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FONOGRAF EDITIONS
Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland, OR. Places like The Paris Review Daily and Poets & Writers have previously written about our creation and development and our books and records have been featured and reviewed at places like The New York Times, Artforum, The New York Times Book Review, Frieze, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books.
Inspired by the work of the multitudinous artist Ray Johnson, BUNNY is an imprint of Fonograf Editions. Publishing a wide variety of works, BUNNY is looking towards the future while thinking about the past.
ARRANGEMENTS
ESTHER
In their hybrid debut collection, Esther Kondo Heller creates stunning textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document.
ESTHER KONDO HELLER holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Cornell University 23' and is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT (I'LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN) SELECTED POEMS OF JAIME GIL DE BIEDMA
TRANSLATED BY JAMES NOLAN
Jaime Gil de Biedma is a leftist, homosexual poet from the ‘50’s Generation in Spain. He is often considered the greatest Spanish poet to emerge in the second half of the 20th century.
JAIME GIL DE BIEDMA's poetry is collected in the anthology Las personas del verbo (1975). He died of AIDS in 1990, and since the publication of his diaries, he has become the icon of a passionate literary cult.
DEBT RITUAL
KATIE NAUGHTON
Winner of the 2023 BUNNY Chapbook Contest
Katie Naughton’s Debt Ritual sees debt as intensely private yet nevertheless significantly interconnected with global financial systems and other systems of power.
KATIE NAUGHTON is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the poetry collection The Real Ethereal.
THE GRIMACE OF EDEN, NOW
CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE
The playful, inventive, and lyrically quick poems comprising The Grimace of Eden, Now orbit the strange space halfway between Tennyson and the Metaverse, veering between the natural world and a sci-fi universe.
CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE is the author of BEAST FEAST, Flung/Throne, Listen My Friend This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night from The Song Cave, and Aux Arc / Trypt Ich.
PAGES | 7 X 9 | PAPER: 9798987589083 |
DEEPER THE TROPICS
MATTHEW BROADDUS
“Broaddus’ Deeper the Tropics doesn’t shy away from what’s difficult, but builds a kind of intimacy with it... He is the rare poet who can make me laugh and remind me of the essential profundity that, like language itself, ‘I live in time / so I dance.’” —Jan Verberkmoes
MATT BROADDUS is the author of Temporal Anomalies as well as the chapbooks Two Bolts and Space Station.
A WHALE IS A COUNTRY
ISABEL ZAPATA TRANSLATED BY ROBIN MYERS
“These razor-sharp poems are rendered with clarity and require the reader to sit up, to pay attention to the world around us.” —Rajiv Mohabir, author of Whale Aria
ISABEL ZAPATA is the author of titles like Las noches son así (Broken English).
ROBIN MYERS is a poet, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.
“Gabriel Palacios [is] an urban archeologist, hauntologist, holographer, oral cartographer, de-mosaicist, muralist, and all of these as a poet. A Ten Peso Burial is the evidence.” –Brandon Shimoda
GABRIEL PALACIOS earned an MFA from the University of Arizona, where he was the recipient of the Minnie Torrance Award for Poetry, selected by giovanni singleton.
THE THOMAS SALTO
TIMMY
“These are poems about power and the possibility of forgiveness... that sound absolutely sure and final, like vessels for a god voice; they filled me with awe.” —The New York Times–Best Poetry of 2020
TIMMY STRAW's work has been supported by a Fulbright research fellowship to Moscow, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and a Postgraduate Visiting Writer Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
WE SAILED ON THE LAKE
BILL CARTY
Alternating longer, occasionally narrative poems with short lyrics, this collection plays with time and ideas of promise, from youth to parenthood, noting how the self negotiates the artifices, be they technological or of selfdesign, that infringe upon reality and experience.
BILL CARTY is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was long-listed for The Believer Book Award. He teaches at Hugo House, the UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars, and Edmonds College.
EARLY WORKS
ALICE
“The range, comprehensiveness, and empathetic imagination of Alice Notley’s poems are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry.” –Robert Polito
ALICE NOTLEY is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Griffin Prize, the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize, and the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Prize, a lifetime achievement award.
A MOUTH HOLDS MANY THINGS
A DE-CANON HYBRID LITERARY ANTHOLOGY
EDITED BY DAO STROM AND JYOTHI NATARAJAN
“Doubles down on multiplicity by offering a compendium of hybrid literature by women and BIPOC writers.” -LitHub
DAO STROM is the author of several books, including the bilingual poetry/ art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else
JYOTHI NATARAJAN is an editor, writer, and cultural worker. They are the recipient of the 2017 Wai Look Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts.
INSTRUMENT
DAO STROM
Dao Strom’s Instrument is an experiment in multimodal poetics—inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist’s three forms of “voice.” Born in Vietnam and leaving the country at the age of two for Northern California, Strom’s life and work speaks to fragmentation.
DAO STROM is a recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital Award and a 2020 Oregon Literary Arts Career Fellowship. She has received support from RACC, Precipice Fund, Oregon Arts Commission, NEA, and others.
“Leidner is a comic genius, which is to say this book is both hilarious and profound. Every time I have attempted to read ‘I’m Running for President’ out loud, I have cried laughing… But then there are also lines like this: ‘Life is long for a brief time/then brief for a long time.’” –Elisa Gabbert, The New York Times–Best of Poetry 2021
MARK LEIDNER is the author of two feature films: the sci-fi noir Empathy, Inc. (2019) and the relationship comedy Jammed (2014).
85 PAGES | 6 X 9 | PAPER: 9781734456639 | $16.95
LOVABILITY
EMILY KENDAL FREY
“Frey is an intimate and restless poet whose unrepressed, free-associative style makes her work surreal and unpredictable; you’re never quite sure what the poet will say next.” –John Ebersole, Tourniquet Review
EMILY KENDAL FREY is the author of The Grief Performance (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a teacher and therapist and lives in Portland, Oregon.
These twenty-seven poems of Dead Winter continue the poet’s ongoing “From a Winter Notebook” cycle which plays on traditional winter themes of stasis, ruin, aging, lost love, belatedness, dormancy, and decline.
MATVEI YANKELEVICH is a poet, translator, and editor who teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
40 PAGES | 5 X 7 | PAPER: 9781734456691 | $10.95
LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE
The Library of Arabic Literature makes available Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with the goal of introducing Arabic’s rich literary heritage to a general audience of readers as well as to scholars and students. Our publications are generously supported by Tamkeen under the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute Award G1003 and are published by NYU Press.
Tardiyyāt — Hunting Poetry
Since the pre-Islamic period, hunting has been not only a source of nourishment but a theater in which would-be heroes could display the values that Arabophone societies and their rulers prized: capability, prowess, decision-making, bravery, and fortitude. Through the genre of hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, poets construct political identities, show off status and skill, and fashion an ideal of heroic masculinity—all the while wondering with lyrical beauty at the grandeur of the animal world and the inexorability of fate.
In Deadly Embrace
Arabic Hunting Poems
Ibn al-Muʿtazz
Translated by James E. Montgomery Foreword by A.E. Stallings
A collection of poems about nature and power
Ibn al-Muʿtazz was an influential poet and literary theorist of the Modernist school of poetry. In Deadly Embrace merges the Modernists’ new techniques and styles with age-old themes: military prowess and wisdom, fitness to rule and comradeship, the camaraderie of the hunt and the cult of heroic masculinity. Groundbreaking and evocative, the poems paint vivid pictures of hunting scenes while posing deep questions about our attentiveness to the natural world and the relationship of the human to the nonhuman.
Ibn al-Muʿtazz (d. 296/908) was an accomplished and prolific poet and author of works of literary theory and literary history. He was the direct descendant of six caliphs and was himself made caliph in 296/908, but ruled for only one day before he was killed by the palace guards, partisans of his brother al-Muqtadir.
James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
APRIL 1, 2025 | 192 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.25 | PAPER: 9781479835997 | $15.00
A Demon Spirit
Arabic Hunting Poems
Abū Nuwās
Edited and translated by James E. Montgomery
Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry
Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant’s hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for the first time in vivid English. These hunting poems convey the crackling energy of ruthless predators and the mythic perfection of warriors both human and animal—all the while overturning genre structures and power dynamics with unforgettable imagery expressed in smooth, natural language.
Abū Nuwās was a prominent Abbasid poet of the Modernist style. He was born in what is now Ahvaz, Iran, ca. 139–40/756–58, before moving to Basra and later Baghdad, where he became the court companion of caliph al-Amīn. He died sometime between 198/813 and 200/815 in Baghdad.
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 | 472 PAGES | 6 X 9 | CLOTH: 9781479834129 | $35.00
Fate the Hunter
Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Translated by James E. Montgomery
Foreword by Alice Oswald
“Twenty-six muscular, animal-centered works . . . timeless poems of man and nature.” ESQUIRE MIDDLE EAST
In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers’ arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. Included here are poems by pre-Islamic poets such as Imruʾ al-Qays and al-Shanfarā, as well as poets from the Umayyad era such as al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk. The volume concludes with the earliest extant epistle about hunting, written by ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib, a master of Arabic prose.
NOVEMBER 12, 2024 | 184 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.5 | PAPER: 9781479834259 | $15.00
Arabian Satire
Poetry from 18th-Century Najd
Hmedan al-Shwe'ir
Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies
A master of satire known for his invective verse (hijāʾ), the poet Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, Ḥmēdān wrote in an idiom widely referred to as “Nabaṭī,” here a mix of Najdī vernacular and archaic vocabulary dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, Ḥmēdān is mostly concerned with worldly matters and addresses these in different guises: as the patriarch at the helm of the family boat and its unruly crew; as a picaresque anti-hero taking potshots at the established order; and as a poet recording in verse how he thinks things ought to be. This is the first full English translation of this remarkable poet.
Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir was an early eighteenth-century poet from the region of Najd in the Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Saudi Arabia.
Marcel Kurpershoek is a specialist in the oral traditions and poetry of Arabia. He is the author of the five-volume Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, as well as several books on Middle Eastern history and culture. He served as Netherlands ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Poland, and as special envoy to Syria until 2015.
APRIL 7, 2020 | 206 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.25 | PAPER: 9781479885169 | $15.00
Love, Death, Fame
Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir
Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates
Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about his life, he is the subject of a sizeable body of folk legend and is thought to have lived in the seventeenth century, in the area now called the Emirates. The tales included in Love, Death, Fame portray him as a witty, resourceful, scruffy poet, at times combative and at times kindhearted
Distinguished by Ibn Ẓāhir’s unique voice, Love, Death, Fame offers a glimpse of what life was like four centuries ago in the region that is now the UAE.
Al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir (b. seventeenth century) is regarded as the earliest “Emirati” poet.
AUGUST 1, 2023 | 300 PAGES | 5.5 X 8.25 | PAPER: 9781479825806 | $16.00
Arabian Romantic
Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
‘Abdallah ibn Sbayyil
Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Ibn Sbayyil was a key figure in the Nabaṭī poetic tradition. His poetry, which is still recited today, broke with the artifice of the preceding generation by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflecting his environment. Translated into English for the first time by Marcel Kurpershoek, Arabian Romantic will delight readers with a poetry that is direct, fluent, and expressive, and that has entertained Arabic speakers for over a century.
Abdallāh ibn Sbayyil (d. 1352/1933) was a poet from the High Najd region in Central Arabia, in what is now Saudi Arabia.
Arabian Hero
Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern Arabia
Shāyiʿ Translatedal-Amsaḥ by Marcel Kurpershoek
Translated into English for the first time, these engaging tales and poems tell of dangerous desert travel, warlike exploits, chivalrous conduct and its opposite, feats of hospitality that defy belief, and convey nuggets of wisdom from the Bedouin manual of survival, making this collection a colorful compendium of the manners and customs of the tribes of northern Arabia.
Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ was a poet from the Nafūd Desert in northern Arabia who likely lived in the eleventh/ seventeenth century. He is widely regarded as an ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation.
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS
A little house on the prairie with big ambitions, University of Regina Press (URP) publishes books that matter— in both academic and trade formats. We endeavour to develop writers into public intellectuals, encourage debate, and inspire young people to study the humanities by publishing books that are both seen and relevant.
DOG AND MOON
KELLY SHEPHERD
A dreamlike collection of poetry that intertwines an embodied experience of the natural world with mythology, memory, and the creative process
Woven together over two decades of introspection, Dog and Moon inhabits a space of sleeplessness, enveloped in the darkness of night. Kelly Shepherd draws inspiration from the free-verse ghazal but takes the form and bends it to create a sort of Indra’s Net. They are a series of juxtapositions: nature writing placed in conversation with the language of poetry workshops, mythology and childhood memories, and sensorial encounters with the natural world colliding with images of home and belonging.
KELLY SHEPHERD is a poetry editor for the Trumpeter. His second poetry collection, Insomnia Bird, won the 2019 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Originally from Smithers, British Columbia, he lives and teaches on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton.
MARCH 11, 2025 | 112 PAGES | 6 X 9 | PAPER: 9781779400383 | $19.95
THE SALMON SHANTIES A CASCADIAN SONG CYCLE
HAROLD RHENISCH
A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook Wawa, The Salmon Shanties celebrates a poetic tradition deeply rooted on the West Coast. Imbued with rhythms of Secwepemc grass dances, the colloquial chatter of the Canadian poet Al Purdy, and the voice of poet and historian Charles Lillard, Rhenisch’s work sings of roots to the land lifted up by the sea into the sky—as if Ezra Pound had sung of Cascadia instead of Europe.
HAROLD RHENISCH has published 33 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, criticism and nonfiction since 1981. He and has twice won both the CBC Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and received the George Ryga Prize for Social Responsibility in Literature.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 | 208 PAGES | 6 X 9 | PAPER: 9781779400154 | $16.95
INTO THE CONTINENT
EMILY MCGIFFIN
Examines imperial violence and colonialism in South Africa and Canada
DISLOCATIONS
KAREN ENNS
Takes the reader on a lyrical journey, wrapped in the vicissitudes of seasons and weather
SYNAPTIC ALISON CALDER
An award-winning poet attempts to map the brain’s neural connections, raising fundamental questions about identity and interiority
PITCHBLENDE
ELISE MARCELLA GODFREY
Delivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice
WRACK LINE
M.W. JAEGGLE
Traces loss, guilt, and subsequent loneliness
THE HISTORY FOREST
MICHAEL TRUSSLER
Explores what it means to be alive in this increasingly frightening era in human history
SHIFTING BASELINE SYNDROME
AARON KREUTER
A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time
RED OBSIDIAN NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
STEPHAN TORRE
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life
BLACKBIRD SONG
RANDY LUNDY
An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land
LIVE ONES
SADIE MCCARNEY
A collection of poetry that tackles queer identity in rural Canada
BURDEN
DOUGLAS BURNET SMITH
The story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I
CLOUD PHYSICS
KAREN ENNS
Ranges over endings of many kinds: cultural, ecological, and personal
FIELD NOTES FOR THE SELF
RANDY LUNDY
A series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul
FORTY-ONE PAGES ON POETRY, LANGUAGE, AND WILDERNESS
JOHN STEFFLER
Reflections on our salvation in a world of environmental decline
THE HOUSE OF CHARLEMAGNE
TIM LILBURN
A poem that charts the history of a Canadian settler's utopian vision of a polyglot Métis nation
THE LONG WALK
JAN ZWICKY
Bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm in poems that are both prophetic and acutely personal
AVIDLY READS POETRY
Mixing literary and cultural criticism with the author’s personal and often intimate relationship with poetry, Avidly Reads Poetry breathes life into poems of every genre and asks: How do poems come to us? How do they make us feel and think and act when they do? Who and what is poetry for?
JACQUELYN ARDAM is the Assistant Director of UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
NUYORICAN
KAREN JAIME
IN LOISAIDA
Finalist, Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History
Silver Medalist, Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Non-Fiction Book Award
KAREN JAIME is Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University. As a published poet, Karen’s work is included in The Best of Panic! En Vivo From the East Village and more.
THE BOOK OF JUDITH OPENING HEARTS THROUGH POETRY
The Book of Judith honors Judith Tannenbaum, presenting different aspects of Judith through a collection of original poetry, prose, essay, illustration, and fiction from 33 contributors.
SPOON JACKSON is a poet serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in California state prisons. MARK FOSS is a Montreal-based author.
SARA PRESS is Judith Tannenbaum’s daughter.
EDITED BY SPOON JACKSON, MARK FOSS, AND SARA PRESS THAT'S A PRETTY THING TO CALL IT PROSE AND POETRY BY ARTISTS TEACHING IN CARCERAL INSTITUTIONS
EDITED BY LEIGH SUGAR
That's A Pretty Thing to Call It features poetry and prose by artists, writers, and activists who’ve taught workshops in U.S. criminal legal institutions.
GABRIEL PALACIOS Leigh Sugar has facilitated creative writing workshops through the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP).
