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In No Right Words, Rod Roland offers an intimate meditation on poethood, parenthood, and personhood in contemporary San Francisco. Can a poet still live a bohemian life of refusal in America’s most expensive city? Will his daughter let him sleep in after a night of drunken composition? What do Joanne Kyger and Gertrude Stein have to do with any of it? The answers to these questions and more lurk within Roland’s intimate, journal-like columns.
An Ensemble Edition, co-published by San Francisco’s Bird & Beckett Books, No Right Words features a letterpress cover printed at Impart Ink, an errant studio, from handset ornaments and type from William Everson’s legendary Lime Kiln Press.
Author
Rod Roland
Rod Roland is a poet and artist living in San Francisco. His books include The Playgroup (Gas Meter, 2012), Thrasher2 (Gas Meter, 2012), Best Loved (Old Gold, 2013) and Lunch Poems (2016).