Jack Grapes

Twelve Los Angeles Poets Jack Grapes

Publisher Marketing: 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. Contributor Bio:  Grapes, Jack Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, one of the top literary journals in the country. He has won several publishing grants and Fellowships in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. He's also received nine Artist-in- Residence Grants from the California Arts Council to teach writing in various schools throughout Los Angeles. He is the author of 13 books of poetry, including TREES, COFFEE, AND THE EYES OF DEER, and BREAKING DOWN THE SURFACE OF THE WORLD. A spoken-word CD, Pretend, was recently issued by DePaul University. He is also author of a chapbook of poems and paintings titled AND THE RUNNING FORM, NAKED, BLAKE. His most recent publication is LUCKY FINDS, a boxed set of 50 cards that extend and parody the dynamic artistic productions of high-modernist poets such as Ezra Pound and Charles Olson.