Poetry. Ripped from surveillance: a last line from a first book now a quarter-century old marks out the pathway of disinheritance which English poet John Wilkinson has blazed ever since. Here that first, final look takes us past Useful Reforms and on, through Prior to Passage to Sweetness and Light, backslicing many others both included and absent, from Maudie's Umbrella to Ondine's Curse, dispersed to the outer/inner band of Oort's Cloud in a kaiserschnitt of sovereign dismemberment. Published by Subpress/Barque Books.

Oort's Cloud

Literature & Fiction

WILKINSON, John

Poetry

Subpress

Poetry. Asian American Studies. This deeply thoughtful assemblage from Catalina Cariaga documents the search for cultural clues suggested by her title. She reveals her generational memory both circumstantially and directly, where in her childhood 'the sea is woman,' the barong (traditional shirt) is an ironic symbol, and Billie Holiday, grunion, and the exact procedure for citizen's arrest -- like a palimpsest -- further define her point-of-view...This is a brave, innovative, and ultimately searing book -- Joyce Jenkins. Catalina Cariaga is a pyrotechnic burst of light in the horizon of American poetry. CULTURAL EVIDENCE is a worthy book of poems for all libraries and lovers of avant-garde literature -- Nick Carbo.

Cultural Evidence

Cariaga, Catalina

United States

Poetry. Latino/a Studies. This is the newest volume of poetry from the SUBPRESS COLLECTIVE, a group of poets who have pledged a portion of their income each year to support the eventual publication of all poets in the collective. Torres's poems are visually striking, using a variety of layout and design strategies, but they are equally interesting for the way seemingly-autobiographical moments filter into and through the formal fractures. And Torres does, in fact, have a wicked sense of humor-ous.

Fractured Humorous

Torres, Edwin

Poetry. Remarkable intricacies of intelligence are at play in Scott Bentley's wonderful new book, the result of thought's occurring at maximal velocity without impatience. It evolves with the intensity of what might be termed a musical passion; the writing is precise and the effect is enormous -- Lyn Hejinian. A Bay Area poet previously published by O Books, Bentley devotes THE OCCASIONAL TABLES to poems originally crafted as gifts to particular loved ones, welcoming the reader to enjoy all the poems as if each one had been written for you, as if a lovelorn arrow had been flung straight toward your brave forehead.

The Occasional Tables

Bentley, Scott

Poetry. Poetry, geography, ornithology, and history. Daniel Bouchard is the captain of them all. Here is a poet who has found his place in the topography of a sprawling world. His navigations are a pleasure to behold -- Lisa Jarnot. Daniel Bouchard's book is wonderful. A pure and absolute democracy of insight -- Jennifer Moxley. Daniel Bouchard is an editor, with William Corbett and Joseph Torra, of the new press Pressed Wafer (see New Publisher list on pg. 3). His WRACKLINE (Situations Press) is also available from SPD.

Diminutive Revolutions

Bouchard, Daniel

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Afterword by Antonino D'Ambrosio. BROKEDOWN PALACE is Maggie Dubris's ode to St. Clare's, the Hell's Kitchen hospital where she worked as an EMT for more than 25 years, until it closed. She weaves together prose and verse, memory and reportage, documents and testimonies into an epic ride that takes in the crumbling Times Square of the 80s, the parade of odd characters that passed through, the ad hoc expedients demanded by a hospital without funds, and then the crushing onslaught of AIDS. Her book is absorbing, funny, lyrical, and transcendentally sad, a stunning poetic monument to a New York City that no longer exists

BrokeDown Palace

Dubris, Maggie

Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Ida Faubert (1882--1969) is a 20th-century Haitian-French poet considered a Caribbean--and especially Haitian--literary foremother. An English-language volume of Faubert's makes her work more widely accessible to students, scholars, and readers of Latin-American, African-diasporic, Caribbean and Haitian letters; and more generally available to readers of poetry and the poetry of women. Born in Port-au-Prince and reared in Paris, Faubert neither easily fit socially-prescribed categories for women of color in France or Haiti, nor conformed to them--living and burning through France's Belle Époque, world wars, and Haiti's Indigenist revolt in art. Bicultural, biracial, privileged, and complex, Faubert was a deft writer and socialite who promoted and participated in the movements of Haitian writers and literature in Haiti and France. While her work is garnering growing critical attention, she is seen as one of Haiti's great women poets.

Island Heart

FAUBERT, Ida

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "The use of poetry in this day and age is for its lesson of relation. BLISS TO FILL is full of love poems, full of I and you and all their difficulties in getting along. And here, in the midst of love's intimacies, the poem is large and necessary, negotiating places and cultures, negotiating what it means to be relating across boundaries. This is a stunning collection."—Juliana Spahr"While others were writing software Prageeta Sharma was writing Dear ____ or BLISS TO FILL, a rhapsodic collection in which the poet uncannily braids the young and anticipatory with the elderly and elegantly alone. Her medium: loyalty; her climate: tender. She pleasures us by her agile shifts in mood and her lithe twists of tongue. This is a delicately fierce book."—C. D. Wright

Bliss to Fill

Sharma, Prageeta

Poetry. Camille Guthrie's THE MASTER THIEF is a work of intricate architecture, allusive and elusive, as if one had been invited to a masked party in a remote gothic library, where the music is dissonant and the games as scary as a nightmare before a final exam. 'I lay down on a bed of glass/ Small had mirrors examined my lunar profile/ When the giant imprinted its spine into my palm.' Like a modern Psyche, the heroine is tested. Her epic trials are turned by Guthrie into a compelling and ingenious vision -- Ann Lauterbach.

The Master Thief

Guthrie, Camille

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Given that there are two kinds of readers in English, those who are passionate fans of the poetry of Linh Dinh and those who have yet to read his writing, ALL AROUND WHAT EMPTIES OUT is a major event, too long overdue. These are works without waste, with the driest sense of humor and, throughout, an underlying feel for the pain of living that calls to mind Kathy Acker as much as Kafka"--Ron Silliman. Lihn Dinh is the author of a collection of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000). Published by Subpress/A'A Arts/Tinfish.

All Around What Empties Out

Dinh, Linh

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