Poetry. This is the first offering from Futurepoem Books, a new publishing collaborative dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose. "A prophetic ferocity joins visceral appetite in Garrett Kalleberg's powerful new collection; spirit and matter couple to spawn a ravishing anxiety, a beautiful disaster...For thosewho wish to go where poetry is rendered as a limitless limit, fretted withknowings and unknowings and their generative inquisitions. Once again, thelife of the mind finds its avatar"—Ann Lauterbach.

Some Mantic Daemons

Literature & Fiction

Kalleberg, Garrett

Poetry

Futurepoem Books

Poetry. "This work creates rooms of and room for playfulness, humor, political anger, and aesthetic pleasures. It isn't static; it moves; it reads itself and interrogates."—Carla Harryman. "UNDER THE SUN is brilliant wit-wrenching poetics: a word stream taking its shirt off"—Camille Roy.

Under the Sun

Levitsky, Rachel

Poetry. "THE ESCAPE is a kinetic maelstrom in which Wasserman's attention is always laconic and precise...prose where diary and fiction slip around each other...a music that is intoxicating and unmistakable in its honoring of the turbulence of being alive in the not so distant present, past and future"—John Yau. "There is much at stake in this book: 'motherhood, fortune, providence, the stars and then depression...the false Italy' or false anything vs. a real me or you. This book is 'round, soft, sad, expensive, pink'...it is also dark, sharp-limbed, heart-wrenching, hilarious and smart"—Eleni Sikelianos.

The Escape

Wasserman, Jo Ann

Poetry. Native American Studies. "In a madcap grammar handbook about the love that lives inside a savage world, Merry Fortune holds the keys to the tender ode, the raw confession and the syntactically exhilarating manifesto. GHOSTS will surprise you with its sharpness and its joy. Read this book because it's excellently funny and read this book because it's seriously good-- Lisa Jarnot. / Merry Fortune's poems are sort of broken and beautiful and melodic she's awkwardly smart. She's sort of like François Villon. She's kind of twenty-first century Susie Timmons--Eileen Myles. / I'm an electric guitarist. Merry Fortune is an electric poet--Marc Ribot.

Ghosts by Albert Ayler

Merry Fortune

Poetry. "Michael Ives's cunningly quarried prose plinths are stippled with the comedy and cruelty of Marcel Duchamp's and Raymond Roussel's wildest inventions. Move over, machines celibataires—THE EXTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE has arrived, and it's hummin'!"—John Ashbery. "These narratives are intensely, wildly logical, sensual, humorous, transgressive—catapults into the particulars of an exquisite knowledge for which you can't know you are being prepared. The high-wire pleasures and exhilarations of reading are happily reawakened by this brilliant, surprising book"—Joan Retallack.

The External Combustion Engine

Ives, Michael

Poetry. Prose. Asian American Studies. "MAD SCIENCE IN IMPERIAL CITY is propelled by the personal loss and trauma Shanxing Wang experienced during the political turbulence of the 1980s which culminated in the 1989 tragedy at Tiananmen Square. From this personal experience, Wang has created a work of art-in-language which breaks new territories of poetic form. The central urgency of Wang's work is a fractured personal and ideological loss; mirroring this, the work manufactures its own form on the page as a broken narrative. Like Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Wang's work materializes the shattered effects of cultural history on the mind of the poet who is trying to piece his life together in its devastating and unresolved wake."—Kristin Prevallet

Mad Science in Imperial City

Wang, Shanxing

Poetry. Cross-Genre."Wildly absorbing, MURMUR is a gorgeous genre-bender: detective novel, film noir and memoir (and autopsy of all three), tricked out with bloody mirrors, blue murder, mutable coffins, loopy interrogations and a dead bombshell's shoes. This is one fabulous book!"—Rikki Ducornet "Laura Mullen floods the confines of the 'detective novel' with all possible events, all murderers and all murdered so that, at any point in the narrative, everything has happened and everyone has done it. MURMUR is a further-fiction of displacement and testimony that calls us to the task of deciding not only whether we would or would not do a thing but also whether we even know the difference between the two. A gripping exploration into the brutality of our time that you will not soon forget."—Renee Gladman "MURMUR collects an astonishing array of sorties into language as a terra incognita occasioning the uncanny and always troubled confluence of the subject, the bodies it inhabits and the linguistic remainder. Mullen animates narrative at the level of its basic semantic pulse. You'll meet a talking corpse, a severed head, a heart drawn on an open palm and the gradual destruction of a face. Mullen is as much an expert in the comic and grotesque, as in the restless and anonymous. With a majestically controlled impatience she constructs a textual space both unnerving and familiar. These are splendid texts of the nameless ones (a 'messenger,' the 'caller,' the 'reader') who interrupt and witness the murmur of the linked deictic shadows of a recurring 'she' and 'he.' Never since Beckett has the unnamed been so chilling precisely because it is unnameable."—Steve McCaffery "Laura Mullen's MURMUR finds the crime in the moments between actions, in language overheard, doubling back, in a style both unnerving and comforting; always midsentence we feel death never dying, 'real despite or because of the staging,' and in the background, Duras, Hitchcock—the passions of mundane horrors always ready for our pleasure, discovery. MURMUR stays the mind like an unforgettable dream."—Thalia Field

Murmur

Mullen, Laura

History & Criticism

Poetry. "Allows observation, love, memory, confusion, and explanation to intermix and play"--Juliana Spahr. "Regions of cultural conflict and reconnection...the syntax that delves there is sincere and soft as well as gritty..."--Brenda Iijima. Jill Magi is author of the chapbook Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), as well as several self-published handmade books. Her visual art, poetry, and prose have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket, CutBank Poetry, NEW REVIEW OF LITERATURE, AUFGABE, CHAIN, and Pierogi Press. Jill was awarded a recent residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace program and teaches literature and writing at City College and The New School. She lives in Brooklyn and is editor of Sona Books.

Threads

Magi, Jill

Poetry. "Reading travel literature—not to mention postcards or emails from your friends—will never be the same after reading Ara Shirinyan's hilarious and sardonic YOUR COUNTRY IS GREAT: AFGHANISTAN-GUYANA. Proceeding alphabetically and hence giving equal time to nations as diverse as Belarus and Belgium, Cameroon and Canada, and splicing found text to produce capsule descriptions of one 'great' place to visit after another, Shirinyan exposes the fault lines of contemporary geopolitics with much wit and aplomb"—Marjorie Perloff. "Ara Shirinyan gives us an early glimpse at the deadening effects of globalization on language. Collapsing the space between the 'real world' and the World Wide Web, this book calls into question: What is local? What is national? What is multicultural? Instead of accepting current notions of language as a medium of differentiation, Shirinyan persuasively demonstrates its leveling quality, demolishing meaning into a puddle of platitudes. In a time when everything is great, yet nothing is great, you can almost hear Andy Warhol—the king of blandness and neutrality—saying, 'Gee, this book is great.'"—Kenneth Goldsmith

Your Country Is Great: Afghanistan-Guyana

Shirinyan, Ara

Poetry. "Traffic and weather hold all that we know about multipleness in their loose, but insistent embrace. This multiple, seething, singing confluence rises up out of the city of life to join the enigmatic sky and clouds in Durand's magnificent, brutal, delicate epic. It's a stunning achievement"--John Ashbery. "...Presents the city as an organism, often breaking down and always vibrant, set amid a seething landscape that is equally problematic and thriving"--Cole Swensen. Marcella Durand's previous books include WESTERN CAPITAL RHAPSODIES (Faux Press, 2001) and The Anatomy of Oil, which will be published in Spring 2008 by Belladonna books. She is co-editor of an anthology of French poetry forthcoming from Talisman House, and a former editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter.

Traffic & Weather

Durand, Marcella

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