Green and Black Selected Writings Author:Leslie Scalapino Poetry. Prose. Widely identified as one of the most accomplished innovative writers in America, Leslie Scalapino has received both the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the Poetry Center Award from San Francisco State University. She is the founding editor of O Books, in Oakland, California. GREEN AND BLACK: SELECTED WR... more »ITINGS brings together representative works and passages from both her poetry and prose including HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD; WAY; THE RETURN OF PAINTING; THE PEARL, AND ORION: A TRILOGY; CROWD AND NOT EVENING OR LIGHT; and others. "What makes this writing go is an incredible ease. A sense of a text that is capable of breathing"--Village Voice.« less