Garrett Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999), Complications (Meritage Press, 2007), and Quintessence of the Minor (Wave Books, 2010). He is the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (University of California Press, 2013). He is the poetry editor at City Lights Books, and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He is also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Oakland.
Prologue: Wittgenstein, a Memoir A Man of Firsts: Arthur Jerome Eddy Pamela Colman Smith at the Dawn of Modernism The Exotic Victor Segalen Roger Fry and the Invention of Art History Vachel Lindsay with the Submerged Surrealism
s Island: Martinique Gordon Onslow Ford: Cosmos and Death Surrealism and the Abstract Truth A Footnote on Jimmy Ernst Sylvia Fein and the Death of the White Knight Philip Lamantia and André Breton Mysteries of the Six Gallery: Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman Apparitions of Marie Wilson at City Lights Barbara Guest in the Shadow of Surrealism Circles: Richard Tagett and Richard O. Moore Becoming Visible: Jean Conner
Death Will Be My Final Lover
: The Life of Alden Van Buskirk The Incorrigible Torregian John Anderson, Master The Hyphy Hump Theory of Retrieval