Termination Journal
$120.00
Bombshelter Press, 1975 110pp
Early collection, limited edition, poems, rare.
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.
Review
Jack Grapes is a working film actor whose sense of humanity seems a mystery, totally uncharacteristic in a cesspool like Hollywood. This is a poet who happens to work for the greed-heads once in a while, yet his poetry remains thankfully separate and untarnished. As a matter of fact, when Grapes comes on with his almost Amboy Dukes prose voice flourishing when he writes about a German movie maker or a boyhood encounter with a prostitiute, it's all so sort of like what you might have expected if you heard Leo Gorcey reciting John Donne.
Michael C. Ford, Los Angeles Vanguard
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
- Pretend
- A Savage Peace
- Seven Is a Frozen Number
- Some Life
- A Time to Sing, A Time to Dance
- Trees, Coffee, and the Eyes of Deer
- Wide Road to the Edge of the World