Solar Hits
Tate Swindell

Paperback
82pp
9"x7"x0.25"
ISBN 978–1–946583–39–0

The first full length collection by San Francisco poet and archivist, Tate Swindell. These poems reflect Swindell's long acquaintance with various ways of working with language. It's all here: the jazz - the city - the mind - the longing - the high - the friend - the birds - the skin - the street - the show - the no where to go - the next election - the loss - the what-to-do - the Say-Hey - the marketing concept - the lava within - the imaginary dreamer - the human shout… this is Tate Swindell picking the lock of the heart with a question for the sun, which comes singing back to you.

Tate Swindell is an archivist, poet photographer, and founder of Unrequited Records, which specializes in poetry records released on the vinyl format. The latest release was an album of rare Gregory Corso readings from the late 1970s that included previously unpublished poems. In addition to an album of rare Bob Kaufman recordings due out in 2020, he recently co-edited the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman for City Lights Books (2019). Tate, and his brother Todd, worked extensively on the Harold Norse archives, which were donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. He is currently writing a memoir about his experiences as a pioneer in the San Francisco medical cannabis movement. His previous collections of writings include Palpitations, The Creation of Deadlines and Fotopomes.