A collection of new poems, some of which settle with past bewilderment, some retaliate against immoral acts, while others try to match the lift of music and find delight in hill towns. Freud is imagined as a shrink of the old west and there's a formula for settling a check for a table with imbibers and non-imbibers.

A Million Revolutions – A Fearless Poetry Collection by Greg Masters In his eleventh book from his imprint Crony Books, Greg Masters delivers a fearless and deeply resonant exploration of the world around us, and within us. These poems are sharp, unflinching, and tender, moving effortlessly between the political and the personal, the universal and the intimate. With a voice that is both bold and vulnerable, Masters calls out miscreants in seats of power, exposing corruption and hubris with...

In this new book of poems, his ninth from Crony Books, Masters cuts through the lies perpetrated as the American Dream pitched to us like soap detergent over the past 50 years. The title poem is an attempt at a sort of "Howl 2". Written in a wayward trochaic octameter (eight beats a line) it is a grand kvetch to pierce veneer, call out government miscreants and establish truths attesting to perspectives chronically pushed to the margins and excluded from corporate boardrooms and TV fantasi...

While For the Artists, Volume 1, issued earlier this year, focused on visual artists, this second volume gathers together a number of reviews and essays I’ve written for various publications and websites critiquing books and music. – essays and reviews examine Wordsworth's great neglected poem The Prelude to Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams to celebrations of bassist/composer Charlie Haden and rock group Animal Logic and a number of extended essays examine the so-called "electric...

Attuned to radio, friends, hawks in the park, the vast city's cultural richness, morning moments scribbling in notebook, the wired intensity of dreams, an intimacy averted, the array of the day's offerings and the snapshot focus retained in type.

This new volume gathers reviews and essays on visual artists and writers published by Greg Masters in various magazines, journals and websites over the past decade. Essays on and reviews of shows by Dutch photographer Gerard Petrus Fieret, and painters Louise Hamlin and Matthew Wong. There are dozens of reviews of books issued by both mainstream publishers and independent small presses.

A collection of so-called short stories recounting 40 years in the author's existence in the East Village of Manhattan – from hormone-fueled escapades and bewilderment to a perhaps slightly more mature assessment of peculiarities. The stories celebrate girlfriends in the witness protection program, sneaking into movie theaters, what should have been said to Jimmy Fallon and one in the voice of I.B. Singer. The book has received three five-star reviews from online review site Readers' Favor...

Stumbling Into Modernity: 
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Cling to Tradition takes an admiring, yet critical look at a body of literature that reflects a crossover, not only geographic, with immigration from Poland, but from traditional, tribal values treasured in the Jewish provinces of Europe and then questioned in the new, modern world of America. While this study seeks a place in the modern canon for Singer's work through an appreciation of his achievements, it wrestles with his limitations i...

Three Journals chronicles reflections from one mind in three disparate locations at three different times: Europe and Morocco, 1974-75; the East Village of Manhattan, 1977-1978; and Mexico, 1985. “I wasn’t sure whether to publish these journals,” says Greg Masters. “But, I read some excerpts at a gathering recently and friends there said yes.”

Poems from the East Village of Manhattan, a scene of artistic and social vibrancy amid the nation's detritus.

At Maureen's, a new book from Bernadette Mayer and Greg Masters New York, Feb. 2013 – Crony Books is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, At Maureen's, by Bernadette Mayer and Greg Masters. At Maureen's is a double journal offering a Rashomon-like take on a month spent housesitting in Connecticut. Two poets from the bohemian enclaves of the East Village of Manhattan do what they can to acclimate to their new rural surroundings: a horse, raspberries, visitors, diapers, books, ...

For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 1 presents a collection of art reviews, critical essays and interviews with artists and chronicles an exhilarating time in the art world of 1980s Manhattan, when a burgeoning gallery scene in the East Village evolved to rival the more established gallery outposts on 57th Street. Greg Masters, writing for a number of publications, covered it all – both the well-known names and the upstarts. Younger painters, photographers, sculptors, film-makers and...