Now and Then
by Lee Mallory

Editors: Ricki Mandeville, Michael Miller

ISBN: 978-1-61658-136-7 $15.00

Lee Mallory’s poems come at us like sudden bursts of light.  Whether his setting is laundromat or bar, hospital or hillside, he distills time and place into image and emotion, writing with both wit and profound self-awareness. He writes of dream and desire, ambition and mortality. Of poetry itself: the possibility of the page, the buzz of a poetry reading, the endurance of the word. And always he writes of love. This collection is written in the enviable hand of a poet who knows both the softness and sharp edges of that intimate bond. And when he writes “I am the windmill forever turning in your dusk,” we understand why the words endure.

− Ricki Mandeville

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A professor at Santa Ana College, Lee Mallory co-produces the Factory Readings in Santa Ana and Poetry at Alta in Newport Beach, where he has lived most of his life. He was an acquaintance of the late Charles Bukowski and Kenneth Rexroth, and shared time with poet and pop novelist Richard Brautigan. In addition to his seven volumes of poetry and performance features at almost 100 poetry events, Lee has written over 125 poems which have appeared in such magazines as Konglomerati, Mojo Navigator(e), Invisible City, Wisconsin Review, Beyond Baroque and The Smith. He has also been covered frequently in newspapers and is a marathon runner