Mouth & Fruit—what a hearty debut! If ever there lived a hands-on poet, her name is Chryss Yost. Wired with feeling and touch, reverie and thought, anger and hunger, these sleek poems dart, dive, sizzle, and sometimes sting. The subtle California sea the gifted poet swims and feeds upon (and feeds) feels as vast as…
Book Author: Chryss Yost
Buzz: Poets Respond to SWARM
The first Shoreline Voices Project, co-edited with Nancy Gifford, Buzz features three dozen Santa Barbara-area poets. The poets wrote in response to an exhibit at Ganna Walska Lotusland, SWARM: A Collaboration with Bees. Poets were inspired by the artwork of artists including Penelope Stewart, the myth of Daphne, the eccentric Ganna Walska, and the bees…
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present
Edited by Chryss Yost, Dana Gioia, and Jack Hicks, California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present is a comprehensive survey of California poetry over the past 150 years presenting the work of 101 writers, the first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive survey of California poetry. An authoritative yet accessible collection, it brings…