Mars

Literature & Fiction

Cole, Norma

Poetry

Listening Chamber

poetry, w/original cover collage by Jess 

<p>Poetry. "'Vale of Paradise,' perhaps. Like New Orleans, an old port city where the barrier, or veil, between the living and the dead, is thinner than usual.. In reality, like they say, a tough city, though not mean, and extremely beautiful, full of brilliant corners and the colors of bright paint" -Duncan McNaughton.</p>

Valparaiso

McNaughton, Duncan

<p>Poetry. San Francisco poet Susan Thackrey's debut book of poetry, EMPTY GATE -- a long-awaited superb first book (Norma Cole) collects six sequences of poems in a work of singular endeavor, attention, and lyric intelligence. Ms.Thackrey, a member of the inaugaural class in poetics at New College of California when that program was created around the occasion of Robert Duncan's teaching, now works in San Francisco as a practicing analyst. EMPTY GATE is dedicated to Duncan, and opens with an epigraph from William of Aquitaine's Proven++al canzon: Farai un vers de dreyt nien (I'll make a verse of pure nothing) Out of negatives then, such silences (so what is it that holds its shape / shot full of holes maintains its hold / informs on us in time) the question becomes how to find a way, unfounded just here. EMPTY GATE joins Norma Cole's MARS and Duncan McNaughton's VALPARAISO as the third book in the Listening Chamber Poetry Series.</p>

Empty Gate

Thackrey, Susan

Poetry. "[A]nd what does it say? words / and words and celluloid / gone crisper take / the world in your hands the world / holds your hands take / the powder dispersed / and feel so warm and huddled down / in bed where dreams come differently / from nothing / but sequence scared / and scared get phantom rickshaw / come to pick you up / for the darktown strutters say / my feet have heavy shoes and now / the line of the train is called / shuttery kodak..." The first substantial collection available from Larry Kearney in two decades, since Streaming (O Books/Trike, 1988), this book collects two new works. One exceptional long long poem--"everything goes but the poem"--stretches over some 60 pages, the extended lyric. It's joined by one shorter long poem, "Calliope," some of the parts of which are pictures, some of the words of which are others' words. All together, they make a curious music: "catch your breath and put it in the mayonaisse jar, with the cricket."

everything goes but the poem + Calliope (Listening Chamber Poetry, 4)

Kearney, Larry

Poetry. This book is a collection of poems collaboratively translated from various languages by Ted Berrigan and Gordon Brotherston. Works by a diverse selection of poets including Pablo Neruda, Giacomo Leopardi, Heinrich Heine, Theophile Gautier, Joao Cabral de Melo Neto and Guillaume Apollinaire are renewed through the dialogue of translation. "Untainted by the dutiful plod or appropriative arrogance that mars much of what passes for translation these days, Ted's and Gordon's inspired, sensitive and witty workings really are parallel 'English' universes, poems luminous with the kind of light only the happiest of collaborations generate"--Anselm Hollo.

River Under the House

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Mars

Mars

Valparaiso

Empty Gate

everything goes but the poem + Calliope (Listening Chamber Poetry, 4)

River Under the House