Books published by Reality Street

These very short stories are a blend of maybe memoir, crazed case history, and raunchy comic fiction spun by a deadpan narrator with a gift for dazzling transitions. Lou Rowan neglected graduate school to participate in the independent presses, little magazines and readings flourishing in New York's Lower East Side during the late 60s. He earned his living as a teacher, and then an institutional investor - the latter taking him to the Northwest United States, where he works on his fictions and edits Golden Handcuffs Review.

This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths'' poetry up until 1980. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards of Reality Street, includes the full "Cycles" and "War w/ Windsor" sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. Bill Griffiths was a poet, Anglo-Saxon scholar, book designer, small press publisher, biker, pianist, archivist and social historian. He died in 2007 at the age of 59.