new from above/ground press: SPREE, by Geoffrey Young

SPREE 
GEOFFREY YOUNG
$6

LET’S NOT FORGET 

A politics
Empty of
Moral argument
Creates 

A vacuum
Of meaning
Often
Filled

With
The vengeful
Certitudes
Of stri-

Dent
Nationalism.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Front cover: “Mariana,” 2026, 11 x 9” 

Born in Los Angeles in 1944, Geoffrey Young has lived in Gt. Barrington, MA, for the last 44 years. Recent books of poetry include, Recent Questions (2026), Look Who’s Talking (2024), Monk’s Mood (2023), and DATES (2022). After 27 years, he closed his contemporary art gallery in 2018.  Before settling in Great Barrington, Young lived for two years in Paris (a Fulbright year followed by a six-month stint working for La Galerie Sonnabend). From 1975-1982 he lived in Berkeley with Laura Chester (two sons born). His small press, The Figures (1975-2005), founded in Berkeley, published more than 135 books of poetry, art writing, and fiction. He has written catalog essays for a dozen artists.
 
This is Young’s second title through above/ground press, after THIRTY-THREE (2017). He also edited G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #3 (2019).

To order, send cheques (add $2 for postage; in US, add $3; outside North America, add $7) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com