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Cecco Bonanotte: La Divina Commedia  (The Divine Comedy)
Cecco Bonanotte: La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
Text by Micol Forti, Marzia Faietti.

As Dante endures the tribulations of Purgatory, Cecco Bonanotte (born 1942) illustrates his arduous journey through prints in gray and silver. The gray represents the depths of night and suffering, while the silver hints at >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857251004
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Pub Date: 11/26/2024 Awaiting stock


Cecco Bonanotte: La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
Cecco Bonanotte: La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
Text by Micol Forti, Antonio Paolucci.

For the final part of the Divine Comedy, Cecco Bonanotte (born 1942) shifts his color palette to ivory and gold: the colors of the heavens. Through the use of graphite, the artist explores a sublime >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857251011
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Cold Dogs
Cold Dogs
By Zan de Parry.

The poems in Zan de Parry’s debut collection, Cold Dogs, teeter between deadpan humor and heartbreak, producing a new homegrown surrealism. Coupled with the poet's deceptively simple line drawings, these questioning and conversational poems operate >>more

The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828861
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/22/2024 In stock


From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys
From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys
By Mykki Blanco.

From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys is the first book of poetry by New York–based performance artist and writer Mykki Blanco. Coinciding with the release of Blanco’s two new albums—their first >>more

Mykki Blanco LLC/KMEC
ISBN 9781736840818
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 80 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock


Hereafter
Hereafter
By Alan Felsenthal.

Six years ago, Alan Felsenthal’s Lowly was heralded in the Boston Review for its “dreamlike fables and quasi-parables … [a] striking debut collection [that] bypasses many of contemporary poetry’s usual movements, feints and sources.” Now, >>more

The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828854
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Pub Date: 06/25/2024 In stock


Many Poems
Many Poems
By Roberta Iannamico. Translated by Alexis Almeida.

Acclaimed Argentinian poet Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems animates the particulars of an imaginary world that lives deeply inside our real one, tapping into poetry’s distinctive ability to magically transform daily scenes into purely ecstatic >>more

The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828885
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/12/2024 Awaiting stock


Saturday
Saturday
By Margaret Ross.

Margaret Ross’ highly anticipated second collection of poems, Saturday, chronicles a brute education in love and decorum through ceremony starter kits, basement classrooms and a mission school turned art camp, seeking to “touch the myth >>more

The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828878
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/29/2024 Awaiting stock


The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
Edited by Susan Solt. Foreword by Aram Saroyan.

This volume brings together a half century’s worth of work by the renowned American concrete poet Mary Ellen Solt. One of the few Americans, and rare women, in the concrete poetry movement, Solt edited the >>more

Primary Information
ISBN 9798988573692
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 33 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/10/2024 In stock


The Mundus
The Mundus
By N.H. Pritchard. Afterword by Paul Stephens.

N.H. Pritchard’s magnum opus, The Mundus is a work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. It was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971: a six-year period during which the author >>more

Primary Information
ISBN 9798988573661
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Pub Date: 11/12/2024 Awaiting stock


The Selkie
The Selkie
By Morgan Võ.

Morgan Võ’s fascinating and highly original debut, The Selkie, is organized into three linked sections, animated by jokes, confusion, existential horror and banality. In an outdoor market, we meet an unlikely hero in The Monger, >>more

The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828847
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 104 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/28/2024 In stock


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST

A Better Place Is Hard to Find
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 84 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2020 In stock


A Blow of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance: A Poem
A Blow of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance: A Poem
By Stéphane Mallarmé. Translated by Holly Cundiff.

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
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Slip, pbk, 2 vols, 11 x 15 in. / 64 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/12/2018 In stock


A Book of Glyphs
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
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Pbk, 4 x 6 in. / 168 pgs / 73 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock


A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 232 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/15/2013 Out of stock


A Song of Flowers: Ni Xochitl, Ni Kuikatl
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
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Hbk, 7.5 x 14 in. / 120 pgs / 21 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 In stock


A Very Large Array
A Very Large Array
By Jena Osman.

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
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 416 pgs / 46 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/19/2023 In stock


ABC Moonlight
ABC Moonlight
By Ben Estes.

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
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Pub Date: 02/01/2022 In stock


Afternoon of a Faun / L’après-midi d’un faune
Afternoon of a Faun / L’après-midi d’un faune
By Stéphane Mallarmé. Translation by Holly Cundiff. Illustrations by Édouard Manet.

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
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Pbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 24 pgs / 4 color.
Pub Date: 03/10/2020 Out of stock


America and Other Poems: Selected Poetry by Nobuo Ayukawa
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
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock


Andrei Monastyrski: Elementary Poetry
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
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 360 pgs / 6 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/23/2019 In stock


April
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 90 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/15/2023 Out of stock


Aurelia & Other Writings
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
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock


Bernadette Mayer: Memory
Bernadette Mayer: Memory

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
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Hbk, 10 x 7.25 in. / 332 pgs / 1155 color.
Pub Date: 06/09/2020 In stock


Book of the Other: small in comparison
Book of the Other: small in comparison
By Truong Tran. Foreword by Bhanu Kapil.

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
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 184 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock


Bridgeable Shores
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
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2001 In stock


Concrete Poetry
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
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/03/2022 In stock


Crevasse
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
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Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock


Curl
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
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Dark Green
Dark Green
By Emily Hunt.

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
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Pub Date: 05/01/2015 In stock


Dereliction
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
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Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock


Earth
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 108 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2019 In stock


Eecchhooeess
Eecchhooeess
By N.H. Pritchard.

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
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Clth, 5.5 x 8 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock


Essay Stanzas
Essay Stanzas
By Thomas Meyer.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 140 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2014 In stock


Everything and Other Poems
Everything and Other Poems
By Charles North.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 90 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2020 In stock


Fort Not
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2017 In stock


Goodbye Letter
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
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/29/2020 In stock


Gudrun Scholz: No Fat Poetry
Gudrun Scholz: No Fat Poetry
Text by Gudrun Scholz.

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
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 394 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock


Hairdo
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2017 In stock


Honest James
Honest James
By Christian Schlegel.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2015 In stock


I Even Regret Night
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
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock


I Will Not Go
I Will Not Go
Edited by Rajiv Mohabir.

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
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Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 204 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/08/2024 In stock


I ask about what falls away
I ask about what falls away
By Jason Magabo Perez.

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
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 124 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/12/2024 In stock


I, Immendorff
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 216 pgs / 2 color.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock


Illustrated Games of Patience
Illustrated Games of Patience
By Ben Estes.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 75 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/01/2015 In stock


Inseparable
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
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Paperback, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 212 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 In stock


Is This The Way The Universe Works?
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
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Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 400 pgs / 400 tritone.
Pub Date: 12/05/2023 In stock


Jimmie Durham: Particle/Word Theory
Jimmie Durham: Particle/Word Theory

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
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Flexi, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 104 pgs / 1 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock


Joan Myers & Nathaniel Tarn: The Persephones
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
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Hbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 58 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock


Joe Brainard: I Remember
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
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Paperback, 4.25 x 7 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 In stock


Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
By Tess Taylor.

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
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Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/25/2020 In stock


Last Words
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
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 04/05/2016 In stock


Lunar Solo
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 172 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/01/2023 In stock


M
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/01/2015 In stock


Magnetic Refrain
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 86 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock


Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
By Comte de Lautréamont. Translated with introduction by Alexis Lykiard.

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
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 In stock


Mouth
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
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Paperback, 5.75 x 7.5 in. / 84 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock


Mucus in My Pineal Gland
Mucus in My Pineal Gland
By Juliana Huxtable.

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
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 185 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/01/2019 Out of stock


Muscle Memory
Muscle Memory
By Jenny Liou.

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
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 100 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/25/2022 In stock


My Enemies
My Enemies
By Jane Gregory.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 81 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2013 In stock


Nioque of the Early Spring
Nioque of the Early Spring
By Francis Ponge. Translated by Jonathan Larson.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2018 In stock


Nite Soil
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
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Slipcased, 7 x 5 in. / pgs / 41 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2000 In stock


Ovid: The Metamorphoses
Ovid: The Metamorphoses

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


PPPPPP: Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics
PPPPPP: Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics
By Kurt Schwitters. Edited and translated by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris.

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
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Out of stock


Paper Bells
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 78 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2020 In stock


Permutations
Permutations
By Brion Gysin.

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
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock


Piero Heliczer: Poems & Documents
Piero Heliczer: Poems & Documents
Edited with text by Sophie Vinet, Benjamin Thorel.

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
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 52 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock


Poems by Yvonne Rainer
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
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 71 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Out of stock


Poetries
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 138 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2021 In stock


Punks
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 234 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/01/2021 In stock


Pybrac
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
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock


Riddles, Etc.
Riddles, Etc.
By Geoffrey Hilsabeck.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2017 In stock


Rough Song
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 98 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/15/2020 Out of stock


Rude Woods
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 76 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/15/2013 In stock


Scardanelli
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2018 In stock


Secret Poetics
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
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 11/14/2023 In stock


Seriously Well
Seriously Well
By Helge Torvund.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 82 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/01/2022 In stock


Smudgy and Lossy
Smudgy and Lossy
By John Myers.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2018 In stock


Songs for Schizoid Siblings
Songs for Schizoid Siblings
By Lionel Ziprin. Introduction by Philip Smith.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 335 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2017 Out of stock


Splash State
Splash State
By Todd Colby.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 94 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2014 In stock


Star Lake
Star Lake
By Arda Collins.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 74 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2022 In stock


Stranger
Stranger
By Emily Hunt.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 116 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2024 In stock


Sweethearts
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
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Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 226 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Out of stock


Telling the Truth As It Comes Up
Telling the Truth As It Comes Up
By Alice Notley.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 280 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2023 In stock


The Amme Talks
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


The Archaeology of Eros
The Archaeology of Eros
By Jorge Socarras. Art by Mel Odom.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock


The Book
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
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock


The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
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
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Out of stock


The Central Laboratory
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 360 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/26/2022 In stock


The Desert
The Desert
By Brandon Shimoda.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2018 Out of stock


The Dice Cup
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 264 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/06/2022 In stock


The Hermit
The Hermit
By Lucy Ives.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2016 In stock


The Living Method
The Living Method
By Sara Nicholson.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 92 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2014 In stock


The Massacre of the Innocents
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
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 222 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 Out of stock


The Matrix
The Matrix
By N.H. Pritchard.

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
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 Out of stock


The Maybe-Bird
The Maybe-Bird
By Jennifer Elise Foerster.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 134 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/01/2022 In stock


The Poet Assassinated
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
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock


The Raven / Le Corbeau / The Raven
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


The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader
Edited with introduction by Lucy Ives.

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
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 328 pgs / 184 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock


The Spinster's Poems
The Spinster's Poems
By Bonami. Foreword by Richard Prince.

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
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/28/2023 Out of stock


The Temperature Of This Water
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
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 122 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 In stock


The Unbearable Heart
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
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/02/1996 Out of stock


Tomie's Chair
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
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2002 In stock


Two Murals
Two Murals
By Jesus Castillo.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 100 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2021 In stock


Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses
Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses
By Ronald Johnson. Introduction by Guy Davenport.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/15/2023 In stock


Vanessa Place: Last Words
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
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock


Watchfiends & Rack Screams
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
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 In stock


We Were Promised Flying Cars
We Were Promised Flying Cars
By Kareem Rahma. Edited by Joshua Schneider.

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
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Hbk, 4.75 x 6 in. / 128 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock


What the Lyric Is
What the Lyric Is
By Sara Nicholson.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2016 Out of stock


Wings In Time
Wings In Time
By Callie Garnett.

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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 110 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2021 In stock


Yeah, No
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
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2018 In stock



                               

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

Alma, or The Dead Women
Alma, or The Dead Women
By Alice Notley. Alice Notley's Alma, or The Dead Women is a cross-genre book, poem/novel, poetry/prose, comedy/tragedy, that submits to no discipline but its own and was conceived by the author in a state of personal, national and >>more

Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123723
US $17.95 CAN $20.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 10 in. / 300 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Not available


Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse: Between Page and Screen
Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse: Between Page and Screen
A convergence of old and new technologies, an unlikely marriage of print and digital, Between Page and Screen chronicles a love affair between the characters P and S while taking the reader into a wondrous, >>more

Siglio
ISBN 9780979956287
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 7 in. / 44 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Not available


Coffee Coffee
Coffee Coffee
By Aram Saroyan. Aram Saroyan's “minimal” poems of the 1960s demonstrated a completely unprecedented handling of words—often single words—that combined astounding economy with palpable textural warmth. Untitled poems that read in their entirety “eyeye” and “lobstee” evinced a >>more

Primary Information
ISBN 9780978869755
US $10.00 CAN $12.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available


Debtor's Prison
Debtor's Prison
Text by Lewis Warsh. Images by Julie Harrison. This book is the first collaboration bewteen poet/novelist Lewis Warsh and video/visual artist Julie Harrison, in which skewed and closely-croppped black-and-white video stills from Harrison's primitive-style documentary and performance tapes of the 1970s are paired >>more

Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123587
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Paperback, 7 x 7 in. / 136 pgs / 63 duotone.
Pub Date: 10/02/2001 Not available


Elizabeth Bishop: Objects & Apparitions
Elizabeth Bishop: Objects & Apparitions
Text by Joelle Biele, Dan Chiasson, Lloyd Schwartz. Today established as one of the twentieth century’s most important poets, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was also a gifted artist and collector of art and artifacts, many of which were collected from her years in Brazil. >>more

Tibor de Nagy Gallery
ISBN 9781891123023
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Hbk, 8 x 9.75 in. / 48 pgs / 25 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Not available


First World War Poets
First World War Poets
Text by Alan Judd, David Crane. This collection of short biographies of those remarkable men who sought to record the First World War in poetry draws on letters, memoirs and portraits. Key poems by each of the poets are included, alongside >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144897
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Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Not available


Mark Gonzales: High Tech Poetry
Mark Gonzales: High Tech Poetry
Artwork by Mark Gonzales. Edited by Amanda Ault, Chris Conti. Contributions by Jake Phelps. Mark Gonzales--or “the Gonz,” as he is known to fans--is one of the most famous and respected professional skateboarders in the world, creater of numerous freestyle moves still practiced in competition today. Gonzales is also >>more

Contingency Publishing
ISBN 9781881390312
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Paperback, 5 x 6 in. / 100 pgs / 99 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2002 Not available


Patti Smith & José Antonio Suárez Londoño: Hecatomb
Patti Smith & José Antonio Suárez Londoño: Hecatomb
Hecatomb is a long-awaited collaboration between acclaimed musician and poet Patti Smith (born 1946) and Colombian artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño (born 1955). The book most notably features a poem dedicated by Smith to Chilean >>more

Casas Riegner, Columbia
ISBN 9789589959350
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Pbk, 9 x 12 in. / 45 pgs / 16 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Not available


Poems That Do Not Go Together
Poems That Do Not Go Together
By Jimmie Durham. Edited by Barbara Wien, Wilma Lukatsch. Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is a Cherokee poet, sculptor, essayist and a visual artist who has been making and exhibiting work since 1963. The cultural and political uses of material, objects and space have been >>more

Edition Hansjörg Mayer
ISBN 9783981128888
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 124 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Not available


Poems from the Tibor de Nagy Editions 1952-1966
Poems from the Tibor de Nagy Editions 1952-1966
By Frank O'Hara. Edited by Eric Brown. Foreword by Bill Berkson. In 1952, the New York gallery Tibor de Nagy published A City Winter, Frank O’Hara’s first collection of poems, under the Tibor de Nagy Editions imprint, inaugurating the gallery’s now longstanding association with what has >>more

Tibor de Nagy Gallery
ISBN 9781891123702
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 72 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Not available


Soliloquy
Soliloquy
By Kenneth Goldsmith. Soliloquy is a written record of every word (good, bad and indifferent), spoken by New York artist Kenneth Goldsmith during one week. The work originated as a gallery installation in 1997. As Gordon Tipper wrote >>more

Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123532
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Paperback, 6 x 10 in. / 296 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2001 Not available


Tennyson and His Circle
Tennyson and His Circle
Text by Lynne Truss. Tennyson's ascendency as England's foremost poet coincided with one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century: photography. As Poet Laureate, Tennyson (and those in his circle) was portrayed by such pioneering spirits as >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144903
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Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Not available


The Romantic Poets and Their Circle
The Romantic Poets and Their Circle
Text by Richard Holmes. The ideal of the "inspired artist" owes its origin to the figures of the Romantic period, who revolutionized English art and literature. In this book, Richard Holmes explores the portraits and lives of such key >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144774
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Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 136 pgs / 84 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Not available


The Tango
The Tango
Poetry and photographs by Leslie Scalapino. Painting by Marina Adams. The Tango, a serial poem by Leslie Scalapino, is juxtaposed with her photographs of debating monks at a monastery in Tibet. Steeped in the bright light of the present tense, Scalapino's writing and images are >>more

Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123419
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Paperback, 10 x 13 in. / 24 pgs / 33 color / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2001 Not available


The Truth In Rented Rooms
The Truth In Rented Rooms
By Koon Woon. Typed out in cramped tenements or scrawled on bits of paper, Koon Woon's impulsive startling poetry probes the lonely world of itinerants and the dispossed found in the shadows of immigrant life in the United >>more

Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030252
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Paperback, 5 x 7.5 in. / 120 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/1998 Not available


Two Haloed Mourners
Two Haloed Mourners
Artwork by Bernadette Mayer. As its title suggests, Two Haloed Mourners is a work marked by a sometimes amorphous, sometimes definite sense of spirituality, a spirituality immanent to every stray thought and object. Loss and regret also figure prominently >>more

Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123402
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 42 pgs / 1 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2000 Not available