Second Coming Press was a San Francisco-based small press

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 founded by A.D. Winans that was in existence from 1972 to 1989. It specialized in publishing poetry and essays. Its published writers included Douglas Blazek

Douglas Blazek

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, Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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, Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski

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, Art Cuelho, Paul Fericano

Paul Fericano

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, Gene Fowler

Gene Fowler

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, Hugh Fox

Hugh Fox

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, Linda King

Linda King

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, Diane Kruchkow, Gerald Locklin

Gerald Locklin

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, Al Masarik, Jack Micheline

Jack Micheline

Jack Micheline , born Harold Martin Silver, was an American painter and poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. His name is synonymous with street artists, underground writers, and "outlaw" poets...

, Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

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, Morty Sklar and William Wantling

William Wantling

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Winans also published Second Coming Magazine, broadsides and anthologies.

Second Coming Press' records are related papers are held by the Brown University

Brown University

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Library.

Books Published by Second Coming Press

• Aguila, Pancho. Dark smoke (1977)
• Andersdatter, Karla Margaret. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, 'cause I lost the map to where I was going: poems (1978)
• Bennett, John. Crime of the Century (1987)
• Castaño, Wilfredo Q. Small stones cast upon the tender earth (1981)
• Fericano, Paul. Loading The Revolver With Real Bullets (1977)
• Fowler, Gene. Felon's Journal (Poems) (1975)
• Fowler, Gene. Return of the Shaman (1981)
• Hiatt, Ben L. Data For a Windy Day (Broadside) (1977)
• Micheline, Jack. Skinny Dynamite (1980)
• Nimnicht, Nora. In the museum naked (1978)
• Reith, Kimi. Poems for my mother and the women I have loved (1978)
• Savitt, Lynne. Lust in 28 flavors: poems (1979)
• Tsongas, George. Love letters (1975)
• Wantling, William. 7 on Style (1975)
• Whitebird, Joanie. Birthmark (1977)
• Whitebird, Joanie. 24 (1978)
• Winans, A.D. North Beach Poems (1977)
• Winans, A.D. Tales of Crazy John: or, Beating Brautigan at His Own Game (1975)

Anthologies Published by Second Coming Press

• Winans, A.D. (ed.). 19+?1: An Anthology of San Francisco Poetry (1978)
• Winans, A.D. (ed.). California Bicentennial Poets Anthology (1976)
• Winans, A.D. (ed.). Second Coming Anthology: Ten Years in Retrospect (1984)

Resources

• Brown University Librar, Second Coming Press records