen and Huntington Beach poet Elaine Mintzer. Edited by Vicki Whicker; series editor: Jack Grapes.

Members of the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective Vicki Whicker, Mari Weiss, Julia Soto Frazer, Josh Rose, Shannon Murphy, Tim Giblin, Laura Caputo, Alan Berman, and Leslie Berliant in their first anthology of poetry, journal entries, and e-mails.

Anthology of poems and short stories by members of the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective; interviews with Los Angeles writer Chiwan Choi and with the authors of 4 Los Angeles Poets: ellen, Mima Pereira, Shirley Love, and Anne Marple. Cover art by Ellen Jantzen.

Poetry. Edited by Jack Grapes. Another in the ONTHEBUS Poets Series of books celebrating the vitality and diversity of Los Angeles poetry. These twelve poets explore theSouthern California quest, that American search for the Grail born outof a sterile world of fears and lusts, of human beings waiting for somesign or promise of redemption. The poets in this collection transformthe Unreal City at the heart of T.S. Eliot's wasteland into the cityinside our heads, our fantasies, our dreams, our memories mixed withdesire. A companion volume to THIRTEEN LOS ANGELES POETS. Perfectbound.