THE UDP COLLECTIVE Yelena Gluzman OUR MISSION & PROGRAMS Chuck Kuan Sarah Lawson Ugly Duckling Presse is a not-for-profit publisher for poetry, Silvina López Medin Anna Moschovakis translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and Michael Newton books by artists. With a volunteer editorial collective of artists Lee Norton and writers at its heart, UDP grew out of a 1990s zine into a Daniel Owen small press that has published more than 300 titles to date, with Kyra Simone an editorial office and letterpress workshop in the Old American Rebekah Smith Matvei Yankelevich Can Factory in the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, Brooklyn. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, BOARD OF DIRECTORS and our books, chapbooks, special editions, periodicals, Amy S. Choi Edwin Frank broadsides, and ephemera often contain handmade elements, Peter Freed calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. In all Rebecca Gee of our activities, UDP endeavors to create an experience of art Nicholas Risteen free of expectation, coercion, and utility. Every year, UDP publishes between twenty and twenty-five ADVISORY BOARD titles, some of which belong to our various series: Dossier, the Neil Alger Eastern European Poets Series, Lost Literature, Emergency Charles Bernstein Playscripts, the Señal series of contemporary Latin American James Copeland poetry, Original Web Books, and Paperless Books. James Hoff Bob Holman Our out-of-series books tend to be single volumes by English- Jennifer Kabat language poets, or works in translation. Our print runs typically Ben Lerner range from 750 to 1,500 copies for books (trade paperbacks), and Sarah McCarry Brett Price 500 to 750 for chapbooks, some of which are bound by hand with Troy Selvaratnam the help of volunteers at the UDP workshop. From time to time, Alina Simone we also print broadsides, ephemera, and limited edition books. Christopher Stackhouse The Online Chapbook Archive and the Digital Proofs Program Johnny Temple offer free digital reading experiences of many of our titles. Elizabeth Willis UDP has published several periodicals, including the Emergency Gazette (1999-2002), 6x6 (2000-2017), and New York Nights (2001- RECENT & CURRENT 2006). Emergency INDEX, an annual of performance documents, APPRENTICES & INTERNS has been coming out since 2012. A new poetry periodical

C. Bain Zoe Guttenplan launches in 2019. In 2020, the Presse will put out a series Emily Bang Jonelle Mannion Cassidy Batiz Denise Millstein of twenty pamphlet-length essays on performance, poetics, Lucie Berjoan Paige Parsons translation, collectivity, pedagogy, and print culture — themes Jamie Chiang Serena Solin closely related to UDP's various publishing arms and initiatives. Neelufar Franklin Lix Zackeroff

CATALOGUE DESIGN Sarah Lawson, Don't Look Now! COVER DESIGN Harris Bauer, Serena Solin, Don’t Look Now! TYPEFACES Fort and Bell MT PRINTING McNaughton & Gunn TYPESETTING SUPPORT Paige Parsons, Jamie Chiang THANKS Megan Mangum/Words That Work; Jeremy Mickel/MCKL UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE NEW AND FORTHCOMING 2019-2020 AMANDA BERENGUER ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN MATERIA PRIMA PLS. REPLY

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Amanda Berenguer (1921 - 2010) was a I’m Amanda — from Women artists have been Rochelle Feinstein (born 1947) has long vital presence in Uruguayan literary life for been influential as both an abstract painter aggressive in their practice more than six decades. She is a key figure in Montevideo – and an educator (she was one of the first the “Generation of 1945,” known around the daughter of Amanda, from inside and outside the women to be tenured in the Visual Arts at world for its energetic experimentation. Her cow-eyed discipline of painting in Yale, where she still teaches). Her thrillingly first book appeared in Montevideo in 1940, reckless paintings, deeply informed by followed by a steady stream of collections contemporary deity shaping representations of abstraction, while also conveying a keen recognized for their excellence. Her many blackbird heart with subjects beyond the historically sensibility to contemporary culture, honors included the prestigious international particularly to our everyday use of language, Casa de las Américas Prize for Poetry (1986) lightning bolts constructed categories of are full of gestural edge, humor and pop- and two national prizes for her collection La where the flash that traditional art. They have, for cultural allusion. dama de Elche. shatters night comes instance, created ingenious Pls. Reply spans the last four decades Materia Prima is the first English- to roost forms of expression offering of Feinstein's writings, as she probed the language collection of Amanda Berenguer’s it flaps joy inciting life immediate access to their issues, relevance of the abstract painting tradition poetry.Berenguer (1921-2010) stands among daughter of Rimmel, using ordinary, mass-produced vis-a-vis a rapidly changing cultural the most important post-World War II environment. Pls. Reply intends to give poets of Latin America, along with her now- father materials. In doing this many readers a broad scope of Feinstein’s ongoing legendary compatriot Marosa di Giorgio. Her fighting cock assert it as a choice not to engage, engagement with the subject, in magazine poetry ranges from classic, measured lyric articles, personal writing, conference to Dickinson-inspired gnomic utterance; cruel Cerberus transgress against, or compete presentations, school assignments, and from metaphysical and erotic rhetorical or tender marrow with the historical authority of exhibition proposals. The book includes 16 effusion to condensed and radically concrete under the feathers abstraction. Men have found it full-color photographs of the artist's studio experiment; from seemingly apolitical and a letterpressed bookmark. languor to pointed ideological dissent. almost bearings all too easy to maintain their ever almost arrows “widened artistic options.” As for Edited by Sergio Bessa

Edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson sister of Rimmel, women who continue to paint, Co-published with The Bronx Museum Translated from Spanish by Gillian Brassil, sacrificed and dear they are treated as if they had of the Arts and Stellar Projects Anna Deeny Morales, Mónica de la Torre, dead because the penises (unless they paint them) Kristin Dykstra, Kent Johnson, Urayoán Noel, Jeannine Marie Pitas, and Alex Verdolini dead — but without the privileges in from the kingdom of either case. An extra burden of Rochelle uses abstract painting the dead blame is served to these women: to question just about everything, and then uses just about anything Feisty yet lyrical, playful yet deeply surrounded him why are you doing men’s work? to question abstract painting. serious, explorative yet assured. — PIERRE JORIS — BARRY SCHWABSKY, ARTFORUM

LOST LITERATURE #24 ISBN 978-1-946433-06-0 ISBN 978-1-946433-34-3 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2019 SPRING 2019 ROBERT FITTERMAN ED STECK ROB’S WORD SHOP AN INTERFACE FOR A FRACTAL LANDSCAPE

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Robert Fitterman is the author of 15 Left apartment on The body code within Ed Steck is the author of The Garden: books of poetry, including This Window Makes Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Me Feel (UDP), Nevermind (Wonder Books), bicycle at 10:30 AM the accessible space Simulation (UDP), The Rose (with Adam No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself Marnie, Hassla), sleep as information/ (UDP), Holocaust Museum (Counterpath, for Rob’s Word Shop. performs an automated the fountain is a water feature (COR&P), and Veer), and now we are friends (Truck Stopped at stationary Far Rainbow (Make Now Books), Books), and is the co-author of Notes on act of mimesis: creating DoorGraphicDataRecovery (orworse press), Conceptualisms (UDP). He is the founding store for envelopes and A Time Stream in Spaces: The Cultic Parody member of the international artists and a pseudo naturally of Time-Induced Capital (West), and The folders ($5.25). Arrived Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton writers collective, Collective Task. He teaches occurring, fully at New York University and is a member of the at Rob’s Word Shop Man Press). His work has been exhibited writing faculty of the Milton Avery School of functional copy of the nationally and internationally, most recently the Arts at Bard College. promptly at 11:00 AM. at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. He is the editor of Theme Can, an online First customer arrived user that has exited the Rob’s Word Shop documents the art and writing publication. He lives in exchanges of Fitterman’s storefront shop, at 12:30 PM. Served 6 server. Massachusetts. where he sold individual letters and words during the month of May 2010. customers continuously Due to the procedurally An Interface for a Fractal Landscape is an exploration of potential networking This special edition artist’s book contains from 12:45 to 2:05 PM. generated process of the ledgers and transcriptions, followed by between organic life and digitally recreated an essay by the store’s Records Manager, Closed shop and left fractal landscape, the nature on a virtual terrain. Taking its cues Lawrence Giffin, and a sampling of materials from a variety of media, including concrete collected for the store’s archives. 308 Bowery at 2:15 PM. functioning copy of the poetry, artists’ books, science fiction, nature Arrived at apartment, poetry, and information science, the book exited user raises a low follows the experience of an inorganic life on bicycle, at 2:30 PM. form attempting to recreate an organic risk of encountering the relationship between organism and Total sales: $7.00. Below landscape on an outmoded server in the era active original user form of post-anthropocene collapse. is a list of words sold: during campaigning, tops, technicolor, better, unscripted; off the books questing, or archiving. (gratis), Constraint-B, The copy becomes lost These transcripts doggedly elude our desire Graphs, images, data, and language are to name all the affects they contain. nachleben. in the landscape folds. elegantly interwoven into a topographic web. — BRANDON BROWN — FIA BACKSTRÖM

ISBN 978-1-937027-48-3 ISBN 978-1-946433-01-5 SPECIAL EDITION/CLOTH-BOUND TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2019 SPRING 2019 REINA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ JENA OSMAN THE WINTER GARDEN PHOTOGRAPH MOTION STUDIES

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Reina María Rodríguez is the recipient she stands, stilled, at the As they march, they observe the Jena Osman’s books of poems include of the 2002 Alejo Carpentier Medal for Corporate Relations (Burning Deck), Public Achievement in Cuban literature, Cuba’s 2013 end natural world around them. The Figures (Wesleyan University Press), The National Prize for Literature, the 2014 Pablo (at the end of her life), stone capsules and cliffs of mica Network (Fence Books, National Poetry Neruda Ibero-American Prize for Poetry, an Series selection), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Italo Calvino Award in 2004, a 1995 National stilled, between them are proliferating and changing. Books) and The Character (Beacon Press, Critics’ Award, and the 1993 Julián del Casal Their smooth surfaces bloom winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Prize. A bilingual edition of her novel Otras and the others; Poets Prize). Osman was a 2006 Pew Fellow cartas a Milena (Other Letters to Milena) was while your image refracts with nubby biometric shrubs. As in the Arts, and has received grants for her published by the University of Alabama Press. they march with the migrating poetry from the National Endowment for the She lives in Havana, Cuba. and accelerates the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, swarm, new shapes rise up and collapse of the islands The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the The Winter Garden Photograph is force them apart. He signals for Howard Foundation, and the Fund for Poetry. a meditation on the power and limitations of into the blue and green She co-founded and co-edited the literary her not to touch them, as they magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr from images. It began as an homage to a magazine, waters . . . The Courier, published by UNESCO. are collectors and recorders of 1994-2005. Rodríguez used the magazine’s photographs the manipulation is so of faraway places to spark an investigation of accidental contact. Some of the Motion Studies consists of three essay- old the mental landscapes comprising her own, shrubs are covered in beautiful poems that begin as meditations on 19th contemporary Havana. the one diving is the only century science and end firmly as research flowers that click with shutters into the present. From chronophotography innocent and shots. Someone just ahead of to algorithmic surveillance, from phrenology Translated from Spanish who, in his joy, doesn’t to fMRI brain scans, from Victorian specimen by Kristin Dykstra her brushes against a smooth side collections to the bleached bones of the Great recognize this of mica and it slices a specimen of Barrier Reef, each poem in this collection Recipient of the Casa de las explores technologies of knowing each other Américas prize in 1998 (for the experiment skin like glass. A stone formation and the world we’re in. original Cuban edition) interrupted by the arrival releases radio waves over each of a wave . . . body that passes, reflecting its A tour de force of documentary, speculative (I think that when it energy back as a three dimensional fiction, film criticism, and lyric jump cuts. happens to you, if it image in the cloudless sky. The — DOUGLAS KEARNEY happens to you, environment reads, tests, and Her poetic imagination engages It marvels, it studies, it makes a weaving the human capacities. you won’t know it.) measures. of science, poetry, and testimony. — ROBERTO TEJADA — RENEE GLADMAN

DOSSIER ISBN 978-1-946433-22-0 ISBN 978-1-946433-23-7 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2019 SPRING 2019 MAC WELLMAN NATHANIEL FARRELL AWE LOST HORIZON

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Mac Wellman’s works of poetry include Or maybe some people just have Nathaniel Farrel was born and raised in Miniature, Strange Elegies, and Split the glimmers, Western Pennsylvania. He holds a doctorate Stick from Roof Books and Left Glove (Solid bad stars in English Literature from Columbia Objects Press). His novel Linda Perdido won as it University in New York City. He is the author the 2011 FC2 Catherine Doctorow Prize for and so spiral out of themselves, of Newcomer (UDP), a personae poem Innovative Fiction. His other works of fiction narrated by an anonymous soldier and set in include the novel Q’s Q (Green Integer) and determines path of an arm within an an undefined military campaign. He teaches the volume of stories, A Chronicle of the arm— composition at Washington University in St. Madness of Small Worlds (Trip Street Press). the Louis and hosts a weekly experimental music As a playwright, his recent work includes The radio program. Farrell’s poetry has been Offending Gesture and Woo World Wu. He published in 6x6, New York Nights, Greetings has received numerous honors, including shape of one cases of multiple identities Magazine, VLAK, The Brooklyn Rail, and The NEA, Guggenheim, and Foundation of Recluse. His collages have been exhibited at Contemporary Arts fellowships. In 2003 hand souls shaken until a one falls out, Bushel (Delhi, NY), and Some Other Ways. he received his third Obie, for Lifetime Lost Horizon spirals out through Achievement. He is Distinguished Professor unfolds like an ink blot interstate and rail to touch national parks, of Play Writing at Brooklyn College. upon the other: local attractions, truck stops, big box stores, strip malls, tattoo parlors, oil rigs. flower shops, and baggage claims. Throughout the Awe is the tale of the three dead letters breath or else they come apart of the English language: Thorn, Eth, and incessant movement of the book-length AE (pronounced ----). The teller of these and a poem, unbroken by stanzas or sections, stories, for there are more than one, is an Farrell privileges observation over judgment old cat (O/C) with the sad excuse of a story like the cording around the and seeks out the crossroads between tale, er, tail; and a mess of other possible tails cultural myth and brand image. The poem and worlds (that is), a mess of If(f)s; both edge of a mattress. speaks from between the mall fountain and blissful and broken by the sheer, immense an and a small the wishing well, the Disney princess and particularity of it all; and so he glows in the Spenserian queen, the noble hero and the dark. A wise cat among wonders. A cat who voyeur. Lost Horizon is a poem that catalogs challenges all tails but his own. letter Drive-thru tellers; the decline of and indexes the collision between fantasies of high and low. misspelled pneumatic tubes.

Wellman is our latter-day Brecht, providing the Verfremdung, the as Hubble points other-worldward. A ‘making strange’ that makes us see There’s a great and wild simultaneity what has been before us all along. an eth. dimmer switch for the chandelier. in Nathaniel Farrell’s Lost Horizon. — MARJORIE PERLOFF — DANIELLE DUTTON

ISBN 978-1-946433-24-4 ISBN 978-1-946433-25-1 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2019 SPRING 2019 ANDREI MONASTYRSKI DMITRI PRIGOV ELEMENTARY POETRY SOVIET TEXTS

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Andrei Monastyrski is a poet, author, Here is bronze Pushkin Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov (1940- artist, art theorist based in Moscow. He is one two halves 2007) was a leading writer of the late Soviet of the founders of conceptualism in Russia. In standing stupidly and early post-Soviet era. Almost until the 1973, he began to work with serial structures collapse of the Soviet Union, his writing and minimalist sound compositions and of a rowboat, Quite sly was he, like you circulated solely in unofficial samizdat in 1975, turned his attention to poetic editions and overseas publications. He objects and actions. He is best known as a But I’m alive, as a matter was briefly detained in a Soviet psychiatric founding member and chief theoretician of rowboats, hospital in 1986 but released after protests the Collective Actions group, which began of fact from establishment literary figures. A to stage outdoor actions on the edges of founder of Moscow Conceptualism, Prigov Moscow in 1976. double chin- was a prolific writer, in all genres, as well as an And I’m on Gorky Street accomplished visual artist. Elementary Poetry collects poems, throats. Meeting people and books, and action objects from the '70s, Soviet Texts, Calculations & Other tracing a genealogy of the art action in thinking: Look! Writings is the first representative selected poetry. After writing poetry in the manner human, volume of Prigov’s poetry and experimental of Russian modernists, newly available He climbed up on the prose texts to appear in English. It includes to Soviet readers during Khrushchev’s short stories about amazing heroes of the thaw, Monastyrski’s interest in ideas about human revolution and after, and poetic sequences consciousness from Western and Eastern granite plinth that expose literature, history, and culture philosophical traditions led him to deepen to the stark light of a post-modern Gogolian his dialogue with poetry of the past through backbones, He is the leader of Poetry laughter, some of which became cult-classics experiments with sound, form, and the for his generation — such as the cycle “Image creation of artistic environments involving And then a terrible bomb of Reagan in Soviet Literature.” A selection of carefully conceived objects and situations. faces, post-Soviet writings, concerned with human Drops on the city of mortality and human sinfulness, is also Translated from Russian by faces, included. Brian Droitcour and Yelena Kalinsky Moscow Translated from Russian Killing every single With a preface by Boris Groys floor-boards by Simon Schuchat with Ainsley Morse person shoulders, And there is nobody to A guru of the new Russian art … I have no choice but to read this book again, his influence is indisputable. shoulders lead until someone translates some more. — BORIS GROYS — BOB HOLMAN

EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #39 EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #45 ISBN 978-1-937027-68-1 ISBN 978-1-946433-07-7 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2019 FALL 2019 EDWIN ALANÍS-GARCÍA ELENA FANAILOVA GALERÍA THE RUSSIAN VERSION (2ND EDITION)

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Edwin Alanís-García's writing We’re wind-worn down It’s terrible to be Elena Fanailova is a poet and journalist has appeared in or is forthcoming from possessed by brittle based in Moscow, where she hosts a The Acentos Review, The Kenyon Review, radio program. Fanailova's poetry has Periphery, and Tupelo Quarterly. He received to the muscle— things. been published in literary magazines and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York How can you learn here anthologies in Russia and abroad. She is the University and is currently a graduate maybe we’re dancing who taught people to author of four books. The Russian Version student in Philosophy of Religion at Harvard draw is Fanailova's first full-length collection in Divinity School. English translation. bones. ¿Do you Stars between eyebrows, butterflies over the Galería is an ekphrastic study of false The Russian Version is a collection identities and intransgressible worlds. still dance? This gristle of poems that spans Russia's post-Soviet Galería weaves fictive narratives of Paris, Of throats, weeping eye era. Fanailova tells stories about the various New York, Mexico City, and lovelorn Arizonan appeasing stray between breasts. social layers of a stratified and conflicted dreamscapes—though never truly escapes And anyway, who taught nation, reclaiming the poet's role as social the ruins of Rust Belt Illinois and rural Nuevo them to live with critic, while scrutinizing her own position as León. What’s reified across the collection’s mongrel citizen and poet. Fanailova's political lyricism three panels and myriad personae culminates strange casts personal pain into the net of historical in a bleak, prophetic unveiling, a lament for a Chasms, with their suffering. in your recollection, at home that never existed. nocturnal beasts, The 2019 second edition (first published by With this yawning, this UDP in 2009) includes a more recent long your beck poem, "Lena and Lena." singing, this delirium –unreachable and call, will be swept off Translated from Russian by Even with open palms Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler outstretched: take a sandstone ledge. them Introduction Aleksandr Skidan. If you are not afraid of Recipient of the 2010 Best Translated Look away and there will such embraces. Book Award for Poetry from Three Percent If the faces floating up be from an amalgam Of splotches, from the What drips from this golden-throat is no guilt, no evidence of the full goat-song of art and longing, molding, black, silvery the violence of exile and the ecstasy of depths oscillation in the no-place-like-home. a fall. Don’t frighten you. A clear-eyed, unflinching poet. — JOYELLE MCSWEENEY — ELENI SIKELIANOS

EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #18 ISBN 978-1-946433-16-9 CHAPBOOK TRADE PAPERBACK SUMMER 2019 SUMMER 2019 ASIYA WADUD UTOPIA PIPE DREAM MEMORY SYNCOPE ANNA GURTON-WACHTER

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Asiya Wadud writes about borders, limits, We are too black To enter the realm Anna Gurton-Wachter is a writer, and the variegated truth. She teaches third editor and archivist. Utopia Pipe Dream grade in the daytime and English to new too abject Memory (UDP) is her first full-length immigrants and refugees in the evening. of writing one must collection and her chapbooks include Her first book, crosslight for youngbird, was our yearning too evident Mother of All (Above/Ground Press), The published by Nightboat Books in Fall 2018. Abundance Chamber Works Alone (Essay Her work has been supported by the Lower the ugliness of our need take one’s self to Press), Blank Blank Blues (Horse Less Press), Manhattan Cultural Council, Dickinson and CYRUS (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). House, and the New York Public Library, divorce court. I’m Other work has appeared in PELT's Feminist among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New Temporalities, No Dear, 6x6, Elderly, and York, where she loves animals. elsewhere. Gurton-Wachter edits and makes sorry it has to be books with DoubleCross Press. She lives in Syncope eulogizes those who have we waited for an aristeia Brooklyn, NY, a few blocks from the building perished making Central Mediterranean in which she was born. crossings as well as collects first-hand Supposed it would come this way. The re- accounts of those who have survived these Utopia Pipe Dream Memory builds some mighty force that perilous journeys. Forces of fate brought education of my upon impossible imagined intimacies, errant lives together for a hopeful safe relishing the pleasure of slow, attentive passage and ultimately, linked these lives in would learning. In an unfolding of rhythms, their untimely deaths. Syncope attempts to bely what working eye winks. repetitions, and distended narratives it shed some light on these lives, as well as the envisions a space of play and ecstatic happenstance of living and dying while trying the fates wrought us influence, drawing characters such as to cross a border. To enter the realm Gertrude Stein, Bernadette Mayer and Maya Deren into dialogues and visions that of writing is to suffer articulate the tension between embodiment it was agonizing and voice, identification and materiality. These narratives push towards a unified imagine: losses. Run off other dispersal, a complex act of exultant feminine chaos, letting slip the boundaries between all our hope a what is animal, what is describable, and what sufferers, run off. I can be made to appear. warped vessel wanted to but could our bodies merely [Wadud is] trying to cup in her hands Gurton-Wachter's capacity for a (to make cohere) the splintered deadweight not say run off. theatrics of iconoclastic reverie pieces of an actual, human soul. is in a league of its own. — AUSTIN ADAMS, LA REVIEW OF BOOKS — BRENDA IIJIMA

ISBN 978-1-946433-29-9 ISBN 978-1-946433-31-2 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2019 FALL 2019 ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK THE LAST INNOCENCE / A TRADITION OF RUPTURE THE LOST ADVENTURES POETRY ESSAY

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was Poetry is where everything Since the publication of her 1955 debut poetry born in the port city of Avellaneda, in the On the other collection, La tierra más ajena (The Most happens. Like love, humor, province of Buenos Aires, to Russian-Jewish Foreign Country), Alejandra Pizarnik immigrants. Pizarnik spent most of her life side of the suicide, and every fundamentally has captivated the imaginations of many of in Argentina, and lived in Paris from 1960- night subversive act, poetry ignores Latin America’s most celebrated twentieth- 1964. Known primarily for her poetry, Pizarnik century writers, from Octavio Paz and Julio also wrote works of criticism and journalism, her name everything but its own freedom Cortázar to Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Zurita. experimental fiction, plays, and a literary and its own truth. To say “freedom” Over the last several years, the majority of diary. Four books of her poetry have recently awaits her, Pizarnik’s poetry has been translated into been translated into English: Diana’s Tree and and “truth” in reference to the English, garnering enormous acclaim in the The Most Foreign Country, both from UDP; her world in which we live (or don’t U.S. and abroad, yet her critical writings— and A Musical Hell and Extracting the Stone surreptitious live) is to tell a lie. It is not a lie including commentaries on figures such as of Madness: Poems 1962-1972, both from New Artaud, Borges, Breton, Michaux, and Pessoa, Directions. yearning for when you attribute those words to as well as intimate accounts of her own poetry: the place where everything process—remain almost entirely unknown life, outside the Spanish-speaking world. The Last Innocence and The Lost is possible. Adventures are Alejandra Pizarnik’s on the other second and third collections of poetry. In opposition to the feeling of exile, A Tradition of Rupture makes Published in Buenos Aires shortly after The side of the the feeling of perpetual longing, Pizarnik’s critical writings available to Most Foreign Country—which she would English-speaking readers for the first time, later disavow—these early poems blend the night! stands the poem—promised land— offering indispensable insight into the real and the imaginary, demonstrating the . Every day my poems get shorter: range of Pizarnik’s reading and the principle inner torment, deep solitude, and acute influences on her poetics. The works collected little fires for the one who was vulnerability that would plague Pizarnik Something in this volume also provide a rare glimpse of throughout her short life. This edition lost in a strange land. Within a the famously introverted poet in her capacity includes new English translations of both weeps in the few lines, I usually find the eyes as public intellectual and critic, revealing books along with an introduction by poet, a voracious intelligence turned outward translator, and Pizarnik scholar Ana Becciu. air, of someone I know waiting for me; toward the world in vital dialogue with the sounds outline reconciled things, hostile things, words of others. Translated from Spanish things that ceaselessly produce by Cecilia Rossi the dawn. Translated from Spanish the unknown; and my perpetual by Cole Heinowitz thirst, my hunger, my horror. From She thinks of there the invocation comes, the Pizarnik illuminates the abysses of A deeply informed, judiciously selected, emotional sensitivity, desire, and absence. eternity. evocation, the conjuring forth. and pitch-perfectly rendered collection. — RAÚL ZURITA — AMMIEL ALCALAY

LOST LITERATURE #27 LOST LITERATURE #26 ISBN 978-1-946433-61-9 ISBN 978-1-946433-26-8 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2019 FALL 2019 SOTÈRE TORREGIAN JENNIFER FIRESTONE AMALGAM STORY

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Sotère Torregian was born in No- For thousands of years the The writer likes Jennifer Firestone is the author of Man’s-Land in the fateful year 1941; adopted star-filled sky five books of poetry and four chapbooks language English; earliest poems in 1950’s; including Ten (BlazeVOX), Gates & Fields has been trauma. found himself a Surrealist 1963 onward. (Belladonna* Collaborative), Swimming Pool a source of wonder Among his many books are The Golden The audience likes (DoubleCross Press), Flashes (Shearsman Palomino Bites the Clock (Angel Hair), The between the door Books), Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves Wounded Mattress (Oyez), Because My Pizza’s and the wall. Be prepared trauma. (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes Cold: Selected Works, 1957-1999 (Skanky and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly Cherryblossoms in bloom The readers like Possum), and On the Planet Without Visa to again announce (Dusie Kollektiv). She won the 2014 Marsh (Coffee House Press). Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. the historicity of Women In trauma. Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Literary Film which streams Amalgam is a collection of recent poems Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang from the blossoms, albeit The anchor that and ephemera by the “surreal adventurer” College and is also the Director of their Sotère Torregian. Since the early 1960’s, invisible to the eye brings her to the Academic Fellows pedagogy program. Torregian has been developing a distinctive of those who can see, which transnational revolutionary poetics informed means steel bottom. There is a Story at a beach. There is a by deep readings and associations with the the majority of the human couple evolving and devolving inside a new Surrealism and Négritude movements, and The trauma likes fangled form of the couplet. There is the race, if you will the “New York School” of poets. Here are landscape: the ocean, sand, and sun that poems dedicated to poet-friends from New or if you won’t trauma. language flails in trying to recreate. “The York to Paris to Timbuktu to California with a As I speak The page is the beach reached for them but slipped. / The stopover in Newark, NJ. There isn’t a piece of candy I beach shells and sound. / The beach the one can slip arms wrapped syllable until soft.” Story is a cryptic film, an into my mouth or even a old photograph, a mystery, where narrative, memory, truth, and trauma are interrogated, Groucho Marx cigar for hungrily towards where creditability slips much like the that matter each body. language that is storytelling. Where, “what is (Anyway gave up smoking the truth but what we say.” Torregian’s poetry often moves at dazzling ages ago) The brain withholds speed, connecting absurd but astonishingly Neither have I a roadmap or a this knowledge concrete imagery that challenges a GPS reader's expectations of the poem. for Peace which seems as just enough — DALE SMITH untenable though a feeling Firestone’s work inhabits this expansive and elusive middle realm One of our most radically original poets. Now as ever lingers. between lyric and narrative. — ANNE WALDMAN — NICHOLAS BIRNS

ISBN 978-1-946433-33-6 TRADE PAPERBACK CHAPBOOK FALL 2019 FALL 2019 H.F. HENDERSON / WOODY LESLIE LETTERPRESS INTERVIEWS: UNDERSTANDING MOLECULAR TYPOGRAPHY POETRY, ART, AND TYPOGRAPHY

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H.F. Henderson (1927-2006) was charles alexander (chax press): One In Letterpress Interviews: Poetry, a renowned American linguist, scholar of my favorite mixes, as you put Art, & Typography, Kyle Schlesinger of the English language, and molecular it, of conventional typography discusses poetics, process, and printing with typographic enthusiast. Other works by and bookmaking with possibly post-WWII alternative publishers who have Henderson include Further Inspirations of the unconventional poetic text is the one made significant contributions to the poetics Interrobang (One Page Productions) and The we discussed earlier, French Sonnets of the book. Happily, these are not academic Structural Anthropology of Typtoms (Radial). by Jackson Mac Low. I think of Jackson interviews, but dynamic dialogues amongst Woody Leslie is an artist, writer, and himself and his work as actually poised peers. The interviewed poet-printers, poet- publishers, and letterpress artists delve deep bookbinder, born and raised in northern between this kind of classically- into the practice of printing from a hands- Vermont. He is the author of several artist’s minded philosophical soul and this on perspective, aligning their practice with books, including Words & Vegetables (Large wonderful avant-garde experimenter. Home Tiny Idea), Parsely (Large Home Tiny a five hundred-year-old tradition, radically So I designed that book to look like Idea), and the digital book Courier’s Text Atlas revisited in a manner that is accessible to it could have been printed in the of the United States of America (UDP). He has students of literary, book, and graphic arts seventeenth century in certain ways. worked for the Journal of Artists’ Books, Ugly yet contentious and specific enough to pique Duckling Presse, and taught book arts classes kyle schlesinger: Not the shape. the curiosity of lifelong bibliophiles. and workshops in various locations. charles alexander: Not the shape, no, but the choice of fonts, the choice of Co-published with Cuneiform Press Understanding Molecular Typo- colors, the choice of papers, the choice Edited by Kyle Schlessinger graphy brings back a seminal work in the of the particular cloth used in the the field of molecular typography, the study binding. In the seventeenth century Interviewees include: of the chemical and physical underpinning it would have been leather I suppose. I Charles Alexander (Chax Press) of letters. In his original 1992 publication, didn’t have to supply the avant-garde Inge Bruggeman (Ink-a! Press) Henderson made the science approachable part because Jackson does plenty of Steve Clay (Granary Books) to the everyday American for the first time. that himself. I hope there is a little bit Aaron Cohick (NewLights Press) This reprint edition, with a new introduction Johanna Drucker (Druckwerk) by Woody Leslie, revives a neglected science. of surprise in that book for someone that might open it either not knowing Phil Gallo (Hermetic Press) his work, or suppose from the other Jonathan Green (Gnomon Press) side: someone who knows his work Lyn Hejinian (Tuumba Press) might be surprised at the form it’s put Alastair Johnston (Poltroon Press) in. I do like to do things with books Mary Laird (Quelquefois Press) that hopefully just a little bit jar Annabel Lee (Vehicle Editions) Alan Loney (Electio Editions) Henderson's research was someone into thinking or into asking Scott Pierce (Effing Press) comprehensive and the results questions. Why was it done this way? Tom Raworth (Matrix and Goliard Presses) What is this mix of form and content? nothing short of astonishing. Matvei Yankelevich & Anna Moschovakis (UDP) — JOHANNA DRUCKER Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop (Burning Deck)

ISBN 978-1-946433-30-5 ISBN 978-1-937027-74-2 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2019 FALL 2020 GALINA RYMBU YEVGENIY FIKS LIFE IN SPACE THE WAYLAND RUDD COLLECTION: EXPLORING RACIAL IMAGINARIES IN SOVIET VISUAL CULTURE

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Galina Rymbu was born in 1990 in vague sounds of Within months, Rudd was Wayland Rudd (1900-1952) was an African the city of Omsk (Siberia, Russia) and lives American actor who moved to the Soviet between St. Petersburg, Russia and Lviv, distant night clubs, contemplating never returning Union in 1932 and lived there until 1952. Ukraine. She is the co-founder and co- to the US, and, in 1934, after a He appeared in numerous Soviet films curator of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko the bass notes and theatrical performances, and served brief visit to the US, Rudd was Prize for emerging Russian-language poets wring out reality as a model for paintings, drawings, and and serves on the editorial board of the certain that his future would be propaganda posters. Using Rudd’s personal poetry series Novye stikhi [New Poems] at like a wet sponge. story as a springboard, The Wayland the publishing house Poriadok slov. She has brighter if he threw his lot in with Rudd Collection presents Soviet images published three books of poems in Russia: migrant the Russians. Writing in NAACP's of Africans and African Americans produced Moving Space of the Revolution (Argo-Risk), between 1920 and 1980 alongside responses Time of the Earth (kntxt), and Life in Space skeletons in the Crisis magazine, he said, "I from contemporary artists, writers, and (NLO). confess that there has never scholars. The book maps the interweaving of half-dark move internationalism, solidarity, humanism, and Galina Rymbu’s poems employ history as a fresh earth in been anything in my histrionic Communist ideals with practices of othering, discursive tool to understand the present. experiences so thrilling and exoticization, and racist stereotyping. Rymbu opens her poetry to the violence wheelbarrows. absorbing as the moments the of propaganda, biopolitical manipulation, some guys, angels no The book is edited by Russian-Amerian artist ideological pressures, as well as the violence theatre afforded me here [in the Yevgeniy Fiks, whose works explore the of personal intimacy. Life in Space is doubt, dialectic between Communism and "the Rymbu’s first full-length collection in English USSR]." Rudd and other Black West" and build on historical research into translation and includes poems selected from are hanging about expatriates were also intrigued Cold War narratives. her three books as well as more recent work. as the people by the Soviet policies in support Texts by Kate Baldwin, Joy Gleason Translated from Russian by pass, whispering of the Arts, “healthful and Carew, Yevgeniy Fiks, Jonathan Flatley, Joan Brooks Lewis Gordon, Raquel Greene, Harmony something constructive ideas [are injected] Holiday, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky into the minds of a society.” The Douglas Kearney, Christina Kiaer, in the language Maxim Matusevich, Vladimir Paperny, Co-published with After Hours Editions Soviets contended that these of the insane, Meredith Roman, Jonathan Shandell, were not just amusements for Christopher Stackhouse, Marina Temkina. This is Big Poetry, very much grounded in masturbating in the privileged sectors of the tradition but also propelling it forward, into The conceptualist Yevgeniy the terra incognita of the now. It’s been a parks. spring is society but should be made Fiks is a virtuoso in the art of while since I read a poem that felt so real. here. available to all. recovering cultural memory. — EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY, — HOLLAND COTTER, MUSIC & LITERATURE THE NEW YORK TIMES

EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #46 ISBN 978-1-946433-32-9 ISBN 978-1-946433-27-5 TRADE PAPERBACK CLOTH-BOUND HARDCOVER SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 SEÑAL 2019 SPECIAL PROJECTS IN 2020 CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN POETRY

We've decided to try something different in Enriqueta Lunez Haughty, I take aim: the year 2020 with two parallel programs: New Moon I can spit your name stone your body 2020 PAMPHLET SERIES point a finger at you Twenty pamphlets of commissioned essays on The book itself is a spell, against what sell your soul to the binds her to tradition, against what subjects close to UDP's commitments — collective she loses by distancing herself. deepest cenote and kill you. work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, — ELISA RAMIREZ Such thought is in vain, and small press publishing — each offering a daylight fades. different approach to the pamphlet as a form of SEÑAL #10 working in the present. We have turned to the pamphlet for an engagement at once sustained and ephemeral, seeing in it — to use Lyn Hejinian’s words — “a sense of a newsgram, a sense of Agustín Guambo -the remnants of a constellation Nuclear Andean Spring bristling the wind thread the memory immediacy, unashamed of its staples." of our children in the song of night- PAST FUTURES freezed fireflies hatch from our tracks In addition to the pamphlet series, in 2020 we will Guambo brings us a discourse lick the face of be producing books that reflect UDP’s longstanding unsubmissive and fighting. trees as bodies attached to the nectar mission of making available texts from marginal — YULIANA ORTIZ RUANO of the rocks release a prophecy traditions and underrepresented histories, as well as ¡tukuy yawar ninchis quespin kaiku! our commitment to exploring print culture and the SEÑAL #11 history of small press publishing.

A subscription to the 2020 Pamphlet Series is now available on the UDP website. Alejandro Albarrán Polanco There are horses in the pubis, there are horses in the abdomen, in the pelvis there are Cowboy & Other Poems algebraic bagpipes, there are some dumping This programming will not affect the annual publication of the Emergency gears, there are galápagos in the abdomen. INDEX, the Eastern European Poets Series, or the Señal chapbook There are galápagos and wallops: gallops. series for contemporary Latin American poetry in translation. A brutal and ungraspable landscape * quickly glimpsed through the small (They say that’s a metaphor.) They say you The Full Presse subscription in 2020 will include all 2020 pamphlets, all eat it like this, like this, they say, they say bag, Past Futures titles, and all titles in the annual series listed above. window of a train in motion. gallbladder, raft, they say membrane, bile, they — LUIS FELIPE FABRE say I’m rafting on a sea of bile, they say you have to cross with two coins on your eyes, I’d rather tear them out and just carry the sockets, the missing. SEÑAL #12 PAST FUTURES / LOST LIT 2020 PAMPHLET SERIES marginal traditions and underrepresented histories twenty essays for the present addressing collective work, translation, performance, small press publishing, pedagogy, & poetics

works of poetry and art and the in-between MIRENE ARSANIOS OMAR BERRADA ULISES CARRIÓN Sonnet(s) SERGIO CHEJFEC ÅKE HODELL The Marathon Poet DON MEE CHOI translated by Fia Backström KUNCI CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER VASILY KAMENSKY Tango with Cows IRIS CUSHING translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, facsimilized by Daniel Mellis SIMON CUTTS GABRIEL POMERAND Saint Ghetto of the Loans NICOLE CECILIA DELGADO expanded second edition, translated by M. Kasper and Bhamati Viswanatham, with a new introduction by McKenzie Wark ADJUA GARGI NZINGA GREAVES DIMITRA IOANNOU LAURA RIDING Close Chaplet SIBYL KEMPSON SUSANA THÉNON Ova Completa CLAUDIA LA ROCCO translated by Rebekah Smith ADITI MACHADO as well as art-historical investigations CHANTAL MAILLARD THE WAYLAND RUDD COLLECTION TINASHE MUSHAKAVANHU Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture SAWAKO NAKAYASU ed. Yevgeniy Fiks TAMMY NGUYEN LETTERPRESS/POETRY: ALEKSANDR SKIDAN Interviews with Poet-Printer-Publishers ed. Kyle Schlesinger; co-published with Cuneiform Press MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI STEVEN ZULTANSKI RECENT TITLES & SELECTED BACKLIST LILIANA PONCE MARIO MONTALBETTI DIARY LANGUAGE IS A REVOLVER FOR TWO

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Liliana Ponce (Buenos Aires, 1950) is a 3. Days when the sun opens a Mario Montalbetti (Lima, Peru, poet and scholar of Japanese literature and dog—speaking 1953). PhD in Linguistics from MIT. He has dense, somber cloak. And the writing. She holds a degree in literature from taught linguistics at Cornell, UCLA and the Universidad de Buenos Aires and has imaginary rain is like a sheet cat­—meowing The University of Arizona. Currently, he is published five books of poetry in Argentina. of tinplate. Professor of Linguistics at the Pontificia Her poems, essays, and translations of (mooing—cow) Universidad Católica del Perú. He has Japanese poetry have appeared in journals Still, sniper of Sundays, I published 9 books of poems. His poetry has both in Argentina and internationally. Her launch myself into the cry of lion—roaring, tiger been published in Mexico (by Aldus) and work has been previously translated into Spain (Liliputienses). Excerpts of his work the birds. French and was included in Voix d´Argentine crow—cawing have been published in Ecuador (Ruido (París, 2006). Thinning grass. Blanco) and Argentina (Mansalva). He is I'm drunk on the moon, on the goose—squawk a member of the Editing Committee of Diary is a twenty-part sequence that mixes Hueso Húmero, a journal of arts and letters names of grievances. the monotony of a long summer, the anxiety ing published in Lima, Perú. of creation, and a lush dream-scape of forests Silence falls: my mountain, and vines. The poem meditates on what it my tower. Language Is a Revolver for Two means to remember, to wander, and to write parrot—chatting revolves around the premise that within an while the shadow of the void, of an inevitable economy of supply and demand (such as nothingness that hides in glances and small 4. It's the afternoon which (chatting parrot, language) the supply never affects love. Thus, objects, lurks beneath the surface. “¿Qué coins and tramways, imaginary Inca poets, is eternal, which places es lo que recomienza?” Ponce asks—what coo cooing dove) and black olives are examined in order to is it that begins again? And where can you melancholy on our eyelids, intervene in such a framework and, ultimately, begin? Diary introduces English-language to find something outside of it. which sinks me into this tide man, wo readers to the work of one of Argentina’s most of spaces. singular writers. man–speaking, Translated from Spanish The relative point is the veil of by Clare Sullivan Translated from Spanish pain. I cannot walk anymore speak by Michael Martin Shea save between trees. ing, until the heart "Are you new to the invisible bridge?" they say. is pulp Transform me, my love, make Her intense body of work is, without silencing–a bonze me grow in the perishable, in exaggeration, one of the most personal The foremost maître à penser in that has appeared in Spanish in decades. the death of my infancy. on fire recent Latin American poetry. — REYNALDO JIMÉNEZ — MIRKO LAUER

SEÑAL #8 SEÑAL #7 ISBN 978-1-946433-18-3 ISBN 978-1-946433-17-6 CHAPBOOK CHAPBOOK FALL 2018 FALL 2018 WINGSTON GONZÁLEZ ELLIE GA NO BUDU PLEASE NORTH WAS HERE

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Wingston González (Livingston, whos coming. fock you. I At the beginning north was here. Ellie Ga's immersive, wide-ranging Guatemala, 1986) is a textual producer. In investigations range from the classification addition to poetry, he has worked in the complain. But it keeps changing. That’s of stains on city sidewalks to the charting of fields of dance, visual arts, music, and where we were. This is our world. the quotidian in the frozen reaches of the artistic action. His published work includes I complain. I tend to bite Arctic Ocean. In performances, video-essays Los magos del crepúsculo [y blues otra vez] We had a couple of trips outside of and installations, Ga’s braided narratives (Cultura), CafeínaMC: segunda parte, la fiesta my lip at intertwine extensive research with first-hand y sus habitantes (Catafixia), CafeínaMC: this map but not maybe more than experiences that often follow uncertain leads primera parte, la anunciación de la fiesta parties an not danse. I four days altogether. These are and take unexpected turns. She has exhibited (Folia), san juan — la esperanza (Literal; and performed internationally: the New Germinal), Miss muñecas vudu (Germinal), pressure ridges. I tried to name Museum, The Kitchen, and the Guggenheim Espuma sobre las piedras (Catafixia; complain. like Museum, among others. Her video work is in collaboration with choreography by them after things I know, like the in the public collections of the Guggenheim, a drug my body Alejandra Garavito) and so on. national mountain of Norway. the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, as dispersed into da No Budu Please emerges in the voice There is another one over there. well as several French museums. Her work is of “an artificial boy in some sort of plastic featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. cartilage of da boy dat And that one doesn’t have a name. prairie,” as he zeroes in on desire, spirit, and diversion. A diversion for all those forgotten North Was Here is a book of four short and on the outskirts, impenetrable. González stares at da projects related to Ga’s 2006 residency aboard has carved out a distinctive way of creating This is the area where the polar The Tara—a research vessel lodged in the ice beats with words, a spiritual questioning ekcess frum afar. godless of the Arctic Ocean, and the second boat in of godliness, and a space of immersion in a bears used to hang around. They history built to drift indefinitely in pack ice. lanscapes. Garifuna history marked by the 1797 expulsion hung around for a week. Around It includes three arctic booklets made during from St. Vincent and subsequent exile to the the continuous polar night as the boat was coast of Central America. dey are not Ethopian some hummocks. A hummock is a drifting, as well as a new piece that juxtaposes Polaroids and documentary footage stills that big pile of ice. Translated from Spanish anjels. dey wan the artist used for a related video piece, “At the by Urayoán Noel Beginning North Was Here.” This artist's book a rasta boy who can sing contains 48 full-color plates, three duotone That’s Tartu. That’s Helsinki. images, and 32 black & white drawings. a myth a star Copenhagen is not here. It broke a glass of gifiti up when we were building the Ellie Ga picks apart the world, A tantalizing toying with the eye and ear. no budu please runway. inventing for herself its own heart. —LATASHA N. NEVADA DIGGS —KATHERINE BEAMAN

SEÑAL #9 ISBN 978-1-946433-19-0 ISBN 978-1-946433-14-5 CHAPBOOK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2018 FALL 2018 ARTIS OSTUPS DIANA HAMILTON GESTURES GOD WAS RIGHT

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Artis Ostups is the author of the poetry AN INLAND LIGHTHOUSE Diana Hamilton is the author of three collections Comrade Snow (Biedrs Sniegs), God wanted books—God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Photography and Scissors (Fotografija un Presse), The Awful Truth (Golias Books), škeres), and Gestures (Žesti). In addition Poland at night — a black, me to become and Okay, Okay (Truck Books)—and four to poetry, he writes literary criticism. He is taciturn landscape, as if chapbooks, including Universe (UDP). She a researcher at the Institute of Literature, the immortal writes poetry, fiction, and criticism about Folklore, and Art and the founder and editor- it was photographed with style, crying, shit, kisses, dreams, fainting, in-chief of the online magazine Punctum. the lid still on. Emptiness writing, and re-reading. You can walk through His work has been translated into English, protagonist of audio recordings of her dreams in the first- German, French, Russian, Lithuanian, after emptiness. Pulsating person shooter by Alejandro Miguel Justino Slovenian, and Croatian. here and there — HOTEL de Beauvoir’s All Crawford in Diana Hamilton’s Dreams (Gauss FOX, DRIVE-IN — the light PDF). Her poetry and critical writing have Gestures is a collection of prose poems of which, reflecting in the Men are Mortal, appeared (or are forthcoming) in BOMB, connecting seemingly distinct elements, Lambda Literary, and Social Text Journal found either in urban space or in the realms dark screen, is an inland the title of which among others. of cultural history. Some readers, who lighthouse for weary had a chance to experience these ghostly truckers. A bus sways on God Was Right collects poems that take constellations in their original Latvian, suggests that the form of arguments, essays, and letters. complained that they cast a melancholic the bend of the narrow The title poem argues that God was right to spell. Descriptions of landscapes and road, and awakens me said protagonist make us love cats (and then watch them die); people pose no consoling effect, instead to an already-read book. another categorizes the way women like to be they function as darkened reflections of must have been kissed; one proposes a sex ed that takes into complex human emotions, trying to escape Anonymous villages on account persuasion and pleasure; another metaphysical abstractions. Cadence is there, the other side of the hills, misgendered: argues men should write bad poetry; a letter but lyricism is not its master. on which the golden age of tries to make friendship about love; a five- paragraph essay tries to disarm heartbreak industry slumbers. Images Translated from Latvian women live via analysis; etc. These poems/essays are by Jayde Will from the past unite in fine hyperbolic attempts to write something facets like an insect’s eye. forever, in order to adequate to a feeling. An insomnia machine see that there is with windows clouded by drunks has thrust me no point in love, or Hamilton has something Prose poems that drop you towards Europe’s lowest genuinely distinctive, insightful, gently into the rainy dusk. point. in cats. and important to tell us. —MATTHEW ROHRER —CRAIG DWORKIN

EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #43 DOSSIER ISBN 978-1-937027-90-2 ISBN 978-1-946433-04-6 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2018 FALL 2018 ZAHRA PATTERSON LISA ROGAL CHRONOLOGY FEED ME WEIRD THINGS

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Zahra Patterson is a writer and educator. TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATION Lisa Rogal is the author of Morning Ritual Her short fiction has appeared in Kalyani REAL THING (United Artists Books), and the chapbook The Magazine and The Felt, and a reading of her ATTEMPT 2 New Realities (Third Floor Apartment Press). play, Sappho’s Last Supper, was staged at Her poems have appeared in Elderly, Visceral WOW Café Theatre. She learned postcolonial Brooklyn, Portable Boog Reader, Greetings, theory in the bookshops of Nairobi and the let’s get coffees and Poems by Sunday, among other bars of Cape Town and has an MFA in Writing You came weeping publications. A graduate of the MFA program from Pratt Institute. at Long Island University, she currently I am looking and hoping teaches and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Chronology explores the spaces language in the wind occupies in relationships, colonial history, Up to now those like dawn are Feed Me Weird Things is about and the postcolonial present. It is a collage the importance of the unimportant: the of images and documents, folding on words- grieved quotidian, the overlooked, the natural that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers & feel better than world, the pain or beauty of longing, the of meaning of queering love, friendship, I am at a loss, medicinal stranger persistence of uncertainty. With a voice at death, and power. Traveling from Cape once irreverent and sincere, the poems enact Town to the Schomburg Center in New York, That I am a fighter meaning through attentiveness, ambiguity, Chronology reveals and revels in fragments of and humor. the past-personal and the present-political. this They bocheng. Without reason.

I splintered, full of arrogance in the future Hello, ha ho poho-peli,

Bull runs without reason

Rogal’s lean lyrics offer a lounge-y Yes your hair, yes something, missing this positive capability that moves the Yes we do drill needle on living intelligence. — EDMUND BERRIGAN We have changed to silence will be better Rogal’s poems deliver the joyful My surprise is our action to do squeeze of desire. Their short, slightly You won’t regret living this & surreal, lyrical lines reveal an infectious you won’t be the same. good in the face of evil. than the real thing delight in language, in freakishness, —SARAH RIGGS in making and grappling, in play. — KAREN WEISER DOSSIER ISBN 978-1-946433-02-2 TRADE PAPERBACK CHAPBOOK FALL 2018 FALL 2018 VASILISK GNEDOV NOUGÉ / COLINET / SCUTENAIRE ALPHABET FOR THE ENTRANTS IDEAS HAVE NO SMELL: THREE BELGIAN SURREALIST BOOKLETS

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Vasilisk (Vasily) Gnedov (1890- Oflustrelessunligh- Paul Nougé (1895-1967) was a founding 1978), a central figure in Russian Futurism, member of both the Belgian Communist published his best-known work, Death to Art, Party (1921) and the Belgian Surrealist Group on the brink of the first World War. Abrasive dimlongreeng (1924), and his experiments in creative and wily in his younger years, he became plagiarism became known for versions of a known for his provocations and poetry, which thequailwhiskou- famous grammar text, pulp pornography, and actively sought to collapse language in on work by Baudelaire and Maupassant. Paul itself. Swept up by the cataclysmic events rouslyprickles Colinet (1898-1957) founded several key of twentieth-century Russia, he eventually Belgian avant-garde journals and published returned to his homeland of Ukraine, where Wheezabusiflaxellu- two books of poems and prose poems before he died in obscurity. his early death. Louis Scutenaire (1905- minaspen 1987) was a lawyer and anarchist who joined Alphabet for the Entrants is the first the Surrealist Group in 1926. He was most stand-alone volume of poetry by Vasilisk Withisredsick- famous for his aphorisms, first published in Gnedov available in English. Marked by 1945 as "Mes Inscriptions." the vibrancy and self-grandiosity of a lepiercedmanbou- rising literary star, the early poems seek Ideas Have No Smell collects the first to forge a new language by disassembling English-language translation of three Belgian the old. The later poems, stripped of formal toad Surrealist works: Transfigured Publicity, visual experimentation, reveal a meditative texts by Nougé; the whimsical, hand-drawn consciousness refined through years of Curletsplashously- artist’s book, Abstractive Treatise on Obeuse personal turmoil. By turns inscrutable and by Colinet; and For Balthazar, a collection of aphoristic, caustic and tender, morose and birchreetheesing aphorisms and observations by Scutenaire. ebullient, the poems express the poet’s In addition to the booklets presented in evolving view of poetry and the rapidly theoutsingingfleway- a facsimile-style translation, this special changing world around him. edition includes an introduction by scholar withesun Mary Ann Caws and a poster reproduction Translated from Russian of the 1926 handwritten panneau of Nougé’s by Emilia Loseva and Danny Winkler We’rethoughtobe- visual poems.

Translated from French thefools by M. Kasper butwefools’rebettert- Introduction by Mary Ann Caws hanthecleverone The joyful energy and bewildering chaos of A delightful sampler of three Gnedov’s futurist poetry truly comes to life. offbeat virtuosos. — CRISPIN BROOKS —MCKENZIE WARK LOST LITERATURE #25 EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #44 ISBN 978-1-946433-13-8 CHAPBOOK SPECIAL EDITION FALL 2018 FALL 2018 ALEXIS ALMEIDA ANNA VITALE I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SING OUR RIMBAUD MASK

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Alexis Almeida is a poet and translator. I have never won the Wojnarowicz likely copied Anna Vitale is the author of Detroit Detroit She is the author of Half-Shine (Dancing ESSAY/ART/CRITICISM and Different Worlds, and the chapbooks the image from the cover of Girl Press) and the chapbook I Have Never lottery. I have never Unknown Pleasures, Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems, Been Able to Sing (UDP). Her translations the New Directions edition of and Breaststa. Recent poems and prose have include Roberta Iannamico’s Wreckage (Toad appeared in Alienocene, Columbia Poetry Press), Marina Yuszczuk’s Single Mother flown to Lapland. I Illuminations. In this portrait, Review, Full Stop, and Jacket2. She earned (Spork Press), Dalia Rosetti’s Dreams and an MFA from Bard and a PhD from the one of the few photographs that Nightmares (Les Figues) and Florencia have never ice-fished, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She hosts Castellano’s Monitored Properties (UDP). exists of the French Decadent the Tenderness Junction on WFMU in Jersey She teaches in the Language and Thinking though I would like to. City and teaches writing in New York. Program at Bard College and at the Bard poet, the seventeen-year-old Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library. When I read a poem, I looks away from us at something Our Rimbaud Mask follows the early She lives in Brooklyn, where she runs 18 Owls publication history of David Wojnarowicz’s Press. wonder if it is doing we cannot see [ . . . ] The forever “Arthur Rimbaud in New York” photographic young Rimbaud appears wise series in order to show that our identification I Have Never Been Able to Sing with Rimbaud, and with any artist, must draws inspiration from the discursive, non- anything. I don’t hold beyond his years. He looks both remain a site of inquiry and curiosity rather linear sentences of Rosmarie Waldrop’s The than an obvious source of similitude. What to the future and to the past Reproduction of Profiles and Édouard Levé’s on to promises. I am forms of identification are sustainable and Autoportrait, as well as from the intricate where infinite possibility meets a which ones are destructive? How do we know curvature of Leon Ferrari’s heliographic not making overtures. the difference? This essay draws together drawings and Leslie Hewitt’s multi-layered condensation of time, where what archival research, psychoanalytic theory, photographs. Unfolding through a series I can’t walk in and out has not yet happened converges and impassioned close readings to lay claim of discrete moments and overlapping to one of the most taboo fantasies staged fragments, the poem explores the unstable of language. I am not with what already has. [ . . . ] But in the series: suicide. The Rimbaud mask, ground of dichotomy, the constant slippage different from the image of Rimbaud, invites Rimbaud will be a poet and, for between past and present, real and imagined coming down from us to become compassionate witnesses to selves. many of us who identify with those whose lives feel unsurvivable without assuming the experience can be shared. an episode. I assume the New York Downtown scene, Listed in Entropy’s Best Rimbaud will have felt like our Poetry Books of 2018 the weight of objects. poet. And he, whoever he is, has I often close my eyes been representing us, whoever we Vitale’s text cleaves so beautifully around I continue to believe in the the ‘we’ and ‘him.’ It gives me so much to magnificent modesty of the cycle. when I’m rushed. are, for a long time think about—propelling in lived intellection. — JOHN GODFREY — DOUGLAS A. MARTIN

ISBN 978-1-946433-20-6 CHAPBOOK PAMPHLET FALL 2018 FALL 2018 ROD ROLAND OMAR CÁCERES NO RIGHT WORDS DEFENSE OF THE IDOL

POETRY POETRY

Rod Roland is a poet and artist living Instructions for The trees are drunk, from the Omar Cáceres (1904-1943) was a in San Francisco. His books include The nocturnal lights, cult poet in the Chilean avant-garde. He Playgroup (Gas Meter), Thrasher2 (Gas sunrise. Go away and they drag their shadows, published one book of poetry, Defense of Meter), Best Loved (Old Gold) and Lunch nervous and stiff. the Idol (1934), with an introduction by Poems. from my window. Their shadows, which strangle Vicente Huidobro, of which only two copies It's the night’s winds, survived after Cáceres tried to burn the In No Right Words, Roland offers shelter and rattle me, as if I was entire print run upon publication due to the an intimate meditation on poethood, not me you're a bird. edition’s numerous typos. He had ties with parenthood, and personhood in And my steps echo in their black the Communist Party, and according to poet contemporary San Francisco. Can a poet still looking for. I see boughs, Jorge Teillier, played the violin in an orchestra live a bohemian life of refusal in America’s a man about my and the weakest of hooks fill me of the blind. He was murdered by unknown most expensive city? Will his daughter with vertigo; assailants in 1943. let him sleep in after a night of drunken problems yet when I cast my eye on them composition? What do Joanne Kyger and from a pair of simpler ones, Defense of the Idol is presented here Gertrude Stein have to do with any of it? my ever-shifting they answer me, swaying, that for the first time in English translation, along The answers to these questions and more center. A they remained intact… with the sole foreword Vicente Huidobro lurk within Roland’s intimate, journal-like The leaves, dilating the shared ever wrote for a poet. The poems of Cáceres columns. troubled horse shadows, possess a ghostly, metaphysical energy No Right Words features a letterpress cover kicks the return like ruined boats to their combined with modern-age imagery: bows printed at Impart Ink, an errant studio, from tree. pulsate, moons hurtle, rains sing, trees handset ornaments and type from William horse behind it. I They cannot, oh, attain the solid drag their shadows in drunk stupors, winds Everson’s legendary Lime Kiln Press. banks break the sky open. But the interior life of got up, dressed that the tips of heavenly bodies the poet assumes dominance, interrogated announce from above, through anguished, turbulent dreamscapes Co-published with Bird & Beckett Books up, burned my yet quivering and thick with of language. hand on silence they plow through deep and freezing ponds Translated from Spanish hot coffee, of miracle. by Mónica de la Torre put on the And in the nocturnal trees embracing the earth, No Right Words … or “Know. Write. Words.” oldies station, I find oblivion and mercy, when in where “No” is a wake up call and all the despair, right words fall into place. No Right showered and while the light runs down their Words is poetry made of spliced field stretched into the boughs, recordings of the mind, its melodies, its thin, diaphanous… LIKE WATER The poet makes the case for the need ample subtle and complex rhythms. pain of my flank. BETWEEN MY HANDS! to experience a different world. — NORMA COLE — VICENTE HUIDOBRO

LOST LITERATURE #23 ISBN 978-1-946433-03-9 CHAPBOOK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2018 SPRING 2018 CHRISTINE HERZER SARETTA MORGAN ORANGE FEELING UPON ARRIVAL

POETRY POETRY

Christine Herzer is an artist, poet and There was still space inside As a text-based artist, Saretta Morgan’s teacher. Working across mediums (drawing, there was an urgent work engages relationships between text, language-objects, installation, the fridge. I don’t think my intimacy and organization. Recent writing video, workshop), her practice employs need for instruments has appeared or is forthcoming in The accumulation and gestures of ‘over-layering’, fears would have minded Guardian, The Volta, Nepantla, Apogee and ‘covering up’, ‘erasing’, ‘interrupting/ of observation. we Best American Experimental Writing. She has disrupting’ and ‘complicating’, in order to having company, but I couldn’t designed interactive, text-based experiences address and process questions of invisibility laid our hands on one for The Whitney Museum of American Art, + meaning (= love). Her writing has appeared be sure. I didn’t want to risk Dia Beacon, and Tenri Cultural Institute. in numerous literary journals and online Saretta received a BA from Columbia publications, including Fence, The Offending contaminating my fears with another, on bedposts, University and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Adam, The Volta, Blackbox Manifold, She is a 2016-2017 Lower Manhattan Cultural RealPoetik, Seymour Magazine, and 3:AM a new fear. I wasn’t sure who old door frames, xerox Council Workspace resident and author of Magazine. She has taught Creative Writing the chapbook, Room for a Counter Interior in India at Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, the new fear belonged to, if it machines… isn’t it (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs) Pune, and The National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Herzer is the 2018 Laureate belonged to me, if the new fear Inspired by the potential of space to ‘Ecritures’ of a writing residency at La Cité true that we are, at order experiences of time and desire, the des Arts, Paris. qualified as fear. Does shame language in Feeling Upon Arrival turns some point, capable qualify as fear? In my opinion, between orienting device and sensual index. Orange is concerned with space-making. Characters emerge and disperse as gestures Orange contains declarations (“Poets are a fridge’s interior light, the of anything? someone across a queered and somatic geography in containers. Containers deserve respect”) pursuit of the bodies present landscapes and language-situations, including the hire combination of glass and deny. of a professional lover to address money wanted to know. issues. Reading Orange might impact the plastic is too elegant a space Listed in Entropy's Best way you experience words such as ‘fridge’, our mouths produced Poetry Books of 2018 ‘fear‘, ‘toast’, and ‘handwash’. If Orange had to have to contain shame and a texture it would be soft. If you believe that noncommittal forms, feelings smell, Orange might be for you. other food items. With the but we were on to exception of Nutella. Nutella emits light. Nutella is wasted something sensitive to I always feel more respectful of the world In this text, the language of theory takes when I’ve been reading this poet. inside a fridge. temperature and light. on the character of a metaphysics. — LAURA MULLEN — DOUGLAS KEARNEY

CHAPBOOK CHAPBOOK SPRING 2018 SPRING 2018 JASON MORRIS SIMONE WHITE LEVON HELM DEAR ANGEL OF DEATH

POETRY POETRY/ESSAY

Jason Morris was born and raised in of thought, ok In reverse of rejection Simone White is the author of Dear Vermont and now lives in San Francisco. His revulsion reversion Angel of Death (UDP), Of Being Dispersed chapbooks are Spirits & Anchors (Auguste at day’s end, my (Futurepoem), and House Envy of All the Press), From the Golden West Notebooks impatience now restrospection World (Factory School), and the chapbooks (Allone Co.), Local News (Bird & Beckett suddenly absolute redrawing review Unrest (UDP) and Dolly (with Kim Thomas; Books), Takes (Bootstrap Press), and Late remind recognize Q Avenue). Recent poems and prose have to Practice (Dirty Swan). For seven years, he the record is over appeared in BOMB, New York Times Book reminisce was the editor of Big Bell magazine; with J Zugzwang. I get Review, Harper’s, and Frieze. In 2017, she Grabowski, he founded the small press PUSH. remembrance received the Whiting Award for poetry. She recollection teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Levon Helm is Jason Morris’ first full- up & flip it, needle lives in Brooklyn. length collection, a picaresque situated screeches lost ugly in the drum and voice of mind. Like the stubbornly persistent Half poems, half prose, Dear Angel drummer-singer with whom it shares a name, handwritten contextual negativity of Death braids intimate and public its influences are broad but firmly American. locomotive beginning knowledge thinking about forms of togetherness. Is one Along with bits torn from the edges of Moby- woman a mother, a person in an artworld, Dick and The Maltese Falcon, it mines the marginalia & of consistently a “black”? What imaginary and real spirits margins of Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation. downwardly now pleasing immemorial are her guides? The title essay proposes As it takes stock of the immediacy and scale suddenly mobile. The connection disinvestment in the idea of the Music as of places in the American West like Pinnacles the highest form of what blackness “is” and the Puget Sound, its psychic roots dig a whole table folds, and includes many forms: philosophical haunted, old New England. These lyric poems reantes. staging or divergence on the problem of folds for black are takes on human memory in geological Next round the reconstructing the life, a close reading of Nathaniel Mackey’s time, as interested in their own asides and human qualities neverending novel From a Broken Bottle parentheticals as they are in the elements. sumptuous Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, and an moment she asks which, for us, form the impassioned defense-cum-dismissal of basis of what has been contemporary hip hop’s convergence with to slower go, I read considered the same capitalism. over the course of as several Listed in Entropy’s Best Poetry Books of 2018 “it is super R&B and you such days: how won’t like it because it

A keen, generous artifact of the life dissolute is too slow and a tad I get this pinwheel relationship to wisdom of a poet in the 21st century. do you wanna get? boring.” & history when I read Simone White. — ALLI WARREN — EILEEN MYLES

DOSSIER ISBN 978-1-946433-11-4 ISBN 978-1-937027-67-4 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2018 SPRING 2018 ROBERT FITTERMAN LAURA RIDING THIS WINDOW MAKES ME FEEL EXPERTS ARE PUZZLED

POETRY FICTION/CRITICISM

Robert Fitterman is the author of 15 This window makes me feel like I At least, that is to say, I am Laura Riding (1901-1991) was a poet, books of poetry. He has collaborated with novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and several visual artists, including Serkan am trembling with fear because a stranger of a fixed old publisher. While primarily known for Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Fia Backström, Tim normally I’m a heavy-sleeper. This age and I am not puzzled. the critical works that she co-authored Davis and Klaus Killisch, and is the founding with Robert Graves—A Pamphlet Against window makes me feel numb and member of the international artists and Ask me anything you like Anthologies and A Survey of Modernist writers collective, Collective Task. He teaches skeptical about most everything. and I will give you a not- Poetry—Riding also left behind an incredibly at New York University and is a member of the powerful body of poetry and prose works This window makes me feel like I’m puzzled answer. I will not writing faculty of the Milton Avery School of that, regrettably, remain little read today. the Arts at Bard College. watching a runner and she wants give you an answer. I am Famously rejecting poetry early in her me to cross that river. This window a stranger. I do not live, I career, she spent the last decades of her life Written in the long shadow of 9/11, This co-writing a theoretical work on linguistics, Window Makes Me Feel replaces the makes me feel satisfied to know am only alive. I hear the Rational Meaning, with her husband Schuyler individual poet’s response to catastrophe that I’ve reached a lot of people. birds with lice under their Jackson. She was awarded the Bollingen with a collective, multi-vocal chorus of Prize in 1991, the very same year she died. everyday articulations. Never before This window makes me feel like he wings singing, but I do published in its entirety, This Window… is one isn’t interested or he’s just bored not understand because Experts Are Puzzled is one of of the earliest examples of a long poem solely Laura Riding’s earliest and most intense because all he does is sleep or composed with repurposed web language. I am not a bird with lice examinations of poetry’s and language’s watch TV—he doesn’t hardly ever under my wings singing. I relationship to truth. Riding seeks to Listed in Frieze’s Best Books of 2018 talk to me. This window makes am not an expert, I am not articulate a higher, more poetic notion of truth and truth telling. As such, Experts me feel like I’m cheating because puzzled. I am a stranger. Are Puzzled stands as an essential text for I’ve been intimate with an old If you are in search of understanding why Riding came to reject poetry in the late 1930s. While excerpts and boyfriend online. This window information you must selections from Experts have been published makes me feel like he’s choosing listen to your own young before, most notably in Riding’s Progress of Stories, the entirety of the collection has not to go on a date with her instead of familiar voice singing and appeared in print since its initial publication just stopping her from hurting me. scratch your own young by Jonathan Cape in 1930. This window makes me feel like my familiar breast where it Edited by George Fragopoulos current generation is too often itches. I am only a poor described in ways to imply that stranger of a fixed old age Simultaneously banal, vile, … fiction and philosophy are inextricably funny, and sincere. we need to be fixed or corrected. and not at all puzzled. and wonderfully melded. — ED STECK — JOHN ASHBERY

LOST LITERATURE #19 ISBN 978-1-937027-95-7 ISBN 978-1-937027-86-5 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2018 SPRING 2018 LAURA RIDING ANNE BOYER CONVALESCENT CONVERSATIONS A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE

FICTION ESSAY/CRITICISM

Laura Riding (1901-1991) was a poet, On their second morning together In that year made Anne Boyer’s books include the novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and essay collection A Handbook of publisher. While primarily known for Eleanor and Adam talked about from the minutes Disappointed Fate, A Romance of the critical works that she co-authored Happy Workers, My Common Heart, and with Robert Graves—A Pamphlet Against themselves. First they discussed of our senses, we Garments Against Women, which received Anthologies and A Survey of Modernist held our cognitive the 2016 Firecracker Award from CLMP. Poetry—Riding also left behind an incredibly childhood—because Adam had Boyer is a recipient of the 2018 Cy Twombly powerful body of poetry and prose works after-the-flood. There Award in Poetry from the Foundation for said that being ill was like being a that, regrettably, remain little read today. Contemporary Arts and the 2018 Whiting we were the lambs Famously rejecting poetry early in her child again; it was awkward being Award for poetry and nonfiction. She lives in career, she spent the last decades of her life appropriating the Kansas City. co-writing a theoretical work on linguistics, a child, and awkward being ill. Rational Meaning, with her husband Schuyler contents of the sky A Handbook of Disappointed Jackson. She was awarded the Bollingen Also, people behaved the same and the field for the Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s Prize in 1991, the very same year she died. interrogative writing on poetry, death, love, way to you. Eleanor would not lambs. The shadows lambs, and other impossible questions. Convalescent Conversations tells the story of Adam and Eleanor, two patients agree that being ill was like being formed by clouds recovering from unknown maladies in a a child again. She had not enjoyed were a literature. We nondescript sanitarium. Through a series of increasingly esoteric philosophical being a child, and she had enjoyed heard love songs in conversations regarding topics such as God, love, and the meaning of illness, Adam and being ill. When you were a child the nearness of each Eleanor come to tell the stories of who they other’s backs; we saw are and what ails them. While not strictly people were always expecting an allegorical work, it is difficult to not see monuments in our historical parallels between the suffering of things of you, and whatever you the protagonists and the state of the world in shared perception Anne Boyer’s essays meet disappointment did was watched and weighed the late 1930s. of quivers. We knew with a succor forged in rage. Her writing and commented on. When you is a balm and a bomb all its own. Edited by George Fragopoulos what was above our — FRED MOTEN were ill you were left pretty much heads not as hawk An irreproachable jewel, equal in wit to yourself. People were cruel to and not-hawk: we To read Anne Boyer is to join an and ferocity and linguistic acuteness underdog collectivity, “both always in to the best fiction of the century. children, but kind to invalids. knew the air as the air. this world and looking for another.” — WAYNE KOESTENBAUM — JACE CLAYTON

LOST LITERATURE #20 DOSSIER ISBN 978-1-937027-85-8 ISBN 978-1-937027-92-6 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2018 SPRING 2018 JURE DETELA ARNALDO CALVEYRA MOSS & SILVER LETTERS SO THAT HAPPINESS

POETRY POETRY

Jure Detela was born in Ljubljana in 1951. For all the past and Suddenly, how Argentine poet, novelist, and Although he was an important figure in the playwright Arnaldo Calveyra tumultuous avant-garde movement that wonderful! I came attracted critical attention with his first book dominated Slovene culture in the 1980s, he everything that exists, looking through loose of poetry, Cartas para que la alegria; Julio nevertheless stood somewhat apart from its Cortázar, Carlos Mastronardi and Victoria autumn and slowed to a main currents. As a poet, he was widely read, bodies will receive Ocampo were early champions of his work. and conducted an ongoing dialogue in his thistle beside the slide The author of over 25 works of literature verse with an astounding array of poets from piled high with dead and theater, Calveyra was the recipient of many different traditions—from the Greek gravity, numerous honors in his lifetime including classics and Japanese haiku masters to the leaves. Wild! recently France’s highest award for contributions to English and German Romantics and French hearts unrest, bloomed and gone into the arts, the Commandeur des Arts et des Decadents. He was also an accomplished Lettres in 1999. critic and art historian. Jure Detela died the raw milk. I went out and souls the anguish in Ljubljana in 1992, from complications running from its side in Letters So That Happiness (Cartas resulting from a hunger strike against the para qe la alegría), tells the story of the Yugoslav regime in Belgrade. that results from a trance, from its silent author’s one-way journey as a young man drunkenness I went off from his home in the northern pampas to The forty-four poems of Moss & Silver Buenos Aires in 1950. It was the first leg of a anticipate the radical environmentalism and memory’s feeble with the dogs; “it’s here, journey that would end in exile. In this gentle, animal rights activism of the 21st century it’s here” … and us and diffuse text in which time and place radiate while engaging in a passionate dialogue power within the woken sugar and and recede and spring up many and green, with a wide array of poets from William Letters strikingly anticipates the collusive Wordsworth to Kobayashi Issa. Originally the breads shared in the forces that would shape the rest of his life vigilant love for published in 1983 by Obzorja (Maribor), celebration. — dissolution and preservation. Letters So Moss & Silver is the first book of Jure Detela’s That Happiness is the first of his works to be poems to appear in English. alien consciousnesses, translated and published in English. And now it’s already Translated from Slovene until the ants curded, so white, so Translated from Spanish by Raymond Miller and Tatjana Jamnik by Elizabeth Zuba much a flourish of pure arrive white, the blue. to deliver corpses I went calmly into the A language of a sustained and unvarying tone that allows us to Now I’m remembering why I love poetry. across the land. wild thistle, Mama. access volatile capacities. — CATHY WAGNER — CARLOS MASTRONARDI

EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #42 LOST LITERATURE #22 ISBN 978-1-937027-94-0 ISBN 978-1-946433-05-3 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2018 SPRING 2018 MIRTHA DERMISACHE DUCHAMP / WOOD / ROCHÉ SELECTED WRITINGS THE BLIND MAN

ART POETRY/ART/CRITICISM

Mirtha Dermisache (Buenos Aires, Marcel Duchamp was a French (later 1940-2012) studied visual arts at the Manuel American) artist, writer, sculptor, best known Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón National for his contributions to Cubism, Dada, and School of Fine Arts. In 1967 she finished Surrealism, and his influence on later artists her first 500-page book, after which she and writers. Beatrice Wood was an American continued with the development of her artist, writer, and ceramicist. Henri-Pierre graphisms. Her works were published by the Roché was a French writer, journalist, art Center for Art and Communication, Marc collector and dealer. Dachy, and Guy Schraenen as well as in the magazines Flash Art, Doc(k)s, Kontext, The Blind Man is a facsimile edition of Ephemera, and Ax. The Blind Man and rongwrong, two seminal New York Dada magazines edited and Selected Writings, the first collection published by Marcel Ducahmp, Henri-Pierre of Dermisache’s works to be published in the Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917. Published United States, collects two complete books in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the and a selection of texts from the early 1970s, magazines' initial publication, this box set a rich and prolific period for the artist. Using also includes a two-color offset reproduction ink on paper, Dermisache invented an array of Beatrice Wood's poster for The Blind of graphic languages, each with their own Man's Ball (1917), a letterpress facsimile of unique lexical and syntactic structures. Man Ray's The Ridgefield Gazook (1915), and an introduction by scholar Sophie Seita. Co-published with Siglio Press Translations of the French texts by Elizabeth Zuba accompany the facsimile reprints.

Edited by Sophie Seita Listed in Frieze’s Best Books of 2017

In our current environment, it is difficult Named one of the Best Art Books of 2017 by the New York Times to look at [Dermisache’s] work and not think about the impossibility of discourse, the primacy of self-expression, and the fallacy of a shared objective language, not to think of this art as both radically political and necessary today. The premonition of institutional critique it — WILL FENSTERMAKER, summons remains provocatively equivocal. THE PARIS REVIEW — SARAH HAYDEN

LOST LITERATURE #21 DISTRIBUTED BY ARTBOOK | DAP ISBN 978-1-938221-17-0 ISBN 978-1-937027-88-9 TRADE PAPERBACK SPECIAL EDITION SPRING 2018 FALL 2017 MAROSA DI GIORGIO ELENI VAKALO I REMEMBER NIGHTFALL BEFORE LYRICISM

POETRY POETRY

Marosa di Giorgio (1932-2004) was Oh, to return to the family Eleni Vakalo (1921-2001) was a Greek poet, born in Salto, Uruguay and raised on her Plants have art critic, and art historian. In 1958, she and family's farm. Di Giorgio began writing in property, to cross the her husband, the painter and stage designer her childhood and published her first book field where the evening a different Yiorgos Vakalo, founded the Vakalo School of of poems at the age of twenty-two. She then Arts and Design, where she taught until 1990. went on to publish a total of fourteen books hydrangea lifts its head upbringing than Vakalo published fourteen books of poetry, of poetry, three collections of short stories, of smoke and feathers, its and was intimately involved with the design and one novel. While some critics have people and production of her early books. Indeed, categorized her as a surrealist, she herself murmuring head, its hat of Vakalo’s training as an art historian pushed denied membership in any literary movement glass and turquoise, where her to initiate new poetic uses of the page, or school. Their not moving drawing on her knowledge of modern and the fierce mushroom contemporary art to rethink the role of the I Remember Nightfall is the first appears, the toadstool of isn’t unique visual in the printed text. comprehensive collection of Uruguayan poet Before Lyricism includes six book-length Marosa di Giorgio’s work to be published poisonous foam, to cross Nor their not poems. By bringing these poems together in English translation, made up of her the fields sleeping with under a single cover, Before Lyricism allows first four book-length poems. Di Giorgio’s us to see the complex web of intertextual obsessive, magical gardens serve as a stage my eyes wide open, with committing relations that bind these books together. for the ongoing encounter of nature and my eyes closed, without Meanwhile, by bringing these poems into the supernatural. These serial prose poems suicide English, this volume will enrich not only explore memory, family relationships, erotic making any mistake, our knowledge of this key period in Vakalo’s desire, and war, animating a world that is without tripping over the Plants are career, but English-language readers’ always on the verge of explosion. This is a understanding of modern Greek poetry as a bilingual edition. brambles, the bonfires, perpetual whole. the other beings who cross Translated from Spanish Translated from modern Greek by Jeannine Marie Pitas the field dreaming, toward revolutionaries by Karen Emmerich that citadel always visible Just think how Winner of the 2018 Best and lost, to go inside, to Translated Book Award eat dinner, to sin furiously. they grow during the hour of the Unnumbered years, closed Its celebration of mysteries Di Giorgio's writing is as foreboding as it is should excite readers who know tentacular, as intricate as it is unsettling. off like pastures, fog. moon little of Vakalo's reputation. — DANIEL BORZUTZKY — ZACH SAVICH

LOST LITERATURE #16 LOST LITERATURE #18 ISBN 978-1-937027-59-9 ISBN978-1-937027-70-4 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2017 FALL 2017 IGOR KHOLIN HIRATO RENKICHI KHOLIN 66: DIARIES AND POEMS SPIRAL STAIRCASE: COLLECTED POEMS

POETRY POETRY

Igor Kholin was a survivor of both WWII MEANINGFUL UNION Hirato Renkichi attended Sophia University and a Lianozovo labor camp before he was a Kholin is lard. in Tokyo for three years before dropping poet. His poetry remained unpublished until out and attending Gyosei Gakko to study the fall of the Soviet Union. He supported Kholin is the wheel Italian. He started writing poetry in 1912, himself with odd jobs: children’s book author, Look, first publishing inBanso under the guidance tutor, waiter and, after the 1970s, antiques of a whetstone. of Kawaji Ryuko. Although he worked at dealer. Kholin 66 is the first book of Kholin’s The speedy movement of Hochi Shimbun News and Chuo Bijutsu Art work in English translation. Kholin is the elbow Publishing, he suffered from a pulmonary froth, disease, often failing to make ends meet for his family. He passed away on July 20, 1922 in Kholin 66 is a trampoline into of a shirt. underground Soviet poet Igor Kholin’s life The smooth falling Tokyo, at the age of 29. and work through the window of a single autumn. In a string of acerbically related Kholin is the heart Shifts of the center, Spiral Staircase contains experiments in non-adventures excerpted from his 1966 speed, spatialization, and performability diary, Kholin moves to the country, sleeps a of a piece of Denture of curves, that were among the earliest productions lot, drinks and debauches among Moscow’s of Japanese avant-garde poetry. Renkichi literary underground, and eventually moves (ririri……ri……rin) created a unique brand of Futurism in the late back to the city. Broke and bitter, he details paper. 1910s to 1920s that influenced what became a his bemusement in terse, absurdist prose. lively community of Dadaist and Surrealist Simultaneous metallic The selection of Kholin’s poems features self- Kholin is the gut of writers in pre-war Japan. Spiral Staircase deprecating self-portraits, bleak views of the is the first definitive volume of Renkichi’s roar, Moscow outskirts, and strange visions of life a trough. poems, as well as the first book of Japanese on other planets. Futurist poetry, to appear in English. Echoes. Kholin is the lip of Translated from Russian Meaningful union! Translated from Japanese by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich a jackhammer. by Sho Sugita Look, Kholin is the god At this organic union, …formally radical, wry, performative, obsessive, gorgeous. of the tram. This mutuality of —WENDY XU I understand comfortable Moments of brilliance and imagination … a momentous, of-the-moment figure shine through the welts and bruises. Kholin. determination! little known in the English-speaking world. — GARY SULLIVAN — DAVID GRUBBS

EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES #40 LOST LITERATURE #15 ISBN 978-1-937027-99-5 ISBN 978-1-937027-66-7 TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK FALL 2017 SPRING 2017 MÓNICA DE LA TORRE CONSTANCE DEJONG THE HAPPY END / ALL WELCOME MODERN LOVE

POETRY FICTION

Mónica de la Torre is the author of six My English is no Everywhere I go I see losers. Constance DeJong has worked for over three books of poetry, including Pubic Domain Misfits like myself who can’t make decades on narrative form within the context (Roof Books) and Feliz año nuevo, a volume of avant-garde music and contemporary of selected poetry translated into Spanish good. it in the world. In London, New art. Considered one of the progenitors of (Luces de Gálibo) published in the spring York, Morocco, Rome, India, Paris, media art, or “time-based media,” DeJong’s of 2017. Born and raised in Mexico City, she My English is not Germany. I’ve started seeing the books include I.T.I.L.O.E. and SpeakChamber, writes in, and translates into, Spanish and and her work is included in numerous same people. I think I’m seeing English. Recent and upcoming publications very well. anthologies. She teaches at Hunter College include Triple Canopy, Harper’s, Poetry, The the same people. I wander around for the MFA and BA in Fine Arts. White Review, The Animated Reader (The New My English is… no staring at strangers thinking Museum), Erizo, The New Yorker, and huun: I know you from somewhere, I Modern Love is one thing made up of many. arte / pensamiento desde México. It’s science-fiction. It’s a detective story. It is English. don’t know where. The streets are a historical episode in the time of the Armada The Happy End / All Welcome is set My English is no always crowded and narrow, full and the dislocation of Sephardic Jews from in a job fair inspired by the Nature Theater of men. It’s always night and all Spain to an eventual location in New York’s of Oklahoma from Kafka’s unfinished novel strangers are men. lower east side. It is a first person narrator’s Amerika: the largest theater company in the where. story; Charlotte’s story; and Roderigo’s; and world is recruiting all kinds of employees. Fifi Corday’s. It is a 150 year old story about De la Torre builds, fastens, cuts, pastes, My English is not I hear talk of a new world Oregon and the story of a house in Oregon. performs, and extrudes a variety of poems Everywhere I go: eco-paleo- Modern Love’s continuity is made of flow and to suit this most serious situation comedy: good and it is motion, like an experience, it accumulates, as poems as job interviews, poems as postings, psycho-electro-cosmo talk. Of you read, at that moment, through successive poems as questionnaires, reports, speeches, heard badly. course, men do all the talking. I moments, right to the end. lyrical rants. don’t get the message, my ears My English is no ache; my eyes are falling out, Co-published with Primary Information frequently. I don’t see these street talkers as the makers of a new world. My English is Anyway, they’re not real losers. Engaging and hypnotic in the tradition I cannot imagine poetry without her. of storytelling where legend, fact, And the new world’s an old dream. — BOB HOLMAN no native so imagination and reality coalesce. — BOB REILLY They said, “Wait till you’re 27 then … de la Torre subverts recognizable apologies to form, reorienting the performance you’ll be sorry.” I’m 27. I’m not A forgotten classic of narrative of author, voice, and utterance. everyone. sorry. prose innovation. —NATHANIEL ROSENTHALIS — CHRIS KRAUS

LOST LITERATURE #17 ISBN 978-0-991558-52-0 ISBN 978-1-937027-73-5 DISTRIBUTED BY ARTBOOK | DAP TRADE PAPERBACK TRADE PAPERBACK SPRING 2017 SPRING 2017 WILL DADDARIO J. GORDON FAYLOR TO GRIEVE REGISTRATION CASPAR

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Will Daddario is a grief worker and The chronology of one day In a utility shed, a box personed J. Gordon Faylor is the author of educational consultant with Inviting dumb platinum auc, untrodden Disgruntled 1234567890 (Basic Editions), Abundance in Asheville, NC. He is also an at a time only makes sense moss artificially gray except for Marginal Twin Contribution (Troll Thread), the weeds crawling toward the internationally recognized scholar, author, where linear progress is and Docking, Rust Archon (bas-books), and editor within the fields of performance doorstep. The streets were dead. I among other publications. He edits Gauss philosophy and theatre studies. presumed or, indeed, hoped was working against myself, it felt. PDF. for. To borrow an expression Projection, continuity, yield and To Grieve asks the question, what does it accentuate lists, retreated to, if Registration Caspar follows Caspar, a mean to grieve rightly? It follows the author’s from Brecht, natura facit once campus, within them upon non-gendered entity, who has only five hours personal and philosophical ruminations left before it is executed by its employer. saltus. Beliefs to the contrary entrance, then, responsively after the sudden deaths of his son, father, gilding itself against the visitors’ Though it remains to be seen if this execution step-father, friend, grandmother, and cat. may in fact be beholden to weary padding up the steps, the is biological and programmatic in nature, it’s Attending specifically to the ways in which quavering n second, or n1, mice clear that money needs to be made for the grief-space appears, grief-time imposes a conservative agenda of blithering chunks of time—and two partners Caspar leaves behind. Enter that Chane Rao, that an awful itself, and grief-language bends itself around rebuilding everything as it Registration Caspar, at once a log of Caspar’s the emotional acuity of the wound, this long- ending in the ascendency to n1 life within the strangulated housing market status badgered him, scope and form essay nestles up against the unnamable was before. And while the of Ceaurgle—where it has taken on a second armaments, illumination a priori and pauses to measure its heft. job as a farmhand in order to supplement drawbacks of embracing n, damaged once into a war with another in the meteorological sequestration the Tencent Dictum Team which With a foreword by Matthew Goulish a new temporal schema is upcoming and once into the industry—and the hectic structuration of an income source. It’s already too late for the will show themselves fervent abuse of family members and thanae nearest exits from log, however, infiltrated as it has been by said immediately—extreme each intrusive badgering of their employer, and so made inextricably more sensibilities, tufts through grating, dizzying and deranged than the original. The awkwardness resulting from and vines. Servitude in a pulse of money is gone. air and backtalk about backtalk, the dismissal of familiar undertaking its scary culpability, habits, further alienation its confidential fantasies of thermodynamic equilibrium within from the multitude who Ceaurgle’s purview, I survived the barren ciliary handle of this idle sleep at night and work governance, told them their release system might unfurl a triple-batch during the day—the potential program, and, given its proclivity power of thinking time anew for as much reallotment, a bargain. An event of writing for which I Like there’d never be another crew know of no suitable name. is revolutionary. again. This is genre gone rogue. — LAURA CULL Ó MAOILEARCA — DIVYA VICTOR

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Written in the Dark: I dreamt a twofold I have been thinking of you since the Marina Tsvetaeva Five Poets in the day I saw you — has it been a month? wind, Letter to the Amazon Siege of Leningrad When I was young, I was eager to (tr. A'Dora Phillips & (ed. Polina Barskova) Germany, goiter and explain myself to others, I was afraid Gaëlle Cogan) of missing the wave rising from within Full of wit, gallows humor, plague, to carry me toward the other, I was The most individual style in twentieth- and mordant courage. Lips that froze to a always afraid of loving no more, of century Russian poetry. — CHARLES BERNSTEIN­ magpie, knowing no more. But I am no longer — CLAUDIA ROTH PIERPONT In a nature become young, and have learned to let almost EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES everything pass — irrevocably. EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES 2016 demented. 2016

Waly Salomão But to stay, for Down a wide staircase of marble is Laura Sims Algaravias: Echo Nothing but waste. Any sojourn out Staying Alive Chamber what and where there (to the stars) (tr. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi) to, Will report nothing and Nothing The restraint is active, and the spaces, One of the most original and if there is no And nothing. I grab her in both hands the silences, are freighted. vigorous poets of our time. It feels good. That we are at home with — C.D. WRIGHT — ANTONIO CÍCERO remedy, syrup or the elixir Red & white stars Her genes and mind 2016 2016

Erica Baum Sometimes you hear people Kirill Medvedev Dog Ear described as having 'never tasted It's No Good life.' I am one of those people […] (tr. Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Cory Merrill, Bela Shayevich) A remote and contemplative observation But I am full of idealism. And that is of the world’s wild tumult. a lot more dangerous than drugs, Finally, ideology instead of — THE FORWARD alcohol, Satanism, cannibalism, careerism and compromise! coprophagy, necrophilia. I hope — CHRIS CUMMING you choose all of the above before you choose my books. EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES 2016 2016 SELECTED BACKLIST SELECTED BACKLIST

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Yevgeny Baratynsky His deep gaze fixed upon Disaster relief is Lewis Warsh A Science Not the stone, Alien Abduction For the Earth always late the artist saw the Nymph (tr. Rawley Grau) in coming, and inside, Lewis Warsh is a poetry icon and a genius. Baratynsky is an oddity. when it arrives and fire raced through — DOROTHEA LASKY — JOSEPH BRODSKY every vein no one knows what and in his heart he flew to to do EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES her. first. 2015 2015

Karen Weiser Then the treehouse burned. Stand up with dead Tatsumi Hijakata Or, the Ambiguities And continued cylindrical tree Costume En Face Unobliterable as the sea (tr. Sawako Nakayama) Dissecting Picasso Weiser’s figures of speech are gloriously To burn. The photo of it About as close to dancing as two-headed and unpredictable. burning with face of idiot words on a page can get. — STEPHANIE BURT Line: "You know it" — SIOBHAN BURKE Hangs on its wall, taken from high up, Come around and But not that high. confess EMERGENCY PLAYSCRIPTS #4 2015 2015

Rob Halpern a blank resource whose waste In singleness the parts Jen Bervin Common Place excels, a darker place where Nets bodies bend, ribs break in vaster Strike each in each Above the battlefield, some eat Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare banks, my blunting force, just say their hearts out, spinning. as our true contemporary. — JULIE PATTON whose organ, say whose bone, speechless song, — PAUL AUSTER drafting futures, time negated & being many, not perceived as use, being raw seeming one DOSSIER 2015 2004 SELECTED BACKLIST SELECTED BACKLIST

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Cecilia Vicuña I announced on posters Fear has a tailwind. Fear Catherine Taylor Spit Temple the spilling of a glass of colonizes quickly. Fear is Apart (tr. Rosa Alcalá) milk in front of the Quinta calculating red lights and She doesn’t “refer” to baskets, she gets de Simón Bolívar. Twelve [A] brilliant and relentless bystanders and petrol levels us to pull the very reeds for the basket. people attended. I spilled examination of conscience. — RODRIGO TOSCANO a glass of white paint on even now as I write you this — BRIAN TEARE the sidewalk and wrote the letter upside down under DOSSIER poem on the pavement. the Southern Cross. DOSSIER 2012 2012

Christian Hawkey Orphans die more The way to do history Jacqueline Waters Ventrakl gleefully in the green Is not to care about it Commodore Whatever you care for you Ventrakl is beautifully paced West. and brilliantly drawn. diminish A tapestry made of Poetic hyper-awareness that threatens Facts remain the same, — QUINN LATIMER gelatin. Binary ears. and shapes the supraliminal state. changing with the day A hand raised into the While what is true of one — CORINA COPP wavering trauma- repeats DOSSIER light. By turning true of another 2010 2017

Ivan Blatny Thursday 8 pm. On If it ends, our own time, in Alan Felsenthal The Drug of Art: general Lowly Selected Poems the table: cataclysm; if the reign on (tr. Justin Quinn, Matthew the right strives to Matches, cigarettes, Full of sly music & ancient wisdom Sweney, Alex Zucker) be the sun; if no brazen & hilarious with timelessness. The voice from a true underground. tobacco, knife, serpent on a rod ever — ARIANA REINES — JOHANNES GORANSSON and lamp. hisses again. Well, I wanted to be more than My tools. a breathing clock EASTERN EUROPEAN POETS SERIES 2007 2017 SELECTED BACKLIST SELECTED BACKLIST

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Brent Cunningham her pinkie, a curlicue If staring wild at vector shadows Cathy Eisenhower The Sad Songs of Hell wrapped in rabbit fur launched from a live source of Distance Decay dips into the cheese; she mouth light Hilarious and/or solemn bursts of pulls back her hair Rife with elliptical magic & dramatically charged poems. & then, the unexpected: can extract loving heads that profound intelligence — NORMA COLE vegetarians nuzzle from inside the body walls, — CAROL MIRAKOVE steal the butcher’s then what else could it possibly financial statements fucking want. 2017 2015

Nancy Kuhl When you say planet it will My throat opens and I cry out, Dodie Bellamy The Nocturnal Factory “Master, oh, Master!” I can’t bear to The TV Sutras be understood to mean led live without him. Love spills from my astray or the unavoidable mouth for him, love spills from my A perfectly balanced unity of what we ears for him, love belches from my An international treasure. know and what we think we remember. catastrophe of detachment. heart for him, love seeps from my — WAYNE KOESTENBAUM — JAMES BERGER Saturn is the opposite of nipples and cunt and armpits for him, stickly red love flows from my nose, Mercury; sight, the opposite spills over my lower lip and down my of touch. chin. DOSSIER 2008 2014

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