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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 A Book of Luminous Things: 4 stars
A Book of Luminous Things by Czesław Miłosz
A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz
Czesław Miłosz's …
Steven Ray rated Understanding Power: 5 stars
Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel, R. Mitchell
Noam Chomsky remains one of our preeminent public intellectuals, a thinker whose works on international politics and the media are …
Steven Ray rated Heaven is all goodbyes: 4 stars
Heaven is all goodbyes by Tongo Eisen-Martin (Pocket poets series -- no. 61)
"The much-awaited second book by a truly revolutionary poet, in the lineage of Gil Scott Heron, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde"-- …
Steven Ray rated Front lines: 3 stars
Front lines by Jack Hirschman (Pocket poets series ;)
Steven Ray rated Freedom is a Constant Struggle: 4 stars
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat, Cornel West
Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.
Steven Ray rated Ecosocialism: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The Curse of Lono: 4 stars
The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson
Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson travels to Hawaii to cover the 1980 Honolulu Marathon.
Steven Ray rated Listening to grasshoppers: 4 stars
Listening to grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. This series …
Steven Ray rated The Norton anthology of world literature: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The Norton anthology of world literature: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The Norton anthology of world literature: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics): 4 stars
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's …
Steven Ray rated Slouching towards Bethlehem: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Cruel futures: 3 stars
