CALIBAN’S BOOKSHELF

LUCK by Linette Lao

 

CALIBAN’S BOOKSHELF

The Plain Talk of the Dead by Lawrence R. Smith

 

CALIBAN’S BOOKSHELF

Calibanonline announces a new project. We are taking early, out of print books written by our contributors and offering them free to our readers in three formats: epub, kindle, and PDF. We hope to do one or two books a year, by invitation only, for the foreseeable future.

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The Geography of Leaving

Silvia Curbelo

Our first book is Silvia Curbelo’s The Geography of Leaving, originally appearing in 1991. I have been publishing Silvia’s work since the late 1980s, when I was introduced to her dazzling lyrical style. The poems in The Geography of Leaving are filled with deep passion and their language transports us to amazing places. Enjoy.

 

 

A Dangerous Vacation

Dale Houstman

Caliban’s Bookshelf is proud to present the second in its series, A Dangerous Vacation by Dale Houstman. It is free to our readers in three form19ats: epub, kindle, and PDF. I have been publishing Dale’s work since the days of the old print Caliban. His poems continue to astonish me with their mind-stretching originality. Have a good trip!

 
   
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Voodoomation

Garfield Linton

Our third ebook in the Caliban’s Bookshelf series is a reprint of Garfield Linton’s marvelous book of short stories entitled Voodoomation: the Book of Foretelling. This is a must read for everyone. His prose style is amazing and unlike any other. The blurb I wrote for the book in 2000: “With the force and dazzle of the voodoo god Damballah, patron of arts and creativity, these stories snake into our minds, our deepest consciousness. No barriers can withstand the assault of Linton’s conjuring language. Even as we put this book down, the chanting goes on, illuminating the world through which we walk in unexpected ways.”

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LUCK

Linette Lao

Linette Lao’s poems in LUCK spin with bodies be-dangled, be-dazzled—they’re mesmerizing. “All mud and sequins, sawdust and spiders.” Her poems conjure this planet’s whirly-gig luck of the evolutionary draw, the surreal webs
of intimacy and kinship in living systems. “We know how to lie like fossil in fern.” What luck to have this small book now. With the nerve of a surgeon and the magic of poetry’s justice, Lao opens up fabulous ecosystems and equivalencies, a reign of democracy in this collection.

—Janet Kauffman
   
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The Plain Talk of the Dead

Lawrence R. Smith

Lawrence R. Smith, in The Plain Talk of the Dead, more than any poet I’ve read, sees and hears the presence of ancestors who are not only European but Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Pawnee, Mexican, African, Hawaiian. His surrealism is necessary, active, intelligent, and American.
He opens his reader’s eyes wide.

—Maxine Hong Kingston