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Poetry and Experimental Writing
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100 Aspects of
the Moon by Leza
Lowitz
$15.00, 2005, 119pp, paperback, 140x214mm, 0-935086-36-6
Among the many memorable lines in this elegant, passionate book are
these: "this is what transformation looks like--the mess of it, the
tapping at the walls of your life." One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
tends to center in the perception of a crossing, a sudden awareness
that some monumental change has come upon the self. Yet the book is
anything but nostalgic: everything in it struggles to accept change--or
at least to see it with renewed clarity. more
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ahadada
reader 1 edited by Jesse Glass
$12.95, 2004, 85pp, paperback, 146x197mm, 0-9732233-3-2
Combines the lively, challenging work of three experimental poets, Alan
Halsey, John Byrum, and Geraldine Monk. Halsey's group of poems
resurrects past versions of English, turning with peculiar spellings
and striking frictions of their grammar. Byrum's work, entitled
"Approximations," is a shifting visual text work mainly utilizing the
text block, pointing to the form of a word as art itself. The final
selection of Monk's work rounds out the book with her varying forms and
sharply constructed lines. |
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Another Wrong Fedora
by John
Gribble
$15.00, 2005 , 96pp, paperback, 140x215mm, 1-933606-01-0
The world of Another Wrong Fedora is both surreal and
super-real. It is inhabited by family, lovers, ghosts, people who are
stuck, people who are getting better, people who are famous, and
animals, some of whom speak native-level English. With subtle
formality, the poems present a world which is lovely, lonely and,
despite its flaws, worth caring about.
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Aquiline
by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
$12.00, 2007 , 65pp, paperback, 149x210mm, 978-1-933606-11-8
... There are few poets who can render emotion with such ferocity
and intelligence. Despite all that is said about the materiality of
language and limits of subjectivity, life will have its way with us. Aquiline has that kind of urgency, as of last things. Its cry is all the sharper for arriving at times in fragments. (Paul Hoover)
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Inside the
Kamakura Buddha: Poems by Wallace Gagne
$10.00, 68pp, paperback, 1-895666-12-0
His poems are rich in vernacular observations, including the following
from the title poem: You're the biggest friggin' Buddha I've ever seen.
/ Bar none. / Ten thousand tons of bronze and concrete /
enlightenment." (Dan Grunebaum, Metropolis Tokyo) From the
back cover: A heavy drinker and red meat eater, Wallace Gagne was born
in Vancouver in 1943 but was forced into internal exile in Calgary
during the brass monkey winter of 1951. (He graduated from the
University of Calgary in 1965)
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Investigations & Other Sequences by Marton Koppany
$12.95, 2003, 70pp, paperback, 146x197mm, 0-9732233-1-6
Marton Koppany is a poet, translator, and editor living in Budapest,
Hungary. During the last few years he has been working on different
collections of "experimental" poetry. The pieces contained herein were
written and published in the eighties and nineties, and
exhibited/performed at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee.
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Kenji Miyazawa:
An Asura in Spring translated by Ruriko Suzuki, with
introductions by David Chandler.
$73.50, 1999, 250pp, hardcover, 147x210mm, 4-88198-909-X
The first half of this book consists of the English translations and
notes. The second half consists of the poems in Japanese and is taken
from the Japanese text edited by Taijirou Amazawa.
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Night Moves
by Edgar Henry
2004, 228pp, paperback, 150x215mm, 4-900178-25-X
(This book was published shortly before the poet's untimely death.)
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Now Showing: Poems by
Jim Daniels 2006, 40pp, paperback, 148x210mm, 105g, 0-9781414-1-5
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is a melancholy sweetness running through these poems that, while not
entirely redemptive, offers unexpected relief and enables us to see
thatJim Daniels, despite the tough-bitten talk, is a poet born to
praise.- Carol Muske, New York Times Book Review; Jim Daniels has, with
his third book, become an important successor to James Wright and Phil
Levine in describing men’s lives in the industrial heartland of
America. - Julia Stein,
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Nines by Michel Englebert (edited
by Hillel Wright & Taylor Mignon) Yen 1,000, 2006
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Oulipoems by Philip Terry - Yen
1,500?, 2006, 70pp, 175g, 148x210mm, 978-0-9781414-2-4
The title of Philip Terry's billiant book pays 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. - Harry Mathews
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Photopoems of
Japan photos by Kenneth Williams, poems by Wallace
Gagne
$10.00, 2005, 50pp, 0-9350861-6-1
L.A.-bred photographer Kenneth Williams teams with Canadian poet
Wallace Gagne to distill the essence of their Japanese
experience. Both are longtime residents of Japan with Japanese
wives.
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She said ...
by Aileen Gemma Fedullo
$15.00, 2006,112pp, 1-933606-04-5
The seventy-four poems in She said... are all about
connections. Through imagery, Aileen Fedullo takes her reader
intimately along a path of experiences. This collection includes a CD
with 44 recordings. |
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So We Have Been
Given Time Or by Sawako Nakayasu
$13.00, 2004, 106pp, paperback, 139x203mm, 0-9746353-0-8
Craig Watson (from back cover): In the world of Sawako Nakayasu there's
no distinction between poetry and theater, meditation and action,
language and performance. To be alive is to be in motion; every
thought/breath/word inalterably changes every other thing/person/time.
We are made of verbs and whether the task is "blanking it up" or to
"keep mouth full of time," we're always on stage in the theater of
language and imagination. Don't read this book -- enact it.
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Strange
Currencies by Daniel Sendecki
$12.95, 2003, 69pp, paperback, 140x218mm, 0-9732233-0-8
Daniel Sendecki travels through a Far East of haunting contrasts, where
'Roadside children collect lotus flowers to weave into bracelets' while
feet away are landmines 'like knives asleep in kitchen drawers
imagining meat.' Startling perceptions of past and present, teeming
streets and loneliness, killing fields and open sky are juxtaposed in
finely textured images, drawing us to touch the mystery hidden between
'the agony and beauty.' How refreshing to read poems that 'Make myself
as small as possible' and reach outward, ...
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The Santoka:
versions by Scott Watson illustration by Ed Baker
$10.00, 2005, 41pp, paperback, 180x228mm, 4-915948-41-2
C0098
This book contains selections which previously appeared in the Tohoku
Gakuin Review under the titles Weeds We'd Wed: English versions of
more than fifty haiku by Taneda Santoka and A Life to Live:
Santoka. Scott Watson presents each haiku in Japanese (kana and
kanji) followed by his English versions. Explanation is added where
needed. more
More Santoka translation and original poetry by Scott Watson here.
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