Mathew asked:
"is there hardboiled poetry??"
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal? Gunrunner Arthur Rimbaud's A
Season in Hell? Michael Madsen's Burning in Paradise?
"recently visiting nyc found Clarence Cooper, Jr. reissue in
the Strand and am now ploughing through the old school books
series. (don't know what i'll do when i'm finished the whole
series.)"
There is a large overlap between the US Old School line and
the UK Payback Press (http://www.canongate.net/payback/),
but I think the latter offers several more titles than the
former, including all of Chester Himes's Coffin Ed and
Gravedigger Jones books in three volumes.
Most of these authors have other books which have not been
reprinted, but are getting increasingly hard to find in used
book stores. Also, let me recommend Nathan Heard. His Howard
Street is just great, best described (I think in the fanzine
Forced Exposure) as "if Hubert Selby had written for Holloway
House."
Speaking of Old School, has anyone heard anything more about
Marc Gerald's new publishing venture (with Wesley Snipes)? I
keep looking for Street Sweeper by Ronin Ro, which was
supposed to be the first of their titles, but can't find any
recent mention of it.
Mark
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