Pretend
$20.00
Bombshelter Press, 2001
The first full-length recording by the Los Angeles writer and actor.
The Author
- Jack Grapes
- is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor and teacher, recipient of numerous fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. He's the author of 13 books of poetry, and also wrote and starred in Circle of Will, which ran for several years in Hollywood and won drama critic awards for Best Comedy and Best Performance by an Actor.
Reviews
I can't compare Jack Grapes to anyone, nor find an underlying influence at work. He seems to have absorbed the best of them all and used what he likes to forge his own unmistakable style. Jack Grapes is a writer who can spin magic from everyday English, and who will keep your eyes glued to the very last line.
Shattersheet
Grapes writes poems that operate somewhere in the middle ground between pop culture and philosophy.
David Antin, Los Angeles Weekly
Other publications by this author
- All the Sad Angels
- The Alley Cat Readings
- The Alley Cat Readings 3
- The Alley Cat Readings 4
- and the Running Form, Naked, Blake
- Breaking Down the Surface of the World
- Breaking on Camera
- Couples Who Are Poets
- Dancing Across County Lines
- Last of the Outsiders
- Lucky Finds
- The Naked Eye
- News from Inside
- Perchance, in all your travels have you ever been to PITTSBURGH?
- Poems So Far So Far So Good So Far to Go
- A Savage Peace
- Seven Is a Frozen Number
- Some Life
- Termination Journal
- A Time to Sing, A Time to Dance
- Trees, Coffee, and the Eyes of Deer
- Wide Road to the Edge of the World