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  • AMERARCANA 2012: A Bird & Beckett Review - $15.00
    The Third Annual, featuring the words of Bill Berkson, Justin Desmangles, Joanne Kyger, Rodrigo Lira (translated by Rodrigo Olavarría & Thomas Rothe), Duncan McNaughton, Jackson Meazle, David Meltzer, Sarah Menefee, Jason Morris, Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Erik Noonan, Cedar Sigo, Will Skinker, Tisa Walden & the editor Nicholas James Whittington, with artwo […]
  • The Cuban Drumbeat, by Piero Gleijesis - $15.00
    In waging a long war against oppression and misery in the third world, Castro's Cuba sent more troops into battle on foreign soil in defense of besieged populations than all but the U.S., Russia and a few Western European countries. Gleijeses wonders what's next for a post-Castro Cuba. […]
  • Two Underdogs and a Cat, by Slavenka Drakulic - $17.00
    Drakulic, well known to readers of The Nation, the New York Times and the New York Review of Books, ponders the fate of the communist idea through three stories: "An Interview with The Oldest Dog in Bucharest," "A Guided Tour of the Museum of Communism" and "A Cat Keeper in Warsaw" […]

  1. ruth weiss

    May 3, 2011 by Eric

    an original beat…


    ruth weiss w/trio at bird & beckett
    friday night may 6th at 8:30 pm

    poetry and jazz… a book release celebration!

    can’t stop the beat: the life and words of a beat poet

    ruth weiss was born in germany as the nazis came to power; her family fled to austria in 1933.  forced to flee again, this time to america, in 1939.  new york, chicago. a brief, two-year return of the family to germany postwar, 1946, schooled in switzerland, then returned to “the states,” to chicago. her first reading to jazz in chicago in 1949; the rest is (more) history… new york, new orleans, chicago again, hitchhiking, then san francisco, 1951. 1010 montgomery street; that poem is in the new book, along with “i always thought you black” and more. the cellar, a life amidst the beats and their progeny. an important poet, a vibrant poet. here at bird & beckett this friday, after the regular jazz set. 8:30 start. come! listen! celebrate!

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  2. Bishop Norman Williams passes away December 8, 2010

    December 11, 2010 by Eric

    Legendary alto player Bishop Norman William passes away, December 8, 2010

    Bishop Norman Williams, Pete Yellin at Bird & Beckett BooksWe’re saddened to note the passing of Bishop Norman Williams, a much loved and respected alto player born in Kansas City in 1938, and a fixture on the San Francisco scene since 1961.  He played with top-flight musicians from Phineas Newborn to George Coleman to Max Roach, and countless others, and was a teacher on the bandstand to a whole generation of bop-inclined San Francisco musicians who are among the finest of the young players around today.  Read more on Bishop on our tumblr blog.

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