ETRUSCAN READER VIII features work by three poets: Tina Darragh, Douglas Oliver,and Randolph Healy. Washington DC poet Tina Darragh's fast, witty lines are interspersed with the collage FAST, FAST in syntax both verbal and visual. Douglas Oliver's THE ARRONDISSEMENTS traces geographical and social textures across the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Paris; his SELECTED POEMS (Talisman) are available from SPD. This volume also includes Irish poet Randolph Healy's most extensive gathering of work to date, featuring the long poem Arbor Vitae, an epic of science and myth in the tradition of BRIGGFLATTS: But there were some good ideas knocking around,/ then, before the first word was spoken./ History.

Etruscan Reader Viii: Tina Darragh/ Douglas Oliver/ Randolph Healy

Literature & Fiction

Darragh, Tina

Oliver, Douglas

Healy Randolph

Darragh, Tina/ Oliver, Douglas/ Healy, Randolph

Poetry

Etruscan Books

Poetry. Carl Rakosi remains a key figure in the group of poets formerly known as the Objectivists, that began to publish in the early 1930's. Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, and George Oppen have been associated with the group. Today Carl Rakosi continues to write poetry and essays and to give public readings. THE OLD POET'S TALE includes 56 previously uncollected poems, and a new essay, Reflections on my Medium. With the publication of THE EARTH SUITE in 1997 Etruscan Books began to publish Rakosi's COLLECTED WORKS, continued in THE OLD POET'S TALE and two forthcoming volumes.

The Old Poet'S Tale: Collected Works Of Carl Rakosi, Vol. 1

Rakosi, Carl

Poetry. I want to be swept in fuck/ wrapped in fuck/ swallowed in fuck/ free in fuck/ fast in fuck/ fixed in fuck/ loved in fuck (hidden agenda). This collection of poems and songs soars over the fells, screeching truth, sex, humour, anger and love. With sharp vision Tom dissects his gut reaction and reminds us to appreciate the cool clear beauty of our situation - Paul McCartney.

Fuckwind

Pickard, Tom

Poetry. The works of Bob Cobbing invite participation. His work: the visual, the written, the performed, -solo, duo, quartet; his voice, flexitone, bird whistle or drum accompanied, the physicality of Cobbing in performance, his expression, his mouth, his apparel are a collaboration, his perceived antennae, those who pick up his page, walk into his performance. His works invite participation of the retina, the ear canal, the lungs, the feet: anything percussive. Cobbing's concrete works undermine the meaning of meaning, bringing ever closer the day dubbed by W.S. Burroughs as "the breakthrough in the grey room."

Shrieks & Hisses: Collected Poems, Volume Sixteen

Cobbing, Bob

Arts & Photography

Poetry. Edited by Nicholas Johnson. This extensive anthology gathers 33 poets and prose artists whose work defines contemporary attitudes to poetics. Large, generous selections of published, scarce and new writing by a cross-cultural ray of poets...Performance art, visual writing and photo-text; lyric/ experimental poetry; poetry in Gaelic, Scots and regional idioms, clash together in this controversial, and contentious anthology. FOIL includes statements by the poets, and comprehensive bio-data. This writing, which emerged between 1985-2000, has never been gathered into an anthology before. FOIL represents a long overdue survey of a submerged high risk culture. Contributors include: Nicholas Johnson, Caroline Bergvall, Drew Milne, Ira Lightman, David Rees, Kevin Nolan, Karlien van den Beukal, and Tertia Longmire.

Foil

Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her "beautiful and nearly feral" (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrote a collection of poetry, Shaler's Fish.In robust, lyrical verse, Shaler's Fish roams both the outer and inner landscapes of the poet's universe, seamlessly fusing reflections on language, science, and literature, with the loamy environments of the natural worlds around her. Moving between the epic—war, history, art, myth, philosophy—and the specific—CNN, Ancient Rome, Auden, Merleau-Ponty—Macdonald examines with humor and intellect what it means to be awake and watchful in the world. These are poems that probe and question, within whose nimble ecosystems we are as likely to encounter Schubert as we are "a hand of violets," Isaac Newton as a "winged quail on turf." Nothing escapes Macdonald's eye and every creature herein—from the smallest bird to the loftiest thinker—holds a significant place in her poems.This is an unparalleled collection from one of greatest nature writers, and a poet of dazzling music and vision.

Shaler's Fish

MacDonald, Helen

Poetry. OUTSIDE THE NARRATIVE contains what Tom Leonard wishes to retain in print of the poetry in his two main collections Intimate Voices (Poetry 1965-83) and access to the silence (Poems 1984-2004); also poems from Being a Human Being (2006) and new and unpublished work including an elegaic sequence for his mother, a prose memoir of his father, a poem-suite "on the page" and a tri-part envoi to the collection.

Outside the Narrative

Leonard, Tom

Fiction. London is a city of ruins and rubble: in fighting against a police state Britain has become almost a police state itself. Rationing is still in place, the black market is thriving, medical shortages have resulted in antibiotics being watered down. Though Britain was possessed of great decency there was a limit to what it might be expected to bear after suffering six years of war. The barbarities of war had changed peoples' attitudes; nobody thought of foreigners in terms of human beings. The Salvation Army were singing of salvation while the kids on the street were singing saucy songs about inn keepers' daughters and German officers that had crossed the line. New arrival seventeen-year old Bridget Kelly dreams of a world where everyone is equal. "There is no cause more dangerous" warns one council official as she sets about the task of trying to make her dream come true. She is courageous and determined and in terrible danger. Her young nephew Michael schemes and plots to win the metal mountain, a gothic edifice, a treacherous Hades, a fabulous kingdom of iron. Meanwhile, his young aunt has come under the scrutiny of the British secret police. Blackmail, betrayal and murder follow. A perverse grand tragedy with an edge of iron. "The skies darken. An urgent, brutal and ultimately tragic resolution is waiting in the railside scrapyard of THE METAL MOUNTAIN.This glittering alp of damage, an unsorted mound heaped from the discarded toys of capitalism, is as potent a symbol for our contemporary confusions as the dust heaps of Dickens. Nature is avenged and Healy has given us a brave sequel, as genuine fiction now, to The Grass Arena."--Iain Sinclair

The Metal Mountain

Healy, John

British & Irish

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