Fiction. "It is curious that a reprint could be heroic. It is more curious that a book this good could go out of print so quickly. And it is most curious that an introduction would even be required for a novel that, if you examine it carefully in the right kind oflight, might actually be seen to be steaming. MOTORMAN is a central work, pulsing with mythology, created by a craftsman of language who was seemingly channeling the history of narrative when he wrote it. It is a book about the future that comes from the past, and we are caught in its amazing middle. To read MOTORMAN now is to encouter proof that a book can be both emotional and eccentric, smeared with humanity and artistically ambitious, messy with grief and dazzling with spectacle"--Ben Marcus, from his introduction.

Motorman

Literature & Fiction

Ohle, David

Contemporary

Calamari Press

Experimental visual poems dealing primarily with sense of place.

Mining in the Black Hills

Derek White

23 Text Tiles

Experimental fiction/writing with embedded graphics. Two literary "stories" printed in different directions, incorporating elements of screenplays and other experimental formats.

Spiritual Turkey Beggar Baste Mechanism/Trapezoidal Juggernaut

Sandy Baldwin & Derek White

Ink drawings by Carlos M. Luis with accompanying prose poems by Derek White.

O, Vozque Pulp

Carlos M. Luis & Derek White

a chapbook of text and image by  Derek White. 44 pages of B&W and some color ink on 28 lb. paper with 110 lb. cover stock, bound with resistors, capacitors and diodes...

Bodh[i] Circu[it]s / Alg[a]e[bra] D[ra[in]

Art, text and post scriptum by Wendy Collin Sorin & Derek White.  An illustrated tale of birds and bees.  28 pages of full color under a black & white cover.

P.S. At Least We Died Trying to Make You in the Backseat of a Taxidermist

Wendy Collin Sorin & Derek White

Fiction. The interwoven tales that make up THE SINGING FISH are not told but rather spun from a primal, almost child-like source of mythic language sublimated from the fundamental building blocks of mud, brother, river, girl, moon, fish and a rusted nail. "Peter Markus' gorgeously spare, riverine fables of brotherly sweetness and violence are hypnotic, haunting, and sublime"--Gary Lutz. "There is an obsessive quality about Peter Markus' writing that I am obsessed with and a musicality that I cannot get out of my head. The fish are singing and Peter Markus is too"--Michael Kimball.

The Singing Fish

Markus, Peter

Poetry. Art. Retrazos is a Spanish term used to describe the stenciled remnants that a seamstress leaves on the floor after making garments. Carlos M. Luis gathered such defiled 'retraces,' along with magazine clippings and other found materials and repurposed them into a series of two dozen or so of the renderings that appear in this chapbook. Inspired by these images and also the Popol Vuh, Derek White weaves together textual fragments into associative personal myths that deal with cornhusks, geometry, puberty, roosters, quantum basketball, court trials, genetics, dirty laundry, brick making, fish and graduating as a foreigner from a polluted lake in Mexico. "ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos calls up the etymological meaning of the word "text," a piece of weaving; not only does the narrative fray and reknit itself, but word and image have equal weight in weaving the text as a whole"--Joyelle McSweeney.

ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos

WHITE, DEREK

Luis, Carlos

Poetry

Fiction. LAND OF THE SNOW MEN is a collection of visionary stories and renderings taken from the journals of the enigmatic George Belden, who claimed to be on the tragic expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott to reach the South Pole in 1910 through 1912. Norman Lock discovered Belden and his remarkable journal by accident. He had been for some years in Africa, writing a novel, A History of the Imagination. The strain of living in a country as alien as Africa, with little money and little hope of finding a publisher, caused him to have a nervous breakdown. A friend in Mombassa contacted his wife, who arranged for his return and commitment to a private sanitarium in Vermont's Green Mountains. During the final weeks of Lock's recuperation, the institution's chief of staff asked if he would sort through boxes of old files in the sanitarium's basement to determine whether or not any should be kept. In one of those boxes, Lock found LAND OF THE SNOW MEN.

Land of the Snow Men

Norman Lock

George Belden

British & Irish

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