Onthebus Double Issue 19/20

Publisher Marketing: This 2004 double issue includes a Charles Bukowski album of poems & journal; an interview with John Irving; poems & prose by Richard Jones, Katharine Harer, Lyn Lifshin, Steve Kowit, & many others. Also: translations of work by Yehuda Amichai, Gu Cheng, Krzysztof Karasek, Tahirih; 21 book reviews. Cover photo of Louis Vitale by Robert Durell; back cover painting by Aaron Smith. Review Citations: Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 158 (EAN 9780941017633, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Grapes, Jack Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, one of the top literary journals in the country. He has won several publishing grants and Fellowships in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. He's also received nine Artist-in- Residence Grants from the California Arts Council to teach writing in various schools throughout Los Angeles. He is the author of 13 books of poetry, including TREES, COFFEE, AND THE EYES OF DEER, and BREAKING DOWN THE SURFACE OF THE WORLD. A spoken-word CD, Pretend, was recently issued by DePaul University. He is also author of a chapbook of poems and paintings titled AND THE RUNNING FORM, NAKED, BLAKE. His most recent publication is LUCKY FINDS, a boxed set of 50 cards that extend and parody the dynamic artistic productions of high-modernist poets such as Ezra Pound and Charles Olson.