POETS ON POETS ~

 

R E A D   M E

      University of Pennsylvania Press

      2022

A CENTURY OF WAR ON FILM ~

 

R E A D    M E

Harper Collins 2023

THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY A LIVING FEMALE ROCK CRITIC ~

J E S S I C A     H O P P E R

The title of this book is not entirely accurate.

There's Ellen Willis' Beginning To See the Light,

though it wasn't all music writing, and then her

posthumous collection that was. Of course Lillian

Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia from 1969, Caroline

Coon's crucial 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock

Explosion and the collective, life-changing Rock

She Wrote. We should be able to list a few dozen

more — but those books don't exist.Yet.

The title of this book is about planting a flag; it

is for those whose dreams (and manuscripts) lan-

guished due to lack of formal precedence, support

and permission. This title is not meant to erase

our history but rather to help mark the path.

This book is dedicated to those that came before,

those that should of been first, and all the ones

that will come after.

Featherproof Books

Chicago

2015