The son of a naturalist, and himself a lifelong devotee of bird and free-range beast, Morgan Bulkeley has a well-developed sense of the fragile balance in which nature and man co-exist. His pictures are plausible fictions, fantasies in condensed form linking his great, robust feeling for the environment to the vagaries of his own personal life.

His paintings employ motifs often derived from images in art history, details from famous paintings, and shapes he perceives in the world around him. These abstracted forms become templates which he combines in infinite variations to redefine or recapture the finite space of the painted canvas.

Collection of paintings by rising star artist.

"Southeast Asian landscapes in bright color and soft focus, and wary, golden portraits of artists...rough and sensual, in a style that recalls both Abstract Expressionism and Old Master hands (neat trick!). For all the unblinking realism of the formal portraits, their air is wistful and not at all harsh."

–The New Yorker

"Chris Stroffolino's poems are about the miserable hysterics brought on by suffocating grief and loneliness. How could that be good? I don't know, probably because he dresses it all up in stunning syntactic Mobius strip, and in the midst of reading him I realize I feel less alone in my perceptions of the world."

–Jennifer Moxley

Elegant, sometimes brutal, Madoff's poems echo each other, back and forth, weaving a whole that records the miraculous wealth of the natural world and our own miracles and mayhem within it.

"... - with graceful yet hard, classical skill, Madoff transforms our common world into the elemental of what makes us human."

–Lawrence Joseph

Bellamy, a fixture in the San Francisco literary scene for over a decade, surpasses the expectations of her many fans with this book. A nearly indescribable epistolary novel that brings the heroine of Bram Stoker's Dracula forward into the acronymic age of MTV, HIV, ATM, VCR, and the rest

"Mesmerisingly secretive, yet huge and generous in scope, it's a dazzling stylistic and intellectual feat down to its tiniest syllables and asides, and almost sure to be one of the touchstones of contemporary fiction."

–Dennis Cooper

A first book-length collection of poetry by this widely-anthologized writer who got his start writing prize-winning, epigraphic poems for science fiction novels.

"Andrew Joron is master of a gaudy and tremulous abstraction, capable of harboring rust or blood among its numbers"."

–Geoffrey O'Brien

This is the first book-length publication from widely-acclaimed New York poet Mesmer, who has read and performed nationally, including an appearance on the award-winning PBS Show "Alive From Off Center." Allen Ginsberg wrote of this collection, "a lively readable volume, always interesting, beautifully bold & vivaciously modern."

"This one's long overdue. Sharon Mesmer's poetry is a stream of indomitable spunk, it's tough and lush, polysyllabic and right off the streets..."

–Alice Notley