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Poetry. Drama. Illustrated by Juliane Pieper. "With equally wonderful, vivid and fanciful illustrations by Juliane Pieper to match his wildly mythical texts, much in the vein of the Brothers Grimm, Maurice Sendak and Dr. Seuss, though a bit scarier and meant more for 'grownups,' Howard Pflanzer's new collection of poems and plays has created a world which to some may seem simple on the surface but which actually takes us through the souls of man and beast alike. The short interlocking plays of the book's first ½, using birds and beasts as metaphors, are surreal realities about survival, co-existence and in many cases inevitable collision and collapse. They, like the poems that follow, deal as equally with ecology as they do with the interdependence of species, are here examined through love and appetite, each play a little rhyming fable. The poems, divided into 2 sections, further examine Pflanzer's fascination with birds and suddenly become the equivalence of digital photos (snapshots) displaying up to the moment descriptions of what is happening NOW in places as far-reaching as Tompkins Square Park, Bourbon Street and Baghdad. Pflanzer's is a journey that will keep you riveted, always stirring up your cravings for more"—Steve Dalachinsky.

DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES

Literature & Fiction

Pflanzer, Howard

Poetry

This is the catalog for Exquisite Poop: Blind Reproduction, a project and exhibition shown at A Gathering of the Tribes in March 2012.  Exquisite Poop combines the names for two communication games, Exquisite Corpse and Ipupyukat (Eat Poop You Cat). Inspired by the different descriptions Steve Cannon s visitors would give of the art on the walls, and by taking the blind professor to art openings, the curator organized an elaborate art and writing project in blind reproduction between over two dozen artists and writers.  The artists were invited to contribute a small two-dimensional work, and commit to another. Images, titles, size and media information were then assigned to the writers, who were charged with describing the art as thoroughly and sincerely as possible. These descriptions were nearly randomly assigned to the contributing artists, who were tasked with recreating the artwork they thought the writer had described, without knowing the artist or seeing the original image. The first stage of translation from visual to verbal varies hugely in style and focus, even given stylistic restrictions. The artist s job is even harder and even more subject to the variations of personality and style. The difficulty of supposed representation opens a dialogue on visual literacy. The resulting illustration of mis/communication varies from wondrous to farcical and demonstrates the impossibility of conversion.

Exquisite Poop: Blind Reproduction

Janet Bruesselbach

Allison Moore

Chris Heffernan

Adam Kavulic

Casey Plett

Jon Boulier

Jenny Bhatt

Ammon Ford

Matthew Keeley

Jamie T. Clark

Zane Hart

Joshua Crowley

Arts & Photography

Ron Kolm s title for his stellar book of poems, Divine Comedy, echoes Dante. But Dante had an older poet, Vergil, to guide him through the levels of Hell. And even though Kolm descends into Hell as deeply, he has no one to guide him out. More Stones than Beatles, more Joyce than Steinbeck, Kolm uses words like bullets, images as bombs. But this is not a book of despair; it s a fervent belief that you can write yourself out of a nightmare.-- Hal Sirowitz, author of Mother Said: Poems, Stray Cat Blues and former Poet Laureate of Queens, NY.Ron Kolm lines up his sites and lets his poems fall right on target. Part pastiche, part cri de coeur, he has successfully limned the archetype of a normal guy, refining this vision throughout his career. Foibles and fantasies are rendered into deftly sculpted verses, demonstrating a sharp eye for detail and near perfect cadence. By turns poignant, droll, wry and randy, Kolm is a clear master of the overblown understatement. His unique style of deadpan, noir romanticism is sublime. -- Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, author of Triple Crown: Three Crowns of Sonnets, Employment of the Apes and editor/publisher of Live Mag!This is life written precisely, exactly as it happened and broken into intuitively rhythmic stanzas, which makes it all seem like a hard joke you want to keep repeating.--  Chavisa Woods, author of The Albino Album and Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind.Ron Kolm is a legendary downtown writer, and his sparse lyrics speed through the perpetual present of a large city. Shadowed by enigmatic guilt, these poems are tense encounters, haunted by a lover s hostility, real or perceived. Every emotion is double-edged, every glance torn between Eros and the abyss. The tone walks the edge between playful and desperate. Divine Comedy is a powerful experiment in immediacy; unnerving and visionary.--  D. Nurkse, author of A Night in Brooklyn: Poems, Burnt Island and The Border Kingdom.Ron Kolm writes poems so unassuming, so self-effacing, they re puddles of reality oiling a poetry skin. But that s ok, because the dirt can t cover itself, the heart is a sinker, and the only way off the island is to walk through the mental institution. You intuitively know the mental institution is actually the world, but Ron would never tell you that. He just lives em. Lives where guns are forever cocked and the gloves all have holes. Those are the times I reach for Ron's poems. They make sense, when nothing else does. Bob Holman, author of Picasso in Barcelona, Aloud: Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Café and Director of the Bowery Poetry Club.

Divine Comedy

Ron Kolm

A collection of short fiction dealing with subjects from jobs (held and hated as well as sought and fantasized about) to the varieties of affection, figuring among them the complexities of the family and those of relationships with men. Rapaport writes about dwelling places-apartments, buildings, and landlords-and about cities and the artifacts of upbringing. The strangeness of living in a disappearing place and time is among Rapaport's preferred themes. Praise for Duchamp et Moi and Other Stories "Jill Rapaport's Duchamp et Moi and Other Stories is simply the finest and most original collection I have read in years. Surreal, suave, and refined, they intersect the urbane calm of Barthelme with the frantic wit of Aimee Bender. So tightly coiled and insightful, these stories are like exotic little sea creatures that swallow their own tails. They seem to simply read themselves. You'll wish they were much, much longer." - Arthur Nersesian, author of The Fuck-Up (Akashic Books, 1997) "Rapaport's stories purport to be coming from her 'pathologically disconnected interior self . . . the frenzied mess that characterizes her vision.' But for those of us who pay attention and identify with cultural orphans, she has the x-ray glare that transforms the alienated streets and strange artifacts of this dehumanized, uncivilized historical epoch into a brilliant and savory read. Her minute descriptions of New York exteriors and interiors are wonderful, as are her insights into her own and other people's characters. Her first book is a searingly honest navigation through the tainted nooks and characters of New York City, Capitalism, and other locales inhabited by our odd species. Read it." - Barbara Barg, poet; author of The Origin of the Species (Semiotext(e), 1994); faculty member, Chicago School of Poetics "Like a roller coaster, these sentences careen, swerve, send you flying out of your seat, laughing and screaming, then plop you back down, stunned, feeling like you've been hit upside the head, but wanting to do it all again. 'Pouf Central' and 'Tacer a' are two of my favorite stories, ever." - Katherine Arnoldi, author, The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom (Hyperion, 1998) and All Things Are Labor: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007). "Funny, wonderfully imaginative, ... and so very New York, Jill Rapaport's Duchamp et Moi and Other Stories is a book for those who know that it's the nihilism that makes life worth living." - Paul Beatty, author of Slumberland (Bloomsbury USA, 2008) "Individual sentences shimmering in their evocation of the black side of so-called life." - Kevin Rafferty, documentary filmmaker (The Atomic Caf ; Blood in the Face; and other films) In a review for the literary magazine Sensitive Skin, Rob Hardin writes: "Her progression through arbitrary jobs and encounters (the most revealing of which are often with bureaucrats, not lovers) are fueled by the same skeptical intelligence that dismembers every near-transcendent moment in the book. Mercilessly observed, the fictive self is emotionally off-kilter without ever being oblivious to its subjectivity. Its progress is the wraith's, not the rake's. It becomes] a spectral miniaturist in the rest of the collection, which is itself a retrospective of victories and gaffes. . . . Rapaport also manages to create bijoux out of temp work as she does out of everything else: Through intricacies of style and observation that are missing from too much contemporary fiction. Richly arch and patiently confected, these stories reveal fascinating complexities...." In the same magazine, Jim Feast writes: " C]oruscating wit, ... gemlike introspection, and an unnerving tour of Manhattan's recent history, all of this rendered with a very trenchant fire."

Duchamp Et Moi: And Other Stories

Rapaport, Jill

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tom Savage wrote these poems during his travels through Afghanistan. He was twenty-three at the time but his words ring with unparalleled maturity. His journey took place before the Taliban came to power and had a chance to destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas, a 20th century tragedy for all mankind. He describes their glory, giving us a guided tour of his spiritual and physical states while doing so. These are love poems: They are tender, witty and full of compassion, wisdom and insight. Savage says it plainly yet ever so deeply when he chants: my book is my pillow / my fireplace is breath / my friends are my food / the tree-swept is singing. While reading these gems, which are not unlike their great eastern predecessors Rumi or Jami, you too might make this book your pillow, your breath and your food as you let these poems sing to you. Steve Dalachinsky, author of The Superintendent s Eyes and The Final Nite &amp; Other Poems: The Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987 2006

Afghanistan: From Herat to Balkh and Back Again

Tom Savage

Skulls Head Samba

Packer, Eve

Waterworn

Black, Star

Broken Noses and Metempsychoses

CARTER, MICHAEL

Raw AirPoems by Cheryl Boyce Taylor "Raw Air sizzles with energy.Boyce Taylor is an acrobat of poetry---leaping in dazzling,daring moves from poignantfamily poems to highly chargedsensual poems. With amazing skill she balances poems resonant with clarity, imagesfresh and often startling."Laura Boss "Here is Cheryl Boyce Taylor, "Poet Laureate" of Trinidadvia Low East Side/Brooklyn,in full book regalia! Arollicking life force churnsair into dance when Cherylreads her poems, sings andraves her poems---a guidedtour of the island. Readsilently, you become a partof family history---a familywho lives in places wherebodies connect and separate,where joy and pain are food.Here are mothers and children,love and more love, the seaof life. Open Raw Air andbreathe deep!"Bob Holman Boyce Taylor is a performance poet, activist and visual artist. She was born in Trinidad. She holds a BA inTheater, an MEd from Long IslandUniversity and an MSW fromFordham University. The book contains a kind,encouraging inscribed note with signature by the poet. First edition Some waving from improper storage. Should flatten with weight applied. Wear to cover.Interior clean.

Raw Air

Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl

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