Last Gasp Books » poetry http://www.lastgasp.com/blog Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Last Gasp Holiday Catalog is here! http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2009/10/28/last-gasp-holiday-catalog-is-here/ http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2009/10/28/last-gasp-holiday-catalog-is-here/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:11:18 +0000 Colin http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/?p=373 Holiday-2009-2010-1

Our Holiday catalog is being printed and will be mailed out in the next couple of weeks.
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In the mean time, you can download a pdf of it here.

Ordering information for Mail-Order customers is here.

Ordering information for Wholesale customers (i.e. stores) is here.

Here’s a sampling of some of the pages:
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Cover artwork by the masterful Todd Schorr. You can see a preview of his newest book here.

]]> http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2009/10/28/last-gasp-holiday-catalog-is-here/feed/ 0 Diane di Prima receives Lifetime Acheivement Award http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2008/12/10/diane-di-prima-receives-lifetime-acheivement-award/ http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2008/12/10/diane-di-prima-receives-lifetime-acheivement-award/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:33:37 +0000 Colin http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/?p=121 PEN Oakland has honored poet Diane di Prima with the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.

Diane is the author of many books, including the recently released new edition of Revolutionary Letters.

(The award has been renamed for the Vice President of PEN Oakland who was deeply loved, and who died May 15, 2008 of a massive heart attack.  Reggie was, and is a brilliant poet, who truly represented Oakland, its beauty and truth in his poetry.)

]]> http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2008/12/10/diane-di-prima-receives-lifetime-acheivement-award/feed/ 0 Diane di Prima Reads at Bird & Beckett books http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2008/09/22/diane-di-prima-reads-at-bird-beckett-books/ http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2008/09/22/diane-di-prima-reads-at-bird-beckett-books/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:33:42 +0000 Colin http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/?p=85 Two incredible poets — Diane di Prima & Maria Mazziotti Gillan — will be reading at Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood! (Easy access via BART and other public transit.)

Diane’s importance to modern poetry since the 1950s is well documented, well understood and well appreciated. From Revolutionary Letters to Loba, and before and beyond, Diane has given us a lifetime of insight and wisdom and scribbles furiously away as we speak!

Please visit this link: www.octopusfilmvideo.com for wonderful background information on Diane and a forthcoming film about her.

Maria is likewise well-known and appreciated for her body of work as a poet and for her role as an educator, activist and editor.

Her books of poetry include, among others, All That Lies Between Us and Italian Ladies in Black Dresses.  She has long understood the use of poetry to explore personal and societal dimensions of the American immigrant and multicultural fabric.

She directs the Poetry Center at Pasaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey (a city long associated with William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg) and edits the Paterson Poetry Review.

Please visit Maria Mazziotti Gillan for more information about Maria’s poetry.
Bird and Beckett Books
653 Chenery Street
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Event date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 7:00 pm

No charge, however donations are welcome to help compensate the poets. Please call the bookshop to reserve a seat (415) 586-3733

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