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Quickviewcamera obscura by erica lewis
Poetryerica lewis’s camera obscura is a stunning meditation on the relationship between things in the world and our perception of them. Beginning with a photograph “that made me think about how time and the constant mutability of everything is . . . the underlying story of all the stories we write,” her words show us – indeed literally see – how “the object exists outside us without our taking part in it”; how “to bring the picture into focus”; how “an image sparks another image” ... —Stephen Ratcliffe$16.00 -
QuickviewFantastic Caryatids, by Anne Waldman and Vincent Katz
Poetry, SuperstarsFantastic Caryatids, by Anne Waldman & Vincent Katz, is a lush, vivid and spectacular reading/album/book of poetry, conversation and photographs. Note that the subtitle is A Conversation with Art. The "with" has the particularities of city, specificities of the senses, of memories, of an ethos whose upper limit is friendship, companionship. It is a model, a remarkable “alternative version of how to be alive.” (Anne Waldman) Dynamic, urbane, intimate, “the occasion of these ruses” (Frank O’Hara) is synergy from chronos to kairos. —Norma Cole$18.00 -
QuickviewFirst Baby Poems by Anne Waldman with Collages by George Schneeman
Poetry, SuperstarsWith her warm subtle fleshy FIRST BABY POEMS Waldman creates an infant power that did not exist before in her words. These poems are complex joyful bioalchemy. —Michael McClure$18.00 -
QuickviewLittle: Novels by Emily Anderson
Fiction, PoetryCome for the Michael Landon Flip Book; stay for the richly rewoven story that excavates hidden moments in Little House on the Prairie and pays playful homage to fan favorites like prairie bitch Nellie Oleson. Little is a new classic, skillfully foraging Laura Ingalls Wilder's much-loved series to create an (ir)reverent rereading that pioneers the new frontier of Little House on the Prairie in the 21st-century. —Alison Fraser$25.00 -
QuickviewMinnows Small as Sixteenth Notes by Norma Kassirer edited by Ann Goldsmith and Edric Mesmer
PoetryNorma Kassirer, widely known as the author of the delightful Magic Elizabeth, brings the same imagination, intelligence, whimsy, and delight to the poetry collected here. ––Michael Boughn$18.00 -
QuickviewSHE, A BLUEPRINT by Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West
Poetry$25.00It is an ekphrasis of the female form, one which writes a woman into being where the woman cannot be. It is a reverse-ekphrasis of the formal female, one which images what might be a woman were woman not imagined. Pierce and Hammond West’s She, a Blueprint underscores that every grid is someone’s narrative, and there is only necessity in the thrust of us. —Vanessa Place -
QuickviewSoldatesque / Soldiering | Poetry by Anne Waldman, Art by Noah Saterstrom
Poetry, Superstars“Here on the home front Anne and Noah’s word-and-image frieze blossoms like an immensely considerate device improvised for those Gentle Reader hands remaining.” — Bill Berkson$20.00 -
QuickviewStarlight’s Genesis: An Anthology of the Starlight Gallery
Poetry$25.00Each of these works opens connections to people who often feel disconnected; they offer chances to see ourselves within those who often seem different from us. In that sense, for those who created these, and you who absorb them, they can be the genesis of a newly shared joy.” —Paul T. Hogan -
QuickviewThe Pied Piper of Hamelin, A Child’s Story by Robert Browning
BlazeVOX JuniorThis facsimile of Robert Browning'sThe Pied Piper of Hamelin, A Child’s Story is beautifully illustrated and colored by T. W. Craik and W. A. Craik. BlazeVOX presents for the first time this wonderful edition, originally created in 1959 as a gift by the illustrators to their young son. Robert Browning's poem captures the mysterious nature of the Piper legend and the resplendent, rich time period in which the tale took place, which has inspired many great illustrators such as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Margaret Tarant, and Maxfield Parrish. This work contains over 40 illustrated pages with hand lettering and includes a foreword by Roger Craik detailing this book’s creation by his parents. This unique book is intended for all ages.$18.00
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