Böcker utgivna av Duende Press

Against the backdrop of immense cultural shift in the late-1960s, in the unique setting of Mendocino, California, here is a poignant telling of what it was like for a closeted gay kid working and living in a family-run French restaurant. Frequented by eccentric locals, tourists, and movie stars, Cafe Beaujolais became a local landmark. And though it has seen several incarnations, it remains the standard for fine dining on the Northern California coast. Beaujolais in My Blood spans from the inception of the restaurant by Eric's parents to its eventual sale. While he witnesses the evolution of his parents' dream-moving away from TV dinners, and toward an appreciation of well-prepared food-he is all the while a young man discovering his true nature and the meaning of service through hard work and self-discovery. The result is a coming of age (and coming out) story told with grit and humor. Finally, here is the story of Cafe Beaujolais' colorful origin.

"No poet is more particular to the wild outside and inside vastnesses of New Mexico, where Cabeza de Vaca got truly lost and D.H. Lawrence equally found." Robert Creeley. "Nature is also a common theme in Goodell's poetry: the role of Nature, the need to save the planet from destruction by corporate greed, the beauty of walking in the Ojito Wilderness, the yearly gardens around his house, his tasks with the local committee to clean out irrigation canals, the stark beauty of the Sandia foothills, the timeless poetry of the 'fervent valley' where he lives, above the larger Rio Grande Valley; in the shadow of the Cosmic Mountain. We think you will find all these riches in the poetry of Larry Goodell." Gary Brower "His poems . . . are clear fables, alien stories, truth parading in spirals. His muse is full of imagination and wonder." Jules Nyquist, founder of Jules Poetry Playhouse. "Goodell is a natural, a category that academe either explicitly denies, actively discourages, or has forgotten." Gus Blaisdell in "Co[s]mic Clown," in Artspace Fall 1976. "Breath is really 3 books: 'The Light No Stars are Made Of, ' 'Oh Cabezon, ' and 'Breath' and it traverses a time at the beginning of the last decade where Goodell leads us all further into his playfulness and inventiveness." Don McIver