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QuickviewApollo: A Conceptual Poem by Geoffrey Gatza : Based upon the ballet by Igor Stravinsky
Poetry, SuperstarsAt its heart, this book is about Marcel Duchamp but it is also about chess. It was thought for a long while that Marcel Duchamp gave up art to play professional chess. However, this was found to be not true with the revelation of his last major artwork, Étant donnés.$35.00 -
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 -
QuickviewColor Me White by Kevin Thurston, Illustrations by Mickey Harmon
PoetryColor Me White focuses on straight white males, and what is often called toxic masculinity—a topic only aggravated by the current political climate.$20.00 -
QuickvieweaQ Oor by Andy Martrich
Poetry$16.00Martrich presents an elusive autobiographical postcard of metadata alongside thickly painted and obscured image-alphabet-code, simultaneously and beautifully quotidian, inherited, catalogued, queried, found, and personal. —Mel Nichols
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QuickviewEkstasis by Peter Valente and Kevin Killian
Poetry, SuperstarsKevin Killian and Peter Valente’s haunting collaboration Ekstasis comes on like one of those dark dreams you can’t seem to shake – it’s memory and sensations still lingering long after you’ve awoken. —Michael Salerno, artist, filmmaker, and publisher.$22.00 -
QuickviewEndless Spectator, The Screens Suite by Jesse Damiani
PoetryIn an ironic twist, there are no spectators in Endless Spectator. The mere act of looking involves you, and just like on the internet, the act of looking can be transgressive, if not towards the content, but towards yourself. Through its visual bewilderment, Endless Spectator makes you realize that the cacophony of the internet is alive and pulsing, and you’ve already been consumed by it.$22.00 -
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 -
QuickviewHouse 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 -
Quickviewi wear a figleaf over my penis by Geoffrey Gatza
Mobilis in MobiliThis book is part of our moblis in mobli series, a free ebook with a printed books that is for sale from us as well as Amazon.com.$15.00 -
QuickviewIona by Andy Martrich
PoetryQuince Eastwood: proud Iona alum, a man still drawn to that small Catholic college in New Rochelle. He's looking for love in all the wrong places, and tracking info down via the absolute worst subforum. And how could he not? Iona's a place where no one's safe from transmutation, from instantly viral dipshittery.$16.00 -
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 -
QuickviewMorphology by Ruth Lepson & Walter Crump
PoetryIn the first image of Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump’s Morphology, the eye follows train tracks into a distant background of earth-meets-sky, the sky a near circle of light, presenting at the same time an enclosure and an eternity. The first text suggests a linkage of thinking and seeing: if I think it, it appears. This book is magic. I want to read it a thousand times. - Charles Alexander$18.00 -
QuickviewMy Secret Wars of 1984 by Dennis Etzel, Jr.
PoetryThe world of 1984 has a deft tenacity in the hands of Dennis Etzel, Jr. This book blends the personal to the greater political as only the best possible memoir can do. We are all in this world together and the strangest things occur, sometimes when other strange things occur, and I thank Mr. Etzel for his brilliant, sharp reminder. —CAConrad$16.00 -
QuickviewNoah’s Ark by Sam Magavern, Art by Monica Angle
PoetrySam Magavern opens quick portals in ""Noah's Ark"" for morning visions and wisdoms: reports and chants from dark and funny parts of the mind. Here are sudden pictures of durable wonder. Read quickly and all at once. And breathe in Monica Angle's long now, a broadly painted calligraphy that stitches the poems into the book and keeps it afloat, a watercolor time and life line that locates the enduring horizon. —Anthony Bannon$25.00 -
QuickviewRobert Creeley on the Poet’s Work in conversation with & photographs by Bruce Jackson
Critical Thinking, Poetry, SuperstarsThis is an edited transcript of a conversation about the work poets do that Robert Creeley and Bruce Jackson held in Robert Creeley’s home—a converted firehouse in Buffalo’s Black Rock district— the morning of September 6, 2001.$16.00 -
QuickviewSelected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins Edited by Barbara Henning
Fiction, SuperstarsBobbie Louise Hawkins is a remarkable master of the witty understated prose sentence and writes in the lineage of Barbara Pym and Jane Bowles; she is also a fabulous storyteller with a great ear for the "very thing": quip or bon mot. —Anne Waldman$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 -
QuickviewSidewalk Portrait: Fifty Fourth Floor and Falling by Rick Henry
FictionRick Henry's Sidewalk Portrait is audaciously conceived and meticulously crafted. It's such a winning work of word art in its modernist and pomo impulses that it seems it should have already been with us for decades, like the recently discovered experiment of a lost Oulipo genius. —Ted Pelton$16.00 -
QuickviewSMEAR by Andrew Brenza
New Releases, PoetryRachel Blau Duplessis, author of Poetic Realism: Working with strong page-making skills in modes of visual and procedural poetry, Andrew Brenza’s serious work comments on the tearing up and uneasy reconfiguring of languages in our historical moment. He creatively transforms inaugural addresses of all U.S. Presidents: imploded, exploded, spun to whirlpool, in a “jagged maw” or “transforming into a broken vapor.”$16.00 -
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 Life and Times of Grovey Cleves illustrated by Mickey Harmon written by Scott Mancuso
FictionSeries of self generated illustrations paired with a narrative penned by Scott Mancuso which was developed into a graphic novel.$16.00 -
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 -
QuickviewThief by Katrinka Moore
PoetryIn a series of interlocking text-image meditations and small narratives, Katrinka Moore’s Thief rewrites the literary impulse to claim. This thievery confesses our visitor status upon body, mind, land, and book and asks, “So, you select your shape purposefully? How to explore this obscure site? How does the world assemble?” The journey is gendered: how does a woman write into a literary and family history that was actually never so sure of its claims, its own thievery? – Jill Magi$18.00
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