by Ray DiPalma
Provocations , a major new book by Ray DiPalma. Apart from various limited editions recently published in the United States and abroad, Provocations is DiPalma's first full-length collection of new work in almost six years. Resisting easy classification but continuing examination of the relationship between language and thought, the instinctive lyricism, formal range and speculative complexities present in Provocations reveal DiPalma's writing at its most animated and accessible.
Provocations
Ray DiPalma
101 pp
$11.00
15BN 0-937013-55-2
Ray DiPalma lives in New York City.
Locale
by Jessica Grim
"Reading and rereading this extraordinary manuscript, I find myself asking where these poems most completely come alive: word, line or "sentence"? The truth is I can't tell- the poems leap off the page at all levels, as if Jessica Grim had tapped into the secret of a fourth dimension. Playful, serious, intense and wise all at once, with an accurate eye and an absolute ear, Locale contains some of the most riveting poems of our time. The art of the 21st Century starts here."
-Ron Silliman
Locale
Jessica Grim
88 pp
$10.00
15BN 0-937013-56-0
Jessica Grim is co-editor, with Melanie Neilson, of Big Allis magazine. She is currently living in Oberlin, Ohio.
Two Recent Books
The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets
This anthology is a continuation of the project started by Ron Stillman's In the American Tree and Douglas Messerli's Language Poetries. It has over 400 pages of poetry generally considered "avant garde" or "post-language". Most of the writers represented are in their 30s and 40s, and others have been overlooked in the past anthologies.
Lyn Hejinian says: "The importance of this addition to the library of our experience is enormous. It is with great gratitude that I welcome The Art of Practice."
Guy R Beining, Axiom of a Torn Pulley
Beau Beausoleil, in case/this way two things fell
Edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick
The Art of Practice:
45 Contemporary Poets
Edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick
408 pp
$18.00
15BN 0-937013-46-3
Goya's L.A.
A play by Leslie Scalapino
Goya's L.A.
A play by Leslie Scalapino
75 pp
$8.55
15BN 0-937013-45-5
"Writing is captions that are to the inner.
Just have moves be in tandem.
This play induces movement that is minute
and has no function, requiring complete
attentiveness.
Not having a function is attentiveness. It joy
memory or is it this movement?
The phrases continue to change to become
movement in itself. The movement induces a
greyhound flying curled legless."
- Francesco Jose de Goya
POTES & POETS PRESS -- limited editions
These are 48 to 64 page saddle-stitched books, printed on acid-free
paper with laid paper covers. Thirty copies of each book exists, only
12 of which are for sale. The price is $18.00 each. A few are out-
of-print, and are not mentioned here.
David Bromige, Venerable Bundles
Robert Fitterman, Metropolis (4-12)
Susan Gevirtz, Prosthesis : : Caesarea
Joe Ross, De-Flections
Diane Ward, Exhibition
POTES & POETS PRESS -- chapbooks
A few copies of these chapbooks printed in 1981 and 1982
still remain. The average page count is 32 pages. The
price is $5.50 each.
Alan Davies, a an av es
Alan Davies, Mnemonotechnics
Theodore Enslin, Meditations on Varied Grounds
Theodore Enslin, September's Bonfire
Peter Ganick, Two Space Six
Barbara Moraff, Learning to Move
Keith Rahmings, Printouts
Dan Raphael, Zone du Jour
Ron Silliman, B A R T
Craig Watson, The Asks
Hannah Weiner, Nijole’s House
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Potes & Poets Press also publishes ABACUS, a newsletter that appears eight times a year; a series of Limited Editions; and a series of chapbooks. For more information and pricing, send for our complete catalogue.
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