A plausible, impossible fictional addition to the library of great pamphlets that circulated in centuries past. A series of investigations into possibility, these short fictions entertain, amaze and bewilder. A limited edition, highly collectible oversized pamphlet designed in the style of a 1926 Paris pamphlet by Gertrude Stein.

Notes to The Books of Supplemental Diagrams for Marco Knauff's Universe

Norman Lock

Ravenna Press

Short, incisive, meditative poems in the setting of a Japanese monastery--stunning digital photos by the author when he was in residence illustrate most of the pieces. A book to read and read again. New, limited edition.

Temple Grounds

McCarvey, Bryan

A second collection of Sarki's poetry, following Zimble Zamble Zumble. The poetry in Little War Machine is ambiguous, intelligent, playful and exciting. A fine second collection in the spirit of Wallace Stevens and other modern luminaries. Limited edition paperback with Sarki's original artwork on the cover.

Little War Machine

M. Sarki

Tarantella, the edgy debut collection from Rebecca Loudon, depicts vividly the dance between pain and joy in the vocabularies of music and medicine. The fierce language of Loudon's narrators belies deep vulnerability and a fear of the body, but an even stronger, somehow curative passion for the pleasures life offers.

Tarantella

Literature & Fiction

Rebecca Loudon

Poetry

The debut collection by popular Seattle poet John Burgess. Lively and engaging short works reflecting punk, musical, historical, political and zen influences. In four sections--Punk Poems; 17 Views of Mt. Fuji; Incident at Yellowstone; 10 Imperfect Sonnets--Burgess covers topics ranging from Gregory Corso to Dale Evans, from Patti Smith to Jim Bridger. A great read!

Punk Poems

John Burgess

Norman Lock's "Trio" combines his acclaimed Joseph Cornell's Operas and Emigres with Grim Tales, his riff on the Brothers Grimm. These masterful works of the imagination demonstrate Lock's innate ability to transform the fanciful into the tactile. He makes new things in exquisite words. A sample from Emigres: "A very old emigre, who was each day growing more forgetful, woke up in the dead of night, put on his best suit and tie, shined his shoes, put on his best hat (a rakish borsalino), and went to find the dancehall where fifty years before, in the distant country of his youth he had danced the tango, magnificently, with a girl whose silk dress he could still feel against his palms." From Joseph Cornells' Operas: "died young and Mad Ludwig drowned himself in the Starnberger and Lola Montes became a circus exhibit, but ah! the impresario answered, they flew, you know, until the end they all of them defied gravity such was the strength of their desirewho, we wondered, who then is Hubble peering at through his telescope, Lola Montes having long ago died? from his opera box Joseph Cornell said: her remnant of light still desiring."

Trio

Lock, Norman

In the tradition of Ben Marcus, Matthew Derby, and David Ohle, Daniel Borzutzky's fictions mine the fables that comprise our understanding of ourselves: the tales that are woven up so intricately with us we cannot tell where we begin and our histories end. He turns these stories inside out and makes them new. He frees us from them so we can weave them back again. This is his first collection and it met with considerable positive comment.

Arbitrary Tales

Daniel Borzutzky

Rebecca Loudon's second collection of poems frequently finds itself "On the Delirious Track," fascinated by "that lovely erotic flaw / (the importance of the lopsided)." And if her poems are disorienting and confusing, which they can be, their humor, rhythm, surprise, and obsessive repetitions can be mesmerizing.

Radish King

Ruth is not exactly a conventional sequel to his novel Lucchesi and the Whale. Lentricchia has included two characters from the first book--the vaguely autobiographical protagonist, writer Thomas Lucchesi, and Ruth Cohen, who appeared briefly as a flight attendant in a dream sequence in Lucchesi, but who now, as a photographer and the writer's wife, shares narration duties; otherwise the book takes off in new directions. Interlacing the narrative with flashbacks, the story follows the couple from Utica, New York (Lentricchia's hometown), to secluded "Ninth Lake" in upstate New York, and eventually to Baghdad.

The Book of Ruth

Frank Lentricchia

Contemporary

The Moodier Could of Being

Gregory K. Cole

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