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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an increasing problemfrom a population health point of view, and novel approaches indiagnostics and therapeutics are rapidly evolving. IBD has alsoemerged as an important example of a complex chronic inflammatorydisease where genetics, environmental risk factors, and individualphenotypic expression of disease interact to establish patterns ofdisease and potential disease etiologies. In fact, the recentdescription of a gene specific for Crohn’s disease (NOD2), theexploration of the role of microbes in disease causation, and theharnessing of microbes therapeutically (such as with probiotics) havefacilitated the emergence of IBD as an important model amongst thechronic inflammatory diseases. This Yearbook is the first in an annualseries, providing clinicians and scientists with state-of-the-artupdates on the hot topics relevant to clinical practice and to IBDresearch. ... Read more

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This unique book offers an insight into the thinking, values, creative instincts, management perspectives and styles of over 100 leaders in the hospitality industry, not forgetting their personal and professional standards, that has resulted in their achieving leadership responsibilities for themselves, their business and the business to which they have chosed to devote their lives. This book should be of interest to restauranteurs, foodservice managers, hotel managers and other hospitality managers. ... Read more

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For over fifteen years, Granary Books has brought together bookmakers, writers, and artists to explore the relationships between the visual and the verbal in the time-honored spirit of independent publishing. Edited by Granary publisher Steven Clay, who also contributes creative work to the book, "When will the book be done?" features complete lists and descriptions of nearly 100 artists' books, writer/artist collaborations and books of theory pertaining to books, writing, and publishing. Each entry is annotated with quotes from the artists and writers, critical notes, bibliographic information, and full-color illustrations. ... Read more

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Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time--from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and countermemories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre. ... Read more

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"Honey Wrapped in Intelligence"
You don't want to miss the new version of Robin Blaser's lifework THE HOLY FOREST, now considerably larger than the version I remember when Talon Books put it out back in 1993, by maybe another hundred pages or so.He, Blaser, is one of the poets the USA lost to Canada during a time of international turmoil, a time when crossing borders might have been a little bit easier than today and escape was still possible.He had been a slow starter, perhaps, in the days of the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s, and it might be that not until he moved to Boston to work in Harvard's Widener Library, and met Charles Olson and the US poets of the East Coast, could his particular genius truly blossom.(More than any other contemporary poet, it is Blaser who needs a proper biography written about him, and yet what a daunting challenge to try to tell the story of a life spent nosing down so many divagations and turning up so many splendors.)On his return to the Bay Area in the very late 1950s, he became an integral part of a then-lively San Francisco poetry scene, his friendships with the California poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer then productive to overflowing.In THE HOLY FOREST you can see these concentric circles of poetic influence and Rauschenbergian "combine" expand and contract, expand and contract, within the first hundred pages of the book, like the movement of the glaciers that produced our islands and outcroppings.After that, and his move to Canada, a certain perfection is reached that never really drops off.

Underlying this achievement, Blaser moved in opposite directions at once, perhaps trusting his muse more than ever, a contradictory one for sure, one that was leading him to go more and more slangy, colloquial, partial, aphoristic and playful; and then on what in a lesser poet you might call an opposite direction, he became the poet of lengthening odes and longer forms.You would ask him how a particular poem was shaping up, and with a mixture of marvel and abasement he might whisper, "It's now over fifteen pages--just grew," he would add.And so we have the "Great Companions," and "Exody," and the rest, these intricate, phenomenal structures.If you could visualize the poems in THE HOLY FOREST as real trees, spreading in visual space as they have in time, you might see towards the end of the range huge redwoods, where before you had had mere groves of oak, maple, and cherry.In our time he has been all things together the best kept secret of postmodern poetry; it's just fantastic that Cal has seen fit to issue this book--not only this, but a companion volume of collected essays ("The Fire").May the saints preserve him, as my mother used to say, when she wanted to make sure someone most dear would stay safe and unafraid. ... Read more

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A Whitman Sampler, of sorts
A distillation of a journal published a couple decades ago, this enjoyable collection offers brief essays from a number of writers. Each piece presents a distinct, if sometimes quirky, entry way into the world of L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry. Prepare to have your mind warped. Prepare to laugh, and prepare to confront some dense, but rewarding prose.

The English Language meets Cuisine Arte.
If you like to see the English language --- the Queen's English, that is to say --- subjected to the most vicious of butcherings and prententious, pedantic doodeling, than I think this books will be right up your alley.I, however, prefer such masters of Her Majesty's language as Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Hobi Baba, ann Michael Hardt.Not.

Fascinating
Bernstein is one of the great poets in the world today and this is a brilliant insight into the poetics of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E "school". If you have any serious interest in poetry and poetics, you should read this book. ... Read more

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An indispensable collection of an avant-garde poet's literary essays. ... Read more

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Clarity, Economy, Beauty
Louis Zukofsky imbued criticism with the grace of his poetry. He believed that poetry was not a gesture to be revered, but a crystalization of experience, individual and general. Thus his criticism of poetry judges it against vital standards, with reference to philosophy and history, but without reference to critical fashion. The academic formulae which remove poetry from experience to convention are absent from this book: a great writer who takes pains to be an acute reader tells us what sustains him, and can sustain us.

The language of invention, of discovery must always seem strange at first, but time has brought us closer to these original explorations of sincerity in poetry. Zukofsky wrote about his contemporaries as they appeared, and helped many of them to appear. He was there. If you want to know what poetry can do, unfettered by prejudice, you can find it here. I urge you to. Prepositions, in conjuction with his poetry, can change and illuminate how you see, feel, hear, think. ... Read more

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With new interest in poetry as a performative art, and with prewar experiments much in mind, the young poets of postwar America infused the stage with the rhythms and shocks of their poetry. These energies manifested themselves all at once, and through the decades have continued to grow and mutate, innovating a form of writing that defies boundaries of genre. THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1985 documents the emergence, growth, and varied fortunes of the form over decades of American literary history, with a focus on key regional movements. The largest and most comprehensive anthology of its kind yet assembled, the volume collects classics, long out of print rarities and texts from unpublished manuscripts. Copiously annotated, it will be an indispensable reference for students of postwar American poetry and avant garde theater. Included are works by Jack Spicer, John Ashbery, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Hannah Weiner, Barbara Guest, Sonia Sanchez, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Carla Harryman, Charles Bernstein, Leslie Scalapino, Kathy Acker, and many others. A unique feature of the book is its editors' notes even on works omitted but falling within the anthology's purview, including Pedro Pietri's The Masses Are Asses and Jessica Hagedorn's Tenement Lover. Erudite yet highly readable, the plays and prefatory matter offer a highly entertaining glimpse of the ways in which poets have used the theater to widen their audience, develop new techniques, or negotiate their aesthetic community's precepts and desires. In the process, some of the most mature and progressive work within and about the theater was produced, and is at last gathered in one place. ... Read more