Poetry. AN INSTANCE is the first in an occasional series from Instance Press collecting new chapbooks from multiple authors in a single volume. AN INSTANCE contains "Hotel Lazuli" by Ange Mlinko, "Which Is Exhibited" by Jesse Seldess, and "St. Ursula's Silence" by Barbara Claire Freeman.

An Instance: Three Chapbooks

Literature & Fiction

Mlinko, Ange

Freeman, Barbara Claire

Seldess, Jesse

Poetry

Instance Press

Poetry. WHO OPENS is Jesse Seldess's first full-length collection. "It is impossible not to read these poems aloud &, sounded, they are magnificent"—Ron Silliman. "With great compassion and precision, this book returns language to the habitat of sound from which poetry has been away far too long"—Kerri Sonnenberg.

Who Opens

Kenning Editions

Poetry. LEFT HAVING is the second full-length collection from poet Jesse Seldess. "One sees lines coming into being going out of existence. Taken that way, the words turning toward lines, seeing them become one another as they differ among themselves and dissipate into words and as spaces, this reader virtually floats and within this active resting state practices an incredible intimacy with the unknown in communication and in sharing an imminent sensate awareness with its language. Jesse Seldess's work performs this book, honoring and taking full advantage of its occasion to replace any knowing with the certainty of a relentlessly generous nature. I will never get to the bottom of it, and this work demonstrates what a pleasure and what an honest reckoning that can be"—Steve Benson.

Left Having

Poetry. Jesse Seldess's third full length collection of poetry, SEVERAL ROTATIONS plots an experience through a constellation of questions: How do we locate and orient ourselves amidst a continuous present of inconspicuously networked devices and "services"? With tracked interests reinforced to impulses through millisecond auctions for ad impressions and "sponsored" content, what are our desires and dreams? With products valued as a function of the strength of the habits they create, where are our values and actions? Written over several years but at the scale of minutes, SEVERAL ROTATIONS is "full of the missing words" for the affects of intersecting and overloading dimensions in a technology-paced, data-saturated context. These poems attempt to slow down, interrupt, reweave, and transform that density into an open and livable "interface." Alli Warren writes: "Jesse Seldess makes beautiful minimalist music of the linguistic atmosphere of contemporary life... where one feels simultaneously disoriented and yet totally grounded. I don't know how he does it. Is this what meditation feels like? It's like watching someone slowly wring a washcloth�this book is that clear, drinkable, life-sustaining water."

Several Rotations

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Computers & Technology

Harrison, Guy

Darnell, Ben

Programming Languages

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