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 POETRY ESSAY/ART 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 POETICS/ART/PERFORMANCE POETRY 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. 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