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Sound & visual artist and poet. Former IT guy. Raised on the right coast, livin’ on the left one.
I tend to focus on poetry, social justice non-fiction, socialism, literary journals and novels.
Some favorite authors: Joan Didion, Samuel Beckett, C.D. Wright, Patti Smith and Noam Chomsky.
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Steven Ray rated Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19): 4 stars
Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19) by Frank O'Hara
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger …
Steven Ray rated Praise: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Pushcart Prize XLIII: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Woolgathering: 5 stars
Woolgathering by Patti Smith
Patti Smith tells real and imagined stories from her childhood.
Steven Ray rated Shallcross: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Big Sur: 4 stars
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur is a novel written by Jack Kerouac, that was published in 1962. The books perspective is told …
Steven Ray rated Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …
Steven Ray rated J.R.R. Tolkien: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 4 stars
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …
Steven Ray rated Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: 4 stars
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #3)
For Harry Potter, it’s the start of another far-from-ordinary year at Hogwarts when the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness …
Steven Ray rated The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 5 stars
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas …
Steven Ray rated Big Cabin: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Cuba libre: 4 stars
Cuba libre by Elmore Leonard
E-book extras: "Martin Amis Interviews 'The Dickens of Detroit'"; Elmore Leonard's "If It Sounds Like Writing, Rewrite It"; "All By …