Mónica De La Torre Lewis Freedman Kevin Opstedal Laura Sims Jennifer

new poetry poetry in translation Mónica de la Torre Vladimir Aristov Lewis Freedman Alejandra Pizarnik Kevin Opstedal Hirato Renkcihi Laura Sims Waly Salomão Jennifer Stella Marosa di Giorgio Eleni Vakalo essay Bill Berkson performance Will Daddario Annie Dorsen Ramsey Scott Marina Tsvetaeva fiction Simone White J. Gordon Faylor

& & essays on post-conceptual poetry from the Siege of writing, edited by Kim Rosenfield Leningrad, edited by & Steven Zultanski Polina Barskova

& & Señal series chapbooks by introducing UDPR: Florencia Castellano & a new series for music Pablo Katchadjian & poetry on vinyl EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE MISSION STATEMENT Katherine Bogden G.L. Ford Yelena Gluzman Ugly Duckling Presse is a not-for-profit publisher for poetry, Anna Moschovakis translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and Michael Newton Daniel Owen books by artists. UDP is driven by a volunteer ethos and a mission Emmalea Russo to create experiences of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility. Rebekah Smith Linda Trimbath Matvei Yankelevich With a volunteer editorial collective of artists and writers at its heart, UDP grew out of a 1990s zine into a small press that has BOARD OF DIRECTORS published more than 200 titles to date, with an editorial office Amy S. Choi and letterpress workshop in the Old American Can Factory in Edwin Frank the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, Brooklyn. We favor Rebecca Fitting Nicholas Risteen emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and our books, Jeremy Sigler chapbooks, special editions, periodicals, broadsides, and ephemera Elizabeth Zuba often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. ADVISORY BOARD Neil Alger UDP publishes approximately 24 titles per year, many of which Charles Bernstein fall within our series: Dossier, the Eastern European Poets Series, James Copeland James Hoff Lost Literature, Emergency Playscripts, Señal, Original Web Bob Holman Books, and Paperless Books. We also publish the periodicals 6x6 Jennifer Kabat and Emergency INDEX. More information on these series can Ben Lerner Sarah McCarry be found on the Programming page of our website. Our out-of- Brett Price series books tend to be single volumes by English-language poets, Troy Selvaratnam or works in translation. Our print runs typically range from 750 Alina Simone Johnny Temple to 1,500 copies for books (trade paperbacks), and 500 to 750 for Elizabeth Willis chapbooks, some of which are bound by hand withe the help of volunteers at the UDP workshop.

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LAURA SIMS LEWIS FREEDMAN STAYING ALIVE RESIDUAL SYNONYMS FOR THE NAME OF GOD

Laura Sims is the author of My god is this a Lewis Freedman is the author of several man, Stranger, and Practice, Restraint (all chapbooks, including Catfish Po’ Boys, from Fence Books), and five chapbooks of Suffering Exchange Walks With And poetry. She edited Fare Forward: Letters from (both from Minutes Books), and non- David Markson (powerHouse Books), a book symbolic non-symbolic non-symbolic I became of her correspondence with the celebrated (Same Text). In addition, he has authored experimental novelist. Sims has been a featured several experiments on the form of the First of all, do not take the arranged writer for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet One of them, leaning over the railing book including Solitude: The Complete perspective … since the diatribe’s loose and blog, and has been a co-editor of Instance Press Games (Troll Thread), a collaboration sanctimonious assumptions and postulates since 2009. She teaches literature and creative with Kevin Rydberg, and the book within were figured precise and preceptual … writing at NYU-SPS and lives with her family a book, Hold the Blue Orb, Baby (Well- And no one would help we’ve been trading in a transcendent in Brooklyn. Greased Press). His poems have appeared though uninstructive dance of digressions in Jubilat, Epiphany, Catch-Up, Try, … saying more and more frequently to The humans left P-Queue, and 6x6, among many others. Sims’ fourth book of poetry, Staying Alive every new sentence projected: … ‘this envisions the state of the world and of human sentence is also remarkable’ … while the existence before, during and after the forever- Residual Synonyms for the Name of weight of suspiciously ripped angels hung imminent apocalypse. In channeling and God performs the proliferation of language in the important air thanks to antiquity sampling works of apocalyptic fiction and Not even the humans and culture in our late capitalist moment enhancements. non-fiction—The War of the Worlds, The World as a residual structure of a religious past. Without Us, How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Freedman has heretically rewritten the and The Road, to name a few—the poems, work of his ancestors to create an annotated along with a final essay, explore multiple index of this inherited structure, in which world-endings and their possible outcomes, our contemporary drive for total finitude and pose answers to the questions: will we, profanes the infinite primarily by being how do we, and should we stay alive? indistinguishable from it.

The restraint is active, and the spaces, the silences, are freighted. Your discourse orgy gazes on it with eyes like larvae. — C.D. Wright — Catherine Wagner

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MAROSA DI GIORGIO ELENI VAKALO I REMEMBER NIGHTFALL BEFORE LYRICISM

TRANSLATED BY JEANINE MARIE PITAS TRANSLATED BY KAREN EMMERICH

Marosa di Giorgio (1932-2004) is one of Oh, to return to the family property, to Eleni Vakalo was a Greek poet, art critic, the most prominent Uruguayan poets of the cross the field where the evening and art historian. She authored nine twentieth century. She published a total of hydrangea lifts its head of smoke and volumes of art history and art theory, and fourteen books of poetry, three collections of feathers, its murmuring head, its hat of had regular columns of art criticism from short stories, and one novel. While some critics 1955 to 1975; she also produced a radio glass and turquoise, where the fierce have categorized her as a surrealist, she herself broadcast of art criticism, and organized mushroom appears, the toadstool of denied membership of any literary movement art-related teach-ins at factories. Vakalo or school. Relatively unknown outside the poisonous foam, to cross the fields published fourteen books of poetry, and Southern Cone during her lifetime, she is sleeping with my eyes wide open, with my was intimately involved with the design now becoming more and more widely read eyes closed, without making any mistake, and production of her early books. She throughout Latin America and Europe. without tripping over the brambles, the received the State Poetry Prize in 1991, bonfires, the other beings who cross the and the prestigious Academy of Athens Plants have a different upbringing than field dreaming, toward that citadel always Prize in 1997. people I Remember Nighfall is a collection of visible and lost, to go inside, to eat dinner, Their not moving isn’t unique Jeannine Marie Pitas’s new translations of to sin furiously. Nor their not committing suicide five book-length poems from the middle Before Lyricism includes six book- of Marosa di Giorgio’s career. Occupying length poems: “The Forest” (1954), Plants are perpetual revolutionaries the same childhood landscapes that may be Unnumbered years, closed off like “Plant Upbringing” (1956), “Diary of Just think how they grow during the hour familiar to English-language readers from pastures, fog. Age” (1958), “Description of the Body” of the moon the previously published volume, The History (1959), “The Meaning of the Blind” of Violets (UDP), these serial prose poems (1962), and “Our Way of Being in explore memory, familial relationships, erotic Danger” (1966). For Vakalo, these poems desire, and war. Marosa di Giorgio uses the formed a larger, accretive whole, and by recurring setting of a garden as a stage for bringing them under a single cover, this the ongoing encounter of nature and the book allows us to see the complex web supernatural. This is a bilingual edition, with of intertextual relations that bind them cover art by Basil King. together. This volume will enrich not only our knowledge of this key period in Vakalo’s career, but English-language readers’ understanding of modern Greek poetry as a whole. Di Giorgio is one who, like Blake, sees angels, explicitly and … limits the imagination to the infinite dimensions of the real and extravagantly. excites logic as far as fantasy will take it. — G.C. Waldrep, Kenyon Review — Nora Anagnostaki

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VLADIMIR ARISTOV GENNADY GOR, DMITRY MAKSIMOV, SERGEY RUDAKOV, WHAT WE SAW FROM THIS MOUNTAIN VLADIMIR SERLIGOV, PAVEL ZALTSMAN TRANSLATED BY JULIA TRUBIKHINA (KUNINA), BETSY HULICK, & GERALD JANECEK WRITTEN IN THE DARK: FIVE POETS OF THE SIEGE EDITED BY POLINA BARSKOVA

Vladimir Aristov is a poet and physicist. He Written in the Dark presents a group has authored seven books of poetry, a novel, O grant me pity for the dragon of writers and a literary phenomenon and numerous articles and essays that have While he sleeps that has been unknown even to Russian been published widely in Russian literary And the radio announcer’s voice whispers readers for 70 years. The works collected magazines. He is a recipient of the Alexei in this book were written in 1942, during indifferently Kruchenykh Prize (1993) and the Andrei Bely the most severe winter of the Nazi Siege Independent Literary Prize (2008), and his His daytime speech. of Leningrad. The formal ambition and work was included in two US anthologies of Before the dragon wakes macabre avant-gardism of this uncanny Creek sick of speak postmodern Russian poetry, The Third Wave Before the bloody depths have opened in body of work match its horrific content, and Crossing Centuries: The New Generation his eyes giving birth to a “poor” language Told water it took no side. in Russian Poetry. Before St. George appears which alone could reflect the depth of suffering and psychological destruction To plunge his spear Water sick of silence experienced by victims of that historical What We Saw from This Mountain is Into that defenseless eye. disaster. the first English-language collection of Before the dragon has become so human in At once began again to shriek. poetry by Vladimir Aristov, a satellite figure his pain. of the Metarealist (or Meta-metaphorist) Edited and introduced by Polina Barskova; —Gennady Gor O grant me time enough while St. George literary movement of the 1980s-90s. While Afterword by Ilya Kukulin; Translated by trans. Ben Felker-Quinn lives… & Eugene Ostashevsky the late Alexei Parshchikov and Arkadii Anand Dibble, Ben Felker-Quinn, Ainsley Dragomoshchenko are somewhat better known Morse, Eugene Ostashevsky, Rebekah to US readers, Aristov exemplifies both poets’ Smith, Charles Swank, Jason Wagner, and trajectories. Aristov’s poetics are characterized Matvei Yankelevich by a philosophical thoughtfulness made more profound by his life-long work as a scientist, and by striking images that evoke the late poetry of Osip Mandelstam.

… on par with poets of the Holocaust such as Paul Celan and A poetic world of imaginative leaps and metamorphic flows. Abraham Sutzkever. — Michael Palmer — Polina Barskova

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WALY SALAMÃO KIM ROSENFIELD & STEVEN ZULTANSKI (EDITORS) ALGARAVIAS: ECHO CHAMBER CRUDE LOVE: essays on post-conceptual writing

TRANSLATED BY MARYAM MONALISA GHARAVI

Waly Salomão was one of the foremost 20th- Crude Love was sparked by a range of century experimental poets of South America. contemporary conversations (political, Born in Jequié, Bahia, to a Syrian immigrant aesthetic, and technological) that father and a Brazilian mother, Salomão carved And all: have dramatically shifted the form out an early career as a songwriter. In 1970, and function of poetry in the past the same paste that the worms of entropy at the height of Brazil’s military regime, he decade. Crude Love is an intimate essay was imprisoned at Carandiru prison in São collection responding to recent changes Paulo. The author of more than ten books, amalgamate into a single compound. in experimental and post-conceptual his poetry has been included in many major But to stay, for what and where to, writing, with contributions from fifteen anthologies. Following his death, the Waly if there is no remedy, syrup or elixir, New York poets. Postconceptual work has all the features of Salomão Cultural Center was established in if the foot does not find ground to step on, Contributions from Mónica de la a “Deleuzean constellation of masochism”: Rio de Janeiro. Torre, Andrew Durbin, Rob Fitterman, even in the do-it-all English footwear disavowal, suspense, waiting, fetishism Kristen Gallagher, Diana Hamilton, and fantasy, all of which are inextricable of Dr. Martens, Josef Kaplan, Shiv Kotecha, Sophia Algaravias: Echo Chamber is the fifth and from issues of identity, class, and most (the feeling of having your foot stuck in Le Fraga, Trisha Low, Holly Melgard, most critically acclaimed volume of poetry by importantly, waste, nihilism and boredom. jackfruit) Kim Rosenfield, Danny Snelson, Chris Waly Salomão. Winner of the Prêmio Jabuti Sylvester, Joey Yearous-Algozin, and Gross, right? prize in 1995, its ruminations on passage, if traveling is the only way of being happy Steven Zultanski self-placement, virtual geography, human- and full? —Trisha Low electronic interaction, poetic consciousness, and mortality are inflected by Salomão’s dual heritage. This book confronts the isolating nature of the dictatorship he lived through as well as the aggressively optimistic discourse of post-dictatorship “modernization” efforts: the torrential influx of mass media and multinational corporations, and the sterile, touristic, and militarized landscapes of modern space and spectacle.

... equally concerned with sadness and sentimentality, active One of the most original and vigorous poets of our time. politics and new poetry: the proliferation of struggle and self. — Antonio Cícero — Kim Rosenfield & Steven Zultanski

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ANNIE DORSEN BILL BERKSON A PIECE OF WORK INVISIBLE OLIGARCHS

To be, and not to be: all is The precurse: while ‘tis stronger in a name to put St. Petersburg’s yellow, blue & white or plain Annie Dorsen Bill Berkson is a writer and director who the nations and uses of poor appointment, is a poet, critic, curator, white facades must be repainted every ten works in a variety of fields, including theatre, and professor emeritus at the San and To keep eyes at the life of bodies, years. Good town for house painters. A film, dance and, as of 2009, algorithmic Francisco Art Institute, where he taught team repaints the black enamel railing performance. Most recently, her music piece art history and literature for many Yesterday Tomorrow premiered at the Holland to be, and not to be: all is the sister: years. A corresponding editor for Art in of the horse-tamers bridge (Fontanka). Festival. She is the recipient of a 2008 OBIE Lest ‘tis nearer for the line to speak America, he has written several books At Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, the Award and the 2014 Herb Alpert Award in the an words and reasons of hot joy, and contributed to such journals as stucco Titans at the rear were originally Arts. and to think sides into the custom of gods, Artforum, Aperture, Modern Painters, gold leaf; the leaf fell off after a single and artcritical.com. winter. Gold leaf on stucco no good in this and to breaking pray them? to play: to climate, if any. Now they are painted a horrid A Piece of Work bring; is the second project in shit yellow. Putin asked the Director what Annie Dorsen’s “algorithmic theater” series. A Neither lesser; And in The skin there curd Invisible Oligarchs is like a book jotted would it cost to re-gild the statues. “I have digital Hamlet for a post-humanist age, A Piece we bend on the back of a poet’s hand—a hand no idea! It is impracticable!” “Come on, you of Work deploys a set of ingeniously designed a land and the four good officers that picks up everything that sings to computer algorithms to generate real-time it, from gold-leaf proverb to chopstick know these things!” “Millions––but . . .!” that love is day in, ‘tis a true-love adaptations of Shakespeare’s original play. sheath, on its quick trip through a few Days later, Putin calls with a plan: cover the New scenes, songs, scores and visuals emerge alone to be strutted. to quit, to make; places in urban Russia in 2006. Berkson’s Titans with form-fitting titanium sheathing from an intricate web of technology. With an to hear: well there sleep: O, There’s the educated guesswork about that elusive and put gold leaf on that. Putin is serious; it introduction by Dorsen, and screen-shots of kingdom; quality once known as “the Great Russian might get done. the system as it runs, this book elaborates both Soul,” is framed here by letters from his the technological and the poetic procedures of friend Kate Sutton and encompassing algorithmic theater. encounters with poets and cab drivers, Moscow conceptualists and a White Night at the Mariinsky Ballet.

”To be and not to be.” That was not exactly the question, last time … a breathtaking total immersion job! I checked. — Anne Waldman — Charles Isherwood

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PABLO KATCHADJIAN FLORENCIA CASTELLANO THE ROU OF ALCH MONITORED PROPERTIES

TRANSLATED BY VICTORIA CÓCCARO & REBEKAH SMITH TRANSLATED BY ALEXIS ALMEIDA

Pablo Katchadjian is the author of the novels Florencia Castellano is the author of La libertad total, Gracias, and Qué hacer, Un ruiseñor completamente blanco and forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press in Relieves de dispersión. She was part of 2016 as What to Do. In addition to the rou of bitterness that shuts off with sleep the editorial group of the magazines alch, he has written two other books of poetry: Quesquesé and Ilusiones perdidas, and sleep to which it goes along dp canta el alma (Vox) and, in collaboration helped organize the Latin American with Marcelo Galindo and Santiago Pintabona, the route of alcohol Poetry Festival Salida al Mar from Along the sides of the Pan-American los albañiles (IAP). His work has been 2007-2009. She edited the anthologies Highway kids read translated into English, French, and Hebrew, if it’s so no one denies it Quedar en lo cantado, Antología de poesía weekly special and La libertad total was adapted as an opera or would it be a tree when? argentina y dominicana and Un libro auctioned-offed martyrs and staged at the Teatro San Martín in 2014. oscuro, 106 poemas negros. Castellano or would it be something? teaches literature at the Universidad Di Tella in Buenos Aires. at the unstoppable pace the rou of alch is a book-length poem no one can reply of new windshields composed of cuts and repetitions, they’ve gone one by one dads combinations, inventions, and games, by Monitored Properties claims the along the route of alcohol fall turns melancholy and hilarious. Gathering mundane as its starting point to begin momentum from dreams, dangers, confusion that takes them no place its interrogation of the ideological forces bizarre droplets and familiarity, the rou of alch creates a or to a snowy landscape that exist in the smallest moments of our on the foreheads of cowboys landscape and a rhythm that makes sense of lives. With playful irony, wit, and lyrical itself as it goes. In this, Katchadjian’s second dynamism, Florencia Castellano takes book, we can see the beginnings of his MISSING 300 DPI Photo on the figure of the “cowboy,” the gaucho reworking of patterns and words that are at that has permeated Argentine history and the heart of much of his later fiction. helped define patriarchy for centuries. In its re-imagining, the book questions the ritual of cultural inheritance, and suggests that automatic responses can be broken down in language.

… this tremor of play and incoherence in which we again recognize literature. Poetry unafraid of error. — César Aira — Ernesto González Barnert

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HIRATO RENKICHI ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK SPIRAL STAIRCASE: COLLECTED WORKS THE MOST FOREIGN COUNTRY TRANSLATED BY SHO SUGITA TRANSLATED BY YVETTE SIEGERT

Hirato Renkichi was born Kawahata Shoichi Alejandra Pizarnik was a leading voice in Osaka in 1893. He started writing poetry in twentieth-century Latin American in 1912, first publishing in Banso under the Look, poetry. In 1960, she moved to Paris, where guidance of Kawaji Ryuko. Although he The speedy movement of froth, she was influenced by the work of the worked at Hochi Shimbun News and Chuo Surrealists and participated in a vibrant The smooth falling Geijutsu Art Publishing, Renkichi often expatriate community of writers that failed to make ends meet for his common- Shifts of the center, included Julio Cortázar and Octavio Paz. law wife and child because he suffered from Denture of curves, Known primarily for her poetry, Pizarnik her solitude is mewing tuberculosis. He passed away on July 20, 1922 (ririri……ri……rin) also wrote experimental fiction, plays, a zeros upon zeros in Tokyo, at the age of 29. Simultaneous metallic roar, literary diary, and works of criticism. She that flow with ingenuous values died in Buenos Aires, of an apparent drug a retina before the unknown overdose, at the age of thirty-six. Spiral Staircase is the first definitive volume Echoes. the sounding breezes of Renkichi’s works to appear in English. Meaningful union! gather back to prick Once called “the Marinetti of Japan” by David The Most Foreign Country, first Look, her being with smiling Burliuk, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique published in 1955 and now translated for and open teeth brand of Futurism from the late 1910s and At this organic union, the first time into English, is Alejandra early 1920s through poetry, criticism, and This mutuality of comfortable Pizarnik’s debut collection. Here the to laugh in the night full of sun guerrilla performance. Contributing to the determination! nineteen-year-old poet begins to explore from vigorous participles earliest productions of Japanese avant-garde the themes that will shape and define her poetry, his aggressive experimentation with vision: the solitude of the poetic self, the speed, spatialization, and performability longing for artistic depth, and the tenuous would later influence what became a lively nearness of death. By turns probing and community of Dadaist and Surrealist writers playful, bold and difficult, Pizarnik’s in pre-war Japan. earliest poems teem with an exuberant desire “to grab hold of everything” and to create a language that tests the limits of origin, paradox, and death.

… a momentous, of-the-moment figure little known in the Pizarnik’s haunting words have garnered … a reputation as English‑speaking world. perhaps Argentina’s most important female poet. — David Grubbs — The Argentina Independent

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KEVIN OPSTEDAL RAMSEY SCOTT PACIFIC STANDARD TIME THE NARCO-IMAGINARY

Kevin Opstedal is a Santa Cruz-based poet Ramsey Scott teaches at Brooklyn whose line leaves three decades of road cuts College, CUNY. His essays, poems, and across the entire imaginary West. His twelve fiction have appeared in various print Dear Sergeant Pepper, books and chapbooks include two full-length and online publications, including the collections, Like Rain (Angry Dog Press) and Southwest Review, the Seneca Review, California Redemption Value (Uno Press). The Massachusetts Review, Shampoo, For a long time now I’ve been convinced that Blue Books Press, one of his “sub-radar” Tarpaulin Sky, Confrontation, and Mirage drugs construct a link to history’s underside. editorships, belongs in the same breath as the #4/Period(ical). The Narco-Imaginary is LSD conjures the Sixties; prewar Vienna great California poetry houses (Auerhahn, Big his first book. reclines in cocaine’s powdered foothills. On Sky, Oyez). As identity and ideas duke it out in the cover of the album that bears your name, the back-alley of academia, Opstedal surfs an Edgar Allen Poe, Sonny Liston, Sigmund The Narco-Imaginary: Essays Under oil slick off Malibu into the apocalypse of style. Freud. I write to you because this album the Influence is written according to its forms, along with co-op peanut butter and own dictum: “language is the universal Pacific Standard Time is a collection of new inebriant.” These epistolary essays, carob chips, patterns my dreams make into and selected poems by Kevin Opstedal. Full personal narratives, meditations on quilts and fold over childhood’s pillows. I’m Indispensable wet pavement of West-Coast surf vernacular and the dark, avant-garde writers, and unorthodox writing to you because half-baked concepts hypnotic pull of waves breathing, Opstedal’s strumming the latitude & longitude forays into the “narco-imaginary”—the define my labor; my pallid inspiration can’t poems manage to float from Donne to the speaks to the inner noble savage habits and conventions surrounding access completion. Romantics to Rimbaud, then wash up on the literary and cultural representations shores of the New York School in Bolinas. This of drug use—attend to the residue of collection will hopefully serve as many people’s transient impressions that remain, long first introduction to Opstedal’s lone, reclusive after the delirium of creative activity voice that might otherwise find itself lost to subsides. its own time.

A tireless soldier in the fields of contemporary poetry, both as discoverer/editor and as prolific poet. Sonorous, libidinous, eloquent, and charmingly digressive. — Garret Caples — Wayne Koestenbaum

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WILL DADDARIO SIMONE WHITE TO GRIEVE If the clichéd phrase, “one day at a time” DEAR ANGEL OF DEATH feels unhelpful when offered up during the time of grief, it may be because grief demands a change in time itself, the way Will Daddario Simone White works as a scholar and teacher. that the National Convention demanded a was born in Middletown, He researches the interplay between theatre, Connecticut, and grew up in Philadelphia. change of time after the French Revolution. performance, philosophy, and everyday life in After graduating from Harvard Law In reverse of rejection revulsion reversion The chronology of one day at a time only historical and contemporary environments. School, she practiced law for seven restrospection redrawing review remind He actively participates in the international makes sense where linear progress is years. White is the author of House Envy recognize reminisce remembrance research network Performance Philosophy, of presumed or, indeed, hoped for. To borrow of All of the World (Factory School) recollection which he is also a founding member. an expression from Brecht, natura facit and the chapbook Dolly (Q Ave Press, saltus. Beliefs to the contrary may in fact with paintings by Kim Thomas). Her stubbornly persistent contextual negativity be beholden to a conservative agenda of work has also appeared in The Claudius beginning knowledge of consistently To Grieve asks: what does it mean to grieve rebuilding everything as it was before. And App, Aufgabe, The Recluse, Callaloo, pleasing immemorial connection rightly? Might there be such a thing as an ethics while the drawbacks of embracing a new Ploughshares, and Tuesday, among other of grief? In To Grieve, Daddario seeks answers temporal schema will show themselves journals. She lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, to these questions through the personal and immediately—extreme awkwardness Brooklyn. staging or reconstructing the human philosophical ruminations following the qualities which, for us, form the basis of sudden deaths of his son, father, step-father, resulting from the dismissal of familiar what has been considered the same as friend, grandmother, and cat. Attending habits, further alienation from the multitude Dear Angel of Death is a meandering specifically to the ways in which grief-space who sleep at night and work during the and dead-serious meditation challenging appears, grief-time imposes itself, and grief- day—the potential power of thinking time the centrality of black music to black “it is super R&B and you won’t like it because language bends itself around the emotional anew is revolutionary. poetry and black critical theory. The it is too slow and a tad boring.” acuity of the wound, this long-form essay book proposes disinvestment in the idea nestles up against the unnamable and pauses of the music as the highest form of what to measure its heft. blackness “is.” This long essay includes many forms: philosophical divergence on the problem of folds for black life, a close reading of Nathaniel Mackey’s never ending novel From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, and an impassioned defense-cum-dismissal of contemporary hip hop’s convergence with capitalism.

So dastardly readable yet contains and spreads such an An event of writing for which I know of no suitable name. intellectual capacity, bigger than itself. — Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca — Ken Walker, The Poetry Project Newsletter

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JENNIFER STELLA MARINA TSVETAEVA YOUR LAPIDARIUM FEELS WROUGHT LETTER TO THE AMAZON TRANSLATED BY A’DORA PHILLIPS & GAËLLE COGAN

Jennifer Stella is a doctor and a writer. Born in Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow France, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1892 and was one of the most in Cameroon, Central Africa. Her poetry renowned poets of 20th-century Russia. and prose have appeared in Eleven Eleven, She left Russia in 1922 with her two The Drunken Boat, The Brooklyn Review, children and her husband, Sergei Efron. The Intima, and others. She has been invited In 1925 the family settled in Paris where to perform her work at venues including they lived in poverty. In 1939 Tsvetaeva Bang Out SF, the Bowery Poetry Club, and We fault the not-quite- returned to the Soviet Union. Following the Cornelia Street Reading Series. She lives Mexico river and salt the execution of her husband and the in New York City and is currently a resident balconies. Phoenix arrest of her daughter, she hanged herself I have been thinking of You since the day physician in Primary Care/Social Medicine in on August 31, 1941. I saw You—has it been a month? When I child, the ash will the Bronx. was young, I was eager to explain myself sink in lemon-like to others, I was afraid of missing the wave tubs. Look—your Letter to the Amazon is addressed to Your lapidarium feels wrought is an Natalie Clifford Barney, a writer and a rising from within to carry me toward the license. And what a picture. Most exhibition of jeweled fragments in the form of wealthy American expatriate in Paris. other, I was always afraid of loving no more, learn language and experience. Beginning with raw Though written in 1932, Tsvetaeva’s letter of knowing no more. But I am no longer materials, Jennifer Stella has wrought precious to waltz with shattered was in response to what Barney said about young, and have learned to let almost stones from rock, exposing crystallized, vivid chairs. lesbian relationships and motherhood everything pass—irrevocably. imagery: hewed gems that catch and reflect in her 1920 Pensées d’une Amazone light. Each poem functions as a postcard, (Thoughts of an Amazon). Tsvetaeva uses an instant in time that harkens back to both her essay to emphasize what is to her mind the memory it recalls and to the moment a general truth of lesbian relationships (i.e. it emerged in its new, polished state. In they cannot endure because of a woman’s her role and function as lapidary, the poet innate desire for a child) and to explore communicates how cutting away the opaque her seemingly agonized feelings about reveals an illuminated relationship between Sophia Parnok, the Russian poet with word and image. whom she fell in love in 1914.

… each line opening, like spun threads, toward a myriad metamorphosis. The most individual style in twentieth-century Russian poetry. — Ocean Vuong — Claudia Roth Pierpont

22 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 23 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 MUSIC/POETRY FICTION

DAVID GRUBBS AND ELI KESZLER J. GORDON FAYLOR ONE AND ONE LESS REGISTRATION CASPAR

David Grubbs has released twelve solo albums J. Gordon Faylor is the author of and appeared on more than 150 commercially- Disgruntled 1234567890 (Basic Editions), released recordings. He is the author of Records Marginal Twin Contribution (Troll Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, Thread), and Docking, Rust Archon (bas- and Sound Recording (Duke University books), among other publications. He Two breaths vectored Press) and is known for his cross-disciplinary edits Gauss PDF. collaborations with poets, visual artists, and choreographers. Two breaths insensate Caspar, a non-gendered entity, only has Servitude in a pulse of air and backtalk about Eli Keszler is a New York-based artist, five hours left before it is executed by composer, and percussionist who situates Two breaths just sliding past its employer. Though it remains to be backtalk, undertaking its scary culpability, his practice within the intersections of seen if this execution is biological and its confidential fantasies of thermodynamic architecture, performance, installation, programmatic in nature, it’s clear that equilibrium within Ceaurgle’s purview, I Two breaths shaped and detached money needs to be made for the two notation, and composition. survived the barren ciliary handle of this idle partners Caspar leaves behind. Enter governance, told them their release system Registration Caspar, at once a log of Two breaths set on glide, the both unaware might unfurl a triple-batch program, and, One and One Less consists of a performance Caspar’s life within the strangulated housing market of Ceaurgle and the given its proclivity for as much reallotment, and an installation, both of which draw upon a Two breaths exiting opposite, and neither hectic structuration of an income source. a bargain. Like there’d never be another single source text: David Grubbs’ ongoing One moves the other It’s already too late for the log, however, crew again. Poem. The LP is split between these two forms: infiltrated as it has been by said employer, the live performance for reader (Grubbs) and and so made inextricably more dizzying percussionist (Keszler), and a recording of the and deranged than the original. The installation version from the MIT List Visual money is gone. Arts Center. This vinyl record is printed in a limited edition and includes a fold-out poster insert with the text of David Grubb’s poem-in-progress.

The listener wins again. This is genre gone rogue. — Stewart Lee, Sunday Times — Divya Victor

24 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 25 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 6X6 MAGAZINE EMERGENCY INDEX

Every issue of 6x6 is devoted to six poets Every year, Emergency INDEX invites artists who are each given six pages to present to document performances they made in the their work. 6x6 publishes poets of all ages previous year. By including performances from all over the US and abroad, and we regardless of their country of origin, genre, aim to include a poet in translation in every aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals a issue. 6x6 is edited by a rotating team of breathtaking variety of practices used in editors culled from UDP’s core collective performance work today—in dance, theater, and long-term volunteers. music, visual art, political activism, poetry, scientific research, advertising, terrorism, and other disciplines. For artists, INDEX provides an opportunity to document the most important aspects of new work, without spin or salesmanship. Begun in 2011, INDEX is published each fall, documenting works SELECTED PAST CONTRIBUTORS Sherman Alexie, Guy Bennett, Edmund of the previous year. Each volume includes Berrigan, Carlos Blackburn, Julie Carr, Heather Christle, Jon Cone, John Coletti, a comprehensive index of key terms used to James Copeland, Corina Copp, Joel Dailey, Joe Elliot, Arielle Greenberg, Anne Heide, describe the more than 250 performances. John High, Will Hubbard, Lawrence Giffin, Noah Eli Gordon, francine j. harris, Lyn Hejinian, Barbara Henning, Paul Hoover, Lucy Ives, Paul Killebrew, Dorothea Lasky, Krystal Languell, Ann Lauterbach, Frank Lima, Anthony Madrid, Holly Melgard, EDITORS Yelena Gluzman | Sophia Cleary | Katie Gaydos Sawako Nakayasu, Yuko Otomo, Morgan Parker, Marthe Reed, Martha Ronk, Douglas EDITORIAL INTERN Claire LeDoyen Rothschild, Lev Rubinstein, Zachary Schomburg, Lori Shine, Laura Sims, Laura Solomon, Mathias Svalina, Stacy Szymaszek, Novica Tadic, Maureen Thorson, James Wagner, Sarah Anne Wallen, Jacqueline Waters, Keith Waldrop, Dana Ward, Lewis SUBMISSIONS Submissions to Emergency INDEX are accepted from October to Warsh, Karen Weiser January via an online form. Please visit www.emergencyindex.com.

SUBMISSIONS Submissions to 6x6 are considered year-round and are accepted by DETAILS post to UDP, attention: 6x6. No simultaneous submissions. Please include a cover letter Performance | Trade Paperback | Annual | ISSN 2376-4287 and SASE. Allow up to five months for a response. Volume 1 | $40 | 560 pp | ISBN 978-1-937027-07-0 Volume 2 | $40 | 600 pp | ISBN 978-1-937027-12-4 DETAILS Poetry | $6 | 52 pp | Rubber-band binding | Biannual | ISSN 1553-9459 Volume 3 | $30 | 720 pp | ISBN 978-1-937027-50-6 Volume 4 | $25 | 448 pp | ISBN 978-1-937027-55-1

26 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 27 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 REPRINTS & BACKLIST PARTNER BOOKSTORES Many of our books and chapbooks from previous years are still in UDP has partnered with many independent bookstores, which have print; please see our online catalog for a full listing of available titles. standing orders to receive all our publications, including chapbooks and periodicals that do not have regular distribution. Please visit them!

ERICA BAUM | DOG EAR Ada Books E.M Wolfman Powell’s Books ”a remote and contemplative observation of the world’s wild tumult” Providence, RI Oakland, CA Portland, OR — The Forward

Recently exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Baum’s photographs Ark Books Gowanus Souvenir Shakespeare and Shop Company of dog-eared paperback pages bridge the divide of viewing and reading. Copenhagen, Denmark Includes essays by Kenneth Goldsmith and Béatrice Gross. Brooklyn, NY Paris, France Second Edition | Hardcover | Cloth-bound, poster wrap | 25 full-color images Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Poetry / Art | 72 pp | ISBN 978-1-937027-83-4 (DAP) Shop Green Apple Books Skylight Books Brooklyn, NY San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, LA JEN BERVIN | NETS Bird and Beckett Books Greenlight Bookstore St. George’s English ”Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary.” Bookshop San Francisco, CA Brooklyn, NY — Paul Auster Berlin, Germany “When we write poems, the history of poetry is with us, pre-inscribed in Boneshaker Books Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe Talking Leaves Books the white of the page...” Minneapolis, MN Ninth Printing | Trade Paperback | Perfect-bound Boulder, CO Buffalo, NY Poetry | 132 pp | ISBN 978-0-972768-43-6 (SPD) Book Culture Liberty Rock Books Trinosophes New York, NY CHRISTIAN HAWKEY | VENTRAKL Hobart, NY. Detroit, MI Books and Bookshelves “beautifully paced and brilliantly drawn” Malaprops Unnameable Books — Quinn Latimer, Frieze San Francisco, CA Asheville, NC Brooklyn, NY Ventrakl folds poetry, prose, biography, translation practices, and Bridge Street Books photographic imagery into an innovative “collaboration” with the Austrian Malvern Books Warenmagazijn.nl Washington, D.C. Expressionist poet Georg Trakl. Austin, TX Amsterdam, Netherlands Second Printing | Trade Paperback | Perfect-bound BUSHEL Poetry | 152 pp | ISBN 978-1-933254-64-7 (SPD) McNally Jackson Woodland Pattern Delhi, NY New York, NY Milwaukee, WI CECILIA VICUÑA | SPIT TEMPLE Counterpath Moe’s Books “as if exile and recall joined to unravel an ‘autobiography in debris’” Denver, CO — Roberto Tejada Berkeley, CA Ditto Ditto The first overview of the work of a seminal multi-disciplinary artist collects Normals Bookstore texts, performance transcriptions, a poetic memoir, and images, plus Detroit, MI responses by Maria Damon, Juliana Spahr, Rodrigo Toscano, and others. Baltimore, MD Translated and introduced by Rosa Alcalá. Second Printing | Trade Paperback | Perfect-bound Poetry / Performance | 264 pp | ISBN 978-1-937027-03-2 (SPD)

28 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 29 | UDP CATALOGUE 2016 SUPPORTERS We thank the following individuals and organizations for their donations and support from January 2015 to February 2016.

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