Our winter reading list features a comic anthology, an exploration of eating, and the true tale of a sexual renegade in the LGBT community. Also included: novels, short stories and even a fresh take on war from a Marine who witnessed it firsthand in Vietnam.
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Santa Cruz Poet Releases Career Collection
When Robert Sward arrived in Santa Cruz in 1985, he instantly became the area’s most nationally famous resident poet. Thanks to his much-anthologized poem “Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9,” the first he ever published and one that remains a classic 50 years later, local writers knew Sward’s name and welcomed him as a borderline celebrity. Ever since then he has thrived here as a prolific poet, novelist, journalist, teacher and, in recent years, poetry editor of the Santa Cruz Weekly.
