#4: From Rolling Rock, Out by Owen Hill with Drawings by Frank Haines

Owen Hill was the benevolent king of West Coast poetry gossip with his magazines Blind Date and New Blind Date until he had a heart-attack and back surgery about a year or so ago, which left him fairly well out of the loop. But he’s still the prince out of the poet discount on out-of-print poetry books at Moe’s Books in Berkeley and the author of the great persona book of our time, The Selected Poems of George Sanders (also from Angry Dog Press), and The Chandler Apartments (Creative Arts Book Company), a mystery novel with poets in it, and Loose Ends from Hanging Loose Press, and a load of other chapbooks.

Frank Haines makes: videos of things like himself running against a starry background wearing only a knight’s helmet and his boxers, molds of angry monkey muzzles, prints of dachsunds, conceptual works about Florida and so forth. He used to live around the corner from us when we lived on Natoma Street in SF. He frequently shows at Quotidian Gallery in SF and was also recently featured in the Bay Area Now show.

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