The Thomas Salto

Literature & Fiction

Straw, Timmy

Poetry

Fonograf Editions

Product Description Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Art. Music. 175 pages long, Dao Strom's INSTRUMENT is an experiment in multimodal poetics-inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist's three forms of "voice." Born in Vietnam and leaving the country at the age of two for Northern California, Strom's life and work speaks to fragmentation-of/within selves, histories, cultures, groups of people, and places-yet within this configuring lies her art's fluid mastery. Combining color photography, personal biography and gripping, restless poetry, INSTRUMENT represents a unique melding of literature and art. The poems are augmented by an album, Traveler's Ode, of ambient and folk-tinged songs featuring ethereal assemblages of sung-poetry, vocal layering, spare guitar and piano, and field sounds from sources such as rivers, sea, jungle, birds. Traveler's Ode is a collaborative release between Fonograf Ed. and Antiquated Future. Book Description A virtuosic hybrid text by Vietnamese American artist Dao Strom, winner of a 2020 Literary Arts Career Fellowship About the Author Dao Strom is a Vietnamese-American artist who works with three "voices"written, sung, visual--to explore hybridity and contemplate the intersection of personal and collective histories. Using practices of polyvocality, fragmentation, and (re)assemblage, Strom writes arrangements of poetry, music, image, song and sound, to be experienced as performance, installation, multimedia, recordings, and inside the spaces of a book. She is a recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital Award and a 2020 Oregon Literary Arts Career Fellowship. She has received support from RACC, Precipice Fund, Oregon Arts Commission, NEA, and others.

Instrument

Arts & Photography

Strom, Dao

Music

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Poetry. California Interest. Art. Film. Music. The follow-up to his beloved debut collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me, Mark Leidner's RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE is simultaneously profound and irreverent, in the same way that the world is flat as we walk and round as we live. "A child surprised that a neon sign / isn't hot the first time they touch one / knows how it feels as an adult to achieve one's goals" states the speaker of "Youth Is A Fugitive" and this sentiment is one of the central precepts of RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE. Congealing directly off the page, these are poems that only Mark Leidner could have written. 
 Book Description 
An engrossing and fantastical poetry collection by Mark Leidner, one of contemporary poetry's most idiosyncratic voices. 
 About the Author 
Mark Leidner is the author of two feature films: the sci-fi noir 
Empathy, Inc. (2019) and the relationship comedy 
Jammed (2014). He is also the author of RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE (Fonograf Editions, 2021), the story collection 
Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), the poetry collection 
Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow, 2011), and the book of aphorisms THE ANGEL IN THE DREAM OF OUR HANGOVER (Sator Press, 2011).

Returning the Sword to the Stone

Leidner, Mark

Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. The follow-up to her 2014 collection SORROW ARROW (winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award for Poetry), Emily Kendal Frey's LOVABILITY is a dialogue of social and interpersonal dynamics, as well as an exploration of the feelings of freedom and longing they produce. "Scourged the river bottom for my lost self"--Frey writes in the collection's final poem, "I Became Less Acceptable to Those in Power"--"Brought them up/ Touched their face/ The armor/ Split and leaking light." A professional counselor and teacher, Frey's work in LOVABILITY uses direct, image-driven poems to name the world we live in.\nBook Description\nThe long-awaited third poetry collection from Emily Kendal Frey, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and Oregon Book Award.

LOVABILITY

Frey, Emily Kendal

Proof of Stake: An Elegy

Valle, Charles

History & Criticism

About the Author\nJan Verberkmoes is a poet and editor from Oregon. She received her MFA from the University of Mississippi, where she was a John and Renée Grisham Fellow. Her poems have recently appeared in the Paris Review, Lana Turner, and Denver Quarterly, among others. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a 2018-19 Stadler Fellowship at Bucknell University, and a 2019-20 Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, she now lives in Colorado where she is pursuing her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.\nFIREWATCH lives in the porous recesses of recollection and the uncertainty felt when re-entering traumatic psychological and physical territories. White space as the natural silence of the page--the indefinable, yet present matter that pushes the text into place--permeates the collection as a kind of repression. Italicized fragments wind through the poems as an other-worldly tether that binds the speaker to the subconscious voices of its othered self. These elements grow together into a larger portrayal of the speakers' evolving relationship to the quiet violence of deterioration, to a threatening and threatened landscape, and to the fractures between perception and comprehension into which they slip. 
Poetry.\nBook Description\nConcerned with the precarity of our modern world vis-a-vis environmental concerns, specifically climate change, Jan Verberkmoes' debut collection FIREWATCH poetically interrogates what might have been with what is.

Firewatch

Verberkmoes, Jan

About the Author\nMatvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor whose books include SOME WORLDS FOR DR. VOGT (Black Square Editions, 2015), ALPHA DONUT (United Artists Books, 2012), BORIS BY THE SEA (Octopus Books, 2009), and, most recently, the chapbook From a Winter Notebook (Alder & Frankia). His translations from Russian include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook) and, with Eugene Ostashevsky, Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets), which received the 2014 National Translation Award. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for Humanities. In the 1990s, he co-founded Ugly Duckling Presse where he edited, designed, and produced a variety of books, chapbooks, periodicals, and broadsides, co-edited 6x6 magazine, and curated the Eastern European Poets Series. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University's School of the Arts.\nThese twenty-seven poems of DEAD WINTER continue the poet's ongoing "From a Winter Notebook" cycle which plays on traditional winter themes of stasis, ruin, aging, lost love, belatedness, dormancy, and decline. Aggressively personal, by turns ironic and sentimental, mixing colloquial and archly artificial diction, rife with quotations and reference to a wide variety of lyric traditions, these poems stage a polyphonic and ambivalent internal dialog that vacillates between the often-contradictory desires of social justice and personal freedom. Straining to resist impending erosion in the political tide, the singular voice seeks to hold these contradictions up to the light and to contemplate their prismatic refractions without resolution. Caught between complicity and antagonism, between the impending obsolescence of inherited poetic traditions and a desire to commune with the contemporary, the voice churns on--miming winter's monotony--to carve out a space for melancholic complaint and anxious meditation on the end-times endeavor of the lyric mode itself. Through representations of desire and melancholy in a technologically invasive era, these poems also ask about the effect of technological and political shifts on the bounds of the personal, and of the way a techno-oriented sociality impinges on interpersonal relationships, the interior dialogs of the self, and the writing of poetry. 
Poetry.\nBook Description\nAggressively personal, ironic, mixing colloquial and arch, outmoded diction, Matvei Yankelevich's DEAD WINTER invokes the privacy and the self-reflexive performance of notebook writing, carving out a space for melancholic complaint and anxious meditation on the end-times endeavor of the lyric mode itself.

Dead Winter

Yankelevich, Matvei

Systems Thinking With Flowers

Languell, Krystal

Hole Studies is a book about care and the forms it may take. An essay collectionon writing and labor, art and activism, attention as a transformative practice,difference and collaboration, adjuncting and the margins of the academy,whiteness and its weapons, professionalization and its discontents, the radicalimportance of surprise, friendship at work, the self and its public and privatemodes: Hole Studies keeps listening. What is it we need from each other? Whatcould we still make happen? This book looks for forms of responsiveness andmoments that matter. Hole Studies would like to work for you.

Hole Studies

Plum, Hilary

United States

6 interlinked poetry volumes by Alice Notley

The Speak Angel Series

Notley, Alice

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