<p>Written during travels in Mexico, from the immense capital city to the southern peasant villages of Chiapas, in the author's words "This is a journal of the trip, in mongrel mix of prose and verse. Its sense of form is much indebted to Japanese haibun, good style for jotting notes in a rucksack. I kept the writing deliberately loose. Haibun is always stricter, more keenly regimented in how it balances prose and terse lyric. Matsuo Basho is the poet who brought the haibun to it keenest development. . . . In English Basho's title is 'The Back Road to Oku.' On the back road to Ocosingo I heard the place names echo".</p>

The Road To Ocosingo

Literature & Fiction

Schelling, Andrew

Poetry

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A Valentine To Frank O'Hara

Olin, Jeni

Poetry. Hailed as the grande dame of post-modern German poetry, Friederike Mayrocker has been an innovator for over forty years. Born in 1924, in the 1950s Mayrocker became involved with the Vienna Group, whose members met to discuss, collaborate and experiment in poetry and theater. Translated by Mary Burns who comments about Mayrocker: Translation of her work involves dealing with dual-language cross-overs, dream words, inventions and unusual usages, and alliterations with overtones which are difficult to bring fom one language to another. (Translator's Note)

Peck Me Up, My Wing

Mayröcker, Friederike

Stories of Paris highly praised by Edmund Gosse and Etel Adnan.

The Paris Stories

Hunt, Laird

Literary

<p>Poetry. Photographs by David Kite. This elegant oversized book has been published in a limited edition of 250, 26 of which are lettered and signed by the authors and photographer. A collaboration of words and photographs (documenting a dance perfomance by Kim Olson/Sweet Edge), FLEUVE FLANEUR is both lyrically and visually stunning, a dance of image and typography. A dedication for Kenward Elmslie's 75th birthday, Anne Waldman and Mary Kite have created a piece that is worthy of celebration.</p>

Fleuve Flaneur

Waldman, Anne

Kite, Mary

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