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Garrett Caples is an American poet. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1972, he currently lives in San Francisco, California, after fifteen years in Oakland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PhillySound: new poetry )〕 An editor at City Lights Books, Caples curates the new American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City Lights Books : City Lights Spotlight )〕 From 2005 to 2014, he wrote on hip hop, literature, and painting for the San Francisco Bay Guardian,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Masthead | San Francisco Bay Guardian )〕 and has written fiction on unusual sexual practices, like omorashi. As a hip hop journalist, Caples has been the first write on various Bay Area rappers, including J Stalin,〔http://www.sfbg.com/2006/04/25/ruling-party and http://www.sfbg.com/2010/02/09/80s-babies〕 D-Lo,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=D-Lo | San Francisco Bay Guardian )〕 Eddi Projex, Traxamillion, Droop-E,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Say 'Bay'; San Francisco Bay Guardian )〕 and Shady Nate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Out of the shadows | San Francisco Bay Guardian )〕 He's also written cover stories on more established stars like E-40, Mac Dre, Mistah FAB,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Holdin' the weight of the Bay | San Francisco Bay Guardian )〕 Husalah (Mob Figaz), and The Jacka (Mob Figaz).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tears of a thug | San Francisco Bay Guardian )〕 Significantly, his interview with Shock-G of Digital Underground announced the end of that classic hip hop crew.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shocked, G? | San Francisco Bay Guardian )〕 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). 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 60, ''When I Was a Poet'', by David Meltzer (City Lights, 2011) and Number 59, ''Tau'' by Philip Lamantia & ''Journey to the End'' by John Hoffman (City Lights, 2008). His pamphlet, ''Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English'', was published by Wave Books in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wave Books )〕 With Nancy Peters and Andrew Joron, he is the editor of ''The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia'' for the University of California Press (2013). With Julien Poirier, he has edited the forthcoming ''Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems'' by New York School poet Frank Lima for City Lights Books (2016). His book of essays, ''Retrievals'', was published in 2014 by Wave Books, and features essays he has written over the last decade about various writers and artists who have disappeared from view or near achieved much visibility despite their significance, "written in Caples' signature blend of erudition and élan."〔http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/fall-arts-2014-books-mcsweeneys/Content?oid=3126420〕 His next book of poems, ''Power Ballads'', will appear from Wave Books in the Fall of 2016. ==Bibliography== ;Full-length poetry collections *''Power Ballads'' (Wave Books, 2016) *''Complications'' (Meritage Press, 2007) *''The Garrett Caples Reader'' (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999) ;Criticism *''Retrievals'' (Wave Books, 2014) * ''The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop'' (Ninevolt, 2004) ;Pamphlets *''Quintessence of the Minor'' (Wave Books, 2010) ;Chapbooks *''What Surrealism Means to Me'', with drawings by Brian Lucas (Gas Meter Books, 2014) *''Invisible Sleep'' (Auguste Press, 2013) * ''avid diva'' (Lew Gallery/Auguste Press, 2010) *''er, um'', with drawings by Hu Xin (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) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Garrett Caples」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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