September 12, 2006

from the Lucipo list:

New Narrow House full length release: Garrett Caples, Surrealism’s Bad Rap

Born in Lawrence, MA, Garrett Caples is a freelance writer living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Garrett Caples Reader (Black Square Editions, 1999) and er, um (Meritage Press, 2002). He receieved a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. A collection of articles on hip hop, The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop, with an introduction by Shock-G of Digital Underground, appeared in 2004 from Ninevolt Magazine. He currently writes on Bay Area hip hop for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Anthology appearances include Fetish (4 Walls 8 Windows, 1998), Isn't It Romantic? (Wave Books, 2004), and Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). Among his current projects, he is editing a lost manuscript of Philip Lamantia's called Tau, along with the poems of John Hoffman, which will be published together in a single volume by City Lights in 2007.

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