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HELLO HELICOPTER by Kyle Schlesinger
Poetry*Hello Helicopter*. Or hello *helikos*? As Robert Smithson tells us of his Spiral Jetty film, not so distantly from Kyle Schlesinger's poetics: “For my film (a film is a spiral made up of frames) I would have myself filmed from a helicopter (from the Greek helix, helikos meaning spiral) directly overhead in order to get the scale in terms of erratic steps." Much after Clark Coolidge's own “depositions,” and affinities as disparate as Larry Eigner, Larry Fagin, Frank Kuenstler, Bernadette Mayer, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Ron Silliman and Rosemarie Waldrop in Schlesinger's poetry language bifurcates geo-glyphically forming mantles (veils, plates) for a metapolitics of the person determined by intense logics of sense. Joyrides into exteriority, these lapidary (drilled, mined, refined, chiseled) texts find form in an “everyday” (read: actual!) practice made ambivalent by the twin indiscernible points of paramnesia and paronomasia, rushing upon History and the *instant* where “memory survives necessity,” forging “a fold between these folds / / then helicopter”. “It all comes down to this…”--literally. So dig it! “Fossils have terms of their own” and these poems endlessly propose, so carefully degreed. —Thom Donovan$16.00 -
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Hello Ice by Diana Adams
PoetryA magpie dazzler of a book, Hello Ice is, quite explicitly, a world of refraction, re-layering, and rebirth – this is what happens when Alchemy meets Project, and off they go waltzing into the forest together. —Ana Božicevic$16.00 -
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Henri, Sophie, & The Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex by Tom Holmes
PoetryPart 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. – Tod Marshall$16.00 -
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Her Body Listening by Cheryl Pallant
PoetryIn this new poetry collection, Cheryl Pallant plays both with the harsh discordance of language and its soothing homophones “line by line, sharps by flats, horn by heard.” Ornette Coleman’s free jazz comes to mind. —Brigitte Byrd$16.00 -
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Heretical Materialism: A Pasolini Triptych by George Fragopoulos
New Releases, PoetryHeretical Materialism: A Pasolini Triptych, enters into direct colloquy with voices and images of the past that feel even more essential to us now in this rendering. — Ammiel Alcalay$18.00 -
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Hi-Density Politics by Urayoán Noel
PoetryAnd marvelously, we feel freedom-potential in Hi-Density Politics. Noel rattles the “big other” symbolic order just long enough for the signs to slink out from under it, unbridled, furiously cute, in maximalist rhythms. —Rodrigo Toscano$16.00 -
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Historic Diary by Tony Trigilio
PoetryTony Trigilio’s Historic Diary (named after Lee Harvey Oswald’s account of his time in the Soviet Union) excavates the nightmarish record of the first Kennedy assassination, its auguries and aftermath, with a blue fury and an obsessive zeal that border on the Talmudic. What he finds there goes beyond chilling to a pure-product-of-America craziness that makes me tremble for my country. “I am waiting // for someone to / ride me, the / locomotive of history,” Trigilio writes, and his ticket beyond the grave takes us, willy-nilly, on this scarifying, brilliant, and disturbing ride.—Rachel Loden$16.00 -
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Hitching Post by Nava Fader
PoetryNava Fader’s Hitching Post is a collage of wild horses willingly let loose from the domesticity of language. Fader, who pays tribute to Michael Basinski's Trailers vis-à-vis the titles of her poems, breathes life into voiceless scenes and animates the everyday. Cascading amidst incantations, lullabies, and vows, Fader creates a rare syntactical wonderland, while unleashing the sonic layers of life and poïesis. —Morani Kornberg-Weiss$16.00 -
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Holyrit by Irene Koronas
PoetryBetween gilgul and galgal, logos and gematria, Irene Koronos’ fourth volume of the Grammaton Series, holyrit delivers a spectacular juxtapoiesis of textual and sonic probes— fragrant ellipses, fragments and eclipse, where all that is sacred, secular, savage and ex-static explode as sparks of light reminding us how the letters themselves are the building blocks of creation. —Adeena Karasick$16.00 -
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homemade traps for new world Brians by Evan Willner
PoetryEvan Willner reinvisions fifty states as fifty poems that each have the flinty, hard logic and formal density of stone slabs—stele or gravestones—or of teeth. A must read for all Brians. —Brian Evenson,$16.00 -
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Hostile Witness by Garin Cycholl
PoetryCycholl’s descent in Hostile Witness into America leads us through baseball parks and boxing arenas, along the banks of rivers and back alleys to smoke-filled room political deals as only a poet of Cycholl’s power could manage. The collection is masterful and epic--and ultimately essential. —Bill Allegrezza,$16.00 -
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House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza
Poetry, SuperstarsHouse of Forgetting comprises two long poems by Geoffrey Gatza. The Twelve Hour Transformation of Clare tells of the disappearance of a woman who slowly transforms over the period of twelve hours into words. Recipe for Water is a double-plus, surreal telling of the life of an artist who gave up writing for painting, and the moments of memory at various stages in that life.$10.00