Corporate Power and American Dream

Unknown, Author

Bootstrap Press

Stoneware Glazes : A Systematic Approach

Currie, Ian

Revealing Glazes. Using the Grid Method.

Revealing Glazes: Using the Grid Method

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Poetry. Michael Carr is the editor of A BOOK OF PROPHESIES, a notebook by John Wieners written in 1971, and found in a collection at Kent State University. Assisted by an advisory group made up of Jim Dunn, Raymond Foye, and Charlie Shively, Bootstrap has made arrangements to publish this gem of history which opens with a piece titled '2007' that foreshadows the surreal and prophetic landscape in which we live--one that is positively past post-modern and pop culture.

A Book of Prophecies

Literature & Fiction

John Wieners

Poetry

Poetry. In PALM TO PINE, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux taps community as its source: the community of things present, of light and sound, of memory and imagination. These poems explore the collected senses of the day-to-day while telling the tale of another place, as if in time travel, inviting the reader to come and go with and partake in the toast. "Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is a stubborn, resilient poet who has brilliantly turned these qualities on their heads in a quicksilver serenade of the day (cold wine and treasure hunts) and its discontents (poisonous elephant ears). She seems to have made a handshake deal with things as she sees them: You be yourself and I won't pretend you're otherwise. And so she is herself in the eyes of the book in your hands. Rare that a poet is so always herself, to the point that we could (almost) take her place, certainly her side, as she vanishes into her lines"—Julien Poirier.

Palm to Pine

Thibodeaux, Sunnylyn

Poetry. "In these seeming stage directions for the 'play of the moment' the characters face each other in multiple scenes of house, water, land and weather. The whole story rumbles through like a relentless flow of time out of time. If the story tells you it happened, it happened. It won't let you down, you can rely on that"—Joanne Kyger.

Conversation

Ratcliffe, Stephen

In the early 1980's Lowell Massachusetts was yet another forgotten mill town, struggling to re-invent itself after the exodus of manufacturing from New England. Searching to re-build in a way that honored the city s history, community leaders decided that they would place historic renovation and the arts at the heart of their urban re-development plan. Soon they were engaging internationally known artists like David Ireland for urban art projects, and actively courting younger artists throughout the region, asking them to move and make art in the challenged city. Lowell eventually became one of the epicenters for artistic development in Massachusetts, offering support and structure for the creative community, and building city level positions in the arts into the City s infrastructure. Young Angel Midnight was created to honor Lowell's gifted generation of emerging artists. This 200-page book features full-color reproductions of their work, as well as a previously unpublished poem by Lowell native, Jack Kerouac; the iconic denizen of the city s original art scene. Funded and supported by the Cultural Organization of Lowell, the anthology is a diverse and vibrant compilation that reflects the grass-roots nature of Lowell s art scene today. It offers a stunning collection from visual artists, performance artists, writers, and musicians as well as profiles of several collectives, groups, spaces, and organizations that contribute to the now vibrant art scene. Unique in its homage to young community artists, many of whom have yet to make a name for themselves, the book serves as written record of how far this city has come, and how actively it continues to support those who have contributed so much to its rebirth.

Young Angel Midnight

Ryan Gallager & Derek Fenner

Arts & Photography

Poetry. "Sunnylyn Thibodeaux's poems conjure up the wonder of dreams, drifting, spontaneous, obeying their own logic. There is no distinction between thought and feeling, what is seen or not seen, heard or not heard, experienced or imagined. A heightened awareness and responsiveness towards the world, triumph. The unexpected shifts and turns are seamless, and essential. Hers is a musician's ear and she works her vowels and consonants for all they are worth. Read these poems backwards and they're just as good."—Joseph Torra "In this world of missed signals, disruptive lost daydreams, and potentially failing hellos, poetry is the thing that allows us to keep going by "stitching the notes" of sound and time together. I love the idea that we are, at our best, "salvaged," and these innovatively lyrical poems for way they give music the upper hand. AS WATER SOUNDS is a gorgeous book that charts the vulnerability of the senses and the courage of relation in a poetry that meditates while it raises the dead."—Karen Weiser

As Water Sounds

Poetry. RED BOOK OF BLUES breaks up into five unique sections of poems: Yellow Exedras with Images of the Madonna, Mixed Bag, Pop Sonnets and Slick Poems, Lowell Blues, and And the Gods Make Love.

Red Book of Blues

Gallagher, Ryan

Poetry. African American Studies. "Eisen-Martin's syntax lands somewhere between Sphinx and Thelonious…through poem he makes spare, efficient, wild-eyed jazz…rubs mud and accountability into the pores of the zeros and ones in the glass and steel city. Throughout SOMEONE'S DEAD ALREADY, I return to the wonder of the writer's economy of language, how deftly the words infuse their amulet casings with blood temperature at the edge of boiling. This work is as hungry as revolution, a necessary, deadly still in these shifting times…"—Marc Bamuthi Joseph

someone's dead already

Eisen-Martin, Tongo

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