This impressive first book manages the double ground of a nightmarish surrealism and a dryly perceptive wit. It's as if Humphrey Bogart were taking a good, if final, look at what's called the world.These are poems of a survivor, urbane, is an ultimate detox center for reality addicts as thinking becomes the only way out. Robert Creeley

The Geographics (House of Outside Series ; V. 2)

Mobilio, Albert

Arts & Photography

Hard Press Editions

Haven't wanted to read anything lately, certainly not anyof the 500 manuscripts and galleys I get a year. However, I found Solow fascinating. It reminds me of early John Hawkes which is still for me the best Hawkes. The whole dreamscape was especially vivid. Jim Harrison

Solow (House of Outside Series)

Crawford, Lynn

ncredible, sensitive and empathetic portraits of one of American Outsider Art's self made myths, Jon Serl. The narrative reveals the humanity of the sitter as well as his uncompromising personality which leaves us spiritually richer, if uncomfortably aware of our mortality.

One Man By Himself (Profile Series)

Messer, Sam

Individual Artists

His zigzag is unearthly, sometimes. Not just word/nerve/combinations, but flowing structures to amaze the gloom of lower Manhattan. The discipline inherent in Kerouac's locomotive mediatations. Brodey's book is a flying horse of wild crab language served up by a poet already well-versed in how a poem walks.

Heart of the Breath

Jim Brodey

fiction &amp; photography, "the subject is sex..."

Home in Three Days, Don't Wash (Lingo Books)

Smukler, Linda

A beautifully produced book cataloging some of the remarkable American Outsider Art in the collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin.

In Pursuit of the Invisible: Selections from the Collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin

John Yau

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

There's a photograph in here that's hard to read at first. Then suddenly you see it's two, imposed on one another: portraits of Linda Smukler and Gertrude Stein. Stein hovers behind, above, beneath these brazen texts. Like her modernist forbearer, Smukler uses the most direct and plain American idiom to render the complexity, anguish, and the humor of desire. Rebecca Brown

Home in Three Days, Don't Wash

History & Criticism

This book is a collection of prose pieces, the line between fact and fancy,between actuality and invention is constantly blurred.

Little Men (Lingo Books)

Killian, Kevin

Amenoffs starry sky is wilder than that of Van Gogh's: so is his light...his painting is an allegorical psychodrama describing the conflict between integrity and instinct that threatens to tear every self apart. Ecstasy and excruciating tension blend inperceptively in energy struggling to shape it self even as it erupts. Donald Kuspit

The Sky Below (Art Profile Series, 2)

Amenoff, Gregory

This is a wonderful book of poems from the great poets in America.

Inventory: New & Selected Poems

Frank Lima

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