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Three anthology-size issues
of the legendary international journal edited and published
in Santa Cruz by Stephen Kessler, containing works by prominent
young and established California, American and international
poets, writers and visual artists. A few copies and full
sets of these historic volumes are still available
directly from the editor.

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ALCATRAZ: an assemblage
Edited by Stephen Kessler, 1979
Available online or
directly from Stephen Kessler Jack Hirschman, Jack
Anderson, Kate Braverman, Dennis Cooper, Gerald
Locklin, Gary Young, F. A. Nettelbeck, Nathaniel
Mackey, Carlos Bousoño, Wanda Coleman,
Douglas Blazek, Futzie Nutzle, and many others.
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ALCATRAZ
2
Edited by Stephen
Kessler, 1982
Available online or
directly from Stephen Kessler
Juan Felipe Herrera, Sharon Doubiago, Vicente Aleixandre,
Julio Cortázar, Sharon Olds, Carlos Oquendo
de Amat, Charles Bukowski, Rob Brezsny, Ernesto Cardenal,
Sam Abrams, Clarence Major, Arthur Sze, Carlos Edmundo
de Ory, Cesare Pavese, and many others.
“Vigorous populist, surrealist, political
art from time-warped enclave.” —Andrei
Codrescu, Exquisite Corpse
“Editor Stephen Kessler brings together an
impressive galaxy of ‘escape artists,’ authors
who through love of language, imagination and clarity
of feeling help us identify and transcend the preposterous
prisons we daily make for ourselves or have foisted
upon us.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
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ALCATRAZ
3
Edited by Stephen
Kessler & Hollis deLancey, 1985
Available online or
directly from Stephen Kessler
Roque Dalton, Sesshu
Foster, Holly Prado, Francisco X. Alarcón,
Geoffrey O’Brien, Tom Clark, Will Alexander,
Kim Addonizio, Mikhail Horowitz, John Oliver
Simon, Elaine Equi, Yusef Komunyakaa, Giaconda
Belli, Robert Peters, and many others.
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Collage: Austin Straus |
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