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Small Press Distribution
POETRY, FICTION & LITERARY NONFICTION
SPRING 2010
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Contents
New Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Letter from the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
New-Lit Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Poetry, Prose & Cross-Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Fiction and Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Literary Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Title Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Publisher Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Multicultural Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Friends of SPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
SPD Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
HOW TO USE THIS CATALOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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Spring 2010
Poetry, Fiction and
Cultural Writing
503 New Books
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SPD BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Ani Chamichian
Jonathan Fernandez
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Michael Morgan
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New
Publishers
Once again, SPD welcomes a record-breaking
number of new independent presses to the
SPD family. This catalog introduces the books
of eighteen new publishers from five
countries—offering offering fiction, poetry,
film studies, travel guides, translation, noir
anthologies and just about everything in
between. Thanks to all of our presses, new and
old, for making SPD the best place for
independently minded readers and writers!
BENU PRESS/ HOPKINS, MINNESOTA
Steve Fellner, ALL SCREWED UP
Margaret Rozga, 200 NIGHTS AND ONE DAY
THE BITTER OLEANDER PRESS/
FAYETTEVILLE, NEW YORK
David Rowbotham, POEMS FOR AMERICA
Lia Hills, THE POSSIBILITY OF FLIGHT
David Reiter, PRIMARY INSTINCT
Kathy Kituai, STRAGGLING INTO WINTER
Euan McCabe, THE WORLD CUP BABY
Mark Pirie and Tim Jones, Eds., VOYAGERS
Dina von Zweck, THE HISTORY OF WORDS &
OTHER POEMS
WOLF RIDGE PRESS/ SAN FRANCISCO,
CALIFORNIA
Harvey Ellis, SLEEP NOT SLEEP
NOEMI PRESS/ MESILLA PARK, NEW MEXICO
Lila Zemborain, GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET
Shya Scanlon, IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE
OYSTER RIVER PRESS/ DURHAM,
NEW HAMPSHIRE
THE WORD WORKS/ WASHINGTON, D.C.
Richard Carr, ACE
Frannie Lindsay, MAYWEED
Nancy White, SUN, MOON, SALT
Keith Holyoak, FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF
LI BAI AND DU FU
Elena Lafert and Melina Draper, LUGAR DE
ORIGEN/PLACE OF ORIGIN
Robert J. Duffy, ORDINARY LIES
Eva Claeson, Ed., TO CATCH LIFE ANEW: 10
SWEDISH WOMEN POETS
POETIC MATRIX PRESS/ MADERA,
CALIFORNIA
Carol Dine, VAN GOGH IN POEMS
BLAFT PUBLICATIONS/ CHENNAI, INDIA
Rakesh Khanna, Ed., THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY
OF TAMIL PULP FICTION
Shelle, HEROES, GUNDAS, VAMPS & GOOD GIRLS
Kuzhali Manickavel, INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE
YOU AND ME EXCEPT SOME OF THEM HAVE
WINGS
Surender Mohan Pathak, THE 65 LAKH HEIST
Natesh Raju, WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS
REAL TONGUE IS FORK HEN IS COCK WHEN
THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL MY BABY
EAGLE’S DREAM COMES TRUE
Ki. Rajanarayanan, WHERE ARE YOU GOING,
YOU MONKEYS?: FOLKTALES FROM TAMIL
NADU
Charu Nivedita, ZERO DEGREE
Joe O’Connell, DINGLE DAY
Molly Weller, FINDING PASSAGE
Diana Festa, THE GATHERING
Brandon Cesmat, LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS
Joseph Zaccardi, RENDER
PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS/ NORFOLK,
VIRGINIA
Joseph Young, EASTER RABBIT
Matthew Simmons, A JELLO HORSE
Stephanie Barber, THESE HERE SEPARATED TO
SEE HOW THEY STANDING ALONE
SAN FRANCISCO BAY PRESS/ NORTHFIELD,
MINNESOTA
Joan Gelfand, A DREAMER’S GUIDE TO CITIES
AND STREAMS
SEOUL SELECTION/ SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Brian Clements and Jamey Dunham, Eds.,
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM
Brian Clements, Ed., SENTENCE: A JOURNAL
OF PROSE POETICS NO. 6
Ku Sang, ETERNITY TODAY / p. 32
Jung Ji-youn, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: BONG
JOON-HO
Huh Moonyung, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS:
HONG SANG-SOO
Chung Sung-ill, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: IM
KWON-TAEK
Kim Hong-joon, Ed., KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS:
KIM KI-YOUNG
Kim Young-jin, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: PARK
CHAN-WOOK
Brother Anthony of Taize and Hong Kyeong-hee,
THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA
Brenda Paik Sunoo, SEAWEED AND SHAMANS:
INHERITING THE GIFTS OF GRIEF
Brenda Paik Sunoo, VIETNAM MOMENT
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS/
CARINDALE, AUSTRALIA
TALKING LEAVES PRESS/ NEW YORK,
NEW YORK
David Gilbey, DEATH AND THE MOTORWAY
Libby Hart, FRESH NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC
Stephen Oliver, HARMONIC
Tom and Simon Sykes, THE HITCHERS OF OZ
E. A. Gleeson, IN BETWEEN THE DANCING
Iain Britton, LIQUEFACTION
Phil Cousineau and Scott Chamberlin Hoyt, THE
MEANING OF TEA: A TEA INSPIRED JOURNEY
CIDER PRESS REVIEW/ HALIFAX,
PENNSYLVANIA
Robin Chapman, ABUNDANCE
Caron Andregg, Ed., CIDER PRESS REVIEW,
VOLUME 10
ELEPHANTEARS PRESS/ LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM
Louisiana Alba, UNCORRECTED PROOF
FIREWHEEL EDITIONS/ DANBURY,
CONNECTICUT
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WHITE DEER BOOKS/ NEW YORK, NEW YORK
TOP PEN PRESS/ HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA
G Winston James, SHAMING THE DEVIL:
COLLECTED SHORT STORIES
readers to find literature outside the
mainstream.
JEFFREY LEPENDORF
A LETTER FROM SPD’S
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
So Few
Books
Much has been written about lately
bemoaning just how many new books
appear in print every year. In his So Many
Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age
of Abundance (Paul Dry Books), the
Mexican poet and cultural critic Gabrial
Zaid tells us “the human race publishes a
book every thirty seconds.” Psychoanalyst
and literature professor Pierre Bayard’s
satirically cogent How to Talk About Books
You Haven’t Read (Granta Books) likewise
addresses the “problem” of so-manybooks-so-little-time. Based on ISBN
But statistics about the
sheer volume of books
can be misleading.
numbers (the codes used to uniquely
identify a book title), there are—
between the US and the UK alone—
approximately a million new Englishlanguage books every year from which to
choose. And this tide of new books can
make it harder, not easier, for interested
Moreover, merely tallying up all the ISBNs
can reinforce the idea that all titles are
produced, maintained and supported in
fundamentally similar ways. But statistics
about the sheer volume of books can be
misleading. For instance, many people
assume that all books are available all the
time, or at least that if a title is “sold out”
the publisher will print more to meet
demand soon. While this very well may
be the case for books on New York Times
bestseller lists, the same can’t be
assumed for most of the independently
produced literature available through
SPD. Most of our poetry titles are printed
in runs of 250 to 1,000 copies, and even a
healthy run of an SPD fiction title will
routinely be under 2,000. Some SPD titles
make their way into syllabi, and over the
years may indeed be reprinted, but most
of the entries in this catalog represent
the one and only print run for that book.
…these new
technologies can lead
to false impressions of
comprehensiveness
When the last copy leaves the
warehouse, it may never be available
new again. And while some copies of
each title will generally make their way
into the used book market, their limited
print runs can make buying them used a
costly endeavor.
Recent discussions of the impending
Google Settlement Agreement suggest
that we may soon have digital access to
all books. Nicolson Baker’s 2002 Double
Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
(now ironically available for Kindle
download!) addresses a number of issues
regarding the digitization of books, but
even if we leave those issues aside (such
as what can be lost when we give up
the physicality of a printed text) these
new technologies can lead to false
impressions of comprehensiveness.
In the case of Google, for example, the
digitized books will make their way into
the system by way of university libraries.
Because only a portion of the books
available through SPD will find their way
to these libraries, a search of “all books”
through this system might easily leave
out some of the books that many of us
care about most.
…when you see a book
that speaks to you,
please buy it now since
you may never have the
opportunity again.
Right now, you hold in your hands a
particularly wonderful tool for identifying
important books that might otherwise be
lost in the sea of books. Many of these
you will only find here. So when you see
a book that speaks to you, please buy
it now since you may never have the
opportunity again. Perhaps in the future
many SPD books will be available for
digital download but, at least for now,
the precious small numbers of each
SPD title makes those books even more
precious, and all the more important
to acquire when they are first published.
This catalog presents the best
opportunity for you to be among
the lucky few reading each of the books
described inside. Don’t let the
opportunity pass you by!
Happy reading,
Jeffrey Lependorf
SPD Executive Director
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BURNING DECK FALL 2009
Jean Daive
translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop
Peter Waterhouse:
Jean Daive:
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan
[Série d’Ecriture, No.22; translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop]
Paul Celan and Jean Daive translate each other, walk, talk. Tensions, silences and, discreetly,
Celan’s crises and suicide. Autumn in Paris. Incessant walks under the dome of chestnut
leaves. Paris, the Luxembourg Garden, the Square of the Contrescarpe. And, finally, the
question: who are we, and how do we read the unreadable world?
The book blurs the time of these encounters and walks (1965 -1970) with the present of
the author writing, 20 years later, on a Mediterranean island.
Under the Dome is an intimate portrait of Celan in his last, increasingly dark years. It is
also the encounter of two poets, each with his demons, for whom it is a matter of life and
death to work language into a grid, a Sprachgitter, that could hold the world.
Jean Daive has since the 1960s been composing an oeuvre that is a kind of investigation alternating
between poetry, narration and reflective prose. He is also a photographer, has worked as radio
journalist and on encyclopedias. He has edited three magaziness as well as translated Paul Celan and
Robert Creeley. His first book, Décimale blanche (1967) was translated into German by Paul Celan, into
English by Cid Corman. Other important titles are Fut bâti (1973), Narration d'équilibre (1982-90: 9
volumes) and the prose series, La Condition d'infini (1995-97: 7 volumes, of which Under the Dome is
volume 5).
Memoir, 136 pages, offset, smyth-sewn, ISBN13: 978-1-886224-97-1, original pbk. $14
Language Death Night Outside (POEM.Novel)
[Dichten=, No.11; translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop]
An “I” between languages. A text between genres. The Austrian grandfather’s death
triggers an examination of the past, of history, identity, consciousness. Three poems (by
Zanzotto, Celan, Rakosi) and three philosophers (Descartes, Leibniz, Mach) become touchstones for the narrator in his attempt to find a language through which to encounter reality.
A life is created through precise particulars in short, anaphoric sentences—with an effect
both staccato and hypnotic. But the effort toward the concrete and definite (“I forced myself
to use main clauses, nouns, the definite article”) stands in tension with the boundlessness
encountered in the poems and in thinking, where the city turns ship, and a yellow flower
in Vienna touches the sand dunes of North Africa.
Peter Waterhouse was born in Berlin in 1956 of an English father and an Austrian mother and
studied in Vienna and Los Angeles. A resident of Vienna, he is one of Austria's leading poets and a
noted translator from both English and Italian. He has received numerous prizes, including the
Heimito von Doderer Prize (1997) and the H.C. Artmann Prize (2004).
Poem.Novel, 128 pages, offset, smyth-sewn, ISBN13: 978-1-886224-99-5, original pbk. $14
Recent Translations from German and French:
Dichten =, No. 10: 16 New (to Americans) German Poets
“...gives some idea of the range, diversity and quality of what is being written now”— Catherine Hales, Jacket
Ulf Stolterfoht, Lingos I-IX (tr. R. Waldrop). PEN Award For Poetry In Translation, 2008. “This jubilantly inter
textual poetry is more than a spoof on the intellectual fashion—which it also is, of course.”— John Taylor, The Antioch Review
Gerhard Roth, The Will to Sickness. Novel (tr. Tristram Wolf)
“the sheer beauty of Roth’s precision in language undoes the reader”—Jean-Marie Venturini, The New Review of Literature
Gerhard Rühm, I My Feet: Poems & Constellations (tr. R. Waldrop)
“One of the foremost concrete poets writing in German”—Mark Tursi, www.epoetry.org
Ludwig Harig, The Trip to Bordeaux (tr. Susan Bernofsky)
“Marvelous novel...Merely getting the characters to and from Bordeaux in a car is to witness a stylistic bridge from Samuel Beckett
to David Foster Wallace.”—Mark Tardi, Review of Contemporary Fiction
Isabelle Baladine Howald, Secret of Breath (tr. Eléna Rivera)
“Upon finishing many of the poems, I was left feeling devastated yet somehow transformed.”—Joseph P. Wood, newpages
Caroline Dubois, You Are the Business (tr. Cole Swensen). Finalist for Best Translated Book Award, 2008
Suzanne Doppelt, Ring Rang Wrong. Text & Photographs (tr.Cole Swensen).“A gesture of transvaluation
that tells us that there is…a fairy tale in every scientific fragment”—Eduardo Cadava, Verse
Jean Grosjean, An Earth of Time (tr. K. Waldrop). “It would be true, but also misleading to characterize this as religious
poetry…It is the humanness, however flawed, and the particulars of the natural world that these poems insist on.” —Ted Pearson, Verse
Pascal Quignard, On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia. Novel (tr. Bruce X).
”One must ask why Apronenia, while remaining so oblivious to political events, focuses so precisely on other aspects of objec
tive everyday reality…What surges forth, in this imaginative process, is life itself.”—John Taylor, Chelsea
Norma Cole, ed./trans., Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. “Exhilarating and thought-provoking
collection of letters, poems, interviews, that features French poets in "conversation" with each other”—K. Prevallet, Double Change
www.burningdeck.com
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N E W C R IT IC IS M , PO ETRY, AN D FI C TI O N FR O M
C O U N T E R P AT H P R E S S
Stephen Ratcliffe
Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet
“Compulsive reading for anyone who cares
about Shakespeare.” — : =5* 3 8 'S
Christine Hume
Shot
“An insistent, wild, erotic attentiveness
that engages insomnia as if it were a
lover.” — 8 ' 8 8H)*
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Jeremy M. Davies
Barbara Claire Freeman
Rose Alley
A first novel that “appropriately ambushes
the reader, not with brutality but with
wit, irresistible ingenuity, and a stupefying
narrative abundance” ( 88H )= D: ).
Incivilities
“Insistent scraps of language pushed beyond the
possibility of narrative sequence by forms of
destruction.” — $B # = B ='8
Tomaž Šalamun
There’s the Hand and There’s the Arid Chair
Juliology
Nicolas Pesquès
Translated by Cole Swensen.
“A ‘hinge’ onto a new language.”
— '#J = 83 # *: 3*
Translated by Thomas Kane and others. “Šalamun’s poetry
is not so much a response to particular experiences . . . but
is experience itself.” — % C #* 8=S C8 :
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Paul Hoover
Christine Wertheim, ed.
Translated by Peter Smith
TrenchArt: Maneuvers Series
“A stunning, exquisite, perfect, and
difficult little benchmark of a novel that
makes literature that pre-dates it seem
deprived.” —Dennis Cooper
Fifty-six variations of Shakespeare’s
sonnet 56: “a potent reflection on the
relationship between poetic form and
content.” —Ian Monk
$13.00 | Prose | 978-1-934254-16-5
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Dodie Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall,
Meiling Cheng, Wanda Coleman, Bhanu
Kapil, Chris Kraus, Susan McCabe,
Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Maggie
Nelson, Juliana Spahr, Vanessa Place,
Stephanie Young, Lidia Yuknavitch
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www.lesfigues.com
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War and Peace: Vision and Text #4
Edited by Judith Goldman and
Leslie Scalapino
isbn: 978-1-882022-68-7, 128 pages, $14
#4 is devoted to collaborations between visual
works and poetry, includes collaborative
works of Charles Bernstein with Susan Bee,
Amy Evans McClure with Michael McClure,
Kiki Smith with Leslie Scalapino, Denise
Newman with Gigi Janchang, a film on paper
by Lyn Hejinian, Alan Halsey’s visual texts,
Simone Fattal, and Petah Coyne. Judith
Goldman interviews Marjorie Welish;
Lauren Shufran interviews Jean Boully; Leslie
Scalapino interviews Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
Also included: E. Tracy Grinnell’s homophonic translations of Claude Cahun’s Hélène la
rebelle and poems by Fanny Howe, Thom
Donovan, and others.
Containment Scenario/DisloInter
MedTextId entCation/Horse Medicine
by M. Mara-Ann
isbn: 978-1-882022-67-0, 192 pages, $15
“Enter this work as you would wade into semiotic seas in the age of Presocratic atomists. . . .
It’s the most comforting and alien of experiences—senses saturated and emptied simultaneously, shifting codes washing through,
transforming consciousness in the real time
of the readerly act. M. Mara-Ann’s implicit
wager is that default modes of reading/being
can be ecstatically overwritten. The recovery
of the natural world, so central to her antigeneric, synergistic project, posits nothing
less than overwriting the catastrophe of our
nature/culture agon.”
—Joan Retallack
Debts and Obligations
by Alicia Cohen
isbn: 978-1-882022-66-3, 80 pages, $12
“What singles out these poems is the poet’s
power of innocence that renews what she sees.
. . .We want to share that pleasure.”
—Etel Adnan
“The promise of ecopoetics echoes here, strewn
with hope, at the edge of a wild continent.”
—Charles Bernstein
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BOOKS
“The poems of Debts and Obligations show the
mystery of existence up close and unpackaged.
Theirs is an unsettled beauty, animated . . . a
way of reckoning through discomposing distinctions such as, animal and human, riot and
quiet, poet and poem. She writes, “all lives are
fires,” these poems, written with “attention’s
fierce flame,” burn with clarity.”
—Denise Newman
Horace by Tim Atkins
isbn: 978-1-882022-63-2, 78 pages, $12
“Tim Atkins does for translation what
Gertrude Stein did for nouns. He’s turned
Horace inside out, and booby-trapped the
works with strategically explosive pregnant
shock and awe. Pope and Dryden have nothing on this guy: Horace has arrived.”
—Lisa Jarnot
DeathStar/ Rico-chet
by Judith Goldman
isbn: 978-1-882022-61-8, 112 pages, $14
“Fact and factitiousness, set into counterdocudramas gorgeous despite their revolt
against their very substance, wrangle an
archival arsenal out of present conditions.”
—Jennifer Scappettone
“Rather than trapped in this current time’s enclosure, the reader is alert in Goldman’s
passionate bombardment.” —Leslie Scalapino
In Space in Situ
by Amy Evans McClure
isbn: 978-1-882022-69-4, 44 pages, $15
“Twenty-seven color photos of ceramic sculptures, with an essay by editor for Art in America, Michael Duncan, and poetry by Michael
McClure. Evans McClure’s sculptures, such
as horse heads (one can whirl, some are on
wheels), tall winged Furies parts of an outdoor
installation, and others, abstracted features
like vitalism in dreams, led Michael Duncan
to compare Evans McClure to “fellow contemporary image-builders” Kiki Smith and
Louise Bourgeois. Her figures are as if silent
containers of language, a relation then supplied by the essay and by Michael McClure’s
poem.”
—Leslie Scalapino
Poetry, Prose Poetry and
Cross-Genre Writing
Ryan Adams
HELLO SUNSHINE
978-1-933354-95-8, $15.95, paper, 280 pp.
978-1-933354-96-5, $24.95, cloth, 280 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Ryan Adams may be acclaimed primarily for
albums such as Cardinology, Heartbreaker, Gold (which
includes the popular hit songs “When the Stars Go Blue”
and “New York, New York”), and Easy Tiger, but the
world-renowned singer/songwriter has always been a
poet and fiction writer at heart. With the release of
HELLO SUNSHINE, Ryan continues to break literary
ground beyond what he established with his wildly
popular first book, INFINITY BLUES. Ryan’s new work
provides perhaps an even deeper insight into the man
than is revealed through the songs that have resonated
with his hundreds of thousands of fans.
Mary Alexandra Agner
THE DOORS OF THE BODY
978-0-932412-79-9, $12.95, paper, 36 pp.
MAYAPPLE PRESS 2009
Poetry. Mary Alexandra Agner’s THE DOORS OF THE
BODY travels through ancient Greek mythology to more
recent folk tales to ascertain and exclaim in the vatic,
sometimes fierce voices of women: Athena, Gretel,
Sleeping Beauty and even darling Clementine. Rangy
originality and deep curiosity drive these poems into
unexpected places. Its insightful reimaginings and
scrupulous investitures of archetypes and myths are
depth-redemptive, and invoke us to fresh encounters
with the repressed energies of nature and time.
Jesus Aguado
THE POEMS OF VIKRAM BABU
978-0-924047-59-6, $12, paper, 95 pp.
HOST PUBLICATIONS 2009
Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Electa Arenal and
Beatrix Gates. In this uniquely provocative collection,
award-winning Spanish poet Jesus Aguado adopts the
voice of Vikram Babu, a seventeenth-century Indian
mystic and basket-weaver who guides the reader on an
irreverent and enjoyable truth-seeking mission. Each of
these fifty fable-like poems ends with Vikram Babu
posing a question for his audience, inviting us to take
part in the work and let our own responses transform
the meaning of the poem. Through the wry observations
of his invented persona, Aguado gently unmasks human
frailty and hypocrisy, revealing a world of twisted
contradictions. In THE POEMS OF VIKRAM BABU, Aguado
extends us an affable, whimsical welcome to a complex
universe, an unforgettable world of slanted delight.
Listed alphabetically by author.
See also Fiction and Drama( p.51) Literary Nonfiction
(p.65), and Magazine sections (p.77)
Liz Ahl
A THIRST THAT’S PARTLY MINE
978-0-9820626-0-9, $12, paper, 32 pp.
SLAPERING HOL PRESS 2008
Poetry. A THIRST THAT’S PARTLY MINE explores the
ways humans perceive and interact with a natural world
that can seem both intimately connected to our
concerns and yet profoundly unknowable. “In a difficult
world, we readers of Liz Ahl’s poems might wonder,
with her unearthed spring toad, ‘... what any of us are
supposed to do about any of it.’ Perhaps these vivid and
compassionate poems have the answer as they sweep
human language over the endurance and beauty of
what’s creaturely here. Where species intersect, the
result on the page is pure art. Brava, Liz Ahl, poet,
observer, participant!”—Hilda Raz, author of All Odd
and Splendid and Trans.
Luis Alberto Ambroggio
DIFFICULT BEAUTY: SELECTED POEMS
(1987-2006)
978-0-89304-185-4, $20, paper, 164 pp.
978-0-89304-184-7, $40, cloth, 168 pp.
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2009
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Edited by Yvette Neiser Moreno.
“Reading DIFFICULT BEAUTY, one savors the shadows of
[Ambroggio’s] words as well as the heat of their emotion.
One reads these poems for their gliding notes. It is as
though the poet, as pilot, knows that the ship of his
verse moves through a realm that is dazzling, fragile, and
formidable. Ambroggio beckons us to take flight with
him, to experience the world as he sees it with joy, awe,
and striking reverence”—Oscar Hijuelos.
Archestratos
GASTROLOGY OR LIFE OF PLEASURE OR STUDY
OF THE BELLY OR INQUIRY INTO DINNER
978-0-9792999-6-4, $13, paper, 74 pp.
QUALE PRESS 2009
Poetry. Culinary Writing. Translated by Gian Lombardo.
GASTROLOGY OR LIFE OF PLEASURE OR STUDY OF THE
BELLY OR INQUIRY INTO DINNER is one of the Western
world’s first cookbooks, if one could find pig-fish (“Braise
its head but add no seasoning”) or Toronaian saw-tooth
shark (“Sprinkle with cumin and roast with a pinch of
salt”). It’s also a travelogue of ancient Greek port-towns,
and a guide to the prejudices of the day (“Don’t let any
Siracusan, or Italian for that matter, get near when
you’re cooking”). Most of all, this book is a testament to
the ways in which, since the beginnings of Western
civilization, people have been taking serious and sensual
pleasure in the food they eat. In this volume, Gian
Lombardo has culled together previous translations of
Archestratos’s work to provide a version that best
captures the author’s simultaneously dogmatically
authoritative and irreverent tome.
Ivan Argüelles
COMEDY, DIVINE, THE
978-952-5645-49-1, $14.50, paper, 335 pp.
BLUE LION BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Ivan Argüelles’s COMEDY, DIVINE, THE is a tour
de force of religious passion that never loses its head,
that maintains a level of spirituality new to my poeticeye. This is not to say it has a medium level of intensity
or inspiration, rather one has the feeling Argüelles is,
in this book, at a new high level of poetic-energy.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE
Christopher Arigo
IN THE ARCHIVES
978-1-890650-31-5, $14.95, paper, 120 pp.
Thérèse Bachand
LUCE A CAVALLO
978-1-933382-31-9, $12.95, paper, 79 pp.
OMNIDAWN 2007
GREEN INTEGER 2009
Poetry. IN THE ARCHIVES offers a lyrically rich,
emotionally compelling cycle of poems that explores the
alienation and longing we feel as we face the increased
mechanization and frightening militarization of our
present moment. In these formally inventive poems,
Arigo demonstrates how each phrase can keep the
reader alive to the reading experience as this writer
explores and exposes a poetics of intimate as well as
expansive vision. As the titles of many of the poem
cycles suggest—”Abbreviated Inventories,” “Catalogued
evidence,” “Tracking sites,” to name a few—Arigo is
interested in discerning how we organize our
understanding of the world we live in, and how that
understanding impacts our lives. These poems are
astute listening devices, catching the moments “when
songs and lightning suspend / present tenses.”
Focusing on important films of the 1960s and 70s, both
Hollywood productions and foreign film —works
which Bachand argues helped, ironically, to save the
studio system through their directorial integrity and
independent-mindedness—Bachand deconstructs and
reconstructs these images of light and shadow. In her
recreated linguistic worlds “all is consequence,” as “every
photograph” becomes a kind of “detective story.” As in
the poem “give it to me,” based on Antonioni’s Blow Up,
the poet asks the reader not just to seek out clues, but to
look within, to explore the self that defines this world of
images: “Close your eyes./It’s good for you.”
Ansie Baird
IN ADVANCE OF ALL PARTING
978-1-935210-09-2, $16, paper, 127 pp.
WHITE PINE PRESS 2009
Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure
EXPEDITIONS OF A CHIMÆRA
978-1-897388-47-1, $20, paper, 89 pp.
BOOK THUG 2009
Poetry. Expeditions, taken up by the explorers we all
are, ultimately cannot be read. Only experienced.
On venturing into it, you’ll find your ticket is no good,
expired, or valid only on Tuesday. Your fellow travelers
will tell you you are wearing the wrong shoes. If you
force your way past the gate, you will stub your toe,
scrape your shins, lose your suitcase, throw the book
across the room in a fit of outrage or fall under its spell
and suddenly find it half-submerged in your bathwater.
At times, you will even laugh aloud. EXPEDITIONS OF
A CHIMÆRA is dialogic. Four pairs of hands try their
luck at a game of cards. Nearby, questions sit, waiting to
be asked. These expeditions are not progressions but
digressions; they are translational in their effort to pull
the author, kicking and screaming, out of the hat of
authorial impossibilities.
Poetry. Winner of the 14th annual White Pine Press
Poetry Prize chosen by Roo Borson. “A tough,
unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically
elegant and inventive, understated and passionate,
Baird has created a richly drawn world in which this
elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid,
startling poems in which pain has left its indelible
tracks”—Chase Twichell. “Baird’s remarkable first
collection is besieged by angels, messengers bearing
often bitter, sometimes comic, always complicated
home (and broken-home) truths. Hers is a well-stocked
world inflected by elegiac understanding and a brisk,
unflinching willingness to encounter the hard facts of a
life marked by sadness, loss and disappointment”
—Eamon Grennan.
Stephanie Barber
THESE HERE SEPARATED TO SEE HOW THEY
STANDING ALONE
978-1-60643-235-8, $19.95, DVD, 56 pp.
PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS 2008
Yakov Azriel
BEADS FOR THE MESSIAH’S BRIDE: POEMS
ON LEVITICUS
978-1-56809-128-0, $15.95, paper, 118 pp.
TIME BEING BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Jewish Studies. “Azriel captures the ebb and
flow of life here, both ancient and modern. He
skillfully weaves in ways we can all understand the
interconnected branches of God’s chosen people, and
shines a gentle light on the Shadow of the Messiah.
Whether you are Christian, Jew, curious about ancient
life, or simply a poetry lover, this book is highly
recommended”—Midwest Book Review.
Kemeny Babineau
AFTER THE 6IX O’CLOCK NEWS
978-1-897388-35-8, $18, paper, 80 pp.
BOOK THUG 2009
Poetry. “AFTER THE 6IX O’CLOCK NEWS is poetry for
inside and out of the eyeball. It is not a declaration
of wart or a treaty of verse eyes, it is bigger than that.
This is poetry that has to be heard to be seen: to be
taken out to be turned in. Babineau’s breaking open
of the seedpod of genre has resulted in poems strewn
about town, yard, and beyond. What grows is an
insurgent response to the hiss of is through the
conductivity of the eclectic”—Malcolm Randall.
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Poetry. Film Studies. Multimedia. Book + DVD. This book
and DVD by Stephanie Barber, the critically acclaimed
experimental filmmaker, asks what happens when the
words that are spoken in her moving pictures are
separated to stand by themselves. The book includes the
soundtracks to six of her films, which are included on a
DVD. In this set are her groundbreaking and widely
shown titles “dogs,” “metronome,” and “catalog,” together
with three brand-new videos.
Walter Bargen
DAYS LIKE THIS ARE NECESSARY: NEW AND
SELECTED POEMS
978-1-886157-70-5, $15.95, paper, 222 pp.
BKMK PRESS 2009
Poetry. DAYS LIKE THIS ARE NECESSARY includes new
poems as well as highlights from the 13-book career of
Walter Bargen, first poet laureate of Missouri. Kevin
Prufer writes in his foreword to the book, “His work is
technically sophisticated, rhythmically subtle, and
emotionally complex, but—and here’s the trick—it’s
also the kind of poetry that one might offer to someone
who says he doesn’t like poetry much, someone who
says he doesn’t `get’ poetry, someone who prefers
mysteries or history books or biographies.... In a perfect
world, this book will go a long way toward bringing
Walter Bargen’s poetry to the much wider audience
it deserves.”
James Belflower
COMMUTER
978-0-9679854-7-3, $15, paper, 86 pp.
Joel Bettridge
PRESOCRATIC BLUES
978-0-925904-82-9, $16, paper, 63 pp.
INSTANCE PRESS 2009
CHAX PRESS 2009
Poetry. Modeling the courage of the witness as a
compelling poetic subjectivity, COMMUTER attempts to
encourage response by negotiating notions of the self.
Juliana Spahr calls COMMUTER “a painfully beautiful
and transformatively aestheticized book.”
Poetry. “In PRESOCRATIC BLUES the presocratics walk
among us, obsessed with the everyday: the rain, the
bar, the blues. And the poems that result are full of
correspondence, of discovery in the Spicerian sense.
These are poems that remind us that behind every
simple moment is a larger question about the
universe and humanity’s place in it”—Juliana Spahr.
“In PRESOCRATIC BLUES, Joel Bettridge takes us back
home, back to that poor old actuality at the pre-Socratic
horizon of thought and matter. But we are no happier
for it. We go down to the river, a Heraclitan flux that
just keeps rolling, witness to despair and wicked deeds.
These are sharply intelligent poems, full of acerbic wit,
absurdity, and heartbreak”—Devin Johnston.
L. R. Berger
THE UNEXPECTED AVIARY
978-0-9712488-2-3, $14, paper, 95 pp.
DEERBROOK EDITIONS 2003
Poetry. Winner of the 2003 Jane Kenyon Award for
Outstanding Book of Poetry. “The quality of persistent
attention in Berger’s work constitutes, I think, the heart
of the poetic act. It is hard enough to find the inner
space and self-command for that attention in our time;
it is a matter of verbal gift and discipline to be able to
make such attention audible to others. It matters that
her attention is paid to such endangered objects as
human love and the extra-human natural world; to the
intricate connection between our conduct of love and
that imperiled world”—Mary Baine Campbell, author
of The World, The Flesh, and The Angels.
Alan Bernheimer
THE SPOONLIGHT INSTITUTE
978-0-9761612-8-8, $14.95, paper, 112 pp.
ADVENTURES IN POETRY / ZEPHYR PRESS 2009
Poetry. This collection includes recent work; brief
selections from his first two books; the entirety of
BILLIONESQUE (The Figures, 1999); and the play Particle
Arms, which was produced by the San Francisco
Poets Theater in the early 80s.
Anselm Berrigan
FREE CELL
978-0-87286-502-0, $13.95, paper, 100 pp.
CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2009
Poetry. The second volume of our City Lights Spotlight
Poetry series, FREE CELL is the latest book of poems from
New York-based poet Anselm Berrigan, one of the most
influential American poets under the age of forty. In a
departure from his previous work, FREE CELL consists of
two experimental suites, “Have a Good One” and “To Hell
with Sleep,” connected by a central poem.
B.J. Best
STATE SONNETS
978-1-934513-20-0, $13, paper, 56 pp.
SUNNYOUTSIDE 2009
Poetry. In STATE SONNETS, B.J. Best takes the venerable
poetic form on a road trip, speeding down highways
of romance, regret, longing, and sex on a tour that
lustily wanders into a collection of fourteen-line
postcards—pushpins that map the arcs and angles of
love and travel.
Mark Bibbins
THE DANCE OF NO HARD FEELINGS
978-1-55659-292-8, $15, paper, 97 pp.
COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
Poetry. The poems in THE DANCE OF NO HARD FEELINGS
are informed by political blogs, electronic music,
advertising slogans, and the devil himself (think Mick
Jagger more than Milton). Sly elegies and erotic love
poems unlatch themselves from time and place and
question the concept of a queer sensibility. “Bibbins...
has the courage to stop, to pin down the always
irrational present moment, and the reader is eager to
follow, to inhale its scathing or enticing perfume....
A brilliant young poet”—John Ashbery.
Sherwin Bitsui
FLOOD SONG
978-1-55659-308-6, $15, paper, 120 pp.
Poetry. Native American Studies. Native traditions
scrape against contemporary urban life in FLOOD SONG,
an interweaving painterly sequence populated with
wrens and reeds, bricks and gasoline. Bitsui is at the
forefront of a new generation of Native writers who
resist being identified solely by race. At the same time,
he comes from a traditional indigenous family, and
Flood Song is filled with allusions to Dine (Navajo) myths,
customs, and traditions. Highly imagistic and constantly
in motion, his poems draw variously upon medicine
song and contemporary language and poetics.
“I map a shrinking map,” he writes, and “bite my eyes
shut between these songs.” An astonishing, elemental
volume.
Christian Bök
EUNOIA: SECOND EDITION
978-1-55245-225-7, $14.95, paper, 120 pp.
COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Second Edition. The word “eunoia,” which literally
means “beautiful thinking,” is the shortest word in
English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by
the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Litt‚rature Potentielle), a French
writers’ group interested in experimenting with different
forms of literary constraint, Eunoia is a five-chapter
book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram—
the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second
chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality:
the I is egotistical and romantic, the O jocular and
obscene, the E elegiac and epic (including a retelling
of the Iliad!). Stunning in its implications and masterful
in its execution, Eunoia has developed a cult following,
garnering extensive praise and winning the Griffin
Poetry Prize. This edition features several new but
related poems by Christian Bök and an expanded
afterword.
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Bruce Bond
PEAL
978-0-9819687-0-4, $17.95, paper, 72 pp.
Iain Britton
LIQUEFACTION
978-1-921479-17-5, $18, paper, 86 pp.
ETRUSCAN PRESS 2009
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2009
Poetry. In Bruce Bond’s seventh book, we see a sustained
exploration of mortality and its embodiment in the
consolations of beauty, most notably in music. “Poets
have ever sought a seamless integration of art and life:
think of Keats’s ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ or Yeats’s
‘How can we know the dancer from the dance?’ In Bruce
Bond’s PEAL, as in the work of his best predecessors,
‘it is impossible to know / where music ends, the world
begins’”—H.L. Hix.
Poetry. Landscapes are created and figures emerge from
those landscapes to inhabit them. They are meant to
grow from inside and surface gradually. The life-force of
the poems—the images, impressions, the archetypal
moments—are left to sink even deeper into the
unconscious. Each poem has its own theme, meaning,
relevancy for being. Each needs to be approached as one
would approach a window—not to look out of and see
the rotations of life, but to look in, as if one were peering
into new spatial worlds. Once read, I would want the
reader to walk away and reflect on a poem, then I would
expect them to return for more. As a collection, each
poem is a story. Whenever I read them, I stand at the
window too. I stare in and continue to see new things
that weren’t there before. The landscape keeps
changing. Hopefully the reader will feel “a definite
sense of place in every poem, even when positions shift
and people transform.”
Ana Božičević
STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE
978-0-9825416-0-9, $14, paper, 84 pp.
TARPAULIN SKY PRESS 2009
Poetry. “STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE haunts in three
dimensions, knit by a below-words rumble in the sure
rhythm of dreams”—ANNIE FINCH. “Božičević‘s poetry
has everything—a mastery of language, a distinct and
singular voice and a worldview so visionary and allencompassing, so as to both terrify and astound”
—NOELLE KOCOT. “How does she do it?”—EILEEN
MYLES. “Absolutely anything can happen next but
whatever it is, it will be perfect.... She is able to stretch
language to its most ineffable and musical limits while
maintaining a masterful grasp of the colloquial....
She is able to perceive with the eyes of language—
then render with lyrical immediacy—the experience of
our collective sleepwalking soul, who may well soon
awaken to discover that its terror was not a dream”
—FRANZ WRIGHT.
Barbara Brackney
LATE AUGUST
978-1-929355-58-7, $10, paper, 36 pp.
PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO 2009
Poetry. Barbara Brackney’s LATE AUGUST is a searing
and personal examination of the author’s life and death.
Written during the late stages of terminal cancer, this
book explores sex, death, poverty, and love through
carefully crafted poems, each one a compelling and
transcendant portrait. Brackney turns her unflinching
attention to her upbringing in the deep south, her battle
with alcoholism, her battle with cancer, and her
discovery of love. “LATE AUGUST by Barbara Brackney
does what great poetry should do: it elucidates our
ephemeral human condition and brings us comfort.
Her poems are clear, concise, intelligent indictments
of death, illness, her own shortcomings, God, and
everything in between. But they’re also exquisite and
funny. She writes from a place where there’s nothing to
hide, and reveals an unsentimental, eternal love for
our lot”—Jennifer L. Knox.
Louis Daniel Brodsky
A GLEAM IN THE EYE: VOLUME ONE OF THE
SEASONS OF YOUTH
978-1-56809-127-3, $15.95, paper, 90 pp.
Poetry. What mom doesn’t recall the magical seasons
surrounding the birth of her baby—the anticipation felt
during pregnancy; the pain and pride, on delivering;
the joy of watching her child grow? And what dad can
forget saying to himself, upon first holding his infant,
“I’m really a father now,” with all the accompanying
awareness of being responsible for another human
being? Chronicling the development of his own
firstborn, from her conception through age one, Louis
Daniel Brodsky provides, for us all—from experienced
parents to those who have yet to see that “gleam in the
eye”—a window on that glorious time.
Jacque Vaught Brogan
TA(L)KING EYES
978-0-925904-81-2, $21, paper, 130 pp.
CHAX PRESS 2009
Poetry. “Lively, innovative, and dancing with feminist
passion, Jacque Vaught Brogan, ‘reporting from Notre
Dame,’ has given us in TA(L)KING EYES a collection of
perceptions for our mythic lady to celebrate. In this
vividly experimental text, the eyes, ayes, & I’s have it!”
—Sandra M. Gilbert.
Kate Buckley
FOLLOW ME DOWN
978-1-893670-38-9, $15, paper, 55 pp.
TEBOT BACH 2009
Stefan Brecht
8TH AVENUE POEMS
978-1-933132-23-5, $13, paper, 100 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2009
Poetry. “Stefan Brecht’s 8TH AVENUE is a remarkable
set of poems. Its spare style, determined by the moving
eye in the urban streetscape and informed by a wry wit
and bittersweet attachment to the common life and
people of Manhattan, brings to mind the Objectivist
vision of Charles Reznikoff. And like Reznikoff, Brecht
gives us moments of wisdom, dark and unadorned,
in an offhand, casual fashion. But this is also poetry that
will suddenly veer into the abstractly philosophical
and the socially analytic without missing a beat or
losing the melody. Above all, it is uncompromising in
its insistence that art face up to the way life is lived,
along a pulsing artery of the greatest city in the world”
—Norman Finkelstein.
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Poetry. “Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of
loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void
The Void. They are poems to conjure with”—Charles
Harper Webb. “15th century painter Cennini spoke of the
art of ‘unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural
ones.’ Like ‘a sea turning in on itself’ Kate Buckley’s
poems speak to this, moving together, folding and
unfolding the echoes of a voice in place, a voice out of
place, ‘salt licking salt—/coming home.’ FOLLOW ME
DOWN maps out the geography of longing where
sometimes ‘you walk the yellow fields,’ sometimes ‘the
moon sets itself on fire,’ lighting up the distances
between the past and the future. Buckley’s parenthetical
considerations, her ache and intellect coincide in a
sensuous, revelatory motioning toward that inspired
sanctuary of who we are”—Elena Karina Byrne.
Rob Budde
DECLINING AMERICA
978-1-897388-44-0, $18, paper, 104 pp.
Michael Calvello
SAXOPHONE BLUE
978-0-9793390-4-2, $15, paper, 98 pp.
BOOK THUG 2009
ITHURIEL’S SPEAR 2009
Poetry. DECLINING AMERICA is a series of long poems
which depict “america” not as a nation but as a linguistic
strategy. The long poems range from overtly political
(“my american movie”) to language-based (“software
tracks”). Many of the poems were written while
traveling America (the nation) and while reading Jean
Baudrillard’s America (the book). The poems here
hold the view that the cultural imperialism of the
United States has essentially rendered Canada “America”
(the regime).
Poetry. Poet and jazz-enthusiast Michael Calvello first
came to San Francisco in 1946 and has been writing
down his impressions in poetic form ever since. He has
published several chapbooks of his poems and has
taught English at City College of San Francisco since
1985.
Marjorie Buettner
SEEING IT NOW: HAIKU & TANKA
978-1-890193-85-0, $15, paper, 50 pp.
RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2008
Poetry. “Marjorie Buettner may be the sole poet today
who is consistently poetic and yet does not fail to
uphold the spirit of ‘ordinariness’ of the old Japanese
masters. Her haiku are consistently a reflection of her
inner nature’s response to outer nature. And her tanka
are either love poems (as ardent as those of Lady
Murasaki) or deeply reflective”—H.F. Noyes.
Clint Burnham
THE BENJAMIN SONNETS
978-1-897388-36-5, $18, paper, 88 pp.
Giorgio Caproni
THE EARTH’S WALL: SELECTED POEMS
1932-1986
978-0-9725271-2-5, $20, paper, 263 pp.
CHELSEA EDITIONS 2009
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by
Ned Condini. One of the great poets of modern Italy,
Giorgio Caproni wrote with aristocratic elegance,
intellectual coolness and rythmic complexity. Yet his
poems, so clear and easy to read, strike deep in the heart
with a force that is rarely equalled: “O my family, my /
family scattered like the Jews ... my torn tent blown away
/ with its fire and its god.” Ned Condini deftly translates
these poems, at turns elegiac, ironic, metaphysical,
despairing, with terse free verse. The bilingual edition,
based on the revised collection of the poet’s life work,
permits the reader to check the original and catch the
supple changing rhythms.
BOOK THUG 2009
Poetry. THE BENJAMIN SONNETS is a series of poems
created through a process of “homophonic” translation
from German writings by Walter Benjamin. They are
ridiculous, but only in the sense that things unexpected
and wonderful can be ridiculous. “I once sat for about
120 minutes in a film by Mizoguchi in Japanese without
subtitles; after 15 minutes every word had a meaning,
the entire dialog seemed to be in a patois composed
from German, Spanish, French, Greek and English
components. I understood it, but its light, ironic
nonsense contradicted hilariously with the solemn acts
on the court of some Shogun which was the content
of the images. I have never felt like this again, except
under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, until I read
Clint Burnham’s BENJAMIN SONNETS, except that the
backdrop here was not some aristocratic Japanese
scenery, but Berlin. Benjamin himself has felt like this
when, under the influence of something, he saw
Venice in the upper Kurfuestentstrasse. Architecture
and language, once you’re able to forget or not know
how to speak it, always make their own sense”
—Diedrich Diedrichsen.
Zachary C. Bush
ANGLES OF DISORDER
978-1-935402-16-9, $16, paper, 96 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Zachary C. Bush’s ANGLES OF DISORDER is like a
fairy tale devoured by science, language re-constructed
into formulas and translated back into bold prose /
poetry”—J. A. Tyler. “No matter what angle they come at
you from—surreal fable, realistic vignette, experimental
lyric—Zachary Bush’s poems gleam with razor-edged
intelligence and imagination. In taking the measure of
darkness and disorder, this varied and impressive
collection creates brilliant light and unexpected
order”—Eric Nelson. “ANGLES OF DISORDER is an open
door to a whole new way of poetic thinking in the
21st century”—Louis E. Bourgeois.
Macgregor Card
DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY
978-1-934200-29-2, $16, paper, 80 pp.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Fence Modern Poets Series
selected by Martin Corless-Smith. When do “hermit” and
“maudit” not rhyme? When you’re a fellow traveler in
Macgregor Card’s global community of canny songsters.
Card’s deft, lushly Romantic speaker has “friends in
London.” No, he’s got “friends in London,” and the
emphasis makes all the difference in this worldly debut.
These poems are inexhaustibly sophisticated, not just
because of the occasional mention of England and the
English, or other European citizenry, which functions
as a kind of breezy, fond wave to literary tradition,
but because of its surefootedness in the terrain of
pastoral/personal nostalgia: the longing for that which is
a putative past, a past no one lived through. This is a
sublime nonsensical balladry, a songbook of meditations
on hospitality, fidelity, friendship, regret and the lyric,
with a stylistic nod to the late Spasmodic Sydney Dobell,
out of print since 1875. Here the song drives the engine
and finds brilliant solutions.
Steve Carey
THE SELECTED POEMS OF STEVE CAREY
978-1-930068-42-1, $14, paper, 108 pp.
SUBPRESS 2009
Poetry. Edited by Edmund Berrigan. “Steve Carey had the
loveliest poetry voice I’ve ever encountered. When Steve
sat down to write, all negativity dropped away and there
was nothing left but this awed, shaping, most musical
voice, informed by the negative in life and in his own
character, but flying gently above it. Read this selection
of his poems and hear the sound of his impartial—
outside school or faction (nowhere but the present)—
love of the art”—Alice Notley. “Steve Carey’s SELECTED
POEMS reminds you he’s been here all the time. Poems
of oxymoronic elan, motility with inertia, the heartfelt
and the facetious, the sweet and the defensively tart. He
reserves the right, occasionally, to step in and out of role.
His diction is exacting and his writerly stance is up to any
date. A fellow-traveling Zen monk, he sees first his own
world, and then the world, with intellect and irony. He’s
on the map—you could look it up”—John Godfrey.
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Angela Carr
THE ROSE CONCORDANCE
978-1-897388-46-4, $18, paper, 81 pp.
Brandon Cesmat
LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS
978-0-9824276-4-4, $15, paper, 95 pp.
BOOK THUG 2009
POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2009
Poetry. In THE ROSE CONCORDANCE, Angela Carr sets up
the rules for a game and then breaks them. The poems
trace a constellation of fountains, whose waters lap from
an erotic medieval poem through contemporary art and
film. Like fountains, these poems resist any one enduring
shape or reading. Carr’s first book, Ropewalk, is an
underground classic of highwire suspension, and her
second, THE ROSE CONCORDANCE, is a fountain garden
that invites the reader to tarry, and drink.
Poetry. LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS is a remarkable piece
of writing written as is with an amazing closeness to
death. Sometimes, as in “Tongues of Dust,” it is from
right inside death. “At the wake, they won’t stop saying
my name. / That’s the point, I guess, to keep me from
drifting too far.” Sometimes it is the death caused by fire
or bitterness or loss. But as you read, it does not harm
you, instead you are fearful for him, for how far he has
entered places we should not go. Brandon’s writing is so
sure and so honest you are willing to go where he takes
you knowing he will leave you with something of value,
difficult though it is.
Richard Carr
ACE
978-0-915380-70-1, $15, paper, 76 pp.
THE WORD WORKS 2009
Poetry. The story of a drug dealer looking for his
grandson, the poems in ACE follow four family
members—Ace, Carol, Miss Princess, and Little Ace—
through estrangement and tragedy. In each of the
book’s four sections, one family member tells his or her
version of the story, starting with Ace’s quest and
concluding with the extraordinary journey of Little Ace.
Denise Duhamel writes: “ACE is a gorgeously sad
novel-in-verse. The poet carefully rescues and polishes
discarded lives, gives voice and dignity to the
disastrously troubled. ACE is emotionally complex,
honest, and deftly crafted.”
Anne Caston
JUDAH’S LION
978-0-915380-71-8, $15.95, paper, 98 pp.
TOAD HALL PRESS/THE WORD WORKS 2009
Poetry. In this second collection of poems, Anne Caston
struggles with reason and faith and the “whole thorntorn mess a world can sometimes be.” The poems
consider humanness in all its extremes and they do not
flinch or look away, even when the speaker herself
stands at the “frayed rope-end of hope.” JUDAH’S LION,
in the end, is a book of redemption and the necessary
compassion we need to face the beauty and terror
of our lives.
Adrian Castro
HANDLING DESTINY
978-1-56689-235-3, $16, paper, 92 pp.
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
Poetry. Latin American Studies. Enchanting both the ear
and the soul, this collection is the third in Adrian Castro’s
series on the diasporic triangle of Africa, the Caribbean,
and North America. Deeply spiritual, laced with history
and myth, and tempered by the region’s tumultuous
past, these poems “... keep flying forward / Sankofa-like /
looking back into history at us.” “Adrian Castro weaves
myth, history, music, courage, spirit and heart deep with
knowledge and tenderness into a poetry that is all fire:
an original and essential voice”—Chris Abani.
Luis Cernuda
DESOLATION OF THE CHIMERA
978-1-935210-00-9, $17, paper, 213 pp.
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish
by Stephen Kessler. Written between 1950 and 1962,
the poems in this bilingual collection amount to the
final poetic testament of one of Spain’s most important
twentieth-century poets. “In these memories and
landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his
sensibility, there is great objectivity: the poet attempts
only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light,
something very personal: a few moments of his life”
—Octavio Paz.
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Robin Chapman
ABUNDANCE
978-1-930781-03-0, $18.95, paper, 80 pp.
CIDER PRESS REVIEW 2009
Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Cider Press Review Book
Award, selected by the Editors of Cider Press. The poems
in ABUNDANCE richly mine often overlooked details of
the natural world, wisely juxtaposing them with daily
life. Like a landscape photographer, Chapman conveys
the narrator’s story by the views witnessed, until the
collection becomes a celebration of the lost art of
leaving the house. She interweaves the personal with
the objectively experiential so carefully that we lose
sight of the “boundary” between the prairies, marshes,
woods and rivers and the lives of those people fortunate
enough to be immersed in these landscapes. The
narrator ceases to be a mere observer of the natural
world; instead she comes to occupy her rightful place as
another integral element. So much of life is consumed
and occluded by the very process of living that we miss
the abundant world around us because we forget to
reckon it, to open our eyes. The impetus of this collection
is simple: Chapman would have us all remember to
“pay attention, pay / attention, pay attention.”
Cris Cheek
PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING
978-0-9735875-5-5, $22.50, paper, 270 pp.
THE GIG 2009
Poetry. This book collects seven texts written between
1981 and 1999, by UK-born, US-based poet/multimedia
artist cris cheek. cheek was one of the key figures
in the London poetry scene of the 1980s—the so-called
“linguistically-innovative poetry” grouping later
anthologized in Robert Sheppard and Adrian Clarke’s
FLOATING CAPITAL: NEW POETS FROM LONDON.
Likewise, he became central to developments in
Performance Writing emerging out of variant distributed
networks during the following decade. He has remained
a prolific, genre-slipping figure: poet, performance
artist and musician, whose activities range from the
ambitious conceptual project Things Not Worth Keeping
to recordings with the ensembles Slant and Garam
Masala. Yet to date his publications have been relatively
scarce and elusive, a situation which PART: SHORT LIFE
HOUSING goes far to rectify. “Finally a good and rich
span of writings from cris cheek. Here’s an artist and
writer whose work has always taken up active tenancy of
the languages and the streets of urban living, recording
them and composing them back into the dense abstract
neighborhoods of his pieces. With this careful selection,
cris cheek reminds us that he is a Londoner and as
such is as inhabited by Dickens’ dark maze of industrial
streets as by mind-altering years of activist art lodgings,
smoggy thoughtful wanderings or the eerie shock
of the thatcheritic city. That’s at least two hundred years
of grime, greed and energy you’ll find distilled in the
cellular lines and ink splashes of this great volume”
—Caroline Bergvall.
Neeli Cherkovski
FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD
978-0-9722958-1-9, $12.95, paper, 70 pp.
Scott Coffel
TOUCANS IN THE ARCTIC
978-0-9797450-7-2, $17.95, paper, 70 pp.
R.L. CROW PUBICATIONS 2009
ETRUSCAN PRESS 2009
Poetry. With his new collection, Neeli Cherkovski
continues the exploration started with his award
winning LEANING AGAINST TIME. He once again opens
the window to the self and takes us deeper into his
search for reason, redemption and love—Cherkovski
takes us on a journey through his innermost being,
leading us FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD. “I squirm
against blurb words like ‘magisterial’ and ‘fully realized’
and God knows—’profound,’ but Neeli Cherkovski’s new
book is a deeply rich work which reminds me of the
best of Rexroth’s nature poems, which to me is a major
accomplishment. But more than that, there’s a deep
philosophical and elegiac edge to the beauty of the
words & lines”—David Meltzer.
Poetry. In this lyric case study of tumult and tranquility,
the dominant voice is of a man both enthralled and
appalled by the vast national park of the psyche as he
scrambles across its eerie landscapes of identity and
marriage. “You will remember the day you discovered
this book”—Suzanne Cleary.
Heather Christle
THE DIFFICULT FARM
978-0-9801938-3-1, $12, paper, 96 pp.
OCTOPUS BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Joyfully imaginative and emotionally rich,
Heather Christle’s debut collection of poetry expands the
palette and intentions of contemporary surrealism. THE
DIFFICULT FARM finds sincere emotion and passionately
serious ideas in such surprising subjects as a so-called
assassin who is, of course, a washerwoman; television
interviews on hibernation; and enormous, vibrating
birds. “This is serious. Heather Christle’s poems in THE
DIFFICULT FARM are dancing with the mysteries
surrounding our condition and enlivening our language
in the process. Christle’s poems are magical but they’re
too busy to tell you that. These poems run and jump and
float over an ever-evolving landscape where what’s at
work is the serious business of discovery. In this book
you will make discoveries of all kinds. These poems will
shoot you to the moon, but which moon?”—James Tate.
Eva Claeson, Editor
TO CATCH LIFE ANEW: 10 SWEDISH
WOMEN POETS
978-1-882291-02-1, $18, paper, 168 pp.
OYSTER RIVER PRESS 2007
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Swedish
by Eva Claeson. A collection of poems by Sonia Akesson,
Kristina Lugn, Barbro Dahlin, Margareta Ekstrom,
Johanna Ekstrom, Elisabet Hermodsson, Katarina
Frostenson, Eva Strom, Marie Lundquist, and Elisabeth
Rynell. “Eva Claeson has skillfully gathered a bouquet of
contrasting poems by ten contemporary women poets.
In the Swedish landscape she opens for us, there is joy
and there is misery, and since the poets are of different
ages, they illuminate different aspects and atmospheres
of Swedish life, from the nordic light to the long dark
winter nights”—Heidi von Born.
Brian Clements and Jamey Dunham, Editors
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM
978-0-9665754-7-7, $26, paper, 328 pp.
FIREWHEEL EDITIONS 2009
Poetry. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM clears
a new path for students, instructors, and general
readers interested in exploring the “ramshackle and
unexpected... thoroughfare” [Campbell McGrath] of a
hard-to-define genre. Combining classic prose poets,
young upstarts, and under-appreciated practitioners
with an innovative structure (organized by
compositional strategy), a useful introduction, and
instructive headnotes, this anthology is a useful
tool for the classroom but also provides what every
poetry reader wants—a ton of great poems.
A.M.J. Crawford
MORPHEU
978-1-935402-06-0, $18, paper, 191 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “From political change to pocket change,
shipments to shipwrecks, quotations to digital code,
Alejandro Crawford never met a morphosis he didn’t like,
and here in these pages neither will you. Skipping from
‘omicron’ to ‘omg’ to ‘ominous gold,’ MORPHEU cuts
across registers from syllable to syllable, breaking the
surface of language to reveal the golden (and sometime
ominous) connections between postmodern
assemblage and modernist source text (the work is
based in part on the Brazilian/Portuguese journal
Orpheu, which notably published the work of Fernando
Pessoa). The text moves between English and
Portuguese, and between the ecstatic linguistic play of
Dionysian disruptions and the classical Apollonian
concern with measure and a masterfully careful
calibration of sound. Here, the two gods of Orpheus vie,
and Crawford reveals that in the end, once the dust and
tears have settled, they may merely be heteronyms of
the same muse. Fragments and pathos: the stones
are crying, the limbs tearing—remember the lesson of
Orpheus and keep reading: don’t, whatever you do,
dare to look back”—Craig Dworkin.
Rienzi Crusz
ENOUGH TO BE MORTAL NOW
978-1-894770-60-6, $17.95, paper, 120 pp.
TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2009
Poetry. In his most recent volume of poetry, Rienzi
Crusz’s preoccupations have not substantially changed,
but his perspectives have. He is deeply conscious of time
and place, the events of the past and the concerns of the
future. But like many lyrical poets, he is also concerned
with broader existential concerns, with love and hope,
with tragedy and despair. He continues to look at nature
in its multiple forms for inspiration and tranquility. The
journey continues. Rienzi Crusz “must wizard a track
through his own screaming weed.” As he meditates on
the edge of silence, he goes feistily through the scowl of
age, distance and time, lovingly through the many
idioms of the sun, and revels in the poetic spaces with
the `singing metaphor,’ the dance of words.
Maurizio Cucchi
THE MISSING
978-0-9816330-1-5, $15, paper, 159 pp.
AGINCOURT PRESS 2009
Poetry. Translated from the Italian with an Introduction
by Gianpiero W. Doebler. First published in 1976, Il
disperso (THE MISSING) was the initial collection by the
Milanese poet Maurizio Cucchi. Part of the first
generation of writers born after the Second World War,
Cucchi’s debut drew praise from such critics as Pier
Paolo Pasolini, who described his verse as an “Italian
revelation.” Using both literary language and everyday
speech, the multiple voices in these poems explore
themes of loss, uncertainty, curiosity and sexuality in
“narratives” full of temporal shifts and fragmentary
thoughts.
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Kathleen Culver
THE NATURAL LAW OF WATER
978-0-9650665-3-2, $13.95, paper, 132 pp.
Neil de la Flor
ALMOST DOROTHY
978-0-9841177-3-4, $15, paper, 72 pp.
CIRCLEDANCE BOOKS/BURNING BUSH 2007
MARSH HAWK PRESS 2010
Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Kathleen Culver’s
exquisitely crafted poems will enchant you like beautiful
music on a misty Florida night. They will move you
from deep belly laughs to tears. Culver, a longtime
champion for peace, the environment, and legendary
Southern feminist has inspired hundreds over the years
to live their dreams. Pick up this book and let it dance
into your heart.
Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize.
Praise from Forrest Gander, Contest Judge: “With a
scenery-chewing imagination, deft linguistic cuts,
slippery line breaks and disjointed or dehiscent narrative
elements, Neil de la Flor abandons genre rules to explore
gender roles, religion, domestic relations, science and
history. The poems of ALMOST DOROTHY take place in
spectacular leaps away from conventional patterns of
development. They suggest a kind of super symmetry
that links saints, elementary particles, two boys dressed
for Halloween as Dorothy, and a butch Brazilian barman.
Revisionary and anachronistic in its referencing and
formally restless with its lyrics, lists, prose poems,
definitions, and dramatic dialogues, ALMOST DOROTHY
is the red-headed stepchild of Antony (without the
Johnsons) and Jean Cocteau. Infusing poetry with
theater, Neil de la Flor is at once bitingly original, funny,
and uncompromising.”
Hugh-Alain Dal
LES POEMES D’UNE VIE PERDUE: THE POEMS OF
A LOST LIFE
978-2-913919-37-2, $12.95, paper, 78 pp.
NEW NATIVE PRESS/LA MAIN COURANTE 2009
Poetry. Bilingual Edtion. Translated from the French by
Thomas Rain Crowe and Antoine Bargel. Hugh-Alain Dal
probably lived in Paris during the first half of the 20th
century. In the lineage of Rimbaud’s Illuminations and
Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen, after the publication of his
first poems, Dal seems to have disappeared from the
literary scene. This begs the question: Did he die, or
perhaps run away in a fashion similar to Rimbaud’s
poetic renunciation? He only left us his poetry—
collected here under the title: THE POEMS OF A LOST
LIFE, which is contemporary with Jean Genet Jacques
Prevel and Antonin Artaud. Literary critic Jean-Michel
Renaitour called Dal a major new literary voice upon the
publication of his first book at the age of twenty.
Steve Dalachinsky
REACHING INTO THE UNKNOWN: 1964-2009
978-2-9531508-1-0, $80, paper, 429 pp.
ROGUE ART 2009
Poetry. Photography. Music. With photographs by
Jacques Bisceglia. Steve Dalachinsky, poet and New
Yorker, if there ever was one, and Jacques Bisceglia,
photographer and Parisian, if there ever was one, have
forever been capturing the moment. Neither the tools
nor the styles are the same, only in common do they
share the captured instant. From the confrontation of
these snapshots came to life REACHING INTO THE
UNKNOWN. Through looking at the poems, through
reading the pictures, you will hear the music, you will
understand jazz better than by reading an informative
book on the topic. Most of the musicians you will meet
in there are those who have pushed, and still do so,
musical expression to its utmost boundaries, on a quest
for a more spontaneous, more direct, deeper-rooted
music, with the capacity of sticking to the emotions, to
feelings, and the most complex and contradictory
human behavior. In the same respect, this book ventures
into the unknown as it tells the story of life. 180 photos,
140 poems, 45 years of music.
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Michel Delville
THIRD BODY
978-0-9792999-7-1, $13, paper, 70 pp.
QUALE PRESS 2009
Poetry. Translated from the French by Gian Lombardo.
In THIRD BODY, Michel Delville continues in the tradition
of Belgian prose poetry exemplified by such prose poets
as Henri Michaux, Geo Norge, and Eugene Savitzkaya.
These writers honorably and admirably extend the
francophone tradition of the prose poem as started in
nineteenth century France by Aloysius Bertrand and
Charles Baudelaire. Delville utilizes the prose poem as a
way to access profound poetic sentiments and provide
trenchant social commentary through prosaic means—
”To convert our ideas into material things.” This
conversion requires an understanding not simply of the
material conditions Delville wishes to elucidate but also
the ways in which political shifts play out on an intimate
human scale, and vice versa. Throughout THIRD BODY,
Delville’s lush, fervent prose poems masterfully articulate
his philosophical concerns, while demonstrating a
profound pleasure in using this literary form to express
them. He is our interpreter, our navigator, our scribe
across the terrain he sets out, and we need him here to
guide us. We need literature like Delville’s to help us
make sense of human events because, on its own, “The
eye doesn’t see beyond sky.”
Fred Dewey, Editor
DECLARATION
978-1-892184-15-3, $10, paper, 99 pp.
BEYOND BAROQUE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. The poems and texts
in this collection were based on “Where Are the Voices?,”
an evening presented by LA Louver Gallery, Otis College
of Art and Design’s Graduate Writing program, Beyond
Baroque, and the Venice Family Clinic, on Venice Beach,
December 11, 2001. Contributors are Norma Cole, Peter J.
Harris, Lewis MacAdams, Douglas Messerli, Martha Ronk,
Standard Schaefer, Dennis Phillips, Diane Ward, Paul
Vangelisti, and Fred Dewey.
Mina Pam Dick
DELINQUENT
978-0-9822798-1-6, $15, paper, 102 pp.
Emanuel di Pasquale
SICILIANA
978-1-59954-010-8, $8, paper, 48 pp.
FUTUREPOEM BOOKS 2009
BORDIGHERA PRESS 2009
Poetry. Poetry. “[A] hybrid tractatus that runs circles
around Spinoza and all the bad boys of analytic
philosophy.... This ‘she, which is another possibility’ flips
through personae and assertions with madcap glee,
culminating in a veritable Q.E.D. of heretical subjectivity
that is by turns rigorous, risible, picaresque, and
profound”—Pam Lu. “Like a gender-errant Benjamin,
Mina Pam Dick constellates recombinant philosophies,
aesthetic forgeries, and the intertexual detritus of the
big slithering city”—Venessa Place. “[DELINQUENT]
reminds us that imagination lives in language, is
uncontainable, fluid, reverses gravity and history, unties
the knot between gender and body, assumption and
consumption”—Sina Queyras.
Poetry. Bilingual poems in Italian and English.
Illustrations by Rocco Cafiso. “Emanuel di Pasquale’s
poems should be read by every American ... He excels at
the short lyric, writes directly, and feels deeply ... The
reader is enriched by both his Sicilian and his American
realizations in his life-enhancing lines”—Richard
Eberhart. “[di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience,
and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple
and surprising. He’s never decorative: there is always
something human happening, and his words are close to
it”—Richard Wilbur.
Carol Dine
VAN GOGH IN POEMS
978-0-9786335-2-3, $21, paper, 107 pp.
BEAR STAR PRESS 2009
THE BITTER OLEANDER PRESS 2009
Poetry. Art. VAN GOGH IN POEMS, written in Vincent’s
voice, comments on specific drawings and paintings,
while discussing the artist’s creative process and state of
mind. The book includes 18 images of his drawings from
the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Kroller-Muller
Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, and The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City. Renowned art critic John
Berger writes about the book: (Dine’s) words are strung
on (Vincent’s) life-line.” Poems are divided into sections:
Family, Religion, Love, Descent, and Nature.
Linh Dinh
SOME KIND OF CHEESE ORGY
978-0-925904-78-2, $16, paper, 128 pp.
CHAX PRESS 2009
Poetry. “The ever-precise and brilliant James Schuyler
characterized Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry as brimming
with the ‘intimate yell.’ Frank O’Hara got that energy
pulsing in his work, but was tenderer, while Linh Dinh is
more preposterous and full of outrage than either.
Imagine a concoction that mixes Shakespeare’s Falstaff
and Celine’s Bardum, frank, rollicking humor and hairraising disgust. After adding fish sauce, a smelly cheese
and sexual sweat, shake vigorously. Out of the bottle
rises Linh Dinh. God talks to him and he talks about
everything, including the body parts that Renaissance
painters left out. No one does it better”—John Yau.
Linda Dove
IN DEFENSE OF OBJECTS
978-0-9793745-4-8, $16, paper, 102 pp.
Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry
Contest. “The meditative, quiet beauty of Linda Dove’s
IN DEFENSE OF OBJECTS helps defend the reader against
all sorts of daily blindnesses. Although there are lovely
poems here about art, Dove leads us to see the ordinary
material world, too, as shaped and heightened.
‘Until memory is allocated, objects do not exist,’ says a
computer science document quoted here, and many of
Dove’s poems will now be allocated to my memory.
Not least of the objects worth defending, this poet
shows, are words themselves, which she employs with
subtlety, wit, and depth of feeling”—Mary Jo Salter.
Brandon Downing
LAKE ANTIQUITY: WORKS 1996-2008
978-1-934200-27-8, $40, paper, 184 pp.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Art. Poetry X eleven = LAKE ANTIQUITY. LAKE
ANTIQUITY = a rectangular swimming pool in the E.U.R.
district in Rome, built by Benito Mussolini to be heralded
at the 1942 World Expo as the epicenter of Fascism.
Brandon Downing’s Lake Antiquity meets the challenge
of this absurdity and countless ineradicable others.
The culmination of more than a decade of visionary
irreverence, this fulminating iteration of text-collages
makes a perfect holiday gift for the poetry lover.
Brandon Downing has scoured refuse piles and skimmed
the creme/scum off the top of two centuries of cultural
production for these chiming elements. His paste-ups
are cut-ups; his cut-ups are pasted with a discrimination
that shares a border with insurgency.
Ray DiPalma
THE ANCIENT USE OF STONE: JOURNALS AND
DAYBOOKS, 1998-2008
978-0-9796177-5-1, $14.95, paper, 213 pp.
Robert J. Duffy
ORDINARY LIES
978-1-882291-00-7, $12.95, paper, 86 pp.
OTIS BOOKS/SEISMICITY EDITIONS 2009
Poetry. Ray DiPalma’s THE ANCIENT USE OF STONE is a
collection of journals and daybooks from 1998-2008.
Part daybook, part journal, part commonplace book,
replete with images and visual work, this comprehensive
volume chronicles the poet’s everyday life on New York’s
Upper Westside. Beginning with the title section, “The
Ancient Use of Stone” (1998), the book is made up of six
chronologically arranged sections, “Jihadgraphy” (2002),
“An August Daybook” (2005), “Mules at the Wake”
(2006), “Ascoso” (2006) and “Salt in the Rock” (2008).
This intimate and at the same time challenging record
displays a unique passion and commitment to writing, as
well as a finely tuned sense of humor. Quixotic, serious,
lyrical and sometimes troubling, DiPalma’s grand
adventure of a book embodies an important talent at its
most discerning.
Poetry. ORDINARY LIES is the first collection of fine
poems by Robert J. Duffy, a poet-plumber from New
Hampshire. “Robert J. Duffy must have listened, from a
very early age, to readings from Homer, the Psalms of
David, the Song of Songs, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare.
He is imprinted with our great language’s flights and
furies and it pours forth from him like a force of nature.
Like John Donne, he asks his own questions, not used
ones, and makes up and tries out his own answers,
too”—Jean Pedrick.
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Kate Durbin
THE RAVENOUS AUDIENCE
978-1-933354-88-0, $15.95, paper, 144 pp.
kari edwards
BHARAT JIVA
978-0-9819310-0-5, $15, paper, 116 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
LITMUS PRESS/BELLADONNA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Kate Durbin’s debut volume is not for the weak of
gut. Cum, blood, vomit, and other bodily juices slop off
the page in a grotesque reanimation of history and art’s
female villains and s/heroes. Unlike other feminist
revisionist texts, THE RAVENOUS AUDIENCE refuses to
rescue the “misunderstood” bitches of our cultural past,
instead viscerally imposing the scope of their bodily and
existential horrors—including each woman’s culpability.
“Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or
Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or
eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal
tour de force”—Juan Felipe Herrera.
Poetry. “This writing is the New Brave. Few writers have
so given in to the entropic forces that disentangle our
bodies in the end, while at the same time furiously
pooling social content into observable patterns. And
there are thousands! Millions! Billions! In biological
systems, DNA nucleotides are linked by enzymes in order
to make long, chainlike, polynucleotides of defined
sequence. In writing, the sub-social is linked by signs
that make ringlets of undefined sequence. Only we can
make think to make thought from it. It cannot be
conceived of in advance. It cannot be found on the
web. No se vende ni se compra. edwards’ radical
neo-communitarian impulse is something that’s bloodborne, but not bloody, something that’s keen &
observant, but not oculocentric. Like Antonin Artaud,
edwards sought to make Writing = Life”—Rodrigo
Toscano. Venn Diagram Productions is the collaborative
intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus
Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to
publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural,
feminist and queer work by writers and artists working
beyond and between borders.
George Economou
ANANIOS OF KLEITOR
978-1-84861-033-0, $17, paper, 144 pp.
SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Translated from the Greek by George Economou.
ANANIOS OF KLEITOR introduces to the revolving stage
of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet
largely unknown and hitherto unread outside of a small
circle of cognoscenti. The poet’s extant poems and
fragments, as well as the record of their reception and
preservation, are presented in this one-of-a-kind book
of the sort that would have appealed to Menippus of
Gadara and his followers, a medley of verse and prose
and a diversity of genres, ranging from the epistolary
novel to scholarly annotations and an Index Nominum.
Ananios and his scholars and commentators perform
their work at the edge of the real world and the margins
of a thoroughly historicized and critically acute context.
Ananios was born in 399 BCE in the Arcadian city of
Kleitor according to the third century AD author
Theonaeus, who refers to a lost work by Chamaemelon
of Patrae on the poets of Achaia and Arcadia in which
the poet’s birth is said to have occurred during the
Nemean Crown Games following the 95th Olympiad.
Forty-one poems and fragments of his have survived,
along with twenty-five passages of verse attributed to
him in quotations cited in various commentaries and
literary works extending from the second century BCE to
the eleventh century CE. The fragmentary nature of so
much of his writing makes it impossible for us to speak
with full confidence about the range of his subject
matter, though the ancient and Byzantine attestations,
sparse as they may be, primarily identify him as an
amatory poet.
Amatoritsero Ede
GLOBETROTTER & HITLER’S CHILDREN
978-1-933354-77-4, $15.95, paper, 106 pp.
BLACK GOAT 2009
Poetry. The latest installment in Chris Abani’s criticallyacclaimed Black Goat poetry series. GLOBETROTTER &
HITLER’S CHILDREN is a book of two sequences, melded
beautifully and seamlessly, both of which are the shape
of the poet’s consciousness and body in relation to
space and place. Globetrotter is an immigrant’s paean to
the city of Toronto, while Hitler’s Children is a poet’s
struggle with race, otherness, and Germany in the
spirit of witness, passion, humor, melancholy, and
understanding. “Ede has the warmth of William Carlos
Williams and the analytical power of Malcolm X”
—George Elliott Clarke, winner of the GovernorGeneral’s Award for Poetry (Canada).
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Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, Editors
PRISMATIC PUBLICS: INNOVATIVE CANADIAN
WOMEN’S POETRY AND POETICS
978-1-55245-221-9, $27.95, paper, 400 pp.
Poetry. Literary Criticism. Nicole Brossard, Margaret
Christakos, Susan Holbrook, Dorothy Lusk, Karen Mac
Cormack, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, M. NourbeSe
Philip, Sina Queyras, Lisa Robertson, Gail Scott, Nathalie
Stephens, Catriona Strang, Rita Wong, Rachel Zolf: These
fifteen women are some of the best writers engaged in
avant-garde literary production today, defining the
contours of new movements and schools of writing in
North America. By showcasing their work alongside
extensive interviews, PRISMATIC PUBLICS stages intimate
encounters with these key figures as they work in and
against Language, conceptual, post-conceptual,
documentary, and investigative poetry traditions—
often across, between and at the interstices of genres.
Gathered in a single volume, these selections, some
dating back to the early 1970s and others appearing in
print for the first time, provide an opportunity to trace
the diverse networks, influences, dialogues, dialectics,
and interventions that continue make the work of
Canada’s innovative women writers a powerful force in
avant-garde writing around the world.
Cathy Eisenhower
WOULD WITH AND
978-1-931824-34-7, $13.95, paper, 120 pp.
ROOF BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Cathy Eisenhower’s third book takes you
somewhere you’ve never been before and you’re
never quite sure where that is. Carol Mirakove said,
“Eisenhower’s premonitions are rife with elliptical magic
& profound intelligence ‘as a day is, repeatedly lifted.’
WOULD WITH AND ignites my love for poetry & makes
me want to make more of it: ‘think (that) you speak
along the tongue telling nothing.’” And Rod Smith asks,
“How write when everything’s a mystery? Existence? It’s
weird stuff. Other people? Forget about it. Your quote
self unquote. Good luck with that. We’re left with flashes
of clarity and long bouts of illegibility, often mistaking
one for the other. Within this conundrum Cathy
Eisenhower’s would with and knows time. All, & the
specifics: ‘flying from tree / to previous tree.’”
Che Elias
DEATH POEMS
978-0-9776242-1-8, $18, paper, 356 pp.
Dave Etter
THE LIONTAMER’S DAUGHTER
978-1-890193-79-9, $15, paper, 75 pp.
SIX GALLERY PRESS 2009
Poetry. Che Elias’s second collection of poetry and first
book after a long hiatus from writing, DEATH POEMS
collects poems written over a series of years. Ranging
from weird funny to harsh and brutal. Dealing with the
themes of sex ritual abuse love and death.
Poetry. “Etter’s details and rhythms of speech are like the
inventory of curiosity or antique shops. They accumulate
into poems which have the authenticity of black and
white documentary films, or photos in Wright Morris’s
The Home Place, and convince us with their precision.
You see the same kind of beard shadows as in a Nixon
interview. You smell the mixture of cigar smoke and
sweat. There’s a sense of what’s gone, vanished, among
the lines, but it isn’t a hand-wringing, nostalgic kind of
loss. Instead, you can hear how humans sound in a place
called the Middle West. This sound is always a cause for
celebration, ‘always someone with a Texas-sized mouth /
and some refried beans for brains’”—David Steingass.
Che Elias
MEDDLES INTO PRECLUSION: COLLECTED POEMS
978-0-9726301-5-3, $18, paper, 140 pp.
Poetry. MEDDLES INTO PRECLUSION is a collection of
poems that are highly distorted and experimental
renderings of internal dialogues in a pre-grammatical
language of a schizophrenic mind.
Erica Miriam Fabri
DIALECT OF A SKIRT
978-1-934909-10-2, $18, paper, 88 pp.
HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2009
Lewis Ellingham
THE BIRDS AND OTHER POEMS
978-0-9793390-5-9, $20, paper, 134 pp.
ITHURIEL’S SPEAR 2009
Poetry. San Francisco poet and longtime resident Lew
Ellingham presents a selection of poems which unites
cultural interests with the adventures of an expert birdwatcher. Samuel R. Delany says, “This is astonishing
poetry lucid, inventive, at once deeply civilized and
wonderfully sensitive to the marvelous.”
Harvey Ellis
SLEEP NOT SLEEP
978-0-9818029-4-7, $15, paper, 64 pp.
WOLF RIDGE PRESS 2008
Poetry. Li-young Lee says of this book: “Wow! Lovely.
Stark. Rich. Strange. I’d say these poems spy out the
mind’s quickest turns and slights and falls.” These
succinct, curious, and crisp poems thoughtfully crafted
by Mr. Ellis find a direct connection to the imagistic
modalities of the interior life as they sway effortlessly
from subject to subject. The relaxed, hypnotic quality he
achieves provides a welcome escape from the linear life
into the confident arms of the subjective world.
Robert Estep
SUENO(S) FOR ALEJANDRA
978-0-9812744-0-9, $16.95, paper, 48 pp.
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Of Robert Estep’s SUENO(S) FOR ALEJANDRA,
Philip Terry writes: “Like a surreal peepshop, Robert
Estep’s dazzling narrative poems zoom in on a cast of
eccentric Parisians from mezzo sopranos, landlords,
grocers, and talking parrots to puppeteers, pole-dancers,
bankers and drag artists. Estep has taken the
encyclopaedic tradition of Proust and Perec, and
reduced it to the dimensions of a postage stamp. A
dizzying achievement.”
Poetry. “Wouldn’t you like to know what happened when
Marilyn Monroe made love to Joan Crawford? (Hint: a
webbed foot was involved.) Why holy is a secular world?
What Barrack Obama’s grandmother thought? What the
poet said to the truck driver? And why a fourteen-yearold girl would throw her newborn out a window? In
Erica’s impressive collection we hear a myriad of
characters speak—some hilarious, some ironic, some
tragic—and we can’t help but listen. And learn”—
Sharon Mesmer. “These aren’t poems. They’re ball
gowns”—Rachel McKibbens.
Dan Featherston
THE RADIANT WORLD
978-1-935402-17-6, $16, paper, 72 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Dan Featherston is the author of three other
book-length collections of poetry, THE CLOCK MAKER’S
MEMOIR (Cuneiform Press, 2007), UNITED STATES
(Factory School, 2005), and INTO THE EARTH (Quarry
Press, 2005), as well as five shorter collections. He lives in
Philadelphia and teaches at Temple. Sections of THE
RADIANT WORLD have appeared in several journals,
including Cultural Society, FIRST INTENSITY, NEW
AMERICAN WRITING, Ploughshares, and Sulfur, as well
as the chapbook Rooms (Paper Brain/Factory School).
Diana Festa
THE GATHERING
978-0-9789597-8-4, $15, paper, 88 pp.
Poetry. Curl up by a fire with a glass of port to truly enjoy
THE GATHERING. Ms. Festa opens up very difficult life
experiences where she struggles to bring some kind of
understanding. We don’t see this in poetry all that often
and it can make a difficult read to the uninitiated. But
the beauty of her language and the depth of her
understanding make her subject palatable and carry the
reader to that place of truth and beauty to which poetry
aspires. Curl up by a fire with a glass of port to truly
enjoy THE GATHERING. Ms. Festa opens up very difficult
life experiences where she struggles to bring some kind
of understanding. We don’t see this in poetry all that
often and it can make a difficult read to the uninitiated.
But the beauty of her language and the depth of her
understanding make her subject palatable and carry the
reader to that place of truth and beauty to which
poetry aspires. “This whole book is an offering”—
Rosanna Warren, from the Preface.
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Ann M. Fine
A NEST THIS SIZE
978-1-84861-069-9, $15, paper, 80 pp.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
ARGONAUTICA
978-1-880977-29-3, $24, paper, 256 pp.
XOXOX PRESS 2009
Poetry. “Meaning neither nestles nor settles in Ann Fine’s
complex Nest. Rather, it skates over playful diction and
grammatical gaming, bringing levity to this thoughtful
book about the evanescent rationality of emotional life.
And yet there is also grief here, and the pain of desire,
both offset by the beautiful mystical quality of lines such
as, ‘a sleuth of wind interjects meaning into a room’ or, ‘I
would rather surmise a doctrine of affections, and mirror
what is vivid.’ A NEST THIS SIZE is a stunning debut”
—Jennifer Moxley.
Poetry. Translated from the Latin by Michael Barich.
Apollonius Rhodius’ epic poem Argonautica, written in
Greek during the third century BC, has become the de
facto standard version of the story of Jason and the
Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. Gaius
Valerius Flaccus’ Latin epic of the late first century AD is
by contrast little known, even to those otherwise wellread in ancient literature. This translation offers an
accurate and appealing presentation in English verse.
Flaccus’ ARGONAUTICA lends keen Roman touches to
the tale, developing further the sense of adventure and
the erotic passion found in the Greek. It offers vicarious
travel to exotic lands, gripping heroism in the face of
wondrous monsters and an all-star cast of famous
Greek heroes. The stirring sea voyage is interwoven
with blossoming love between Jason and Medea, their
young passion not yet gone sour. Michael Barich’s deft
translation and lyrical grace notes will delight devotees
and newcomers to this timeless classic.
Norman Finkelstein
SCRIBE
978-1-933675-41-1, $15, paper, 115 pp.
DOS MADRES PRESS 2009
Poetry. “To read SCRIBE is to pass ‘through a series of
gates’ into the paradoxical heart of the poem, where
‘terror and enchantment,’ the communal and the solitary,
the light and the dark, the imaginings of adult and
child come together in an ancient music entirely
of our moment. Norman Finkelstein here articulates
the permissions and responsive urgencies of poetic
engagement, echoing now ballad music—or magic,
now the muted voice of dailiness, now the lyric strains
of desire”—Michael Palmer.
BOTTOM DOG PRESS 2009
Poetry. “Patrick Michael Finn has written a fierce and
frightening, often gorgeously described, swirling,
pulsing, sweating runaway car crash of a novella that
reminded me of the darker works of Denis Johnson and
Hubert Selby. A MARTYR FOR SUZY KOSASOVICH is an
unsparing look at the other side of the American dream;
the collective rage that passes for friendship in some
corners. While Finn’s characters are often short-sighted
and mean-spirited, his luminous writing and knack
for telling detail makes their story relevant and
unforgettable”—Michael Jamie-Becerra.
Poetry. “Flanagan wins me with his rich humor and
compassion, his keen ear and sharp eye, his technical
skill, his ability to slam a poem shut with a crash, his way
with simile and metaphor. Here is a rich, long overdue
gathering of Flanagan’s finest and most insightful
poems, the harvest of four decades. Open this book and
you just might find it irresistible”—X. J. Kennedy.
“These intelligent, sharply focused poems recall a gritty
past of rented apartments (‘cramped endurances’),
‘cracked tar,’ the fight game, and turf wars in scenes of
working class urban America, 1950s. But this poet is also
at ease with the natural world as he sinks his roots in the
river beds of Ohio, dreaming ‘peace for his children,’
flashing forward to insights of a life lived through....
I greet this strong and moving book with admiration
and joy”—Colette Inez.
Norman Fischer
QUESTIONS/PLACES/VOICES/SEASONS
978-0-935162-43-1, $16, paper, 180 pp.
Chris Forhan
BLACK LEAPT IN
978-0-9819876-0-6, $16.95, paper, 81 pp.
SINGING HORSE PRESS 2009
BARROW STREET PRESS 2009
Poetry. QUESTIONS/PLACES/VOICES/SEASONS continues
and expands the innovative meditational poetry
Norman Fischer has explored in earlier books, such as
SLOWLY BUT DEARLY, SUCCESS, and I WAS BLOWN BACK.
The two long serial poems that anchor QUESTIONS/
PLACES/VOICES/SEASONS, “Charlotte’s Way” and
“Seasons,” will feel quite familiar to Fischer’s many
readers. But he also inaugurates a new form of writing in
this new book in which he inhabits the voices of others,
such as Alberto Caeiro, Reb Yosl of Kemenetz, Elena
Rivera, and Saigyo Hoshi. The combination of these
distinct forms of writing create a compelling new
addition to Fischer’s already impressive body of work.
Poetry. Winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize
selected by Phillis Levin, BLACK LEAPT IN is a collection
of poems about Forhan’s childhood in Seattle and
his father, who committed suicide in 1973. In it he writes
of family vacations, of secretly observing his father
watching TV late into the night, of how his father
“conceived of us, dealt us like cards to our mother” and
of how his perceptions changed when his father died.
“In this stunning new book, BLACK LEAPT IN, Chris
Forhan makes narrative probe and sing the haunted,
haunting landscapes of childhood and adolescence.
Forhan unfolds his inventory of losses and joys with an
unerring ear and an eloquence bordering on the
visionary”—Gregory Orr.
Patrick Michael Finn
A MARTYR FOR SUZY KOSASOVICH
978-1-880834-77-0, $15.95, paper, 87 pp.
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2008
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Robert Flanagan
REPLY TO AN EVICTION NOTICE:
SELECTED POEMS
978-1-933964-28-7, $15, paper, 104 pp.
Edward Foster
THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS
978-0-9785555-9-7, $15, paper, 112 pp.
Barbara Claire Freeman
INCIVILITIES
978-1-933996-15-8, $14.95, paper, 80 pp.
COUNTERPATH PRESS 2009
Poetry. THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS—which takes its
title taken from Matthew 28:8 (a prophecy of universal
suffering)—imagines evil as formed by the self in its
solitude. The book is rooted in definitions of evil as a
result of, or as the essence of, self-love as well as an
embodiment in words whose shadow seems to have no
source beyond language itself. Failure or refusal to
live as more than the self, its perceptions, and its desires
appears to have consequences among, paradoxically,
the most exquisite pleasures as well as the fountains of
deepest sorrow.
Poetry. In her first collection, Barbara Claire Freeman
links lyric subjectivity to an exploration of crucial
moments in U.S. history. There are meditations on the
Declaration of Independence, institution of slavery,
Gold Rush, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Civil War, Great
Depression, terrorist attacks of 9/11, as well as on our
contemporary economic and cultural lives. These
formally inventive poems braid the personal and the
political. They offer no compromise, no synthesis, but
they do offer hope as they invite critical reflection of
“authorized history” and trace the efforts of historical
subjects to make and remake their lives. INCIVILITIES is
committed to the past and to the present, envisioning a
poetry that might function both as a ritualistic act of
imagining and as a talisman against forgetting.
Linda Nemec Foster
TALKING DIAMONDS
978-1-930974-85-2, $15, paper, 75 pp.
NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2009
Poetry. “A humanist at heart, Linda Nemec Foster has
demanded from her poetry an artfulness that engages
ordinary life. With each new book her work has
continued to mature, deepen, console, surprise, and
TALKING DIAMONDS is as wise as it is lovely”
—Stuart Dybek.
Graham Foust
A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA
978-0-9819520-1-7, $14.95, paper, 96 pp.
FLOOD EDITIONS 2009
Poetry. A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA, Graham Foust’s
fourth book of poetry, uses the ironies and anxieties of
contemporary life as a foil for mordant and sometimes
violent humor. Through mangled aphorisms, misheard
song lyrics, and off-key phrasing, Foust creates a unique
idiom of tragicomic pratfalls, a ballet of falling down. Yet
the elasticity of Foust’s language repels the stiff-necked
adversaries of thought: “what’s the wrong way to break /
that brick of truth back into music?”
Skip Fox
DELTA BLUES
978-0-9811704-2-8, $16.95, paper, 176 pp.
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. DELTA BLUES is the fourth in a series of texts
tentatively titled Dream of a Book. It was preceded by
WHAT OF (Potes & Poets), AT THAT (Ahadada Books) and
FOR TO (BlazeVox). Reprising his role as entomologist,
Skip Fox presents passages sprawling and pinned in a
shadow box of observations and odd lots. Patrick James
Dunagan writes that Fox “holds forth in the tradition of
Stein and Williams with fluid experimental passages that
hang on the page in a successful bopping between
prose and poetry ... alongside the pleasure and beauty
to be found is also the grotesque and absurd.”
Joanna Fuhrman
PAGEANT
978-1-882295-77-7, $15.95, paper, 80 pp.
ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Forget New York poetry. Forget Language
poetry. Forget desires for a totalizing poetics. Fuhrman is
a leader in the particular, in ‘infra-surrealism.’ She taboos
nothing; no form impedes her complete wit. This full
poetry is not only ‘feminine, marvelous, and tough,’ but
subtle, searching, and wounded—sexual, social, and
smart. Fuhrman celebrates new truth-telling, an art of
the spectacular pageant”—David Shapiro.
James Galvin
AS IS
978-1-55659-296-6, $15, paper, 71 pp.
Poetry. “James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps
the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry”—
The Nation. James Galvin’s poems have zero percent
body fat. His tightly controlled and detailed poems
evoke measured optimism in a spare existential world
where certain characters—”The Mastermind” and the
“Members of the Board”—are recurring shadows. Like
fables suggesting new truths, personal narratives and
love poems intertwine to confront the various paradoxes
of domestic life, art, and politics, and the line “All poems
are love poems” leans hard against “Some poems
are better off dead.” In AS IS, both claim their hard-won
place.
Eric Gansworth
FROM THE WESTERN DOOR TO THE LOWER
WEST SIDE
978-1-935210-10-8, $18, paper, 96 pp.
Poetry. Native American Studies. Photographs by Milton
Rogovin. In this collaboration between two celebrated
artists, Native American poet Eric Gansworth has written
a book-length cycle of poems that interact with Milton
Rogovin’s photographs to form a unique experience,
blending the written word and visual images. The poems
and the photographs, taken over a period of forty years,
reflect the journey from the Western Door of Seneca
reservation culture—a culture distinctly different—to
the lifestyles of Buffalo’s Lower West Side.
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Joan Gelfand
A DREAMER’S GUIDE TO CITIES AND STREAMS
978-1-60461-009-3, $14.99, paper, 94 pp.
Celia Gilbert
SOMETHING TO EXCHANGE
978-1-935402-34-3, $16, paper, 81 pp.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY PRESS 2009
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. A DREAMER’S GUIDE TO CITIES AND STREAMS,
Joan Gelfand’s latest collection of poems, is a remarkable
journey. With an artists eye and a seeker’s soul she takes
the reader from Tuscan olive groves to a family’s Seder
table. Using humor and introspection she asks questions,
states opinions and tell tales all which leave one, as
she says in “Anthology Sonnet,” with “a delicious taste
that lingers.”
Poetry. “Poetry is the only means we have of talking
about experience without diminishing it, and Gilbert
diminishes nothing and illuminates everything: the
struggles and hopes of ancestors, the care for a dying
mother, desire’s wide spectrum of joy and loss from
childhood to mature womanhood. In a phrase, the too
muchness of life. In ‘Morning Glories on the Day of
Atonement,’ she says, ‘I have rejected the Laws,/ but can’t
live free of their shadow.’ If a shadow, then nevertheless
a paradoxically luminous one, for that is the strange
beauty and power of Gilbert’s poems—in effect, to
enlighten in the fullest possible sense. Such poetry
is the rarest kind, and I am thankful to rediscover it in
SOMETHING TO EXCHANGE”—B.H. Fairchild.
Elena Georgiou
RHAPSODY OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS
978-0-9815560-2-4, $14, paper, 88 pp.
HARBOR MOUNTAIN PRESS 2009
Poetry. Elena Georgiou’s second collection, RHAPSODY
OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS, prompts us beyond the
question “Where are you from?” to more complicated
questions regarding multiple migrations, invasions,
post-colonial freedom, and the ability to board
international flights. “Elena Georgiou has the
unbordered tongue of an immigrant. Her poems travel
through the public and private geographies of
citizenship, building homes made of bodies and
language. Her work is an alphabet, a Greek chorus, a
praise poem for the English language and its many
tongues. It is your visa to the poetry of immigration”
—Lisa Birman. “She reminds us, through the eyes of
‘immigrant’ experiences, that we too must be our own
Èxpatriate Cartographer’ if we are to navigate and
survive the losses and gains of living through change
and eruption.... Remarkably brave”—Jenny Boully.
“Immigrant questions become questions of how
to love, how to adhere to an èarth ... cut in half.’
Elena Georgiou’s beautiful book of poems is ... a `map ...
of silk countries,’ folded and unfolding”—Bhanu Kapil.
A choreography of names, places, and the forbidden
worn by figures over a shared landscape—urban, rural,
in between.
Michael Gessner
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
978-1-935402-29-9, $16, paper, 98 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “This collection, ARTIFICIAL LIFE, includes several
night scenes, lit as if by an expanding network of
fireflies. From a lofty but wordless height, the poet
suddenly swoops towards some arresting detail—a
party spilling onto a street, a compromised accountant,
a wedding photograph, an urban development site, a
picnic by a lake, wrinkles on a dog’s face, an old lady in
the mountains. Even a casual relationship is approached
by means of a kind of fidelity, its incompleteness
illuminated by a valid unsentimentality. And before he
departs again, the poet leaves behind, in his words, an
indelible quality, rather as the music of Apollo’s lyre is
said, by Ovid, to have lingered in the masonry of the
walls at Alcathoe”—Martin Turner.
David Gilbey
DEATH AND THE MOTORWAY
978-1-876819-78-1, $18, paper, 104 pp.
Poetry. A long-awaited collection from the muchadmired editor of the fourW anthologies, DEATH AND
THE MOTORWAY traverses intimate and intellectual
ground here and abroad with surety and insight. Several
poems deal with David’s experiences of life in Japan
and the tensions between a busy academic life and the
urge to create poetry.
E. A. Gleeson
IN BETWEEN THE DANCING
978-1-921479-10-6, $18, paper, 80 pp.
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Interactive Publications Picks
Best First Book Award. This impressive first poetry
collection traverses time and place with ease. Acute in
her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as
much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women
as on the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel.
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
BODY BETRAYER
978-0-914946-83-0, $8, paper, 92 pp.
978-0-914946-82-3, $12, cloth, 92 pp.
Poetry. “Few volumes of poetry, let alone first collections,
achieve the splendid fusion of intelligence and passion
that characterizes BODY BETRAYER. Beckian Fritz
Goldberg has an amazing command of technique, but
more importantly an ability to look unflinchingly at the
ironies and cruelties of our mysterious existence. Her
poems are visionary in a rare and hardwon sense, for she
seems to see more than the rest of us—because of our
timidity or some lack of character—are willing to permit
ourselves. Yet Goldberg’s broodings invariably transform
themselves to a stance that is redemptive rather than
despairing. BODY BETRAYER is a remarkable first
book”—David Wojahn.
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
IN THE BADLANDS OF DESIRE
978-1-880834-02-2, $10, paper, 86 pp.
978-1-880834-01-5, $15, cloth, 86 pp.
Poetry. “The eucalyptus is rowing in the light of the
streetlamp, the lake-water writes letters to St. Paul, and
all the new gods are ambushing at an old saltlick...
if Goldberg’s brilliantly anthropomorphized and
frightening badlands of desire and the tragic life of our
suburbs, then here’s a version of our extinction you’d
better accept as published by fire on the pages of
lament”—Norman Dubie.
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Frederick Farryl Goodwin
VIRGIL’S COW
978-1-4243-3113-0, $18, paper, 99 pp.
Nathan Graziano
AFTER THE HONEYMOON
978-1-934513-19-4, $15, paper, 96 pp.
MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS 2009
SUNNYOUTSIDE 2009
Poetry. Twenty years in the making, VIRGIL’S COW is the
debut collection by apocalyptic American poet and
former hardcore vocalist Frederick Farryl Goodwin,
whose poetry has been described as a “strange mix of
Grand Guignol and lyricism ... a potent brew of fractured
pastoral and seedy cityscapes, fragile confessionalism
and Shakespearean film noir ... The workings of some
Spicerian angel ... teetering on the brink of some ghastly
void” ( Signal to Noise Magazine). Improbably fusing the
best of what tradition has to offer this “Oxbridge”
educated poet with attention to recombinatory energies,
VIRGIL’S COW presents a luminous voice for today’s brave
new linguistic world of “hybridized” possibility. “There is
a genuine trance-vibe in Frederick Farryl Goodwin’s
voice. As if he’s standing upon a suburban rooftop with
a blue ribbon tied to his pinkie holding it in the air, eyes
closed, divining the sounds and characters of mytholoves past and future. His lines are alive, they must be,
his breath so desires it. They delight in simple flux with
fonts not afraid of sex. Frederick is a beautiful poet,
authentic and undone, loving the page only to whisper
in your year while clutching noise cassettes to his
heart”—Thurston Moore, co-founder, Sonic Youth.
Poetry. After the last toast, when the din of the wedding
bells has died and the photo albums have slumped into
the closet, the stark truths become exposed. In AFTER
THE HONEYMOON, Nathan Graziano takes a sober and
often humorous look at the joys and malaise of marriage
and parenthood, our demons and addictions, and the
demise of youth in American culture. Following Teaching
Metaphors, his critically praised poetic portrait of public
schools, AFTER THE HONEYMOON is Graziano’s most
diverse and ambitious collection to date.
K. Lorraine Graham
TERMINAL HUMMING
978-1-890311-31-5, $16, paper, 93 pp.
EDGE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “All ‘this shining and this flutter [!].’ TERMINAL
HUMMING is a very exciting book and I love it.
Eavesdropping and borrowing from diverse discourses,
K. Lorraine Graham has created a complex ‘essay on
scrounging.’ It is a wonderfully violent ‘attempt to
unleash inner badness’ in poems that are hot and
audacious, in a girly way: ‘Wonder Woman boots twirl
twirl.’ TERMINAL HUMMING is just the right amount of
weird. In it, ‘kinks become beautiful and obvious,’ and
‘language [hums] as angry form.’ Read this ‘downwind
chess urine bird bathing extravaganza’ of a book!”
—Nada Gordon.
Vicki Graham
THE TENDERNESS OF BEES
978-1-890193-82-9, $15, paper, 100 pp.
Poetry. “There is an open doorway between organism
and environment, between inhabitant and habitat,
between body and nature. Vicki Graham stands at that
threshold and speaks to us in a language of intimacy
and tenderness. Let’s listen”—Sandra Steingraber.
Chris Green
EPIPHANY SCHOOL
978-0-932412-80-5, $14.95, paper, 60 pp.
MAYAPPLE PRESS 2009
Poetry. Chris Green’s EPIPHANY SCHOOL, penned with
all the wonder and curiosity of a wise child, is not a book
for the timid, the slack-minded, the duped or sleeping.
These are poems that hold us in their headlights and tap
our backs in the dark, that beg us to notice life and
death, the big and small moments of illumination in our
lives. He is a poet who writes with wings. His clear-cut
honesty embraces his subject matter with reckless
abandon. The poems range from gut-wrenching to
heartbreaking, but, throughout the book, a sense of
humor prevails. Each turn of thought and phrase arrives
unexpectedly with a poignancy that touches on the
revelatory. This is the Green movement we’ve been
waiting for.
Richard Greenfield
TRACER
978-1-890650-38-4, $15.95, paper, 96 pp.
OMNIDAWN 2009
Poetry. Beyond speaking of possession and dominance,
which so often come cloaked in the placating language
of stewardship; beyond speaking as merely an observer
of the destruction wreaked upon the natural and social
environments of this planet—Richard Greenfield’s
TRACER brings us back to our senses. In an examination
of the savage, and savagely beautiful particularity of our
existence, this is equally and essentially a poetry that
respects, even as it implicates, the mystery and peril of
speaking through one’s own limited frame. A word
might at one moment allude to the ‘tracer’ who exposes
an image’s delicate outline and then, at the next, to the
‘tracer’ rounds that lethally illuminate a target in the
dark. These lyric poems are deeply ethical and austerely
honest in their implication of, and reflections upon, the
limits of morality and honesty. Nonetheless, this is also a
poetry that seeks to emancipate the voice of witness
from the generalities of despair through its exacting
engagement with this world.
Judy Grahn
THE JUDY GRAHN READER
978-1-879960-80-0, $19.95, paper, 336 pp.
AUNT LUTE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Gathering together the
varying strands of Grahn’s work together in this book
makes visible the tremendous scope of her contribution
as a feminist thinker, activist, and literary artist. This
volume contains work from every phase of Judy Grahn’s
career, including poems from all of her major poetry
collections, such as “The Common Woman,” “A Woman is
Talking to Death,” and the previously unpublished
“Mental”; a number of her groundbreaking essays
(“Writing from a House of Women” and the newly
revised “Ground Zero: The Rise of Lesbian Feminism,”
among others); as well selected fiction and the fulllength play, The Queen of Swords.
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Kate Greenstreet
THE LAST 4 THINGS
978-1-934103-09-8, $19, paper, 104 pp.
Oscar Hahn
ASHES IN LOVE
978-0-924047-73-2, $15, paper, 169 pp.
AHSAHTA PRESS 2009
HOST PUBLICATIONS 2009
Poetry. Includes DVD. What happens when a person
loses hope and yet still has the urge to make a
photograph or draw with a stick in the dirt? Kate
Greenstreet would like you to read this book as if you
had found it left behind on the empty bus seat next to
you—a document not directly addressing the question
“Why do we make art,” but one that notices that one
does make art, despite conditions, and that one would
regardless. THE LAST 4 THINGS comes with a DVD of
two movies created by the author. “A poem is made by
composition, by putting things together, and when you
read this book your hands tingle. THE LAST 4 THINGS
brings craftsmanship to reverie; it turns dreaming into
meaningful work. It is a serious approach to the
grammar of our emotions and you do well to read it
with your hands”—Thomas Basboll.
Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the
Spanish by James Hoggard. ASHES IN LOVE is the first
English-language edition of an extraordinary poetry
collection from renowned Chilean poet Oscar Hahn.
Hahn’s work has been hailed by Mario Vargas Llosa as
“magnificient and truly original ... the most personal
I’ve read in the poetry of our language in a long time.”
And in ASHES IN LOVE, Hahn beautifully affirms his
reputation as the premier poet of his generation. In
these outstanding poems, Hahn displays an
uncompromising intelligence and strength, blending
horror and humor with droll inventiveness. A sly
craftsman, Hahn has assimilated poetic tradition, but is
not a slave to it: he employs a wide range of poetic
techniques, opening himself to the possibilities of
mystery, song, and story.
David Gruber
SLEEPERS’ REPUBLIC
978-0-9822252-0-2, $12, paper, 58 pp.
Adam Halbur
POOR MANNERS
978-0-9811704-8-0, $16.95, paper, 40 pp.
ASTROPHIL PRESS 2009
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “In David Gruber’s SLEEPERS’ REPUBLIC nature is
dreaming, and we are its dreams. Time is slowed down
or speeded up: ‘suddenly, the sun / gives way to stars.’
And: ‘What we knew moves sudden / without warning /
throwing us to the ground / an emptiness in the sea /
The air above us filled with fruit.’ It may be that love
‘offers the opposite of a kiss,’ yet Gruber’s upended
universe is nonetheless an exhilarating medium in which
the reader can both swim and breathe”—John Ashbery.
Poetry. Eva Hooker writes “Adam Halbur’s POOR
MANNERS is a walk through another country. Three, in
fact: one made of idiom, one made of metaphor, and
one made of geography. His language is apt, plain and
rooted in the American heartland. He writes about loose
horses, peat burnings, stone cisterns, and roads that
seem to go to nowhere. His metaphors are plain and
often lifted from farm country. They explore, on the slant
and sometimes darkly, what it means to be a young
man. Adam’s poems construct a geography of the
local—`love is a chore’ and Mrs. Hawes’s henhouse
always needs work—and the far away, all places he calls
‘home’ in his exquisite closing poem. He is a true poet
of the prairie parish. And beyond.”
Miguel Gutierrez
WHEN YOU RISE UP: PERFORMANCE TEXTS
978-0-9817533-4-8, $10, paper, 60 pp.
53RD STATE PRESS 2009
Poetry. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. WHEN
YOU RISE UP collects texts by choreographer Miguel
Gutierrez, a relentlessly exploratory figure in the
contemporary dance scene. Gutierrez engages artistic
community in a radical sense, interrogating physical
encounter at all scales, from the collaborating
performers to the world where the work takes place.
Standing alone from their original contexts, these pieces
radiate with the physical urgency of a life committed to
art and performance. “These are spacious, hot, lyrical,
obsessive poems. Oh I guess you call them performance
texts. I love this book”—Eileen Myles.
Hafez
YOUR LOVER’S BELOVED
978-0-89304-113-7, $20, paper, 165 pp.
978-0-89304-112-0, $40, cloth, 166 pp.
Poetry. Middle East Studies. Bilingual Edition translated
from the Persian by Mahmood Karimi-Hakak and Bill
Wolak. “The poetry of Hafez is pleasing, magical wine
that allows you to become exactly as drunk as you desire
every time you taste it. Whether the transport you seek
is the frenzy of wild intoxication or merely the slightest
unleashing of inhibitions, Hafez is the master of
magnaminity, tamer of tensions, initiator of intimacy,
and mentor of the unconventional. But always, Hafez is
the poet who investigates the confusing contingencies
of human relationships. He understands how desire
urges us along an uncertain path. Hafez lives on the lips
of illiterates, in the singing of professional entertainers,
as well as in the tomes of specialists. His poems are
emergencies. They startle, confound, yet resonate”
—Phillip Cioffari.
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Kate Hall
THE CERTAINTY DREAM
978-1-55245-223-3, $14.95, paper, 96 pp.
Poetry. Descartes asked, How can I know that I am not
now dreaming? THE CERTAINTY DREAM poses similar
questions through poetry, but without the trappings of
traditional philosophy. Kate Hall’s bracingly immediate,
insistently idiosyncratic debut collection lays bare the
tricks and tools of her trade: a mynah bird perches in
poems but “stands for nightingale”; the poet’s antelope
turns transparent; she dresses up her orange trees with
bark and leaves. As the dream world and the waking
world blur, the body and the dimensions it inhabits
become a series of overlapping circles, all acting as
containers for both knowledge and uncertainty. At times
disarmingly plainspoken, at others, singing with lyric
possibility, these poems make huge associative leaps.
Taken together, they present the argument that to truly
“know” something, one must first recognize its traces in
something else.
Linda Lee Harper
KISS, KISS
978-1-880834-78-7, $15.95, paper, 77 pp.
David Highsmith
YOUR WILDERNESS & MINE
978-1-935402-01-5, $16, paper, 88 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Reading KISS, KISS is like waking up in a strange
bed with a new tattoo. These poems ride close to the
skin, and generate their own heat. Linda Lee Harper
takes us from the haunting familiarity of ‘Summer,
humid as an old aunt’s apartment when she boils the fat
out of ham,’ to the electric pleasure of ‘the beautiful boys
on the avenue, / parading, winking hips at my hips.’ It’s
as if Harper has reclaimed all of the memories we’ve
hidden beneath our mattresses, and repopulated them
in a world that is at once alien and intimate. These are
poems that demand a visceral response. Thankfully for
the reader, they will not wash off”—Mary Biddinger,
editor of Barn Owl Review.
Poetry. Highsmith writes: “I fly the reclamation run, my
scope / an open channel, salvage outfit / irrigation in the
shadow maw, a ditch / opposite cowl, vaporetto, motors
astride / a lawless plain, plowshares at rest[.]” “This is a
curiously various array of recent work by a perpetual
outsider whose idiosyncratic formalism tinged with what
might be called cowboy surrealism, engages, without
hubris, the urban hard edge within another generation’s
post-avant”—Anne Hedonia. “You’re very lucky,
brother”—Robert Creeley.
Libby Hart
FRESH NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC
978-1-876819-34-7, $18, paper, 64 pp.
MAYAPPLE PRESS 2009
Poetry. Winner of the Interactive Publications Picks 2006
Best Poetry Award. FRESH NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC
offers a finely wrought sensibility, which elevates the
subtle topography of life’s quiet events. This is a
collection that investigates the human experience,
parting the veil of the mundane to reveal passion,
beauty, myth and mystery. At once atmospheric, with a
surreal blend of emotion and memory, FRESH NEWS
FROM THE ARCTIC is a fluid and ever-shifting landscape
of possibilities. These poems are restless and inquisitive.
They echo a desire to forge a voice that is as curious as it
is distinctive. This book will appeal to all lovers of poetry,
particularly those who enjoy striking imagery linking the
quotidian to the universal. An exceptional example of
Australian poetry that is essential for all libraries.
Lyn Hejinian
SAGA/CIRCUS
978-1-890650-34-6, $15.95, paper, 144 pp.
Conrad and Jane Hilberry
THIS AWKWARD ART
978-0-932412-82-9, $13.95, paper, 58 pp.
Poetry. What this wonderful little book does is to set in
parallel some of the poems of father and daughter—
poems which were not written to be read in tandem,
but which for that reason are all the more subtle and
powerful in their conversing. The poems give upon
each other in certain inescapable ways: one sees from
different vantages the constellation of a family. Arranged
by quiet turns in this slim and generous book, the poems
make public the private: the late afternoon inquiries,
the depth of pleasure, the relentlessness of memory.
Lia Hills
THE POSSIBILITY OF FLIGHT
978-1-921479-07-6, $18, paper, 72 pp.
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Interactive Publications
Picks Best Poetry Award, Poetry at the cutting edge of
contemporary writing. The poems in Lia Hills’s first
collection journey from “artesian memories” of the
Australian desert to the “shifting territory of the gods”
in rural Pakistan, as they glide with a wing shift between
love, language and faith.
OMNIDAWN 2008
Poetry. SAGA/CIRCUS, by the esteemed poet Lyn
Hejinian, brings us two distinctly different long poems in
which the tropes of narrative and lyric—their feints and
demands—stake claims amongst the actual characters
presented. In this playful yet penetrating pair of poems,
it is the character of Lyn Hejinian’s thought meeting
our character of thought that is one of the most exciting
and most constant dramatic events of the book—the
richly sensational and subversive crescendos register as
both melodic and discordant soundtrack.
William Heyen
THE ROPE
978-0-9718059-4-1, $10.95, paper, 103 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2005
Poetry. David Watson has called Heyen “one of our most
original and urgent poets at the end of this century.”
Dave Smith has described Heyen as “standing in the line
of the Emersonian visionary,” and Joyce Carol Oates
has praised him as a poet of “wild, radiant audacity.”
Responding to Heyen’s earlier book of ecology poems,
Pterodactyl Rose, Karl Shapiro said that Heyen was our
first poet to understand gasoline. Readers of THE ROPE
will realize that they are in the presence of one of
America’s most powerful poets as he explores—in a
voice that is clear, darkly beautiful, resonant—the
central questions that confront us in the 21st century.
Laura Hinton
SISYPHUS MY LOVE: (TO RECORD A DREAM
IN A BATHTUB)
978-1-935402-26-8, $16, paper, 100 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. SISYPHUS MY LOVE: (TO RECORD A DREAM IN A
BATHTUB) is a multimedia series poem containing
threads that wind, unravel and accumulate. It combines
prose poetry, lyric, myth, fake myth, journal reportage, a
Poetry Blog kept online, and the beginnings of novellas
that do not arrive anywhere and do not return. It
contains memories of digital films and photographs
taken on the Mediterranean seaboard in and around a
long poem about trauma, love, death and desire—and
the heroic myth of a modern Sisyphus through “his”
point of view as he becomes a disembodied figure after
a journey to the Land of the Dead following a heart
attack. And it tells a heroine’s myth, that of Sisyphus’
unnamed “Wife.” It is she who continues the tale while
her husband, that perennial trickster figure who defies
the gods, dies and comes back. Part travelogue, part epic
poem, SISYPHUS MY LOVE (along with TO RECORD A
DREAM IN A BATHTUB) is also the record of an American
Road Trip that begins in a Northeast garden but
concludes along a Mediterranean shoreline—from the
beaches of Nice, France, to Pompeii (the “Villas” series) to
the Greca-Magna sites around Sicily. This road-book like
others before it repeatedly asks the question: What is a
poem? And what is a book?
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H.L. Hix
INCIDENT LIGHT
978-0-9745995-1-9, $17.95, paper, 72 pp.
Friedrich Hölderlin
SELECTED POEMS OF FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN
978-1-890650-35-3, $24.95, paper, 496 pp.
ETRUSCAN PRESS 2009
OMNIDAWN 2008
Poetry. INCIDENT LIGHT, H. L. Hix’s latest poetry
collection, explores the life of artist Petra Soesemann,
changed by the startling revelation—when she was
forty-nine—that the dad who had raised her from birth
was not her biological father. Dad’s devotion, mother’s
passion, father’s honor, and the daughter’s own
embracing of her experience, newly understood:
INCIDENT LIGHT shows many lives converging on one
life, infusing it with beauty and mystery.
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by
Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover. This new bilingual
edition of SELECTED POEMS OF FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN
has the clarity of Richard Sieburth’s translations, while
representing, like Michael Hamburger, all the major
forms and periods of Hölderlin’s production. Thanks to
this new translation, contemporary readers will be able
to see Hölderlin’s central position in the development of
modern poetry, and why the later works are considered
to be strangely prophetic of current modern and
postmodern tendencies. Revealing the full poetic force
of Holderlin’s work, this translation demonstrates why he
is considered one of the world’s greatest poets (17701843), the foundational poet of European Romanticism,
and an influence upon Nietzsche, Hegel, Rilke, and
Heidegger. Included, as preface to the poems, is a
comprehensive introduction by the translators. “This is
a book to be treasured”—John Ashbery.
Emmanuel Hocquard
CONDITIONS OF LIGHT
978-1-934200-19-3, $15, paper, 80 pp.
FENCE BOOKS/LA PRESSE 2009
Poetry. Translated from the French by Jean-Jacques
Poucel. Putting unprecedented pressure on the line
break, Emmanuel Hocquard’s obliquely interlaced poetic
series cracks open the facade of language to let a little
light through—the glimmers are beyond definition,
explication, or even, in a certain way, expression, yet
they are, nonetheless, there. Building on his decades
of attention to Wittgenstein, Hocquard has fused his
interest in the philosophy of language with his
dedication to the most elemental forms of experience.
Calm and alarming at the same time, they reveal the
present moment in its eternal act of passage.
Jen Hofer
ONE
978-0-9789262-9-8, $15, paper, 74 pp.
PALM PRESS 2009
Poetry. “ONE is necessarily engaged, engagingly
necessary. As so much contemporary American poetry
takes the witless witticism of ‘no ideas except as
refracted in other ideas’ to its logical conclusion, using
Stevens as willful instrument to hollow out Dickinson’s
interiority, flying as far as possible from Whitman,
Williams and Pound in some desperately whimsical,
whimsically desperate attempt to escape (still, at this
late date!) 20th century modernisms, it’s wonderfully
refreshing to treat oneself to the singular drama in Jen
Hofer’s open field verse, refractory through purposive
theater, flicking with deconstruction, declension and
interrogation. Her sage ‘insistence’ flares into the
continuous present that is our own”—Sesshu Foster.
Susan Holbrook
JOY IS SO EXHAUSTING
978-1-55245-222-6, $14.95, paper, 80 pp.
Poetry. Joyfully melding knowing humour and torquedup wordplay, Holbrook’s second collection is a comic
fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the
procedural and the lyric. Punch lines become sucker
punches, line breaks slip into breakdowns, the serious
plays comical and the comical turns deadly serious.
Holbrook’s poems don’t use humor as much as they
deconstruct the comic impulse, exposing its roots in the
political, the psychological and the emotional life of the
mind. Many of these poems import shapes and source
texts from elsewhere—home inspection reports,
tampon instructions, poems by Lorca—in a series of
translations, transpositions and transgressions that invite
a more intimate and critical rapport with the written
word. This is not merely a book, it is a chocolate-covered
artificially intelligent virus with an impish sense of
humor that will continue to replicate in your mind long
after initial exposure.
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Rob Holloway
PERMIT
978-1-930068-43-8, $14, paper, 120 pp.
SUBPRESS 2009
Poetry. “I’m standing in for a huge range of U.S. readers
and writers for whom Rob Holloway’s work will be a
delightful surprise—and a challenge, for we’re not used
to a meditative, analytical poetry with this many moving
parts. The first thing I notice about PERMIT is how
verb-based it is; I get the sense of a swift creek scudding
across stones, and the stones are the verbs making the
whole thing happen. With his narrative continually
shredding itself, dressing and undressing in a single
motion, Holloway creates a society of underplayed males
dominated by his incomparable heroine Pam, who, like
Oedipa Maas in San Francisco, wanders through and
activates a London tragic, gorgeous, and numinous as
life itself. So I’m telling you, Rob Holloway’s poetry will
open your eyes—and then some”—Kevin Killian.
Tom Holmes
HENRI, SOPHIE, & THE HIERATIC HEAD OF EZRA
POUND: POEMS BLASTED FROM THE VORTEX
978-1-935402-56-5, $16, paper, 97 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Part history, part aesthetic statement, part
obsession, HENRI, SOPHIE, & THE HIERATIC HEAD OF
EZRA POUND: POEMS BLASTED FROM THE VORTEX is,
most of all, a lyrical exploration of life lived like the sharp
cut of a chisel through marble. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
knew that blade hewing stone could reveal energy, that
art was controlled energy; Holmes’ poetry—sharply
chiseled—both maintains the formal precision of a cut
through rock and the passionate intensity of the lives it
follows—simply, these poems allow us to see that Henri
and Sophie lived in the intense heat of lives blasted out
of an important historical moment. This is no small
accomplishment. Pound wrote, ‘Only emotion endures.’
Holmes has written of a compelling story in a fine
collection of poetry that shows Pound’s assertion to be
accurate”—Tod Marshall, author of THE TANGLED LINE
and Dare Say.
Keith Holyoak
FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF LI BAI AND DU FU
978-1-882291-04-5, $17, paper, 127 pp.
Poetry. A lovely bilingual edition of the 8th century
Chinese poets Li Bai and Du Fu, translated by Keith
Holyoak with calligraphy by Hung-hsiang Chou.
“Holyoak’s clarity carries the profundity and complexity
of the Chinese culture not dissimilar to our own. ‘The
wine keeps flowing; the moon keeps watch’”—London
Magazine. “Keith Holyoak has succeeded in producing
translations of Chinese poetry that achieve high literary
excellence while conveying a real sense of the musicality
of the originals”—Johanthan Chaves.
Paul Hoover
SONNET 56
978-1-934254-12-7, $15, paper, 81 pp.
LES FIGUES PRESS 2009
Poetry. Paul Hoover’s SONNET 56 mixes Love, Poetry and
Shakespeare in a marvelous grab bag of form, wit and
playfulness. Starting with Shakespeare’s sonnet 56—
”Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said / Thy edge
should blunter be than appetite”—Hoover writes
56 poetic variations, turning Shakespeare’s sonnet
into a series of new (and traditional) forms, including:
“Villanelle,” “Noun Plus Seven,” “Limerick,” “Blues,”
“Course Description,” “Flarf,” “Imagist,” “Tanka,”
“Answering Machine,” “Rilke,” “Morse Code” and “Bad
Writing.” The result is tender portrayal of love and an
excellent survey of the possibilities within contemporary
poetry. SONNET 56 is published as part of the TrenchArt:
Maneuvers Series, with an Introduction by Ian Monk
and visual art by VD Collective.
William R. Howe
TRANSLANATIONS ONE
978-1-935402-43-5, $16, paper, 120 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. TRANSLANATIONS ONE is the first major
installment of William R. Howe’s Emily Dickinson project,
translanations. The collection is a homophonic,
homolinguistic transformation of Dickinson’s poems
500-599. Howe radically, and fantastically, re-invents
Dickinson’s lyrics while approximating those poems’
sound and rhythm patterns: “Rather than just
`translating’ these poems from English to English,” Howe
writes, “I have written these poems to the tune of
Dickinson, and through that music I am exploring our
relationship with language.” Listening to one of Howe’s
“translanations” is like hearing a Dickinson poem after
it’s been processed by a shrooming babelfish. “Dickinson
said that it’s poetry if you feel as though the top of your
head were taken off. But what if it’s the whole head,
down to the shoulders?... Read this with a helmet on”
—K. Silem Mohammad.
Hiromi Ito
KILLING KANOKO: SELECTED POEMS OF
HIROMI ITO
978-0-9799755-4-7, $16, paper, 104 pp.
ACTION BOOKS 2009
Poetry. East Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese
by Jeffrey Angles. “I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to
get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill
Kanoko who bites off my nipples.” “KILLING KANOKO
is a powerful, long-overdue collection (in fine
translation) of poetry from the radical Japanese feminist
poet, Hiromi Ito. Her poems reverberate with sexual
candor, the exigencies and delights of the paradoxically
restless/rooted female body, and the visceral imagery of
childbirth leap off the page as performative modal
structures—fierce, witty, and vibrant. Hiromi is a true
sister of the Beats”—Anne Waldman.
Dale Jacobson
METAMORPHOSES OF THE SLEEPING BEAST
978-1-890193-74-4, $15, paper, 110 pp.
Poetry. “Dale Jacobson is a poet of lyric praise and
political vision. Like Tom McGrath, Jacobson’s late friend
and mentor, he comes to his topics from growing up and
working in the farms and canning factories of the great
prairie of the northern mid-west. If there is a politics in
his poetry as there is in McGrath’s, it is as spiritually
suffused with nature as William Blake’s, as imagistic and
allusively argued as Neruda’s, and as American as a
coyote on a hilltop outside town waking us up with his
lyrical, plaintive song”—John Balaban.
Dale Jensen
OEDIPUS’ FIRST LOVER
978-0-9818859-9-5, $12.95, paper, 72 pp.
BEATITUDE PRESS 2009
Poetry. “Reading Dale Jensen is like stepping into an
intense vortex of images swirling at a velocity beyond
the threshold of the mere mortal mind and yet
maintaining a maddeningly precise geometry of focus.
And here he goes again. He takes his scissors to the
world and forces us to look at each and every remaining
shard of reality, while screaming, ‘subdigm the domivert
paranant!’”—David Partch.
Christine Hume
SHOT
978-1-933996-16-5, $14.95, paper, 72 pp.
Poetry. In alternating currents of prose and verse,
SHOT reaches beyond the tradition of the nocturne to
illuminate contradictory impulses and intensities of
night. SHOT inhabits the sinister, visionary, intimate,
haunted, erotic capacities to see and hear things at
night, in the fertile void containing our own
psychological and physical darkness. Via Levinas who
locates self-knowledge and ethical contract in insomnia,
this darkness is one “stuck full of eyes.” Here the
insomniac falls into a Beckettian pattern of waiting, in an
inextricable dialogue with a selfhood that cannot settle
down. In a perpetual play between empirical and
abstract knowledge, tantrum and meditation, SHOT
creates torque that drives beyond material experience.
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
THE POET AND THE SEA
978-1-935210-01-6, $17, paper, 249 pp.
Chelva Kanaganayakam, Editor
WILTING LAUGHTER: THREE TAMIL POETS
978-1-894770-59-0, $28.95, paper, 200 pp.
Poetry. Bilingual Edition translated from the Spanish by
Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney. “This is a very
valuable book! Dozens of poems are here that have
never been translated into English before, and I think
Berg and Maloney have done beautifully transferring
Juan Ramón ‘s enthusiastic calm from Spanish to English.
Terrific”—Robert Bly. This bilingual collection traces
Juan Ramón Jiménez ‘s relationship with the sea, a major
theme in his work, from his seminal book Diary of a
Poet Recently Married alongside other poems from his
body of work.
Poetry. South Asian Studies. Translated and Edited by
Chelva Kanaganayakam. This collection brings together
seventy-five poems by three internationally known Tamil
poets—R Cheran, V.I.S. Jayapalan, and Puthuvai
Ratnathurai—whose works, over the last three decades,
have dealt with issues ranging from ethnicity and
nationalism, to religion and diaspora. Together they have
shaped the Tamil literary tradition, urging the reader to
look at the past and present in new and important ways.
All three poets have confronted the reality of Sri Lankan
violence, displacement, and struggle in different ways,
but reading them together reveals both connections
and differences.
Johan Jönson
COLLOBERT ORBITAL
978-0-9822120-1-1, $13.99, paper, 72 pp.
DISPLACED PRESS 2009
Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes
Göransson. “If Vicente Huidobro met Georges Bataille on
a Waste Management(R)truck, the result might be
something akin to Johan Jönson’s COLLOBERT ORBITAL,
the new manifesto of ‘the waste-disposal-working-class.’
At times soaring across ‘aerospatiality,’ at others
existentially grounded in ‘an overheated world factory’
of ‘all work, all healthcare, all logistics,’ Jönson’s linguistic
propulsions and dynamic formal innovations challenge
‘a victorious bourgeois poetry order’ to, once again,
rearticulate verse experimentation to the politics and
poetics of working a day job”—Mark Novak.
Andrew Joron
NEO-SURREALISLM: OR, THE SUN AT NIGHT:
TRANSFORMATIONS OF SURREALISM IN
AMERICAN POETRY 1966-1999
978-0-615-32369-5, $12, paper, 65 pp.
KOLOURMEIM PRESS 2009
Poetry. Literary Criticism. Revised Edition. A new,
perfect-bound edition of Andrew Joron’s unprecedented
work on the development of surrealist tendencies in
American poetry between 1966-1999. This revised
edition contains a new afterword of the last decade
(1999-2009), bringing the book up to the contemporary
moment. Beginning with the seminal poems of Philip
Lamantia, Joron’s essay runs through the major
surrealist-influenced poetry in the U.S., including View,
the New York School, Deep Image, Chicago Surrealists,
Caliban, Kayak, Language Poetry, and much more.
Among its highlights are considerations of such poets as
Will Alexander, Jayne Cortez, Rikki Ducornet, Barbara
Guest, Bob Kaufman, Sotere Torregian, and John Yau.
THE SUN AT NIGHT is a definitive book for anyone
interested in surrealism’s impact on American poetry.
Garrett Kalleberg
MALILENAS
978-1-933254-58-6, $15, paper, 72 pp.
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2009
Poetry. “Numbers slide promiscuously around in these
poems, emboldening the fundamental ways in which we
have relations with counting (accounting for): bodies,
monies, words, selves. Kalleberg’s work embodies a
science of many, and the indivisible hangs out in it, too,
as fabulous, energetic, funny and full of pathos as Cesar
Vallejo, hitting us in our pecuniary pocket, if the wallet
were a thing we wore on our hearts”—Eleni Sikelianos.
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Bhanu Kapil
HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE CHILDREN
978-0-932716-70-5, $17.95, paper, 71 pp.
KELSEY STREET PRESS 2009
Poetry. Asian American Studies. In this new prose
document, Bhanu Kapil follows a film crew to the Bengal
jungle to re-encounter the true account of two girls
found living with wolves in 1921. Taking as its source text
the diary of the missionary who strove to rehabilitate
these orphans—through language instruction and
forcible correction of supinated limbs—HUMANIMAL
functions as a healing mutation for three bodies and a
companion poiesis for future physiologies. Through
wolfgirls Kamala and Amala, there is a grafting: what
scars down into the feral opens out also into the fierce,
into a remembrance of Kapil’s father. The humanimal
text becomes one in which personal and postcolonial
histories cross a wilderness to form supported
metabiology.
Shirley Kaufman
EZEKIEL’S WHEELS
978-1-55659-307-9, $14, paper, 80 pp.
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Shirley Kaufman utilizes
enigmatic symbolism from the Book of Ezekiel as she
writes into the themes of exile and emigration that have
marked her work since she moved to Israel thirty-six
years ago. Her new poems attempt to bring meaning to
an irrational world—the unrelenting passage of human
life, the risks of artistic endeavoring, and the artist’s
struggle with the loss of sight and memory. After nearly
four decades of writing and publishing, Kaufman
maintains a lightness of touch even while her poetry
takes on an increased awareness of danger and urgency.
Carroll C. Kearley
DEITY-ALPHABETS
978-1-893670-42-6, $15, paper, 97 pp.
TEBOT BACH 2009
Poetry. “DEITY-ALPHABETS, Carroll Kearley’s luminous
first book of poems, gives testimony to Keats’s
knowledge that humanity’s certainty resides in ‘the
holiness of the Heart’s affections.’ Plain-spoken yet
naturally resonant, Kearley’s poems of witness ‘unravel
threads of tortured talk’ inherent in the lives of the
homeless. He reminds us that language, our common
bond, offers the vivid grammar of the spirit, the
‘fractured syntax’ of seeing ourselves in others, and that
‘each bearer of a name/ has an irreplaceable impress.’
The poet, ‘his voice, a second violin’ brings the beauty of
these ‘common flowers’ to our attention, and we are so
very grateful for it”—Elena Karina Byrne.
Douglas Kearney
THE BLACK AUTOMATON
978-1-934200-28-5, $16, paper, 80 pp.
Dana Killmeyer
PENDULUMS OF EUPHORIA
978-1-926616-07-0, $18, paper, 48 pp.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. African American Studies. Winner of the National
Poetry Series, selected by Catherine Wagner. From
ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants
echoing in a burning city, THE BLACK AUTOMATON
troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life. In this collection
bodies at risk seek renewal through violence and fertility,
history and myth, flesh and radios. “First, you have to see
Douglas Kearney’s visual poems, which cheekily diagram
cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as they
are). THE BLACK AUTOMATON has its share of sharp,
tender lyrics, too ... these exploit the political possibilities
of puns and the way meanings hinge on inexact
resemblance. Kearney’s poems tweak and skewer pop
culture and literary sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar
to T.S. Eliot to traditional ballads and blues ... Kearney’s
work turns poetic and cultural conventions disquietingly
inside out”—Catherine Wagner.
Poetry. Dana Killmeyer’s first collection of poetry, and
the follow-up to her critically well-received novel
PARADISE, OR THE PART THAT DIES (2006), is a startling
and assured collection of poetry. Dealing with themes of
love, loss, hope, and failure, Killmeyer’s writing has been
compared to Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath, though it
seems to speak to a more modern era. Pendulums is a
book that has been fostered over a period of years, with
many of the poems appearing for the first time in print.
PENDULUMS OF EUPHORIA makes the important case
that Killmeyer is not only a prose writer that matters,
but a poet as well.
Claudia Keelan
MISSING HER
978-1-930974-86-9, $15, paper, 79 pp.
Poetry. “Keelan’s work, always politically engaged, here
takes a tender and personal turn. Much of what is
mourned in these interwoven elegies is private, close in,
but even the larger, more public themes—the Vietnam
War, Jesus, the oil industry, September 11—are brought
to an intimate scale. The central long poem ‘Everybody’s
Autobiography’ achieves a masterful fusion of political
history, personal responsibility, and communal grief.
A deep-feeling collection not afraid to look loss in the
face”—Cole Swensen.
Kevin Killian and David Brazil, Editors
THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER:
1945-1980
978-0-9767364-5-5, $23.95, paper, 596 pp.
KENNING EDITIONS 2010
Poetry. Drama. Asian American Studies. African American
Studies. Women’s Studies. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender
Studies. With new interest in poetry as a performative
art, and with prewar experiments much in mind, the
young poets of postwar America infused the stage with
the rhythms and shocks of their poetry. From the
multidisciplinary nexus of Black Mountain, to the
Harvard-based Cambridge Poets Theater, to the West
Coast Beats and San Francisco Renaissance, these
energies manifested themselves all at once, and through
the decades have continued to grow and mutate,
innovating a form of writing that defies boundaries of
genre. THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER:
1945-1985 documents the emergence, growth, and
varied fortunes of the form over decades of American
literary history, with a focus on key regional movements.
The largest and most comprehensive anthology of its
kind yet assembled, the volume collects classics of
poets theater as well as rarities long out of print and
texts from unpublished manuscripts and archives. It will
be an indispensable reference for students of postwar
American poetry and avant-garde theater.
Myung Mi Kim
PENURY
978-1-890650-37-7, $15.95, paper, 128 pp.
OMNIDAWN 2009
Poetry. Asian American Studies. In PENURY, Myung Mi
Kim probes sanctioned norms of cognition by breaking
communication into its most discrete components.
With these irruptions and suspensions, she writes into
extremes of forced loss, violence, and impoverishment.
Exposing latent relations in sound and sense, Kim
proposes how new ethical awareness can be
encountered where the word and its meaning/s are
formed. Here, language is not offered as transparent
communication of ideas, but as testament to and
disruption of oppressive dominant concepts and cultural
practices. “Penury” means poverty, but in this text’s
radical relation to lack, we hear the most elemental and
active forms of change.
Kathy Kituai
STRAGGLING INTO WINTER
978-1-876819-69-9, $18, paper, 88 pp.
Poetry. A serene and very human voice emerges from a
year-long tanka journal in which the changing seasons
reflect the poet’s thoughts on illness, love, and world
events. The great delight of the tanka is the jewel-like
images it produces: how a bowl captures moonlight,
willow twigs flaring at sunset, a poet wandering into a
fog, pumpkin shoots, playing checkers when the
doorbell rings. Poems that chronicle the progress of
illness, the black butterfly of cancer, alternate with
visiting wild birds and animals and moments of humour,
even in the hospital, where crutches are stolen by
hospital terrorists, musings on the Israel/Palestine
tragedy, and the nature of old age and love. Kituai may
be one of those rare writers who reject the idea that
illness and death are things that have to be worked
through and then left behind; rather, by beginning and
ending with winter, she suggests death and loss are
where we begin and what we work towards. There’s
peace in that thought.
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Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
VAGABOND DAWNS
978-0-89304-186-1, $20, paper, 138 pp.
Ku Sang
ETERNITY TODAY
978-89-953760-6-5, $14, paper, 167 pp.
SEOUL SELECTION 2005
Poetry. Book + CD. The poetry in VAGABOND DAWNS
evokes images ranging from cyclical rhythms of nature,
to the passions and complexities of love, to the timeless
spiritual potentialities of the human mind and soul.
Professor Doctor Bernfried Nugel, Director of the Centre
for Aldous Huxley Studies at the University of Muenster,
writes in his Prologue, “The all-encompassing vigor of
Kleefeld’s individual style does not merely allude to
outstanding representatives of the poetic tradition, such
as Rimbaud, Pound, Eliot, Kazantzakis and others, but
rather incorporates them into poetic tapestries of her
own.” The book includes a CD of Kleefeld reading a
selection of the poems, accompanied by musicians Barry
and Shelley Phillips, who have played for Coleman Barks
in his readings of Rumi.
Poetry. Asian Studies. To celebrate the first anniversary of
his death, a book of selected poems by the late Ku Sang
(1919-2004) has been published by Seoul Selection in
English translation. Translated by Brother Anthony of
Taize at Sogang University, the book contains a total of
99 poems arranged not in chronological order, but under
five major themes: Mystery of Meeting, River, Fields, Sin
and Grace, and Eternity Today. This book includes some
rare black-and-white photos of Ku, including those taken
with fellow writers, with social dignitaries, and in his
private library. Ku pursued his own aesthetic sense
based on Christianity while incorporating traditional
Korean thought as well as Zen Buddhism and the Taoist
philosophy of Lao Zi and Chuang Zi of ancient China.
His work mostly searches for the meaning of human
existence and the cosmos. Rather than focusing on
poetic techniques, Ku used common expressions found
in our daily lives that were nevertheless rich in meaning.
Srecko Kosovel
LOOK BACK, LOOK AHEAD
978-1-933254-54-8, $17, paper, 80 pp.
Translated from the Slovenian by Barbara Siegel Carlson
and Ana Jelnikar.
Gerry LaFemina and Daniel Crocker, Editors
POETRY 30: THIRTY-SOMETHING AMERICAN
THIRTY-SOMETHING POETS
978-1-59539-030-1, $19.95, paper, 340 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2005
Steve Kowit and Lenny Silverberg
CROSSING BORDERS
978-1-933132-74-7, $18, paper, 55 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2009
Poetry. Art. Poems by Steve Kowit. Drawings and
Watercolors by Lenny Silverberg. Although humor can
be a switchblade of critical deconstruction and these
guys can swing it with the best of them, right here, right
now, they’re going for soul. Cutting deeper. So get ready.
They render a double dose, slicing to the bone with
achingly fine-tuned artistry. Kowit and Silverberg have
each honed their characteristic styles down to a focused,
reductive form—accomplished contrarianly (as is their
wont) by addition. Kowit plus Silverberg equals way
more than two. Yet together, they reduce abstract social,
political and economic issues to something more basic:
representational humanity.
Robert Krut
THE SPIDER SERMONS
978-1-935402-12-1, $16, paper, 72 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “With a winning mixture of verve and tenderness,
the poems in THE SPIDER SERMONS confront the
extreme significance of our daily lives. It’s the most
passionate of come-ons, but with the kindest of
intentions”—Kazim Ali. “Robert Krut’s new collection of
poems, SPIDER SERMONS, bears lyric exactness and
compassion into a new world of memory crossed with
most things existential. There is a sense of what is being
seen here as with after images in an electrical storm. This
is a brilliant book”—Norman Dubie.
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Poetry. POETRY 30’s roster of 39 poets of the thirtysomething age group—the baby boom of the American
poetry renaissance—is a who’s who of this generation.
Featuring a diversity of voices and styles by poets from
all over the country. POETRY 30 showcases the breadth
and possibility of contemporary American poetics.
Elena Lafert and Melina Draper
LUGAR DE ORIGEN/PLACE OF ORIGIN
978-1-882291-06-9, $18, paper, 88 pp.
Poetry. Bilingual Spanish-English text. Winner of the
2009 International Latino Book Award for Best Bilingual
Poetry Book. “Argentinean poet Elena, and Melina,
writing from Alaska, represent the antipodes of a
mother-daughter relationship. Yet their poems resonate
with the intimate interplay and harmonic counterpoint
of a Bach two-part Invention.... Born from a loving
collaboration, PLACE OF ORIGIN is a lovely, singular
book”—Julia Older. “A tender and savage book, mother
and daughter speaking to one another, to history, and to
us through the flexible lineage of language, mother
tongue and daughter tongue, translating image and
time in a beautiful collection”—Derick Burleson.
Steve Langan
MEET ME AT THE HAPPY BAR
978-1-935402-53-4, $16, paper, 76 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “I’m consistently jealous of Steve Langan’s
small-a absurdist accuracy, not to mention his unfailing
ability to dredge gorgeous song from the hum of the
normal. MEET ME AT THE HAPPY BAR is sharp, sad, sassy,
and frighteningly alive”—Graham Foust.
Lao-tzu
LAO-TZU’S TAOTECHING
978-1-55659-290-4, $18, paper, 200 pp.
Rachel Levitsky
NEIGHBOR
978-1-933254-49-4, $15, paper, 96 pp.
Taoism. Poetry. East Asian Studies. Bilingual Edition.
Translated from the Chinese by Red Pine. LAO-TZU’S
TAOTECHING is an essential volume of world literature,
and Red Pine’s nuanced and authoritative English
translation—reissued and published with the Chinese
text en face —is one of the best-selling versions. What
sets this volume apart from other translations are its
commentaries by scores of Taoist scholars, poets, monks,
recluses, adepts, and emperors spanning more than
two thousand years. “I envisioned this book,” Red Pine
notes in his introduction, “as a discussion between
Lao-tzu and a group of people who have thought deeply
about his text.” “With its clarity and scholarly range,
this version of the TAOTECHING works as both a readable
text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation”
—Publishers Weekly.
Poetry. “In her second full-length collection, Levitsky
challenges readers with an expansive sequence of
poems that vigorously dissemble and reassemble
notions of what a poem is and does [ ... ] A decisively
innovative book; NEIGHBOR is brimming with sharply
reported discoveries”—Publishers Weekly. “NEIGHBOR is
a sweet saga of disconnection. A collectivity of loss.
Rachel should be working for the city of New York. ‘I’ve
decided to use my obsession/with my neighbor as the
context/ for a discussion of the State.’ That in itself is
incredible”—Eileen Myles. “In and outside the window of
Rachel Levitsky’s apartment lie sadness, amusement and
conflicted regard for the weirdo constructs of faith and
scum politics. Her poet energy is a sweet intellect with
lazy compulsive lines dropping onto a free and wishful
page, ok with semi-resolve amidst the minor clatter of
daily lust”—Thurston Moore.
Gregory Lawless
I THOUGHT I WAS NEW HERE
978-1-935402-13-8, $16, paper, 67 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Gregory Lawless is a visionary of fallen satellites,
making revelations of scrap and stray: exiles, astronauts,
scarecrows, a gnome, a daughter who will not speak, a
pet gryphon and pet rock that ‘gets dizzy on the plains.’
Formally varying from tight whirlpooling musics to
looser prose constructions, the strange incantations of
these splendid poems, ‘in my last life I came back as a
mountain,’ convey a yearning for the possibility of the
mythic in the everyday countered by a wry humor and
intelligence that has its doubts. Maybe the sleet in
depressed steel towns that falls in ‘I Thought I Was New
Here’ should be proof and consolation enough. And of
these visions that provide such a plentitude of
amazement—I think this poet agrees with Rimbaud—
at least we’ve had them’—Dean Young.
James P. Lenfestey
INTO THE GOODHUE COUNTY JAIL: POEMS TO
FREE PRISONERS
978-1-890193-73-7, $12, paper, 40 pp.
Poetry. James P. Lenfestey has been engaged with the
writings of the Cold Mountain Poet, Han-shan, for many
years. The poems in this collection are a result of that
study and a visit made to the Goodhue County Jail to
talk about writing poetry.
Frannie Lindsay
MAYWEED
978-0-915380-73-2, $15, paper, 96 pp.
THE WORD WORKS 2010
Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Word Works Washington
Prize. With seamless craft and lyricism, Frannie Lindsay
elevates personal grief to a universal level. Through
the natural world, she invites “mayweed, earnest as
milkmaids” to flood the valley of death. Lindsay offers
the reader light, often surprisingly warm, in the chill
darkness of death. Cover art by Deborah Mayhall.
Micah Ling
THREE ISLANDS
978-1-934513-18-7, $15, paper, 96 pp.
SUNNYOUTSIDE 2009
Poetry. THREE ISLANDS, Micah Ling’s first full-length
collection, brings together the three colossal figures of
Amelia Earhart, Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz),
and Fletcher Christian to examine the solitude and
madness that comprises their slight degrees of
separation. Existing in the channel between fact and
fiction, these poems deftly swim among the slight
nuances that divide captivity, isolation, and escape.
Margo Lockwood
MORE THAN I WANT TO
978-0-9824100-2-8, $12, paper, 56 pp.
PRESSED WAFER 2009
Toni Mergentime Levi
WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR & OTHER
POEMS
978-0-932412-83-6, $15.95, paper, 90 pp.
MAYAPPLE PRESS 2009
Poetry. WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR is a graceful and
intelligent collection. Lyrical and deeply personal, these
poems speak to the emotional and psychological strain
of caring for a parent suffering from Alzheimer’s. Levi
continues the collection with poems that explore other
relationships, experiences and feelings. Levi’s poetry has
grace, intelligence, delicate feeling and wit. Her clear
voice can be heard in all she writes.
Poetry. “Like two of my favorite poets who were born in
Boston, John Weiners and Paul Hannigan, Margo
Lockwood is Catholic, mystical, modest, brilliant, biting
and agnostic. Sometimes she is like Li Po, sometimes
like The Silent Traveller, the Chinese historian who
wrote turn of the century books on American cities, but
remained invisible, and sometimes she writes with the
spirit of one who has dragged a broom and shaken a
wooden spoon. She has the racing brain of genius
common to the Irish people and seems to know
everything. She certainly knows her books. The “dark
door” in this volume could be the door into the one
book that she will never read. But there it stands, central
to her assessment of life’s little atonements and ironic
slights. I count her among one of the great Boston poets.
She captures the strange and unnamable quality of this
wayside city”—Fanny Howe.
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Phillip Lopate
AT THE END OF THE DAY: SELECTED POEMS AND
AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
978-0-9785555-8-0, $16.95, paper, 192 pp.
Poetry. Though known today mostly as an essayist,
Phillip Lopate worked seriously as a poet for fifteen years
during the 1970s and 1980s. As Henri Cole writes: “Phillip
Lopate may be an American ambassador of nonfiction,
but he is also a youthful, taciturn, love-seeking New York
poet, whose poems—plainspoken, personal, darkly
humorous—quietly gather strength while confronting
the beautiful and ugly in city life. I admire their vitality
and honesty.”
Pam Calabrese MacLean
THE DEAD CAN’T DANCE
978-1-55380-069-9, $15.95, paper, 132 pp.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Poetry. With wicked wit and deep feeling, MacLean
writes of death of dreams, death of desire, death of a
beloved. These poems are the biting stories of strong
and practical women who won’t allow their belief in
magic to be extinguished.
Tony Magistrale
WHAT SHE SAYS ABOUT LOVE
978-1-884419-92-8, $10, paper, 112 pp.
Poetry. “I read the poems of WHAT SHE SAYS ABOUT
LOVE with a growing sense of their achievement,
their expression of a particular and valuable voice.
Here is a poet who understands that ‘The act of casting
shape from chaos / breeds enemies.’ That refers to
Michaelangelo, but it stands in for the poet generally,
and especially one of who has Tony Magistrale’s gifts.
Poetry is the enemy of bland, boring, mass-produced
speech. It is language intensified to a level of combat
with the world. And Magistrale has managed to keep up
the fight in poem after poem. This is a bracing, sweet,
dark, and always moving volume of poems. I believe it
will affect those who read it deeply. It deserves a wide
audience”—Jay Parini, Middlebury College.
Valerio Magrelli
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER
AND OTHER POEMS
978-0-9725271-7-0, $20, paper, 366 pp.
CHELSEA EDTIONS/XENOS BOOKS 2009
Riccardo Duranti, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, and Anthony
Molino. Edited by Anthony Molino. In his introduction,
“On Reading Valerio Magrelli,” Oxford Professor Peter
Hainsworth describes the title work as “a striking,
ambitious and indeed ingenious creation, evidence of a
poetric strategy that daringly spearheads and remains at
the forefront of Italian poetry today.” Valerio Magrelli is
recognized in Italy as one of the country’s most
imaginative, innovative and vision-altering poets, yet
still remains insufficiently known to the English-speaking
world. The present bilingual collection, combining
selections from two works of the 1980s under the title
Nearsights, together with the complete composition of
1999, “Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper,” strives
to rectify this situation.
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Vasyl Makhno
THREAD AND SELECTED NEW YORK POEMS
978-0-923389-79-6, $15, paper, 126 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2009
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Ukrainian
by Orest Popovych. “From Yehuda Amichai to the New
York Group, from the state of the Union to the stables of
Gertrude Stein, violins in their cases and pregnant foxes
in their lairs: Makhno sweeps through the unreal city of
immigrant dreams and resident nightmares and gathers
it all into poems at once compassionate, witty, and
saturated with life. As thoroughly versed in the antics
of Ashbery as in the hijinks of Bukowski, Antonych, Du
Fu, Makhno enters the American scene a Ukrainian
original, enlarging our field of vision. Bracing,
embracing, and utterly valuable. Gottfried Benn was
wrong”—Askold Melnyczuk.
Freya Manfred
SWIMMING WITH A HUNDRED YEAR OLD
SNAPPING TURTLE
978-1-890193-76-8, $15, paper, 69 pp.
Poetry. “Freya Manfred always startles me by how close
she gets to everything she sees. That’s her tough luck,
but it makes her a wonderful poet”—Philip Roth.
Sabrina Orah Mark
TSIM TSUM
978-0-9818591-2-5, $14, paper, 80 pp.
SATURNALIA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Sabrina Orah Mark follows up her critically
acclaimed debut, THE BABIES, winner of the Saturnalia
Books Poetry Prize in 2004 chosen by Jane Miller, with a
second collection of prose, TSIM TSUM, centered on two
characters, Walter B. and Beatrice, first introduced in THE
BABIES. Unbeknownst to them they have come into
being under the laws of tsim tsum, a Kabbalistic claim
that a being cannot become, or come into existence,
unless the creator of that being departs from that being.
Along their journey they encounter many beguiling
characters including The Healer, The Collector, Walter B.’s
Extraordinary Cousin, and the Oldest Animal. These
figures bewilder and dislodge what is at the heart of the
immigrant experience: survival, testimony, and
belonging.
Brandon Marlon
JUDEAN DREAMS
978-1-897411-07-0, $17.95, paper, 148 pp.
BAYEUX ARTS 2009
Poetry. Epic in its scope, JUDEAN DREAMS is a
remarkable poetic journey across the sprawling saga of
Israel. Rich, evocative odes pay lyrical tribute to the
peoplehood of the Jews, spanning a vast range of
religion, mysticism, politics, history, land, culture and
romance. From rocky desert vistas to luscious mountain
greenery, zealous rebels to discreet lovers, nostalgic
memory to reproachful prophecy, the assembled
narrative masterfully traverses the extensive chain of
generations and the expansive landscape of the heart.
Rekindling the age-old tradition from the Jewish poets
of medieval Spain, JUDEAN DREAMS is a passionate
paean which radiates in its intensity the soul of a nation.
Gordon Massman
THE ESSENTIAL NUMBERS 1991-2008
978-0-9779019-9-9, $15, paper, 184 pp.
Jenn McCreary
:AB OVO:
978-0-9819808-0-5, $15, paper, 102 pp.
DUSIE PRESS 2009
Poetry. From THE ESSENTIAL NUMBERS: “1715”: “It is
unimportant to me whether anyone reads these poems /
or their assessment of them should they, I do not care
under / whose name they are published, nor could I care
less what / literary critics say about them, praise or
condemnation, / nothing could be more vapid than
some academic advanc- / ing his career on my efforts or
within institutionally accept- / able parameters pushing
my reputation this way or that, / most contemporary
poetry is shit as is the industry that sur- / rounds it and I
want no part of it, if I am harsh so be it, if / I am angry
then that is life, if I have hurt my consanguineous /
they are co-conspirators in their pain, nothing in this
work / bears false witness nor have I broken one
commandment, / I am a decent man imbued with a
religious spirit and cap- / able of love, I have noticed the
world is full of cowards.”
Poetry. “In :AB OVO:, a momentous life-change is
chronicled, is found new language for. Jenn McCreary’s
re-starting point is where begins the divide of cell from
cell, word from experience, individual from family
(and family from individual). Her questioning of a
lifetime of a priori givens takes over language, inviting it
to accommodate her unacknowledged world. Her
expansive collection is ‘almost like the ocean. it’s nothing
like the ocean’ in its mystery and precision. You will step
off the edge of :AB OVO: and find yourself held by air”
—Marcella Durand.
Nicole Mauro
THE CONTORTIONS
978-0-9819808-1-2, $15, paper, 82 pp.
DUSIE PRESS 2009
Poetry. “This incorrigible book of poems with its
Rorschach tests and National Inquirer soap opera rifts
puts readers through the lewd twists and tender
struggles of pulling our heads out. Part prayer and part
acrid white of pulverized meds, THE CONTORTIONS
exposes our fearholes, our limited tenderest tongues,
and our raw victual hearts. Wanting to touch to a terrible
extent, Mauro’s uncanny sound work and edgy wit will
change your mind and dilate the rest of you”—Dana
Teen Lomax. “Mauro’s book of brain science encourages
language to pop and pulse down the synaptic hallways
of our culture. From Freudian free association to soap
opera summaries, from pangrammic mnemonics to
Rimbaud, these poems are not afraid to breach etiquette
and ‘dis-remember’ the habits of words. Mauro transmits
the fantastical double life of language—what it once
was and what it now (happily) can be—with visual and
sonic nerve”—Jena Osman.
Laura McCullough
WHAT MEN WANT
978-1-880977-26-2, $14, paper, 80 pp.
XOXOX PRESS 2009
Poetry. “In WHAT MEN WANT, Laura McCullough elbows
Sigmund Freud and winks. Her poems are witty and
barbed, but they are also tender, full of candor, echoing
James Wright. This is a book of audacious love poems,
gutsy pronouncements, accounts of unabashed desire.
McCullough crisscrosses personal accounts and societal
expectations—she is a bombshell dropping
bombshells”—Denise Duhamel.
Gardner McFall
RUSSIAN TORTOISE
978-1-56809-119-8, $15.95, paper, 85 pp.
Poetry. The poems in Gardner McFall’s second volume
address questions of death, faith, and love. As in her
first book, The Pilot’s Daughter, McFall investigates and
responds to the natural world with her finely tuned
senses. Her deepened sense of time and mortality is
reflected in the poems about her mother’s death, her
journey to Vietnam forty years after her father’s service
there, and her exploration of love and family. RUSSIAN
TORTOISE celebrates beauty and mystery, whether in an
Audubon plate, a tortoise her daughter brings home
from school, or a man shouting “Alleluia” on the street.
Kristi Maxwell
HUSH SESSIONS
978-0-9818591-3-2, $14, paper, 80 pp.
Heather McHugh
UPGRADED TO SERIOUS
978-1-55659-306-2, $22, cloth, 120 pp.
SATURNALIA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. The notion of exchange circulates throughout
Kristi Maxwell’s superlative second collection of poetry,
HUSH SESSIONS. In a series of utterly unique poetic
experiences, things transform or transfer: superstition
becomes science, and bodies become texts to read.
In addition, family mythologies become sites of
substitution and a borderland where irrationality and
rationalization touch. Kristi Maxwell’s poetry reminds us
that words, like objects, do not exist in a singular state,
and their multiplicity is activated through perception:
“a veil during/ the trying on rather than the pride of/
the dress.” As Fanny Howe says, Maxwell’s poems “have
pure, ephemeral lines that suggest much thought about
time and utterance, yet they float free without any
need for explanation.”
Poetry. National Book Award finalist Heather McHugh
presents a fast-paced, verbally dexterous, and brilliantly
humorous book. Utilizing medical terminology and
iconography to work through loss and detachment,
McHugh’s startling rhymes and rhythms—along with
her sarcastic self-reflection and infectious laughter—
serve as antidotes to the sufferings of the world. Being
“upgraded to serious” from critical condition is a nod to
the healing powers of poetry.
Sandy Mcintosh
ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO
978-0-9841177-1-0, $15.95, paper, 154 pp.
Poetry. “ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO,
Sandy McIntosh’s latest volume, bursts with brilliance
and sizzles with sass. McIntosh’s new poems are
audacious, ravishing, syntactic marvels, clowningaround oddballs. The energy and wit in this book will
make you want to whip out your fan, put on your nonskid sole shoes, and dance”—Denise Duhamel.
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Rachel McKibbens
PINK ELEPHANT
978-0-9819131-3-1, $12.95, paper, 96 pp.
W.S. Merwin
THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS
978-1-55659-310-9, $16, paper, 130 pp.
CYPHER BOOKS 2009
Poetry. PINK ELEPHANT is Rachel McKibbens’ collection
of beautifully crafted, emotionally searing poems
depicting the fractured mythology of a family’s
tumultuous life. Picking up where Plath and Sexton
have left off, McKibbens threatens the comfortable
confines of confessional poetry with a take-no-prisoners
surrealist and super-real edge. By creating a folklore
out of brutality and violence (borne from misplaced or
absent love) McKibbens ultimately locates both love
and forgiveness, fearlessly placing them in their rightful
home. McKibbens’ PINK ELEPHANT is an audacious
debut.
Poetry. The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness,
presence, and memory are central themes in W.S.
Merwin’s new book of poems. “I have only what I
remember,” Merwin admits, and his memories are
focused and profound—the distinct qualities of autumn
light, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, wellcultivated loves, and “our long evenings and
astonishment.” In “Photographer,” Merwin presents the
scene where armloads of antique glass negatives are
saved from a dumpcart by “someone who understood.”
In “Empty Lot,” Merwin evokes a child lying in bed at
night, listening to the muffled dynamite blasts of coal
mining near his home, and we can’t help but ask: How
shall we mine our lives? W.S. Merwin, author of over fifty
books, is America’s foremost poet. His last two books
were honored with major literary awards: MIGRATION
won the National Book Award, and PRESENT COMPANY
received the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress.
Barry McKinnon
IN THE MILLENNIUM
978-1-55420-047-4, $16, paper, 144 pp.
NEW STAR BOOKS 2009
Poetry. IN THE MILLENNIUM is a thirteen-part sequence
written over the last ten years that measures a wide
range of the poet’s experience. The writing emerges
in response to human processes, conditions and places:
love, sex, death, the insecurities and pressures of the
inner and outer world, and the politics of person and
place that act as prompts for whatever he, as the poet,
is given to reveal.
Tim McNulty
SOME DUCKS
978-1-929355-55-6, $10, paper, 28 pp.
Poetry. In SOME DUCKS poet and nature writer Tim
McNulty gathers together poems written to his
daughter, Caitlin, on the occasion of her 21st birthday.
Beginning with “First Song,” written the night of her
birth, McNulty celebrates his daughter’s early encounters
with the moon, bears, the ocean, ducks, and her first
glimpse of death, “where all we know of love / and loss /
spills past the words / we have to tell it.”
Ashley McWaters
WHITEWORK
978-0-9799954-3-9, $12, paper, 80 pp.
FAIRY TALE REVIEW PRESS 2009
Poetry. The poems in WHITEWORK, Ashley McWaters’
debut collection, explore sewing as synecdoche for the
whole of women’s work, particularly the creative
work traditionally deemed acceptable for women.
Braiding together the myth of Athena and Arachne, a
Victorian teacher-pupil relationship, and the act of
writing itself, this pristine and haunted collection
explores concerns about ego and alter-ego, the shock of
beauty, and the nature of female creation. Devoted
to formal experiment, and taking up erasure (both
textual and historical) as a central motif, the book acts
simultaneously as homage and artifact. At once
preserving the language of the female and its historic
omission, WHITEWORK celebrates the unspoken through
supernatural means—with the muted vocabulary of a
Poetry Queen. If you think it’s gentle, do look again;
McWaters has a sharp needle. Reader, beware.
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Philip Metres
TO SEE THE EARTH
978-1-880834-81-7, $15.95, paper, 90 pp.
Poetry. “‘Do our voyages,’ Auden once asked, ‘still
promise the Juster Life?’Too many of us would answer
this question in negative—not so Philip Metres. His
poems seek above all to traverse borders, not merely
those between nations and cultures but also—and
most importantly—between the personal and the
political. With a sure command of craft, which he
displays in abundance, Metres plays for high stakes.
TO SEE THE EARTH is a debut of unusual distinction.”
—David Wojahn.
Joseph Mileck
A TRAIL OF POETIC REFLECTIONS
978-0-9818859-1-9, $12.95, paper, 114 pp.
Poetry. This collection of Joseph Mileck’s poetry spans
more than four decades of poetic infatuation, and
encompasses culture, politics, social commentary,
psychology, philosophy, personal recollections and
much more. Joseph Mileck manages the difficult feat
of being both timeless and timely. His poetry is as
beautiful as it is thought-provoking.
David Mills
THE DREAM DETECTIVE
978-0-9773786-5-4, $15, paper, 88 pp.
STRAW GATE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. African and African American Studies. THE
DREAM DETECTIVE spins rapidly from sociopolitical
satire to elliptical ruminations seasoned with riffs
on the body, family, exotic locales, music, and more.
“Simmering just below the (non)linear narrative is an
imaginative idiom challenging semantics and syntactical
structures—an oppositional poetics. THE DREAM
DETECTIVE successfully sneaks across cultural and ethnic
boundaries,” notes Randall Horton. “David Mills is a poet
of lyric comic mystic worldly independence. His work
ranges from meditative to satirical to gently outrageous,
a reflective and varied wit running (punning) through his
poem-by-poem characterizations of mind,” writes
Anselm Berrigan.
Jerry Mirskin
IN FLAGRANTE DELICTIO
978-1-59539-025-7, $11.95, paper, 101 pp.
John Murillo
UP JUMP THE BOOGIE
978-0-9819131-4-8, $12.95, paper, 112 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2008
CYPHER BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “These brilliant poems virtually flash with the life
force. They affirm that joy is what we are meant to
experience, despite the `low sideboard of grief.’ They are
rich journeys into the extraordinary, the particular, even
the everyday. Jerry Mirskin shows us that only caught in
the act of love, for a mate, a child, the universe, do we
become truly human”—Elaine Terranova.
Poetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies.
“Up jumps the boogie. That’s almost all one needs to say.
Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn’t have a favorite
poet for this year: Now I do. But with this kind of verve
and intelligence and ferocity Murillo just might be a
favorite for many years to come”—Junot Diaz. “The feel
of now lives in John Murillo’s UP JUMP THE BOOGIE, but
it’s tempered by bows to the tradition of soulful music
and oral poetry. The lived dimensions embodied in this
collection say that here’s an earned street knowledge
and a measured intellectual inquiry that dare to live
side by side, in one unique voice. The pages of UP JUMP
THE BOOGIE breathe and sing; the tributes and cultural
nods are heartfelt, and in these honest poems no one
gets off the hook”—Yusef Komunyakaa.
K. Silem Mohammad
THE FRONT
978-1-931824-35-4, $13.95, paper, 104 pp.
ROOF BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Kenny Goldsmith said that “K. Silem Mohammad
is the Andy Warhol of contemporary poetry, acutely
scraping the bottom of the cultural barrel with such
prescience, precision, and sensitivity that we are forced
to reevaluate the nature of the language engulfing us.
Our first impulse is to flee, to deny its worth, to turn
away from it, to write it off as a big joke; but as with
Warhol’s car crashes or electric chairs, we are equally
entranced, entertained, and repulsed: we can’t stop
looking. This is important and beautiful work, but not in
the way we’ve come to expect. It’s a double-edged
sword that Mohammad is holding against our necks,
forcing us to look at ourselves in the blade’s reflection
with equal doses of swooning narcissism and whiteknuckled fear.”
Michelle Muir
NUFF SAID
978-1-894770-58-3, $17.95, paper, 80 pp.
Poetry. African American Studies. With CD. Michelle
Muir’s debut poetry collection brings a new and
confident voice in the hip hop genre to the printed page.
Muir’s poetry skillfully blends the language of the
contemporary urban environment with her personal
take on African-Canadian rhythmic and poly rhythmic
style. The playful cadence of her voice leaps from the
pages of NUFF SAID compelling the reader forward on a
wild ride through music, life, education, community
pride, love, erotic desire, political irony and probing
questions of race, class and gender. The book comes
packaged with a spoken-word CD.
Bern Mulvey
THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS
978-1-880834-79-4, $15.95, paper, 60 pp.
Poetry. “Bern Mulvey’s THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS
is a study in intimacy—an intimacy conspiring across
cultures, languages, families and landscapes despite
histories of war, racism and difference. In our time of
global connections, Mulvey has created a poetry of
negotiation, of tender but insistent communication.
This is a poetry of witness without the distance of the
spectator. Complicated because implicated, the voice in
these poems speaks with profound precision because
where it stands just happens to be where we are
standing”—Claudia Rankine.
Erin Murphy
TOO MUCH OF THIS WORLD
978-1-59539-024-0, $11.95, paper, 89 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2008
Poetry. “Erin Murphy’s poems delight and teach by
poking fun: at poets giving readings, Burger King signs,
poetry contests, and men who say I’ll take care of those
wasps for ya, honey. If you’re tired of poems that try to
be a little too smart for their own britches, these’ll take
care of ‘em for ya, honey”—H.L. Hix.
Rich Murphy
HUNTING AND PECKING
Ahadada Books, $16.95, paper, 40 pp.
2009
Poetry. George Starbuck writes: “Rich Murphy is a
genuine experimentalist, a tinkerer, a risk-taker of
arresting, original, mordantly hilarious poems. He never
seems content to repeat an achieved effect. He is always
wrestling with some new project. He will figure into zany
anthologies. And be admired for “difficulties,” while in
fact commanding attention through the clear vigor of
his inventions. Rich Murphy, American original.”
Sawako Nakayasu
TEXTURE NOTES
978-0-9815227-2-2, $14, paper, 136 pp.
LETTER MACHINE EDITIONS 2010
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Is there a relationship
between the population density of Tokyo and the
pinkest part of a hamburger? Can one touch the inside
of a noun to learn the difference between one bicycle
and a field of bicycles? How close is yellow to need?
How far are human fears from the fears of insects?
Through a sequence of prose investigations, directions,
theoretical performances, and character sketches,
Sawako Nakayasu’s TEXTURE NOTES presses itself against
everything. Here is a book of liminal cartography, where
textures are percolated by thought and propelled by
feeling, where intellectual frottage meets sunlight,
moonlight, the pain of seeing something beautiful and
an entire town enamored by a simple rock. Once again,
Nakayasu’s writing explodes with genre-bending fury
and fine-tuned improvisation, leaving in its wake a
largess of feeling for the things of the world.
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Paul Naylor
JAMMED TRANSMISSION
978-0-9824203-0-0, $16, paper, 71 pp.
Grace C. Ocasio
HOLLERIN FROM THIS SHACK
978-0-9812744-1-6, $14.95, paper, 30 pp.
TINFISH PRESS 2009
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. With this volume, Tinfish Press moves from its
usual concentration on the Pacific as a cultural and
historical space to that of a spiritual trans-historical one.
In his preface to the book, Zen priest Norman Fischer
writes: “JAMMED TRANSMISSION is a poetic encounter
with a 14th century text of Japanese Soto Zen, Keizan
Jokin’s Denkoroku (usually translated as Record of the
Transmission of the Light), a spiritual genealogy of the
Soto lineage, beginning with the Buddha and ending
with Koun Ejo, Keizan’s immediate predecessor in the
lineage, fifty-two generations later.”
Poetry. The poems in Grace Ocasio’s chapbook HOLLERIN
FROM THIS SHACK call us, challenge us to assess our
lives. Her speaker trains her eye on urban and suburban
landscapes. In many of the poems, she urges us to
observe our daily rites: how we behave at the grocery
store or mall, how we treat the opposite sex, and how
we view our position to nature. We see ourselves in
these poems and we cringe: few heroes exist, and the
ones who do exist—real-life figures like Dr. King and
Mother Hale—appear because of their referential or
historical import. If we are disturbed by these poems we
should be. Ocasio’s vision is troubling, to say the least.
Mel Nichols
CATALYTIC EXTERIORIZATION PHENOMENON
978-1-890311-30-8, $17.50, paper, 102 pp.
EDGE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Mel Nichols’ first full-length collection, CATALYTIC
EXTERIORIZATON PHENOMENON, takes its title from an
early formulation of Jung’s concept of synchronicity.
Imagine an edgy cityish Niedecker—that kind of lyric
sense, writing from the trash in the street, the storms
among the power lines. Nichols seeks, like much good
poetry, to illustrate and sing the porous, immediate,
particular interchange betwixt inner and outer living.
Rob Fitterman writes: “Maybe we had it all wrong.
Maybe it’s all exterior. Maybe certain hierarchies fall
when everything—found and unfound—gets in.
Maybe not as things, but as ‘an octopus/on the
porch/snow/still/now/a comma/a ticket/a timetable.’
Or maybe ‘We are going to get serious [page break]
about project management/we are going to spend a lot
of money on project/management software to prove it.’
Maybe we are. Maybe Mel Nichols’ CATALYTIC
EXTERIORIZATON PHENOMENON is just that.”
Travis Nichols
IOWA
978-0-9815227-3-9, $14, paper, 80 pp.
LETTER MACHINE EDTIONS 2010
Poetry. In IOWA, Travis Nichols turns the bleak cultural
void of Midwestern adolescence into a sequence of
stunning prose vignettes. Here, a coming-of-age
consciousness articulates the knotty uncertainties of
personal, social and familial anxieties in sentences as
equally complex as the feelings they house: “The
memories true or not against him seem to be turning to
steam, as I turned, all the while thinking of chewing out
alone through the ghostly meats.” With youthful
perplexity and zeal, a humorous and caustic violence of
reflection drives this meditative, unclassifiable book.
The scary truth is that the foreignness of private teenage
cant was always asking the right questions. Now, we just
have to listen: “Is this the right one thing you haunt?
Looking at this one house year after year? Yes. It must be.
Not to let you move on. That was the way out.”
Sarah O’Brien
CATCH LIGHT
978-1-56689-237-7, $16, paper, 87 pp.
Poetry. A National Poetry Series Winner, chosen by David
Shapiro. CATCH LIGHT addresses all things
photography—from its history to the necessity of light
and white space, and from the thrills of its technology to
the way we talk about and caption photographs, and
the ways they, in turn, capture and change our outlook.
Here, each poem becomes a miniature snapshot that
locates the reality in illusion, ignites the imagination,
and throws open the windows of visual narrative.
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Joe O’Connell
DINGLE DAY
978-0-9824276-2-0, $15, paper, 91 pp.
Poetry. In DINGLE DAY poet Joe O’Connell flies with the
best of the Irish literary tradition: reverence for the Irish
countryside; for the Irish people; taking on big themes,
life and the nature of living. He lets his language go,
invents words, delights at times in the pure sound of
words, in the pure sound of sound. He is not afraid to
break the norms hence the subtitle: “Poems about music,
women, drink, Kerry, cars and spirituality.” All of the time
he celebrates, over and over he celebrates, but never
leaves his art: “I suppose art creates something new /
Itself nonetheless part of reality.”
Stephen Oliver
HARMONIC
978-1-876819-74-3, $18, paper, 120 pp.
Poetry. HARMONIC brings together the strengths of
Oliver’s poetic; clarity of thought, compressed, highly
original imagery, and rhythmic expression. Yet in many
respects he is the philosopher-poet. In this book, Oliver
displays a depth of thought, and a range of perception
rarely found in contemporary Australasian poetry.
HARMONIC is Oliver’s second IP title, following his Audio
+ Text CD King Hit, in which he collaborates with
musician/composer Matt Ottley.
Carlos Oquendo de Amat
5 METERS OF POEMS
978-1-933254-59-3, $25, limited edition, accordian fold
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition.
Accordian-style binding in a limited edition of 750.
Translated from the Spanish by Alejandro de Acosta and
Joshua Beckman. Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s 5 Metros de
Poemas was written in the period between 1923 to 1925
and published in a very small edition in December 1927.
Oquendo de Amat died at the age of 32 shortly after the
publication. Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s only book of
poems bears the stamp of the influence of European
avant gardes, and Futurism in particular. At the same
time it is clearly a cornerstone for what would later
become Concrete Poetry. A facsimile edition of the
unusually-shaped accordion-fold book was published
in 1980 in Lima by Editorial Ausonia Tallares Graficos.
A translation of the poem (without the original Spanish)
was published in the United States by Turkey Press in
the early 1990s, in a very limited fine-press edition.
UDP’s new version of 5 METERS OF POEMS recreates the
peculiar physical format of the book, and is the first
edition of this historic poem to be made widely available
in the United States.
Timothy David Orme
CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT
978-1-935402-55-8, $16, paper, 64 pp.
Mark Pirie and Tim Jones, Editors
VOYAGERS
978-1-921479-21-2, $18, paper, 176 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “A poetry of genuine ambition reaches as far into
the past as it does into the future, creates its forward
motion by radicalizing its relation to tradition. What is
‘the news’ remains always in the present tense. This
wisdom, in part, drives Timothy David Orme’s work—
drives it, pushes it, but does not fully explain it. The
world is the news, so are the flowers, and so are the
birds. How we gain word of these facts, these facts in
which we exist, these facts we share with the poet, is by
a language fraught with undoing that which it would
express. Here is Romanticism’s doubled-edge, held
always against the throat of the singer. In these
poems—in which the candle enjoys its own burning, in
which the nightingale sings to expand its voice—there
is innocence without naivete. The singer is one who
sings. Orme knows this: he is a singer. That singing, it is a
celebration, yes—but it is a celebration rebounding into
consequence. Each syllable offers us its ethic inside of
the song”—Dan Beachy-Quick.
Poetry. Science Fiction. At last, here is an anthology of
poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence
of science fiction: aliens, space travel, time travel, the
end of the world—as well as concepts you may not
previously have thought of as science fiction. Fasten
your seatbelts as editors Mark Pirie and Tim Jones
present some of New Zealand’s best poets—past and
present—shining the flashlight of science fiction on our
universe, and relishing the strange images that result.
Elio Pagliarani
THE GIRL CARLA AND OTHER POEMS
978-0-9816330-2-2, $15.95, paper, 213 pp.
AGINCOURT PRESS 2009
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Edited, Translated, and with
an Introduction by Patrick Rumble. Among the poems
that result from Pagliarani’s “words of iron” is THE GIRL
CARLA, a narrative poem whose protagonist is a
seventeen-year-old aspiring secretary who comes of
age against the “sheet metal” landscape of a Milan
emerging from the catastrophe of fascism and war, a
city whose “steel sky feigns no Eden and concedes no
bewilderment.” In telling her story, the poem documents
the social and ideological forces required to make
“mammiferous larvae” into girls and boys.
Paul Pines
LAST CALL AT THE TIN PALACE
9.7809785556e+012, $15, paper, 96 pp.
Poetry. For most of the 1970s, Paul Pines owned and
operated the Tin Palace, a jazz club that hosted figures
like Kurt Vonnegut and Martin Scorsese, and gave
expression to the most notable jazz innovators of that
time. The club was honored by the Tribeca Center for the
Performing Arts as a “lost jazz shrine,” and featured in
Perfect Sound Forever as a venue that “... paved the way
for today’s ... live music scene.” The poems in this book
rise from the improvisational impulse that produced not
only Eddie Jefferson and Charlie Mingus, but painters
Joan Mitchell and Larry Rivers, and many of the poets
drawn to the corner of 2nd Street and Bowery. Like the
music he championed, Pines takes on the personal and
universal themes of love and loss, the ironies of shifting
alliances and archetypal forces, destiny, and the gods
who honor those they destroy, in Parker-like solos that
leap into the moment to create an arc that moves with
undiminished urgency.
Janna Plant
THE REFINERY
978-1-935402-09-1, $16, paper, 44 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Janna Plant’s mixed genre book (are these diary
entries poems or are they stories? are they, in fact, diary
entries?) is structured around two fields of metaphor:
the refinery and the human body. The awkwardness of
the fit between oil refinery and human body is intended;
both systems are significant for the processes they
engender. The aptly named Plant (version and
subversion both of manufacturing) casts doubt on
traditional notions of refinement—girl refined into
woman into wife into mother—and in so doing gives us
a poignant, playful look into adolescence in a Los
Angeles oil town”—Susan M. Schultz.
Vasko Popa
THE STAR WIZARD’S LEGACY: SIX POETIC
SEQUENCES
978-1-935210-11-5, $16, paper, 101 pp.
Poetry. Translated from the Serbian by Morton Marcus.
Vasko Popa was one of the great post-World War II
European poets. Buidling on surrealist fable and
traditional folk-tales, personal anecdote and the tribal
myths of his Serbian homeland, he created one of the
most original poetries of the twentieth century. Cosmic
in setting, his work seeks nothing less than taking the
comic blunderings, tragic sufferings and senseless
ironies of human experience and loosing them like
endless dreams throughout an indifferent universe.
“Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa
had the very rare quality of hearing the others”
—Octavio Paz.
Dawn Potter
BOY LAND AND OTHER POEMS
978-0-9712488-3-0, $12, paper, 70 pp.
DEERBROOK EDITIONS 2004
Poetry. “One of the most difficult things in poetry is to
control the ‘I,’ to let it stay innocent, to let it act and be
acted upon freshly in the poem. Dawn Potter manages
this difficult trick with ease. In her poems, no matter
where she is, the consciousness is always fresh, the
perceptions always immediate and the human
connections always moving, moving us, as we are by the
moments of life coming into focus, newly seen and
absolutely clear”—Howard Levy.
Jane Rades
A ROSARY OF POEMS, FIVE DECADES
978-0-9818859-3-3, $12.95, paper, 50 pp.
Poetry. Jane Rades writes about the multiple facets of
her life—her travels, her loves, her cat Birdie, her
struggle for identity—with wit, style, grace, and poetic
sensitivity. This fountain of words is truly refreshing.
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India Hixon Radfar
POSITION & RELATION
978-1-58177-110-7, $15.95, paper, 96 pp.
Arthur Rimbaud
A SEASON IN HELL
978-1-890650-30-8, $14.95, paper, 104 pp.
BARRYTOWN/STATION HILL 2009
OMNIDAWN 2007
Poetry. This lovely book of poems, written in Woodstock,
New York, carries inspiration from various places.
Prefaced by “12 Poems That Were Never Written,” the
book is divided into three sections, “Natural Megaron,”
“Preposition Poems” and “Lung Poems,” corresponding
to three distinctive methods Radfar used to write her
way into time and space: settling down with her journal
on a hilly overlook after a 30-minute walk; removing
prepositions while still managing to talk about her
relation to space; writing at a fixed time in the middle of
the night. In going as far as she can in each of these
disparate directions, she summons, with a surprising
degree of certitude, a sense of how this specific place
once affected her writing and her life.
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by
Donald Revell. Winner of the 18th Annual PEN USA
Award in Translation (2008). In this new translation of
Arthur Rimbaud—illustrious among the 19th century
symbolists and one of the most influential poets upon
the modern mind—Donald Revell captures the child-like
wonder and tortured, revelatory despair of these poems,
which changed, in so many ways, how we think of what
a poem can say and mean. Revell’s choice of a most
immediate vernacular gives the modern reader all the
heady brilliance in Rimbaud’s rebelliousness. Yet, as
Revell explains in his essay “Outrageous Innocence,
Innocence Outraged,” which is offered as afterword in
this translation of A SEASON IN HELL, Rimbaud’s
rebellious sensuality was redolent with the oracular.
Revell’s essay offers the story of Rimbaud—his wildly
creative youth, his years of breaking with all traditions
of morality and decorum, his fame as the genius of
French letters who is identified as one of the creators of
free verse because of his rhythm experiments in prose
poems. And Revell’s essay places these poems in the
larger historical narrative of the literature of rebellious
youth that has molded much of our contemporary
culture.
Donald Revell
THE BITTER WITHY
978-1-882295-76-0, $15.95, paper, 80 pp.
ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Acclaimed poet Donald Revell continues to avow
devotion to the pastoral tradition in this pilgrimage
through the mind’s Eden. Joy and mortality instruct
these poems, using nature to inform the spirit and
assemble the dream of human happiness and
unification. “No poet so innovative is more accessible,
and no poet half so accessible in recent years has made
the language so new”—Publishers Weekly starred review.
Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Editors
READ
978-0-9779351-4-7, $12, paper, 156 pp.
1913 PRESS 2009
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation.
READ features contemporary poetry in French and in
English. The works are the results of an annual
translation seminar held at Reid Hall in Paris. Participants
included Charles Alexander, Marie Borel, Vincent Broqua,
Frederic Forte, Pierre Joris, Jean-Jacques Poucel, Sarah
Riggs, and Habib Tengour. All work is presented in its
original and in translation.
Arthur Rimbaud
THE ILLUMINATIONS
978-1-890650-36-0, $15.95, paper, 120 pp.
OMNIDAWN 2009
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by
Donald Revell. With perfect pitch for contemporary
readers, Donald Revell’s new translation of THE
ILLUMINATIONS offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory
surreality, and wit of the intimate particularity that
secured Rimbaud’s position as a major poet renowned
for his strangely seductive power and innocence.
Rimbaud was a dangerous and exhilarating force whose
break with literary forms and conventions changed
forever the way poems would be read and written.
Published with the French on facing pages and with an
insightful afterword by the translator, Donald Revell
plunges readers into the heart of Rimbaud’s mysterious,
revelatory beauty. This lucid and lively translation of a
seminal work will show current readers of English all the
ways that Rimbaud’s incandescence remains essential
and relevant today.
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Ed Roberson
THE NEW WING OF THE LABYRINTH
978-0-935162-42-4, $15, paper, 83 pp.
SINGING HORSE PRESS 2009
Poetry. African American Studies. Ed Roberson’s eighth
full-length book of poetry, THE NEW WING OF THE
LABYRINTH, is a taut, intricately interwoven series of
poems that present an unsentimental yet harrowing
encounter with the finality of life: “where do we go / but
to die into immunity in this life / the thousand deaths
that evolve us.” As Michael Palmer has written, “Ed
Roberson offers us, up front, the nerve-edge of poetic
speech, sequences of the unanticipated, as poetry of
real significance is meant to do.”
Corinne Robins
FACING IT AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
978-0-9841177-0-3, $15, paper, 98 pp.
Poetry. FACING IT AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
by Corinne Robins does not shrink from naming her
personal pains and triumphs, as well as the works of art
that in her view reflect them, faced again as they are
embodied in these deeply ruminative poems. This book
is a testament to a long and committed life told here
with painful honesty in marvelous lyric excursions.
Elizabeth Robinson
ALSO KNOWN AS
978-0-9787667-5-7, $15.95, paper, 72 pp.
APOGEE PRESS 2009
Poetry. “This beautiful book manages to be very much
of its time and also, somehow, ahead of it”
—Rae Armantrout.
Sophie Robinson
A
978-1-934254-10-3, $15, paper, 70 pp.
David Rowbotham
POEMS FOR AMERICA
978-1-876819-11-8, $18, paper, 96 pp.
Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. How do you trace
death? What do you make of the useless objects left
behind? Conjuring Cage, Stein, and Francesca Woodman,
British poet Sophie Robinson documents the detritus of
sudden loss. Layering word and image, object and
subject, the said with the unsayable, A is as Caroline
Bergvall writes, “[a] work of mourning. Angry, torn,
hardly daring to remember”—a textual performance of
“love that dares to speak as queer.” A is published as
part of the TrenchArt: Tracer Series, with a foreword
by Caroline Bergvall, an afterword by Diane Ward,
and collaborative visual art by Ken Erhlich and
Susan Simpson.
Poetry. Back in 1994, when David Rowbotham released
his New and Selected Poems, 1945-1993, a flurry of
reviews appeared in the major newspapers and
magazines remarking on how richly Rowbotham
deserved more recognition as one of Australia’s major
poets of the past century. But if he is the most major of
Australia’s neglected poets, what is remarkable is that
Rowbotham has continued to write sixty years on, in a
confident and lucid voice that transcends single
continents and cultures. POEMS FOR AMERICA is certain
to earn Rowbotham that elusive literary Oscar.
Liz Rosenberg
DEMON LOVE
978-1-59539-023-3, $11.95, paper, 76 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2008
Poetry. “It’s easy to write a blurb for a typical poetry
book—just emphasize the strong points. But Liz
Rosenberg’s DEMON LOVE is all strong points. It’s one of
the best books I’ve ever read. I am in awe of these
poems. Each one is crafted with love”—Hal Sirowitz.
Jean-Pierre Rosnay
WHEN A POET SEES A TREE
978-1-933382-20-3, $12.95, paper, 167 pp.
GREEN INTEGER 2009
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French,
with an Introduction by J. Kates. Deriving his poetics
from “post-Surrealists” before World War I, Rosnay has
lived a long life of political commitment and poetic
involvement, including presiding over the famed Club de
Poetes. These poems express a wide range of forms,
from political outrage to delicate lyricism.
Amelia Rosselli
THE DRAGONFLY: A SELECTION OF POEMS:
1953-1981
978-0-9823849-0-9, $20, paper, 275 pp.
CHELSEA EDITIONS 2009
Giuseppe Leporace and Deborah Woodward. Amelia
Rosselli, whose heroic, anti-fascist father was
assassinated by Mussolini’s henchmen when she was
seven years old, grew up in the cities of Europe and in
America as the “daughter with a devastated heart.”
In fierce and incandescent verse that draws upon the
French and English she learned in exile, Rosselli
expresses the pain, irony and deep emotion of a
traumatized spirit; she committed suicide in 1996.
Paul B. Roth
CADENZAS BY NEEDLELIGHT
978-0-9647754-1-1, $16, paper, 96 pp.
CYPRESS BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Combined with a passion for the hidden, the
unseen and the undiscovered in the life of a singular
person, these poems move past simple dimensions and
on into the depth, beauty and complexity of a natural
world that our own brains have only just begun to
dream as if they were reality. As the great French poet
Yves Bonnefoy remarked: “Tending a small fire in winter
to keep warm: what a magnificent definition of poetry,
rising from the page of these equally beautiful poems by
Paul B. Roth! Our winter, the present dark ages. Our fire,
the words. Our warmth, the confidence these poems
give us in the day as it breaks tomorrow, perhaps, upon
the embers of tonight’s fire.”
Margaret Rozga
200 NIGHTS AND ONE DAY
978-0-9815163-1-8, $16.95, paper, 75 pp.
BENU PRESS 2009
Poetry. African American Studies. This book of poetry
presents a brilliant analysis which takes us through the
brave history of the strength, commitment and passion
of the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as they marched,
struggled, and were jailed to win the victory of justice
and freedom for all. Peggy Rozga joined protestors,
participated in freedom marches, and was jailed for
fighting and marching for the rights of poor Black
children of the city of Milwaukee under the leadership
of one of the great advocates of non-violence, direct
action, and civil disobedience of our times: Father James
Edmund Groppi.
Sharon Ruetenik
THE WOODEN BOWL
978-1-892471-60-4, $10, paper, 46 pp.
BRIGHT HILL PRESS 2009
Poetry. Intrigued by a suggestion of Kennedy Fraser’s
that “Women must set aside the bowl they have
used to beg for approval and praise,” the poet began to
explore the innumerable compromises women have
made throughout the centuries in both public and
private arenas. And the silence that accompanied these
decisions. Ruetenik’s poetry imagines what was left
unsaid; she begins and ends with Eve and explores the
responses of women in literature, art, and her own
family to a world that does not entirely welcome them
yet needs and exploits their gifts and strengths.
Most importantly Ruetenik’s work examines how
women make much of little not through a process of
rationalization but through a conviction of what
really matters.
Ralph Salisbury
LIGHT FROM A BULLET HOLE: POEMS NEW AND
SELECTED, 1950-2008
978-1-878851-56-7, $19.95, paper, 177 pp.
SILVERFISH REVIEW PRESS 2009
Poetry. “Although Ralph Salisbury may refer to himself as
‘A Killer Seeking Forgiveness,’ this collection of his new
and selected work shows him to be one of the most
thoughtful and moral writers of his generation. Without
ever sacrificing literary excellence for self-righteousness
or eloquence for polemic, Salisbury’s memorable poetry
reflects not only his long full life and the Cherokee
culture that has helped shape his vision, it is also a
corrective lens through which we may view anew the
story of our American nation”—Joseph Bruchac.
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Mary Ann Samyn
BEAUTY BREAKS IN
978-1-930974-87-6, $15, paper, 65 pp.
Sarah Sarai
THE FUTURE IS HAPPY
978-1-935402-35-0, $16, paper, 83 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Mary Ann Samyn writes poems in which the
impossible happens—through language, the human
experience is turned to sky, fire, fireworks, diamonds.
This is a poet who is able to hijack sorrow, or error, or
delight, and transform them into deeply imagined,
perfectly condensed and terrifyingly expanded glimpses.
One doesn’t quit reading a Samyn poem, as they
accumulate in the reader’s mind, follow us like our own
shadows, permanently. There’s that much power. I find
myself wondering what source it is this poet has tapped
into—and how frightening and lovely it is that she has
done so, so that I can tap into it through her, and have a
chance to stare into the Mystery through her poems”—
Laura Kasischke.
Poetry. “With both wit and tenderness, Sarah Sarai
rigorously navigates the dialectics of knowledge and not
knowing, thinking and being, the fantastic and the
quotidian, the spiritual and the earthy, in language that
is by turns crisp and lush. These are heady, whip-smart,
funny and moving poems in which time becomes fluid
and vertical—high-rise pageant of art, ephemera,
filigree and memory through which our physical and
temporal bodies spark and fall much too quickly”
—Lee Ann Roripaugh.
Shya Scanlon
IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE
978-1-934819-10-4, $15, paper, 65 pp.
NOEMI PRESS 2009
Edward Sanders
LET’S NOT KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN WAR:
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1986-2009
978-1-56689-234-6, $20, paper, 245 pp.
Poetry. With an introduction by Joanne Kyger. “Sanders
[is] the poet-maestro of American history”—Michael
McClure. Picking up where THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN
A RAGING CENTURY left off and spanning more than two
decades, Edward Sanders’ new collection animates the
whole of human history—breathing new life into
ancient stories, celebrating artists and activists, telling
tales of beatnik escapades, eulogizing friends and
politicians, and lamenting the follies that have led us to
war time and again.
Edward Sanders
THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING CENTURY:
SELECTED POEMS 1961-1985
978-1-56689-238-4, $20, paper, 260 pp.
Poetry. “If you want to know what the 60s really were
about, you’ll find out between [these] covers”—The
Kansas City Star. This American Book Award-winning
collection begins with Edward Sanders’ famous first
“Poem from Jail,” written in 1961 during his incarceration
for disrupting the christening of a nuclear submarine,
and covers the twenty tumultuous years that followed.
Now back in print, this vital addition to all collections of
contemporary American poetry and culture chronicles
Sanders’ literary, political, and rock ‘n’ roll adventures, as
well as the joys of life in rural Woodstock, New York.
James Sanders
GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
978-1-934289-97-6, $16, paper, 139 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE is the work of a
barbarian Thomas Edison—poems that are not simply
wildly inventive but rather the end-result of a perpetual
cycle of creation, destruction, and re-creation of poetic
convention on every page. ‘[A]s a series of discarded
habits,’ Sanders offers us everything from diagram
poems—the 21st century equivalent of Charles Peirce’s
logical graphs—to procedural, conceptual, concrete,
handwritten, hand-drawn poems driven as much by
sight and sound as sense. We are awash in language and
we are grateful”—Lori Emerson.
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Poetry. “Locating itself on the boundary between
poetry and fiction, IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE is beautifully
replete with silence. One has the sense that the world
outside is still there but dampened, and being reordered
and reformed by the particular and peculiar logic and
structures that these syntactically inventive prose blocks
have. And yet, despite the formal concerns these pieces
seem remarkably human and remarkably painful,
opening up the blank avenues of a lone life. With each
reading these pieces change, seeming less and less
enigmatic and more insistently full of lyrical human
meaning. A marvelous and original sequence; there’s
really nothing else out there like it”—Brian Evenson.
Jared Schickling
O
978-1-935402-27-5, $16, paper, 138 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “What is ‘common ground?’ How does it come
about in a nation? In a poem? In Schickling’s project,
limning the portals between expression and repression,
common ground is sought and thwarted, and sought
again, bringing to bear the grand project of all our
poetry—what does it say? How do we mean? What if a
flock of our voices, civic and private, were let loose,
flurrying and colliding in the echo chamber of the
poem? “—Eleni Sikelianos. “Jared Schickling, the Poetry
of the imagination expansive, no master, not forms
that restrict, not the commercialism of print. Not the
Government of Poetry, with this an anarchistic being is
where all might of the elemental as a construction
without end with wisdom and magic, behold begins a
future”—Michael Basinski.
Jeff Schiff
BURRO HEART
978-1-59539-006-6, $10.95, paper, 92 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2004
Poetry. Jeff Schiff is author of Anywhere in This Country
(Mammoth Books), The Homily of Infinitude
(Pennsylvania English), The Rats of Patzcuaro (Poetry
Link), and Resources for Writing about Literature
(HarperCollins). His poetry and prose have appeared in
more than sixty periodicals. He teaches at Columbia
College, Chicago, and lives with his wife and son in
Evanston, Illinois.
Zachary Schomburg
SCARY, NO SCARY
978-0-9777709-9-1, $12.95, paper, 80 pp.
Marc J. Sheehan
VENGEFUL HYMNS
978-0-912592-67-1, $15.95, paper, 72 pp.
BLACK OCEAN 2009
ASHLAND POETRY PRESS 2009
Poetry. SCARY, NO SCARY, the follow-up to Zachary
Schomburg’s acclaimed first collection of poems THE
MAN SUIT, is a book of skeleton gloves and skeleton
keys—at once dark and playful. With loneliness and
levity Schomburg takes the reader on a tour through a
liminal world of dream-logic, informed by its own
myth and folklore. Here there are new kinds of trees
and new ways of naming the ages; jaguars and an
abandoned hotel on the horizon. This book will crawl
inside your chest and pump lava through your blood.
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Richard Snyder Publication
Prize, VENGEFUL HYMNS is a slow cruise through the
past and a sudden turn into the present, where
happiness is a chosen commodity like fruit in a roadside
orchard. Filled with collapsed porch roofs, irreparable
apartments, coin Laundromats, and a heaping dish of
ordinary, these poems recognize where we’ve been and
yearn for where we always hoped we’d go. As Jim
Daniels says of Sheehan’s poems, they “would break your
heart if they weren’t so warm and funny, wistful and
accepting.”
Tim Seibles
BUFFALO HEAD SOLOS
978-1-880834-63-3, $16, paper, 132 pp.
978-1-880834-64-0, $25, cloth, 130 pp.
Larissa Shmailo
IN PARAN
978-1-935402-10-7, $16, paper, 68 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “Reading Tim Seibles reminds me of the Buddhist
parable of the burning house: everyone ignores the
flames, pretends there is no smoke, no pain, no prospect
of death. Or, if there is, it will only happen to someone
else, someone in another world. According to these
teachings, aversion and attachment are not the greatest
barriers to fulfillment; it is indifference that endangers a
soul. Not to embrace or confront what is undeniably
there but to detach ourselves and retreat. It is precisely
this indifference that these poems challenge with lyric
insistence—begging, assailing, teasing, affirming. In this
mystical, romantic and political collection, Seibles is
willing to take a chance, any chance to engage the
general malaise of our times. He is a musician of the
spirit and of the body, and it is that quality which carries
us forward breath by breath, line by line. The journey is
oddly enchanting, even transformative”—Nin Andrews.
Poetry. “In these visceral wanderings into Larissa
Shmailo’s narratives, we venture through the teeming
back alleys of Brooklyn on through the poet’s
labyrinthine youth until we reach the trepidatious
poetic psyche of a woman who has lost in love but keeps
on gambling with a strength to envy and behold.
IN PARAN is not here to soothe—this is a book willing
to discomfit and excite anyone who has grown too
comfortable, inciting them to `forget the right
answers/consult necromancers/allow the forbidden/
ignore the guilt ridden/unlearn all the learning/embrace
this new burning’”—Amy King.
Tim Seibles
HAMMERLOCK
978-1-880834-45-9, $14, paper, 113 pp.
Poetry. “Tim Seibles’ version of our changing and
growing American speech range widely, from anguish to
comedy, from transcendence to earthly bewilderment.
The joy of reading these poems is like overhearing a very
smart, crazy neighbor’s thoughts as they move between
philosophical inquiry and praise for the everyday”
—Li-Young Lee.
Tim Seibles
HURDY-GURDY
978-0-914946-98-4, $12, paper, 89 pp.
Poetry. “From the ‘sweet scat’ and ‘jump rope hymns’ of
wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe,
sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly
explores the differences between what we want, what
we get, and what we must be willing to pursue at any
cost. This is an exciting book—at once fluid, shapely, and
steady as stone—whose tensions lead us to an authentic
meditative wholeness”—Mark Cox. “This is not a poetry
of the highfalutin violin nor the somber cello, but a
melody you heard somewhere that followed you home.
Elegant and silly, irreverent, fun and funny, Tim Seibles’
poetry celebrates the spirit’s little moments of holy
joy”—Sandra Cisneros.
Judith Skillman
PRISONER OF THE SWIFTS
978-0-9811704-7-3, $16.95, paper, 78 pp.
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. PRISONER OF THE SWIFTS treats themes of birth,
creation, cosmology, and mortality with the lyricism and
depth readers have come to expect from Skillman. Four
sections weave a delicate tapestry, that of pedestrian
lives overlaid and informed by the acrobatic flight of
swifts. “Like Dickinson, another poet whose passionate
imagination òverflowed / the room’ to embrace the
whole universe, Skillman watches the aerial acrobatics of
never-alighting swifts beyond her `Victorian walls,’ and
discovers in them the strength of spirit to confront her
own frailty and to celebrate a life `that seeds and
recedes.’ These poems `render in iridescence’ the mortal
lives, with their windows onto eternity, of us all”
—Carolyne Wright.
Ed Skoog
MISTER SKYLIGHT
978-1-55659-293-5, $15, paper, 86 pp.
Poetry. The phrase “Mister Skylight” is an emergency
signal to alert a ship’s crew, but not its passengers, of an
emergency. This debut collection is alert to disasters—
the flooding of New Orleans and the wildfires of
California—and also to the hope of rescue. Interior
dramas of the self are played out in a clash of poetic
traditions, exuberant imagery, and wild metaphor. Ed
Skoog, who worked for years in the basement of a
museum in New Orleans, developed personal
connections to objects and paintings. “Working on an
exhibition about the building trades was important to
this book,” he writes. “Spending weeks listening to the
oral histories of plasterers, steeplejacks, and carpenters
connected me to my own family’s stories.” Marked by
uncommonly intense and considered use of language,
Skoog demonstrates a rich attention to form and allusive
narrative as he attends to the details of contemporary
politics, culture, place, and relationships.
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Marcus Slease
GODZENIE
978-1-935402-49-7, $16, paper, 80 pp.
Caty Sporleder
FLAY, A BOOK OF MU
978-1-935402-08-4, $16, paper, 101 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “These are not merely some of the most
extraordinary lyrics about central European urban
realities since the death of the great Polish experimental
poet Miron Bialoszewski. They are, simply put, some of
the most extraordinary lyrics I have ever read about how
to live with disciplined joy in the continual alienation
that is urban life. GODZENIE is a book about how to live
in the midst of hardship by doing the only thing fully
possible: reconciling the continual loss of the here with
the continuous arrival of a now. So, here at last is the
expatriot heir of Bialoszewski. Strange that he should be
Irish. Fitting that he should write with a mind as laminar,
with a heart as wise, with lines as strange, as his
predecessor”—Gabriel Gudding.
Poetry. “With the visceral precision of an anatomical
textbook, Caty Sporleder peels back ‘dead
stringencies’—Sylvia Plath’s term, from Ariel—of
language, desire, and narrative expectation. FLAY
glistens with rawness and a kind of theoretical eroticism.
Its imagery is constantly spurting and spasming,
bringing the body into the text, so that it ‘rubs against
the skin just between the word and my clit.’ We’ve been
waiting for a writer like Sporleder, to turn feminism
inside out, revealing its hidden darkness and
splendor”—Dodie Bellamy.
Pamela Sneed
KONG AND OTHER WORKS
978-0-9752987-8-7, $19.99, paper, 222 pp.
CHAX PRESS 2009
VINTAGE ENTITY PRESS 2009
Poetry. African American Studies. Gay and Lesbian
Studies. Pamela Sneed offers readers a tremendous gift
in the collection KONG AND OTHER WORKS. These
poems are histories, written but mainly unwritten,
showing how social movements constructed around
race, gender, and sexuality impact the individual. It is
about current events, family, ancestors and pioneers,
healing, hope, and love. KONG shifts effortlessly
between the comedic and the critical while never losing
sight of the author’s aim: to offer a work that is
transformative, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.
Primarily inspired by Sneed’s two trips to Ghana, West
Africa, KONG uses both the film King Kong and the
journey of an African man kidnapped from his homeland
as metaphors. At its heart, KONG is a resilient protest
work, and a luminescent and universal call for freedom.
Rick Snyder
ESCAPE FROM COMBRAY
978-1-933254-51-7, $14, paper, 80 pp.
Poetry. ESCAPE FROM COMBRAY presents an intimate
cycle of poems exploring the growing sense of urban
ennui and dislocation affecting a generation of
Americans. Snyder’s poems evokes a psychogeographic
landscape where quotidian symbols of the working class
juxtapose with the timeless profundity of Proust, Virgil,
and Dante. “Stan Brakhage writes ‘The American
inherently struggles to be gentle and at the same time
not to be taken advantage of.’ Nowhere is this notion
more evident than in Rick Snyder’s remarkable poems,
whose sweet-bitter speakers reveal the numerous states
(both territories and conditions) with which—and in
which—to fall in love and take issue. I’m very glad this
book is in the world”—Graham Foust.
Mark Spitzer
THE PIGS DRINK FROM INFINITY: POEMS
1995-2001
978-1-933132-25-9, $12, paper, 173 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2006
Poetry. Mark Spitzer’s bold and colorful verse globetrots
from the millennial Beatnik joints of Euro-Bohemia to
the eagly mountains of Colorado to the junkyards of the
West to the swamps of the Deep South and beyond.
Sometimes lyrical, sometimes narrative, sometimes inyour-face, other times reverent, political and surreal, you
can’t help slapping your knees and laughing out loud
when some annoying neighbor tries to sell his bbq
sauce, when quiche is metaphoric for whence we all
come, when muscle cars crash in Flashbakistan.
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Jane Sprague
THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES
978-0-925904-77-5, $16, paper, 72 pp.
Poetry. “Part post-industrial sea chantey, part epiphany
against the ‘economies of loss’ that expand exponentially
with each morning’s news that struggles to stay news,
Jane Sprague’s THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES offers us a
rare and varied thick description (with Whitmanesque
undertows) of those moments when our livingbreathing-trying-to-pay-the bills-selves meet the vast
expanse that is the seemingly boundless sea. ‘John
Steinbeck was right,’ the poet writes. And Jane Sprague
certainly is, too”—Mark Nowak.
William Taylor Jr.
THE HUNGER SEASON
978-1-934513-17-0, $15, paper, 108 pp.
SUNNYOUTSIDE 2009
Poetry. With stark and honest imagery, these poems
convey the beauty, wonder, and despair of urban life,
bringing San Francisco and its denizens alive with
compassionate and insightful portraits of the human
condition. Taylor’s poems are the songs of streets and
bars and celebrate the manifold humanity of the city.
“These are poems that feel just like San Francisco. They
are of a beauty abandoned and rolling and screaming
under the wheels of headlights in the Tenderloin
night”—Mark Eitzel, American Music Club.
Marina Temkina
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
978-1-933254-38-8, $17, paper, 123 pp.
Poetry. WHAT DO YOU WANT? is Marina Temkina’s first
book in English. It consists of several texts made for
installations, or as part of handmade artist’s books. In
addition to these, two poems translated from Russian
(by Vladislav Davidzon and Alexander Stessin) are also
included, along with installation images and original
drawings by the author.
Philip Terman
BOOK OF THE UNBROKEN DAYS
978-1-59539-007-3, $10.95, paper, 132 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2005
Poetry. “Philip Terman is a poet of great compassion, one
whose poems combine humor, tenderness, melancholy,
passion and intelligence in a strong and lovely mix. His
new book is full of the sense of what it means to be fully
human and fully alive. Terman pays attention to things
large and small, to family and memory, gardens and
history, children and the elderly. The question he seems
to be asking, in poem after poem, is, How can one best
live this life? These are unabashed poems of love for a
complicated universe”—Liz Rosenberg.
Philip Terry
OULIPOEMS 2
978-0-9811704-5-9, $16.95, paper, 108 pp.
Aaron Tieger
SECRET DONUT
978-0-9824100-0-4, $12, paper, 61 pp.
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
PRESSED WAFER 2009
Poetry. Harry Matthews writes: “The title of Philip Terry’s
brilliant book pays explicit homage to the Oulipo;
but while he uses many of the group’s methods, he
invariably goes his own way with them, making poems
that are full of an original sense of wit and wonder.
He has taken the notion that poetry can emerge from
arbitrary procedures and transformed it into a
sumptuous variety of explosively novel delights.”
Poetry. SECRET DONUT is Aaron Tieger’s first full-length
collection. A member of SOON Productions from
2004-2007, he is currently a curator of the Unaffiliated
Reading Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formerly
the publisher of CARVE Poems, he now runs Petrichord
Books.
Tod Thilleman
ROOT-CELLAR TO RIVERINE
978-0-923389-80-2, $12, paper, 67 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2009
Poetry. Tod Thilleman moved to New York at the age of
18 and worked for a brief period with Pace Editions.
He is the author of numerous poetry collections and the
novel Gowanus Canal, Hans Knudsen. From 1991-1999
he was an editor at Poetry New York: a journal of poetry
& translation.
Barbara L. Thomas
DREAMING OF SUNFLOWER FIELDS
978-0-9812744-2-3, $16.95, paper, 90 pp.
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “To read Barbara Thomas’s poetry,” writes Lauren
Kaushansky, “is to find oneself roaming a landscape of
elegant and poignant images full of children, nature,
loss, celebration and acute observation. She ‘dives
into daily life,’ discovering long buried memories and
surprising, unpredictable moments. She makes the
fleeting moment precious. A true poet, Ms Thomas
allows us glimpses into her life as intimate and intricate
as a Vermeer painting. Nothing escapes her eye as she
captures a delightful ‘parade of small things,’ weaving
ancestral yarns throughout her book. She has the ‘spirit
of a hummingbird’ flittering from moment to moment.
Each page of poetry is filled with luscious vocabulary,
delicious, unusually personal and yet, universal life
events. Her poetic images and storytelling are like a gift
from a dear friend, ‘too beautiful to turn away.’”
Simon Thompson
WHY DOES IT FEEL SO LATE?
978-1-55420-046-7, $15, paper, 72 pp.
John Samuel Tieman
A CONCISE BIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL SIN
978-1-886157-73-6, $11.95, paper, 34 pp.
BKMK PRESS 2009
Poetry. These poems explore war and its aftereffects,
some inspired by Tieman’s experiences serving in
the U.S. Army in Vietnam and then resuming civilian life.
Others explore war from a historical vantage, such as
Tieman’s powerful World War I elegy “Passchendaele,”
which has been recorded by the Imperial War Museum
in London. Poet Tim Seibles writes that Tieman’s work
occupies “a dimension in which poems allow us to know
more than we understand.” Poet Jack Myers calls the
book “a monument to spiritual growth, as transformative
as any bible I’ve ever read.” And poet/activist Daniel
Berrigan writes, “Honor and gratitude to John Tieman,
our guide through Inferno, from Ypres to Vietnam and
beyond.”
Edwin Torres
IN THE FUNCTION OF EXTERNAL
CIRCUMSTANCES
978-0-9822645-5-3, $14.95, paper, 107 pp.
NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2009
Poetry. “On the one hand Torres swims in the great
cataclysm of the orgy-fused constant, on another hand
the mind at work in the work senses that to be at one
with the word and to be at odds with the word, are
nearly identical states. That’s part of the making. Hands
continue to appear, reshaping the sensibility towards the
work... not his, but mine (being the one reading).
And then there’s this spare intimacy inside the open
readiness for transformation—that’s where those stark,
seraching lyrics come from, that same ribcage”
—Anselm Berrigan.
NEW STAR BOOKS 2009
Poetry. In his remarkably assured debut, Simon
Thompson shows us the place where he lives, where
everything inevitably comes back to the center. The
predominant impression is of a man, sometimes seen
from a long way off, moving indecisively towards some
overwhelming question. The poems are driven by
images of the north: the wealth of rivers, the sodium
lights of long winters, the broken concrete foundations
of abandoned mills; these are the things that are the
source of the poet’s ideas. Having said that, the poems
lie beyond an easy theoretical grasp; the world itself is
too wild, too unruly to be contained by theory. The
poems seem to say nothing but the energy contained
within themselves is permanent; everything else is
temporary, subject to erosion.
Rhett Iseman Trull
THE REAL WARNINGS
978-1-934695-11-1, $15, paper, 94 pp.
ANHINGA PRESS 2009
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Anhinga Prize for Poetry
selected by Sheryl St. Germain. Open this book up
anywhere and you’ll find a poem of fierce and
uncompromising energy and insight, a poem that
doesn’t pull any punches or take any prisoners, a poem
that will both stun and uplift, even as it wounds and
sometimes descends into darkness. “I’ve never read a
poet who understands more fully the brutal paradoxes
of love and of loving damaged things, nor have I ever
read one whose epiphanies felt truer. Even more
than the real warnings, this collection represents the
real thing and you’ll be changed by reading it”
—Sheryl St. Germain.
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John A. Vanek
HEART MURMURS: POEMS
978-1-933964-27-0, $15, paper, 124 pp.
Liz Waldner
PLAY
978-0-9822471-0-5, $16, paper, 80 pp.
BIRD DOG PUBLISHING/BOTTOM DOG PRESS 2009
LIGHTFUL PRESS 2009
Poetry. “What I like most about the poems in John
Vanek’s first collection is his commitment to the poetics
of clarity. Things are said straight in these poems, with
careful attention to illuminating what the poet calls à
shelter for my shifting life,’ by which he means our lives
as well”—Bruce Weigl. “With humor, sympathy, and an
eye for what makes us most human, John Vanek offers us
a far-ranging view of life that feels hard-earned and
complete”—Elton Glaser.
Poetry. Liz Waldner’s eighth book PLAY, perhaps her
most experimental since ETYM(BI)OLOGY, reads as a
hybrid of poetry and theater in which two (or more)
voices dialogue with each other, fluctuating between
narrative, Sapphic threads and radiating digressions. “In
PLAY are two compelling voices deftly outlined by a
lyricism that illuminates their intimate encounters with
the actual. Whether lovers, ego/id, or disciple/avatar,
these interlocutors assay what is at the heart of being
human. Here, all the affliction of an Àrgument withal,
within’ is not solved, nor salved, but permeated with the
succor of true acknowledgment: Ì heard it with my
skin’”—Rusty Morrison.
Bill Vartnaw
SUBURBS OF MY CHILDHOOD
978-0-9815047-0-4, $12.95, paper, 74 pp.
Poetry. “Bill Vartnaw writes about his life with a freshness
born of pure, unfiltered experience. These poems tell a
story that is universal, and yet totally unique. “As for yr
manuscript, don’t wanna be redundant but it’s direct &
tender & alert to difficulty w/out making the words get
in the way. I received it w/recognition of its modest
subtelty & yr eye for delight & light. Thank you”—David
Meltzer.
Erik Vatne
CARTOGRAPHIES OF SILENCE: POEMS
978-1-58177-113-8, $15.95, paper, 160 pp.
BARRYTOWN/STATION HILL 2009
Poetry. CARTOGRAPHIES OF SILENCE comprises over
100 untitled poem fragments—what the poet calls
“unconscious interruptions”—that navigate maps of
being/non-being, writing/speaking/thinking, to reveal
the mind-body experience where silence meets
language.
Dina von Zweck
THE HISTORY OF WORDS & OTHER POEMS
978-1-61584-926-0, $15, paper, 124 pp.
PALM PRESS 2009
Poetry. African American Studies. “Wendy S. Walters is
not poetic, she is cinematic. Her toolbox contains all of
the possibilities of widescreen behavior, and each page
of this book knows it. Everything we learned as poets,
she has unlearned. If you read her across the page,
horizontally, she appears to be a narrative poet with a
linear line in love with story but if you read her down
the page, vertically, she appears to be a philosophical
painter with an insistent line in love with layering. Verite
not mere studio mise en scene, Walters is also a master
of erasure—no easy similes or tie-up-the-end-the-poem
metaphors. Her aspect ratio is wholeness, the gathering
of artifice, allegory and constant, intellectual creativity.
LONGER I WAIT, MORE YOU LOVE ME is a bit of a tease
too. It hears our request and knows we want song”
—Thomas Sayers Ellis.
Peter Waterhouse
LANGUAGE DEATH NIGHT OUTSIDE:
POEM.NOVEL
978-1-886224-99-5, $14, paper, 128 pp.
BURNING DECK 2009
Poetry. THE HISTORY OF WORDS & Other Poems brings
the Reader a physicality that is playful and powerful.
Whether the subject is desire... art, and artists
cavorting... secular love... urban angst... bare trees with
blue lights... mathematical chaos & complexity... or a
simple twist-of-fate, there is always active primal energy
at work in the images and language. There is always a
clash of forces... a connection ... and a sudden, mercurial
opening that reveals humanity with all its quirky
possibilities. Absurdly tantalizing, the poems jump
headlong into luck & love, and take you with them into
the act of creation itself.... A wondrous and magical
encounter with today’s ironic alternate realities. Painful
& funny.
Poetry. Fiction. Cross-Genre. An “I” between languages.
A text between genres. The Austrian grandfather’s death
triggers an examination of the past, of history, identity,
consciousness. Three poems (by Zanzotto, Celan, Rakosi)
and three philosophers (Descartes, Leibniz, Mach)
become touchstones for the narrator in his attempt to
find a language that is impersonal even while saying “I.”
A life is created through precise particulars in short,
anaphoric sentences—with an effect both staccato and
hypnotic. But the effort toward the concrete and definite
(“I forced myself to use main clauses, nouns, the definite
article”) stands in tension with the boundlessness
encountered in the poems and in thinking where the
city turns ship and a yellow flower in Vienna touches the
sand dunes of North Africa.
Catherine Wagner
MY NEW JOB
978-1-934200-26-1, $16, paper, 88 pp.
Ellen Wehle
THE OCEAN LINER’S WAKE
978-1-84861-071-2, $15, paper, 80 pp.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. A third book of poems by a gurlesque pioneer
who continues her intimate and formally inventive
exploration of gender, sex, commerce, and power.
Poetry. Lush, languid, enamored with the natural world,
THE OCEAN LINER’S WAKE is a book of longing. In these
wide-ranging poems the Other takes many forms: lover
or God, a bridge, a sprig of forsythia. But always, the
poems seem to say, what we hunger for is union. In
spare, chiseled lines Wehle examines what it means to
be fully alive to the world.
WHITE DEER BOOKS 2009
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Wendy S. Walters
LONGER I WAIT, MORE YOU LOVE ME
978-0-9789262-2-9, $18, paper, 124 pp.
Wei Ying-wu
IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF
WEI YING-WU
978-1-55659-279-9, $18, paper, 365 pp.
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated by Red Pine. True to his
reputation as one of the world’s leading translators of
Chinese, Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) translates 175 of
Wei’s poems and demonstrates why he is “one of the
world’s great poets.” Presented in a bilingual ChineseEnglish format, with extensive notes and an informative
introduction, In Such Hard Times is a long-overdue world
premiere. Wei Ying-wu is considered one of the great
poets of the T’ang Dynasty, ranked alongside such poets
as Tu Fu, Li Pai, and Wang Wei. Strangely, though, only a
handful of Wei Ying-wu’s poems have ever been
translated into English. “[Translator] Red Pine’s out-ofthe-mainstream work is uncanny and clearheaded”
—Kyoto Journal.
Laurence Weisberg
POEMS
978-0-9761436-4-2, $15, paper, 168 pp.
John Wheatcroft
THE FUGITIVE SELF: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
978-0-9797450-9-6, $18.95, paper, 120 pp.
ETRUSCAN PRESS 2009
Poetry. THE FUGITIVE SELF is a tribute to a distinguished
career spanning fifty years in American letters. At once
meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates
the spiritual cost of American expansion.
Nancy White
SUN, MOON, SALT
978-0-915380-74-9, $15, paper, 96 pp.
THE WORD WORKS 2010
Poetry. Second Edition. Winner of the 1992 Word Works
Washington Prize. Of SUN, MOON, SALT Thomas Lux
writes “These poems are tough, funny, wise, sensuous,
wild and almost celebratory.” Alan Dugan observes,
“Nancy White’s poems are written in a voice that is fully
conscious of the modern horrors yet asks, `What good
can happen?’” Cover art by Anastasia Nute.
ANON EDITION 2004
Poetry. “Laurence wrote by means of faceless
evanescence, his voice seduced by flames of golden
lorikeers. Being an intrinsic wanderer, a scribe from the
Chaldea of Artaud, Laurence was most at home sitting in
dark cafes conjuring up sun dogs, or speaking from
interior Oaxacas. This was the level of his work, never
offering himself up to quotidian duality, or to the work
bench of the critics. Instead he worked from the
blueprint of the untouchable, from the ‘firmament of
utopias’”—Will Alexander.
Molly Weller
FINDING PASSAGE
978-0-9789597-5-3, $16, paper, 133 pp.
Poetry. Molly Weller gives us these moments, almost in
passing, that we can go on with on our own, they don’t
stop at the end of the poem but continue on in our
reading. It’s like you are walking down a path and each
poem tells of a moment on that path. Sometimes she
gives us a startling image as in “mountains its way to the
sea.” This work includes her time in Australia as well as
her time in Colorado and Oregon. This is a work that
celebrates her closeness to nature; it is a journey both
physical and spiritual and it is written with a sure and
beautiful command of the language.
Christine Wertheim, Editor
FEMINAISSANCE
978-1-934254-17-2, $20, paper, 125 pp.
Poetry. Fiction. Essays. Women’s Studies. FEMINAISSANCE
= collectivity; feminine ecriture; the politics of writing;
text and voice; the body as a site of contestation,
insurgence and pleasure; race and writing; gender as
performance; writing about other women writers;
economic inequities; Helene Cixous; monstrosity;
madness; and aesthetics. FEMINAISSANCE = Dodie
Bellamy, Caroline Bergvall, Meiling Cheng, Wanda
Coleman, Bhanu Kapil, Chris Kraus, Susan McCabe, Tracie
Morris, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place,
Juliana Spahr, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young,
Lidia Yuknavitch. FEMINAISSANCE = “If the fact that
women do not say ‘We’ was one of the constitutive
problems for 20th century feminism, the fact that
women do and still clearly feel the need to say `We’ is
just as rich and interesting a topic for feminism today.
The writings gathered here prove feminism to be alive
and more relevant to all genders than ever: not just
because feminist discourse remains a political necessity,
but because of its artistic and intellectual pleasures”
—Sianne Ngai.
Lee Whitman-Raymond
THE LIGHT ON OUR FACES AND OTHER POEMS
978-1-929355-59-4, $13, paper, 108 pp.
Poetry. This is an expanded edition of WhitmanRaymond’s chapbook, first published by Pleasure Boat
Studio in 2000 (and now out of print). These poems
show the work of a psychotherapist who is also a fine
poet. A reader comes away with an understanding of
human nature and of the extreme personal and
professional challenges of working with others in so
intense a capacity.
Dara Wier
SELECTED POEMS
978-1-933517-38-4, $22, cloth, 206 pp.
WAVE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Spanning 1977 to 2006, SELECTED POEMS is a
major retrospective that will stand as an indispensable
record of turn-of-the-millennium poetry. The
progression of Dara Wier’s poetry over the last thirty
years mirrors—and simultaneously transcends—the
evolution of American poetry, from the lyric poems of
the Deep South to the complex intensity of poems in
more recent volumes such as REMNANTS OF HANNAH
and REVERSE RAPTURE. SELECTED POEMS confirms Dara
Wier as one of contemporary poetry’s most important
and insistent voices. “Wier’s poems explode with variety,
particularity, whirlwinds of detail and mystery . . .
memoirs, dialogues, choral performances witnessing
scenes both weird and familiar”—Rain Taxi.
Ronaldo V. Wilson
POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT
978-0-9822798-0-9, $15, paper, 112 pp.
FUTUREPOEM BOOKS 2009
Poetry. African American Studies. Asian American
Studies. Gay and Lesbian Studies. “I applaud Ronaldo
Wilson’s pathbreaking movement into what has
never, never, in history, been said. About sexuality, in
particular, these poems speak with incorrigible and
raving clarity. And, always, they display intellectual
curiosity, and an impatient, gorgeous readiness to make
language new”—Wayne Koestenbaum. “[A] warning to
anyone tempted to believe that in objectification lies
freedom. Livid inside an apocalyptic negative capability,
these poems are constructed through their maker’s
deconstruction, and reading, I too, felt unmade”
—Claudia Keelan.
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Suzi Winson, Olivier Brossard, and Vincent Broqua,
Editors
POEM: POETS ON (AN) EXCHANGE MISSION
978-1-929495-12-2, $20, paper, 208 pp.
FISH DRUM/DOUBLE CHANGE 2009
Poetry. POEM: POETS ON (AN) EXCHANGE MISSION is an
experiment in translations of contemporary poetry in
English and French. POEM is a component of a
transatlantic poetry festival. It is a collaborative effort
between Fish Drum of New York City and Double Change
of Paris. The poets include Bill Berkson, JJ Blickstein,
Thomas Devaney, David Lespiau, Sabine Macher,
Gretchen Mattox, Michele Metail, Anne Portugal, Pascal
Poyet, Michael Rothenberg, Sebastien Smirou, and Anne
Valley-Fox. Translators include Vincent Broqua, Olivier
Brossard, Macgregor Card, Marcella Durand, Vincent
Dussol, Jean-Jacques Poucel, and Beatrice Trotignon.
Clarence Wolfshohl
SEASON OF MANGOS
978-0-9822495-1-2, $16, paper, 25 pp.
ADASTRA PRESS 2009
Poetry. A dozen poems that recreate the sights, people,
and culture of Belem, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon
River, where mango trees line the boulevards. Poems
such as “Heap of Mangos,” “The Dance of Boto,” “Evening
Roost of Parakeets,” and “Captain Brazil” are alive in both
lush descriptions and captivating in narrations. Included
are extensive notes. Limited to 220 copies of hand-set
Garamond type letterpress printed on heavy felt text,
hand-sewn.
C.D. Wright
RISING, FALLING, HOVERING
978-1-55659-309-3, $17, paper, 100 pp.
Sam Witt
SUNFLOWER BROTHER
978-1-880834-74-9, $14, paper, 89 pp.
Poetry. “Sam Witt’s poems are a rhapsody and ‘crisp
singing’ both. The best are purest poetry—mixing
beauty, the reaches of language, and an imagination
equally made up of body and of grace. He speaks in all
our tones. His equivalences are fresh and reveal an
involved, likable world”—Carol Frost.
Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Editors
A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS,
VOLUME 1, POETRY & NONFICTION
978-1-934200-06-3, $29.95, paper, 480 pp.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Nonfiction. A historical document so significant it
requires two volumes. FENCE evades the tedium of the
decade with this anthology, co-edited by eleven editors
past and present, including founder Rebecca Wolff;
fiction editors Jonathan Lethem, Ben Marcus, and Lynne
Tillman; poetry editors Caroline Crumpacker, Katy
Lederer, Matthew Rohrer, Christopher Stackhouse, and
Max Winter; and nonfiction editors Frances Richard and
Jason Zuzga. In addition to presenting a stunningly
eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism,
and creative nonfiction, much of it by writers who
appeared in FENCE at the beginning of careers that went
on to be dazzling, these volumes include reflective
essays by editors on their experiences with selected
texts, with authors, with the magazine as a collective,
and with their own editorial identities, and serves as an
indispensable record of the inception and continuation
of one of the most influential literary journals of its time.
VOLUMES 1 & 2 [SHRINK-WRAPPED SET]
978-1-934200-30-8, $45, paper, 960 pp.
Poetry. Deeply personal and politically ferocious,
RISING, FALLING, HOVERING addresses the commonly
felt crises of our times—from illegal immigration and
the specific consequences of empire-building to the
challenges of parenting and the honesty required of
human relationships. “Wright braids some of her
most personal and intimate poetry to date with an
extended meditation on the consequences of America’s
contemporary stance toward other countries”—
Publishers Weekly, starred review.
Matvei Yankelevich
BORIS BY THE SEA
978-0-9801938-2-4, $14, paper, 80 pp.
OCTOPUS BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Matvei Yankelevich’s first full-length book,
BORIS BY THE SEA, is a work of existential theater that
destroys the distance between puppeteer and puppet,
between ego and id, between what is real and what is
absurd. Consisting of prose, poems, and plays, the book
creates its own world and then confronts the loneliness
of having to exist within one’s own creation. Like Daniil
Kharms, Yankelevich has written a children’s book for
only the bravest of adults. “Boris is a precarious creature
thrown into a world he is ill-suited for—a bit like
Monsieur Plume and other relatives. The world was
‘somewhere inside his skull. And it hurt.’ These poems
and dramatic sketches, however, delight even when they
hurt”—Rosmarie Waldrop.
Alexandra Yurkovsky
WANTING
978-0-9815047-0-4, $12.95, paper, 63 pp.
Poetry. “What does Alexandra Yurkovsky want? Not, I
think, to wring ‘lilies from the acorns.’ Rather to wring
something like signals from the noise of language itself
at a time in our cultural history when words are on sale
and (almost) always, it seems, go to the lowest
bidder”—William Slaughter.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. A historical document so
significant it requires two volumes. FENCE evades the
tedium of the decade with this anthology, co-edited by
eleven editors past and present, including founder
Rebecca Wolff; fiction editors Jonathan Lethem, Ben
Marcus, and Lynne Tillman; poetry editors Caroline
Crumpacker, Katy Lederer, Matthew Rohrer, Christopher
Stackhouse, and Max Winter; and nonfiction editors
Frances Richard and Jason Zuzga.
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Joseph Zaccardi
RENDER
978-0-9824276-1-3, $15, paper, 87 pp.
Poetry. RENDER by Joseph Zaccardi is a collection of
poetry that covers territory both painful and sublime.
Joseph is a fine poet who has clearly mastered the craft
of writing. He makes no mistakes as he guides us
through the pain and then lifts us gently. In “From Baker
Beach to the Golden Gate” he opens a difficult moment,
provides a daring question and then lets us stay in the
question and gather deep, personal answers. “Pulling /
the disparate together: those who leapt, those / who
walked away, and the man who wrote / in his suicide
letter that he wouldn’t jump / if only one person smiled
at him.” RENDER is like this throughout. It is satisfying
to be in the throes of a poet of such quality who has
such respect for his reader.
Maged Zaher
PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS AN ENGINEER
978-0-9824100-1-1, $12, paper, 88 pp.
PRESSED WAFER 2009
Poetic Matrix Press
is pleased to be a part of
SPD, we look forward to
working with all of you.
New Titles
Light in all Directions
by Brandon Cesmat
Remarkable writng, from inside
death, Brandon is frightening in his
daring.
Dingle Day
by Irish poet Joe O’connell
Poetry. “When I read Maged Zaher’s poetry I am always
intrigued by the questions he asks and amazed by the
unexpected layers and turns. Practically every line leads
elsewhere. Saints, sex, pop culture, dreams, romance,
information technology, religion, corporate life—Dante
Alighieri and Barry White in the same poem—Karl Marx,
Paris Hilton, Chairman Mao, Arthur Rimbaud and other
suspects are all components of the volatile constellation
that comprises these sharp and often funny poems.
As a relatively recent arrival in the USA, Maged Zaher
analyzes a contemporary America kind-of-with-a-`k,’
applying a bright intelligence and tempering his
sometimes irreverent enquiry with some subtle
philosophizing”—Pam Brown.
Dingle Day is intelligent writing on
subjects large and small with
language in the tradition of the great
Lila Zemborain
GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET
978-1-934819-05-0, $15, paper, 84 pp.
The Gathering
NOEMI PRESS 2009
The beauty of her language and the
depth of her understanding make her
subject palatable and carry the
reader to that place of truth and
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the
Spanish by Rose Alcala. “Lila Zemborain’s power subverts
paper: her words turn pages into films of blurred or
incomplete images. The references are specific, but what
is happening remains stubbornly a question defying the
definitive answer except for what a reader is moved to
speculate... These poems’ secrets are within you”
—Eileen Tabios.
Rachel Zucker
MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS
978-1-933517-42-1, $14, paper, 82 pp.
WAVE BOOKS 2009
Poetry. A brutally honest epic of domestic proportions.
MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS rends the terrorizing forces of
modern existence from abstraction and places them
directly in our laps. The anxieties and elations of
motherhood and marriage unfold throughout poems
of uncompromising courage, compassion and fever.
“Rachel Zucker may be Generation X’s likeliest heir to the
confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and
Sharon Olds”— The Believer.
Steven Zultanski
THIS & THAT LENIN
978-1-897388-32-7, $10, paper, 19 pp.
BOOK THUG 2008
Poetry. Steven Zultanski is also the author of the
chapbook Homoem (Radical Readout, 2005). He edits
President’s Choice magazine, a Lil’ Norton publication. His
poetry has appeared in Antennae, FO(A)RM, The Physic
Poets, SHINY, and elsewhere.
Irish writers.
Render
by poet Joesph Zaccardi
Joseph Zaccardi’s poetry covers
territory both painful and sublime.
Joseph is a fine poet who has clearly
mastered the craft of writing.
by NY poet Diana Festa
beauty to which poetry aspires.
Finding Passage
by poet Molly Weller
This is a work that celebrates her
closeness to nature; it is a journey
both physical and spiritual and it is
written with a sure and beautiful
command of the language.
If poets and lovers of poetry
don’t write, publish, read,
and purchase poetry books then
we will have no say
in the quality of our
contemporary culture and no
excuse for the abuses of
language, ideas, truth, beauty,
and love in our cultural life.
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—R.M. Berry
[A] disturbing mystery pitched somewhere
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—Review of Contemporary Fiction
Wise up and get all you can of Lock.
His writing was written by a writer
exquisite in the singularity (read for
this “genius”) of his utterance.
—Gordon Lish
...a phenomenal ability to nestle revelatory gems
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—Bookslut
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—Brian Evenson
I will read anything [of] Eugene Marten’s for
the rest of my life.
—Blake Butler
Eugene Marten is a writer’s writer… his
books provoking the sort of breathless
admiration usually reserved for the deceased.
— American Book Review
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Ruocco’s Coven is an engagingly whimsical tale,
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lexicon, reminiscent of the works of such writers
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—Robert Coover
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven
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Fiction and Drama
See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.11), Literary Nonfiction
Louisiana Alba
UNCORRECTED PROOF
978-0-9558676-0-6, $14.95, paper, 312 pp.
Allan Appel
THE HEBREW TUTOR OF BEL AIR
978-1-56689-224-7, $14.95, paper, 224 pp.
ELEPHANT EARS PRESS 2008
Fiction. His espionage novel stolen by a celebrity
“sweeper” author, Archie Lees embarks on a helterskelter odyssey seeking justice inside the dark worlds of
Anglo-American publishing, the tale swinging from
London to Barcelona, New York, Aigues-Mortes and
back again over twelve months, November 2003 to
October 2004. Louisiana Alba ransacks categories,
voices and genres, excavating plagiarism and influence,
reanimating modernism, realism, magic realism, poetry,
pop, drama, screenwriting and the postmodernist novel,
defrocking the methods and madness of major and
minor literary techniques and reputations in a century
of writerly solitude.
Fiction. In his application to become the spiritual leader
of the King Solomon Motorcycle Club, Norman Plummer
recalls the momentous events that shaped his life during
one sultry Los Angeles summer. Set in 1963—after the
Cuban Missile Crisis, but before JFK’s assassination—
Norman begins to prepare Bel Air heiress Bayla Adler for
a bat mitzvah she doesn’t want. The studious teenage
son of a ne’er-do-well gambler, Norman finds himself in
a strange new world of trophy wives, pool boys, and
plastic surgeons—a world where anything might be
bought, except the cooperation of the beautiful Bayla.
In an unforgettable story of lost innocence and found
passion—of love and motorcycles—readers will be
rooting for this unlikely couple and their bid to change
the world.
Kazim Ali
QUINN’S PASSAGE
978-0-9759227-7-4, $16, paper, 185 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2004
Fiction. Quinn, a sculptor literally and figuratively at the
end of his rope, flees New York City for a capeside artists’
colony. Fixated by trash, and reading Woolf’s The Waves,
Quinn trawls the streets and beaches of the little fishing
village, tentatively exploring his relationship to the
place, his art, his new friends, and himself. Moods of
weather and landscape suffuse this sparely written tale
that, like sunlight that pierces storm-clouds, illuminates
exactly how much is stake in Quinn’s haunting search for
the sublime. “The will to be transformed away from the
senses via the senses is a sensualist’s mission. It is
Quinn’s desire, as it is the desire of the gods. The reader
will see that such a desire infuses language with a
passion for breathing and utterance equally”
—Fanny Howe.
Urs Allemann
BABYFUCKER
978-1-934254-16-5, $15, paper, 136 pp.
Fiction. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German
by Peter Smith. A Beckettian character, who may
or may not be trapped in a room with four baskets full
of infants, focuses obsessively on a single sentence—
”I fuck babies.” This virtuoso text by Swiss experimental
writer Urs Allemann won the prestigious Ingeborg
Bachmann Preis des Landes Kaernten in 1991 and caused
one of the biggest literary scandals in the post-1945
German-speaking world. Translated now for the first
time in a new bilingual edition with an introduction by
translator Peter Smith and an afterword by Vanessa
Place, BABYFUCKER belongs in the canon of twentiethcentury provocations that includes Bataille’s The Story of
the Eye, Delany’s Hogg, and Cooper’s Frisk. For
BABYFUCKER is, as Dennis Cooper says: “a stunning,
exquisite, perfect, and difficult little benchmark of a
novel that makes literature that predates it seem
deprived.”
Hubert Aquin
LES SABLES MOUVANTS / SHIFTING SANDS
978-1-55380-078-1, $19.95, paper, 140 pp.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Fiction. Bilingual Edition in French and English.
Translated from the French by Joseph Jones. This
bilingual edition is the first English translation of Aquin’s
groundbreaking novella. It is also the first time it
appears in French, outside of the multi-volume critical
edition. In this novella the young Aquin turns away
from ordinary narrative towards the signature qualities
of his later writing, and documents the narrator’s
psychological journey from anticipation and impatience
to personal apocalypse.
Nurjehan Aziz, Editor
HER MOTHER’S ASHES 3: STORIES BY SOUTH
ASIAN WOMEN IN CANADA AND THE UNITED
STATES
978-1-894770-54-5, $24.95, paper, 200 pp.
Fiction. South Asian Studies. Following the greatly
acclaimed first two volumes in this series, this collection
brings together more first-rate stories by South Asian
women that—whether set in their home countries
or those of their adoption—explore with profound
and sensitive insight the inner tenor of women’s lives
caught between places, cultures, and generations.
Precisely crafted and sensitively told, each of these
twenty stories offers us a wonderful glimpse into the
complex and manifold world of the South Asian women
of North America.
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FICTION AND DRAMA
Mario Bellatin
BEAUTY SALON
978-0-87286-473-3, $10.95, paper, 72 pp.
George Bowering
THE BOX
978-1-55420-045-0, $16, paper, 192 pp.
NEW STAR BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Kurt Hollander.
A strange plague appears in a large city. Rejected by
family and friends, some of the sick have nowhere to
finish out their days until a hair stylist decides to offer
refuge. He ends up converting his beauty shop, which
he’s filled with tanks of exotic fish, into a sort of medieval
hospice. As his “guests” continue to arrive and to die, his
isolation becomes more and more complete in this
dream-hazy parable by one of Mexico’s cutting-edge
literary stars. “Like much of Mr. Bellatin’s work, BEAUTY
SALON is pithy, allegorical and profoundly disturbing,
with a plot that evokes The Plague by Camus or Blindness
by Jose Saramago”—New York Times.
Fiction. THE BOX breaks with the conventional genre
of short stories, weaving together biography,
autobiography, parable, and drama. Here is fourteenyear old Drew, transplanted from the coast to the
Okanagan, and working at his first summer job picking
prunes for the town MILF. Here, too, is the extraordinary
tale of minor-league pitcher Bunny Watson who strings
together an amazing twenty wins without a loss.
Bowering trades witty barbs with the poet Phyllis Webb
in the experimental story “Phyllis’s Questions”, while the
title story “The Box” explores romantic and platonic
relationships as the characters play with the art of
opening a box. At times cerebral, THE BOX is always
playful, clever, and entertaining.
Mario Benedetti
PEDRO AND THE CAPTAIN
978-0-932274-72-4, $10.95, paper, 108 pp.
CADMUS EDITIONS 2009
Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the
Spanish by Adrianne Aron. A gripping dialogue between
a torturer and his victim, PEDRO AND THE CAPTAIN
takes place in an interrogation room, where lives are
deconstructed by the violent hand of the terrorist state.
Torture, the awesome force that mediates the action,
never appears directly on the scene; likewise, the
repressive state is never named. Benedetti captures
the essence of this dehumanizing practice without
assigning it precise location or time, which speaks to
the universality of the abomination, whether in
Uruguay’s La Libertad or the USA’s Abu Ghraib.
Terry Bisson
THE LEFT LEFT BEHIND
978-1-60486-086-3, $12, paper, 128 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Fiction. The Left Behind novels (about the so-called
“Rapture” in which all the born-agains ascend straight to
heaven) are among the bestselling Christian books in the
US, describing in lurid detail the adventures of those
“left behind” to battle the Anti-Christ. Put Bisson and the
Born-Agains together, and what do you get? THE LEFT
LEFT BEHIND—a sardonic, merciless, tasteless, take-noprisoners satire of the entire apocalyptic enterprise
that spares no one—predatory preachers, goth lingerie,
Pacifica radio, Indian casinos, gangsta rap, and even
“art cars” at Burning Man.
Terry Bisson
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
978-1-60486-087-0, $15.95, paper, 208 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Fiction. It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is
an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The
second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the
red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the
Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a
teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet
Tubman’s guerrilla army. Long unavailable in the US,
published in France as Nova Africa, FIRE ON THE
MOUNTAIN is the story of what might have happened
if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—
and the Civil War had been started not by the slave
owners but the abolitionists.
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Tom Bradley
EVEN THE DOG WON’T TOUCH ME
978-0-9811704-9-7, $10, CD
AHADADA BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Compact Disc. Stories that bounce back and
forth across the Pacific as if it were a mud puddle:
A seven-foot-tall member of the Greatest Generation
gets to stay home from World War II and fornicate with
his friends’ wives... sexually ambiguous creatures lay a
six-figure book advance on a harelip... an obese janitor in
a Mormon prayer hall wedges himself behind the organ
pipes, dies, and “fills the joint with green corpse steam...”
Meanwhile, in China... A Palestinian medical student gets
chained to a conveyor belt in a Manchurian abortion
mill... a former Red Guard returns from rustication only
to find his comrades running a bourgeois beauty salon
called Syjvester Stajjone’s... an American “foreign expert”
hijacks a beggar’s wheelchair and steals a baby...
Michael Burke
SWAN DIVE
978-1-929355-50-1, $15, paper, 165 pp.
Fiction. SWAN DIVE focuses on “Blue” Heron, a downand-out detective with a roaming eye who gets much
too involved in a complex business deal, a deal which
results in embezzlement, swindling, sexual misconduct,
and murder. Along the way, Blue discovers a great
deal about himself while trying to understand the
subterfuge. One of his problems is that he often gets too
entranced with whatever woman is nearest to be able
to concentrate on the job he’s being paid to do. That
makes for trouble.
Hannah Calder
MORE HOUSE
978-1-55420-042-9, $19, paper, 200 pp.
NEW START BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Two movies share a cast, a crew, and a set.
More House, where Granny lives, and straight out of
Victorian literature, is the scene of a Gothic period piece.
In the other movie, The Lord wields his scepter over
another cast of characters including the cook, the butler,
the groom, and the maids. Meanwhile, the Girl and her
son, Joey, move uneasily between the overlapping, and
sometimes fusing, scenarios. Dark, erotic, disturbing,
MORE HOUSE is an exuberant display of imagination and
wordplay, and showcases an impressive new writing
talent.
FICTION AND DRAMA
Daniel Cano
DEATH AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
978-1-931010-55-9, $15, paper, 240 pp.
978-1-931010-54-2, $25, cloth, 240 pp.
BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2009
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. The year is 1915. Although
he lacks newspaper experience, Mexican emigrant
Pepe Rios lands a job as a Spanish-language reporter
in Los Angeles, thanks to the wealthy husband of a
former lover. While most newcomers end up working in
the fields, Pepe is thrust into a new milieu rife with
political unrest. Robber barons, anarchists, and
communists struggle with one another, and the news is
filled with the exploits of Hearst, Darrow, Flores Magon,
and Zapata. Awash in political intrigue and high society,
Pepe attempts to uncover the truth about his best
friend’s death, but his quest for truth just might unravel
his new life and force him to face an uncomfortable
realization about his past. The author peppers this
tantalizing and suspenseful novel with Pepe’s journal
entries, giving the character depth and dimension as he
describes his former life in Mexico and his dreams
for the future.
Mary Caponegro
ALL FALL DOWN
978-1-56689-226-1, $14.95, paper, 224 pp.
Fiction. “Mary Caponegro is one of the most imaginative,
daring, serious and playful writers alive. ALL FALL DOWN
is her best book yet”—Jonathan Safran Foer. In two
novellas and four shorter tales of love and healing gone
awry, we meet caregivers and lovers, muses and
skydivers, mothers and minors—all headed toward
“ninety mile-an-hour psychic crashes euphemistically
referred to as epiphanies.” As William Gass says, “The
music of Mary Caponegro’s stories is to the mouth what
wine is.” And through exuberant lyricism, remarkable
characterization, and settings as elaborately detailed as
any in Hollywood, these dramas of failure, resilience, and
transformation linger long after the wine is gone.
Norma Charles
CHASING A STAR
978-1-55380-077-4, $10.95, paper, 182 pp.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. When Sophie LaGrange
hears that her idol, Olympic gold medal winner Barbara
Ann Scott, is coming to town in the fall of 1951, she
can’t wait to meet the famous Canadian figure skater.
But when Sophie’s mother says they can’t go to Barbara
Ann’s show, Sophie plots to meet Barbara Ann some
other way. Little does she know that she will have to
deal with the Satan’s Rebels, a dangerous motorcycle
gang that is attempting to recruit her brother and
kidnap Barbara Ann. Includes an appendix on Barbara
Ann Scott’s accomplishments, with photos.
C. Bard Cole
THIS IS WHERE MY LIFE WENT WRONG
978-0-9821945-0-8, $32.27, paper, 276 pp.
BLATT BOOKS 2009
Fiction. In his first novel, C. Bard Cole weaves a delirious
web of invented fragments of American literature
with the language of nursery rhymes, school books,
encyclopedias, advertisement, pop music lyrics and TV
listings. A frantic field guide to a mental landscape
shaped by literary allusion and littered with pop culture
detritus, THIS IS WHERE MY LIFE WENT WRONG is
autobiography as anti-novel, placing the universal story
of an artist’s coming-of-age in the context of American
history, politics, and culture at the beginning of a
new century.
Phil Condon
NINE TEN AGAIN
978-1-932418-33-0, $17, paper, 200 pp.
ELIXIR PRESS 2009
Fiction. Phil Condon’s NINE TEN AGAIN won the Elixir
Press 2008 Fiction Award. He is the author of three
previously published books of fiction: Clay Center,
Montana Surround, and River Street. RT Smith, judge of
the Elixir Press 2008 Fiction Award, had this to say:
“[NINE TEN AGAIN is] a spellbinding gathering of
narratives in which people in difficult circumstances face
moments of decision and revelation, while the shadow
of the United States’ military involvements abroad often
fall heavily over them. Whether the protagonists pursue
forgiveness, revenge, growth or justice, the stories
feature an unflinching realism but still manage to unfold
surprisingly and eloquently. A manipulated office
worker, a religious bricklayer, a cheerleader, a homeless
veteran—memorable characters provide the driving
force behind Condon’s beautifully efficient stories.”
Rick Dakan
GEEK MAFIA: BLACK HAT BLUES
978-1-60486-088-7, $17.95, paper, 262 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Fiction. After a year of undercover recruiting at hacker
cons all over the country, Chloe and Paul have
assembled a new Crew of elite hackers, driven anarchist
activists, and seductive impersonators. Under the cover
of one of Washington DC’s biggest and most prestigious
hacker events, they’re going up against powerhouse
lobbyists, black hat hackers, and even the U.S. Congress
in order to take down their most challenging, and most
deserving target yet. The stakes have never been higher
for them, and who knows if their new recruits are up to
the immense challenge of undermining “homeland
security” for the greater good.
David Derry
SENTIMENTAL EXORCISMS
978-1-55245-224-0, $16.95, paper, 220 pp.
J.J. Colagrande
HEADZ
978-1-935402-11-4, $18, paper, 198 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Thelonious Horowitz is the next big thing, the
Bob Dylan of his times, and he’s feeling uninspired. In
the past, traveling to music festivals always lifted his
spirits. With his band playing a gig in a few days, he
decides to leave New York to venture to Oracledang, the
biggest and baddest musical festival of the summer.
A diverse cast of ten characters, living in New York,
Miami, and San Francisco, round out the novel. In
HEADZ, everyone comes together at the music festival
in Chicago, where paths converge for a summer event
none of the characters will soon forget, and a show few
will get to see.
Fiction. The return of a former lover saps a retired
librarian’s faith in punctuation; a judge must
compulsively narrate his neighbor into ignominy; and
the glories of market analysis prove as deceptive as
human connection when Trevor Spates’ visit to a stripper
goes awry. Meanwhile, poor Tim Pine must face his
coprophobia in a most public and lamentable office
misadventure. SENTIMENTAL EXORCISMS is a collection
of tragicomic satire, latter-day-Victorian collisions of
Nabokov and Proust. The men in these long short stories
have grand designs and petty fears, or modest designs
and grand fears. Desires, scapegoats, idylls, and
obtrusive egos: the golden calves they can’t quite bear
to kill. With their ramparts crumbling around them,
each mounts an exuberant defence in a vacuum
of self-absorption.
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FICTION AND DRAMA
Che Elias
WHEELING
978-0-9781772-2-5, $18, paper, 210 pp.
Mark Gluth
THE LATE WORK OF MARGARET KROFTIS
978-1-933354-94-1, $14.95, paper, 120 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2010
Fiction. WHEELING is a collection of short stories that
are highly distorted and experimental renderings
of internal dialogues in a pre-grammatical language of
a schizophrenic mind.
Fiction. Part of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the
Bowery series, this phenomenal debut novella
demonstrates an affinity with the work of such
contemporary European writers as Agota Kristof and
Marie Redonnet, while existing in a place and time that
is uniquely American. Composed in brief paragraphs, the
book is structured as a series of vignettes, pieces of
fiction, and autobiography.
Marc Estrin
TSIM-TSUM
978-1-933132-43-3, $15, paper, 156 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2009
Fiction. “Estrin communicates a sadness but also gives us
a hero of such nobility that we can’t help but hope that
our current period of unspeakable human violence will
turn out differently”—Albuquerque Journal.
Brian Evenson
FUGUE STATE
978-1-56689-225-4, $14.95, paper, 208 pp.
Fiction. Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian
Evenson’s hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of
paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and
retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into
the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become
estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with
secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime’s imaginary
box, and from a post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah
to unwitting portraitists of the dead, the mind-bending
world of this modern-day Edgar Allan Poe exposes the
horror contained within our daily lives.
Marilyn French
THE LOVE CHILDREN
978-1-55861-606-6, $15.95, paper, 352 pp.
THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2009
Fiction. It is the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Grateful Dead is playing on the radio and teenagers
are wearing long hair and blue jeans. Jess Leighton,
the daughter of a temperamental painter and a protofeminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense
of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests,
and anti-government rage. With more options than
her mother’s generation, but no role model for creating
the life she desires, Jess experiments with sex and
psychedelic drugs as she searches for happiness on her
own terms. In the midst of joining and fleeing a
commune, growing organic vegetables, and operating
a sustainable restaurant, Jess grapples with the legacy of
her mother’s generation.
Greg Gerke
THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH SVEN
978-1-935402-22-0, $16, paper, 139 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Fiction. In this group of flash fiction and short stories
Greg Gerke looks at the world with a sometimes absurd,
sometimes tragic, but entirely compassionate eye. Two
cars crash but the drivers turn out to be a cyclist who
witnessed the accident, a son is visited by his dead
father, a single Rainier cherry is used as a football in a
scrimmage between potheads and in the hilarious title
story a 1000-pound moth is nearing the end of his days.
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Katrine Marie Guldager
COPENHAGEN
978-1-897388-43-3, $20, paper, 84 pp.
BOOK THUG 2009
Fiction. Translated from the Danish by P.K. Brask.
COPENHAGEN is a collection of eleven short stories that
map the city of Kobenhavn through subtle
intertextuality. Each story takes place in a different
location within the urban landscape, and these sites
become a network through which its citizens move, their
lives brushing up against each other but without ever
connecting. Parents neglect their children in the face of
everyday chores; husbands cheat on their wives with
little gratification; hit-and-run drivers go home and
make tomato soup. The narratives lead the reader
through a landscape where consciousness, both social
and poetic, become the city and the text, isolated and
connected, orchestrated and restless. Guldager’s tales
exude what was for Goethe the core of the short story:
“the unheard-of event.”
Christine Hale
BASIL’S DREAM
978-1-60489-023-5, $16.95, paper, 290 pp.
LIVINGSTON PRESS 2009
Fiction. Lucy Langston’s marriage is failing when her
husband Darrell is suddenly offered a new job as
CFO for an American insurance firm in Bermuda. With
their twelve-year-old son Peyton, they leave their
affluent Connecticut life to start anew in a paradise of
pink beaches and quaint British decorum. All too soon, a
darker reality emerges, and each of them becomes
secretly entangled with Marcus Passjohn—a charismatic
opposition leader known for his defense of the island’s
underclass—and Marcus’s alienated son Zef, a budding
anarchist. Darrell slips into an intrigue to destroy
Passjohn’s credibility. Peyton, bullied at school, takes
refuge in a frightening delinquency with Zef. And Lucy,
seeking to reclaim her son before it’s too late, enters
a compelling alliance with Marcus Passjohn, one
that quickly escalates into a powerfully transforming
love affair.
Jefferson Hansen
... AND BEEFHEART SAVED CRAIG
978-1-935402-18-3, $18, paper, 167 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Fiction. “Hansen’s absolutely contemporary questioning
of individual identity spins out through a story about
some ordinary and ornery people whose mundane lives
are paradoxically compelling and often shocking. The
characters are always thinking even if they don’t think
they are, and the result is a novel in which boredom,
pain, humor, and the unexpected swoop through the
rubble of what everybody seems most sure about. In a
way that keeps readers guessing right to the final word,
... AND BEEFHEART SAVED CRAIG shows how philosophy
and getting through the day are much more tangled up
than so-called common sense often suggests”
—Mark Wallace.
FICTION AND DRAMA
Barbara Henning
THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD
978-1-935402-25-1, $16, paper, 234 pp.
Jayson Iwen
A MOMENTARY JOKEBOOK
978-1-880834-76-3, $15.95, paper, 65 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Fiction. “THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD depicts a series of
imploding families and fast interstates. Barbara
Henning’s landscapes—a rust-belt childhood, a nearly
forgotten East Village Bohemia and the arid South
west streaked with the setting sun—are populated by
runaways, lost loves and lifelong betrayals. In this
remarkable novel, Henning’s eye for detail and her
emotional honesty enables the past to loom in the
rear-view mirror long after the car has sped by”
—Donald Breckenridge.
Fiction. “I’ve never read anything quite like A
MOMENTARY JOKEBOOK. It is wonderfully intelligent,
terribly funny, thought-provoking, often wise and always
compelling. Think Milan Kundera meets South Park.
What unifies this wide-ranging work is Jayson Iwen’s
fresh approach to form and language, and his ability to
surprise us and turn us on our heads”—Tom Barbash,
author of The Last Good Chance.
Owen Hill
THE INCREDIBLE DOUBLE
978-1-60486-083-2, $13.95, paper, 128 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Fiction. Clay Blackburn has two jobs. Most of the time
he’s your average bisexual book scout in Berkeley.
Some of the time he’s ... not quite a private detective.
He doesn’t have a license, he doesn’t have a gun, he
doesn’t have a business card—but people come to him
for help and in helping them he comes across more than
his fair share of trouble. And trouble finds him seeking
the fountain of youth, the myth of paradise, the pie in
the sky ... THE INCREDIBLE DOUBLE. “Owen Hill’s
breathless, sly and insouciant mystery novels are full of
that rare Dawn Powel-ish essence: fictional gossip. I
could imagine popping in and out of his sexy little
Chandler building apartment a thousand times and
never having the same cocktail buzz twice. Poets have all
the fun, apparently”—Jonathan Lethem author of The
Fortress of Solitude.
Fanny Howe
WHAT DID I DO WRONG?
978-0-9819520-0-0, $16.95, paper, 112 pp.
G. Winston James
SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT
STORIES
978-0-9770797-0-4, $14.95, paper, 176 pp.
TOP PEN PRESS 2009
Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. African American
Studies. G. Winston James’s stories examine the
individual, familial, and societal complexities of desire.
Candidly rendered, they unabashedly consider the
formation of personal and sexual identity in a world in
which the carnal is highly policed, variously dangerous
and all too often denied. SHAMING THE DEVIL is an
erotic, brutal, emotional and thoroughly thoughtprovoking debut collection that is likely to arouse,
inspire and disturb readers, even as they continue,
inexorably, to turn its astonishing pages.
Heidi James
CARBON
978-0-9821945-1-5, $25, paper, 134 pp.
BLATT BOOKS 2009
Fiction. James’s debut novel is a dystopian meditation
on identity, fiction, Cartesian duality, and stolen jewels.
A hallucination of decline and disintegration, this darkly
comic novel unpicks the seams of manic realism.
FLOOD EDITIONS 2009
Fiction. Episodic and picaresque, Fanny Howe’s novella
WHAT DID I DO WRONG? tells the story of a revolutionary
mutt’s journey through the kennels, parks, and suburban
waste spaces around Boston in search of true freedom.
This dog offers a firsthand account of the cruelty meted
out to both animals and forgotten members of human
society. Like The Golden Ass, WHAT DID I DO WRONG?
takes on moral and spiritual questions without
abandoning earthly appetites. In a twist on the fabulous
tradition established by Apuleius, we are urged not to
maintain our humanity but rather to look for the dog
within. Illustrated by Colleen McCallion.
Laird Hunt
RAY OF THE STAR
978-1-56689-232-2, $14.95, paper, 194 pp.
Fiction. Set in a dream-like European city reminiscent of
Barcelona, along a boulevard teeming with artists who
perform as living statues, comes the beautiful and
frightening story of a man running from his past, a
woman consumed by grief, and the forces that pursue
them both. A love story related in the dark, stylish
noir of continental cinema and overlaid with a patina
of surrealism, this is a novel where friends are also
informers, street theater is the lifeblood of culture, and
refuge can be found in the belly of a yellow, papiermâché submarine.
Sheila James
IN THE WAKE OF LOSS
978-1-55380-075-0, $18.95, paper, 180 pp.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Fiction. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. This debut
collection of short stories focuses on the conflicts and
challenges experienced by diasporic South Asian
characters who struggle to face truths about intimate
relationships, often confronted by violence and always
negotiating between the banal and the extraordinary
events that shape their lives. These stories will appeal to
readers who are interested in viewing the immigrant
experience in a contemporary and complex light. These
are bold explorations of exile, desire, violence and grief,
conveyed with wit and candour, ultimately evoking
resilience and hope.
Kang Kyong-ae
FROM WONSO POND
978-1-55861-601-1, $16.95, paper, 360 pp.
Fiction. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Korean
by Samuel Perry. A classic revolutionary novel of the
1930s and the first complete work written by a woman
before the Korean War to be published in English. FROM
WONSO POND transforms the love triangle between
three protagonists into a revealing portrait of love and
labor set against the backdrop of Japan’s colonization of
Korea. “A vibrant account of the travails of Japanese
colonialism as experienced by workers and women by
the pioneering feminist writer of the Korean left”
—Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires.
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FICTION AND DRAMA
Janis F. Kearney
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A GIRL:
A MURDER AT MOBILE BAY
978-0-9762058-6-9, $22.95, cloth, 266 pp.
WRITING OUR WORLD PRESS 2008
Fiction. African American Studies. Janis F. Kearney debuts
her first fiction, a murder mystery based on an actual
southern race murder. In this riveting story, Kearney
paints a portrait of a small Alabama town, the “good”
people who believed race was no longer a problem, and
the innocent victim whose death proved them wrong.
Karinne Keithley
MONTGOMERY PARK, OR OPULENCE: AN ESSAY
IN THE FORM OF A BUILDING
978-0-9817533-5-5, $10, paper, 90 pp.
Drama. MONTGOMERY PARK, OR OPULENCE is an essay
in the form of a building, a performance text in the
form of a series of tales out of the archive of a
fictional asylum, stories of combination with forms of
consciousness beyond the human. Poet Gregory Pardlo
writes: “Keithley erodes, through stunning diction and
unconventional syntax, our comfort with language. In
MONTGOMERY PARK, she describes a painting that
‘continually interrupts itself.’ This is apropos of the
language laid bare throughout the entire work, stripped
of its decoration and of its decorum, to reveal the
rudimentary architecture, the humanity we rarely
acknowledge. There is an ethics in doing so, of course.
Her writing is vital and unnerving, a lesson in the
varieties of awareness the human animal can achieve.”
Rakesh Khanna, Editor
THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF TAMIL PULP FICTION
978-81-906056-0-1, $17.95, paper, 400 pp.
BLAFT PUBLICATIONS 2008
Fiction. South Asia Studies. Mad scientists! Hard-boiled
detectives! Vengeful goddesses! Murderous robots!
Scandalous starlets! Drug-fuelled love affairs! This
anthology features seventeen stories by ten best-selling
authors of Tamil crime, romance, science fiction, and
detective stories, none of them ever before translated
into English, along with reproductions of wacky cover art
and question-and-answer sessions with some of the
authors. Grab a masala vadai, sit back and enjoy!
Kristen Kosmas
HELLO FAILURE
978-1-933254-56-2, $12, paper, 72 pp.
Drama. HELLO FAILURE was presented in the Prelude
Festival in 2007, and produced at PS 122 in March 2008.
“The play opens quietly, more or less, on the Eastern
Seaboard and then closes, more or less miraculously,
somewhere else altogether, achieving on its happy
and troublous way all the things a reader or audience
member could hope for—distance, speed, heart,
submersion, emergence, truth, mystery, and more. By
the end, in a plain and simple and fairly sad way,
everything stands for everything else, nothing is not
filled with mystery, and to be a living human being is
seen to be—despite the drawbacks—the most enviable
thing of all”—Will Eno. “One day people are going to
realize that Kristen is the Chekhov of our time”
—Laylage Courie. “You can hate if you want but you’re
wrong”—Andy Horwitz.
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Gina Lagorio
TOSCA, THE CAT LADY
978-1-59954-002-3, $16, paper, 224 pp.
Fiction. Translated from the Italian by Martha King.
Winner of the prestigious Viareggio Literary Prize in
1984, Tosca dei gatti [TOSCA, THE CAT LADY] offers the
reader one of the most intriguing characters emanating
from the pen of Gina Lagorio. Realizing she is destined
to a life alone, Tosca spends her senior years among
numerous cats, all of whom are the offspring of her
dearly departed feline “Miciamore” (Love Cat). Told from
the perspective of the journalist Gigi, Lagorio offers her
reader a double-layered text, challenging all the more
the reader’s interaction with the narrative.
Perry Lentz
PERISH FROM THE EARTH
978-1-880977-24-8, $29, paper, 888 pp.
XOXOX PRESS 2009
Fiction. How might the Civil War have ended differently?
That is the rife question PERISH FROM THE EARTH
proposes. In a fully realized story comprising fine literary
artisanship, Perry Lentz conceives the riveting tale of a
Confederate provocateur in 1863 Manhattan who
changes the course and outcome of the War Between
the States.
Karen Lillis
THE SECOND ELIZABETH
978-0-9782962-1-6, $18, paper, 192 pp.
Fiction. The story begins when Elizabeth encounters
Beth, her newneighbor and coworker, whose resilience
and originality awaken amemory of a younger self.
THE SECOND ELIZABETH is a densely poeticmeditation
on love and language, Virginia and virginity, loss and
longing, trauma and recovery. In lush, obsessive text the
novel reveals the bonds of female experience, the
politics of naming, and the sensuality of nature. As in her
novel I, SCORPION (2000) Lillis uses the device of a
double to great effect, to describe the nuances and
contradictions of a woman’s experience. “Karen E. Lillis
writes with a cadence and a rhythm that are
hypnotic...[THE SECOND ELIZABETH] celebrates what my
theologian father called `the mystery in the ordinary”
—Eckhard Gerdes, Journal of Experimental Fiction.
Gloria Lise
DEPARTING AT DAWN: A NOVEL OF ARGENTINA’S
DIRTY WAR
978-1-55861-603-5, $14.95, paper, 160 pp.
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the
Spanish by Alice Weldon. March 23, 1976. Berta watches
as her lover, Atilio, a union organizer, is thrown from a
window to his death on the sidewalk below. The next
day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d’etat
and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina.
Though never a part of Atilio’s union efforts, Berta is on a
list to be “disappeared” and flees to relatives in the
countryside. There she becomes part of the family she
knows only from old photographs: Aunt Avelina, who
blasts records from an old player; Uncle Nepomuceno,
who watches slugs slither in the garden every afternoon;
and Uncle Javier, who sits in his tiny grocery store day
and night. When Berta learns that government officials
are still looking for her, she realizes she must run even
further to save her life.
FICTION AND DRAMA
Norman Lock
SHADOWPLAY
978-0-9637536-3-2, $13, paper, 138 pp.
ELLIPSIS PRESS 2009
Fiction. In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater
seeks to possess—by his art—a woman, who perishes as
though by the contagion of his unnatural desire.
SHADOWPLAY is a meditation on story-telling as an act
of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of
confounding the real with its representations. “[A]
journey as delicious as it is threatening”—R.M. Berry.
“[Lock’s] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from
the unseen”—Gary Lutz. “Wise up and get all you can of
Lock”—Gordon Lish. “All hail Lock, whose narrative soul
sings fairy tales...”—Kate Bernheimer. “Lock channels ...
our gorgeous desolation, our longing for connection,
both earthly and divine”—Dawn Raffel.
Corey Mesler
THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES,
A NOVEL OF SEX AND MURDER
978-0-9789847-1-7, $15.95, paper, 197 pp.
BRONX RIVER PRESS 2010
Fiction. THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES is set in
the fictional Queneau, Arkansas. Restaurant reviewer
Tom More is living the good life, small town style.
He is a cad, a rural Romeo. But his sense of self is
abruptly shaken when another man with the same name
moves into town. Meanwhile, as the inhabitants of this
countrified Peyton Place are lustily carrying on, there is
another darker energy at work. Somebody is bumping
off the male inhabitants of Queneau. Someone, it would
seem, is on a self-appointed mission of extermination.
THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES is dark comedy at
its most outrageous—imagine a three-way between
Carson McCullers, Henry Miller and Peter DeVries.
Lorraine M. Lopez
HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND
OTHER STORIES
978-1-886157-72-9, $16.95, paper, 264 pp.
Patrick Millikin, Editor
PHOENIX NOIR
978-1-933354-85-9, $15.95, paper, 304 pp.
BKMK PRESS 2009
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. “In a voice that is all at
once hilarious and mischievous, searing and seething
and sardonic, Lorraine Lopez presents, in her most
necessary book to date, a celebration of the liberating
power of bad behavior,” writes Heather Sellers about
HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES.
Most of the stories are set in the South and focus around
family relationships, by birth and choice, among
characters from Latino and other backgrounds. Lydia,
a childless linguist, takes care of her precious four-yearold niece while the mother faces jail. Social worker
Rita rents the empty half of her duplex to her loser exhusband, with disastrous results. And in the title story,
teenager Ted winds up attending a homicide survivor’s
picnic with his sister, who is mourning her recently
slain boyfriend whom Ted barely knew.
Fiction. Edited by Patrick Millikin. Sunshine is the new noir.
Brand new stories by Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James
Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott,
Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe,
Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don
Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte.
Kuzhali Manickavel
INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME EXCEPT
SOME OF THEM HAVE WINGS
978-81-906056-3-2, $11.95, paper, 142 pp.
Fiction. South Asia Studies. “Not merely lyrical and
strange, but also deadpan funny”—Miranda July.
A centipede in a shoe, revelations in a shoebox,
nosebleeds, exploding women, and a dead mouse
named Miraculous populate this collection of thirty-five
short stories from one of India’s most original young
writers. Kuzhali Manickavel was born in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, lived in various places around Canada, and
moved to Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India when she
was thirteen years old. Contrary to popular belief, she is
not very much fond of insects.
Derek McCormack
THE SHOW THAT SMELLS
978-1-933354-71-2, $15.95, paper, 120 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Starring a host of
Hollywood’s brightest stars, including Schiaparelli’s reallife rival Coco Chanel, character actor Lon Chaney, Joan
Crawford, and the Carter Family (as red state vampire
hunters, no less), THE SHOW THAT SMELLS is a thrilling
tale of hillbillies, high fashion, and horror. An invitation
to adults to make-believe, it is sure to please fashion
connoisseurs, fans of classic and cult cinema, and freaks
everywhere. In McCormack’s world, the power of death
can be bottled and sold, and it certainly smells.
Suruchi Mohan
DIVINE MUSIC
978-1-897411-06-3, $19.95, paper, 280 pp.
BAYEUX ARTS 2009
Fiction. South Asian Literature. Lust, passion, and
ambition come alive in this novel, as young aspirants
pursue their dreams. A fascinating debut that shows
India through the lens of music. “In her richly textured
debut novel, Suruchi Mohan opens our eyes to the
intricate world of North Indian classical music. We are
swept along by the story of Sarika, whose beautiful voice
isn’t enough to protect her from being an Indian woman
in an unforgiving world. Steeped in the culture and
traditions of India, DIVINE MUSIC is a captivating read”
—Gail Tsukiyama.
Dinty W. Moore
TOOTHPICK MEN (REVISED EDITION)
978-1-59539-004-2, $14.95, paper, 157 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2006
Fiction. Short Stories. With subjects ranging from gunwielding therapists to drunk taxidermists, Moore’s
exploration of human nature in both its humdrum and
its hilarity surely reflects his work experience as a
documentary filmmaker, professional modern dancer,
wire service journalist, and zookeeper. His prose is sharp,
his characters endearing, and his wit always on target.
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
NO DICE
978-0-9817533-1-7, $15, paper, 158 pp.
Drama. Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s NO DICE is Kelly
Copper’s transcription of that company’s triumphant
4-hour dinner theater event. The dinner is a bologna
sandwich and Dr. Pepper. “Though NO DICE often
threatens mere silliness, its creators have crafted a
generous reflection on art-marking. Just as a tatty piece
of green velvet hung in the shape of a proscenium arch
transforms the space into a theater, Liska and Copper
show how an odd hat or cocked eyebrow can change a
phone chat into a play. They don’t condescend to the
material; they delight in it. As one character effuses,
‘You’re taking the boring part of my life and making it
into art.’ And that isn’t boring at all”—The Village Voice.
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FICTION AND DRAMA
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
RAMBO SOLO
978-0-9817533-3-1, $15, paper, 132 pp.
David Ohle
BOONS & THE CAMP
978-0-9798080-8-1, $12, paper, 100 pp.
CALAMARI PRESS 2009
Drama. RAMBO SOLO continues Nature Theater of
Oklahoma’s investigation into transcription as epic
theater. Zachary Oberzan’s exhaustive retelling of David
Morrell’s First Blood unfurls along a vein of spectacular
psychic charge. Simultaneously giving John Rambo’s life
Homeric form, performing Oberzan’s own relationship to
the book, and anticipating his planned solo remake of
the movie, RAMBO SOLO obliterates distinctions
between the ridiculous and the redemptive.
Fiction. From the author of the legendary MOTORMAN
come two twined novellas—BOONS and THE CAMP.
BOONS, co-written with an eccentric and anonymous
South African professor of entomology, deals with the
cultivation of half-bird half-simian creatures called
Boons. The professor travels the world in his search for a
Boon he can mate with, perhaps love, and finds Ruthie,
the object of his dreams and the subject of his oddball
experiments. THE CAMP takes place around a provincial
mill that spins sheep’s wool into theatrical and Santa
beards. In the mill camp, workers live in brutal poverty
under Mr. Ganzfeld, a cruelly whimsical boss who
lost his nose in a lightning strike and will commit any
depredation to find a “real” replacement, including
murder.
Charu Nivedita
ZERO DEGREE
978-81-906056-1-8, $9.99, paper, 248 pp.
Fiction. South Asia Studies. Translated from the Hindi by
Pritham K. Chakravarthy and Rakesh Khanna. With its
mad patchwork of phone sex conversations, nightmarish
torture scenes, tender love poems, numerology,
mythology, and compulsive name-dropping of Latin
American intellectuals, Charu Nivedita’s novel ZERO
DEGREE stands out as a groundbreaking work of Tamil
transgressive fiction that unflinchingly probes the
deepest psychic wounds of humanity. “Hide it in the
deep recesses of your clothes cupboard or in the general
chaos of your office desk, if you must, but read it”
—Asha S. Menon, New Sunday Express.
Elizabeth Nunez
ANNA IN-BETWEEN
978-1-933354-84-2, $22.95, cloth, 347 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
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Eric E. Olson
THE PROCESSION OF MOLLUSKS
978-0-9822252-1-9, $15.95, paper, 244 pp.
Fiction. “Murder is afoot, or aslither, in Newport Bay, the
setting for Eric Olson’s bracingly odd, darkly infolding
tale of a Pacific Northwest hamlet where the shellfish
have come up to take the air, the townspeople are
turning very strange and the television cameras are
rolling. Twin Peaks meets The Living Planet (with a dash
of Groundhog Day) in this brilliant debut—Olson is off to
an exciting start”—Laird Hunt.
Stacia Saint Owens
AUTO-EROTICA
978-1-60489-025-9, $15.95, paper, 168 pp.
Fiction. African American Studies. ANNA IN-BETWEEN is
Elizabeth Nunez’s finest literary achievement to date.
In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and
the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns
to themes of emotional alienation, within the context
of class and color discrimination, so richly developed in
her earlier novels. Anna, the novel’s main character, who
has a successful publishing career in the United States, is
the daughter of an upper-class Caribbean family. While
on vacation in the island home of her birth she discovers
that her mother, Beatrice, has breast cancer. Beatrice
categorically rejects all efforts to persuade her to go to
the United States for treatment, even though it is,
perhaps, her only chance of survival. Anna and her
father, who tries to remain respectful of his wife’s wishes,
must convince her to change her mind.
Fiction. Winner of the fourth annual Tartt First Fiction
Award. A neurotically jealous band of celebrities’
children cruelly abandons one of their pack in the desert.
A recovering nymphomaniac plots to kidnap her
daughter from a religious cult she deems embarrassingly
bland. A stage mother starves her daughter into
permanent prepubescence then uses her to perpetrate a
child abuse scam. Two call girls who operate as a fake
twin act suspect each other of murdering their johns. On
the dark fringes of Hollywood’s sparkle live the eternal
strivers, the unsung unknowns whose unquenchable
ambition and ambivalent compliance in their own
exploitation fuels America’s dream factory.
John O’Brien
BETTER
978-1-933354-82-8, $15.95, paper, 198 pp.
Surender Mohan Pathak
THE 65 LAKH HEIST
978-81-906056-5-6, $11.95, paper, 211 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Fiction. “No contemporary novelist has plumbed so
deeply into the human heart, and none has paid a
steeper price for visiting those depths than John O’Brien.
BETTER shows us what America lost when the author of
Leaving Las Vegas took his own life. Unflinching,
dark-souled, cry-until-you-laugh authentic ... each word
of this novel burns as true and doomed as a lit match
dropped in a shot of whiskey. John O’Brien was a
writer who lived and died with every sentence.
BETTER is testament to the miracle of what the man
accomplished—and what he might have accomplished
had not death seemed like a better alternative. No one
who reads this book will walk away unmoved”
—Jerry Stahl. “John O’Brien was a stunningly talented
writer who created poetry from the most squalid
material”—Jay McInerney.
Fiction. South Asia Studies. Translated from the Hindi by
Sudarshan Purohit. Vimal never wanted to get involved
in the heist. Now that he’s been roped in, he just hopes
he can finish the job without getting caught. His
partners have other plans, however, and soon Vimal
finds himself playing a deadly game with the kingpin of
the Punjab underworld.... First published in 1977 and
reprinted over fifteen times, THE 65 LAKH HEIST is the
fourth book in Surender Mohan Pathak’s hugely popular
`Vimal’ series, the book that launched a whole genre of
anti-hero Hindi crime fiction.
LIVINGSTON PRESS 2009
FICTION AND DRAMA
Emma Pérez
GULF DREAMS
978-1-879960-81-7, $14.95, paper, 160 pp.
David Reiter
PRIMARY INSTINCT
978-1-921479-02-1, $24, paper, 288 pp.
AUNT LUTE BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Latino/Latina Studies.
GULF DREAMS is the story of a Chicana who comes of
age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the
protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love
for a young woman, her best friend since childhood.
“A powerful, gripping, and disturbing story of passion
and betrayal, survival and vengeance, compulsion and
resilience, told in arresting images and fragmented,
dreamlike narrative”—Teresa de Lauretis, professor of
History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz. “This amalgam
of life history, creative nonfiction, psychoanalytic
treatise and fictionalized memoirs is a welcome addition
to queer literature”—Gloria Anzaldúa, author of
BORDERLANDS.
Fiction. Cherry Kaufman had her ideals—once. But
nothing prepared her for the “challenges” of teaching at
primary school, not to mention what her mates get
up to after school hours.... A humorous and irreverent
expose of the education system, in the mode of the BBC
series “Teachers.”
Eric Priestley
FOR KEEPS
978-0-9796177-4-4, $12.95, paper, 257 pp.
OTIS BOOKS/SEISMICITY EDITIONS 2009
Fiction. African American Studies. The story is broken
off into bits and pieces until the only thing anybody
ever remembers about the thing is that it did exist, that
it possessed power and real magic. These secrets
become a lost myth from the lips of Griots to the blood
of warriors. And the physical thing one day becomes
only a myth.
Nava Renek
NO PERFECT WORDS
9.7819331323e+012, $14, paper, 137 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2009
Fiction. After the breakup of a long-term relationship,
forty-something Caroline Traeger must put her life back
together. Left alone with her seven-year-old daughter,
she desperately searches back through her life for an
explanation for her personal failure. Through stories of
her adventurous past, she explores love, desire,
commitment, and loneliness, comparing her own
choices to those of other women she’s met along the
way. Her journey is ours, re-arranging the pieces of the
puzzle that make a meaningful life.
Nava Renek
SPIRITLAND
978-1-881471-57-8, $13, paper, 230 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2002
Ki. Rajanarayanan
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU MONKEYS?:
FOLKTALES FROM TAMIL NADU
978-81-906056-4-9, $17.95, paper, 268 pp.
Fiction. Foklore. South Asia Studies. Translated from the
Tamil by Pritham K. Chakravarthy. Ki. Rajanarayanan has
spent three quarters of a century collecting the weirdest
and wildest tales from the karisal mannu, the scorched,
drought-stricken land of Tamil Nadu. This colorful and
often hilarious collection includes a gallery of conniving
goddesses and jealous husbands, pious sparrows and
randy mice, jewel-crazy girl ghosts and angry star
demons. WARNING: Includes a chapter of “naughty &
dirty” tales!
Stephen Ratcliffe
READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET
978-1-933996-14-1, $17.95, paper, 200 pp.
Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. READING
THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET is about the presence
and significance of offstage action in Hamlet, things we
hear about in words but do not see performed physically
onstage—things like King Hamlet’s murder “while [he]
was sleeping in [his] orchard,” Ophelia’s death in “the
glassy stream,” Hamlet’s visit to Ophelia’s “closet ... with
his doublet all unbraced,” Gertrude and Claudius having
sex “in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed.” In a series of
brilliantly original “close readings,” Ratcliffe examines
how it is that passages such as these make physically
absent things verbally “present,” how they “show” us
things we do not actually see, how they bring us face to
face with the “Words, words, words” that are what
Hamlet is, he argues, most of all about.
Fiction. SPIRITLAND follows the journey of Maddy Foster
as she travels through the fringe world of backpackers,
drug dealers, Vietnam Vets, and other ex-pats living in
Thailand. During Maddy’s first week in Bangkok, she
discovers a notice on a traveler’s bulletin board where
parents are seeking information about their missing
daughter. From that moment on, Maddy embarks on her
own informal search for this fellow American woman,
meanwhile losing herself in the quest. Throughout her
journey, Maddy chooses to surround herself with other
lost souls whose stories are interwoven with her own
and may explain the choices the characters make and
the factors that have gotten them into their unusual, and
sometimes desperate, circumstances. Maddy’s
deteriorating state of mind and escalating drug use lead
to a succession of bad decisions, bringing her closer to
her own destruction.
Nava Renek, Editor
WRECKAGE OF REASON: XXPERIMENTAL PROSE
BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS
978-1-933132-63-1, $20, paper, 324 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2008
Fiction. WRECKAGE OF REASON incorporates the work of
39 contemporary women writers who are pushing the
boundaries of fiction. In this diverse and comprehensive
volume, the writers have manipulated traditional ways
of storytelling, language, and plot, to express new and
distinct ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
Narrative form is subverted, provocative subject matter
explored, and language takes on a scatological form to
depict an authentic human experience that makes
reading a truly participatory act. At the conclusion of
each work, the contributor has composed a few
impressions sharing what inspired her to tell that
particular story. The writers include Laurie Foos, Kass
Fleisher, Fanny Howe, Shelley Jackson, Laynie Browne,
Sarah White, Summer Brenner, Amina Cain, Danielle
Dutton, and others.
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FICTION AND DRAMA
Giose Rimanelli
THE THREE-LEGGED ONE: A GLOSSED NOVEL
978-1-59954-000-9, $15, paper, 220 pp.
Sam Savage
THE CRY OF THE SLOTH
978-1-56689-231-5, $14.95, paper, 224 pp.
Fiction. “This new novel completes what will inevitably
be called the Anabasis Trilogy, and removes any doubt of
Rimanelli’s place in American literature”—Fred L.
Gardaph, from the Introduction. “Giose Rimanelli is one
of those remarkable writers who, like Joseph Conrad,
have turned from their first language to English....”—
Anthony Burgess, Times Literary Supplement.
Fiction. Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines,
cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is
slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age.
A negligent landlord, small-time literary journal editor,
and aspiring novelist, he is—quite literally—authoring
his own downfall. From his letters, diary entries, and
fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs,
this novel is a collection of everything Whittaker
commits to paper over the course of four critical months.
Beginning in July, during the economic hardships of the
Nixon era, we witness our hero hounded by tenants
and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group,
and tormented by his ex-wife. In this tragicomic portrait
of a literary life, Sam Savage proves that all the evidence
is in the writing, that all the world is, indeed, a stage,
and that escape from the mind’s prison requires a
command performance.
Kim Stanley Robinson
THE LUCKY STRIKE
978-1-60486-085-6, $12, paper, 128 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Fiction. THE LUCKY STRIKE, the classic and controversial
story Robinson has chosen for PM’s new Outspoken
Authors series, begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a
crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried
aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world
forever. Until something goes wonderfully wrong ...
“If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the
standard for science fiction in the future, it would be
Kim Stanley Robinson”—The New York Times.
Hirsh Sawhney, Editor
DELHI NOIR
978-1-933354-78-1, $15.95, paper, 326 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Peter Rosei
METROPOLIS VIENNA
978-1-933382-27-2, $14.95, paper, 301 pp.
GREEN INTEGER 2009
Fiction. Translated from the German by Roland Knappe.
Unlike the famed movie The Third Man, Peter Rosei’s
portrait of post-World War II Vienna is a terrifying hell
created by the very people who created it, continuing
their activities after the war, a world akin to Heimit
o von Doderer’s great novel The Demons.
Philip Roy
JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS
978-1-55380-076-7, $10.95, paper, 224 pp.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. In this sequel to the bestselling novel SUBMARINE OUTLAW, Alfred undertakes a
new voyage in his homemade submarine that takes him
from his native Newfoundland into the Mediterranean in
search of fabled Atlantis. Along the way there is a daring
rescue at sea, a chase of illegal Spanish trawlers, a pirate
attack, and a camel journey into the desert.
Joanna Ruocco
THE MOTHERING COVEN
978-0-9637536-2-5, $14, paper, 123 pp.
ELLIPSIS PRESS 2009
Fiction. Mapping a utopia on the brink, THE MOTHERING
COVEN’s rare blend of charisma and pyrotechnic
wordplay makes for an utterly original act of storytelling.
Bertrand has disappeared from the house she shared
with seven women—artists, scientists, and of course,
witches. As the women plan a party for Mrs. Borage’s
hundredth birthday, Bertrand’s absence threatens to
dissolve the world they’ve created. “Deliriously
imagined, THE MOTHERING COVEN is a work of wonder.
Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!”—
Carole Maso. “[A]n engagingly whimsical tale, graceful
and inventive, with its own distinctive lexicon”
—Robert Coover.
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Fiction. The eyes of the world are gazing at India—the
world’s largest democracy. But the books you read about
this Asian giant only show part of the picture. DELHI
NOIR offers bone-chilling, mesmerizing takes on the
country’s chaotic capital, a city where opulence and
poverty are constantly clashing, where old-world values
and the information age wage a constant battle. DELHI
NOIR’s fourteen original stories are written by the best
Indian writers alive today—the ones you haven’t yet
heard of but should have. They are veteran authors who
have appeared on the Booker Prize short list and
budding geniuses your grandchildren will read about in
English class. DELHI NOIR is a world of sex in parks, male
prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. It is one
plagued by religious riots, soulless corporate dons, and
murderous servants. This is India uncut, the one you’re
missing out on because mainstream publishing houses
and glossy magazines can’t stomach it.
Tim Schell
THE DRUMS OF AFRICA
978-1-59539-022-6, $15.95, paper, 247 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2007
Fiction. Tim Shell’s first novel, THE DRUMS OF AFRICA,
is a gripping and timely tale of two young Americans,
Val and Glen, arriving in Africa as Peace Corps volunteers
in the 1970s, filled with altruism, naivete and a thirst
for adventure. As the line between adventure and
catastrophe narrows, Schell masterfully creates a mosaic
of cultural perspectives and ethical tensions between
faith and its lack, politics and revolutionary coups, lust
and love set against an exotic backdrop rife with
sorcerers, priests, corrupt politicians, poachers, coffee
farmers, Peace Corps workers and prostitutes, a place
leading each character inward to unexpected selfrevelation and self-sacrifice.
FICTION AND DRAMA
Olive Senior
ARRIVAL OF THE SNAKE-WOMAN
978-1-894770-53-8, $20.95, paper, 176 pp.
Larry Smith
THE LONG RIVER HOME: A NOVEL
978-1-933964-31-7, $16, paper, 240 pp.
Fiction. African American Studies. The Toronto author’s
Jamaican birthplace provides the setting for these
powerful and poignant stories that span a period of
roughly 150 years, from the closing days of slavery in
1838 to the 1980s. The tensions wrought by rapid
change and conflicting loyalties are at the heart of these
stories, most beautifully evoked in the novella “Arrival of
the Snake-Woman.” Here a young boy narrates the
seminal event of his childhood in the late nineteenth
century: the coming of a lonely Indian indentured
woman into a mountain village. Senior’s stories are
leavened with wit and humour and the intricate play
with language and her characters emerge as triumphant
examples of the human spirit unravelling the complex
weave of race, class, and cultural and ethnic identity.
Fiction. “In this fine Appalachian novel, Larry Smith
chronicles four generations of McCalls, their joys and
sorrows, their sins and their nobility.... Such regional
fiction has always been about people: their connections
with one another, their home place, their struggles to
survive and to prosper. It’s all here, set, in the grand
tradition of Wendell Berry and Conrad Richter, against
the Ohio landscape: its hills and its rivers, its frontier
beginnings and its later industrial development.
We care about the place and its people. Finishing the
novel, we understand ourselves and our nation with a
deeper knowledge”—Annabel Thomas, author of
Stone Man Mountain.
Eric Paul Shaffer
BURN & LEARN: MEMOIRS OF THE CENOZOIC ERA
978-1-58775-028-1, $24.95, paper, 415 pp.
LEAPING DOG PRESS 2009
Fiction. BURN & LEARN is a wild tale of five friends
attending college, drinking coffee at the Frontier
Restaurant, and learning the wisdom of the ages, the
era, and the street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This
episodic novel begins where Laurence Sterne and
Richard Brautigan left off, introducing a truly amusing
and alluring wilderness of words through which readers
can blaze their own glorious trails. The novel reveals all
in thirteen modes ranging from mythology, sciencefiction fables, American koans, Coyote tales, coyote
chapters, BookMovie chapters, Missing Lists (and other
relevant context), realistic narrative, encyclopedic entries
enumerating the details of the Century of Technological
Disaster, commentary concerning the Ideal Edition
of the novel, a love story, a lost-love story, and parables
of four monkish brothers residing in a cabin on the
Continental Divide.
Julian Silva
DISTANT MUSIC: TWO NOVELS
978-0-9722561-9-3, $20, paper, 540 pp.
PORTUGUESE IN THE AMERICAS SERIES 2007
Fiction. Portuguese American Studies. Two discretely
shaped yet interdependent narratives creating a family
saga from the viewpoints of both maternal and paternal
lines (a difficult and rarely successful strategy for fiction)
comprise this large and capacious novel. DISTANT
MUSIC begins in the nineteenth century and extends
well into the twentieth, a diptych retelling the story of
the Wood and Ramos families and their descendants in
rough-and-tumble California. In crisp, succint, and often
elegant prose, rich in deftly selected detail, Julian Silva
celebrates not only the resilience of men and women
confronted with failure but—even more importantly—
he adumbrates the compromised morality of their
achievement”—George Monteiro, author of Robert Frost
and the New England Renaissance.
Matthew Simmons
A JELLO HORSE
978-0-9820813-2-7, $10.95, paper, 72 pp.
Fiction. When his new roommate’s brother dies tragically,
the unnamed narrator of A JELLO HORSE offers to
drive him home to the Midwest. Feeling anxious and
displaced, he embarks on another roadtrip to visit the
bizarre attractions and quirky museums in America’s
heartland. “Matthew Simmons has found a beautiful and
extraordinary way to tell a story about the sweetness
of sadness and the aloneness of loneliness”
—Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody.
Rhoda Stamell
THE ART OF RUIN
978-0-932412-78-2, $16.95, paper, 126 pp.
MAYAPPLE PRESS 2009
Fiction. Suliman grew up as a street kid in Detroit.
In jail, he began to understand himself as a man who
can change things with his hands and his sense of
beauty. When he meets Kate, an older woman who has
always found her sense of worth in sexual relationships,
she becomes his patron. Although she is unable to free
herself from her own rigid sense of how things are
supposed to be, Kate helps Suliman to reinvent himself
as a successful artist, finding beauty and vitality in the
urban landscape of Detroit.
Cordelia Strube
LEMON
978-1-55245-220-2, $17.95, paper, 260 pp.
Fiction. Lemon has three mothers: a biological one
she’s never met, her adopted father’s suicidal ex, and
Drew, a school principal who hasn’t left the house since
she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat
dad, one young cancer-riddled protege, and two friends,
the school tramp and a depressed poet. Figuring the
numbers are against her, Lemon just can’t be bothered
trying to fit in. She spurns fashion, television, and even
the mall. She reads Mary Wollstonecraft and gets pissed
off that Jane Eyre is such a wimp. Meanwhile, the adults
in her life are all mired in self-centeredness, and the
other kids are getting high, beating each other up in
parks, and trying to outsex one another.
Michael Tregebov
THE BRISS
978-1-55420-043-6, $19, paper, 240 pp.
NEW STAR BOOKS 2009
Fiction. There is a Jewish proverb that goes:
“Grandchildren are your reward from God for not having
murdered your children.” And so THE BRISS begins, with
Sammy, the father of two grown children he would
like to choke the life out of. His daughter Marilyn has just
ended an affair that should have been kept a secret.
In the meantime, his younger son, Teddy, who had left
months ago on a ten-day Birthright Israel tour, got
himself mixed up with gush shalom Israelis who
introduced him to a diaspora Palestinian woman visiting
her ailing grandmother in Ramallah. Teddy falls in love
with her, and, well, knocks her up. Sammy, who fought in
Israel in ‘48 but moved back home to Winnipeg years
ago, a move he has regretted, is forced into an angry
struggle with his son that reveals all their unresolved
emotional conflicts. A wildly entertaining and poignant
novel, THE BRISS explores, on a personal level, family
relationships, and on a political level, the continuing
debate about Jewish identity and its connection to Israel
and Palestine.
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FICTION AND DRAMA
Lee Upton
THE GUIDE TO THE FLYING ISLAND
978-1-60743-571-6, $15, paper, 93 pp.
MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS 2009
Fiction. Off the coast of the small town of Truror is an
island steeped in local legend, a place once home to
mysterious religious orders and apocryphal lost
settlements ... a place that seems, in the right fog, to lift
right out of the water and fly. This peculiar past has
made the island, in the present, a minor tourist
attraction, drawing sightseers and the devout alike. On
an otherwise routine tour, Jake Isinglass, a native son of
Truror and guide to the island, witnesses something he
can’t explain: a young woman falls from an island cliff to
her death ... or jumps to her death ... or vanishes into
thin air. What follows in Jake’s investigation finds him
uncovering not just the island’s difficult history but his
own. Written in evocative, atmospheric prose, THE GUIDE
TO THE FLYING ISLAND is at once a ghost story, a
mystery, and a meditation on the ways our lives remain
haunted by the secrets of our pasts.
Jose Castro Urioste
AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
978-1-891270-25-3, $13, paper, 112 pp.
LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW PRESS 2009
Fiction. Latin American Studies. African American
Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Enrica J.
Ardemagni. This poignant story follows Tito as he takes
two journeys. The first takes him from his home town of
Tacna, Peru, to the capital, Lima, then to Canada and the
United States. The other journey is the trip from the
innocence of childhood to his entry into adulthood.
Melvin Van Peebles
CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUS-ITCHYFOOTED
MUTHA
978-1-933354-86-6, $17.95, paper, 63 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Graphic Novel. African American Studies. Nearly
forty years after breaking his way into public
consciousness, the indefatigable godfather of African
American cinema presents a graphic novel version of his
latest film (of the same name). Beholden to no one but
himself, Melvin Van Peebles vividly brings the big screen
alive on the printed page in this delicious romp about a
soul-searching globetrotter. The immaculately
illustrated, bawdy picaresque details a lonely man’s
search for love in all the wrong places—an odyssey of a
man (“played” in the film and in the illustrations by Van
Peebles) whose restlessness keeps him constantly on the
move. Replete with film stills, all-original illustrations,
crackling dialogue, and trademark wit (recalling the best
of Richard Pryor as funneled through an oversexed
Miguel de Cervantes), this madcap adventure reflects an
artist-provocateur at the peak of his creative power.
Ken Wilkerson
MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY: A BRIGHT RIDE INSIDE
A MAGICAL ROAD SHOW
978-1-879378-55-1, $15, paper, 218 pp.
XENOS BOOKS 2009
Fiction. MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY is the boisterous account of
a traveling vampire act wending its way through the
remote reaches of the American Southwest. Written with
a chronicler’s love of the area, with a sharp eye for its
characters and a keen ear for its speech, the narrative
conveys the high energy and bright spirits of a
performance group in the midst of mountains, cacti and
ten-gallon hats. Count Magic’s never-ending roguery
and his skills at creating a vodka-fueled show, along with
his crew’s enthusiasm for presenting vampire horrors,
sex and blood-letting to the denizens of desert towns,
merge affably to offer the reader a good-feeling ride.
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VOLUME 2, FICTION & NONFICTION
978-1-934200-04-9, $29.95, paper, 480 pp.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Fiction. Nonfiction. A historical document so significant
it requires two volumes. FENCE evades the tedium of the
decade with this anthology, co-edited by eleven editors
past and present, including founder Rebecca Wolff;
fiction editors Jonathan Lethem, Ben Marcus, and Lynne
Tillman; poetry editors Caroline Crumpacker, Katy
Lederer, Matthew Rohrer, Christopher Stackhouse, and
Max Winter; and nonfiction editors Frances Richard and
Jason Zuzga.
John Dermot Woods
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF PEOPLE,
PLACES & THINGS
978-1-935402-46-6, $16, paper, 178 pp.
BLAZEVOX BOOKS 2009
Fiction. “John Woods’THE COMPLETE COLLECTION brings
the small-town America of Sherwood Anderson’s
Winesburg, Ohio into conversation with Italo Calvino’s
fake travelogue, Invisible Cities, and that book’s dreamish
vision of Imperial China. Like Calvino’s novel, the book
evokes a kind of nearly Renaissance-like iconographic
worldview of Memory and the Imagination, but one
channeled through the disposable world of American
children’s toys and comic books. The flat voice is
disconcertingly balanced between farce, comedy and
deadly seriousness”—Johannes G öransson. “An
accomplished artist and writer, in addition to being an
entertaining and often an electrifying one. John Woods
does something very original in his combining of the
arts in this collection, and my hat’s off to him in his twohat achievement”—Stephen Dixon.
Joseph Young
EASTER RABBIT
978-0-9820813-4-1, $13.95, paper, 80 pp.
Fiction. Joseph Young’s microfictions are delicate in their
profundity. Each of the 76 stories are so tightly crafted
that the richness is clear through the spare word counts.
Andrew Zornoza
WHERE I STAY
978-0-9779019-1-3, $14, paper, 108 pp.
Fiction. In the process of constantly disappearing, the
unhinged, unmoored and unnamed narrator of
WHERE I STAY travels through a cracked North America,
stalked by his own future self and the whispers of a
distant love. From Arco, Idaho, to Mexico City, he flees
along the highways and dirt roads of a landscape filled
with characters in transition: squatters, survivalists,
prostitutes, drug runners, skinheads, border guards and
con-men. WHERE I STAY is a meditation on desperation,
identity, geography, memory, and love—a story about
endurance, about the empty spaces in ourselves, about
the new possibilities we find only after we have lost
everything. “Refreshing, pitch-perfect kind of steering
that is innovative not only for the genre it might get
called into, but for experiential and language-focused
texts of every stripe”—Blake Butler.
REGIONS OF BEING!
TH E G R A N D PI A NO
AN EXPERIMENT IN COLLECTIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
SAN FRANCISCO, 1975– 1980
Rae Armantrout
Lyn Hejinian
Ted Pearson
Tom Mandel
Ron Silliman
Carla Harryman
Steve Benson
Barrett Watten
Bob Perelman
Kit Robinson
MODE
A
I read Grand Piano 1–7, chronologically,
writer by writer, instead of volume by
volume, lying in bed, on a Sunday.
—Suzanne Stein, on FaceBook
“The Grand Piano continues to amaze . . .”
—David Meltzer
“Language, history, textuality, and temporality. . .”
—Robin Tremblay-McGaw
“Une experience vraiment captivante . . .”
—Alain Cressan
“Obsessively readable” —Mark Scroggins
Designed and published by Barrett Watten, Mode A/ This
Press (Detroit). For further information and online archive of
digital resources, see our web site: www.thegrandpiano.org.
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First Voices
Societies of Peace
An Aboriginal Women’s Reader
Matriarchies Past, Present
and Future
edited by PATRICIA A. MONTURE
and PATRICIA D. MCGUIRE
edited by HEIDE GOETTNER-ABENDROTH
“A WORK OF LOVE AND GREAT BEAUTY”
“A POWERFUL LIFE-AFFIRMING BOOK”
“What a rich demonstration of the
creativity, critical thinking and activism
of Aboriginal women! A significant
contribution towards the ongoing
articulation of who we are.”
—KIM ANDERSON, AUTHOR OF A
“A rich and provocative reading
experience.”
SANDRA MAYO, TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
RECOGNITION OF BEING
ISBN 978-0-9808822-9-2
6 x 9" / November 2009
556 pages / $39.95
“For far too long our voices have been
silenced.”
—BEVERLEY JACOBS, PAST PRESIDENT OF
NWAC (2004-2009)
“This volume … is a work of love, and
of great beauty.”
—BONITA LAWRENCE, AUTHOR OF “REAL”
ISBN 978-0-9782233-5-9
6 x 9" / October 2009
464 pages / $39.95
“The dicveristy and breadth
of these papers, many by members
of present-day matriarchal societies
throughout the world, is astonishing
and inspiring.”
—CRISTINA BIAGGI, AUTHOR
OF THE RULE OF MARS
“A powerful, life-affirming political
book.”
ANGELA MILES, AUTHOR OF
INTEGRATIVE FEMINISMS
INDIANS AND OTHERS
INANNA PUBLICATIONS
www.yorku.ca/inanna
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Essential Readings for Feminists Everywhere
Literary Nonfiction
Keith Abbott
DOWNSTREAM FROM TROUT FISHING IN
AMERICA: A MEMOIR OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
978-0-9822252-2-6, $15.95, paper, 169 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In DOWNSTREAM FROM
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA: A MEMOIR OF RICHARD
BRAUTIGAN, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard
Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott
explains the writer’s dedication to the art of fiction and
his quest to break beyond the pop culture, hippie label
that haunted him until his suicide in 1984. Brautigan’s
tight prose inspired authors such as Haruki Murakami,
and his experimentation with the line won him
accolades from authors like Ishmael Reed, Raymond
Carver, and Michael McClure. His work is highly
influential and Abbott draws a clear connection between
Brautigan’s life and his writing. This book is essential
for anyone who is interested in the work of Richard
Brautigan. Raymond Carver writes, “Truly the best thing
I’ve ever seen written of the man.”
Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins
DANCE OF DAYS: TWO DECADES OF PUNK
IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL
978-1-933354-99-6, $21.95, paper, 440 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Nonfiction. Music. Updated 2009 edition of the
evergreen punk classic! The nation’s capital gave birth to
the most influential punk underground of the ‘80s
and ‘90s. DANCE OF DAYS recounts the rise of trailblazing
artists such as Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat,
Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and Bikini Kill. “For anyone
interested in the power of independent music, this is
an overdue insight into a vibrant, homegrown scene”
—Mojo.
Amiri Baraka (as Leroi Jones)
BLACK MUSIC
978-1-933354-93-4, $15.95, paper, 240 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2010
Literary Nonfiction. Music. African American Studies.
The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s
seminal work, BLUES PEOPLE, and latest selection in the
AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series, BLACK MUSIC is
a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the
early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles
Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp,
Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews,
interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal
impressions from 1959-1967.
Konrad Becker
STRATEGIC REALITY DICTIONARY: DEEP
INFOPOLITICS AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
978-1-57027-202-8, $12.95, paper, 160 pp.
AUTONOMEDIA 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Social Science. With his seventy-two
keys, Konrad Becker aims to unlock the gates of strategic
reality: its construction over centuries, its imposition
through stealth and force, its dull and laborious
maintenance, and its dissolution and destruction by
those who can’t take it anymore. The subjects treated
here range widely, from Affective Images and Conspired
Environments to Hyperreal Estate (a high-profile topic
during the credit crunch of 2008), Phantom Induction,
Reality Maps, Synthetic Fear, etc.
See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.11), Fiction and Drama
Cara Benson, Editor
PREDICTIONS (CHAINLINKS)
978-1-930068-45-2, $14.95, paper, 115 pp.
CHAINLINKS 2009
Cultural Writing. Edited by Cara Benson, with
contributors Paul Raskin, Bart Bridger Woodstrup,
Julie Sadler, David Zuga, Jason Zuga, and M ónica de
la Torre. As is painfully obvious for many a religious
leader and many a psychic, predicting the future is an
indeterminate business. The work collected in
PREDICTIONS takes that indeterminancy as a starting
point and celebrates it. A futurist points to how the
question of the future, once a matter for dreamers and
philosophers, has moved to the center of development
and scientific agendas. Several artists, well aware that
accelerating changes to the environment require
that we learn quickly, suggest how art might help us to
understand and to rethink the interface between old
technologies and new technologies in this time of
environmental crisis. A writer and a scientist team up
to tell an alternate story of evolution. And a poet writes,
“Predictions acquire full meaning when they apply to
the, until then, unimaginable.”
George Berger
THE STORY OF CRASS
978-1-60486-037-5, $20, paper, 304 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Punk Rock. Anarchism. Crass was
the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement
founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud,
Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the
waves, Crass waived the rules and took it further,
putting out their own records, films and magazines and
setting up a series of situationist pranks that were
dutifully covered by the world’s press. Not just another
iconoclastic band, Crass was a musical, social and
political phenomenon. “Lucid in recounting their
dealings with freaks, coppers, and punks the band’s
voices predominate, and that’s for the best”
—The Guardian UK.
Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman, and Sarah Talbot,
Editors
MY BABY RIDES THE SHORT BUS: THE
UNABASHEDLY HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF
RAISING KIDS WITH DISABILITIES
978-1-60486-109-9, $20, paper, 336 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Nonfiction. Parenting. Education. In lives where there
is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in this
collection provide parents of “special needs” kids with
a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment
of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly.
Featuring works by “alternative” parents who have
attempted to move away from mainstream thought—
or remove its influence altogether—this anthology,
taken as a whole, carefully considers the implications
of parenting while raising children with disabilities.
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LITERARY NONFICTION
Julian T. Brolaski, erica kaufman, and E. Tracy Grinnell,
Editors
NO GENDER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE &
WORK OF kari edwards
978-0-9819310-1-2, $18, paper, 208 pp.
LITMUS PRESS/BELLADONNA BOOKS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. “kari’s
authorial ‘signature’ undoes the authorial body in favor
of a visible obfuscation-strikethru: kari never just signed,
but rather crossed out hir name and wrote “NO GENDER.”
The erasure—well no, the palimpsestic remaking of the
name into a symbol for the dismantling of enforced
gender codes is a profound and provocative gesture—
the name is still visible behind the NO GENDER, as if
behind bars ... kari’s genius moved others to their own
words, art, action—following a mandate of reclaiming
the very words we speak and write—writing our selves,
our other(ed) bodies, into a foundational post-gender
post-genre state. This book is the start of what hopefully
will be a much longer conversation”—from the
introduction by Julian T. Brolaski & erica kaufman.
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Jennifer Burd
DAILY BREAD: A PORTRAIT OF HOMELESS MEN
AND WOMEN OF LENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
978-1-933964-26-3, $15, paper, 96 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. United States Studies. Photography.
With photograhs by Lad Strayer, DAILY BREAD was
developed from a series of articles and photographs on
homelessness in Lenawee County, Michigan, which ran
in the Adrian Daily Telegram newspaper and received a
Michigan Associated Press Editorial Association award.
“DAILY BREAD is simultaneously a heart-breaking and
heart-warming elegy to the poignancy and tragedy of
the homeless. Burd’s moving, lyrical prose poems and
Strayer’s stark and penetrating companion photos
eloquently depict the nuances of pride, suffering, and
fellowship of the severely impoverished among us. This
book depicts how these individuals survive, not only by
wearing their `good cheer like sorrow,’ but also by facing
each day as best they can”—Simone Yehuda.
Brother Anthony of Taize and Hong Kyeong-hee
THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA
978-89-91913-17-2, $17, paper, 124 pp.
Kelly Cherry
GIRL IN A LIBRARY: ON WOMEN WRITERS AND
THE WRITING LIFE
978-1-886157-66-8, $16.95, paper, 234 pp.
BKMK PRESS 2009
Nonfiction. Asian Studies. Tea. Tea drinking is now a
global pastime and a delectable variety of teas are much
sought after by connoisseurs worldwide. In this
meditative volume to understanding, appreciating and
serving Korean tea, authors Brother Anthony of Taize and
Hong Kyeong-hee share their intimate knowledge of a
cultural practice and art form, that at its core embraces
universal principles of peace, refinement, and simplicity.
THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA is a rich and inviting text,
accompanied by full-color photographs of the beauty
of Korea, her architecture, nature and people. This
introductory guide is a welcome addition for anyone
interested in tea and its extraordinary contribution to
the Korean cultural tradition.
Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Women’s Studies.
“Poet, memoirist, fiction writer, and critic Cherry has
assembled a lissome and winning retrospective
collection of essays on writing, reading, and life,” writes
Donna Seaman in her starred Booklist review. “Piquant
essays on family history and her coming-of-age are
deepened by reflections on beauty, art, and vocation. In
fresh and inquiring portraits of exceptional southern
women writers—Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Hardwick,
Mary Ward Brown, Bobbie Ann Mason—Cherry explores
the nature of a literary life.” Library Journal writes,
“Cherry explores the craft of writing, tracing her own
development from rebellious college student to awardwinning author of 19 books... Cherry’s story will prove
inspirational to aspiring writers as will her critical essays.”
Jerry Burchfield
UNDERSTORY: LUMEN PRINTS
OF FLORIDA FLORA
978-0-9728544-7-4, $35, cloth, 96 pp.
Chung Sung-ill
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: IM KWON-TAEK
978-89-91913-13-4, $23, paper, 188 pp.
LAGUNA WILDERNESS PRESS 2009
Nonfiction. Photography. Art. UNDERSTORY: LUMEN
PRINTS OF FLORIDA FLORA is a stirring effort to capture
the beauty and habitat changes in central Florida’s Pine
Flatwoods environment, which was once the largest
ecosystem in Florida. Unlike traditional photographers,
Burchfield works in conjunction with nature, producing
camera-less one-of-a-kind photographic images in the
wilderness, using natural processes that date back
to the origins of photography. Working on a large scale,
Burchfield was able to make images of whole trees and a
10’ x 30’ mural of a whole Pine Flatwoods ecosystem.
The result is an amazing collection of images—from the
representational to abstractions of color, shape, and
form—which encapsulate the essence of the plants and
echo the cycle of life.
Film Studies. Asian Studies. For almost 50 years, master
director Im Kwon-taek has chronicled the tremendous
events of Korea’s twentieth century through the
detached lens of the camera. This comprehensive
volume of essays, interviews and biographical
information from renowned film critic Chung Sung-ill
delves deeply into the man behind the epics Sopyonje,
The Taebaek Mountain, and Chihwaseon. Im was born in
1934 in Jangseong, Jeolla Province, and lived through
Japanese colonial occupation, the polarization of the
political factions that led to the Korean War, decades of
dictatorship, the dawn of democracy, and a rapidly
changing society forgetting its past. This volume is a
brilliant orchestration of the historical backdrop for Im’s
works with insight into the film director’s psychology
and personal experience.
LITERARY NONFICTION
Gerald Coble
BATTENKILL BOOK 2: JANUARY
978-0-9785156-7-6, $12.50, paper, 66 pp.
PRESSED WAFER 2009
Art. Gerald Coble was born in Greensboro, North
Carolina, in 1932. He moved to New York in 1962, making
frequent visits to Italy where he had studios in Florence
and in Pomerance, near Volterra. After an extended stay
in Italy, in 1971 he moved to upstate New York to
Battenville in Washington County where he continues to
live and work, returning to Italy whenever possible.
His drawings, collages, and constructions are in many
private collections in the United States and Europe, and
he is represented in the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Phil Cousineau and Scott Chamberlin Hoyt
THE MEANING OF TEA: A TEA INSPIRED JOURNEY
978-0-615-20442-0, $24.95, paper, 363 pp.
TALKING LEAVES PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies.
Food. Travel. THE MEANING OF TEA explores the calm
and purposeful nature of tea through the words of tea
growers, tasters, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, scholars
and experts from eight countries. Through more
than 50 interviews, these engaging characters reveal a
remarkable reverence for the plant, the ceremony, the
manufacturing, the distribution of tea, as well as its
ability to bring peace, calm, health, friendship, and often
wisdom into their lives. Inspired by Scott Chamberlin
Hoyt’s lyrical documentary film of the same name and
edited with extensive commentary by author Phil
Cousineau, THE MEANING OF TEA is at its heart a journey
to connect with the vital forces that infuse tea with
meaning around the modern world.
Galbraith Miller Crump
A SLANT OF LIGHT
978-1-880977-27-9, $17.95, paper, 312 pp.
John Curl
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE: UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN
HISTORY OF COOPERATION, COOPERATIVE
MOVEMENTS, AND COMMUNALISM IN AMERICA
978-1-60486-072-6, $28.95, paper, 506 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Nonfiction. United States History. Seeking to reclaim a
history that has remained largely ignored by most
historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines
each of the definitive American cooperative movements
for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and
communalist—that have been all but erased from
collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular
era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation,
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE documents the multigenerational
struggle of the American working people for social
justice. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking
detail, the chronicle follows the American worker from
the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly
line, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who
built the United States and those who will shape its
future. “It is indeed inspiring, in the face of all the
misguided praise of ‘the market,’ to be reminded by
John Curl’s new book of the noble history of cooperative
work in the United States”—Howard Zinn.
Jean Daive
UNDER THE DOME: WALKS WITH PAUL CELAN
978-1-886224-97-1, $14, paper, 136 pp.
BURNING DECK 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Translated from the French
by Rosmarie Waldrop. An intimate portrait of Paul Celan
in his last, increasingly dark years. Paul Celan and Jean
Daive translate each other, walk, talk. Tensions, silences
and, discreetly, Celan’s crises and suicide. Autumn in
Paris. Incessant walks under the dome of chestnut
leaves. The Luxembourg Garden, the Square of the
Contrescarpe. And, finally, the question: who are we,
and how do we read the unreadable world?
XOXOX PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. A SLANT OF LIGHT
chronicles the life and death of a beautiful woman from
ovarian cancer. More than a narrative of her struggle
with cancer, however, this is a love story, exploring the
richness of life, its joys and adversities as well as the
complexity of loss experienced by those left behind.
Written by her husband, the book recounts their life
together and the challenges he faces in coming to terms
with her death. In writing he discovers the power of
memory to provide solace. From his sadness arises a new
understanding of their lives together, while she emerges
as an image of every woman whose dedication to life as
a mother, teacher, and artist inspired all who knew her.
We come to see her life as rich and full of meaning as the
beautiful quilts in which she stitched together the
fabrics of experience in all its colors.
Jeremiah Day and Simone Forti
JEREMIAH DAY/SIMONE FORTI
978-1-872493-24-4, $15, paper, 95 pp.
PROJECT PRESS 2009
Art. Photography. Performance. JEREMIAH DAY/SIMONE
FORTI is the record of the improvised collaboration
between Jeremiah Day and Simone Forti. Day’s work
spans photography, installation and storytelling, and
employs intensive research to establish connections
between himself and places of public significance; while
Forti is an artist with links to the origins of postmodern
dance in New York in the early 1960s, and whose practice
has more recently involved poetic writing. Day studied
improvisation with Forti in Los Angeles, and in 2007
the two collaborated on an exhibition at Project Arts
Centre, Dublin.
Victor di Suvero, Editor
WE CAME TO SANTA FE
978-0-938631-39-2, $29, paper, 350 pp.
PENNYWHISTLE PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. WE CAME TO SANTA FE is
an anthology of 73 different authors who come together
to share their unique and individual story as to how
it is that they were drawn to the city of Santa Fe, New
Mexico. This collection of memoirs and stories describing
the background, reason, trials, troubles and excitements
that brought this group of outstanding individuals to
make their homes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and its
surroundings, serves to explain the charm, attraction
and way of life to be found in what has become known
as “The City Different.” Artist, doctors, poets, authors,
sculptors, and activists all share their trips over the past
fifty years to define a way of seeing the world in an
unusual and exciting manner.
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LITERARY NONFICTION
Michael Eskin
THE DNA OF PREJUDICE: ON THE ONE
AND THE MANY
978-0-9795829-5-0, $13.95, paper, 104 pp.
UPPER WEST SIDE PHILOSOPHERS 2010
Literary Nonfiction. Philosophy. “Sedulously argued, this
thoughtful book attempts nothing less than a
revalorization of prejudice—its meaning, the way it
manifests itself, and its effect on individuals (the
prejudiced and those who feel the sting of it) as well as
the world around them. It’s an ambitious undertaking,
deftly navigated by Michael Eskin, who cogently offers
an entirely original framework for identifying prejudice
and even confronting it. In an environment that has
been optimistically (if naively) called post-racial—
in which racial, gender, and ethnic divides appear to
have as much poignant resolve as ever—Eskin’s
important book offers a set of powerful pathways for
comprehending and addressing a pernicious aspect of
life that remains far too at home in the headlines, the
rural backroads, and the chill of urban streets”
—Jeffrey Rothfeder.
Steve Fellner
ALL SCREWED UP
978-0-9815163-3-2, $16.95, paper, 181 pp.
978-0-9815163-4-9, $24.95, cloth, 181 pp.
Marilyn French
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. III: INFERNOS AND
PARADISES: THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM IN
THE 19TH CENTURY
978-1-55861-583-0, $19.95, paper, 400 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. With a foreword by
Margaret Atwood. Writing about what she calls the
“most cheering period in female history,” international
best-selling author Marilyn French recounts how
nineteenth-century women living under imperialism,
industrialization, and capitalism organized for their own
education, a more equitable wage, and the vote.
Marilyn French
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. IV: REVOLUTIONS
AND STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN THE
20TH CENTURY
978-1-55861-584-7, $19.95, paper, 624 pp.
Margaret Atwood. From the author of The Women’s
Room, the best-selling novel that defined the issues that
ignited the women’s movement, comes a vibrant history
of the political revolutions of the twentieth century,
ending with a thoughtful investigation into feminist
movements throughout the world and into the future.
BENU PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Memoir.
Murder attempts ... missing umbilical cords ... haunted
quarries ... fat camps ... these darkly comic stories fill the
pages of ALL SCREWED UP. Young, gay, and poor, Steve
Fellner attempts to shed his trailer park past and seize a
better life for himself. But coming from the sticks offers a
certain kind of freedom: no one expects anything from
you, so you can be as wild and ridiculous as you want.
Fellner’s humorous and touching memoir centers on his
odd relationship with his mother, a woman who was
once a championship trampolinist and is now a
champion of the unpredictable.
Marilyn French
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. I: ORIGINS: FROM
PREHISTORY TO THE FIRST MILLENIUM
978-1-55861-565-6, $19.95, paper, 368 pp.
Margaret Atwood. In her powerful and bold writing
style, best-selling author Marilyn French synthesizes
women’s history from our prehistorical roots through the
rise of states across the globe to the onset of statebacked religions in this first of four readable volumes.
Peter Grandbois
THE ARSENIC LOBSTER: A HYBRID MEMOIR
978-1-933132-72-3, $16, paper, 128 pp.
SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. “In this hilarious and
poignant tour de force, our hero is caught in a maze of
simulacra, the mirrored hallways of America gone mad.
The hero’s quest is to smash the mirrors around him—
will his sword work? Could a guitar’s chords shatter the
glass with its rising duende? How can he demolish the
specular artifice to find the scene of his real selves? But
what is the real? And how do we get there, when there is
no one to drive the car”—Eleni Sikelianos. “In Peter
Grandbois’ `hybrid’ memoir the materials of his suburban
anomie are cut apart and thrust into arresting and
disturbing juxtapositions. Passages of spiky adrenalin
play against a melancholic, duende-driven introspection
as identity is assembled and re-assembled in a strobe-lit
chamber”—Sven Birkerts.
Robert Grenier
FARMING THE WORDS: TALKING WITH
ROBERT GRENIER
978-0-9801924-0-7, $12, paper, 62 pp.
FIELD BOOKS 2009
Marilyn French
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. II: THE MASCULINE
MYSTIQUE: FROM FEUDALISM TO THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
978-1-55861-567-0, $19.95, paper, 496 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Art. The poet Robert Grenier
in a wide-ranging conversation (held in 2003) with Tim
Shaner, Jonathan Skinner and Isabelle Pelissier, featuring
some close reading and discussion of six of Grenier’s
drawing poems (included on six color plates).
Margaret Atwood. Analyzing feudalism in Europe and
Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples
across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative
question: how and why did women, with no power or
independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and
their own culture?
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LITERARY NONFICTION
Susan Grimm, Editor
ORDERING THE STORM: HOW TO PUT TOGETHER
A BOOK OF POEMS
978-1-880834-70-1, $14, paper, 96 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. “ORDERING THE STORM
empowers readers to see the poetry collection as an
artistic medium in itself, and offers diverse perspectives
on the subject. Experienced writers and beginners alike
will find inspiration and encouragement in the words of
exceptional poets such as Maggie Anderson, Wanda
Coleman, and Beckian Fritz Goldberg. This book should
be required reading for all graduate student poets, even
those who are still in the process of writing their first
collection, because it includes essential information on
poetic sequencing and useful strategies for examining a
manuscript’s possibilities. One of the most exciting
aspects of the book is the sense of community that
readers feel upon exploring each essay. ORDERING THE
STORM transforms the task of arranging poems from a
solitary undertaking to a collaborative adventure”
—Mary Biddinger, Associate Editor of RHINO.
Durs Grünbein
DESCARTES’ DEVIL: THREE MEDITATIONS
978-0-9795829-4-3, $22.95, cloth, 140 pp.
UPPER WEST SIDE PHILOSOPHERS 2010
Literary Nonfiction. Philosophy. Translated from the
German by Anthea Bell. In three beautifully wrought
meditations on the import of Rene Descartes’ legacy
from a poet’s perspective, Durs Grünbein presents us
with a Descartes whom we haven’t met before: not the
notorious perpetrator of the mind-body-dualism, the
arch-villain of Rationalism but the inspired and
courageous dreamer, explorer, and fabulist. Reading
Descartes against the grain of the widely accepted view
of the philosopher as the proponent of a cut-and-dried,
disembodied, and, hence, misguided view of humanity,
Grünbein discloses the profoundly humane and poetic
underpinnings of the legacy of this “modern man par
excellence,” and, by extension, of modernity as a whole.
Uncovering the poetic foundations of Descartes’
rationalism and, concomitantly, the poetic lining of the
mantle of reason, Durs Grünbein, one of the world’s
greatest living poets and essayists, shows us that reason
is never more alive than when it is most poetic.
William Heyen
HOME: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, ETC.
978-0-9718059-3-4, $14.95, paper, 349 pp.
MAMMOTH BOOKS 2005
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. A collection of essays,
interviews, and other prose by esteemed poet
William Heyen. “William Heyen is that rare American
phenomenon: an undervalued major American poet”
—Vince Clemente. “William Heyen is a remarkable
poet”—Joyce Carol Oates.
Huh Moonyung
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: HONG SANG-SOO
978-89-91913-19-6, $20, paper, 154 pp.
Film Studies. Asian Studies. When Hong Sang-soo’s
debut work, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well, was released
in May 1996, the nation’s film critics were thrown
into shock. The cinematic language in the film was
unprecedented in Korean film history. Since then, Hong
has continued to show his own distinctive style with
near perfection in his following works. This book, written
by Huh Moonyung, one of the most distinguished film
critic in Korea, is intended to help readers to better
understand the cinematic world of Hong Sang-soo.
The book also includes the analyses of a prominent film
critic, David Bordwell and a renowned French film
director, Claire Denis.
Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster and Beverly
Guy-Sheftall, Editors
STILL BRAVE: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK
WOMEN’S STUDIES
978-1-55861-611-0, $22.95, paper, 400 pp.
Nonfiction. African American Studies. Women’s Studies.
Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan,
Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker—from the pioneers of
black women’s studies comes STILL BRAVE, the definitive
collection of race and gender writings today. Including
Alice Walker’s groundbreaking elucidation of the term
“womanist,” discussions of women’s rights as human
rights, and a piece on the Obama factor, the collection
speaks to the ways that feminism has evolved and how
black women have confronted racism within it.
Lisa Jervis
COOK FOOD: A MANUALFESTO FOR EASY,
HEALTHY, LOCAL EATING
978-1-60486-073-3, $10, paper, 136 pp.
PM PRESS 2009
Nonfiction. Cookbook. Vegetarian. This rousing call to
action for healthy, conscious eating is an inspirational
primer for those who want to move beyond packaged
and processed food toward a more responsible and
sustainable way of eating. Many people are learning
about the political ramifications of what they eat but
don’t know how to change their habits or expand their
kitchen repertoire to include meatless dishes. This
compendium offers a straightforward overview of the
political issues surrounding food, and a culinary toolkit
to put principles into practice. Without resorting to faux
meat, fake cheese, or obscure ingredients, the recipes
focus on fresh, local, minimally processed ingredients
that sustain farmers, animals, and the entire food chain.
Instead of a rigid set of recipes to be replicated, it offers
tips for improvisation, creative thinking in the kitchen,
practical suggestions for cooking on a budget, and quick
and delicious vegan and vegetarian meal options for
anyone who wants to eat fast, tasty, nutritious food
every day.
Guillermo C. Jimenez
RED GENES, BLUE GENES: EXPOSING POLITICAL
IRRATIONALITY
978-1-57027-203-5, $16.95, paper, 304 pp.
AUTONOMEDIA 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Political Science. Modern science
postulates that our political predispositions can be
traced to our genes. To some extent, there is such a thing
as “red-state” or “blue-state” DNA. Our brains likewise
bear the evolutionary imprint of hundreds of thousands
of years of political wiring—for biased partisanship.
The result is a political landscape characterized by
irrationality and hostility. Americans today, like citizens
of many other countries, find themselves trapped in
hostile “red” vs. “blue” political warfare. While liberals
and conservatives fight each other for power and
influence, the world’s problems go unsolved. Using
recent scientific evidence from neuroscience, behavioral
genetics, and evolutionary and cognitive psychology,
RED GENES, BLUE GENES is the first book to take a
comprehensive look at the phenomenon of political
irrationality.
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LITERARY NONFICTION
Ann Jones
WOMEN WHO KILL
978-1-55861-607-3, $15.95, paper, 464 pp.
Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. This legendary bestseller
exposes the truths and consequences of women on the
edges of society—women driven to kill. From Lizzie
Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, this riveting
investigation will change the ways you think about
crime and punishment. A new introduction by the
author illuminates the conditions for women who kill—
and are killed—now. “This provocative book ... reminds
us again that women are entitled to their rage”
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, The New York Times
Book Review.
Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. African
American Studies. Asian American Studies. In these
thoughtful essays, Sheema Khan—Canadian hockey
mom and Harvard PhD—gives us her own pointed
insights on the condition of being a modern and liberal,
yet practising Muslim, especially in Canada. Tackling a
host of issues, such as terrorism, human rights, Islamic
law, women’s rights, and the meaning of hijab, she
explains Islam to the greater public while calling for
mutual understanding and tolerance.
Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
BLACK MUSIC
978-1-933354-93-4, $15.95, paper, 240 pp.
Kim Hong-joon, Editor
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: KIM KI-YOUNG
978-89-91913-12-7, $19, paper, 143 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2010
Literary Nonfiction. Music. African American Studies.
The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s
seminal work, BLUES PEOPLE, and latest selection in the
AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series, BLACK MUSIC is
a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the
early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles
Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp,
Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews,
interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal
impressions from 1959-1967.
Film Studies. Asian Studies. Kim Ki-young is often
acclaimed as an auteur whose films seem to contain
new scenes every time you watch them. Though he
was a leading director with unique artistic style and
provocative themes in the 1960s, the first Golden Age of
Korean films, he went into a long slump with the
stagnation of the Korean film industry after the 70s and
his films became almost forgotten. It was emerging
cinephiles of early 90s that “rediscovered” him and his
works. Kim’s unfamiliar, strange and subversive films
made deep impressions on these cinephiles, some of
whom have become major figures representing Korean
films today such as Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho.
Also international film circles began paying attention
to Kim through the Retrospective at the Pusan
International Film Festival in 1997. This book is a
collaborative work of leading film critics under the
editorship of Kim Hong-joon, who is a film director
himself and has organized international retrospectives
on the old master. As the first English book on Kim Kiyoung, it will serve as a guiding light that focuses more
eyes on Kim Ki-young and the classical films of Korea.
Jung Ji-youn
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: BONG JOON-HO
978-89-91913-53-0, $17, paper, 224 pp.
Film Studies. Asian Studies. This book is the result of
efforts to reach a deeper and broader understanding of
the director Bong Joon-ho, who has been the subject of
a great deal of popular interest and attention in Korean
society in spite of his relatively short filmography of
three feature films. After the experience of Barking Dogs
Never Bite, it appears that the director clearly came to
understand what he had to do to relate the story he
wanted to tell in the way most suited to the public, yet
most in line with his own cinephile impulses. Memories
of Murder and The Host were both major box office
successes in Korean film, but at the same time, they were
films that looked upon the wounds and failures of
modern Korean history in the most perceptive and
challenging ways. As a result, Bong Joon-ho became
almost unique in present-day Korean film in his ability to
break away from commercial and creative pressures and
realize the kind of films he wants to, when he wants to.
Hara Kazuo
CAMERA OBTRUSA: THE ACTION
DOCUMENTARIES OF HARA KAZUO
978-1-885030-44-3, $22.95, paper, 400 pp.
KAYA PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. East Asia Studies.
Translated by Pat Noonan and Takuo Yasuda. Afterword
by Abe Mark Nornes. An authentic visionary of cinema,
Japanese filmmaker Hara Kazuo has spent the past four
decades pioneering a stark documentary style that
challenged the mores of postwar Japanese society.
His works feature dramatic narratives and characters—
radicals, outcasts and those on the margins—who
struggle against adversity: “I make bitter films. I hate
mainstream society,” Kazuo has avowed. CAMERA
OBTRUSA is the first English-language publication
addressing his work. Composed as a straightforward
handbook, the volume offers Kazuo’s technical notes on
his groundbreaking filmmaking. As such, it is invaluable
to students and scholars, but it is also peppered with
anecdotes from the freewheeling filmmaker’s life.
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Sheema Khan
OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF
A CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN
978-1-894770-56-9, $25.95, paper, 200 pp.
Kim Young-jin
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: PARK CHAN-WOOK
978-89-91913-26-4, $20, paper, 164 pp.
Film Studies. Asian Studies. This book is an introductory
guide to Park Chan-wook, the 2004 Cannes Grand Prix
winner and one of the most acclaimed and popular
Korean film directors. The book looks within with an
insider’s eyes and gropes roughly for the root and stems
of the cinematic world of Park, who has achieved both
critical and commercial success, performing stunts
verging on the acrobatic between genre convention and
directorial individuality.
Naomi Klein
THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM
978-1-60486-104-4, $19.95, DVD, 77 min.
PM PRESS 2009
DVD. Economics. Politics. THE RISE OF DISASTER
CAPITALISM features Naomi Klein explaining the ideas
and research behind her bestselling book, The Shock
Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In this riveting
lecture and interview, Klein challenges and exposes
the popular myth of the free market economy’s peaceful
global victory. Around the world there are people
with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting
bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally implement their
policies. They are the shock doctors. From Chile in 1973
to Iraq today, this is the chilling tale of how a few are
making a killing while more are getting killed. Portions
of the proceeds from the sale of the DVD go to the UK
non-profit organization War on Want.
LITERARY NONFICTION
August Kleinzahler
MUSIC: I-LXXIV
978-0-9785156-9-0, $17.50, paper, 306 pp.
Euan McCabe
THE WORLD CUP BABY
978-1-921479-20-5, $24, paper, 398 pp.
PRESSED WAFER 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Music. MUSIC: I-LXXIV collects
August Kleinzahler’s tart, funny, well-informed and
opinionated essays. His range is amazing, extending as it
does from Liberace to the Louvin Brothers, Monk & Rudy
Van Gelder to Glenn Gould, Louis Prima, Bach, Spade
Cooley, Dinah Washington, Kurt Weill, Thelonious Monk,
Junior Brown, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Hildegarde Knef,
Erik Satie, John Lee Hooker, Delius, Ivor Cutler, Roy Fisher,
Muddy Waters, Carl Stalling, Aretha Franklin, Herbie
Nichols, and on....
Literary Nonfiction. Sports. Memoir. Incisive, punchy,
emotional and humorous, this is a story of obsession.
An absolute must-read for those people who spend four
years of their lives waiting for each World Cup, not to
mention those who have to live with them!
Paul Krassner
WHO’S TO SAY WHAT’S OBSCENE?: POLITICS,
CULTURE AND COMEDY IN AMERICA TODAY
978-0-87286-501-3, $16.95, paper, 240 pp.
BAYEUX ARTS 2009
Nonfiction. Politics. Humor. In this collection of irreverent
and satirical essays, counterculture icon Paul Krassner
explores the moral obscenity of contemporary politics
and culture—from censorship of cartoons depicting the
Prophet Mohammed to lessons learned from his mentor,
Lenny Bruce. “Krassner is absolutely compelling. He has
lived on the edge so long he gets his mail delivered
there”—San Francisco Chronicle.
George Lamming
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION:
CONVERSATIONS III
978-0-913441-46-6, $15, paper, 82 pp.
HOUSE OF NEHESI PUBLISHERS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Political Science. African American
Studies. “SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION gives us
that capacity for language and therefore the ability to
name and establish categories. But this is not just a
literary capacity; it allows us to define freedom. George
Lamming recognizes the centrality of the quest for
freedom for the social group that he calls ‘this world of
men and women from down below’”—Prof. Anthony
Bogues, Political Science, Brown University.
Lydia Lunch
WILL WORK FOR DRUGS
978-1-933354-73-6, $15.95, paper, 160 pp.
AKASHIC BOOKS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Autobiography. Social Science. No
Wave founder Lydia Lunch’s first book, PARADOXIA,
proved that her presence is as strong on the page as it is
on the stage. Her literary talents are even more
impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and
uncompromising collection. Whether crafting personal
essays, short fiction, or interviews with fellow antiheroes
Hubert Selby Jr. and Nick Tosches, Lunch dazzles in her
ability to provoke discomfort and awe, terror and hope.
Tara L. Masih, Editor
THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO
WRITING FLASH FICTION: TIPS FROM EDITORS,
TEACHERS, AND WRITERS IN THE FIELD
978-0-9789848-6-1, $15.95, paper, 208 pp.
ROSE METAL PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism and History.
Reference. With its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief
essays by experts in the field, THE ROSE METAL PRESS
FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION meets the
growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of
the re-emerging genre popularly known as flash fiction.
The book’s introduction provides, for the first time, a
comprehensive history of the short short story, from its
early roots and hitherto unknown early publications
and appearances, to its current state and practice.
This guide is a must for anyone in the field of short
fiction who teaches, writes, and is interested in its
genesis and practice.
Deborah Miller
GRAPPLING WITH THE GRUMBLIES
978-1-897411-09-4, $19.95, cloth, 32 pp.
Children’s Nonfiction. Illustrated by Diane Jacobs.
Everyone grapples with the grumblies from time to time,
but this lovely (and funny!) book will help your child—
and you—discover new ways of dealing with difficult
feelings. “I recommend it for anyone who has ever
had a rough day and had trouble turning things around.
In other words, it’s a great book for every family”
—Lawrence Cohen, PhD, psychologist and author of
Playful Parenting.
Gary R. Mormino
ITALIANS IN FLORIDA
978-1-884419-97-3, $15, paper, 135 pp.
Nonfiction. Cultural Writing. Italian Americana. Florida
Studies. Italians have figured prominently in the
history of Florida. From the earliest Spanish voyages of
exploration to the massive migration of second- and
third-generation ethnics after World War II, Italians
have witnessed and participated in the extraordinary
transformation of America’s southernmost state.
Presented here is an overview of the history of Italians in
Florida. Florida’s growth and development as a state is
inextricably tied to the history of Italians in this part of
the United States, the one would be different today
without the other.
Sophia Mustafa
THE TANGANYIKA WAY
978-1-894770-51-4, $32.95, paper, 240 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. African History. Memoir. THE
TANGANYIKA WAY spans the political events of 19581961 that led to Tanganyika’s independence from Britain.
Sophia Mustafa participated in those events, and her
account offers a rare insider’s perspective of the political
drama. She covers large international and national
issues, which, coupled with the smaller personal details
of her life, open a window into a time and an experience
that are emblematic of an unique historical moment.
This reissue is accompanied by rare photographs and a
series of short essays that collectively offer historical,
familial, and political contexts of both the author and
her work. They include reminiscences by friends,
spanning generations and geographies, inquiries by
scholars theorizing “transnational subjectivity”, feminist
readings of Tanzania’s early years, and the complex of
diaspora/postcoloniality embedded in Sophia Mustafa’s
unusual biography.
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LITERARY NONFICTION
Maggie Nelson
BLUETS
978-1-933517-40-7, $14, paper, 99 pp.
WAVE BOOKS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. “Suppose I were to begin by
saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” A lyrical,
philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal
suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as
refracted through the color blue, while folding in, and
responding to, the divergent voices and preoccupations
of such generative figures as Wittgenstein, Sei
Shonagon, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. BLUETS
further confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the
pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.
W.H. New, Editor
FROM A SPEAKING PLACE: WRITINGS FROM THE
FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE
978-1-55380-064-4, $24.95, paper, 450 pp.
Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, Editors
THE EDIBLE CITY: TORONTO’S FOOD FROM
FARM TO FORK
978-1-55245-219-6, $22.95, paper, 360 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. Urban Studies. Food. If a city is its
people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t
food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and
where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential
to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the
locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security
concerns, how chefs are trained: how a city nourishes
itself might say more than anything else about what
kind of city it is. With a cornucopia of essays on
comestibles, THE EDIBLE CITY considers how one city
eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on
processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees
and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school
lunches.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. FROM A SPEAKING PLACE brings
together 63 essays, notes and interviews from 50 years
of contributions to Canadian Literature, Canada’s
foremost journal on the country’s writers and writing.
Included are such stylish writers as Margaret Atwood,
Gerard Bessette, George Bowering, George Elliott Clarke,
Wayde Compton, Basil Johnston, Janice Kulyk Keefer,
Thomas King, Margaret Laurence, George Ryga, Andreas
Schroeder, Audrey Thomas, Tom Wayman, Rudy Wiebe
and George Woodcock. This Canada speaks: of Inuit
voices and Al Purdy’s “rock gothic,” of Bombay and
Trinidad, of “great traditions,” urban findings, laughter,
Acadia, nation, translation, theater, exploration, life
stories and more, from official languages and le
monologue québécois to Marshall McLuhan and
“Hollywood Not.”
Huey Newton
TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE
978-0-87286-529-7, $16.95, paper, 248 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Politics.
Edited by Toni Morrison with a foreword by Elaine
Brown. Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is
now being discovered by those interested in the history
of America’s social movements. This new release of a
classic collection of his writings and speeches traces the
development of Newton’s personal and political
thinking, as well as the radical changes that took place in
the formative years of the Black Panther Party. More than
just a historic record, Newton’s prescience and foresight
make these documents strikingly pertinent today.
Wayne Norton
WOMEN ON ICE: THE EARLY YEARS OF WOMEN’S
HOCKEY IN WESTERN CANADA
978-1-55380-073-6, $21.95, paper, 180 pp.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. Canadian History.
WOMEN ON ICE is the first book to focus upon the
vibrant world of women’s ice hockey in western Canada
during the First World War and the 1920s. With the
support of more than three dozen photographs, many
of which are published here for the first time, WOMEN
ON ICE follows the fortunes of the Vancouver Amazons
as they encountered teams from Victoria and New
Westminster and the powerful squads from Calgary and
Edmonton—teams that deserve to be legendary, but are
now largely forgotten. Also profiled are teams from the
Kootenays and Alberta. The curious decline of women’s
hockey in the 1930s consigned to obscurity the history
of these and of all women’s teams in western Canada.
WOMEN ON ICE attempts to rescue some of that
fascinating history.
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Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla
Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson,
Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson
THE GRAND PIANO: PART 8
978-0-9790198-7-6, $12.95, paper, 208 pp.
MODE A/THIS PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Biography and Memoir. Part Eight in
the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE
GRAND PIANO: PART 8 continues to mark the events,
movements and intersections among ten contributing
1970s Language poets. “THE GRAND PIANO is itself a
veering off and an investigation and a playing or
experimenting with the materials of language, history,
textuality, and temporality, the personal and political,
poetry and community.... There is an abundance to
linger over in THE GRAND PIANO even as and perhaps
because of the large gaps and contradictions”
—Robin Tremblay-McGaw.
Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla
Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson,
Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson
THE GRAND PIANO: PART 9
978-0-9790198-8-3, $12.95, paper, 223 pp.
MODE A/THIS PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Biography and Memoir. Part Nine in
the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE
GRAND PIANO: PART 9 continues to mark the events,
movements and intersections among ten contributing
1970s Language poets. “Like the early avant-gardes,
the poets who gathered at THE GRAND PIANO
developed not only an exacting and liberating poetics,
but also a way of living-in-art. Its chronicle here is many
things, among them a deeply human and amusing map
to building community through literature in this most
unlikely of times”—Cole Swensen.
John Perrault
JEFFERSON’S DREAM: THE BALLAD OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
978-0-9801672-7-6, $16.95, paper, 96 pp.
HOBBLEBUSH BOOKS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. United States History. Education.
With accompanying CD. Republic in story and song.
With commentary, musical scores, ballad lyrics, and a CD,
the book explores the lives of eight great Americans:
Jefferson, Harriet Tubman, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thoreau, Ida B. Wells, and
Eleanor Roosevelt. In the best arts-education tradition,
the book dramatizes how each of these figures
carried forward the values of the Declaration of
Independence—and how their struggles for liberty
and equality continue to impact our lives. The sewn
paperback with gatefold flaps will hold up to music
stands and classroom use. “John Perrault has a great
passion for history and a wonderful insight into the
American Experience,” says folksinger Bill Staines.
LITERARY NONFICTION
Caroline Picard, Editor
THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE AND WINTER
CHRONICLE
978-0-9820292-1-3, $30, paper, 233 pp.
THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Contributers include William Edward
Parry, the Crews of the Helca and Griper, et al. THE
NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE AND WINTER CHRONICLE is
an annotated transcription of the 1821 newspaper, The
North Georgia Gazette. The newspaper was written
aboard an English ship trapped in the Arctic. The ship’s
captain had the sailors produce the newspaper in order
to ward off scurvy. Caroline Picard, Director of the Green
Lantern, describes THE GAZETTE as an “incredible
existential metaphor, where, a group of people, stranded
in the dark, are forced to make their own meaning in
order to survive the harsh conditions.” THE GAZETTE
comes at a time of enormous environmental change,
and it seeks to point out the importance of the
relationships between humans and their surrounding
environment. In addition to the entire 1821 newspaper,
the book includes excerpts from the Captain’s journal,
original annotations by transcriber/poet Lily RobertFoley, an introduction by St. John’s (MD) Professor Dr.
Michael Comenetz, an essay about optimism and
humilty by contemporary Arctic expeditionist John
Huston and contemporary artwork by artists Deb
Sokolow, Daniel Anhorn, Jason Dunda, and Nick Butcher.
Jo Ann Rothschild
THE BOOK OF PENIS
978-0-9824100-3-5, $17.50, paper, 56 pp.
PRESSED WAFER 2009
Miscellaneous. Art. “I had thought that the quality of
my work would exempt me from the prejudice and
constriction suffered by earlier generations of women. It
did not. In 1982 I gathered statistics comparing teaching
positions, reviews and exhibitions of women and men in
Boston. They were unequal. Naming the situation made
it easier for me to work. I thought about that until it
seemed funny. We live in a penis world.”
Shelle
HEROES, GUNDAS, VAMPS & GOOD GIRLS
978-81-906056-6-3, $11.95, paper, 52 pp.
Art. Postcards. South Asian Studies. For nearly four
decades, Mustajab Ahmed Siddiqui, a.k.a. “Shelle”, has
been painting lurid, action-packed covers for thousands
of Hindi pulp novels—thrillers, social dramas, detective
fiction, horror. They’re the ones you find stacked up in
bookstalls at railway stations throughout North India,
written by the best-selling authors in the country:
Surender Mohan Pathak, Ved Prakash Sharma, Anil
Mohan, Ranu, Colonel Ranjit, and many more. This book
of oversize postcards takes you on a journey into Shelle’s
dangerous world of steely detectives, ruthless criminals
and bombshells in distress.
Eric Pinder
LIFE AT THE TOP: WEATHER, WISDOM & HIGH
CUISINE FROM THE MOUNT WASHINGTON
OBSERVATORY
978-0-9801672-6-9, $16.95, paper, 200 pp.
Brenda Paik Sunoo
SEAWEED AND SHAMANS: INHERITING THE
GIFTS OF GRIEF
978-89-91913-03-5, $10, paper, 161 pp.
HOBBLEBUSH BOOKS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington
is known as “Home of the World’s Worst Weather.”
A handful of hardy souls live on the mountain’s
Observatory year-round. Do they have to be just a bit
unusual to seek out such a career? Perhaps. But the
Observatory crew find much to enjoy in their icy
home—even when it means dealing with hundred-mileper-hour winds, wandering moose, and odd questions
from visitors. They are also treated to spectacular
sunsets, spine-tingling thunderstorms, and breathtaking
toboggan runs. Former observer Eric Pinder describes
with wry humor the joys and terrors of living in the
clouds and explains Mount Washington’s geology and
weather. The book ends with a one-of-a kind cookbook
of favorite “Recipes from the Rockpile.”
Literary Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. Memoir.
“Heartfelt and at times heart-rending, SEAWEED AND
SHAMANS details Brenda Paik Sunoo’s journey through
grief into solace. Written with courage and generosity,
her collection of essays traverses personal memory
and Korean-American history, as well as the thoughts
and drawings garnered from diary entries of the child
she lost. A testimony to the endurance of faith and art,
life and love. SEAWEED AND SHAMANS is a gift of
healing”—Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman
and Fox Girl.
Brenda Paik Sunoo
VIETNAM MOMENT
978-89-91913-54-7, $24, paper, 284 pp.
Natesh Raju
WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL TONGUE IS
FORK HEN IS COCK WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS
REAL MY BABY EAGLE’S DREAM COMES TRUE
978-81-906056-2-5, $17.95, paper, 76 pp.
Art. South Asia Studies. Chennai-based artist Natesh is
perhaps better known for his installation artworks and
colorful paintings, which have been exhibited all over
India and in Europe. This collection of some seventy ink
drawings of surreal combinations of hands, women, fish,
tigers, eagles, and rhinoceroses showcases the amazing
things Natesh can do with a simple black line.
Adrian Roberts, Editor
BURNING MAN LIVE: 13 YEARS OF PISS CLEAR,
BLACK ROCK CITY’S ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER
978-1-889307-18-3, $24.99, paper, 319 pp.
RE/SEARCH PUBLICATIONS 2009
Nonfiction. Popular Culture. For mature audiences! 320
pages of alkali-dust-storm-infused advice and wit RE:
sex, drugs, survival, performance art and social anarchy.
This book is the next best thing to actually attending
Burning Man, and for those who have attended, it’s
guaranteed to stir up compelling memories.
Southeast Asian Studies. Photography. Literary
collections. Seoul Selection is proud to announce the
release of VIETNAM MOMENT, a photo essay collection
that presents the beauty and wisdom of the Vietnamese
nation and people. The photos break from the war-torn
image of Vietnam to allow readers to feel the human
beauty of a people maintaining their ancient traditions
amidst natural splendor, their patience and
determination developed over a winding history, and
the affirmation and bravery of a people who have never
given up hope. VIETNAM MOMENT’S 113 photos, taken
by Korean-American writer and photojournalist Brenda
Paik Sunoo during her stay in Vietnam from 2002 to
2008, perfectly convey her knowledge of and affection
for the Vietnamese people. Accompanying the photos
are folk poems, sayings and proverbs collected by
Paik Sunoo and Vietnam National University English
lecturer Ton Thi Thu Nguyet. In order to promote mutual
understanding and reconciliation between Korea,
Vietnam, and the United States, which share an
intertwined history, the photo essay collection is printed
in three languages—Korean, Vietnamese and English.
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LITERARY NONFICTION
Tom and Simon Sykes
THE HITCHERS OF OZ
978-1-921479-19-9, $24, paper, 248 pp.
Spring Ulmer
THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REPRODUCTION
978-0-9791189-5-1, $13.95, paper, 75 pp.
ESSAY PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Travel. Miscellaneous. A cast of high
profile Australian and international artists and thinkers
including actor Sam Neill and rap legend Chuck D rub
shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird
to share their experience of hitching a ride sometime in
the past.
Literary Nonfiction. Spring Ulmer’s THE AGE OF VIRTUAL
REPRODUCTION disrupts and redefines established
patterns of seeing as she looks both at and beyond
suffering and slaughter for an ethical way to live.
Relentlessly in relation and in isolation, Ulmer meditates
on moral and emotional anaesthesia—our age of
numbing. On the road in Rwanda, investigating
executions, meditating on photographs of the past,
Ulmer interrogates her own and others’ often romantic
obsession with what is disappearing and asks how to be
in touch with the real and reality—either through the
self or through its loss. Looking at work by August
Sander, Walter Benjamin, Congolese painter Tshibumba
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of barbarism. THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REPRODUCTION
offers a catalogue (of people, stories, nature, and art)
that maintains that more than just surviving, life can be
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critically, recognizable.
Keren Taylor, Editor
SILHOUETTE: BOLD LINES & VOICES FROM
WRITEGIRL
978-0-9741251-8-3, $19.95, paper, 274 pp.
WRITEGIRL PUBLICATIONS 2010
Literary Anthology. Young Adult. Fiction. Nonfiction.
Poetry. Edited by Karen Taylor. SILHOUETTE: BOLD LINES
& VOICES FROM WRITEGIRL, the eighth anthology from
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Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua,
Editors
OUR PEOPLE, OUR LAND, OUR IMAGES:
INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
978-1-59714-057-7, $27.95, paper, 96 pp.
HEYDAY BOOKS 2007
Photography. Native American Studies. Whether probing
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twenty-six indigenous photographers present images
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word—authentic. Their works range from the artful
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and early 1900s, to the cutting-edge digital photographs
of contemporary Native artists. Their cameras variously
capture startled eyes, hidden laughter, misappropriated
icons, and neon signs of cultural change.
Alan Twigg
TIBETANS IN EXILE: THE DALAI LAMA & THE
WOODCOCKS
978-1-55380-079-8, $21.95, paper, 272 pp.
RONSDALE PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Asian and Asian American Studies.
George and Ingeborg Woodcock met the Dalai Lama in
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300 projects in the Himalayas and southern India.
Alan Twigg reveals the hitherto unknown private lives
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and Asia.
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The Unbearables
THE WORST BOOK I EVER READ
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AUTONOMEDIA 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Over 400 pages
of the most searing, scandalous and scurrilous
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Innovative, free-form and traditional reviews of texts
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Haifa Zangana
DREAMING OF BAGHDAD
978-1-55861-605-9, $15.95, paper, 160 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. Middle East Studies. Memoir. In
1970s Iraq, the Ba’ath Party was at the height of its
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the West. But a group of activists recognized the
disastrous potential of the regime as its charismatic
leader, Saddam Hussein, became more powerful. Haifa
Zangana was among those resisters, a small group of
whom were captured and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib.
From the distance of time and place, Zangana writes
during her first years of forced exile from her beloved
country about the time of her incarceration, the
agonizing loss of comrades to torture and death in
prison, the haunted quality of life so far away from home
and family, and the ways in which memory conspires to
make us forget what sometimes is most dear to us.
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New Books
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On the Imperial
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Magazines
E. Tracy Grinnell, Paul Foster Johnson, Julian T. Brolaski
and Rachel Bers, Editors
AUFGABE NO. 8
978-1-933959-09-2, $12, paper, 320 pp.
Listed alphabetically by title.
See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.11), Fiction and Drama
(p.51), and Literary Nonfiction (p.65)
Bin Ramke, Editor
DENVER QUARTERLY 44:1 2009
No ISBN, $10, paper, 122 pp.
DENVER QUARTERLY 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Art. Guest edited by Matvei
Yankelevich. AUFGABE NO. 8 features Russian poetry in
translation by Elena Fanailova, Dmitry Golynko, Linor
Goralik, Sergey Kruglov, Dmitry Kuzmin, Kirill Medvedev,
Anton Ochirov, Andrey Sen-Senkov, Aleksandr Skidan,
Maria Stepanova, Dmitry Vodennikov, Sergey Zavyalov,
Igor Zhukov, Tatiana Zima, Olga Zondberg. American
poetry by Diane Ward, Kimberly Lyons, Francois Turcot,
Akilah Oliver, Damaris Calderon, Tyrone Williams,
Eduardo Milan, Miles Champion, Suzanne Jacob, Dana
Ward, Nathalie Stephens (Nathanael), Paolo Javier,
Alan Davies, Trish Salah, and others! Also, featuring new
artwork by Kim Beck.
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Essays. DENVER QUARTERLY
is a journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and thought.
The fall issue, Volume 44, Number 1, features work by
Erica W. Adams, Jeff Alessandrelli, Andrew Allport,
J.T. Barbarese, Judith Baumel, Molly Bendall, Bruce Bond,
George Bradley, Lisabeth Burton, Brigitte Byrd, Dot
Devota, Clayton Eshleman, Michael Farrell, Kate
Greenstreet, Evelyn Hampton, Henry Hart, Terence
Huber, George Kalamaras, Jesse Lichtenstein, Trey
Moody, Irena Praitis, Michele Ruby, Lisa Sewell, Katherine
Soniat, Lisa Russ Spaar, Terese Svoboda, Susan Tichy,
Nick Twemlow, Catherine Webster, Paul West, Max
Winter, Gary Young, and reviews by John Kinsella and
Kenneth Warren.
JenMarie Davis, Editor
BOMBAY GIN 35:2
978-0-9816129-3-5, $12, paper, 119 pp.
Jonathan Skinner, Editor
ECOPOETICS NO. 6/7
THE NAROPA PRESS 2009
PERIPLUM EDITIONS 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art.
BOMBAY GIN is the literary journal of the Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University,
co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Issue
35.2 features work by K. Silem Mohammad, Philip Jenks
and Simone Muench, David Buuck, Savannah Schroll
Guz, Joseph Cooper, Emily Carr, Theodore Worozbyt,
Dawn Losinger, Eric Bogosian, Rachael Peckham,
Sherman Alexie, Aase Berg translated by Johannes
Göransson, Jane Bernstein, Marc Nasdor, Carol Mirakove,
and others.
Magazine. Poetry. The latest issue of ECOPOETICS
(covering 2006-2009) is packed with poetry, prose,
criticism, translation, interviews and artwork from nearly
eighty contributors. It includes an Australian Eco-Poetics
section, guest-edited by Michael Farrell; a Theodore
Enslin feature; interviews with Gary Snyder and mIEKAL
aND; new work from Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Benjamin
Friedlander, Forrest Gander, Joan Retallack, Andrew
Schelling, Gary Snyder, and others; bilingual pages from
Antonio Ochoa and Angelica Tornero; collapsible poetics
by Rodrigo Toscano; Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s “Nanifesto”;
artwork by Christine Boileau, Patrick Jones, Ray Meeks,
Isabelle Pelissier and Stephen Vincent; ten color plates;
bark beetle translations, sound walks, field pages, slow
texts, dictionaries of imagined flora, and more ...
LITMUS PRESS 2009
Ahrens, Eberman, McFarland, Silver, Smith, Editors
CALYX VOL. 25 NO. 2 SUMMER 2009
CALYX 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Celebrating the journal’s
33rd anniversary, CALYX VOL. 25 NO. 2 SUMMER 2009
features poetry, fiction, essays, art, and book reviews.
Themes explored in the issue include writing that
challenges the systems of patriarchy through alliteration
and anger. No matter their age, ethnicity, or sexual
orientation, the contributors challenge the world
through their writing and images. In the poem
“Uncradled,” Marigny Michel (Santa Monica, CA) writes
about “angels announcing / to a young girl at prayer /
that even God needs a woman.” Contributors include
Helen Wickes, Susan Jarvis, Andi Calliope Linden,
Leslie What, and Abby E. Murray.
Caron Andregg, Editor
CIDER PRESS REVIEW, VOLUME 10
978-1-930781-04-7, $13.95, paper, 154 pp.
CIDER PRESS REVIEW 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Reviews. CIDER PRESS REVIEW, a
journal of contemporary poetry, seeks to discover and
publish the best of new poetry written in English. CPR
actively seeks new original work and translations into
English from both established and emerging poets.
Our only criterion is excellence. This issue features work
from 86 authors, including Susan Allen, Andreas Avelino,
Edward Beatty, Meghan Brinson, Kevin Burris, Thomas P.
Feeny, Marc Harshman, Keetje Kuipers, Ed Madden,
Philip Memmer, Michelle Moore, Arlene Naganawa,
Kathryn Nuernberger, Geri Rosenzweig, Doug Ramspeck,
Eric Paul Schaffer, Tim Suermondt, Paul Willis, Matthew
Zingg and more.
Rebecca Wolff, Editor
FENCE VOL. 12 NO. 1 SPRING/SUMMER 2009
978-1-934200-32-2, $10, paper, 152 pp.
FENCE BOOKS 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. The latest issue of
FENCE features work by, among others: Janaka Stucky,
Karla Kelsey, James Gendron, Jannifer MacKenzie,
Chris Pusateri, Lizbeth Keiley, Eugene Ostashevsky, Kate
Greenstreet, Jennifer Kronovet, Meena Alexander, Steve
Langan, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Dean Young, Chris Tysh,
Heather Winterer, Christine Hume, Rachel Sherman,
Gregg Bordowitz & Lisa Johnson, images by Jason
Middlebrook, and a panel talk on nonrealist fiction
featuring Kate Bernheimer, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt,
Eric Lorberer, and Joyelle McSweeney.
Lusine Khachatryan, Editor
FOURTEEN HILLS VOL. 15 NO. 2 SPRING 2009
978-1-889292-20-5, $9, paper, 133 pp.
FOURTEEN HILLS PRESS 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. The Spring 2009 Issue
(15.2) of FOURTEEN HILLS contains poetry by Jen Bills,
Victoria Chang, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Geoffrey
Dyer, Katherin Garrettson, Rodney Gomez, Bob Hicok,
MC Hyland, Lindsay Key, Brian D. Morrison, Lisa Olstein,
Alexandra Michelle Red, Joshua Robbins, and Josh
Wallert; fiction by Chelsea Bolan, Liz Chamberlain,
Michael Filimowicz, Mickey Hess, Sara Jaffe, Maggie Shen
King, Liz McWhirter, Tripp Reade, John Somerville, and
Jill Tidman; and art by Nathan Cordero and Danny Neece.
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MAGAZINES
Nathaniel Mackey, Editor
HAMBONE 19
Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Editors
NEW AMERICAN WRITING 27
HAMBONE 2009
NEW AMERICAN WRITING 2009
Magazine. Poetry and Prose. HAMBONE 19 includes
work by Will Alexander, George Kalamaras, Dawn Lundy
Martin, Peter Gizzi, Kamau Brathwaite, Norman
Finkelstein, Renee Gladman, Ted Pearson, Fred Moten,
Myung Mi Kim, John Taggert, Lyn Hejinian, Carla
Harryman, Joseph Donahue, Sun Ra, David Marriott,
David Need, Michael Davidson, Luke Harley, Geoffrey
O’Brien, Phillip Foss, Lisa Samuels, Peter O’Leary,
Paul Mann, Ed Roberson, Sun Ra, Nathaniel Mackey,
Lloyd Addison, and Leslie Scalapino.
Magazine. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. The new issue
features writing from Mahmoud Darwish on Edward
Said, Ben Lerner on Barbara Guest, Etel Adnan, Lara
Glenum, Sylvia Legris, Phillip Foss, Clayton Eshleman,
Ray Ragosta, Caroline Knox, Laynie Brown, Jennifer Pilch,
Johannes Goransson, Barbara Tomash, Ales Steger,
Brian Henry, G.C. Waldrep, Brandon Shimoda, John
Olson, Leonard Schwartz, Gassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah,
Rachel Loden, Sharon Dolin, Joshua Beckman, Edward
Smallfield, Joshua Kryah, Amy Pence, Linh Dinh,
Jordan Davis, and many others.
Hershon, Lourie, Pawlak and Schreiber, Editors
HANGING LOOSE 94
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Edited by Robert Hershon,
Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak. HANGING LOOSE 94
features an art portfolio by Albert York and exciting new
work by Kimiko Hahn, Harvey Shapiro, Ron Padgett,
Vincent Katz, Erica Miriam Fabri, Chuck Wachtel, Hayan
Charara, Elizabeth Hershon, Robert Hershon, Page
Dougherty Delano, Philip Dacey, Jeffrey C. Wright, Gerald
Fleming, and many others.
RATTLE 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Art. With an art portfolio by Arnold
Mesches, HANGING LOOSE 95 features new poems and
prose by Elizabeth Swados, David Kirby, Keith Taylor,
David Wagoner, Rosalind Brackenbury, William Leo
Coakley, Joanna Fuhrman, Joe Elliot, Valerie Hall, Hettie
Jones, Mark Pawlak, Caroline Knox, and others.
Magazine. Poetry. African American Studies. RATTLE
VOL. 15 NO. 1 SUMMER 2009 celebrates the work of 30
African American poets. The very act of compiling an
issue like this raises a number of difficult questions:
What does it mean to be an African American poet?
Do African American poets have to write about their
racial experiences? Is there any justification for grouping
poets together by race in the 21st century? Should
white editors and scholars be free to participate in black
literature? Does an issue like this do more harm than
good? We can’t answer any of these questions, but we
can enter into a dialogue on the intersection between
race and poetry. The course is introspective, and our
guides are provocative essays by Meta DuEwa Jones and
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, intimate conversations with
Toi Derricotte and Terrance Hayes, expressive
photography by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and a wealth of
poetry in a wide range of styles and subjects.
Hong and Shockley, Editors
JUBILAT NO. 16
Brian Clements, Editor
SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS NO. 6
JUBILAT 2009
FIREWHEEL EDITIONS 2008
Magazine. Poetry. Nonfiction. Poetics. JUBILAT NO. 16
features poems by Alice Notley, Timothy Donnelly, Ange
Mlinko, Kate Greenstreet, Linh Dinh, Christian Hawkey,
Lisa Jarnot, Matthew Rohrer, Lauren Haldeman, and
Dean Young; an essay on Wallace Stevens and the ars
poetica by Srikanth Reddy; and cures for common
problems like haunted cattle, house fires, and fits by
none other than Albertus Magnus, the greatest German
theologian of the Middle Ages. Moreover, the editors are
proud to present the jubilat African American
Experimental Poetry Forum, a conversation among a
brilliant group of young and mid-career poets (Renee
Gladman, Douglas Kearney, John Keene, Dawn Lundy
Martin, Fred Moten, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Rowan
Ricardo Phillips, and Tyrone Williams) edited by Terrance
Hayes and Evie Shockley.
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. SENTENCE
is the premiere journal dedicated to the prose poem and
work in the gray areas between prose poetry, flash
fiction, and lyric essay. With reviews of recent books, a
bibliography of recent articles on prose poetry,
interviews, translations, and more. In this issue:
SENTENCE feature on the prose poem in Italy; poems
and reviews by Nin Andrews, Michel Delville, Denise
Duhamel, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Charles Fort, Noah Eli
Gordon, Sebastien Matthews, Fred Muratori, Amy
Newman, Craig Perez, Jon Veinberg, Liz Waldner, Derek
White, Carolyne Wright, and many others. Contributing
editors are Maxine Chernoff, Russell Edson, Michel
Delville, Peter Johnson, and Gian Lombardo.
Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak, Editors
HANGING LOOSE 95
Cal Bedient and David Lau, Editors
LANA TURNER: A JOURNAL OF POETRY AND
OPINION, NO. 2
LANA TURNER 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. The second annual
issue contains poetry by John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout,
Ben Lerner, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Cole Swensen, Andrew
Joron, and many others, and a special gatefold poem
by Joshua Clover. Besides a novella by the French
avant-gardist Olivier Cadiot, It also includes essays on
poetry by C. D. Wright, Cathy Wagner, Monica de la Torre,
Calvin Bedient, Susan McCabe, and David Lau; essays on
Jia Zhang-ke, film noir, and Goddard; essays on Drive-by
Truckers and Fergie; and art work by Alan Halsey and
Peter Sacks.
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Alan C. Fox, Editor
RATTLE VOL. 15 NO. 1 SUMMER 2009
978-1-931307-16-1, $10, paper, 195 pp.
Susan Schultz, Editor
TINFISH 19
TINFISH PRESS 2009
Magazine. Poetry. TINFISH 19 includes parodies of
Wallace Stevens by Jill Yamasawa and Gizelle Gajelonia; a
letter to the editor in verse by Ryan Oishi; poems from
Daniel Tiffany’s forthcoming Tinfish volume, DANDELION
CLOCK; landlord poems by Oscar Bermeo and Deborah
Woodard; interventions in Maoist indigestion by Kenny
Tanemura and Guantanamo by Rachel Loden; as well as
poems by such luminaries as Barbara Jane Reyes, Jody
Arthur, Jennifer Reimer, Janna Plant, Brandon Shimoda,
Mandy Luo, Dennis Phillips, Emelihter Kihleng, Paul
Naylor and others. The covers were handmade, the
books handbound. Cover and centerfold by Maya
Portner. Design by Chae Ho Lee.
MAGAZINES
Michael Datcher, Editor
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: SPRING 2009
978-0-9778470-3-7, $10, paper, 214 pp.
Nicole Cooley and Pamela Stone, Editors
MOTHER: WSQ FALL/WINTER 2009
978-1-55861-609-7, $25, paper, 320 pp.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT 2009
Magazine. Literary Nonfiction. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
FACT: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERARY
NONFICTION is an international journal of literary
nonfiction committed to publishing high-quality literary
nonfiction from the world of letters. The journal has
published work from South Africa, Sri Lanka, Moldova
and many other countries.
Magazine. Women’s Studies. The media flurry over the
recent birth of octuplets, the obsession with celebrity
moms and baby bump sightings, LGBT moms and men
as moms—fascination with motherhood is at an all-time
high. But what does it mean to be a mother in this
moment? Televised debates pit stay-at-home moms
against working moms, but the majority of mothers
pursue both family and paid employment. Why is so
much of the discussion around mothering about
choice and agency, when women’s reproductive rights
are vulnerable and the pro-choice movement is on
the defensive? MOTHER addresses these cultural
contradictions in personal essays, analysis, fiction, and
artwork.
Karen Throsby and Sarah Hodges, Editors
TECHNOLOGIES: WSQ SPRING/SUMMER 2009
978-1-55861-600-4, $25, paper, 320 pp.
Magazine. Literary Nonfiction. TECHNOLOGIES considers
how medical, digital, and communication technologies
are transforming the way we understand gender,
motherhood, the body, and feminism. Including articles
that investigate fertility clinic websites, Google
identities, and the HPV vaccine, TECHNOLOGIES presents
research from the social sciences, cultural studies,
history, science, and education.
Blas Falconer and Amy Wright, Editors
ZONE 3 VOL. 24 NO. 1 SPRING 2009
ZONE 3 PRESS 2009
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Interviews.
The new issue includes interviews with Louise Erdrich
and Vanessa Hemingway; exciting new stories by
Kate Krautkramer, Vanessa Hemingway, and Dennis
Sjolie; and new poems as well as an essay by Mary Ann
Samyn. This issue also features poems by Ruth Moon
Kempher, Matthew J. Sprireng, and Robert Guard,
winners of our annual poetry competition judged this
year by Beth Bachmann. Cover art by Gregg Schlanger
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Keith Abbott, DOWNSTREAM FROM TROUT FISHING IN
AMERICA: A MEMOIR OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN / p. 65
Ryan Adams, HELLO SUNSHINE / p. 11
Mary Alexandra Agner, THE DOORS OF THE BODY / p. 11
Jesus Aguado, THE POEMS OF VIKRAM BABU / p. 11
Liz Ahl, A THIRST THAT’S PARTLY MINE / p. 11
Ahrens, Eberman, McFarland, Silver, Smith, Eds.,
CALYX VOL. 25 NO. 2 SUMMER 2009 / p. 77
Louisiana Alba, UNCORRECTED PROOF / p. 51
Kazim Ali, QUINN’S PASSAGE / p. 51
Urs Allemann, BABYFUCKER / p. 51
Luis Alberto Ambroggio, DIFFICULT BEAUTY: SELECTED
POEMS (1987-2006) / p. 11
Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, DANCE OF DAYS:
TWO DECADES OF PUNK IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL / p. 65
Caron Andregg, Ed., CIDER PRESS REVIEW, VOLUME 10 / p.
77
Yuri Andrukhovych, THE MOSCOVIAD / p. 51
Allan Appel, THE HEBREW TUTOR OF BEL AIR / p. 51
Hubert Aquin, LES SABLES MOUVANTS / SHIFTING SANDS /
p. 51
Archestratos, GASTROLOGY OR LIFE OF PLEASURE OR
STUDY OF THE BELLY OR INQUIRY INTO DINNER / p. 11
Ivan Argüelles, COMEDY, DIVINE, THE / p. 11
Christopher Arigo, IN THE ARCHIVES / p. 12
Oana Avasilichioaei and Erin Moure, EXPEDITIONS OF A
CHIMAERA / p. 12
Nurjehan Aziz, Ed., HER MOTHER’S ASHES 3: STORIES BY
SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
/ p. 51
Yakov Azriel, BEADS FOR THE MESSIAH’S BRIDE: POEMS ON
LEVITICUS / p. 12
Kemeny Babineau, AFTER THE 6IX O’CLOCK NEWS / p. 12
Therese Bachand, LUCE A CAVALLO / p. 12
Ansie Baird, IN ADVANCE OF ALL PARTING / p. 12
Amiri Baraka (as Leroi Jones), BLACK MUSIC / p. 65
Stephanie Barber, THESE HERE SEPARATED TO SEE HOW
THEY STANDING ALONE / p. 12
Walter Bargen, DAYS LIKE THIS ARE NECESSARY: NEW AND
SELECTED POEMS / p. 12
Konrad Becker, STRATEGIC REALITY DICTIONARY: DEEP
INFOPOLITICS AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE / p. 65
Cal Bedient & David Lau, Eds., LANA TURNER: A JOURNAL
OF POETRY AND OPINION, NO. 2 / p. 78
James Belflower, COMMUTER / p. 13
Mario Bellatin, BEAUTY SALON / p. 52
Mario Benedetti, PEDRO AND THE CAPTAIN / p. 52
Cara Benson, Ed., PREDICTIONS (CHAINLINKS) / p. 65
George Berger, THE STORY OF CRASS / p. 65
L. R. Berger, THE UNEXPECTED AVIARY / p. 13
Alan Bernheimer, THE SPOONLIGHT INSTITUTE / p. 13
Anselm Berrigan, FREE CELL / p. 13
Y Bertelli, J Silverman, and S Talbot, Eds, MY BABY
RIDES THE SHORT BUS: THE UNABASHEDLY HUMAN
EXPERIENCE OF RAISING KIDS WITH DISABILITIES / p. 65
B J Best, STATE SONNETS / p. 13
Joel Bettridge, PRESOCRATIC BLUES / p. 13
Mark Bibbins, THE DANCE OF NO HARD FEELINGS / p. 13
Terry Bisson, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN / p. 52
Terry Bisson, THE LEFT LEFT BEHIND / p. 52
Sherwin Bitsui, FLOOD SONG / p. 13
Christian Bök, EUNOIA: SECOND EDITION / p. 13
Bruce Bond, PEAL / p. 14
George Bowering, THE BOX / p. 52
Ana Bozicevic, STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE / p. 14
Barbara Brackney, LATE AUGUST / p. 14
Tom Bradley, EVEN THE DOG WON’T TOUCH ME / p. 52
Stefan Brecht, 8TH AVENUE POEMS / p. 14
Iain Britton, LIQUEFACTION / p. 14
Louis Daniel Brodsky, A GLEAM IN THE EYE: VOLUME ONE
OF THE SEASONS OF YOUTH / p. 14
Jacque Vaught Brogan, TA(L)KING EYES / p. 14
J. T. Brolaski, e. kaufman & E. T. Grinnell, Eds.,
NO GENDER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF
kari edwards / p. 66
Brother Anthony of Taize and Hong Kyeong-hee,
THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA / p. 66
Kate Buckley, FOLLOW ME DOWN / p. 14
Rob Budde, DECLINING AMERICA / p. 15
Marjorie Buettner, SEEING IT NOW: HAIKU & TANKA / p. 15
Jerry Burchfield, UNDERSTORY: LUMEN PRINTS OF FLORIDA
FLORA / p. 66
Jennifer Burd, DAILY BREAD: A PORTRAIT OF HOMELESS
MEN AND WOMEN OF LENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN / p. 66
Michael Burke, SWAN DIVE / p. 52
Clint Burnham, THE BENJAMIN SONNETS / p. 15
Zachary C Bush, ANGLES OF DISORDER / p. 15
Hannah Calder, MORE HOUSE / p. 52
Michael Calvello, SAXOPHONE BLUE / p. 15
Daniel Cano, DEATH AND THE AMERICAN DREAM / p. 53
Mary Caponegro, ALL FALL DOWN / p. 53
Giorgio Caproni, THE EARTH’S WALL: SELECTED POEMS
1932-1986 / p. 15
Macgregor Card, DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN
SECRETARY / p. 15
Steve Carey, THE SELECTED POEMS OF STEVE CAREY / p. 15
Angela Carr, THE ROSE CONCORDANCE / p. 16
Richard Carr, ACE / p. 16
Anne Caston, JUDAH’S LION / p. 16
Adrian Castro, HANDLING DESTINY / p. 16
Luis Cernuda, DESOLATION OF THE CHIMERA / p. 16
Brandon Cesmat, LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS / p. 16
Robin Chapman, ABUNDANCE / p. 16
Norma Charles, CHASING A STAR / p. 53
Cris Cheek, PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING / p. 16
Neeli Cherkovski, FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD / p. 17
Kelly Cherry, GIRL IN A LIBRARY: ON WOMEN WRITERS AND
THE WRITING LIFE / p. 66
Heather Christle, THE DIFFICULT FARM / p. 17
Chung Sung-ill, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: IM KWON-TAEK /
p. 66
Eva Claeson, Ed., TO CATCH LIFE ANEW: 10 SWEDISH
WOMEN POETS / p. 17
Brian Clements and Jamey Dunham, Eds., AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM / p. 17
Brian Clements, Ed., SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE
POETICS NO. 6 / p. 78
Gerald Coble, BATTENKILL BOOK 2: JANUARY / p. 67
Scott Coffel, TOUCANS IN THE ARCTIC / p. 17
J J Colagrande, HEADZ / p. 53
C Bard Cole, THIS IS WHERE MY LIFE WENT WRONG / p. 53
Phil Condon, NINE TEN AGAIN / p. 53
Nicole Cooley & Pamela Stone, Eds., MOTHER: WSQ
FALL/WINTER 2009 / p. 79
Phil Cousineau and Scott Chamberlin Hoyt, THE
MEANING OF TEA: A TEA INSPIRED JOURNEY / p. 67
A M J Crawford, MORPHEU / p. 17
Galbraith Miller Crump, A SLANT OF LIGHT / p. 67
Rienzi Crusz, ENOUGH TO BE MORTAL NOW / p. 17
Maurizio Cucchi, THE MISSING / p. 17
Kathleen Culver, THE NATURAL LAW OF WATER / p. 18
John Curl, FOR ALL THE PEOPLE: UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN
HISTORY OF COOPERATION, COOPERATIVE MOVEMENTS,
AND COMMUNALISM IN AMERICA / p. 67
Jean Daive, UNDER THE DOME: WALKS WITH PAUL CELAN /
p. 67
Rick Dakan, GEEK MAFIA: BLACK HAT BLUES / p. 53
Hugh-Alain Dal, LES POEMES D’UNE VIE PERDUE: THE
POEMS OF A LOST LIFE / p. 18
Steve Dalachinsky, REACHING INTO THE UNKNOWN:
1964-2009 / p. 18
Michael Datcher, Ed., THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: SPRING
2009 / p. 79
JenMarie Davis, Ed., BOMBAY GIN 35:2 / p. 77
Jeremiah Day and Simone Forti, JEREMIAH DAY/SIMONE
FORTI / p. 67
Neil de la Flor, ALMOST DOROTHY / p. 18
Michel Delville, THIRD BODY / p. 18
David Derry, SENTIMENTAL EXORCISMS / p. 53
Fred Dewey, Ed., DECLARATION / p. 18
Emanuel di Pasquale, SICILIANA / p. 19
Victor di Suvero, Ed., WE CAME TO SANTA FE / p. 67
Mina Pam Dick, DELINQUENT / p. 19
Carol Dine, VAN GOGH IN POEMS / p. 19
Linh Dinh, SOME KIND OF CHEESE ORGY / p. 19
Ray DiPalma, THE ANCIENT USE OF STONE: JOURNALS AND
DAYBOOKS, 1998-2008 / p. 19
Linda Dove, IN DEFENSE OF OBJECTS / p. 19
Brandon Downing, LAKE ANTIQUITY: WORKS 1996-2008 /
p. 19
Robert J. Duffy, ORDINARY LIES / p. 19
Kate Durbin, THE RAVENOUS AUDIENCE / p. 20
George Economou, ANANIOS OF KLEITOR / p. 20
Amatoritsero Ede, GLOBETROTTER & HITLER’S CHILDREN /
p. 20
kari edwards, BHARAT JIVA / p. 20
Kate Eichhorn & Heather Milne, Eds., PRISMATIC
PUBLICS: INNOVATIVE CANADIAN WOMEN’S POETRY AND
POETICS / p. 20
Cathy Eisenhower, WOULD WITH AND / p. 20
Che Elias, DEATH POEMS / p. 21
Che Elias, MEDDLES INTO PRECLUSION: COLLECTED POEMS /
p. 21
Che Elias, WHEELING / p. 54
Lewis Ellingham, THE BIRDS AND OTHER POEMS / p. 21
Harvey Ellis, SLEEP NOT SLEEP / p. 21
Michael Eskin, THE DNA OF PREJUDICE: ON THE ONE AND
THE MANY / p. 68
Robert Estep, SUENO(S) FOR ALEJANDRA / p. 21
Marc Estrin, TSIM-TSUM / p. 54
Dave Etter, THE LIONTAMER’S DAUGHTER / p. 21
Amy Evans McClure, IN SPACE IN SITU / p. 68
Brian Evenson, FUGUE STATE / p. 54
Erica Miriam Fabri, DIALECT OF A SKIRT / p. 21
Blas Falconer & Amy Wright, Eds., ZONE 3 VOL. 24 NO. 1
SPRING 2009 / p. 79
Dan Featherston, THE RADIANT WORLD / p. 21
Steve Fellner, ALL SCREWED UP / p. 68
Diana Festa, THE GATHERING / p. 21
AUTHOR INDEX
Ann M Fine, A NEST THIS SIZE / p. 22
Norman Finkelstein, SCRIBE / p. 22
Patrick Michael Finn, A MARTYR FOR SUZY KOSASOVICH /
p. 22
Norman Fischer, QUESTIONS/PLACES/VOICES/SEASONS /
p. 22
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ARGONAUTICA / p. 22
Robert Flanagan, REPLY TO AN EVICTION NOTICE: SELECTED
POEMS / p. 22
Chris Forhan, BLACK LEAPT IN / p. 22
Edward Foster, THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS / p. 23
Linda Nemec Foster, TALKING DIAMONDS / p. 23
Graham Foust, A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA / p. 23
Alan C Fox, Ed, RATTLE VOL. 15 NO. 1 SUMMER 2009 / p. 78
Skip Fox, DELTA BLUES / p. 23
Barbara Claire Freeman, INCIVILITIES / p. 23
Marilyn French, THE LOVE CHILDREN / p. 54
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. I: ORIGINS: FROM
PREHISTORY TO THE FIRST MILLENIUM / p. 68
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. II: THE
MASCULINE MYSTIQUE: FROM FEUDALISM TO THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION / p. 68
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. III: INFERNOS
AND PARADISES: THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM IN THE 19TH
CENTURY / p. 68
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. IV: REVOLUTIONS
AND STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN THE 20TH CENTURY / p. 68
Joanna Fuhrman, PAGEANT / p. 23
James Galvin, AS IS / p. 23
Eric Gansworth, FROM THE WESTERN DOOR TO THE LOWER
WEST SIDE / p. 23
Joan Gelfand, A DREAMER’S GUIDE TO CITIES AND STREAMS
/ p. 24
Elena Georgiou, RHAPSODY OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS /
p. 24
Greg Gerke, THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH SVEN / p. 54
Michael Gessner, ARTIFICIAL LIFE / p. 24
Celia Gilbert, SOMETHING TO EXCHANGE / p. 24
David Gilbey, DEATH AND THE MOTORWAY / p. 24
E. A. Gleeson, IN BETWEEN THE DANCING / p. 24
Mark Gluth, THE LATE WORK OF MARGARET KROFTIS / p. 54
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, BODY BETRAYER / p. 24
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, IN THE BADLANDS OF DESIRE /
p. 24
Frederick Farryl Goodwin, VIRGIL’S COW / p. 25
K Lorraine Graham, TERMINAL HUMMING / p. 25
Vicki Graham, THE TENDERNESS OF BEES / p. 25
Judy Grahn, THE JUDY GRAHN READER / p. 25
Peter Grandbois, THE ARSENIC LOBSTER: A HYBRID MEMOIR
/ p. 68
Nathan Graziano, AFTER THE HONEYMOON / p. 25
Chris Green, EPIPHANY SCHOOL / p. 25
Richard Greenfield, TRACER / p. 25
Kate Greenstreet, THE LAST 4 THINGS / p. 26
Robert Grenier, FARMING THE WORDS: TALKING WITH
ROBERT GRENIER / p. 68
Susan Grimm, Ed., ORDERING THE STORM: HOW TO PUT
TOGETHER A BOOK OF POEMS / p. 69
Grinnell, Johnson, Brolaski, and Bers, Eds, AUFGABE
NO. 8 / p. 77
David Gruber, SLEEPERS’ REPUBLIC / p. 26
Durs Grünbein, DESCARTES’ DEVIL: THREE MEDITATIONS /
p. 69
Katrine Marie Guldager, COPENHAGEN / p. 54
Miguel Gutierrez, WHEN YOU RISE UP: PERFORMANCE
TEXTS / p. 26
Hafez, YOUR LOVER’S BELOVED / p. 26
Oscar Hahn, ASHES IN LOVE / p. 26
Adam Halbur, POOR MANNERS / p. 26
Christine Hale, BASIL’S DREAM / p. 54
Kate Hall, THE CERTAINTY DREAM / p. 26
Jefferson Hansen, ... AND BEEFHEART SAVED CRAIG / p. 54
Hara Kazuo, CAMERA OBTRUSA: THE ACTION
DOCUMENTARIES OF HARA KAZUO / p. 69
Linda Lee Harper, KISS, KISS / p. 27
Libby Hart, FRESH NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC / p. 27
Lyn Hejinian, SAGA/CIRCUS / p. 27
Barbara Henning, THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD / p. 55
Hershon, Lourie, Pawlak and Schreiber, Eds., HANGING
LOOSE 94 / p. 78
Hershon, Lourie, Pawlak and Schreiber, Eds., HANGING
LOOSE 95 / p. 78
William Heyen, THE ROPE / p. 27
William Heyen, HOME: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, ETC. / p. 69
David Highsmith, YOUR WILDERNESS & MINE / p. 27
Conrad and Jane Hilberry, THIS AWKWARD ART / p. 27
Owen Hill, THE INCREDIBLE DOUBLE / p. 55
Lia Hills, THE POSSIBILITY OF FLIGHT / p. 27
Laura Hinton, SISYPHUS MY LOVE: (TO RECORD A DREAM IN
A BATHTUB) / p. 27
H L Hix, INCIDENT LIGHT / p. 28
Emmanuel Hocquard, CONDITIONS OF LIGHT / p. 28
Jen Hofer, ONE / p. 28
Susan Holbrook, JOY IS SO EXHAUSTING / p. 28
Friedrich Holderlin, SELECTED POEMS OF FRIEDRICH
HOLDERLIN / p. 28
Rob Holloway, PERMIT / p. 28
Tom Holmes, HENRI, SOPHIE, & THE HIERATIC HEAD OF EZRA
POUND: POEMS BLASTED FROM THE VORTEX / p. 28
Keith Holyoak, FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF LI BAI AND
DU FU / p. 29
Hong and Shockley, Eds., JUBILAT NO. 16 / p. 78
Paul Hoover, SONNET 56 / p. 29
Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Eds., NEW
AMERICAN WRITING 27 / p. 78
Fanny Howe, WHAT DID I DO WRONG? / p. 55
William R Howe, TRANSLANATIONS ONE / p. 29
Huh Moonyung, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: HONG SANGSOO / p. 69
Christine Hume, SHOT / p. 29
Laird Hunt, RAY OF THE STAR / p. 55
Hiromi Ito, KILLING KANOKO: SELECTED POEMS OF HIROMI
ITO / p. 29
Jayson Iwen, A MOMENTARY JOKEBOOK / p. 55
Dale Jacobson, METAMORPHOSES OF THE SLEEPING BEAST /
p. 29
G Winston James, SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT
STORIES / p. 55
Heidi James, CARBON / p. 55
S.M. James, F.S. Foster, B. Guy-Sheftall, Eds., STILL
BRAVE: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK WOMEN’S STUDIES / p. 69
Sheila James, IN THE WAKE OF LOSS / p. 55
Dale Jensen, OEDIPUS’ FIRST LOVER / p. 29
Lisa Jervis, COOK FOOD: A MANUALFESTO FOR EASY,
HEALTHY, LOCAL EATING / p. 69
Guillermo C Jimenez, RED GENES, BLUE GENES: EXPOSING
POLITICAL IRRATIONALITY / p. 69
Juan Ramon Jimenez, THE POET AND THE SEA / p. 30
Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), BLACK MUSIC / p. 70
Ann Jones, WOMEN WHO KILL / p. 70
Johan Jonson, COLLOBERT ORBITAL / p. 30
Andrew Joron, NEO-SURREALISLM: OR, THE SUN AT NIGHT:
TRANSFORMATIONS OF SURREALISM IN AMERICAN POETRY
1966-1999 / p. 30
Jung Ji-youn, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: BONG JOON-HO /
p. 70
Garrett Kalleberg, MALILENAS / p. 30
Chelva Kanaganayakam, Ed., WILTING LAUGHTER: THREE
TAMIL POETS / p. 30
Kang Kyong-ae, FROM WONSO POND / p. 55
Bhanu Kapil, HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE
CHILDREN / p. 30
Shirley Kaufman, EZEKIEL’S WHEELS / p. 30
Carroll C Kearley, DEITY-ALPHABETS / p. 30
Douglas Kearney, THE BLACK AUTOMATON / p. 31
Janis F. Kearney, ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A GIRL:
A MURDER AT MOBILE BAY / p. 56
Claudia Keelan, MISSING HER / p. 31
Karinne Keithley, MONTGOMERY PARK, OR OPULENCE:
AN ESSAY IN THE FORM OF A BUILDING / p. 56
Lusine Khachatryan, Ed., FOURTEEN HILLS VOL. 15 NO. 2
SPRING 2009 / p. 77
Sheema Khan, OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF A
CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN / p. 70
Rakesh Khanna, Ed., THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF TAMIL
PULP FICTION / p. 56
Kevin Killian and David Brazil, Eds., THE KENNING
ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1980 / p. 31
Dana Killmeyer, PENDULUMS OF EUPHORIA / p. 31
Kim Hong-joon, Ed., KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: KIM
KI-YOUNG / p. 70
Kim Young-jin, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: PARK
CHAN-WOOK / p. 70
Myung Mi Kim, PENURY / p. 31
Kathy Kituai, STRAGGLING INTO WINTER / p. 31
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, VAGABOND DAWNS / p. 32
Naomi Klein, THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM / p. 70
August Kleinzahler, MUSIC: I-LXXIV / p. 71
Kristen Kosmas, HELLO FAILURE / p. 56
Srecko Kosovel, LOOK BACK, LOOK AHEAD / p. 32
Steve Kowit & Lenny Silverberg, CROSSING BORDERS /
p. 32
Paul Krassner, WHO’S TO SAY WHAT’S OBSCENE?: POLITICS,
CULTURE AND COMEDY IN AMERICA TODAY / p. 71
Robert Krut, THE SPIDER SERMONS / p. 32
Gerry LaFemina & Daniel Crocker, Eds., POETRY 30:
THIRTY-SOMETHING AMERICAN THIRTY-SOMETHING POETS
/ p. 32
Elena Lafert and Melina Draper, LUGAR DE
ORIGEN/PLACE OF ORIGIN / p. 32
Gina Lagorio, TOSCA, THE CAT LADY / p. 56
George Lamming, SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION:
CONVERSATIONS III / p. 71
Steve Langan, MEET ME AT THE HAPPY BAR / p. 32
Lao-tzu, LAO-TZU’S TAOTECHING / p. 33
Gregory Lawless, I THOUGHT I WAS NEW HERE / p. 33
James P Lenfestey, INTO THE GOODHUE COUNTY JAIL:
POEMS TO FREE PRISONERS / p. 33
Perry Lentz, PERISH FROM THE EARTH / p. 56
Toni Mergentime Levi, WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR &
OTHER POEMS / p. 33
Rachel Levitsky, NEIGHBOR / p. 33
Karen Lillis, THE SECOND ELIZABETH / p. 56
Frannie Lindsay, MAYWEED / p. 33
Micah Ling, THREE ISLANDS / p. 33
AUTHOR INDEX
Gloria Lise, DEPARTING AT DAWN: A NOVEL OF ARGENTINA’S
DIRTY WAR / p. 56
Norman Lock, SHADOWPLAY / p. 57
Margo Lockwood, MORE THAN I WANT TO / p. 33
Phillip Lopate, AT THE END OF THE DAY: SELECTED POEMS
AND AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY / p. 34
Lorraine M Lopez, HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND
OTHER STORIES / p. 57
Lydia Lunch, WILL WORK FOR DRUGS / p. 71
Nathaniel Mackey, Ed., HAMBONE 19 / p. 78
Pam Calabrese MacLean, THE DEAD CAN’T DANCE / p. 34
Tony Magistrale, WHAT SHE SAYS ABOUT LOVE / p. 34
Valerio Magrelli, INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO READ A
NEWSPAPER AND OTHER POEMS / p. 34
Vasyl Makhno, THREAD AND SELECTED NEW YORK POEMS /
p. 34
Freya Manfred, SWIMMING WITH A HUNDRED YEAR OLD
SNAPPING TURTLE / p. 34
Kuzhali Manickavel, INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME
EXCEPT SOME OF THEM HAVE WINGS / p. 57
Sabrina Orah Mark, TSIM TSUM / p. 34
Brandon Marlon, JUDEAN DREAMS / p. 34
Tara L Masih, Ed., THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO
WRITING FLASH FICTION: TIPS FROM EDITORS, TEACHERS,
AND WRITERS IN THE FIELD / p. 71
Gordon Massman, THE ESSENTIAL NUMBERS 1991-2008 /
p. 35
Nicole Mauro, THE CONTORTIONS / p. 35
Kristi Maxwell, HUSH SESSIONS / p. 35
Euan McCabe, THE WORLD CUP BABY / p. 71
Derek McCormack, THE SHOW THAT SMELLS / p. 57
Jenn McCreary, :AB OVO: / p. 35
Laura McCullough, WHAT MEN WANT / p. 35
Gardner McFall, RUSSIAN TORTOISE / p. 35
Heather McHugh, UPGRADED TO SERIOUS / p. 35
Sandy Mcintosh, ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO
/ p. 35
Rachel McKibbens, PINK ELEPHANT / p. 36
Barry McKinnon, IN THE MILLENNIUM / p. 36
Tim McNulty, SOME DUCKS / p. 36
Ashley McWaters, WHITEWORK / p. 36
W.S. Merwin, THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS / p. 36
Corey Mesler, THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES,
A NOVEL OF SEX AND MURDER / p. 57
Philip Metres, TO SEE THE EARTH / p. 36
Joseph Mileck, A TRAIL OF POETIC REFLECTIONS / p. 36
Deborah Miller, GRAPPLING WITH THE GRUMBLIES / p. 71
Patrick Millikin, Ed., PHOENIX NOIR / p. 57
David Mills, THE DREAM DETECTIVE / p. 36
Jerry Mirskin, IN FLAGRANTE DELICTIO / p. 37
K Silem Mohammad, THE FRONT / p. 37
Suruchi Mohan, DIVINE MUSIC / p. 57
Dinty W Moore, TOOTHPICK MEN (REVISED EDITION) / p. 57
Gary R Mormino, ITALIANS IN FLORIDA / p. 71
Erin Moure and Oana Avasilichioaei, EXPEDITIONS OF A
CHIMAERA / p. 37
Michelle Muir, NUFF SAID / p. 37
Bern Mulvey, THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS / p. 37
John Murillo, UP JUMP THE BOOGIE / p. 37
Erin Murphy, TOO MUCH OF THIS WORLD / p. 37
Rich Murphy, HUNTING AND PECKING / p. 37
Sophia Mustafa, THE TANGANYIKA WAY / p. 71
Sawako Nakayasu, TEXTURE NOTES / p. 37
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, NO DICE / p. 57
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, RAMBO SOLO / p. 58
Paul Naylor, JAMMED TRANSMISSION / p. 38
Maggie Nelson, BLUETS / p. 72
W H New, Ed., FROM A SPEAKING PLACE: WRITINGS FROM
THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE / p. 72
Huey Newton, TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE / p. 72
Mel Nichols, CATALYTIC EXTERIORIZATION PHENOMENON /
p. 38
Travis Nichols, IOWA / p. 38
Charu Nivedita, ZERO DEGREE / p. 58
Wayne Norton, WOMEN ON ICE: THE EARLY YEARS OF
WOMEN’S HOCKEY IN WESTERN CANADA / p. 72
Elizabeth Nunez, ANNA IN-BETWEEN / p. 58
John O’Brien, BETTER / p. 58
Sarah O’Brien, CATCH LIGHT / p. 38
Grace C Ocasio, HOLLERIN FROM THIS SHACK / p. 38
Joe O’Connell, DINGLE DAY / p. 38
David Ohle, BOONS & THE CAMP / p. 58
Stephen Oliver, HARMONIC / p. 38
Eric E Olson, THE PROCESSION OF MOLLUSKS / p. 58
Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 METERS OF POEMS / p. 38
Timothy David Orme, CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT / p. 39
Stacia Saint Owens, AUTO-EROTICA / p. 58
Elio Pagliarani, THE GIRL CARLA AND OTHER POEMS / p. 39
Christina Palassio & Alana Wilcox, Eds., THE EDIBLE
CITY: TORONTO’S FOOD FROM FARM TO FORK / p. 72
Surender Mohan Pathak, THE 65 LAKH HEIST / p. 58
Perelman, Watten, Benson, Harryman, Mandel,
Silliman, Robinson, Hejinian, Armantrout, Pearson,
THE GRAND PIANO: PART 8 / p. 72
Perelman, Watten, Benson, Harryman, Mandel,
Silliman, Robinson, Hejinian, Armantrout, Pearson,
THE GRAND PIANO: PART 9 / p. 72
Emma Perez, GULF DREAMS / p. 59
John Perrault, JEFFERSON’S DREAM: THE BALLAD OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE / p. 72
Caroline Picard, Editor, THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE
AND WINTER CHRONICLE / p. 73
Eric Pinder, LIFE AT THE TOP: WEATHER, WISDOM & HIGH
CUISINE FROM THE MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY /
p. 73
Paul Pines, LAST CALL AT THE TIN PALACE / p. 39
Mark Pirie and Tim Jones, Eds., VOYAGERS / p. 39
Janna Plant, THE REFINERY / p. 39
Vasko Popa, THE STAR WIZARD’S LEGACY: SIX POETIC
SEQUENCES / p. 39
Dawn Potter, BOY LAND AND OTHER POEMS / p. 39
Eric Priestley, FOR KEEPS / p. 59
Jane Rades, A ROSARY OF POEMS, FIVE DECADES / p. 39
India Hixon Radfar, POSITION & RELATION / p. 40
Ki. Rajanarayanan, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU
MONKEYS?: FOLKTALES FROM TAMIL NADU / p. 59
Natesh Raju, WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL TONGUE IS
FORK HEN IS COCK WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL MY
BABY EAGLE’S DREAM COMES TRUE / p. 73
Bin Ramke, Ed., DENVER QUARTERLY 44:1 2009 / p. 77
Stephen Ratcliffe, READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE)
HAMLET / p. 59
David Reiter, PRIMARY INSTINCT / p. 59
Nava Renek, NO PERFECT WORDS / p. 59
Nava Renek, SPIRITLAND / p. 59
Nava Renek, Ed., WRECKAGE OF REASON: XXPERIMENTAL
PROSE BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS / p. 59
Donald Revell, THE BITTER WITHY / p. 40
Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Eds., READ / p. 40
Giose Rimanelli, THE THREE-LEGGED ONE: A GLOSSED
NOVEL / p. 60
Arthur Rimbaud, A SEASON IN HELL / p. 40
Arthur Rimbaud, THE ILLUMINATIONS / p. 40
Ed Roberson, THE NEW WING OF THE LABYRINTH / p. 40
Adrian Roberts, Ed., BURNING MAN LIVE: 13 YEARS OF PISS
CLEAR, BLACK ROCK CITY’S ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER / p.
73
Corinne Robins, FACING IT AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED
POEMS / p. 40
Elizabeth Robinson, ALSO KNOWN AS / p. 40
Kim Stanley Robinson, THE LUCKY STRIKE / p. 60
Sophie Robinson, A / p. 41
Peter Rosei, METROPOLIS VIENNA / p. 60
Liz Rosenberg, DEMON LOVE / p. 41
Jean-Pierre Rosnay, WHEN A POET SEES A TREE / p. 41
Amelia Rosselli, THE DRAGONFLY: A SELECTION OF POEMS:
1953-1981 / p. 41
Paul B Roth, CADENZAS BY NEEDLELIGHT / p. 41
Jo Ann Rothschild, THE BOOK OF PENIS / p. 73
David Rowbotham, POEMS FOR AMERICA / p. 41
Philip Roy, JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS / p. 60
Margaret Rozga, 200 NIGHTS AND ONE DAY / p. 41
Sharon Ruetenik, THE WOODEN BOWL / p. 41
Joanna Ruocco, THE MOTHERING COVEN / p. 60
Ralph Salisbury, LIGHT FROM A BULLET HOLE: POEMS NEW
AND SELECTED, 1950-2008 / p. 41
Mary Ann Samyn, BEAUTY BREAKS IN / p. 42
Edward Sanders, LET’S NOT KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN
WAR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1986-2009 / p. 42
Edward Sanders, THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING
CENTURY: SELECTED POEMS 1961-1985 / p. 42
James Sanders, GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE / p. 42
Sarah Sarai, THE FUTURE IS HAPPY / p. 42
Sam Savage, THE CRY OF THE SLOTH / p. 60
Hirsh Sawhney, Ed., DELHI NOIR / p. 60
Shya Scanlon, IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE / p. 42
Tim Schell, THE DRUMS OF AFRICA / p. 60
Jared Schickling, O / p. 42
Jeff Schiff, BURRO HEART / p. 42
Zachary Schomburg, SCARY, NO SCARY / p. 43
Susan Schultz, Ed., TINFISH 19 / p. 78
Tim Seibles, BUFFALO HEAD SOLOS / p. 43
Tim Seibles, HAMMERLOCK / p. 43
Tim Seibles, HURDY-GURDY / p. 43
Olive Senior, ARRIVAL OF THE SNAKE-WOMAN / p. 61
Eric Paul Shaffer, BURN & LEARN: MEMOIRS OF THE
CENOZOIC ERA / p. 61
Marc J. Sheehan, VENGEFUL HYMNS / p. 43
Shelle, HEROES, GUNDAS, VAMPS & GOOD GIRLS / p. 73
Larissa Shmailo, IN PARAN / p. 43
Julian Silva, DISTANT MUSIC: TWO NOVELS / p. 61
Matthew Simmons, A JELLO HORSE / p. 61
Judith Skillman, PRISONER OF THE SWIFTS / p. 43
Jonathan Skinner, Ed., ECOPOETICS NO. 6/7 / p. 77
Ed Skoog, MISTER SKYLIGHT / p. 43
Marcus Slease, GODZENIE / p. 44
Larry Smith, THE LONG RIVER HOME: A NOVEL / p. 61
Pamela Sneed, KONG AND OTHER WORKS / p. 44
Rick Snyder, ESCAPE FROM COMBRAY / p. 44
Mark Spitzer, THE PIGS DRINK FROM INFINITY: POEMS
1995-2001 / p. 44
Caty Sporleder, FLAY, A BOOK OF MU / p. 44
Jane Sprague, THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES / p. 44
Rhoda Stamell, THE ART OF RUIN / p. 61
Alex Stein, MADE-UP INTERVIEWS WITH IMAGINARY ARTISTS
/ p. 73
AUTHOR INDEX
Dayana Stetco, SEDUCING VELASQUEZ AND OTHER PLAYS /
p. 61
Cordelia Strube, LEMON / p. 61
Brenda Paik Sunoo, VIETNAM MOMENT / p. 73
Brenda Paik Sunoo, SEAWEED AND SHAMANS: INHERITING
THE GIFTS OF GRIEF / p. 73
Tom and Simon Sykes, THE HITCHERS OF OZ / p. 74
Keren Taylor, Ed., SILHOUETTE: BOLD LINES & VOICES
FROM WRITEGIRL / p. 74
William Taylor Jr, THE HUNGER SEASON / p. 44
Marina Temkina, WHAT DO YOU WANT? / p. 44
Philip Terman, BOOK OF THE UNBROKEN DAYS / p. 44
Philip Terry, OULIPOEMS 2 / p. 45
Tod Thilleman, ROOT-CELLAR TO RIVERINE / p. 45
Barbara L Thomas, DREAMING OF SUNFLOWER FIELDS /
p. 45
Simon Thompson, WHY DOES IT FEEL SO LATE? / p. 45
Karen Throsby and Sarah Hodges, Eds., TECHNOLOGIES:
WSQ SPRING/SUMMER 2009 / p. 79
Aaron Tieger, SECRET DONUT / p. 45
John Samuel Tieman, A CONCISE BIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL
SIN / p. 45
Edwin Torres, IN THE FUNCTION OF EXTERNAL
CIRCUMSTANCES / p. 45
Michael Tregebov, THE BRISS / p. 61
Rhett Iseman Trull, THE REAL WARNINGS / p. 45
H J Tsinhnahjinnie and V Passalacqua, Eds., OUR
PEOPLE, OUR LAND, OUR IMAGES: INTERNATIONAL
INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS / p. 74
Alan Twigg, TIBETANS IN EXILE: THE DALAI LAMA & THE
WOODCOCKS / p. 74
Spring Ulmer, THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REPRODUCTION / p. 74
The Unbearables, THE WORST BOOK I EVER READ / p. 74
Lee Upton, THE GUIDE TO THE FLYING ISLAND / p. 62
Jose Castro Urioste, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? / p. 62
Melvin Van Peebles, CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUSITCHYFOOTED MUTHA / p. 62
John A. Vanek, HEART MURMURS: POEMS / p. 46
Bill Vartnaw, SUBURBS OF MY CHILDHOOD / p. 46
Erik Vatne, CARTOGRAPHIES OF SILENCE: POEMS / p. 46
Dina von Zweck, THE HISTORY OF WORDS & OTHER POEMS
/ p. 46
Catherine Wagner, MY NEW JOB / p. 46
Liz Waldner, PLAY / p. 46
Wendy S Walters, LONGER I WAIT, MORE YOU LOVE ME /
p. 46
Peter Waterhouse, LANGUAGE DEATH NIGHT OUTSIDE:
POEM.NOVEL / p. 46
Ellen Wehle, THE OCEAN LINER’S WAKE / p. 46
Wei Ying-wu, IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF WEI
YING-WU / p. 47
Laurence Weisberg, POEMS / p. 47
Molly Weller, FINDING PASSAGE / p. 47
Christine Wertheim, Ed., FEMINAISSANCE / p. 47
John Wheatcroft, THE FUGITIVE SELF: NEW AND SELECTED
POEMS / p. 47
Nancy White, SUN, MOON, SALT / p. 47
Lee Whitman-Raymond, THE LIGHT ON OUR FACES AND
OTHER POEMS / p. 47
Dara Wier, SELECTED POEMS / p. 47
Ken Wilkerson, MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY: A BRIGHT RIDE INSIDE
A MAGICAL ROAD SHOW / p. 62
Ronaldo V Wilson, POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT / p. 47
Suzi Winson, O. Brossard, and V. Broqua, Eds., POEM:
POETS ON (AN) EXCHANGE MISSION / p. 48
Sam Witt, SUNFLOWER BROTHER / p. 48
Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Eds., A BEST OF FENCE:
THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 1, POETRY & NONFICTION /
p. 48
THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUMES 1 & 2 [SHRINK-WRAPPED
SET] / p. 48
THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 2, FICTION & NONFICTION /
p. 62
Rebecca Wolff, Ed., FENCE VOL. 12 NO. 1 SPRING/SUMMER
2009 / p. 77
Clarence Wolfshohl, SEASON OF MANGOS / p. 48
John Dermot Woods, THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF
PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS / p. 62
C D Wright, RISING, FALLING, HOVERING / p. 48
Matvei Yankelevich, BORIS BY THE SEA / p. 48
Joseph Young, EASTER RABBIT / p. 62
Alexandra Yurkovsky, WANTING / p. 48
Joseph Zaccardi, RENDER / p. 49
Maged Zaher, PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS AN ENGINEER /
p. 49
Haifa Zangana, DREAMING OF BAGHDAD / p. 74
Lila Zemborain, GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET / p. 49
Andrew Zornoza, WHERE I STAY / p. 62
Rachel Zucker, MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS / p. 49
Steven Zultanski, THIS & THAT LENIN / p. 49
Title Index
DEATH POEMS, Che Elias / p. 21
:AB OVO:, Jenn McCreary / p. 35
THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF TAMIL PULP FICTION,
Rakesh Khanna, Ed. / p. 56
ABUNDANCE, Robin Chapman / p. 16
BLUETS, Maggie Nelson / p. 72
DECLINING AMERICA, Rob Budde / p. 15
ACE, Richard Carr / p. 16
BODY BETRAYER, Beckian Fritz Goldberg / p. 24
DEITY-ALPHABETS, Carroll C Kearley / p. 30
AFTER THE IX O’CLOCK NEWS, Kemeny Babineau / p. 12
BOMBAY GIN :, JenMarie Davis, Ed. / p. 77
DELHI NOIR, Hirsh Sawhney, Ed. / p. 60
AFTER THE HONEYMOON, Nathan Graziano / p. 25
THE BOOK OF PENIS, Jo Ann Rothschild / p. 73
DELINQUENT, Mina Pam Dick / p. 19
THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REPRODUCTION, Spring Ulmer /
p. 74
BOOK OF THE UNBROKEN DAYS, Philip Terman / p. 44
DELTA BLUES, Skip Fox / p. 23
BOONS & THE CAMP, David Ohle / p. 58
DEMON LOVE, Liz Rosenberg / p. 41
ALL FALL DOWN, Mary Caponegro / p. 53
BORIS BY THE SEA, Matvei Yankelevich / p. 48
DENVER QUARTERLY : , Bin Ramke, Ed. / p. 77
ALL SCREWED UP, Steve Fellner / p. 68
THE BOX, George Bowering / p. 52
ALMOST DOROTHY, Neil de la Flor / p. 18
BOY LAND AND OTHER POEMS, Dawn Potter / p. 39
DEPARTING AT DAWN: A NOVEL OF ARGENTINA’S
DIRTY WAR, Gloria Lise / p. 56
ALSO KNOWN AS, Elizabeth Robinson / p. 40
THE BRISS, Michael Tregebov / p. 61
ANANIOS OF KLEITOR, George Economou / p. 20
BUFFALO HEAD SOLOS, Tim Seibles / p. 43
THE ANCIENT USE OF STONE: JOURNALS AND
DAYBOOKS, -, Ray DiPalma / p. 19
BURN & LEARN: MEMOIRS OF THE CENOZOIC ERA, Eric
Paul Shaffer / p. 61
DESOLATION OF THE CHIMERA, Luis Cernuda / p. 16
... AND BEEFHEART SAVED CRAIG, Jefferson Hansen / p.
54
DIFFICULT BEAUTY: SELECTED POEMS (-),
Luis Alberto Ambroggio / p. 11
AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?, Jose Castro Urioste / p. 62
BURNING MAN LIVE: YEARS OF PISS CLEAR, BLACK
ROCK CITY’S ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER, Adrian
Roberts, Ed. / p. 73
ANGLES OF DISORDER, Zachary C Bush / p. 15
BURRO HEART, Jeff Schiff / p. 42
DINGLE DAY, Joe O’Connell / p. 38
ANNA IN-BETWEEN, Elizabeth Nunez / p. 58
CADENZAS BY NEEDLELIGHT, Paul B Roth / p. 41
DISTANT MUSIC: TWO NOVELS, Julian Silva / p. 61
ARGONAUTICA, Gaius Valerius Flaccus / p. 22
CALYX VOL. NO. SUMMER , Ahrens, Eberman,
McFarland, Silver, Smith, Eds. / p. 77
A, Sophie Robinson / p. 41
ARRIVAL OF THE SNAKE-WOMAN, Olive Senior / p. 61
THE ARSENIC LOBSTER: A HYBRID MEMOIR, Peter
Grandbois / p. 68
THE ART OF RUIN, Rhoda Stamell / p. 61
ARTIFICIAL LIFE, Michael Gessner / p. 24
AS IS, James Galvin / p. 23
CAMERA OBTRUSA: THE ACTION DOCUMENTARIES
OF HARA KAZUO, Hara Kazuo / p. 69
CARBON, Heidi James / p. 55
CARTOGRAPHIES OF SILENCE: POEMS, Erik Vatne / p. 46
CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT, Timothy David Orme / p. 39
ASHES IN LOVE, Oscar Hahn / p. 26
CATALYTIC EXTERIORIZATION PHENOMENON, Mel
Nichols / p. 38
AT THE END OF THE DAY: SELECTED POEMS AND AN
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, Phillip Lopate / p. 34
CATCH LIGHT, Sarah O’Brien / p. 38
DECLARATION, Fred Dewey, Ed. / p. 18
DESCARTES’ DEVIL: THREE MEDITATIONS, Durs
Grünbein / p. 69
DIALECT OF A SKIRT, Erica Miriam Fabri / p. 21
THE DIFFICULT FARM, Heather Christle / p. 17
DIVINE MUSIC, Suruchi Mohan / p. 57
THE DNA OF PREJUDICE: ON THE ONE AND THE
MANY, Michael Eskin / p. 68
THE DOORS OF THE BODY, Mary Alexandra Agner / p. 11
DOWNSTREAM FROM TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA: A
MEMOIR OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN, Keith Abbott / p. 65
THE DRAGONFLY: A SELECTION OF POEMS: , Amelia Rosselli / p. 41
THE DREAM DETECTIVE, David Mills / p. 36
THE CERTAINTY DREAM, Kate Hall / p. 26
A DREAMER’S GUIDE TO CITIES AND STREAMS, Joan
Gelfand / p. 24
CHASING A STAR, Norma Charles / p. 53
DREAMING OF BAGHDAD, Haifa Zangana / p. 74
CIDER PRESS REVIEW, VOLUME , Caron Andregg, Ed. /
p. 77
DREAMING OF SUNFLOWER FIELDS, Barbara L Thomas /
p. 45
COLLOBERT ORBITAL, Johan Jonson / p. 30
THE DRUMS OF AFRICA, Tim Schell / p. 60
COMEDY, DIVINE, THE, Ivan Argüelles / p. 11
BASIL’S DREAM, Christine Hale / p. 54
COMMUTER, James Belflower / p. 13
DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY,
Macgregor Card / p. 15
BATTENKILL BOOK : JANUARY, Gerald Coble / p. 67
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF PEOPLE, PLACES &
THINGS, John Dermot Woods / p. 62
THE EARTH’S WALL: SELECTED POEMS -,
Giorgio Caproni / p. 15
A CONCISE BIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL SIN, John Samuel
Tieman / p. 45
EASTER RABBIT, Joseph Young / p. 62
CONDITIONS OF LIGHT, Emmanuel Hocquard / p. 28
THE EDIBLE CITY: TORONTO’S FOOD FROM FARM TO
FORK, Christina Palassio & Alana Wilcox, Eds. / p. 72
AUFGABE NO. , Grinnell, Johnson, Brolaski, and Bers, Eds /
p. 77
AUTO-EROTICA, Stacia Saint Owens / p. 58
BABYFUCKER, Urs Allemann / p. 51
THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES, A NOVEL OF
SEX AND MURDER, Corey Mesler / p. 57
BEADS FOR THE MESSIAH’S BRIDE: POEMS ON LE
VITICUS, Yakov Azriel / p. 12
BEAUTY BREAKS IN, Mary Ann Samyn / p. 42
BEAUTY SALON, Mario Bellatin / p. 52
ECOPOETICS NO. /, Jonathan Skinner, Ed. / p. 77
THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS, Edward Foster / p. 23
CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUS-ITCHYFOOTED
MUTHA, Melvin Van Peebles / p. 62
THE BENJAMIN SONNETS, Clint Burnham / p. 15
THE CONTORTIONS, Nicole Mauro / p. 35
ENOUGH TO BE MORTAL NOW, Rienzi Crusz / p. 17
A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME ,
POETRY & NONFICTION, Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff,
Eds. / p. 48
COOK FOOD: A MANUALFESTO FOR EASY, HEALTHY,
LOCAL EATING, Lisa Jervis / p. 69
EPIPHANY SCHOOL, Chris Green / p. 25
TH AVENUE POEMS, Stefan Brecht / p. 14
COPENHAGEN, Katrine Marie Guldager / p. 54
ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO, Sandy
Mcintosh / p. 35
A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME ,
FICTION & NONFICTION, Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff,
Eds. / p. 62
CROSSING BORDERS, Steve Kowit & Lenny Silverberg / p. 32
ESCAPE FROM COMBRAY, Rick Snyder / p. 44
THE CRY OF THE SLOTH, Sam Savage / p. 60
A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUMES & [SHRINK-WRAPPED SET], Rebecca Wolff and Fence
Staff, Eds. / p. 48
DAILY BREAD: A PORTRAIT OF HOMELESS MEN AND
WOMEN OF LENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Jennifer
Burd / p. 66
THE ESSENTIAL NUMBERS -, Gordon Massman
/ p. 35
BETTER, John O’Brien / p. 58
DANCE OF DAYS: TWO DECADES OF PUNK IN THE
NATION’S CAPITAL, Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins / p.
65
BHARAT JIVA, kari edwards / p. 20
THE BIRDS AND OTHER POEMS, Lewis Ellingham / p. 21
THE BITTER WITHY, Donald Revell / p. 40
THE DANCE OF NO HARD FEELINGS, Mark Bibbins / p. 13
THE BLACK AUTOMATON, Douglas Kearney / p. 31
DAYS LIKE THIS ARE NECESSARY: NEW AND
SELECTED POEMS, Walter Bargen / p. 12
BLACK LEAPT IN, Chris Forhan / p. 22
THE DEAD CAN’T DANCE, Pam Calabrese MacLean / p. 34
BLACK MUSIC, Amiri Baraka (as Leroi Jones) / p. 65
DEATH AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, Daniel Cano / p. 53
BLACK MUSIC, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) / p. 70
DEATH AND THE MOTORWAY, David Gilbey / p. 24
ETERNITY TODAY, Ku Sang / p. 32
EUNOIA: SECOND EDITION, Christian Bök / p. 13
EVEN THE DOG WON’T TOUCH ME, Tom Bradley / p. 52
EXPEDITIONS OF A CHIMAERA, Oana Avasilichioaei and
Erin Moure / p. 12
EXPEDITIONS OF A CHIMAERA, Erin Moure and Oana
Avasilichioaei / p. 37
EZEKIEL’S WHEELS, Shirley Kaufman / p. 30
FACING IT AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS,
Corinne Robins / p. 40
TITLE INDEX
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM, Brian
Clements and Jamey Dunham, Eds. / p. 17
FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF LI BAI AND DU FU,
Keith Holyoak / p. 29
GRAPPLING WITH THE GRUMBLIES, Deborah Miller / p. 71
FARMING THE WORDS: TALKING WITH ROBERT
GRENIER, Robert Grenier / p. 68
THE GUIDE TO THE FLYING ISLAND, Lee Upton / p. 62
IOWA, Travis Nichols / p. 38
GULF DREAMS, Emma Perez / p. 59
ITALIANS IN FLORIDA, Gary R Mormino / p. 71
THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS, Bern Mulvey / p. 37
FEMINAISSANCE, Christine Wertheim, Ed. / p. 47
GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET, Lila Zemborain / p. 49
HAMBONE , Nathaniel Mackey, Ed. / p. 78
JAMMED TRANSMISSION, Paul Naylor / p. 38
HAMMERLOCK, Tim Seibles / p. 43
JEFFERSON’S DREAM: THE BALLAD OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, John Perrault / p. 72
FENCE VOL. NO. SPRING/SUMMER , Rebecca
Wolff, Ed. / p. 77
HANDLING DESTINY, Adrian Castro / p. 16
FINDING PASSAGE, Molly Weller / p. 47
HANGING LOOSE , Hershon, Lourie, Pawlak and Schreiber,
Eds. / p. 78
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN, Terry Bisson / p. 52
A JELLO HORSE, Matthew Simmons / p. 61
JEREMIAH DAY/SIMONE FORTI, Jeremiah Day and Simone
Forti / p. 67
METERS OF POEMS, Carlos Oquendo de Amat / p. 38
HANGING LOOSE , Hershon, Lourie, Pawlak and Schreiber,
Eds. / p. 78
FLAY, A BOOK OF MU, Caty Sporleder / p. 44
HARMONIC, Stephen Oliver / p. 38
JOY IS SO EXHAUSTING, Susan Holbrook / p. 28
FLOOD SONG, Sherwin Bitsui / p. 13
HEADZ, J J Colagrande / p. 53
JUBILAT NO. , Hong and Shockley, Eds. / p. 78
FOLLOW ME DOWN, Kate Buckley / p. 14
HEART MURMURS: POEMS, John A. Vanek / p. 46
JUDAH’S LION, Anne Caston / p. 16
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE: UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN
HISTORY OF COOPERATION, COOPERATIVE
MOVEMENTS, AND COMMUNALISM IN AMERICA,
John Curl / p. 67
THE HEBREW TUTOR OF BEL AIR, Allan Appel / p. 51
JUDEAN DREAMS, Brandon Marlon / p. 34
HELLO FAILURE, Kristen Kosmas / p. 56
THE JUDY GRAHN READER, Judy Grahn / p. 25
HELLO SUNSHINE, Ryan Adams / p. 11
FOR KEEPS, Eric Priestley / p. 59
HENRI, SOPHIE, & THE HIERATIC HEAD OF EZRA
POUND: POEMS BLASTED FROM THE VORTEX, Tom
Holmes / p. 28
THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER:
-, Kevin Killian and David Brazil, Eds. / p. 31
FOURTEEN HILLS VOL. NO. SPRING , Lusine
Khachatryan, Ed. / p. 77
FREE CELL, Anselm Berrigan / p. 13
FRESH NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC, Libby Hart / p. 27
FROM A SPEAKING PLACE: WRITINGS FROM THE
FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE,
W H New, Ed. / p. 72
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. I: ORIGINS: FROM
PREHISTORY TO THE FIRST MILLENIUM, Marilyn
French / p. 68
HER MOTHER’S ASHES : STORIES BY SOUTH ASIAN
WOMEN IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES,
Nurjehan Aziz, Ed. / p. 51
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: HONG SANG-SOO, Huh
Moonyung / p. 69
THE HITCHERS OF OZ, Tom and Simon Sykes / p. 74
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: IM KWON-TAEK, Chung
Sung-ill / p. 66
HOLLERIN FROM THIS SHACK, Grace C Ocasio / p. 38
HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE CHILDREN,
Bhanu Kapil / p. 30
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. IV: REVOLUTIONS AND
STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN THE TH CENTURY,
Marilyn French / p. 68
HUNTING AND PECKING, Rich Murphy / p. 37
THE FRONT, K Silem Mohammad / p. 37
THE FUGITIVE SELF: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS,
John Wheatcroft / p. 47
FUGUE STATE, Brian Evenson / p. 54
THE FUTURE IS HAPPY, Sarah Sarai / p. 42
GASTROLOGY OR LIFE OF PLEASURE OR STUDY OF
THE BELLY OR INQUIRY INTO DINNER, Archestratos /
p. 11
HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES,
Lorraine M Lopez / p. 57
THE HUNGER SEASON, William Taylor Jr / p. 44
HURDY-GURDY, Tim Seibles / p. 43
HUSH SESSIONS, Kristi Maxwell / p. 35
I THOUGHT I WAS NEW HERE, Gregory Lawless / p. 33
THE ILLUMINATIONS, Arthur Rimbaud / p. 40
GODZENIE, Marcus Slease / p. 44
THE GRAND PIANO: PART , Perelman, Watten, Benson,
Harryman, Mandel, Silliman, Robinson, Hejinian, Armantrout,
Pearson / p. 72
THE GRAND PIANO: PART , Perelman, Watten, Benson,
Harryman, Mandel, Silliman, Robinson, Hejinian, Armantrout,
Pearson / p. 72
LANA TURNER: A JOURNAL OF POETRY AND
OPINION, NO. , Cal Bedient & David Lau, Eds. / p. 78
LANGUAGE DEATH NIGHT OUTSIDE: POEM.NOVEL,
Peter Waterhouse / p. 46
IN DEFENSE OF OBJECTS, Linda Dove / p. 19
LAST CALL AT THE TIN PALACE, Paul Pines / p. 39
IN FLAGRANTE DELICTIO, Jerry Mirskin / p. 37
LATE AUGUST, Barbara Brackney / p. 14
IN PARAN, Larissa Shmailo / p. 43
THE LATE WORK OF MARGARET KROFTIS, Mark Gluth /
p. 54
IN SPACE IN SITU, Amy Evans McClure / p. 68
IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF WEI YING-WU,
Wei Ying-wu / p. 47
IN THE FUNCTION OF EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES,
Edwin Torres / p. 45
IN THE MILLENNIUM, Barry McKinnon / p. 36
THE LEFT LEFT BEHIND, Terry Bisson / p. 52
LEMON, Cordelia Strube / p. 61
LET’S NOT KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN WAR: NEW
AND SELECTED POEMS -, Edward Sanders /
p. 42
LIFE AT THE TOP: WEATHER, WISDOM & HIGH
CUISINE FROM THE MOUNT WASHINGTON
OBSERVATORY, Eric Pinder / p. 73
IN THE WAKE OF LOSS, Sheila James / p. 55
LIGHT FROM A BULLET HOLE: POEMS NEW AND
SELECTED, -, Ralph Salisbury / p. 41
IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE, Shya Scanlon / p. 42
LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS, Brandon Cesmat / p. 16
INCIDENT LIGHT, H L Hix / p. 28
THE LIGHT ON OUR FACES AND OTHER POEMS, Lee
Whitman-Raymond / p. 47
INCIVILITIES, Barbara Claire Freeman / p. 23
THE INCREDIBLE DOUBLE, Owen Hill / p. 55
GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, James Sanders / p. 42
LAKE ANTIQUITY: WORKS -, Brandon Downing
/ p. 19
IN BETWEEN THE DANCING, E. A. Gleeson / p. 24
GEEK MAFIA: BLACK HAT BLUES, Rick Dakan / p. 53
GLOBETROTTER & HITLER’S CHILDREN, Amatoritsero Ede
/ p. 20
THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA, Brother Anthony of Taize and
Hong Kyeong-hee / p. 66
LAO-TZU’S TAOTECHING, Lao-tzu / p. 33
IN THE ARCHIVES, Christopher Arigo / p. 12
A GLEAM IN THE EYE: VOLUME ONE OF THE SEASONS
OF YOUTH, Louis Daniel Brodsky / p. 14
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: PARK CHAN-WOOK, Kim
Young-jin / p. 70
THE LAST THINGS, Kate Greenstreet / p. 26
IN THE BADLANDS OF DESIRE, Beckian Fritz Goldberg /
p. 24
GIRL IN A LIBRARY: ON WOMEN WRITERS AND THE
WRITING LIFE, Kelly Cherry / p. 66
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: KIM KI-YOUNG, Kim
Hong-joon, Ed. / p. 70
IN ADVANCE OF ALL PARTING, Ansie Baird / p. 12
THE GATHERING, Diana Festa / p. 21
THE GIRL CARLA AND OTHER POEMS, Elio Pagliarani /
p. 39
KONG AND OTHER WORKS, Pamela Sneed / p. 44
THE HISTORY OF WORDS & OTHER POEMS, Dina von
Zweck / p. 46
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. III: INFERNOS AND
PARADISES: THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM IN THE
TH CENTURY, Marilyn French / p. 68
FROM WONSO POND, Kang Kyong-ae / p. 55
KISS, KISS, Linda Lee Harper / p. 27
KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: BONG JOON-HO, Jung
Ji-youn / p. 70
HOME: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, ETC., William Heyen / p. 69
FROM THE WESTERN DOOR TO THE LOWER WEST
SIDE, Eric Gansworth / p. 23
KILLING KANOKO: SELECTED POEMS OF HIROMI ITO,
Hiromi Ito / p. 29
HEROES, GUNDAS, VAMPS & GOOD GIRLS, Shelle / p. 73
FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. II: THE MASCULINE
MYSTIQUE: FROM FEUDALISM TO THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION, Marilyn French / p. 68
FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD, Neeli Cherkovski / p. 17
JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS, Philip Roy / p. 60
THE LIONTAMER’S DAUGHTER, Dave Etter / p. 21
LIQUEFACTION, Iain Britton / p. 14
INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME EXCEPT SOME
OF THEM HAVE WINGS, Kuzhali Manickavel / p. 57
THE LONG RIVER HOME: A NOVEL, Larry Smith / p. 61
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER
AND OTHER POEMS, Valerio Magrelli / p. 34
LONGER I WAIT, MORE YOU LOVE ME, Wendy S Walters /
p. 46
INTO THE GOODHUE COUNTY JAIL: POEMS TO FREE
PRISONERS, James P Lenfestey / p. 33
LOOK BACK, LOOK AHEAD, Srecko Kosovel / p. 32
TITLE INDEX
THE LOVE CHILDREN, Marilyn French / p. 54
ONE, Jen Hofer / p. 28
THE REFINERY, Janna Plant / p. 39
LUCE A CAVALLO, Therese Bachand / p. 12
ORDERING THE STORM: HOW TO PUT TOGETHER A
BOOK OF POEMS, Susan Grimm, Ed. / p. 69
RENDER, Joseph Zaccardi / p. 49
THE LUCKY STRIKE, Kim Stanley Robinson / p. 60
REPLY TO AN EVICTION NOTICE: SELECTED POEMS,
Robert Flanagan / p. 22
LUGAR DE ORIGEN/PLACE OF ORIGIN, Elena Lafert and
Melina Draper / p. 32
ORDINARY LIES, Robert J. Duffy / p. 19
MADE-UP INTERVIEWS WITH IMAGINARY ARTISTS,
Alex Stein / p. 73
OUR PEOPLE, OUR LAND, OUR IMAGES:
INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS,
H J Tsinhnahjinnie and V Passalacqua, Eds. / p. 74
THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM, Naomi Klein / p. 70
A MARTYR FOR SUZY KOSASOVICH, Patrick Michael Finn
/ p. 22
PAGEANT, Joanna Fuhrman / p. 23
ROOT-CELLAR TO RIVERINE, Tod Thilleman / p. 45
PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING, Cris Cheek / p. 16
THE ROPE, William Heyen / p. 27
MAYWEED, Frannie Lindsay / p. 33
PEAL, Bruce Bond / p. 14
A ROSARY OF POEMS, FIVE DECADES, Jane Rades / p. 39
THE MEANING OF TEA: A TEA INSPIRED JOURNEY, Phil
Cousineau and Scott Chamberlin Hoyt / p. 67
PEDRO AND THE CAPTAIN, Mario Benedetti / p. 52
THE ROSE CONCORDANCE, Angela Carr / p. 16
PENDULUMS OF EUPHORIA, Dana Killmeyer / p. 31
MEDDLES INTO PRECLUSION: COLLECTED POEMS, Che
Elias / p. 21
PENURY, Myung Mi Kim / p. 31
PERISH FROM THE EARTH, Perry Lentz / p. 56
THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING
FLASH FICTION: TIPS FROM EDITORS, TEACHERS,
AND WRITERS IN THE FIELD, Tara L Masih, Ed. / p. 71
PERMIT, Rob Holloway / p. 28
RUSSIAN TORTOISE, Gardner McFall / p. 35
PHOENIX NOIR, Patrick Millikin, Ed. / p. 57
LES SABLES MOUVANTS / SHIFTING SANDS, Hubert
Aquin / p. 51
MALILENAS, Garrett Kalleberg / p. 30
MEET ME AT THE HAPPY BAR, Steve Langan / p. 32
METAMORPHOSES OF THE SLEEPING BEAST, Dale
Jacobson / p. 29
METROPOLIS VIENNA, Peter Rosei / p. 60
MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY: A BRIGHT RIDE INSIDE A
MAGICAL ROAD SHOW, Ken Wilkerson / p. 62
OULIPOEMS , Philip Terry / p. 45
THE PIGS DRINK FROM INFINITY: POEMS -,
Mark Spitzer / p. 44
RHAPSODY OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS, Elena
Georgiou / p. 24
RISING, FALLING, HOVERING, C D Wright / p. 48
SAGA/CIRCUS, Lyn Hejinian / p. 27
PINK ELEPHANT, Rachel McKibbens / p. 36
SAXOPHONE BLUE, Michael Calvello / p. 15
THE MISSING, Maurizio Cucchi / p. 17
PLAY, Liz Waldner / p. 46
SCARY, NO SCARY, Zachary Schomburg / p. 43
MISSING HER, Claudia Keelan / p. 31
POEM: POETS ON (AN) EXCHANGE MISSION, Suzi
Winson, O. Brossard, and V. Broqua, Eds. / p. 48
SCRIBE, Norman Finkelstein / p. 22
A MOMENTARY JOKEBOOK, Jayson Iwen / p. 55
LES POEMES D’UNE VIE PERDUE: THE POEMS OF A
LOST LIFE, Hugh-Alain Dal / p. 18
SEASON OF MANGOS, Clarence Wolfshohl / p. 48
MONTGOMERY PARK, OR OPULENCE: AN ESSAY IN
THE FORM OF A BUILDING, Karinne Keithley / p. 56
POEMS, Laurence Weisberg / p. 47
SEAWEED AND SHAMANS: INHERITING THE GIFTS OF
GRIEF, Brenda Paik Sunoo / p. 73
MISTER SKYLIGHT, Ed Skoog / p. 43
MORE HOUSE, Hannah Calder / p. 52
MORE THAN I WANT TO, Margo Lockwood / p. 33
MORPHEU, A M J Crawford / p. 17
THE MOSCOVIAD, Yuri Andrukhovych / p. 51
POEMS FOR AMERICA, David Rowbotham / p. 41
THE SECOND ELIZABETH, Karen Lillis / p. 56
POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT, Ronaldo V Wilson / p. 47
SECRET DONUT, Aaron Tieger / p. 45
THE POEMS OF VIKRAM BABU, Jesus Aguado / p. 11
SEDUCING VELASQUEZ AND OTHER PLAYS, Dayana
Stetco / p. 61
THE POET AND THE SEA, Juan Ramon Jimenez / p. 30
A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA, Graham Foust / p. 23
POETRY : THIRTY-SOMETHING AMERICAN THIRTYSOMETHING POETS, Gerry LaFemina & Daniel Crocker, Eds.
/ p. 32
MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS, Rachel Zucker / p. 49
POOR MANNERS, Adam Halbur / p. 26
MUSIC: I-LXXIV, August Kleinzahler / p. 71
THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES, Jane Sprague / p. 44
MY BABY RIDES THE SHORT BUS: THE UNABASHEDLY
HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF RAISING KIDS WITH
DISABILITIES, Y Bertelli, J Silverman, and S Talbot, Eds / p.
65
PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS AN ENGINEER, Maged Zaher
/ p. 49
THE MOTHERING COVEN, Joanna Ruocco / p. 60
MY NEW JOB, Catherine Wagner / p. 46
THE NATURAL LAW OF WATER, Kathleen Culver / p. 18
NEIGHBOR, Rachel Levitsky / p. 33
NEO-SURREALISLM: OR, THE SUN AT NIGHT:
TRANSFORMATIONS OF SURREALISM IN AMERICAN
POETRY -, Andrew Joron / p. 30
A NEST THIS SIZE, Ann M Fine / p. 22
A SEASON IN HELL, Arthur Rimbaud / p. 40
SEEING IT NOW: HAIKU & TANKA, Marjorie Buettner / p. 15
SELECTED POEMS, Dara Wier / p. 47
SELECTED POEMS OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN, Friedrich
Holderlin / p. 28
THE SELECTED POEMS OF STEVE CAREY, Steve Carey / p.
15
POSITION & RELATION, India Hixon Radfar / p. 40
SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS NO. ,
Brian Clements, Ed. / p. 78
THE POSSIBILITY OF FLIGHT, Lia Hills / p. 27
SENTIMENTAL EXORCISMS, David Derry / p. 53
PREDICTIONS (CHAINLINKS), Cara Benson, Ed. / p. 65
THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS, W.S. Merwin / p. 36
PRESOCRATIC BLUES, Joel Bettridge / p. 13
SHADOWPLAY, Norman Lock / p. 57
PRIMARY INSTINCT, David Reiter / p. 59
SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, G
Winston James / p. 55
PRISMATIC PUBLICS: INNOVATIVE CANADIAN
WOMEN’S POETRY AND POETICS, Kate Eichhorn &
Heather Milne, Eds. / p. 20
SHOT, Christine Hume / p. 29
THE SHOW THAT SMELLS, Derek McCormack / p. 57
NEW AMERICAN WRITING , Paul Hoover and Maxine
Chernoff, Eds. / p. 78
PRISONER OF THE SWIFTS, Judith Skillman / p. 43
SICILIANA, Emanuel di Pasquale / p. 19
THE PROCESSION OF MOLLUSKS, Eric E Olson / p. 58
THE NEW WING OF THE LABYRINTH, Ed Roberson / p. 40
QUESTIONS/PLACES/VOICES/SEASONS, Norman Fischer
/ p. 22
SILHOUETTE: BOLD LINES & VOICES FROM
WRITEGIRL, Keren Taylor, Ed. / p. 74
NINE TEN AGAIN, Phil Condon / p. 53
NO DICE, Nature Theater of Oklahoma / p. 57
NO GENDER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF
kari edwards, J. T. Brolaski, e. kaufman & E. T. Grinnell, Eds. /
p. 66
QUINN’S PASSAGE, Kazim Ali / p. 51
SISYPHUS MY LOVE: (TO RECORD A DREAM IN A
BATHTUB), Laura Hinton / p. 27
THE RADIANT WORLD, Dan Featherston / p. 21
THE LAKH HEIST, Surender Mohan Pathak / p. 58
RAMBO SOLO, Nature Theater of Oklahoma / p. 58
A SLANT OF LIGHT, Galbraith Miller Crump / p. 67
NO PERFECT WORDS, Nava Renek / p. 59
RATTLE VOL. NO. SUMMER , Alan C Fox, Ed /
p. 78
SLEEPERS’ REPUBLIC, David Gruber / p. 26
THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE AND WINTER
CHRONICLE, Caroline Picard, Editor / p. 73
THE RAVENOUS AUDIENCE, Kate Durbin / p. 20
SOME DUCKS, Tim McNulty / p. 36
RAY OF THE STAR, Laird Hunt / p. 55
SOME KIND OF CHEESE ORGY, Linh Dinh / p. 19
REACHING INTO THE UNKNOWN: -, Steve
Dalachinsky / p. 18
SONNET , Paul Hoover / p. 29
NUFF SAID, Michelle Muir / p. 37
O, Jared Schickling / p. 42
THE OCEAN LINER’S WAKE, Ellen Wehle / p. 46
READ, Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Eds. / p. 40
OEDIPUS’ FIRST LOVER, Dale Jensen / p. 29
READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET, Stephen
Ratcliffe / p. 59
SLEEP NOT SLEEP, Harvey Ellis / p. 21
SOMETHING TO EXCHANGE, Celia Gilbert / p. 24
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION:
CONVERSATIONS III, George Lamming / p. 71
THE SPIDER SERMONS, Robert Krut / p. 32
OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF A
CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN, Sheema Khan / p. 70
THE REAL WARNINGS, Rhett Iseman Trull / p. 45
SPIRITLAND, Nava Renek / p. 59
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A GIRL: A MURDER
AT MOBILE BAY, Janis F. Kearney / p. 56
RED GENES, BLUE GENES: EXPOSING POLITICAL
IRRATIONALITY, Guillermo C Jimenez / p. 69
THE SPOONLIGHT INSTITUTE, Alan Bernheimer / p. 13
TITLE INDEX
THE STAR WIZARD’S LEGACY: SIX POETIC
SEQUENCES, Vasko Popa / p. 39
UNDER THE DOME: WALKS WITH PAUL CELAN, Jean
Daive / p. 67
STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE, Ana Bozicevic / p. 14
UNDERSTORY: LUMEN PRINTS OF FLORIDA FLORA,
Jerry Burchfield / p. 66
STATE SONNETS, B J Best / p. 13
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU MONKEYS?:
FOLKTALES FROM TAMIL NADU, Ki. Rajanarayanan / p.
59
WHERE I STAY, Andrew Zornoza / p. 62
STILL BRAVE: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK WOMEN’S
STUDIES, S.M. James, F.S. Foster, B. Guy-Sheftall, Eds. / p. 69
THE UNEXPECTED AVIARY, L. R. Berger / p. 13
WHITEWORK, Ashley McWaters / p. 36
UP JUMP THE BOOGIE, John Murillo / p. 37
THE STORY OF CRASS, George Berger / p. 65
UPGRADED TO SERIOUS, Heather McHugh / p. 35
STRAGGLING INTO WINTER, Kathy Kituai / p. 31
VAGABOND DAWNS, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld / p. 32
WHO’S TO SAY WHAT’S OBSCENE?: POLITICS,
CULTURE AND COMEDY IN AMERICA TODAY, Paul
Krassner / p. 71
STRATEGIC REALITY DICTIONARY: DEEP
INFOPOLITICS AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE,
Konrad Becker / p. 65
VAN GOGH IN POEMS, Carol Dine / p. 19
SUBURBS OF MY CHILDHOOD, Bill Vartnaw / p. 46
SUENO(S) FOR ALEJANDRA, Robert Estep / p. 21
SUN, MOON, SALT, Nancy White / p. 47
VENGEFUL HYMNS, Marc J. Sheehan / p. 43
VIETNAM MOMENT, Brenda Paik Sunoo / p. 73
VIRGIL’S COW, Frederick Farryl Goodwin / p. 25
VOYAGERS, Mark Pirie and Tim Jones, Eds. / p. 39
WHY DOES IT FEEL SO LATE?, Simon Thompson / p. 45
WILL WORK FOR DRUGS, Lydia Lunch / p. 71
WILTING LAUGHTER: THREE TAMIL POETS, Chelva
Kanaganayakam, Ed. / p. 30
WOMEN ON ICE: THE EARLY YEARS OF WOMEN’S
HOCKEY IN WESTERN CANADA, Wayne Norton / p. 72
WANTING, Alexandra Yurkovsky / p. 48
WOMEN WHO KILL, Ann Jones / p. 70
SWAN DIVE, Michael Burke / p. 52
WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR & OTHER POEMS,
Toni Mergentime Levi / p. 33
THE WOODEN BOWL, Sharon Ruetenik / p. 41
SWIMMING WITH A HUNDRED YEAR OLD SNAPPING
TURTLE, Freya Manfred / p. 34
THE WORLD CUP BABY, Euan McCabe / p. 71
WE CAME TO SANTA FE, Victor di Suvero, Ed. / p. 67
THE WORST BOOK I EVER READ, The Unbearables / p. 74
WHAT DID I DO WRONG?, Fanny Howe / p. 55
WOULD WITH AND, Cathy Eisenhower / p. 20
WHAT DO YOU WANT?, Marina Temkina / p. 44
WRECKAGE OF REASON: XXPERIMENTAL PROSE BY
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS, Nava Renek, Ed. /
p. 59
SUNFLOWER BROTHER, Sam Witt / p. 48
TA(L)KING EYES, Jacque Vaught Brogan / p. 14
TALKING DIAMONDS, Linda Nemec Foster / p. 23
THE TANGANYIKA WAY, Sophia Mustafa / p. 71
THE TENDERNESS OF BEES, Vicki Graham / p. 25
TERMINAL HUMMING, K Lorraine Graham / p. 25
TEXTURE NOTES, Sawako Nakayasu / p. 37
THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH SVEN, Greg Gerke /
p. 54
THESE HERE SEPARATED TO SEE HOW THEY
STANDING ALONE, Stephanie Barber / p. 12
THIRD BODY, Michel Delville / p. 18
A THIRST THAT’S PARTLY MINE, Liz Ahl / p. 11
WHAT MEN WANT, Laura McCullough / p. 35
WHAT SHE SAYS ABOUT LOVE, Tony Magistrale / p. 34
WHEELING, Che Elias / p. 54
WHEN A POET SEES A TREE, Jean-Pierre Rosnay / p. 41
WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL TONGUE IS FORK
HEN IS COCK WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL
MY BABY EAGLE’S DREAM COMES TRUE, Natesh Raju /
p. 73
WHEN YOU RISE UP: PERFORMANCE TEXTS, Miguel
Gutierrez / p. 26
MOTHER: WSQ FALL/WINTER , Nicole Cooley &
Pamela Stone, Eds. / p. 79
TECHNOLOGIES: WSQ SPRING/SUMMER , Karen
Throsby and Sarah Hodges, Eds. / p. 79
YOUR LOVER’S BELOVED, Hafez / p. 26
YOUR WILDERNESS & MINE, David Highsmith / p. 27
ZERO DEGREE, Charu Nivedita / p. 58
ZONE VOL. NO. SPRING , Blas Falconer & Amy
Wright, Eds. / p. 79
THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING CENTURY:
SELECTED POEMS -, Edward Sanders / p. 42
THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD, Barbara Henning / p. 55
THIS & THAT LENIN, Steven Zultanski / p. 49
THIS AWKWARD ART, Conrad and Jane Hilberry / p. 27
THIS IS WHERE MY LIFE WENT WRONG, C Bard Cole / p.
53
THREAD AND SELECTED NEW YORK POEMS, Vasyl
Makhno / p. 34
THREE ISLANDS, Micah Ling / p. 33
THE THREE-LEGGED ONE: A GLOSSED NOVEL, Giose
Rimanelli / p. 60
TIBETANS IN EXILE: THE DALAI LAMA & THE
WOODCOCKS, Alan Twigg / p. 74
TINFISH , Susan Schultz, Ed. / p. 78
TO CATCH LIFE ANEW: SWEDISH WOMEN POETS,
Eva Claeson, Ed. / p. 17
TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE, Huey Newton / p. 72
TO SEE THE EARTH, Philip Metres / p. 36
TOO MUCH OF THIS WORLD, Erin Murphy / p. 37
TOOTHPICK MEN (REVISED EDITION), Dinty W Moore /
p. 57
Thanks to the
Friends of SPD!
TOSCA, THE CAT LADY, Gina Lagorio / p. 56
TOUCANS IN THE ARCTIC, Scott Coffel / p. 17
TRACER, Richard Greenfield / p. 25
A TRAIL OF POETIC REFLECTIONS, Joseph Mileck / p. 36
TRANSLANATIONS ONE, William R Howe / p. 29
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: SPRING , Michael
Datcher, Ed. / p. 79
TSIM TSUM, Sabrina Orah Mark / p. 34
TSIM-TSUM, Marc Estrin / p. 54
NIGHTS AND ONE DAY, Margaret Rozga / p. 41
UNCORRECTED PROOF, Louisiana Alba / p. 51
Publisher Index
ACTION BOOKS
Hiromi Ito, KILLING KANOKO: SELECTED POEMS OF HIROMI ITO
/ p. 29
ADASTRA PRESS
Clarence Wolfshohl, SEASON OF MANGOS / p. 48
ADVENTURES IN POETRY / ZEPHYR PRESS
Alan Bernheimer, THE SPOONLIGHT INSTITUTE / p. 13
AGINCOURT PRESS
AHADADA BOOKS
Skip Fox, DELTA BLUES / p. 23
Barbara L Thomas, DREAMING OF SUNFLOWER FIELDS / p. 45
Tom Bradley, EVEN THE DOG WON’T TOUCH ME / p. 52
Grace C Ocasio, HOLLERIN FROM THIS SHACK / p. 38
Rich Murphy, HUNTING AND PECKING / p. 37
Philip Terry, OULIPOEMS 2 / p. 45
Adam Halbur, POOR MANNERS / p. 26
Judith Skillman, PRISONER OF THE SWIFTS / p. 43
Dayana Stetco, SEDUCING VELASQUEZ AND OTHER PLAYS /
p. 61
Robert Estep, SUENO(S) FOR ALEJANDRA / p. 21
Kate Greenstreet, THE LAST 4 THINGS / p. 26
AKASHIC BOOKS
John O’Brien, BETTER / p. 58
Amiri Baraka (as Leroi Jones), BLACK MUSIC / p. 65, 70
Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, DANCE OF DAYS: TWO
DECADES OF PUNK IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL / p. 65
Ryan Adams, HELLO SUNSHINE / p. 11
Mark Gluth, THE LATE WORK OF MARGARET KROFTIS / p. 54
Patrick Millikin, Ed., PHOENIX NOIR / p. 57
Kate Durbin, THE RAVENOUS AUDIENCE / p. 20
Derek McCormack, THE SHOW THAT SMELLS / p. 57
Lydia Lunch, WILL WORK FOR DRUGS / p. 71
ALICE JAMES BOOKS
Donald Revell, THE BITTER WITHY / p. 40
Joanna Fuhrman, PAGEANT / p. 23
ANHINGA PRESS
Rhett Iseman Trull, THE REAL WARNINGS / p. 45
ANON EDITION
Laurence Weisberg, POEMS / p. 47
APOGEE PRESS
Elizabeth Robinson, ALSO KNOWN AS / p. 40
ASHLAND POETRY PRESS
Marc J. Sheehan, VENGEFUL HYMNS / p. 43
ASTROPHIL PRESS
Keith Abbott, DOWNSTREAM FROM TROUT FISHING IN
AMERICA: A MEMOIR OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN / p. 65
Eric E Olson, THE PROCESSION OF MOLLUSKS / p. 58
David Gruber, SLEEPERS’ REPUBLIC / p. 26
AUNT LUTE BOOKS
Emma Perez, GULF DREAMS / p. 59
AUTONOMEDIA
Guillermo C Jimenez, RED GENES, BLUE GENES: EXPOSING
POLITICAL IRRATIONALITY / p. 69
Konrad Becker, STRATEGIC REALITY DICTIONARY: DEEP
INFOPOLITICS AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE / p. 65
The Unbearables, THE WORST BOOK I EVER READ / p. 74
BARROW STREET PRESS
Chris Forhan, BLACK LEAPT IN / p. 22
BARRYTOWN/STATION HILL
Erik Vatne, CARTOGRAPHIES OF SILENCE: POEMS / p. 46
India Hixon Radfar, POSITION & RELATION / p. 40
BAYEUX ARTS
Deborah Miller, GRAPPLING WITH THE GRUMBLIES / p. 71
BEAR STAR PRESS
Linda Dove, IN DEFENSE OF OBJECTS / p. 19
BEATITUDE PRESS
Dale Jensen, OEDIPUS’ FIRST LOVER / p. 29
Jane Rades, A ROSARY OF POEMS, FIVE DECADES / p. 39
Bill Vartnaw, SUBURBS OF MY CHILDHOOD / p. 46
Joseph Mileck, A TRAIL OF POETIC REFLECTIONS / p. 36
Alexandra Yurkovsky, WANTING / p. 48
BENU PRESS
BEYOND BAROQUE BOOKS
Fred Dewey, Ed., DECLARATION / p. 18
BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS
BIRD DOG PUBLISHING/BOTTOM DOG PRESS
John A. Vanek, HEART MURMURS: POEMS / p. 46
THE BITTER OLEANDER PRESS
Carol Dine, VAN GOGH IN POEMS / p. 19
BKMK PRESS
John Samuel Tieman, A CONCISE BIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL SIN
/ p. 45
Walter Bargen, DAYS LIKE THIS ARE NECESSARY: NEW AND
SELECTED POEMS / p. 12
Kelly Cherry, GIRL IN A LIBRARY: ON WOMEN WRITERS AND THE
WRITING LIFE / p. 66
Lorraine M Lopez, HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER
STORIES / p. 57
A M J Crawford, MORPHEU / p. 17
Jared Schickling, O / p. 42
Dan Featherston, THE RADIANT WORLD / p. 21
Janna Plant, THE REFINERY / p. 39
Laura Hinton, SISYPHUS MY LOVE: (TO RECORD A DREAM IN A
BATHTUB) / p. 27
Celia Gilbert, SOMETHING TO EXCHANGE / p. 24
Robert Krut, THE SPIDER SERMONS / p. 32
Greg Gerke, THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH SVEN / p. 54
Barbara Henning, THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD / p. 55
William R Howe, TRANSLANATIONS ONE / p. 29
David Highsmith, YOUR WILDERNESS & MINE / p. 27
BLUE LION BOOKS
Ivan Argüelles, COMEDY, DIVINE, THE / p. 11
BOOK THUG
Kemeny Babineau, AFTER THE 6IX O’CLOCK NEWS / p. 12
Clint Burnham, THE BENJAMIN SONNETS / p. 15
Rob Budde, DECLINING AMERICA / p. 15
Oana Avasilichioaei and Erin Moure, EXPEDITIONS OF A
CHIMAERA / p. 12
Angela Carr, THE ROSE CONCORDANCE / p. 16
Steven Zultanski, THIS & THAT LENIN / p. 49
BORDIGHERA PRESS
Gary R Mormino, ITALIANS IN FLORIDA / p. 71
Emanuel di Pasquale, SICILIANA / p. 19
Giose Rimanelli, THE THREE-LEGGED ONE: A GLOSSED NOVEL /
p. 60
Tony Magistrale, WHAT SHE SAYS ABOUT LOVE / p. 34
BLACK GOAT
Amatoritsero Ede, GLOBETROTTER & HITLER’S CHILDREN / p. 20
BOTTOM DOG PRESS
Jennifer Burd, DAILY BREAD: A PORTRAIT OF HOMELESS MEN
AND WOMEN OF LENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN / p. 66
Larry Smith, THE LONG RIVER HOME: A NOVEL / p. 61
Robert Flanagan, REPLY TO AN EVICTION NOTICE: SELECTED
POEMS / p. 22
BLACK OCEAN
Zachary Schomburg, SCARY, NO SCARY / p. 43
BRIGHT HILL PRESS
Sharon Ruetenik, THE WOODEN BOWL / p. 41
BLAFT PUBLICATIONS
Rakesh Khanna, Ed., THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF TAMIL PULP
FICTION / p. 56
Kuzhali Manickavel, INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME
EXCEPT SOME OF THEM HAVE WINGS / p. 57
Natesh Raju, WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL TONGUE IS
FORK HEN IS COCK WHEN THIS KEY SKETCH GETS REAL MY
BABY EAGLE’S DREAM COMES TRUE / p. 73
Ki. Rajanarayanan, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU MONKEYS?:
FOLKTALES FROM TAMIL NADU / p. 59
BRONX RIVER PRESS
Corey Mesler, THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES, A NOVEL
OF SEX AND MURDER / p. 57
BLATT BOOKS
Heidi James, CARBON / p. 55
C Bard Cole, THIS IS WHERE MY LIFE WENT WRONG / p. 53
BLAZEVOX BOOKS
Jefferson Hansen, ... AND BEEFHEART SAVED CRAIG / p. 54
Zachary C Bush, ANGLES OF DISORDER / p. 15
Michael Gessner, ARTIFICIAL LIFE / p. 24
Timothy David Orme, CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT / p. 39
John Dermot Woods, THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF PEOPLE,
PLACES & THINGS / p. 62
Caty Sporleder, FLAY, A BOOK OF MU / p. 44
Sarah Sarai, THE FUTURE IS HAPPY / p. 42
Marcus Slease, GODZENIE / p. 44
James Sanders, GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE / p. 42
J J Colagrande, HEADZ / p. 53
Tom Holmes, HENRI, SOPHIE, & THE HIERATIC HEAD OF EZRA
POUND: POEMS BLASTED FROM THE VORTEX / p. 28
Gregory Lawless, I THOUGHT I WAS NEW HERE / p. 33
Larissa Shmailo, IN PARAN / p. 43
Steve Langan, MEET ME AT THE HAPPY BAR / p. 32
BURNING DECK
Peter Waterhouse, LANGUAGE DEATH NIGHT OUTSIDE:
POEM.NOVEL / p. 46
p. 67
CADMUS EDITIONS
CALAMARI PRESS
David Ohle, BOONS & THE CAMP / p. 58
CALYX
Ahrens, Eberman, McFarland, Silver, Smith, Eds., CALYX VOL. 25
NO. 2 SUMMER 2009 / p. 77
CHAINLINKS
Cara Benson, Ed., PREDICTIONS (CHAINLINKS) / p. 65
CHAX PRESS
Jane Sprague, THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES / p. 44
Joel Bettridge, PRESOCRATIC BLUES / p. 13
Linh Dinh, SOME KIND OF CHEESE ORGY / p. 19
Jacque Vaught Brogan, TA(L)KING EYES / p. 14
CHELSEA EDITIONS
1953-1981 / p. 41
Giorgio Caproni, THE EARTH’S WALL: SELECTED POEMS 19321986 / p. 15
PUBLISHER INDEX
CIDER PRESS REVIEW
Robin Chapman, ABUNDANCE / p. 16
Caron Andregg, Ed., CIDER PRESS REVIEW, VOLUME 10 / p. 77
CIRCLEDANCE BOOKS/BURNING BUSH
CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS
Anselm Berrigan, FREE CELL / p. 13
Paul Krassner, WHO’S TO SAY WHAT’S OBSCENE?: POLITICS,
CULTURE AND COMEDY IN AMERICA TODAY / p. 71
CLEVELAND STATE U POETRY CENTER
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, BODY BETRAYER / p. 24
Tim Seibles, BUFFALO HEAD SOLOS / p. 43
Bern Mulvey, THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS / p. 37
Tim Seibles, HAMMERLOCK / p. 43
Tim Seibles, HURDY-GURDY / p. 43
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, IN THE BADLANDS OF DESIRE / p. 24
Linda Lee Harper, KISS, KISS / p. 27
Patrick Michael Finn, A MARTYR FOR SUZY KOSASOVICH / p. 22
Jayson Iwen, A MOMENTARY JOKEBOOK / p. 55
Susan Grimm, Ed., ORDERING THE STORM: HOW TO PUT
TOGETHER A BOOK OF POEMS / p. 69
Sam Witt, SUNFLOWER BROTHER / p. 48
Philip Metres, TO SEE THE EARTH / p. 36
COACH HOUSE BOOKS
Kate Hall, THE CERTAINTY DREAM / p. 26
Christina Palassio & Alana Wilcox, Eds., THE EDIBLE CITY:
TORONTO’S FOOD FROM FARM TO FORK / p. 72
Christian Bök, EUNOIA: SECOND EDITION / p. 13
Susan Holbrook, JOY IS SO EXHAUSTING / p. 28
Cordelia Strube, LEMON / p. 61
Kate Eichhorn & Heather Milne, Eds., PRISMATIC PUBLICS:
INNOVATIVE CANADIAN WOMEN’S POETRY AND POETICS /
p. 20
David Derry, SENTIMENTAL EXORCISMS / p. 53
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS
Mary Caponegro, ALL FALL DOWN / p. 53
Sarah O’Brien, CATCH LIGHT / p. 38
Sam Savage, THE CRY OF THE SLOTH / p. 60
Brian Evenson, FUGUE STATE / p. 54
Adrian Castro, HANDLING DESTINY / p. 16
Allan Appel, THE HEBREW TUTOR OF BEL AIR / p. 51
Edward Sanders, LET’S NOT KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN WAR:
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1986-2009 / p. 42
Laird Hunt, RAY OF THE STAR / p. 55
Edward Sanders, THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING
CENTURY: SELECTED POEMS 1961-1985 / p. 42
COPPER CANYON PRESS
James Galvin, AS IS / p. 23
Mark Bibbins, THE DANCE OF NO HARD FEELINGS / p. 13
Wei Ying-wu, IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF WEI YINGWU / p. 47
Ed Skoog, MISTER SKYLIGHT / p. 43
C D Wright, RISING, FALLING, HOVERING / p. 48
W.S. Merwin, THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS / p. 36
Heather McHugh, UPGRADED TO SERIOUS / p. 35
COUNTERPATH PRESS
Barbara Claire Freeman, INCIVILITIES / p. 23
Stephen Ratcliffe, READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET
/ p. 59
Christine Hume, SHOT / p. 29
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS
Luis Alberto Ambroggio, DIFFICULT BEAUTY: SELECTED POEMS
(1987-2006) / p. 11
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, VAGABOND DAWNS / p. 32
CYPHER BOOKS
CYPRESS BOOKS
Paul B Roth, CADENZAS BY NEEDLELIGHT / p. 41
DEERBROOK EDITIONS
Dawn Potter, BOY LAND AND OTHER POEMS / p. 39
L. R. Berger, THE UNEXPECTED AVIARY / p. 13
DENVER QUARTERLY
Bin Ramke, Ed., DENVER QUARTERLY 44:1 2009 / p. 77
DISPLACED PRESS
Johan Jonson, COLLOBERT ORBITAL / p. 30
DOS MADRES PRESS
Norman Finkelstein, SCRIBE / p. 22
DUSIE PRESS
Jenn McCreary, :AB OVO: / p. 35
Nicole Mauro, THE CONTORTIONS / p. 35
EDGE BOOKS
Mel Nichols, CATALYTIC EXTERIORIZATION PHENOMENON /
p. 38
K Lorraine Graham, TERMINAL HUMMING / p. 25
Brandon Downing, LAKE ANTIQUITY: WORKS 1996-2008 / p. 19
Catherine Wagner, MY NEW JOB / p. 46
FIELD BOOKS
Robert Grenier, FARMING THE WORDS: TALKING WITH ROBERT
GRENIER / p. 68
FIREWHEEL EDITIONS
Brian Clements and Jamey Dunham, Eds., AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE PROSE POEM / p. 17
Brian Clements, Ed., SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS
NO. 6 / p. 78
FISH DRUM/DOUBLE CHANGE
Suzi Winson, O. Brossard, and V. Broqua, Eds., POEM: POETS ON
(AN) EXCHANGE MISSION / p. 48
FLOOD EDITIONS
Graham Foust, A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA / p. 23
Fanny Howe, WHAT DID I DO WRONG? / p. 55
ELIXIR PRESS
Phil Condon, NINE TEN AGAIN / p. 53
RD STATE PRESS
Karinne Keithley, MONTGOMERY PARK, OR OPULENCE: AN
ESSAY IN THE FORM OF A BUILDING / p. 56
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, NO DICE / p. 57
Nature Theater of Oklahoma, RAMBO SOLO / p. 58
Miguel Gutierrez, WHEN YOU RISE UP: PERFORMANCE TEXTS /
p. 26
ELLIPSIS PRESS
Joanna Ruocco, THE MOTHERING COVEN / p. 60
Norman Lock, SHADOWPLAY / p. 57
FOURTEEN HILLS PRESS
Lusine Khachatryan, Ed., FOURTEEN HILLS VOL. 15 NO. 2
SPRING 2009 / p. 77
ESSAY PRESS
Spring Ulmer, THE AGE OF VIRTUAL REPRODUCTION / p. 74
FUTUREPOEM BOOKS
Mina Pam Dick, DELINQUENT / p. 19
Ronaldo V Wilson, POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT / p. 47
ELEPHANT EARS PRESS
Louisiana Alba, UNCORRECTED PROOF / p. 51
ETRUSCAN PRESS
John Wheatcroft, THE FUGITIVE SELF: NEW AND SELECTED
POEMS / p. 47
H L Hix, INCIDENT LIGHT / p. 28
Bruce Bond, PEAL / p. 14
Scott Coffel, TOUCANS IN THE ARCTIC / p. 17
FAIRY TALE REVIEW PRESS
Ashley McWaters, WHITEWORK / p. 36
THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY
DIRTY WAR / p. 56
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. I: ORIGINS: FROM
PREHISTORY TO THE FIRST MILLENIUM / p. 68
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. II: THE MASCULINE
MYSTIQUE: FROM FEUDALISM TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
/ p. 68
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. III: INFERNOS AND
PARADISES: THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM IN THE 19TH
CENTURY / p. 68
Marilyn French, FROM EVE TO DAWN, VOL. IV: REVOLUTIONS
AND STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN THE 20TH CENTURY / p. 68
Marilyn French, THE LOVE CHILDREN / p. 54
S.M. James, F.S. Foster, B. Guy-Sheftall, Eds., STILL BRAVE: THE
EVOLUTION OF BLACK WOMEN’S STUDIES / p. 69
Ann Jones, WOMEN WHO KILL / p. 70
Nicole Cooley & Pamela Stone, Eds., MOTHER: WSQ
FALL/WINTER 2009 / p. 79
Karen Throsby and Sarah Hodges, Eds., TECHNOLOGIES: WSQ
SPRING/SUMMER 2009 / p. 79
FENCE BOOKS
Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Eds., A BEST OF FENCE: THE
FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 1, POETRY & NONFICTION / p. 48
FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 2, FICTION & NONFICTION /
p. 62
FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUMES 1 & 2 [SHRINK-WRAPPED SET] /
p. 48
Macgregor Card, DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY
/ p. 15
Rebecca Wolff, Ed., FENCE VOL. 12 NO. 1 SPRING/SUMMER
2009 / p. 77
THE GIG
Cris Cheek, PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING / p. 16
GREEN INTEGER
Therese Bachand, LUCE A CAVALLO / p. 12
THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS
Caroline Picard, Editor, THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE AND
WINTER CHRONICLE / p. 73
HAMBONE
Nathaniel Mackey, Ed., HAMBONE 19 / p. 78
HANGING LOOSE PRESS
Erica Miriam Fabri, DIALECT OF A SKIRT / p. 21
Hershon, Lourie, Pawlak and Schreiber, Eds., HANGING LOOSE
94 / p. 78
Hershon, Lourie, Pawlak and Schreiber, Eds., HANGING LOOSE
95 / p. 78
HARBOR MOUNTAIN PRESS
Elena Georgiou, RHAPSODY OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS /
p. 24
HEYDAY BOOKS
H J Tsinhnahjinnie and V Passalacqua, Eds., OUR PEOPLE,
OUR LAND, OUR IMAGES: INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS
PHOTOGRAPHERS / p. 74
HOBBLEBUSH BOOKS
John Perrault, JEFFERSON’S DREAM: THE BALLAD OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE / p. 72
Eric Pinder, LIFE AT THE TOP: WEATHER, WISDOM & HIGH
CUISINE FROM THE MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY /
p. 73
HOST PUBLICATIONS
HOUSE OF NEHESI PUBLISHERS
INSTANCE PRESS
James Belflower, COMMUTER / p. 13
PUBLISHER INDEX
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS
David Gilbey, DEATH AND THE MOTORWAY / p. 24
Libby Hart, FRESH NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC / p. 27
Stephen Oliver, HARMONIC / p. 38
Tom and Simon Sykes, THE HITCHERS OF OZ / p. 74
E. A. Gleeson, IN BETWEEN THE DANCING / p. 24
Iain Britton, LIQUEFACTION / p. 14
David Rowbotham, POEMS FOR AMERICA / p. 41
Lia Hills, THE POSSIBILITY OF FLIGHT / p. 27
David Reiter, PRIMARY INSTINCT / p. 59
Kathy Kituai, STRAGGLING INTO WINTER / p. 31
Euan McCabe, THE WORLD CUP BABY / p. 71
Mark Pirie and Tim Jones, Eds., VOYAGERS / p. 39
ITHURIEL’S SPEAR
Lewis Ellingham, THE BIRDS AND OTHER POEMS / p. 21
Michael Calvello, SAXOPHONE BLUE / p. 15
JUBILAT
Hong and Shockley, Eds., JUBILAT NO. 16 / p. 78
KAYA PRESS
KELSEY STREET PRESS
Bhanu Kapil, HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE CHILDREN
/ p. 30
KENNING EDITIONS
Kevin Killian and David Brazil, Eds., THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY
OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1980 / p. 31
William Heyen, THE ROPE / p. 27
Erin Murphy, TOO MUCH OF THIS WORLD / p. 37
Dinty W Moore, TOOTHPICK MEN (REVISED EDITION) / p. 57
MARSH HAWK PRESS
Neil de la Flor, ALMOST DOROTHY / p. 18
Phillip Lopate, AT THE END OF THE DAY: SELECTED POEMS AND
AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY / p. 34
Edward Foster, THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS / p. 23
Sandy Mcintosh, ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO /
p. 35
Corinne Robins, FACING IT AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
/ p. 40
Paul Pines, LAST CALL AT THE TIN PALACE / p. 39
MAYAPPLE PRESS
Rhoda Stamell, THE ART OF RUIN / p. 61
Mary Alexandra Agner, THE DOORS OF THE BODY / p. 11
Chris Green, EPIPHANY SCHOOL / p. 25
Conrad and Jane Hilberry, THIS AWKWARD ART / p. 27
Toni Mergentime Levi, WATCHING MOTHER DISAPPEAR &
OTHER POEMS / p. 33
MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lee Upton, THE GUIDE TO THE FLYING ISLAND / p. 62
Frederick Farryl Goodwin, VIRGIL’S COW / p. 25
MODE A/THIS PRESS
Perelman, Watten, Benson, Harryman, Mandel, Silliman,
Robinson, Hejinian, Armantrout, Pearson, THE GRAND PIANO:
PART 8 / p. 72
Perelman, Watten, Benson, Harryman, Mandel, Silliman,
Robinson, Hejinian, Armantrout, Pearson, THE GRAND PIANO:
PART 9 / p. 72
KOLOURMEIM PRESS
Andrew Joron, NEO-SURREALISLM: OR, THE SUN AT NIGHT:
TRANSFORMATIONS OF SURREALISM IN AMERICAN POETRY
1966-1999 / p. 30
THE NAROPA PRESS
JenMarie Davis, Ed., BOMBAY GIN 35:2 / p. 77
LAGUNA WILDERNESS PRESS
Jerry Burchfield, UNDERSTORY: LUMEN PRINTS OF FLORIDA
FLORA / p. 66
NEW AMERICAN WRITING
Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Eds., NEW AMERICAN
WRITING 27 / p. 78
LANA TURNER
Cal Bedient & David Lau, Eds., LANA TURNER: A JOURNAL OF
POETRY AND OPINION, NO. 2 / p. 78
NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE
Mary Ann Samyn, BEAUTY BREAKS IN / p. 42
Claudia Keelan, MISSING HER / p. 31
Linda Nemec Foster, TALKING DIAMONDS / p. 2
LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW PRESS
LEAPING DOG PRESS
Eric Paul Shaffer, BURN & LEARN: MEMOIRS OF THE CENOZOIC
ERA / p. 61
NEW NATIVE PRESS/LA MAIN COURANTE
Hugh-Alain Dal, LES POEMES D’UNE VIE PERDUE: THE POEMS
OF A LOST LIFE / p. 18
LES FIGUES PRESS
Christine Wertheim, Ed., FEMINAISSANCE / p. 47
Paul Hoover, SONNET 56 / p. 29
NEW STAR BOOKS
George Bowering, THE BOX / p. 52
Barry McKinnon, IN THE MILLENNIUM / p. 36
Simon Thompson, WHY DOES IT FEEL SO LATE? / p. 45
Hannah Calder, MORE HOUSE / p. 52
LETTER MACHINE EDITIONS
Travis Nichols, IOWA / p. 38
NIGHTBOAT BOOKS
Edwin Torres, IN THE FUNCTION OF EXTERNAL
CIRCUMSTANCES / p. 45
LIGHTFUL PRESS
Liz Waldner, PLAY / p. 46
PRESS
LITMUS PRESS/BELLADONNA BOOKS
Grinnell, Johnson, Brolaski, and Bers, Eds, AUFGABE NO. 8 / p. 77
kari edwards, BHARAT JIVA / p. 20
J. T. Brolaski, e. kaufman & E. T. Grinnell, Eds., NO GENDER:
REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF kari edwards / p. 66
NOEMI PRESS
Shya Scanlon, IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE / p. 42
LIVINGSTON PRESS
Stacia Saint Owens, AUTO-EROTICA / p. 58
Christine Hale, BASIL’S DREAM / p. 54
OCTOPUS BOOKS
Matvei Yankelevich, BORIS BY THE SEA / p. 48
Heather Christle, THE DIFFICULT FARM / p. 17
MAMMOTH BOOKS
Philip Terman, BOOK OF THE UNBROKEN DAYS / p. 44
Jeff Schiff, BURRO HEART / p. 42
Liz Rosenberg, DEMON LOVE / p. 41
Tim Schell, THE DRUMS OF AFRICA / p. 60
William Heyen, HOME: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, ETC. / p. 69
Jerry Mirskin, IN FLAGRANTE DELICTIO / p. 37
Gerry LaFemina & Daniel Crocker, Eds., POETRY 30: THIRTYSOMETHING AMERICAN THIRTY-SOMETHING POETS / p. 32
OMNIDAWN
Christopher Arigo, IN THE ARCHIVES / p. 12
Lyn Hejinian, SAGA/CIRCUS / p. 27
Friedrich Holderlin, SELECTED POEMS OF FRIEDRICH
HOLDERLIN / p. 28
Richard Greenfield, TRACER / p. 25
O BOOKS
Amy Evans McClure, IN SPACE IN SITU / p. 68
OTIS BOOKS/SEISMICITY EDITIONS
Ray DiPalma, THE ANCIENT USE OF STONE: JOURNALS AND
DAYBOOKS, 1998-2008 / p. 19
OYSTER RIVER PRESS
Keith Holyoak, FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF LI BAI AND DU
FU / p. 29
Elena Lafert and Melina Draper, LUGAR DE ORIGEN/PLACE OF
ORIGIN / p. 32
Robert J. Duffy, ORDINARY LIES / p. 19
Eva Claeson, Ed., TO CATCH LIFE ANEW: 10 SWEDISH WOMEN
POETS / p. 17
PALM PRESS
Wendy S Walters, LONGER I WAIT, MORE YOU LOVE ME / p. 46
Jen Hofer, ONE / p. 28
PENNYWHISTLE PRESS
Victor di Suvero, Ed., WE CAME TO SANTA FE / p. 67
PERIPLUM EDITIONS
Jonathan Skinner, Ed., ECOPOETICS NO. 6/7 / p. 77
PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO
Barbara Brackney, LATE AUGUST / p. 14
Lee Whitman-Raymond, THE LIGHT ON OUR FACES AND OTHER
POEMS / p. 47
Tim McNulty, SOME DUCKS / p. 36
Michael Burke, SWAN DIVE / p. 52
PM PRESS
Lisa Jervis, COOK FOOD: A MANUALFESTO FOR EASY, HEALTHY,
LOCAL EATING / p. 69
Terry Bisson, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN / p. 52
John Curl, FOR ALL THE PEOPLE: UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN
HISTORY OF COOPERATION, COOPERATIVE MOVEMENTS,
AND COMMUNALISM IN AMERICA / p. 67
Rick Dakan, GEEK MAFIA: BLACK HAT BLUES / p. 53
Owen Hill, THE INCREDIBLE DOUBLE / p. 55
Terry Bisson, THE LEFT LEFT BEHIND / p. 52
Kim Stanley Robinson, THE LUCKY STRIKE / p. 60
Y Bertelli, J Silverman, and S Talbot, Eds, MY BABY RIDES THE
SHORT BUS: THE UNABASHEDLY HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF
RAISING KIDS WITH DISABILITIES / p. 65
Naomi Klein, THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM / p. 70
George Berger, THE STORY OF CRASS / p. 65
POETIC MATRIX PRESS
Joe O’Connell, DINGLE DAY / p. 38
Molly Weller, FINDING PASSAGE / p. 47
Diana Festa, THE GATHERING / p. 21
Brandon Cesmat, LIGHT IN ALL DIRECTIONS / p. 16
Joseph Zaccardi, RENDER / p. 49
PORTUGUESE IN THE AMERICAS SERIES
Julian Silva, DISTANT MUSIC: TWO NOVELS / p. 61
PRESSED WAFER
Gerald Coble, BATTENKILL BOOK 2: JANUARY / p. 67
Jo Ann Rothschild, THE BOOK OF PENIS / p. 73
Margo Lockwood, MORE THAN I WANT TO / p. 33
August Kleinzahler, MUSIC: I-LXXIV / p. 71
Maged Zaher, PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS AN ENGINEER / p. 49
Aaron Tieger, SECRET DONUT / p. 45
PROJECT PRESS
Jeremiah Day and Simone Forti, JEREMIAH DAY/SIMONE FORTI
/ p. 67
PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS
Joseph Young, EASTER RABBIT / p. 62
Matthew Simmons, A JELLO HORSE / p. 61
Stephanie Barber, THESE HERE SEPARATED TO SEE HOW THEY
STANDING ALONE / p. 12
QUALE PRESS
Archestratos, GASTROLOGY OR LIFE OF PLEASURE OR STUDY
OF THE BELLY OR INQUIRY INTO DINNER / p. 11
R.L. CROW PUBICATIONS
Neeli Cherkovski, FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD / p. 17
PUBLISHER INDEX
RATTLE
Alan C Fox, Ed, RATTLE VOL. 15 NO. 1 SUMMER 2009 / p. 78
RE/SEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Adrian Roberts, Ed., BURNING MAN LIVE: 13 YEARS OF PISS
CLEAR, BLACK ROCK CITY’S ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER / p.
73
RED DRAGONFLY PRESS
James P Lenfestey, INTO THE GOODHUE COUNTY JAIL: POEMS
TO FREE PRISONERS / p. 33
Dave Etter, THE LIONTAMER’S DAUGHTER / p. 21
Dale Jacobson, METAMORPHOSES OF THE SLEEPING BEAST / p.
29
Marjorie Buettner, SEEING IT NOW: HAIKU & TANKA / p. 15
Freya Manfred, SWIMMING WITH A HUNDRED YEAR OLD
SNAPPING TURTLE / p. 34
Vicki Graham, THE TENDERNESS OF BEES / p. 25
ROGUE ART
Steve Dalachinsky, REACHING INTO THE UNKNOWN: 19642009 / p. 18
RONSDALE PRESS
Norma Charles, CHASING A STAR / p. 53
Pam Calabrese MacLean, THE DEAD CAN’T DANCE / p. 34
W H New, Ed., FROM A SPEAKING PLACE: WRITINGS FROM THE
FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE / p. 72
Sheila James, IN THE WAKE OF LOSS / p. 55
Philip Roy, JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS / p. 60
p. 51
WOODCOCKS / p. 74
Wayne Norton, WOMEN ON ICE: THE EARLY YEARS OF
WOMEN’S HOCKEY IN WESTERN CANADA / p. 72
ROOF BOOKS
K Silem Mohammad, THE FRONT / p. 37
Cathy Eisenhower, WOULD WITH AND / p. 20
SIX GALLERY PRESS
Che Elias, DEATH POEMS / p. 21
Che Elias, MEDDLES INTO PRECLUSION: COLLECTED POEMS /
p. 21
Dana Killmeyer, PENDULUMS OF EUPHORIA / p. 31
Karen Lillis, THE SECOND ELIZABETH / p. 56
Che Elias, WHEELING / p. 54
SLAPERING HOL PRESS
Liz Ahl, A THIRST THAT’S PARTLY MINE / p. 11
SPUYTEN DUYVIL
Peter Grandbois, THE ARSENIC LOBSTER: A HYBRID MEMOIR /
p. 68
Steve Kowit & Lenny Silverberg, CROSSING BORDERS / p. 32
Stefan Brecht, 8TH AVENUE POEMS / p. 14
Yuri Andrukhovych, THE MOSCOVIAD / p. 51
Nava Renek, NO PERFECT WORDS / p. 59
Mark Spitzer, THE PIGS DRINK FROM INFINITY: POEMS 19952001 / p. 44
Tod Thilleman, ROOT-CELLAR TO RIVERINE / p. 45
Nava Renek, SPIRITLAND / p. 59
p. 34
Marc Estrin, TSIM-TSUM / p. 54
Nava Renek, Ed., WRECKAGE OF REASON: XXPERIMENTAL
PROSE BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS / p. 59
STRAW GATE BOOKS
SUBPRESS
Rob Holloway, PERMIT / p. 28
Steve Carey, THE SELECTED POEMS OF STEVE CAREY / p. 15
SUNNYOUTSIDE
Nathan Graziano, AFTER THE HONEYMOON / p. 25
William Taylor Jr, THE HUNGER SEASON / p. 44
B J Best, STATE SONNETS / p. 13
Micah Ling, THREE ISLANDS / p. 33
ROSE METAL PRESS
Tara L Masih, Ed., THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO
WRITING FLASH FICTION: TIPS FROM EDITORS, TEACHERS,
AND WRITERS IN THE FIELD / p. 71
TALKING LEAVES PRESS
Phil Cousineau and Scott Chamberlin Hoyt, THE MEANING OF
TEA: A TEA INSPIRED JOURNEY / p. 67
SAN FRANCISCO BAY PRESS
Joan Gelfand, A DREAMER’S GUIDE TO CITIES AND STREAMS /
p. 24
TARPAULIN SKY PRESS
Gordon Massman, THE ESSENTIAL NUMBERS 1991-2008 / p. 35
Ana Bozicevic, STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE / p. 14
Andrew Zornoza, WHERE I STAY / p. 62
SATURNALIA BOOKS
Kristi Maxwell, HUSH SESSIONS / p. 35
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