Soft Skull Press is an independent book publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009, and Denise Oswald from 2009 to 2010. In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, who closed Soft Skull's New York operation in 2010. Soft Skull continues to function as an imprint of Counterpoint in Berkeley, California, where Laura Mazer is in charge of the imprint. It is distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West.
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They lift frail heads in gravity and good faith.”
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death.
Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in yellow
surprise at the sun. . . .”
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