Black Sparrow Books, formerly known as Black Sparrow Press, is a small book publisher and an imprint of David R. Godin, Publisher. Black Sparrow Press published authors such as Charles Bukowski and John Fante. Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994), was a Los Angeles poet and novelist. ... John Fante (April 8, 1909 - May 8, 1983) was a novelist, short-story and screenwriter, born in Colorado. ...
BlackSparrow Books, formerly known as BlackSparrowPress, is a boutique book publisher founded in the 1966 by John Martin of Santa Rosa, California.
BlackSparrowPress published authors such as Charles Bukowski, John Fante, George and Mary Oppen, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Larry Eigner, Michael Palmer, Clayton Eshleman, Charles Reznikoff, Rochelle Owens, Ed Dorn, Jack Spicer, Cid Corman, William Everson and Diane Wakoski.
The BlackSparrowPress was sold in 2002 to David R. Godine, Publisher.
His Christian Scientist parents, both of whom were printers, raised him on a farm outside the small fruit-growing town of Selma, which is south of Fresno in California's inland San Joaquin Valley.
There he founded the Lime Kiln Press, a small press through which he printed highly sought-after fine art editions of his own poetry, as well as of the works of other poets, including Robinson Jeffers and Walt Whitman.
The BlackSparrowPress recently released a three volume series of the collected poems of William Everson, the last volume was completed in 2000.
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