A Better Place Is Hard to Find By Aaron Fagan. "Revealing the profusion of life “Where silence / And all possible / Outcomes bathe // In simultaneity,” the poems in Aaron Fagan's astonishing third collection, A Better Place Is Hard to Find, carefully tune their >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781734035155 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 84 pgs. Pub Date: 10/01/2020 In stock
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| Among the most influential works of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98), Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard feels to this day revolutionary and resoundingly contemporary, both for the suggestive power of its >>more Lucia|Marquand ISBN 9780999652237 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Slip, pbk, 2 vols, 11 x 15 in. / 64 pgs / 3 b&w. Pub Date: 06/12/2018 In stock
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| A Book of Glyphs By Edward Sanders. A Book of Glyphs is a facsimile reproduction of legendary author, musician and Fugs founder Ed Sanders’ first book-length work of glyphs, which he created in Florence, Italy in 2008, using colored pencils and a >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123815 US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE Pbk, 4 x 6 in. / 168 pgs / 73 color. Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind By Alfred Starr Hamilton. Edited by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal. Introduction by Geof Hewitt. Though Alfred Starr Hamilton wrote thousands of poems during his lifetime, only a small percentage of them ever found their way into print. His poems appeared in small poetry journals during the ‘60s, ‘70s and >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464308 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 232 pgs. Pub Date: 02/15/2013 Out of stock
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| A Song of Flowers: Ni Xochitl, Ni Kuikatl Edited by Mardonio Caballo, Fernando Laposse. Text by Mardonio Caballo. Introduction by Alberto Manguel. Illustrations by Fernando Laposse. In Nahuatl, a language spoken in present-day central Mexico since the 7th century, poetry is designated by a pair of metaphors, in xochitl in cuicatl: “the flower, the song.” This term defines poetry as “an >>more JBE Books ISBN 9782365680844 US $50.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE Hbk, 7.5 x 14 in. / 120 pgs / 21 color / 14 b&w. Pub Date: 04/16/2024 In stock
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| This extensive collection of poet Jena Osman’s acclaimed work spans more than 30 years, gathering poems from journals and books long out of print. Her poetry traces overlooked visual and linguistic incidents across centuries of >>more DABA ISBN 9781734681796 US $35.00 CAN $50.50 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 416 pgs / 46 b&w. Pub Date: 12/19/2023 In stock
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With mounting intensity extended across three sections of poems, Ben Estes' achingly personal second collection unfolds to reveal an uncertain past, present and future that is by turns mysterious and beautiful. ABC Moonlight contains poems >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277538 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 108 pgs. Pub Date: 02/01/2022 In stock
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| The second published collaboration between Stéphane Mallarmé and Édouard Manet (after Mallarmé’s translation of Poe’s “The Raven”), L’après-midi d’un faune is one of the poet’s best-known works. It provided the basis for Debussy’s Prélude à >>more Lucia|Marquand ISBN 9781646570027 US $40.00 CAN $56.00 SDNR40 Pbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 24 pgs / 4 color. Pub Date: 03/10/2020 Out of stock
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| America and Other Poems: Selected Poetry by Nobuo Ayukawa By Ayukawa Nobuo. Introduction by Shogo Oketani. Translated by Shogo Oketani, Leza Lowitz. America and Other Poems is the first English translation of a single volume by the seminal Japanese Modernist poet, Ayukawa Nobuo. One of Japan's most influential yet overlooked poets, Nobuo was an important voice for >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030412 US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 3 b&w. Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock
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Andrei Monastyrski: Elementary Poetry Edited with translation by Brian Droitcour, Yelena Kalinsky. Introduction by Boris Groys. Russian poet, author, artist and art theorist Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949) is, along with Ilya Kabakov, one of the founders of conceptualism in Russia, and a protagonist of Collective Actions, a group of artists who >>more Ugly Duckling Presse/Soberscove Press ISBN 9781937027681 US $28.00 CAN $38.50 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 360 pgs / 6 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 12/23/2019 In stock
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| April By Sara Nicholson. Deadpan, heartfelt and everything in between, Sara Nicholson poetry is a reluctant mystic who can both make us laugh and point us toward magical truths within a single poem. Her third collection of poems, April, >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277590 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 90 pgs. Pub Date: 04/15/2023 Out of stock
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| Aurelia & Other Writings By Gérard de Nerval. Translated by Geoffrey Wagner, Robert Duncan, Marc Lowenthal. Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into madness—a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled “bohemians,” >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972095 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs. Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock
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A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick
In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. >>more Siglio ISBN 9781938221255 US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE Hbk, 10 x 7.25 in. / 332 pgs / 1155 color. Pub Date: 06/09/2020 In stock
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| Truong Tran’s provocative collection of poetry, prose and essays is a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime. Written with a compulsion for lucidity that transforms outrage into clarity, Book >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030757 US $18.95 CAN $25.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 184 pgs. Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock
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| Bridgeable Shores Edited by Eileen Tabios. Bridgeable Shores: Selected Poems and New (1969-2001) is the first U.S. publication of the work of the revered Filipino-American poet Luis Cabalquinto. This long overdue collection features the compassion, wisdom and well-being gained from the >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030344 US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs. Pub Date: 10/02/2001 In stock
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Concrete Poetry Text by Paul Bernard, Gabriele Detterer, Maurizio Nannucci. MAMCO has devoted a semipermanent exhibition space to concrete poetry since 2016, resulting in the acquisition of a significant group of works falling under this label. This includes the purchase of the Steven Leiber collection. >>more MAMCO Geneva ISBN 9781636810423 US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 05/03/2022 In stock
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| Crevasse By Nicholas Wong. Crevasse, Hong Kong–based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030207 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 4 b&w. Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock
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| Curl By T.O. Bobe. Translation by Sean Cotter. Mr. Gica is the world’s greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica’s shop has six >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663429 US $12.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs. Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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In her first collection of poetry, Emily Hunt inverts the ordinary: “How to bring a new figure close / was like taking a globe, turning it once / and placing it back on its pedestal.” >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464391 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs. Pub Date: 05/01/2015 In stock
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| Dereliction By Gabrielle Octavia Rucker. Dereliction, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker's debut collection of poetry, moves through childhood and into the afterlife with poems that evoke an artful and urgent sense of the author's “insatiable wandering.” With cinematic imagery and formal variation, >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277576 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 104 pgs. Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock
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| Earth By Hannah Brooks-Motl. With patience and precision, Hannah Brooks-Motl's third collection of poems, Earth, explores the grand themes of love, family, economy and home with the skill of a true craftsman. As the measured compositions of these poems >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780578514376 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 108 pgs. Pub Date: 09/01/2019 In stock
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American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard’s writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical arrangements of letters and words >>more DABA ISBN 9781734681703 US $24.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE Clth, 5.5 x 8 in. / 64 pgs. Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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| In Essay Stanzas, Thomas Meyer begins modestly by warning the reader: “This won't amount to much.” Each of the four poems in this book follow the imagination of the poet through his attempts to map >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464353 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 140 pgs. Pub Date: 11/01/2014 In stock
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| Charles North is the quintessential poet's poet. James Schuyler confidently named him “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” while Harry Mathews possibly took it one step further to claim that Charles “belongs on the >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781734035100 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 90 pgs. Pub Date: 02/01/2020 In stock
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Fort Not By Emily Skillings. In her highly anticipated debut collection, Fort Not, Emily Skillings creates an “atmosphere for encounter,” akin to searching for meaning through lip-reading. We soon realize that these poems are speaking to us in tones that >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780996778695 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs. Pub Date: 10/01/2017 In stock
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| Goodbye Letter By Jeremy Sigler. Edited by Barney Kulok. In his latest collection, Goodbye Letter, New York-based poet Jeremy Sigler (born 1968) deconstructs his very will to write, as he articulates, verbally and graphically, the implied obsolescence of language itself. The book feels less >>more Hunters Point Press ISBN 9780578576916 US $29.95 CAN $41.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs. Pub Date: 09/29/2020 In stock
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| In this marriage of photography and poetry, curated by Gudrun Scholz, the book does not superordinate or subordinate either party. Rather, quotes from artists and photographers are placed across the page from images by Alec >>more Kerber ISBN 9783735609434 US $80.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 394 pgs / 170 color. Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock
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Hairdo By Rachel B. Glaser. With a voice as familiar as family, Rachel B. Glaser's second book of poems, Hairdo, hilariously navigates the daily anxieties and fantasies of the writer's path through her own modern life. Writing through action movies, >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780996778664 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs. Pub Date: 03/01/2017 In stock
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| With setting moons, talking tulips and the peacefulness found in a horse's mane, the poems in Christian Schlegel's debut collection Honest James might be as difficult to describe as the layered notes of an ancient >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464384 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs. Pub Date: 09/01/2015 In stock
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| I Even Regret Night By Lalbihari Sharma. Edited and translated by Rajiv Mohabir. Introduction by Gaiutra Bahadur. Winner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize, 2020
Award-winning Indo-Caribbean poet Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) brings his own poetic swagger and family history to a groundbreaking translation of Lalbihari Sharma's Holi >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030597 US $16.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs / 12 b&w. Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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In a new groundbreaking anthology, award-winning poet, memoirist and translator Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) engages with Indo-Caribbean language and culture, this time by inviting 17 diasporic writers to experiment with their own personal interpretations of >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781935717003 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 204 pgs. Pub Date: 10/08/2024 In stock
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| Jason Magabo Perez's second full-length book of poetry is an extended elegy set in the alleyways and Pacific-bound boulevards of San Diego, California during the current global health crisis. Called “an antidote to despair” (Muriel >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030894 US $17.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 124 pgs. Pub Date: 03/12/2024 In stock
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| I, Immendorff By Feridun Zaimoglu. Translated by Tom Cheesman. Turkish poet Feridun Zaimoglu (born 1964) immersed himself in the paintings of Jörg Immendorff (1945–2007) to write the poems gathered in this volume. In his words, "I disappeared and Immendorff came to life. This is >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783960985051 US $25.00 CAN $34.95 FLAT40 Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 216 pgs / 2 color. Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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What exactly is an illustrated game of patience? Imagine something like group solitaire within a room full of objects, Duchamp on a TV, some great old albums, voices from a radio or the past and >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464377 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 75 pgs. Pub Date: 01/01/2015 In stock
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| Inseparable By Lewis Warsh Inseparable collects poems written between 1995 and 2005 by the New York poet, editor and novelist Lewis Warsh. Strongly identified with New York since the 1960s, when he co-founded Angel Hair magazine with Anne Waldman, >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123785 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Paperback, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 212 pgs. Pub Date: 04/01/2008 In stock
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| Is This The Way The Universe Works? Edited with text by Gavin Wade, Paul Conneally. Images by James Langdon, based on photographs by Gavin Wade. A tanrenga poem is a conversation between a three-line haikulike poem and a two-line poem written by another writer in response. British artist-curator Gavin Wade (born 1971) and poet-musician Paul Conneally (born 1959) offer here >>more Set Margins' publications ISBN 9789083318882 US $22.00 CAN $31.00 TRADE Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 400 pgs / 400 tritone. Pub Date: 12/05/2023 In stock
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American artist Jimmie Durham's (born 1940) third book of poetry, Particle/Word Theory collects 38 poems written between 2014 and 2019, and 13 drawings. These poems, for Durham, express his belief that “art and science are >>more Walther König, Köln/Wiens Verlag/Edition Hans Jörg Mayer ISBN 9783960989264 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 FLAT40 Flexi, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 104 pgs / 1 color / 11 b&w. Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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| Joan Myers & Nathaniel Tarn: The Persephones Poem by Nathaniel Tarn. In The Persephones, American poet Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928) and American photographer Joan Myers (born 1941) offer an elegant, collaborative retelling of Persephone’s abduction into the underworld. Many of Myers’ images were shot at the >>more Damiani ISBN 9788862084987 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40 Hbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 58 pgs / 30 color. Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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| Joe Brainard: I Remember Artwork by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett. Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123488 US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Paperback, 4.25 x 7 in. / 192 pgs. Pub Date: 02/02/2001 In stock
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In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities and >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9781633451094 US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 b&w. Pub Date: 02/25/2020 In stock
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| Last Words By Gabriele Tinti. Preface by Derrick de Kerchove. Photographs by Andres Serrano. Last Words is a collection of found poems. Its conceptual basis is dramatic: to recover the lyricism of the final moments. Gabriele Tinti has with this aim composed the last words of ordinary people who >>more Skira ISBN 9788857229874 US $18.95 CAN $24.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 12 color. Pub Date: 04/05/2016 In stock
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| Lunar Solo By Jules Laforgue. Translated by Mark Ford. Largely unread yet one of the most influential forces on modern literature, Jules Laforgue was a brilliant French poet whose work was cut short by his untimely death at 27 years old. Praised by Pound >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9798987828823 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 172 pgs. Pub Date: 12/01/2023 In stock
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M By Hannah Brooks-Motl. Swinging between examination and revelation, Hannah Brooks-Motl's second collection of poems, M, holds a unique place in contemporary poetry, written almost as a document to chart the act of a writer reading. By transposing lines >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780996778602 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs. Pub Date: 12/01/2015 In stock
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| Magnetic Refrain By Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut. Adopted from Korea at the age of two, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war. She observes >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030061 US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 86 pgs. Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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| André Breton described Maldoror as "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972125 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 In stock
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Mouth By Lisa Chen. Mouth, Lisa Chen's debut collection of poetry, gives voice to things that occur below the level of hearing or just beyond our notice--fragments of translated stories, unanswered bits of conversations, the mute assertiveness of a >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030436 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Paperback, 5.75 x 7.5 in. / 84 pgs. Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock
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| Mucus in My Pineal Gland is the debut collection of New York–based artist and writer Juliana Huxtable (born 1987). Gathering poems, performance scripts and essays, this startling volume expands Huxtable’s critique of gender, sexuality, politics, whiteness >>more Capricious Publishing ISBN 9780997444629 US $23.95 CAN $31.95 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 185 pgs. Pub Date: 01/01/2019 Out of stock
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| In Muscle Memory, Washington-based poet Jenny Liou grapples with violence and identity, beginning with the chain-link enclosure of the prizefighter’s cage and radiating outward into the diasporic sweep of Chinese American history. Liou writes with >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030801 US $18.95 CAN $25.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 100 pgs. Pub Date: 10/25/2022 In stock
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Jane Gregory’s My Enemies records a poet’s search for meaning in a landscape of combined and dissolving definitions. Affirming disaster and its beyond, these poems sing toward belief—a self-made belief that will not rely on >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464315 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 81 pgs. Pub Date: 05/01/2013 In stock
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| On the 50th anniversary of its original publication, The Song Cave is honored to publish the first English translation of Francis Ponge's Nioque of the Early-Spring. Ostensibly a book written to honor the season itself >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780998829036 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs. Pub Date: 05/01/2018 In stock
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| Nite Soil Artwork by Kenward Elmslie. Kenward Elmslie's way with words cuts a singular swath through a polymath variety of forms. This collection of poems and ephemera treats language sometimes as paint to be thrown on canvas, sometimes as a series >>more Granary Books ISBN 9781887123396 US $27.50 CAN $37.50 TRADE Slipcased, 7 x 5 in. / pgs / 41 color. Pub Date: 07/02/2000 In stock
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In 1931, with the help of Jacqueline Apollinaire and at the suggestion of Pierre Matisse, a young Swiss publisher named Albert Skira contacted Pablo Picasso and convinced him to illustrate a French translation of Ovid’s >>more Skira Paris ISBN 9788857239491 US $300.00 CAN $400.00 SDNR30 Slip, hbk, 2 vols, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 412 pgs / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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| Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts." This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters' words. >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972354 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 288 pgs. Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Out of stock
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| Paper Bells By Phan Nhien Hao. Translated by Hai-Dang Phan. Paper Bells is a striking new collection by poet Phan Nhiên Hao, depicting his American life as a Vietnamese refugee and poet of exile, translated by poet Hai-Dang Phan. Neither conciliatory nor nostalgic, his plain-spoken >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781734035124 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 78 pgs. Pub Date: 04/01/2020 In stock
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Written between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin's "permutation poems" begin with short phrases or sentences whose constituent words are exhaustively rearranged over the course of the text. At first, Gysin wrote these poems manually, although >>more DABA ISBN 9781734681772 US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs. Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock
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| Piero Heliczer (1937–93) was one of the most important and ubiquitous protagonists of the underground of the 1960s and ’70s. Born in Italy, Heliczer lived between London, Paris, New York and Amsterdam; a poet, publisher >>more After 8 Books ISBN 9782492650000 US $24.95 CAN $31.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 52 b&w. Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock
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| Poems by Yvonne Rainer Introduction by Tim Griffin. From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America’s greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which were >>more Badlands Unlimited ISBN 9781936440108 US $12.00 CAN $17.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 71 pgs / 7 b&w. Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Out of stock
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Poetries By Georges Schehade. Introduction by Adonis. Translated by Austin Carder. The first book-length translation of works by this important Egyptian–born, Lebanese French poet, Poetries presents the core of Georges Schehadè's (1905–89) oeuvre. Though best known as a dramatist, Schehadè was first and foremost a poet. >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781734035193 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 138 pgs. Pub Date: 07/01/2021 In stock
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| Punks By John Keene. A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277521 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 234 pgs. Pub Date: 12/01/2021 In stock
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| Pybrac By Pierre Louÿs. Introduction and translation by Geoffrey Longnecker. Illustrations by Toyen. By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest collection of poetry ever published, and offers a taste of what the Marquis de Sade might have produced if he had ever turned >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663023 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 10 b&w. Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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In his debut collection, Riddles Etc., Geoffrey Hilsabeck proves himself adept at paradox, a poet who reaches toward the largeness of the cosmos in order to bring its essence closer to us. Approaching his subjects >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780998829012 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs. Pub Date: 11/01/2017 In stock
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| Rough Song By Blanca Varela. Translated by Carlos Lara. It is hard to believe that the books of Blanca Varela, considered one of Peru's greatest poets, as well as the first woman to win the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize, have not been >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781734035131 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 98 pgs. Pub Date: 10/15/2020 Out of stock
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| Rude Woods By Nate Klug. Foreward by W.R. Johnson. In his Eclogues, Virgil offers the reader poems about responding—listening, picking out, and answering back the pleasures of song. Nate Klug’s Rude Woods is an inspired, modern response, a new translation that blends talkative elegance >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464322 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 76 pgs. Pub Date: 09/15/2013 In stock
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Scardanelli By Friederike Mayrocker. Translated by Jonathan Larson. In Scardanelli, Friederike Mayröcker, one of Austria's most well-known poets, associated with the experimental German writers and artists of the Wiener Gruppe, continues to sharpen her mystical and hallucinatory poetic voice. Filled with memory and >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780998829050 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 72 pgs. Pub Date: 11/01/2018 In stock
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| Secret Poetics By Hélio Oiticica. Edited and translated with introduction by Rebecca Kosick. Afterword by Pedro Erber. Hélio Oiticica (1937–80) is widely considered one of Brazil’s most significant artists, and his influence is felt across a range of disciplines including painting, film, installation and participatory art. He is well known as a >>more Soberscove Press/Winter Editions ISBN 9781940190327 US $24.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 23 color. Pub Date: 11/14/2023 In stock
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| From one of Norway's most outstanding living poets, Helge Torvund's Seriously Well is a book-length poem that explores the characteristics and limits of poetic incantation in relation to memory and illness. With spare lines and >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277569 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 82 pgs. Pub Date: 08/01/2022 In stock
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Smudgy and Lossy, the first collection of poetry by Idaho–based poet John Myers, offers us a map to a borderless and psychedelically rural landscape—poems begin and end without notice, and the titular characters, Smudgy and >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780998829043 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 88 pgs. Pub Date: 07/01/2018 In stock
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| Beginning in the early 1950s Lionel Ziprin and his wife, Joanne, formed the nucleus of a hidden group of New York City creators who had a foundational influence on what was to come. For over >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780996778688 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 335 pgs. Pub Date: 09/01/2017 Out of stock
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| An extended love letter, Todd Colby's sixth poetry collection Splash State is filled with humor and charm. These poems are as concerned with aging, time, being and death as they are with eliminating “the need >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464360 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 94 pgs. Pub Date: 09/01/2014 In stock
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Arda Collins' second book of poems, Star Lake, is a deeply personal collection that explores the ways our notions of daily life touch the presence of the eternal. With memory as the backdrop of many >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277545 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 74 pgs. Pub Date: 04/01/2022 In stock
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| Stranger, Emily Hunt's long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed debut collection of poems, intimately chronicles the effects of love, labor and grief on the life and sensibility of an artist. These poems shed a shifting light >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9798987828830 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 116 pgs. Pub Date: 03/01/2024 In stock
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| Sweethearts By Emmett Williams. A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is the book-length concrete poem Sweethearts, >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783865608109 US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 226 pgs. Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Out of stock
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Alice Notley, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, has delivered an expert array of discussions over the last three decades. Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018 >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9798987828816 US $25.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 280 pgs. Pub Date: 11/15/2023 In stock
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| The Amme Talks By Ulf Stolterfoht. Afterword by Peter Dittmer. Translated by Shane Anderson, Megan Ewing. The Amme Talks is a conversation between poet and machine. In 2003, poet Ulf Stolterfoht and a chatbot named Amme met in Berlin. For one week, Stolterfoht interrogated Amme about the nature of authorship and >>more Triple Canopy ISBN 9780997852448 US $12.00 CAN $17.50 FLAT40 Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 192 pgs / 8 color / 23 b&w. Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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| Homoerotic poetry and art appear throughout the world’s civilizations for millennia. The Archaeology of Eros, the first collection of poems from cult music figure Jorge Socarras, taps into that continuum through the collaboration of acclaimed >>more Dark Entries Editions ISBN 9798985170412 US $20.00 CAN $29.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs / 25 color. Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock
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The Book By Stéphane Mallarmé. Introduction and translation by Sylvia Gorelick. The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972422 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs. Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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| The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems By Pablo Picasso. Edited with introduction by Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris. Afterword by Michel Leiris. Pablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the English-speaking world know is that in 1935, at age 54, an emotional crisis caused Picasso to halt >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972361 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs. Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Out of stock
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| The Central Laboratory By Max Jacob. Introduction and translation by Alexander Dickow. When Max Jacob published The Central Laboratory in 1921, Parisian Dada had just officially come to an end and Surrealism was yet to be born. The poetic scene in Paris was between definitions, and Jacob >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663801 US $22.95 CAN $30.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 360 pgs / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 07/26/2022 In stock
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Brandon Shimoda's The Desert, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book Evening Oracle, guides us deep into, and then back out of, a rich yet desolate North American landscape. Divided into seven sections—featuring >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780998829067 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 192 pgs. Pub Date: 09/01/2018 Out of stock
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| The Dice Cup By Max Jacob. Translated with introduction by Ian Seed. Max Jacob’s role in French modernity was essential, and with this second volume of his work from Wakefield Press, it can now be fully and properly assessed. First published in 1917, The Dice Cup stands >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663863 US $19.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 264 pgs. Pub Date: 12/06/2022 In stock
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| The Hermit is a catalog of thoughts concerning art and experience. Layering fragments of dreams, lists, games, conversations, poems and notebooks, Lucy Ives offers an intimate look into one writer's practice—“The worst is my imagination: >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780996778633 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 88 pgs. Pub Date: 07/01/2016 In stock
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The poems in Sara Nicholson's The Living Method imaginatively grasp the raw materials of nature, calling the reader to the “outer limits of the dark,” where one notices the music of the woods and gardens >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780988464346 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 92 pgs. Pub Date: 04/01/2014 In stock
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| The Massacre of the Innocents By Giambattista Marino. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler. A finely crafted epic and literary monstrosity from the seventeenth-century "poet of the marvelous": the harrowing account, in four bloody cantos, of King Herod and his campaign to murder the male infants of his kingdom >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663085 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 222 pgs / 2 b&w. Pub Date: 05/26/2015 Out of stock
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| Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Sadly, the book was >>more Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse ISBN 9781734489798 US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs. Pub Date: 03/30/2021 Out of stock
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The Maybe-Bird cements Jennifer Elise Foerster as a visionary voice in contemporary poetry. Through a spiraling sequence of lyric poems, a cast of voices—oracles, ghosts, water—speaks to a long history of genocide, displacement and ecological >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277552 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 134 pgs. Pub Date: 06/01/2022 In stock
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| The Poet Assassinated By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Matthew Josephson, woodcuts by André Dérain. Apollinaire was Modernism’s first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915, recovering from combat wounds suffered in World War I, Apollinaire assembled >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972293 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs. Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock
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| The Raven / Le Corbeau / The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé. Translation by Holly Cundiff. Illustrations by Édouard Manet. Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) claimed to have learned English in order to read Poe, an American poet greatly admired by the French Symbolists. This volume reproduces at full size the first-edition bilingual publication of Le Corbeau >>more Lucia|Marquand ISBN 9780999652282 US $60.00 CAN $85.00 SDNR40 Slip, Pbk, 14 x 21.5 in. / 20 pgs / 6 b&w. Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and transdisciplinary artist, Madeline Gins is well known for her collaborations with her husband, the artist Arakawa, on the experimental architectural project Reversible Destiny, in which they sought to arrest mortality >>more Siglio ISBN 9781938221248 US $28.00 CAN $39.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 328 pgs / 184 b&w. Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock
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| In this poetry collection, the Italian polymath Francesco Bonami (born 1955) dedicates his introspective verses to the figure of a spinster—an embodiment of a state of mind rather than a fixed gender or age. Richard >>more Karma Books, New York ISBN 9781949172973 US $25.00 CAN $37.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs. Pub Date: 11/28/2023 Out of stock
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| The Temperature Of This Water By Ishle Park. Ishle Park's debut collection of poetry heralds the arrival of an exciting, vital new voice in poetry. In The Temperature of This Water, Park samples the climates of Rikers Island and Cheju Island, New York >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030399 US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 122 pgs. Pub Date: 04/02/2004 In stock
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The Unbearable Heart By Kimiko Hahn. From Kimiko Hahn, the celebrated poet of Earshot, The Unbearable Heart is a superbly composed and passionate book on grief and mourning. The poems are both formally innovative and openly cathartic, individually and collectively compelling, >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030016 US $11.95 CAN $17.50 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs. Pub Date: 01/02/1996 Out of stock
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| Tomie's Chair By Josey Foo. Introduction by Tomie Arai. Inspired by Arrival, Tomie Arai's 1996 mixed-media installation at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York City, Tomie's Chair is an allegory of outward and inward movement. The chair is a symbol of rest >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030368 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Paperback, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs / 13 b&w. Pub Date: 11/02/2002 In stock
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| Through two long poems, Jesús Castillo's Two Murals explores the personal and political sides of love, selfhood and transformation in a wasteful age. "Variations on Adonis," the first sequence, is filled with music and memorable >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277514 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 100 pgs. Pub Date: 10/01/2021 In stock
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Ronald Johnson's underground classic of visionary and queer poetics, Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses, has been legendarily hard to find for over 50 years. In this book of poems, Johnson creates a specifically North American >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9798987828809 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 150 pgs. Pub Date: 05/15/2023 In stock
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| Vanessa Place: Last Words For her ongoing project Last Words, leading Conceptual poet and lawyer Vanessa Place (born 1968) has recorded in her own voice the last statements of all of the inmates executed in Texas as recorded by >>more Dis Voir ISBN 9782914563772 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color. Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock
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| Watchfiends & Rack Screams By Antonin Artaud. Translated by Clayton Eshleman with Bernard Bador. Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and magnificently >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972187 US $17.95 CAN $25.50 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs. Pub Date: 01/02/2004 In stock
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What awaits us is not the future we had hoped for or what we were promised, but the terrible consequences of we've done to ourselves.
Managing to be both a hopeful prayer for change and direct >>more Pioneer Works Press ISBN 9781945711114 US $14.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Hbk, 4.75 x 6 in. / 128 pgs / 12 color. Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock
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| Sara Nicholson's second poetry collection, What the Lyric Is, is a sharp, humorous and poignant exploration of how the lyric in poetry both fits and fails us. Conversant with dead poets, but skeptical of their >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780996778619 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs. Pub Date: 04/01/2016 Out of stock
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| Callie Garnett's first full-length collection of poems, Wings in Time, is a book one watches as much as reads. Whether it be her memories of browsing now-extinct video stores, the tender lessons learned from children's >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9781737277507 US $18.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 110 pgs. Pub Date: 09/01/2021 In stock
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Yeah, No By Jane Gregory. Jane Gregory's mystifying second collection, Yeah No, begins with a “Knock knock,” inviting the reader into a realm where “Everything is a pattern / of yesses and no.” Within these pages we find Gregory constructing >>more The Song Cave ISBN 9780998829029 US $17.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs. Pub Date: 03/01/2018 In stock
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