Poetry. Art. Exploring the luminous world of both well-known and obscure patron saints, this collaborative volume by artist Nia Michaels and poet Knox Gardner reimagines the iconography of prayer cards common in Catholic tradition. Reverent towards the past but unflinching in the dark recesses of our modernity, TWELVE SAINTS invites meditation on the contradictions of holiness and of singular lives.

Twelve Saints

Gardner, Knox

Arts & Photography

Entre Rios Books

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Music. Ecopoetics. California Interest. Started during the early season fires of 2017 in British Columbia, written that burning year, and finished as the Camp Fire obliterated Paradise, California, the poems and music of WOODLAND blaze with anger. Broken and obsessive, lathing logging terminology and archaisms, the poems ricochet around the new reality of endless fires as the Climate Catastrophe unfolds and "lover &amp; spruce/ rise up the mountain / contorted / for cooling / air-." The book includes a new "score" by keyboardist Aaron Otheim. Burning the 19th-century parlor music of Edward MacDowell's Woodland Sketches, Otheim fractures the recognizable melodies of this arch-romantic work with both studio and post-recording manipulation to create a startling and darkly timbred composition. WOODLAND presents two West Coast artists grappling with their personal complicity, "It's who we are / loose // (?&amp; with matches," and the larger societal structures profiting off the unraveling. It is both an indictment of and testimony to the coming disaster.

Woodland

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Poetry. Hybrid Genre. LGBTQIA Studies. Jewish Studies. "My dog died today." So begins ORANGE, the first book by Seattle poet E. Briskin. With playful digressions into anecdote, the philosophy of consciousness, literature, and animal behavioral science, ORANGE approaches grief at once tangentially and directly. Its narrator--disconnected, mournful, comic, angry, irreverent, overwrought, and seemingly always in a coffee shop--wants to understand the lost dog and to memorialize it, or maybe, in grieving, to regain what is lost. ORANGE is a book that resists genre, gendering, and chronology. Written in a furrowed numbering scheme that can be read vertically or horizontally, its form reflects the way our psyche is fragmented and unified by loss. Like all book from Entre Ríos Books, ORANGE includes a generous selection of easy-to-download audio of the author reading.&nbsp;

Orange

Self-Help

Briskin, E.

Death & Grief

Bilingual edition of post-war Italian writer Amelia Rosselli La Libellula (The Dragonfly) is Amelia Rosselli's acknowledged first major work and contains all the elements of her mature vision: trilingual wordplay, musicality, and political engagement. With its vertiginous propulsion and rotational structure, this single-long poem, a canto, hovers on the edge of the surreal, where meaning continually multiplies and then negates. The reader must engage her work as she instructs -- intuitively. Her inventive refraction of Italian literary tradition sought a more authentic liberation, "in all the nation's life, in all the dismal / boroughs, in all the putridous world, exists / just one me, exists just one you, -- exists charity." Now recognized as one of the most significant voices of post war Europe, her visceral writing challenges the constriction of language as not only a fascist legacy but also as a critique of the banality and materialism of reconstruction. Our bilingual edition includes an audio download of selections read in Italian and English by translator Deborah Woodard and actor Riccardo Pieri. Poetry.

The Dragonfly

Rosselli, Amelia

The Unquiet Country

Patrick Milian

Winter Season

Esses, Carolina

Poetry. Women's Studies. Ecopoetics. ALCHEMY FOR CELLS &amp; OTHER BEASTS charts a course into magical waters, anchoring itself in the frightening politicization of a woman's body. The chemistry of this conversation between Spokane Poet, Maya Jewell Zeller, and Seattle artist, Carrie DeBacker, includes pomegranates for human heads, bones that can walk, and a ship sprung from a person's back, "floating farther from shore." The speaker in these incantations, behind these urgent watercolors, muses on the philosophies of geologic time, climate change, human genomes, and existential destruction. This book sets out to discover meaning in this terrible, beautiful time—and suggests wonder is where we'll find it: "the diagnosis is strong / for the wild &amp; wind mills." We are proud to bring out this troubling work of eco-feminism in gorgeous full color. It may well be the most colorful poetry book you buy all year, but don't be fooled, it's an intense work of anxiety in an age of political and environmental upheaval. As per all of our books, it comes with an audio download of the poet reading many of the poems. This book is also the focus of Entre Ríos Books' first ERB Emerging Visions Filmmaker Award, which provides a stipend to a woman filmmaker in a Washington State High School or College program to work with our collaborators on the creation of a short film inspired by their work. The publisher's first award recipient is Rebecca Starkey of Central Washington University; her film will be posted on September 16, 2017. "In ALCHEMY FOR CELLS &amp; OTHER BEASTS, the world is turned inside out, its intricacies examined, like barnacles on a sea shell, in these fantastical, terrifying dealings with feminist anxieties. These surreal poems and artwork depict women under siege, under water, interpreting the myriad evolutions of mind and body...These poems are science and fairytale. They are heart flowers and 'heart poisons.'"—Jennifer Givhan

Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts

Zeller, Maya Jewell

Painting

Poetry. Music. Women's Studies. Music by Lori Goldston. Unsettling the stories of thirty-two historic Marys, the poems in MARY'S DUST startlingly reconfigure what we thought we knew about confinement and loss, liberation and love. With their variety of inventive and traditional forms, these poems offer testament to the strength of women creating their own narratives. This book includes a digital download of a new work by cellist Lori Goldston and over thirty minutes of Melinda Mueller reading selections from MARY'S DUST. Classically trained and rigorously de- trained, possessor of a restless, semi- feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer, and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed, and original. Best known for her work with Nirvana, Earth, and the Black Cat Orchestra, she is a relentless inquirer and wanders recklessly across borders that separate genre, discipline, time, and geography, performing in clubs, cafés, galleries, arenas, concert halls, sheds, ceremonies, barbecues, and stadiums. You can listen to and learn more about Lori's work at her site, www.lorigoldston.com. "Melinda Mueller's great gift is translating historical detail and scientific fact into profound human experience. Long-awaited, MARY'S DUST is a tour de force, a klatch of history's Marys speaking through a stunning array of formal constraints—much as they did in life. Each Mary emerges from Mueller's precise and brilliant word choice and imagery to linger "with a faint ringing." Mary's Dust is an ambitious, awe-inspiring, marvelous collection." — Kathleen Flenniken

Mary's Dust

Mueller, Melinda

Poetry. Women's Studies. "To be clear, a gay-owned press that doesn't rabble rouse a bit is no friend of mine, and oh, these poems! From the moment we saw Kate Lebo's prayers, we were smitten and so it is a great honor and privilege to collect them into one reasonably priced, ready to give to the people--'may they find their freedom from Cathy McMorris Rodgers' package--and to get them out into the world! Kate Lebo writes openly and honestly. She sings the songs of liberation! She is the hammer of freedom! She bakes pie like a boss and drinks a bit of whiskey. 'I used myself roughly and I / enjoyed it, // drank milk and whiskey / and assumed these pleasures were normal.' Whether it is health care, marriage, the role of women in politics or society, she reminds us and her representative that decisions in the other Washington have real impact here in our own state, no matter the posturing for power and riches Congresswoman Rodgers seeks on the backs of the hard-working women (and men) of her district. We want you to copy these. We want you to pass them around. We want you to sing them to your neighbors. We want you to VOTE."--Knox Gardner, Publisher of Entre Ríos Books

Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Lebo, Kate

Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. Performance Studies. Music. Women's Studies. It is fitting that we'd present a hybrid book and digital experience for Shin Yu Pai, a poet known for her wide-ranging collaborations and creative practice engaged as much in physical space as a moment on the page. With its blend of personal essays reflecting on the development of her poetics, ENS? places new work next to old, to create not only a mid-career retrospective, but a guidebook for poets interested in moving their practice off the page and into the community. From her early work in place-based and ekphrastic poetry and her explorations of bookmaking, to her current experimentation with installation and projection, this book highlights the creative process to her poetry. The reader learns more about Ms. Pai's influences--the identities that resonate for her--and her thoughts on cultural hybridity, exchange and appropriation. She speaks deeply of how motherhood transformed her views of what is possible in poetry, reconnecting to her immigrant mother's creative legacy, and how that pushed her ideas to better inhabit the world around us. She gives moving examples of how personal and systematic racism and misogyny have shaped her practice, while inviting the reader into a deeper conversation about how a poet writes with and about their community. As a book interested in process, we have included within ENS? a second book of Ms. Pai's haiku in her discussion of haiku practice. As with all of our books, we include a wide range of audio projects and readings related to the book. We also include two video animations discussed in the book, "Heyday" and "Puget Sound Driftwood Circle."

Ensō

Pai, Shin Yu

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