Regent Press is an independent press offering an eclectic mix of titles in a variety of subjects and genres — poetry, fiction, essays, biography, memoir, mythology, history, dance, photography, and visual art, both of an academic and popular nature. Regent Press was started by Mark Weiman in 1978, shortly after he arrived in California from Philadelphia and Manhattan where he had worked in his family’s rare book and scholarly publishing business. The press was initially established and is still located in Berkeley, which in many ways is its defining characteristic.
A TERRIBLE BEAUTY The Wilderness of American Literature
In A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature, Jonah Raskin takes a long close look at the forest of books that poets, novelists and essayists mapped and explored before and after Thoreau. The first work of cultural criticism to look back at writing in the United States from the perspective of the contemporary environmental crisis.