Garrett Caples

Garrett Caples is an American poet. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1972, he currently lives in Oakland.^[1] An editor at City Lights Books, Caples curates the new American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight.^[2] He also writes on hip hop, literature, and painting for the San Francisco Bay Guardian,^[3] and has written fiction on unusual sexual practices, like omorashi.^[4]

As a hip hop journalist, Caples has been the first write on various Bay Area rappers, including J Stalin,^[5] D-Lo,^[6] Eddi Projex,^[7] Traxamillion,^[8] and Shady Nate.^[9] He's also written cover stories on more established stars like E-40,^[10] Mac Dre,^[11] Mistah FAB,^[12] Husalah (Mob Figaz),^[13] and The Jacka (Mob Figaz).^[14] Significantly, his interview with Shock-G of Digital Underground announced the end of that classic hip hop crew.^[15]

Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999), er, um (Meritage Press, 2002), The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop (Ninevolt, 2004), and Complications (Meritage Press, 2007).^[16] In 2006, Narrow house Recordings released a cd of Caples reading his poems with lo-fi musical accompaniment called Surrealism's Bad Rap. He is also the editor of Pocket Poets Number 59, Tau by Philip Lamantia & Journey to the End by John Hoffman (City Lights, 2008).^[17] His pamphlet, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English, was published by Wave Books in 2010.^[18] With Nancy Peters and Andrew Joron, he is editing The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia for the University of California Press (forthcoming, 2012).

Bibliography

FULL-LENGTH POETRY COLLECTIONS

• Complications (Meritage Press, 2007)
• The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999)

CRITICISM

• The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop (Ninevolt, 2004)

PAMPHLETS

• Quintessence of the Minor (Wave Books, 2010)

CHAPBOOKS

• avid diva (Lew Gallery/Auguste Press, 2010)
• er, um (Meritage Press, 2002)
• The Dream of Curtains (Angle Press, 1998)

CDS

• Surrealism's Bad Rap (Narrow house Recordings, 2006)

ANTHOLOGY APPEARANCES

• State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Wave Books, 2008)
• Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2005)
• Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave Books, 2004)

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