The Cooperative Movement
in Century 21 Living in the U.X.A. JOHN
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"It is indeed inspiring, in
the face of all the misguided praise of 'the market', to be reminded by
John Curl's book
of the noble history of cooperative
work in the United States."
Howard Zinn, author of A Peoples History of the United States
“This new edition is
greatly welcome, because we need a cooperative movement and spirit more
than ever before. Curl surveys all, and explains much. New generations
of readers will find this a fascinating account, and aging co-opers
like myself will understand better what we did, what we tried to do,
where we succeeded and where we failed. Get this book and read it, Curl
will do you good.”
Paul Buhle, coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left,
founding editor of Radical America
(SDS).
Memories of Drop City
“John Curl’s characters in Memories of Drop City
aspire to be ‘100 years’ ahead of the rest of us, but Curl shows,
through his highly crafted and brilliant novelistic memoir, that they
often succumb to the same social flaws as the rest of us. This might be
the most balanced novel or memoir yet published about the sixties.”
Ishmael Reed, National Book
Awards nominee.
“With this compelling evocation
and portrayal
of breathing people -- the young and not so young, straight and not so
straight, political
and not so political, hip and not so hip -- John Curl unpacks the boxed
lunch myth of America’s alternative lifestyle Sixties. Memories of Drop City
restores the day to day flavor of a deeply fabled era still key to
understanding the way we live (and don’t live) now.”
Al Young, poet laureate of
California
“I think Memories
of Drop City
is an extraordinary book which brings the Sixties back to life in vivid
detail and conveys the spirit of the Sixties better than almost
anything else I’ve read.”
Gerald Nicosia, author of
Memory Babe
“Memories of Drop
City
captures the idealism of a generation of flower children who returned
to the land seeking peace and by that act committing revolution against
the military-industrial state. John Curl brings these idealists
and
their demonstrations against war – just as these same idealists to this
day demonstrate against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars -- vibrantly to
light in a revolution with a smile. Thanks, John.”
Floyd Salas, author of
Tattoo the Wicked Cross
Scorched
Birth
Cosmic
Athletics
Insurrection/
Resurrection
Ride
the
Wind
" A Master Poet who uses
language in a remarkable, innovative way, he
gives us information on contradictions in the evolving state of human
consciousness."
Mary Rudge, poet
laureate of
Alameda, CA
"What
is unique about John's work is the
technique he has developed to bridge the gap between poetry of the
heart and political rhetoric ... His is the wholistic vision of
Whitman, a hologram of fragments--each of which mirrors the inner
harmonies as they leap out at you, all like circuits wired to some
luminous inner board. In his strong impassioned voice, John's
staccato lines in Cosmic
Athletics hammer away at the
machinations of the corporate hyenas just as smoothly as they hammer
together a universe we could live in as brothers and sisters."
Art Goodtimes, Poetry
Flash
"The procreative force, the
cosmic
sensibility, the oracular insight Curl brings to the reader is
constantly astonishing. His poems in Insurrection/
Resurrection and Ride the
Wind help define and give rise to a
verse of the surreal poetarian vision of the left. Here unrealism
attempts to seize and transform imperialist reality. Curl writes like
the lead miner in a pit crew. As such, he is already a major young
poet on the people's side. There is not a thing to be bought; off in
his poems, there is only the amazement of truth."
Roger Taos,
The Unrealist
"By replacing sentence structure
with what
he calls "energy structure," Curl is able to create a greater
diversity of sources for inspiration and possibilities for
communication within the context of any given poem ... John Curl has
proven himself one of our most capable and talented messengers."
Fred Pietarinen, City
Arts
Columbus in the Bay of
Pigs
"Pages of truth that brought
sadness to my
heart. It will be hard for me to live each day without quoting from
Columbus in the Bay of
Pigs."
Dennis Banks, Cofounder of
the American Indian Movement
"Columbus
in the Bay of
Pigs can help us
understand our past, so we can rebuild our communities and project
our future, respecting the diversity of people living on this
planet."
Nilo Cayuqueo, South and
Meso-American Indian
Information Center
"Columbus
in the Bay of
Pigs is a must reading in
the step beyond 1992. Those who do not wish to open wider the
Indigenous Circle of life will be washed away, into the past."
Antonio Gonzales,
International Indian Treaty Council
"John Curl has provided one of
the first and
finest contemporary contributions toward truth in history in a time
when reappraisal of this country's relationship to Indians is of
vital importance."
June LeGrand, Cherokee
storyteller
"Columbus
in
the Bay of Pigs reminds me of
Galeano, which is among the highest praise I can give
anything."
Malcolm Margolin, author of
The Ohlone Way
History
of Work Cooperation in
America
"I read History
of Work Cooperation in
America with great interest and
pleasure. John Curl merits the highest praise for documenting this
woefully neglected aspect of American life. Society is a vast
interlocking network of cooperative labor. The very existence of
mankind depends upon both the necessity and the social instinct of
mutual aid."
Sam Dolgoff, author of The
Anarchist
Collectives