Poetry. Includes black and white photographs. "In STRANGE CURRENCIES, Daniel Sendecki travels through a Far East of haunting contrasts, where 'Roadside children collect lotus flowers to weave into bracelets' while feet away are landmines 'like knives asleep in kitchen drawers imagining meat.' Startling perceptions of past and present, teeming streets and loneliness, killing fields and open sky are juxtaposed in finely textured images, drawing us to touch the mystery hidden between 'the agony and beauty.' How refreshing to read poems that 'Make myself as small as possible' and reach outward, not only to look closely at a far corner of the world, but through it, for glimpses of enduring value--'to see a little light.'"--Susan Ioannou.

Strange Currencies

Literature & Fiction

Sendecki, Daniel

Poetry

Ahadada Books

Poetry. Marton Koppany is a poet, translator, and editor living in Budapest, Hungary. During the last few years he has been working on different collections of "experimental" poetry. The pieces contained herein were written and published in the eighties and nineties, and exhibited/performed at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee. "Koppany's acute sense of the problems of language has moved him to try to get as close to the patterns of thought and perception as possible, and to create work that can be read by people who don't speak the language in which he writes, be it Hungarian or English" --Karl Young.

Investigations & Other Sequences

Koppany, Marton

Poetry. Asian American Studies. In his first poetry collection, Paolo Javier overlaps life in New York with his childhood spent in Manila and Cairo and imagined senior years referred to as "The Lid To The Great Jar." Javier's poems sail over the handlebars of a Huffy bicycle; saunter through the city onto balconies with lovers; respond to the visual art of Manuel Ocampo; and curse a botched reading of Tagalog. Of this book, Anselm Berrigan says, "Perceptive poems; that there is pleasure despite it all in never knowing what might happen next is no small part of what they know."

The Time at the End of This Writing

Javier, Paolo

Poetry. The AHADADA READER I combines the lively, challenging work of three experimental poets, Alan Halsey, John Byrum, and Geraldine Monk. Halsey's group of poems resurrects past versions of English, turning with peculiar spellings and striking frictions of their grammar. Byrum's work, entitled "Approximations," is a shifting visual text work mainly utilizing the text block, pointing to the form of a word as art itself. The final selection of Monk's work rounds out the book with her varying forms and sharply constructed lines.

Ahadada Reader 1

Poetry. Skip Fox, with the concern of an entomologist, presents passages sprawling and pinned in a shadow box of observations and odd lots. Framed under double glass, the mounting board of AT THAT writhes with a cast of freaks: Ezekiel in the streets, a kitty bomb squad, sadists on steroids, the shadow of Cadmus, kingfishers, omen clad apertures of evening with cicada wings, heart attacks of clouds rolling in off the Gulf, a city mouse, spastic proctologists, and so forth, all projecting their "goods" in spate: smatterings, obsolete creeds, mordacious stumps, "furious opinions, exaggerations, fabrications," neo-prophetic stylings, verbal molestations, elegiac mumblings, the silence above a shallow grave, etc. Currently serving what appears to be a life sentence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Skip Fox has worked in woods, warehouses, shake and shingle mills, lumber yards, ketchup & catfood factories, mental hospitals, and so on.

At That

Fox, Skip

Poetry. SECRET, BUT KEPT IT ROOM explores the development and stasis over time of self as image--at once real and artificial, subjective and perspectival, engaged in the physical world and torn from it, a self often disappearing into non-self. Mike Gubser treats the art of poetry as, in some sense, the art of experiment and problem-solving by placing the notion of self in various contexts--romance, depression, friendship, travel, memory, isolation--and poetic forms--visual, musical, lyrical modernist, numeric--to see how it reacts. Mike Gubser has published various chapbooks and a book on turn-of-the-century Austria entitled Time's Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in fin-de-siecle Austria. Presently, he is a history professor at James Madison University in Virginia. Before then, he worked as a high school teacher, a writer for an international development organization, an instructor at San Quentin Penitentiary and an English teacher in Czechoslovakia

Secret, but Kept It Room

Gubser, Mike

Poetry. THE PASSION OF PHINEAS GAGE & SELECTED POEMS presents the best of Glass' experimental writing in a single volume. Glass' ground-breaking work has been hailed by poets as diverse as Jerome Rothenberg, William Bronk and Jim Daniels for its insight into human nature and its exploration of forms. Glass uses the tools of post-modernism: collaging, fragmentation, and Oulipo-like processes along with a keen understanding of poetic forms and traditions that stretches back to Beowulf and beyond. Moreover, Glass finds his subject matter in larger than life figures like Phineas Gage-the man whose life was changed in an instant when an iron bar was sent rocketing through his brain in a freak accident. The product of over 30 years of engagement with the avant-garde, THE PASSION OF PHINEAS GAGE & SELECTED POEMS is the work of a mature poet who continues to reinvent himself with every text he produces. Published by Ahadada Books/West House Books.

The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems

Glass, Jesse

Poetry. "The China Notes come from a trip in 2002 that brought us out as far as the Gobi Desert & allowed me to see some of the changes & continuities throughout the country. I was traveling with poet & scholar Wai-lim Yip & had a chance to read poetry in five or six cities & to observe things as part of an ongoing discourse with Wai-lim & others. The ancient beauty of some of what we saw played out against the theme park quality of other simulacra of the past....A sense of beckoning wilderness/wildness in a landscape already cut into to serve the human need for power & control." So Jerome Rothenberg describes the events behind the poems in this small volume--a continuation of his lifelong exploration of poetry and the search for a language to invoke the newness and strangeness both of what we observe and what we can imagine.

China Notes & The Treasures of Dunhuang

ROTHENBERG, Jerome

Poetry. Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962 and has been working with Oulipian and related writing practices for over twenty years. His lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors (1999), was highly praised by the Oulipo: "Enormous rigour, great virtuosity--but that's the least of it." Currently he is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex, where he teaches a graduate course on the poetics of constraint. His work has been published in Panurge, PN Review, Oasis, North American Review, and Onedit, and his books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000)and Fables of Aesop (2006). His translation of Raymond Queneau's last book of poems, Elementary Morality, is forthcoming from Carcanet. OULIPOEMS is his first book of poetry. "The title of Philip Terry's brilliant book pays explicit homage to theOulipo; but while he uses many of the group's methods, he invariably goes his own way with them, making poems that are full of an original sense of wit and wonder. He has taken the notion that poetry can emerge from arbitrary procedures and transformed it into a sumptuous variety of explosively novel delights"--Harry Mathews.

Oulipoems

Terry, Philip

Fiction. Rochelle Owens hails the stories in SWEET POTATOES as "brilliantly rendered, with resonances of Rabelais, Voltaire, and Mickey Spillane." Harry Mathews calls them "exuberant and richly varied." In each story, an unnamed narrator tells extraordinary tales about parents, lovers, wives good and bad, businessproblems and other afflictions that consume our days. In what he calls the Alphabet stories, Rowan plays with autobiography but, as he notes, "the game is a form, not a congeries of facts." Lou Rowan's stories and essays have appeared regularly in publications devoted to the avant-garde. He is also the editor of the literary magazine, Golden Handcuffs Review, which publishes the innovative work of global authors, along with new discoveries.

Sweet Potatoes

Rowan, Lou

Contemporary

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