Second Printing Out Now (Spring 2023)
In September 2019, the Kathy Acker in Seattle Symposium presented a series of exhibitions, panels, readings, and research opportunities. The symposium featured regional, national, and international artists, authors, curators, and scholars examining Acker’s lasting legacy in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This book documents those proceedings. Through oral histories, dissertations, and contemporaneous documentation, Kathy Acker in Seattle provides valuable insight into this fascinating artist.
Second Printing Coming Soon (Summer 2023)
The horrors of addiction and a cycle of self-medication to ward off mental illness were crucial to his work. More importantly, they were only a small part of Jesse’s depth of experience. This collection of Steven Jesse Bernstein’s poetry marks 2021 as the 30th anniversary of his death.
— From the introduction by Dennis R. White
There have been many books written about East Bay punk, but none that captured the scene’s scrappy spirit––until now. [...] Folrath captures that shifting energy perfectly, with its highs and lows. Zak reports on the West Coast with an outsider’s perspective and an outsider’s appreciation, like Armistead Maupin and Cyra McFadden a generation before. He conveys the excitement of reinventing yourself in a city where you feel both finally at home and fundamentally out of place.
Zak is unflinchingly honest in his dive into the past, yet he manages to do it without boring the reader to death. He’s achieved the impossible: a minutiae-filled memoir that’s a page-turning thriller.
– From the introduction by Aaron Cometbus
