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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
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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
[SÊrie 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, DÊcimale blanche (1967) was translated into German by Paul Celan, into English by Cid Corman. Other important titles are Fut bâti (1973), Narration d'Êquilibre (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 RĂźhm, 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. ElĂŠna Rivera)
“Upon finishing many of the poems, I was left feeling devastated yet somehow transformed.â€?—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 is‌a fairy tale in every scientific fragmentâ€?—Eduardo Cadava, Verse
Jean Grosjean, An Earth of Time (tr. K. Waldrop). “It would be true, but also misleading to characterize this as religious
poetry‌It 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 reality‌What 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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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.
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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
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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.”
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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 Bozˇicˇevic´ 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. “Bozˇ icˇevic´‘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. TIME BEING BOOKS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
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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.
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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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
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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. WHITE PINE PRESS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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
OYSTER RIVER PRESS 2003
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2009
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.’”
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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
RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2008
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. SIX GALLERY PRESS 2009
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. POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
MARSH HAWK PRESS 2009
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. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
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. WHITE PINE PRESS 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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 `Expatriate 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 `earth ... 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. INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2009
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. INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2008
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. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 1991
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. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 1993
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2008
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2009
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. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2007
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
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2007
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. INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2008
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Keith Holyoak FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF LI BAI AND DU FU 978-1-882291-04-5, $17, paper, 127 pp. OYSTER RIVER PRESS 2007
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. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2008
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. COUNTERPATH PRESS 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
WHITE PINE PRESS 2009
TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2009
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. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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
SIX GALLERY PRESS 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. NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2009
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. INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2009
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. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2010
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. OYSTER RIVER PRESS 2008
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2009
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. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2008
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Phillip Lopate AT THE END OF THE DAY: SELECTED POEMS AND AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY 978-0-9785555-8-0, $16.95, paper, 192 pp. MARSH HAWK PRESS 2010
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. BORDIGHERA PRESS 2008
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
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by 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. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2008
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
TARPAULIN SKY PRESS 2009
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. TIME BEING BOOKS 2009
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
COPPER CANYON PRESS 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. MARSH HAWK PRESS 2010
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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
COPPER CANYON PRESS 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. PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO 2009
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. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2008
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. BEATITUDE PRESS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2009
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. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2008
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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. POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2009
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. INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2007
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 UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 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. MARSH HAWK PRESS 2009
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. WHITE PINE PRESS 2010
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. BEATITUDE PRESS 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. MARSH HAWK PRESS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
LES FIGUES PRESS 2009
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2007
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
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by 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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2009
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. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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.
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2004
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. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 1999
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. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 1992
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 `overflowed / 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. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2009
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. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2009
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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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 `a 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 `Argument withal, within’ is not solved, nor salved, but permeated with the succor of true acknowledgment: `I heard it with my skin’”—Rusty Morrison.
Bill Vartnaw SUBURBS OF MY CHILDHOOD 978-0-9815047-0-4, $12.95, paper, 74 pp. BEATITUDE PRESS 2009
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
SHEARSMAN 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.
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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Wei Ying-wu IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF WEI YING-WU 978-1-55659-279-9, $18, paper, 365 pp. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
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. POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2008
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. LES FIGUES PRESS 2010
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. PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO 2009
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE 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. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2009
Sam Witt SUNFLOWER BROTHER 978-1-880834-74-9, $14, paper, 89 pp. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2007
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. Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Editors A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, 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. BEATITUDE PRESS 2005
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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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Joseph Zaccardi RENDER 978-0-9824276-1-3, $15, paper, 87 pp. POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2009
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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Shadowplay N L [A] journey as delicious as it is threatening. —R.M. Berry
[A] disturbing mystery pitched somewhere between Mulholland Drive and City of Glass. —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 in the corners of his muscular text. —Bookslut This is a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision—an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut. —Gary Lutz $10 | FICTION | ISBN 978-0963753601
Waste E M [A] stark little masterpiece. —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 $10 | FICTION | ISBN 978-0-9637563-1-8
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All hail Lock, whose narrative soul sings fairy tales, whose language is glass. —Kate Bernheimer
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Ruocco’s Coven is an engagingly whimsical tale, graceful and inventive, with its own distinctive lexicon, reminiscent of the works of such writers as Ronald Firbank or Coleman Dowell. —Robert Coover Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung! —Carole Maso $14 | FICTION | ISBN 978-0-9637536-2-5
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Fiction and Drama
Listed alphabetically by author. See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.11), Literary Nonfiction (p.65), and Magazine sections (p.77)
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
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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. LES FIGUES PRESS 2010
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. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2009
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.
CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2009
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. PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO 2009
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.
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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. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2009
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.
SIX GALLERY PRESS 2009
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. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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.
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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
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2008
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. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2009
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. 53RD STATE PRESS 2009
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. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2009
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. BORDIGHERA PRESS 2009
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. SIX GALLERY PRESS 2009
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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2009
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.
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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. BLAFT PUBLICATIONS 2008
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. 53RD STATE PRESS 2007
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.
53RD STATE PRESS 2009
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. BLAFT PUBLICATIONS 2008
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. ASTROPHIL PRESS 2009
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
BLAFT PUBLICATIONS 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
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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
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 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. BLAFT PUBLICATIONS 2009
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. COUNTERPATH PRESS 2009
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.
BORDIGHERA PRESS 2009
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2009
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.
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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.
TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2009
BOTTOM DOG PRESS 2009
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. PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS 2009
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. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2009
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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Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Editors A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, 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. PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS 2009
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. TARPAULIN SKY PRESS 2009
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.
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REGIONS OF BEING!
TH E G R A N D PI A NO AN EXPERIMENT IN COLLECTIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY SAN FRANCISCO, 1975– 1980
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“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
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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. ASTROPHIL PRESS 2009
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.
Listed alphabetically by author. See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.11), Fiction and Drama (p.51), and Magazine sections (p.77)
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. BOTTOM DOG PRESS 2009
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.
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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
SEOUL SELECTION 2007
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.
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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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2008
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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2008
Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. With a foreword by 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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2008
Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. With a foreword by 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).
THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2008
Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. With a foreword by 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. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2006
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. SEOUL SELECTION 2007
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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2009
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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2009
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
SEOUL SELECTION 2007
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. SEOUL SELECTION 2009
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. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2009
Kim Young-jin KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: PARK CHAN-WOOK 978-89-91913-26-4, $20, paper, 164 pp. SEOUL SELECTION 2007
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.
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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.
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INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 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
CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 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. BORDIGHERA PRESS 2008
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. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2009
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. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2009
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. CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2009
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.
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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. BLAFT PUBLICATIONS 2009
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
SEOUL SELECTION 2006
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. SEOUL SELECTION 2009
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. BLAFT PUBLICATIONS 2008
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.
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATIONS 2009
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 Kanda Matulu, John Berger, Jean Genet, Kenzaburo Oe, and others, she finds, with Benjamin, that there is no cultural document that is not at the same time a record 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 overwhelmingly and beautifully patterned, and thus, 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 WriteGirl, captures the unique perspectives of women and girls writing about love, fear, relationships, school, accordions, foreign countries, Los Angeles, pastrami and the world around us. SILHOUETTE celebrates the voices of teens from more than 60 different Los Angeles high schools, and women writers from top newspapers, entertainment companies and publishers. Writing advice throughout the book and an entire chapter with a variety of writing experiments will help you develop and share your own bold voice. “Of all the marvelous things women bring to the table of civilization—patience, love, warmth, food—our voices are the most important. WriteGirl is essential to helping our young women know how important their thoughts and feelings, not just their looks and bodies, are. Right on, girls—WriteGirl!” —Nikki Giovanni. 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 personal identity or exploring the world around them, twenty-six indigenous photographers present images that are fresh, provocative, iconoclastic, surprising, and—in the broadest and deepest meaning of the word—authentic. Their works range from the artful studio portraits of Benjamin A. Haldane (Tsimshian), who photographed Native communities throughout southeast Alaska and British Columbia in the late 1800s 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 Dharamsala, India, in 1961, and founded a humanitarian aid society that is still going strong, after more than 300 projects in the Himalayas and southern India. Alan Twigg reveals the hitherto unknown private lives of this extraordinary couple, interviews their friends and recounts ongoing efforts to assist Tibetans in Canada and Asia.
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The Unbearables THE WORST BOOK I EVER READ 978-1-57027-199-1, $16.95, paper, 416 pp. AUTONOMEDIA 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Over 400 pages of the most searing, scandalous and scurrilous denunciations of fellow writers ever to appear in print! Innovative, free-form and traditional reviews of texts from the Bible and Ulysses to Borges, Calvino and David Sedaris by Luc Sante, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Jim Knipfel, Carl Watson, David Ulin, Sharon Mesmer, many more. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. “The Unbearables bare all; they are unbearably smart, unbearably talented, and unbearably lively—but here are the Unbearables at their highly bearable best. It’s a pleasure to find out what this group finds unbearable in such an engaging manner”—Samuel Delany. Haifa Zangana DREAMING OF BAGHDAD 978-1-55861-605-9, $15.95, paper, 160 pp. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Middle East Studies. Memoir. In 1970s Iraq, the Ba’ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout 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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His tenth collection “reveals all his wit, his wayward charm, and the innocence that allows him his shocking honesty…. I recommend this delightful poet to the world!”—Edward Field. Of his last book, The New York Times wrote: “Jack Anderson’s prose poems gracefully evoke a sense of wonder.” Paper, $18. Hardcover, $28.
Novelist, composer and director Elizabeth Swados’s first poetry collection is “a strange and beautiful book…. A must read,” says Harvey Shapiro. A reflection on the world of the entertainer, as exemplified by Harry Houdini, the book is “a triumphant debut,” says Honor Moore. Paper, $18. Hardcover, $28.
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Complete Lineups The legendary lineup poems now appear all together for the first time, showing why the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Village Voice have called them “brilliant” and why James Schuyler called North “the most stimulating poet of his generation.” With vibrant, witty art by Paula North and an introduction by William Corbett. Paper, $18.
The poet and sax player, author of Ghost Radio, explores the Mississippi Delta’s history and music “with irony, humor and honest insight. This is a poet who fully understands the burdens and the blessings of history.” Martín Espada. “A rich, spacious book…a genuine delight…. Lourie has an impeccable ear…and an acute eye.”—Ha Jin Paper, $18. Hardcover, $28.
In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie’s poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: “Mr. Alexie’s is one of the major lyric voices of our time.” Paper, $18. Hardcover, $28.
Hannah Zeavin Circa An “extraordinary first collection by the prodigious Hannah Zeavin…. There’s a powerful…poetics at work….”—Anne Waldman. “Pure power….”—Maureen Owen. “Troubadourian and carnivalesque, Hannah Zeavin bursts onto the stage….”—Matvei Yankelovich Paper, $16.
“Jayne Cortez’s poems are filled with images that most of us are afraid to see,”— Walter Mosley. “If you haven’t read Jayne Cortez, you’re missing some of the best…. A compelling original voice of fire and freedom,”—Franklyn Rosemont. A generous selection of new work plus hard-to-find earlier poems. Paper, $18. Hardcover, $28. And keep in mind – The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems, Indran Amirthanayagam, $16, $26 The Trapeze Diaries, Marie Carter, $16, $26 Lobster With Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Michael Cirelli, $16, $26 Opening Day, William Corbett, $16, $26. The Evolution of a Sigh, R. Zamora Linmark, $16, $26 The Virgin Formica, Sharon Mesmer, $16, $26 Winter Journey, Tony Towle, $16, $26
Hanging Loose Magazine #95 Art portfolio by Arnold Mesches. 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, Mark Statman, Madhuri Akin, R. Zamora Linmark, Cathy McArthur, Derek Miller, Michael Miller, Maureen Owen, Jeni Olin, Hal Sirowitz, M.L. Smoker, Edwin Torres, Michael Stephens, Bill Christopherson, Mara Jebsen, Stephen Beal, Christen Gholson, Michael Backus, Simon Perchik, and some fine high school writers: Randie Adler, Katie Bouvy, Danyul Nguyen, Katy Schneider and Jesse Statman.. $9.
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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 No ISBN, $17, paper, 324 pp.
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 No ISBN, $10, paper, 144 pp. 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 No ISBN, $12, paper, 279 pp.
Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Editors NEW AMERICAN WRITING 27 No ISBN, $15, paper, 200 pp.
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 No ISBN, $9, paper, 120 pp. HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2009
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 No ISBN, $8, paper, 157 pp.
Brian Clements, Editor SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS NO. 6 No ISBN, $12, paper, 302 pp.
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 No ISBN, $9, paper, 104 pp. HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2009
Cal Bedient and David Lau, Editors LANA TURNER: A JOURNAL OF POETRY AND OPINION, NO. 2 No ISBN, $12, paper, 312 pp. 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 No ISBN, $12, paper, 29 pp. 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.
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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
THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 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. THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY 2009
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 No ISBN, $5, paper, 144 pp. 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 (http://www.sockeye.org).
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Talisman house, publishers New and Forthcoming: Edip Cansever, Dirty August, trans. Julia Clare Tillinghast and Richard Tillinghast • Like Orhan Pamuk, Cansever was secular in outlook, looking to Europe for literary examples while at the same time deeply engaged with the struggles of people in his own country and grounded in the life of his native city, Istanbul. His poetry has an exuberance and imaginative range that will remind readers of the French Surrealists. • ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-067-4, $14.95 Nedim Gürsel, The Conqueror: A Novel, trans. Yavuz Demir and John Ottenhoff• Gürsel’s masterful, widely celebrated novel tracks two interconnected narratives: the conquest of Byzantine Constantinople by the Ottomans under Sultan Mehmet II and the narrator’s experiences during the Turkish military coup of 1980. An exceptionally powerful novel. • ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-071-1, $17.95. Burt Kimmelman, As If Free • “Make no mistake about it: Burt Kimmelman appears here — & not for the first time — as a successor to the lineage of William Carlos Williams & George Oppen (to name but two), no less so for being a master of that lineage worn proudly.” —Jerome Rothenberg • ISBN 13: 978-1- 58498-069-8, $14.95 Boris Pintar, Family Parables, trans. Rawley Grau • “Each story serves as a bracing introduction to an important new voice in international fiction.” —Laird Hunt • “[Pintar] explores the complexity of sexual identity . . . with the archness of the caricaturist and the composure of the essayist.” —Niko Goršic • ISBN 13: 978-1- 58498-070-4, $17.95 Gustaf Sobin, Collected Poems • The Collected Poems brings together all of the poet’s work given final approval for book publication: Wind Chrysalid’s Rattle (1980), Celebration of the Sound Through (1982), The Earth as Air (1984), Voyaging Portraits (1988), Breath’s Burials (1995), By the Bias of Sound (1995), Towards the Blanched Alphabets (1998), In the Name of the Neither (2002), and The Places as Preludes (2005). ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-059-9, $27.95 Coming soon: new poetry by John High, new fiction by Mark Jacobs, new translations of poetry by Seyhan Erözçelik and fiction by Panait Istrati and Tahsin Yücel — and much, much more.
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Author Index 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
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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 Ku Sang, ETERNITY TODAY / 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
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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
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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 Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Eds., A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUMES 1 & 2 [SHRINK-WRAPPED SET] / p. 48 Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Eds., A BEST OF FENCE: 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Elio Pagliarani, THE GIRL CARLA AND OTHER POEMS / p. 39 Maurizio Cucchi, THE MISSING / p. 17 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 Elizabeth Nunez, ANNA IN-BETWEEN / p. 58 John O’Brien, BETTER / p. 58 Amiri Baraka (as Leroi Jones), BLACK MUSIC / p. 65, 70 Melvin Van Peebles, CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUSITCHYFOOTED MUTHA / p. 62 Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, DANCE OF DAYS: TWO DECADES OF PUNK IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL / p. 65 Hirsh Sawhney, Ed., DELHI NOIR / p. 60 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 Judy Grahn, THE JUDY GRAHN READER / p. 25 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 Suruchi Mohan, DIVINE MUSIC / p. 57 Deborah Miller, GRAPPLING WITH THE GRUMBLIES / p. 71 Brandon Marlon, JUDEAN DREAMS / p. 34 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 Steve Fellner, ALL SCREWED UP / p. 68 Margaret Rozga, 200 NIGHTS AND ONE DAY / p. 41 BEYOND BAROQUE BOOKS Fred Dewey, Ed., DECLARATION / p. 18 BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS Daniel Cano, DEATH AND THE AMERICAN DREAM / p. 53 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 Kazim Ali, QUINN’S PASSAGE / p. 51 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 Katrine Marie Guldager, COPENHAGEN / p. 54 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 Gina Lagorio, TOSCA, THE CAT LADY / p. 56 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 Shelle, HEROES, GUNDAS, VAMPS & GOOD GIRLS / p. 73 Kuzhali Manickavel, INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME EXCEPT SOME OF THEM HAVE WINGS / p. 57 Surender Mohan Pathak, THE 65 LAKH HEIST / p. 58 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 Charu Nivedita, ZERO DEGREE / p. 58
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 Jean Daive, UNDER THE DOME: WALKS WITH PAUL CELAN / p. 67 CADMUS EDITIONS Mario Benedetti, PEDRO AND THE CAPTAIN / p. 52 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 Amelia Rosselli, THE DRAGONFLY: A SELECTION OF POEMS: 1953-1981 / p. 41 Giorgio Caproni, THE EARTH’S WALL: SELECTED POEMS 19321986 / p. 15 Valerio Magrelli, INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER AND OTHER POEMS / p. 34
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PUBLISHER INDEX CIDER PRESS REVIEW Robin Chapman, ABUNDANCE / p. 16 Caron Andregg, Ed., CIDER PRESS REVIEW, VOLUME 10 / p. 77 CIRCLEDANCE BOOKS/BURNING BUSH Kathleen Culver, THE NATURAL LAW OF WATER / p. 18 CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Mario Bellatin, BEAUTY SALON / p. 52 Anselm Berrigan, FREE CELL / p. 13 Huey Newton, TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE / p. 72 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 Shirley Kaufman, EZEKIEL’S WHEELS / p. 30 Sherwin Bitsui, FLOOD SONG / p. 13 Wei Ying-wu, IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF WEI YINGWU / p. 47 Lao-tzu, LAO-TZU’S TAOTECHING / p. 33 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 Hafez, YOUR LOVER’S BELOVED / p. 26 CYPHER BOOKS Rachel McKibbens, PINK ELEPHANT / p. 36 John Murillo, UP JUMP THE BOOGIE / p. 37
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 Emmanuel Hocquard, CONDITIONS OF LIGHT / p. 28 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 Gloria Lise, DEPARTING AT DAWN: A NOVEL OF ARGENTINA’S DIRTY WAR / p. 56 Haifa Zangana, DREAMING OF BAGHDAD / p. 74 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 Kang Kyong-ae, FROM WONSO POND / p. 55 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 Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Eds., A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 2, FICTION & NONFICTION / p. 62 Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff, Eds., A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUMES 1 & 2 [SHRINK-WRAPPED SET] / p. 48 Douglas Kearney, THE BLACK AUTOMATON / p. 31 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 Peter Rosei, METROPOLIS VIENNA / p. 60 Jean-Pierre Rosnay, WHEN A POET SEES A TREE / p. 41 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 Oscar Hahn, ASHES IN LOVE / p. 26 Jesus Aguado, THE POEMS OF VIKRAM BABU / p. 11 HOUSE OF NEHESI PUBLISHERS George Lamming, SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION: CONVERSATIONS III / p. 71 INSTANCE PRESS James Belflower, COMMUTER / p. 13
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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 Hara Kazuo, CAMERA OBTRUSA: THE ACTION DOCUMENTARIES OF HARA KAZUO / p. 69 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 Jose Castro Urioste, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? / p. 62 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 Sophie Robinson, A / p. 41 Urs Allemann, BABYFUCKER / p. 51 Christine Wertheim, Ed., FEMINAISSANCE / p. 47 Paul Hoover, SONNET 56 / p. 29
NEW STAR BOOKS George Bowering, THE BOX / p. 52 Michael Tregebov, THE BRISS / p. 61 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 Sawako Nakayasu, TEXTURE NOTES / p. 37 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 Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Eds., READ / p. 40
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 Lila Zemborain, GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET / p. 49 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 Arthur Rimbaud, THE ILLUMINATIONS / p. 40 Christopher Arigo, IN THE ARCHIVES / p. 12 Myung Mi Kim, PENURY / p. 31 Lyn Hejinian, SAGA/CIRCUS / p. 27 Arthur Rimbaud, A SEASON IN HELL / p. 40 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 Eric Priestley, FOR KEEPS / p. 59 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 Michel Delville, THIRD BODY / p. 18 R.L. CROW PUBICATIONS Neeli Cherkovski, FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD / p. 17
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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 Hubert Aquin, LES SABLES MOUVANTS / SHIFTING SANDS / p. 51 Alan Twigg, TIBETANS IN EXILE: THE DALAI LAMA & THE 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 Vasyl Makhno, THREAD AND SELECTED NEW YORK POEMS / 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 David Mills, THE DREAM DETECTIVE / p. 36 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 Sabrina Orah Mark, TSIM TSUM / p. 34
TEBOT BACH Carroll C Kearley, DEITY-ALPHABETS / p. 30 Kate Buckley, FOLLOW ME DOWN / p. 14
SEOUL SELECTION Ku Sang, ETERNITY TODAY / p. 32 Jung Ji-youn, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: BONG JOON-HO / p. 70 Huh Moonyung, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: HONG SANG-SOO / p. 69 Chung Sung-ill, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: IM KWON-TAEK / p. 66 Kim Hong-joon, Ed., KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: KIM KI-YOUNG / p. 70 Kim Young-jin, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: PARK CHAN-WOOK / p. 70 Brother Anthony of Taize and Hong Kyeong-hee, THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA / p. 66 Brenda Paik Sunoo, SEAWEED AND SHAMANS: INHERITING THE GIFTS OF GRIEF / p. 73 Brenda Paik Sunoo, VIETNAM MOMENT / p. 73 SHEARSMAN BOOKS George Economou, ANANIOS OF KLEITOR / p. 20 Ann M Fine, A NEST THIS SIZE / p. 22 Ellen Wehle, THE OCEAN LINER’S WAKE / p. 46
TINFISH PRESS Paul Naylor, JAMMED TRANSMISSION / p. 38 Susan Schultz, Ed., TINFISH 19 / p. 78
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE Rick Snyder, ESCAPE FROM COMBRAY / p. 44 Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 METERS OF POEMS / p. 38 Kristen Kosmas, HELLO FAILURE / p. 56 Srecko Kosovel, LOOK BACK, LOOK AHEAD / p. 32 Alex Stein, MADE-UP INTERVIEWS WITH IMAGINARY ARTISTS / p. 73 Garrett Kalleberg, MALILENAS / p. 30 Rachel Levitsky, NEIGHBOR / p. 33 Marina Temkina, WHAT DO YOU WANT? / p. 44 UPPER WEST SIDE PHILOSOPHERS Durs Grünbein, DESCARTES’ DEVIL: THREE MEDITATIONS / p. 69 Michael Eskin, THE DNA OF PREJUDICE: ON THE ONE AND THE MANY / p. 68 VINTAGE ENTITY PRESS Pamela Sneed, KONG AND OTHER WORKS / p. 44 WAVE BOOKS Maggie Nelson, BLUETS / p. 72 Rachel Zucker, MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS / p. 49 Dara Wier, SELECTED POEMS / p. 47 WHITE DEER BOOKS Dina von Zweck, THE HISTORY OF WORDS & OTHER POEMS / p. 46 WHITE PINE PRESS Luis Cernuda, DESOLATION OF THE CHIMERA / p. 16 Eric Gansworth, FROM THE WESTERN DOOR TO THE LOWER WEST SIDE / p. 23 Ansie Baird, IN ADVANCE OF ALL PARTING / p. 12 Juan Ramon Jimenez, THE POET AND THE SEA / p. 30 Vasko Popa, THE STAR WIZARD’S LEGACY: SIX POETIC SEQUENCES / p. 39 WOLF RIDGE PRESS Harvey Ellis, SLEEP NOT SLEEP / p. 21 THE WORD WORKS Richard Carr, ACE / p. 16 Frannie Lindsay, MAYWEED / p. 33 Nancy White, SUN, MOON, SALT / p. 47 WRITEGIRL PUBLICATIONS Keren Taylor, Ed., SILHOUETTE: BOLD LINES & VOICES FROM WRITEGIRL / p. 74 WRITING OUR WORLD PRESS Janis F. Kearney, ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A GIRL: A MURDER AT MOBILE BAY / p. 56 XENOS BOOKS Ken Wilkerson, MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY: A BRIGHT RIDE INSIDE A MAGICAL ROAD SHOW / p. 62
TOAD HALL PRESS/THE WORD WORKS Anne Caston, JUDAH’S LION / p. 16
XOXOX PRESS Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ARGONAUTICA / p. 22 Perry Lentz, PERISH FROM THE EARTH / p. 56 Galbraith Miller Crump, A SLANT OF LIGHT / p. 67 Laura McCullough, WHAT MEN WANT / p. 35
TOP PEN PRESS G Winston James, SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES / p. 55
ZONE PRESS Blas Falconer & Amy Wright, Eds., ZONE 3 VOL. 24 NO. 1 SPRING 2009 / p. 79
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT Michael Datcher, Ed., THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: SPRING 2009 / p. 79
SILVERFISH REVIEW PRESS Ralph Salisbury, LIGHT FROM A BULLET HOLE: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED, 1950-2008 / p. 41 SINGING HORSE PRESS Ed Roberson, THE NEW WING OF THE LABYRINTH / p. 40 Norman Fischer, QUESTIONS/PLACES/VOICES/SEASONS / p. 22
TIME BEING BOOKS Yakov Azriel, BEADS FOR THE MESSIAH’S BRIDE: POEMS ON LEVITICUS / p. 12 Louis Daniel Brodsky, A GLEAM IN THE EYE: VOLUME ONE OF THE SEASONS OF YOUTH / p. 14 Gardner McFall, RUSSIAN TORTOISE / p. 35
Sheema Khan, OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF A CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN / p. 70 Sophia Mustafa, THE TANGANYIKA WAY / p. 71 Chelva Kanaganayakam, Ed., WILTING LAUGHTER: THREE TAMIL POETS / p. 30
TSAR PUBLICATIONS Olive Senior, ARRIVAL OF THE SNAKE-WOMAN / p. 61 Rienzi Crusz, ENOUGH TO BE MORTAL NOW / p. 17 Nurjehan Aziz, Ed., HER MOTHER’S ASHES 3: STORIES BY SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES / p. 51 Michelle Muir, NUFF SAID / p. 37
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Multicultural Index AFRICAN AMERICAN TITLES Amiri Baraka (as Leroi Jones), BLACK MUSIC / p. 65 Cathy Park Hong and Evie Shockley, Eds., JUBILAT NO. 16 / p. 78 G. Winston James, SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES / p. 55 S.M. James, F.S. Foster, B. Guy-Sheftall, Eds., STILL BRAVE: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK WOMEN’S STUDIES / p. 69 Alan C. Fox, Ed., RATTLE VOL. 15 NO. 1 SUMMER 2009 / p. 78 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 Sheema Khan, OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF A CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN / p. 70 Kevin Killian and David Brazil, Eds., THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1980 / p. 31 George Lamming, SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION: CONVERSATIONS III / p. 71 David Mills, THE DREAM DETECTIVE / p. 36 Michelle Muir, NUFF SAID / p. 37 John Murillo, UP JUMP THE BOOGIE / p. 37 Huey Newton, TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE / p. 72 Elizabeth Nunez, ANNA IN-BETWEEN / p. 58 Eric Priestley, FOR KEEPS / p. 59 Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Eds., READ / p. 40 Ed Roberson, THE NEW WING OF THE LABYRINTH / p. 40 Margaret Rozga, 200 NIGHTS AND ONE DAY / p. 41 Olive Senior, ARRIVAL OF THE SNAKE-WOMAN / p. 61 Pamela Sneed, KONG AND OTHER WORKS / p. 44 Jose Castro Urioste, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? / p. 62 Melvin Van Peebles, CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUSITCHYFOOTED MUTHA / p. 62 Wendy S. Walters, LONGER I WAIT, MORE YOU LOVE ME / p. 46 Ronaldo V. Wilson, POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT / p. 47 ASIAN AMERICAN TITLES Nurjehan Aziz, Ed., HER MOTHER’S ASHES 3: STORIES BY SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES / p. 51 Brother Anthony of Taize and Hong Kyeong-hee, THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA / p. 66 Chung Sung-ill, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: IM KWON-TAEK / p. 66 Phil Cousineau and Scott Chamberlin Hoyt, THE MEANING OF TEA: A TEA INSPIRED JOURNEY / p. 67 Huh Moonyung, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: HONG SANG-SOO / p. 69 Hiromi Ito, KILLING KANOKO: SELECTED POEMS OF HIROMI ITO / p. 29 Jung Ji-youn, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: BONG JOON-HO / p. 70 Chelva Kanaganayakam, Ed., WILTING LAUGHTER: THREE TAMIL POETS / p. 30 Bhanu Kapil, HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE CHILDREN / p. 30 Sheema Khan, OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF A CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN / p. 70 Kevin Killian and David Brazil, Eds., THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1980 / p. 31 Kim Hong-joon, Ed., KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: KIM KI-YOUNG / p. 70 Myung Mi Kim, PENURY / p. 31 Kim Young-jin, KOREAN FILM DIRECTORS: PARK CHAN-WOOK / p. 70 Ku Sang, ETERNITY TODAY / p. 32 Lao-tzu, LAO-TZU’S TAOTECHING / p. 33 Suruchi Mohan, DIVINE MUSIC / p. 57 Sawako Nakayasu, TEXTURE NOTES / p. 37 Charu Nivedita, ZERO DEGREE / p. 58 Surender Mohan Pathak, THE 65 LAKH HEIST / p. 58 Ki. Rajanarayanan, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU MONKEYS?: FOLKTALES FROM TAMIL NADU / p. 59 Hirsh Sawhney, Ed., DELHI NOIR / p. 60 Shelle, HEROES, GUNDAS, VAMPS & GOOD GIRLS / p. 73
Brenda Paik Sunoo, SEAWEED AND SHAMANS: INHERITING THE GIFTS OF GRIEF / p. 73 Brenda Paik Sunoo, VIETNAM MOMENT / p. 73 Alan Twigg, TIBETANS IN EXILE: THE DALAI LAMA & THE WOODCOCKS / p. 74 Wei Ying-wu, IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF WEI YING-WU / p. 47 Ronaldo V. Wilson, POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT / p. 47 LGBT TITLES Kazim Ali, QUINN’S PASSAGE / p. 51 J. T. Brolaski, e. kaufman & E. T. Grinnell, Eds., NO GENDER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF kari edwards / p. 66 Kathleen Culver, THE NATURAL LAW OF WATER / p. 18 Steve Fellner, ALL SCREWED UP / p. 68 Judy Grahn, THE JUDY GRAHN READER / p. 25 G. Winston James, SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES / p. 55 Emma Pérez, GULF DREAMS / p. 59 Sophie Robinson, A / p. 41 Pamela Sneed, KONG AND OTHER WORKS / p. 44 Ronaldo V. Wilson, POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT / p. 47 JEWISH TITLES Yakov Azriel, BEADS FOR THE MESSIAH’S BRIDE: POEMS ON LEVITICUS / p. 12 Shirley Kaufman, EZEKIEL’S WHEELS / p. 30 Brandon Marlon, JUDEAN DREAMS / p. 34 Michael Tregebov, THE BRISS / p. 61 LATINO/LATINA TITLES Mario Benedetti, PEDRO AND THE CAPTAIN / p. 52 Daniel Cano, DEATH AND THE AMERICAN DREAM / p. 53 Elena Lafert and Melina Draper, LUGAR DE ORIGEN/PLACE OF ORIGIN / p. 32 Gloria Lise, DEPARTING AT DAWN: A NOVEL OF ARGENTINA’S DIRTY WAR / p. 56 Lorraine M. Lopez, HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES / p. 57 Rachel McKibbens, PINK ELEPHANT / p. 36 John Murillo, UP JUMP THE BOOGIE / p. 37 Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 METERS OF POEMS / p. 38 Emma Pérez, GULF DREAMS / p. 59 Lila Zemborain, GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET / p. 49 MIDDLE EASTERN TITLES Kazim Ali, QUINN’S PASSAGE / p. 51 Hafez, YOUR LOVER’S BELOVED / p. 26 Sheema Khan, OF HOCKEY AND HIJAB: REFLECTIONS OF A CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMAN / p. 70 Maged Zaher, PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS AN ENGINEER / p. 49 Haifa Zangana, DREAMING OF BAGHDAD / p. 74 NATIVE AMERICAN TITLES Sherwin Bitsui, FLOOD SONG / p. 13 Eric Gansworth, FROM THE WESTERN DOOR TO THE LOWER WEST SIDE / p. 23 H J Tsinhnahjinnie and V Passalacqua, Eds., OUR PEOPLE, OUR LAND, OUR IMAGES: INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS / p. 74 TRANSLATIONS Jesus Aguado, THE POEMS OF VIKRAM BABU / p. 11 Urs Allemann, BABYFUCKER / 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 Mario Bellatin, BEAUTY SALON / p. 52 Mario Benedetti, PEDRO AND THE CAPTAIN / p. 52 Giorgio Caproni, THE EARTH’S WALL: SELECTED POEMS 1932-1986 / p. 15
Luis Cernuda, DESOLATION OF THE CHIMERA / p. 16 Eva Claeson, Ed., TO CATCH LIFE ANEW: 10 SWEDISH WOMEN POETS / p. 17 Maurizio Cucchi, THE MISSING / p. 17 Jean Daive, UNDER THE DOME: WALKS WITH PAUL CELAN / p. 67 Hugh-Alain Dal, LES POEMES D’UNE VIE PERDUE: THE POEMS OF A LOST LIFE / p. 18 Michel Delville, THIRD BODY / p. 18 George Economou, ANANIOS OF KLEITOR / p. 20 Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ARGONAUTICA / p. 22 Grinnell, Johnson, Brolaski, and Bers, Eds, AUFGABE NO. 8 / p. 77 Durs Grünbein, DESCARTES’ DEVIL: THREE MEDITATIONS / p. 69 Katrine Marie Guldager, COPENHAGEN / p. 54 Hafez, YOUR LOVER’S BELOVED / p. 26 Oscar Hahn, ASHES IN LOVE / p. 26 Hara Kazuo, CAMERA OBTRUSA: THE ACTION DOCUMENTARIES OF HARA KAZUO / p. 69 Emmanuel Hocquard, CONDITIONS OF LIGHT / p. 28 Friedrich Hölderlin, SELECTED POEMS OF FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN / p. 28 Keith Holyoak, FACING THE MOON: POEMS OF LI BAI AND DU FU / p. 29 Hiromi Ito, KILLING KANOKO: SELECTED POEMS OF HIROMI ITO / p. 29 Juan Ramón Jiménez, THE POET AND THE SEA / p. 30 Johan Jönson, COLLOBERT ORBITAL / p. 30 Chelva Kanaganayakam, Ed., WILTING LAUGHTER: THREE TAMIL POETS / p. 30 Kang Kyong-ae, FROM WONSO POND / p. 55 Rakesh Khanna, Ed., THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF TAMIL PULP FICTION / p. 56 Srecko Kosovel, LOOK BACK, LOOK AHEAD / p. 32 Ku Sang, ETERNITY TODAY / p. 32 Elena Lafert and Melina Draper, LUGAR DE ORIGEN/PLACE OF ORIGIN / p. 32 Gina Lagorio, TOSCA, THE CAT LADY / p. 56 Lao-tzu, LAO-TZU’S TAOTECHING / p. 33 Gloria Lise, DEPARTING AT DAWN: A NOVEL OF ARGENTINA’S DIRTY WAR / p. 56 Valerio Magrelli, INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER AND OTHER POEMS / p. 34 Vasyl Makhno, THREAD AND SELECTED NEW YORK POEMS / p. 34 Charu Nivedita, ZERO DEGREE / p. 58 Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 5 METERS OF POEMS / p. 38 Elio Pagliarani, THE GIRL CARLA AND OTHER POEMS / p. 39 Surender Mohan Pathak, THE 65 LAKH HEIST / p. 58 Vasko Popa, THE STAR WIZARD’S LEGACY: SIX POETIC SEQUENCES / p. 39 Ki. Rajanarayanan, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU MONKEYS?: FOLKTALES FROM TAMIL NADU / p. 59 Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Eds., READ / p. 40 Arthur Rimbaud, THE ILLUMINATIONS / p. 40 Arthur Rimbaud, A SEASON IN HELL / p. 40 Peter Rosei, METROPOLIS VIENNA / p. 60 Jean-Pierre Rosnay, WHEN A POET SEES A TREE / p. 41 Amelia Rosselli, THE DRAGONFLY: A SELECTION OF POEMS: 1953-1981 / p. 41 Marina Temkina, WHAT DO YOU WANT? / p. 44 Jose Castro Urioste, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? / p. 62 Wei Ying-wu, IN SUCH HARD TIMES: THE POETRY OF WEI YING-WU / p. 47 Suzi Winson, O. Brossard, and V. Broqua, Eds., POEM: POETS ON (AN) EXCHANGE MISSION / p. 48 Lila Zemborain, GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET / p. 49
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