Breaking on Camera
$50.00
Bombshelter Press, 1978 144pp
Late-'70s collection by the editor/poet, previously known as Marcus.
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
When I talk to Mexican poets, I find myself thumbing my dog-eared copies of Jack Grapes to show what North American poetry can do at this moment. Grapes works himself sideways into the poem by beginning in an ordinary voice, and before you know it, cosmic disaster is at hand. He honors his own difficulties and wrestles with encountered obscurity instead of hitting the delete key. This book was set apart from anything else I saw published this year.
John Oliver Simon, Poetry Flash
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
- 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
- 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