LET GARRETT CAPLES COMPLICATE YOUR LIFE!

MERITAGE PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

COMPLICATIONS
Poems by Garrett Caples
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-1-5
ISBN-10: 0-9794119-1-2
Price: $16.00
Release date: Fall 2007
Distributors: Small Press Distribution, Amazon.com & www.MeritagePress.com
For more info: MeritagePress@aol.com

Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of -- and a SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER for -- Complications, the second full-length poetry collection by Oakland-based poet Garrett Caples.  Reflecting the moral disintegration of the post-9/11 world, Complications is an even wilder, darker, funnier exploration of poetic consciousness than its predecessor, The Garrett Caples Reader.  From semiotic reportage to automatic writing, oulipian constraint to straightforward elegy, Complications is an eclectic tour de force in the service of a fundamental proposition: "surreality is real."

Praise for The Garrett Caples Reader

"a wonderful book of prose and poetry."
--Philip Lamantia

"a lovely piece of work all the way through."
--Robert Creeley

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in Lawrence, MA in 1972, Garrett Caples is a poet living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999), er um (Meritage Press, 2002), and The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop (Ninevolt, 2004). He has published numerous essays, articles, and reviews. He currently writes on hip hop for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

*************************

SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER:
Meritage Press is pleased to offer a Release Special through September 30, 2007. For $13.00, you can obtain a copy of COMPLICATIONS—a reduced rate from the book's retail price of $16.00—plus free shipping/handling (an approximate $4.00 value) to U.S. addresses. Just send a $13.00 check made out to "Meritage Press" to:

Eileen Tabios
Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road
St. Helena, CA 94574

For international orders, please contact us through MeritagePress@aol.com

*************************

ALSO FORTHCOMING OR NEW FROM MERITAGE PRESS:

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

PRAU by Jean Vengua (Filamore Tabios, Sr. Poetry Memorial Prize)

And a series of "Tiny Books" measuring 1 3/4 x 1 3/4" inaugurated by ALL ALONE AGAIN by Dan Waber, followed by STEPS: A NOTEBOOK by Tom Beckett and "…AND THEN THE WIND DID BLOW: JAINAKU POEMS by Ernesto Priego.

Meritage Press is a multidisciplinary literary and arts published based in St. Helena and San Francisco, CA. Our website is at http://www.meritagepress.com