Poetry
We Do The Polis / In Different Voices
Contributor
David BuuckDavid Buuck is a writer who lives in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. An Army of Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr, is forthcoming this fall from City Lights, and SITE CITE CITY will be published by Futurepoem in 2014.
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