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September 2008: New book

Here at Kamini Press we are very proud to present
the third book in our poetry series:

THE PLOT OF IL TROVATORE
and other poems

by Gerald Locklin

32 pages of poems.
First edition of 300 copies out of which 125 are signed by the poet.
Twenty-five special copies contain an original signed water color & ink
painting by Henry Denander. (These are sold out)

Mini-chapbook format, in wraps.
Cover artwork and author portrait by Henry Denander.

$ 6 (plus $2 shipping all over the world)
Limited edition with signed artwork $15 (plus shipping) SOLD OUT

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and further order information.
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In Sweden, please pay SEK 60 per book to Bankgiro 5889-0781,
price including postage. Books are also to be found at Bokmagasinet,
Stockholm.

Gerald Locklin is the author of over 125 books and chapbooks of
poetry, fiction and criticism with over 3000 poems, stories, articles,
reviews and interviews published in periodicals.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI wrote about Locklin:

“I have never been let down. I have been picked up, lifted up, tossed
into that rare area: excellent writing with verve, writing that laughs,
writing that reads easy yet says something.
That’s a good package.”

MARVIN MALONE wrote:
“His poems are about real people and places that illustrate with
common language the classic themes of love, envy, honesty,
integrity etc.
He is pro-people.”

EDWARD FIELD:
“The male spirit in him remains honest, bighearted, sentimental,
generous, gentle, vulnerable, but sassy in the face of adversity –
qualities that could be applied to as few American poets as to
presidents. I think of him as a wonderful, protective big brother
every sensitive little boy needs.”

May 2008: New book

The second chapbook in our poetry series:

THE POET SEES HIS FAMILY SLEEPING

poems by Samuel Charters

34 pages of unpublished poems.
First edition, 200 copies, all signed by the poet.
Mini-chapbook format, in wraps. Price $ 6
Cover artwork and author portrait by Henry Denander.

Pay by PayPal to: order(at)kaminipress.com.
Or visit www.kaminipress.com

Samuel Charters began his life with small presses in the 1950s
in New Orleans when he shared a rundown French Quarter
building with Gypsy Lou and Jon Webb and made his first magazine
appearance in an issue of their ground-breaking magazine
The Outsider.

Beginning in the mid-1960s his poetry chapbooks, broadsides,
and literary essays were published by Berkeley’s Oyez Press,
many designed and printed by the legendary Graham MacIntosh.
With their own Portents press, he and his wife Ann published small
pieces by, among many others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,
Gary Snyder, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. With Ginsberg
they created the book Scenes Along The Road, the first look at
the story of the Beat Generation.

In the other world of publishing he has written innumerable books on
jazz and the blues, as well as novels, biographies, translations, and
travel memoirs, and worked with Ann on the first biography of
Jack Kerouac. He is also responsible for the poetry section of their
college introduction-to-literature textbook Literature And Its Writers,
now in its 4th edition. Their current project is the authorized biography
of Beat novelist John Clellon Holmes. His own most recent book is the
first history of New Orleans jazz, A Trumpet Around The Corner.

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SOME NATURAL THINGS

poems by Glenn W. Cooper

32 pages of poetry, mini-chapbook format, in wraps
Cover artwork by Henry Denander
First edition of 100 copies, all signed by the poet.
$ 5 (plus $ 2 shipping all over the world)

Pay by PayPal to: order(at)kaminipress.com

Or send cash to
Kamini Press
Ringvägen 8, 4th floor
SE-117 26 Stockholm, Sweden

In Sweden pay SEK 50:- (including postage) to Bankgiro 5889-0781
Or get the book from Bokmagasinet, in Stockholm.

This is the first title from Kamini Press and the first book in
the Kamini Press Poetry Series.

Glenn Cooper lives in Tamworth, Australia and for many years
he’s been widely published in the small press and beyond.
This is Glenn Cooper’s sixth book of poetry.

See what people has to say about the book:

GERALD LOCKLIN says
I have thought very highly of Glenn Cooper’s work for many years,
he’s a throwback to the glory days of the Wormwood Review.
A first-rate poet in the debut of a very attractive new series.

ANN MENEBROKER says
Glenn Cooper’s poems are a walking companion in the rain.
Something to think about under an umbrella. The poems are
reflective of our losses, but also include the humor that
grows like a palm tree in the snow.

Glenn is ever the student, contemplating the forces of life which
we have no control over. He says it best himself, the poignant
need to write about “the small pleasures, just to make
life beautiful.” And he does.