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Forthcoming Titles.
12.C.J. Martin, Lo, Bittern, $10
C.J. Martin lives in Maxwell, TX, where he co-edits the Dos Press chapbook series with Julia Drescher (www.dospress.blogspot.com). He's also a contributing editor for Little Red Leaves (www.littleredleaves.com) & he teaches at Texas State University-San Marcos. His poem, "CITY," was published as a letterpress chapbook by the Vigiliance Society (2007).
11.Taylor Brady & Rob Halpern, Snow Sensitive Skin, (sold out!)
Taylor Brady is the author of Microclimates, Yesterday's News, and Occupational Treatment. Current projects include a novel, The Block Party, and a book of poems, Oughts, which is a series of probes into possibilities of a non-statist justice. He is also editing books of collected essays by Will Alexander and Norma Cole.
Rob Halpern is the author of Rumored Place (2004), and Music for Porn (forthcoming from Factory School). He's currently co-editing the work
of the late Frances Jaffer together with Kathleen Fraser, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the first of which, "For a Realist Literature," can be found in the current Chicago Review (Autumn 2007).
Both authors live in San Francisco and are active participants in the Nonsite Collective. For information on this group and its projects, please visit www.nonsitecollective.org, or email info@nonsitecollective.org.
10.Patrick F. Durgin, Imitation Poems, $8 (sold out!)
Patrick F. Durgin is the author of several chapbooks, including Color Music (2002) and Sorter (2001). A collaborative work written with Jen Hofer, The Route, will be published in the fall of 2007 by Atelos. He is editor and publisher of Kenning Editions, proprieter of www.da-crouton.com, and teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Michigan.
9. John Taggart, Unveiling/Marianne Moore (sold out!)
John Taggart has published ten volumes of poetry, including, most recently, When the Saints (Tailsman House, 1999) and Pastorelles (Flood Editions, 2004). He has also published a collection of essays on contemporary poetry and poetics, Songs of Degrees (Alabama, 1994) and a book on the painter Edward Hopper, Remaining in Light (SUNY Press, 1993). He lives in the Cumberland Valley of southern Pennsylvania.
8. Myung Mi Kim, River Antes, (sold out!)
Myung Mi Kim was born in 1957 in Seoul, Korea. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was nine. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Commons (University of California Press, 2002), Spelt (a+bend press, 2000), The Bounty (Chax Press, 2000), and Under Flag (Kelsey Street Press, 1992). She is presently on faculty in the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
7. Lisa Jarnot, Iliad, Book XXII (sold out!)
The Death of Hector
This is Book Twenty-Two of the Iliad. It’s close to the end of Homer’s story: Achilles is angry about the death of his best friend Patroclus, and he’s just slaughtered a larger number of Trojans and chased the rest of the army back to Troy. Meanwhile, Apollo has lured him away from the city gates so the scattering Trojans can escape. Everyone is feeling tired and mean, including the gods who have been arguing all day.6. I Heart My Zeppelin, Gregg Biglieri (sold out!)
Not Is anybody out there? but Is anybody in here?-where the mic check of poetry's address inheres in recognition of the seriousness of wordplay's work, its deftness a counter to the deafness of officialdom, the lethal stumbles in articulacy that disjoint our times and tangle policy lines. Marrying bruised soliloquies of the intimate with silent talkback to televised preemption, these poems groove on their own disenchantment like a chorus of frog princes rejecting King Log.
Nick
Lawrence
5. Mantle, Thom Donovan & Kyle
Schlesinger (sold out!)
These "vivid section"[s] much more than divide or connect. They are an intertaking portraiture of "What conveys you." In extension of Oppen's thing among things, Schlesinger and Donovan's exchange treads and, in treading, covers and finds itself covered, reflexively constituting the extent to which we are "Too particular to place."
Jesse Seldess
4. Eli Drabman, the ground running (sold out!)
“HITS?) the ground running—elsewise,
shortly, back-up-into-
Air (?) flying—in these extravagant/rigorously
disciplined
statement-song-poems which air & exercise
Eli Drabman’s
excellent lyrical imagination w/in strenuous/sinuous
‘
bounds’—i.e. What is said Bounds!
(well, the 24’s are
bounded by the right side of each page/GO!-from-top-to-
bottom!)—w/clear sad/ascorbic-Vitamin C-athletic
feeling/knowing
no nearer yet alive to hung
fingers tapping (a wet arc
of brass) I’ve blown it so,
to give these ghosts a home.
—A first book of ‘real note’ (not
unakin to Ashbery’s Some
Trees), promising intellectual ‘inhabitation’/life
within
many forms (& MORE imaginative rhythmic formal
energy/’truth-telling’/ Even More
Invention of & Testimony
to the Life of the Things Which Are), since
he’s ‘A
MUSICIAN’—Sings/thinks/says each-through!!
He Goes!
Robert Grenier
3. Tanya Brolaski, The Daily Usonian (sold out!)
“My dear readers of blurbs, what does it mean when a book ranges so far across differing language systems? Not everything in the world has an idea under it, but here an argument is being made, in part how significance, in the sense of illumination, must be found wherever. In these poems it is not the era or even precisely the context that matters, but the ability of a perceiver to pluck out, to remain receptive and flexible, to listen beyond conditions. Brolaski’s poet-perceiver sifts through ages of syntax. Dante and Buffy become contemporaries Counts and Ladies travel overland to fairs again, and it is Feeling—revived out of its status as sentiment—that serves as her Beatrice. “Not even the word love.” That is to say not the word, but its selection, its occurrence in a field of evident intelligence, my dear readers of blurbs.”
Brent Cunningham
2. Elizabeth Willis, Meteoric Flowers (sold out!)
“I think that these poems were written by William Blake upon his return from deep space, or maybe they were written by my friend Elizabeth Willis who moves at the speed of light and takes dictation from the angels. It’s even possible that these meteoric flowers have descended to permanently reconfigure the brain waves of all sentient life on earth.”
Lisa Jarnot
1. Cynthia Sailers, Rose Lungs (sold out)
“What we quixotics want are the facts, and in Rose Lungs Cynthia Sailers gives us some seriously beautiful information. Her poems fuse lyric enchantment with an austere courtesy, written as if in the voice of the astral double in a Victorian photograph. Sailers puts the desiring self through a lush stutter of pronouns that blurs the rip between they and it and her and I and you; her fidelity to reside in between takes us to a place where philosophy’s at home with the erotic and perception is reached through another field of bliss. This is writing that makes the fin de siecle feel like a new beginning—Pleasure speaks: what can I do therefore.”
Rodney Koeneke
Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh, Names of the Lion (trans. David Larsen), Summer 2008