Poetry. Question: When is a poet's first book a reader? Answer: When you're Garrett Caples, whose poetic persona is often-perverse, decidedly-decisive, randomly-rule-breaking and impoetically-casual. Yet, through it all, the reader experiences the pleasures and charms of reading a forbidden journal, written by a smart young writer. "Caples is part of a younger generation of writers reinvigorating contemporary poetry by combining modernist and Language-poetic verbal angularity with the sheer enthusiasm and lustiness of adolescence"—Publishers Weekly.

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Cultural Writing. Poetry. Jean Fremon was born in Asnieres, outside Paris, in 1946. Poet, novelist, art critic, he has published numerous books in France and has been translated into English by Lydia Davis, Stacy Doris, Tom Mandel, and Norma Cole. PAINTING, translated by fiction writer Brian Evenson, is his first single-author volume to appear in English. Composed of three lyrical essays, Eclipse, Painting, and Summer (Been), PAINTING explores the divide between experience and representation, event and narrative. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Painting

Frémon, Jean

Poetry. Richard Anders is one of the few postwar German poets to identify his work with surrealism. This collection of dark aphorisms is his first full-length appearance in English. Anders, who lives in Berlin, is the author of several books of surrealist poetry, two collections of short fiction in the style of Borges and Calvino, and an autobiographical novel. His poems have been previously translated by Michael Hamburger, Robert Creeley, and Rosmarie Waldrop. Saddlestapled chapbook.

The Footprints of One Who Has Not Stepped Forth

Anders, Richard

Poetry. ECHO REGIME is the fourth book by Black Square Editons, edited by John Yau. John Olson's book of forty-one poems is embellished by rich word choices and an array of peculiar subject matters, ranging from musical instruments to interpersonal relationships. I think truth is an arch/ resting solidly on a column/ of experience. And then I think/ that truth is the sadness of predication/ And then I think/ women like men with money/ to emit light from their abdomen. (Ginger Ale)

Echo Regime

Olson, John.

Poetry. Translated from the French by Michael Tweed. He also said: 'There are still strangers within you. They have had more than enough time to visit the house. Some even grabbed a room there, on the sly. But now they simply must go.' Franck Andre Jamme has published nine volumes of poetry and fragments since 1981. EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF A BEETLE is a bright yellow chapbook from Black Square Editions.

Extracts from the Life of a Beetle

Jamme, Franck Andre

Poetry. The poetry of Christopher Nealon is both sensual and intellectual. As Thom Gunn writes in his preface, "Strange appeals are made with strange motivations, by moonlight as it were, but are couched in oddly reasonable terms." The poems of Ecstasy Shield reveal an openly queer sensibility infused with camp and irony, yet capable of disarming seriousness in the face of a culture against desire. An associate professor at UC Berkeley, Nealon lives in San Francisco.

Ecstasy Shield

Nealon, Christopher

Poetry/ "Pascal Monnier's epic poem BAYART is a meditation on the historical Bayard, the renowned chevalier sans peur et sans repoche. But it is many other things as well: recollections of childhood, erotic reverie, a treatise on color and on the art of depiction, and a disquisition on the senses and the objects that attract them.Ravishing to the eye and ear, deeply unsettling yet offering consolations of its own, BAYART marks a step forward in late twentieth-century poetry. Cole Swensen's translation is simply amazing"-John Ashbery

Bayart

Monnier, Pascalle

Poetry. Translation. French author Franck Andre Jamme is the author of ten volumes of poetry.THE RECITATION OF FORGETTING , translated by John Ashbery, is his first book-length appearance in English. "The semitones have deserted us, that were near. Each color has made itself strong, twice pure, as though born of itself. She said, 'Look, blood is flowing, you dip your finger in it, you sense the syllables as they pass, skull then arm then finally hand, listen: yes, the eye sees, but most of all it illuminates, it is light as much as daylight is.' The world, unforgivable." Jamme is also the editor of Rene Char's complete works and an independent art curator. A chapbook of his work, EXTRACT FROM THE LIFE OF A BEETLE, previously published by Black Square Editions, is also available from SPD.

The Recitation of Forgetting

Fiction. Poetry. Translation. An important French poet and art critic born in 1939, Fauchereau has been Professor of American literature at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY). A prolific author, Fauchereau has written numerous monographs on 20th-century art and artists, studying artists such as Fernand Leger and Georges Braque. COMPLETE FICTION is composed of a series of often-elegant vignettes and reminiscences, fractured with great care and subtlety, all ably translated from the French by Ron Padgett and John Ashbery.

Complete Fiction

FAUCHEREAU, Serge

Poetry. "John Olson is writing the most outlandish, strange, and inventive prose poetry ever in the history of the prose poem. Olson's writing is so agitated with transformation that it can barely contain the skin of its own given language. It is a volcanic, fresh, and scalding rush"--Clayton Eshleman. "A CHIN FULL of seeds and a prelude full of humidity, Huey Woolbright dove into an aberration of narrative fabric and swam to the bottom of a lake looking for yesterday's wrench"--from Immigrant Immersion. John Olson is also the author of ECHO REGIME, which is available from SPD.

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