Meow Press was established in August of 1993 as a response to the
New Cost festival and also the rapid proliferation of electronic
publishing. In the case of the former, there is the hope that by getting
involved it might be possible to reopen the anthologizing-closure
process set in motion by that fateful gathering; that it might be
possible to exist in a state where the printing of a book of poems
might be - in the tradition of printer-poets such as Lyn Hejinian - an
extension of one's own activity of writing. In the case of the latter,
the romance of making books by hand that utilized the hot carbon
transfer process as ultimately temporal ephemera, yet palpable physical
without too much nostalgia for the Book. An obsessive typography
startup kit.
ANNOUNCING THE SPRING-SUMMER 1996 SERIES
Natalee Caple, The Price of Acorn
Deanna Ferguson, Rough Bush
Hank Lazer, The Lang-Po Dynasty
Ted Pearson, The Devil's Aria
Stephen Ratcliffe, Signature
Lisa Robertson, The Descent
Lisa Samuels, Letters
Gary Sullivan, Dead Man
Robert Duncan, Copy Book Entries (organized by Dr. Robert Bertholf,
with cover illustration by Harvey Breverman) $10
----Coming Soon----
Wendy Kramer, _Patinas_ $6
Aaron Shurin, _Codex_ $6
Meredith Quartermain, _Terms of Sale_ $6
--Now reading manuscrips for the 3rd Anniversary Series.--
Current catalog of Meow Press Offerings:
>George Albon, _King_ $5
>Andrews, Bernstein, Sherry, _Technology/Art: 20 Brief Proposals_ $5
>Rachel Tzvia Back, _Litany_ $6
>Michael Basinski, _Cnyttan_ $5
>Dodie Bellamy & Bob Harrison, _Broken English_ $6
>Charles Bernstein, _The Subject_ $6
>Jonathan Brannen, _The Glass Man Left Waltzing_ $5
>Dubravka Djuric, _Cosmopolitan Alphabet_ $5
>Robert Fitterman, _Metropolis_ $5
>Benjamin Friedlander, _A Knot is Not a Tangle_ $5
>Benjamin Friedlander, _Anterior Future_ $5 (New Reprint!)
>Peter Gizzi, _New Picnic Time_ $5
>Loss P. Glazier, _The Parts_ $5
>Mark Johnson, _Three Bad Wishes_ $6
>Pierre Joris, _Winnetou Old_ $5
>Elizabeth Robinson, _Iemanje_ $5 (New Reprint!)
>Leslie Scalapino, _The Line_ $5 (New Reprint!)
>James Sherry, _4 For_ $5
>Ron Silliman, _Xing_ $6
>Misko Suvakovic, _Pas Tout_ $5
>Juliana Spahr, _Testimony_ $6
>Bill Tuttle, _Epistolary Poems_ $5
EPHEMERA SERIES
Published in extremely limited editions (number of copies in parentheses)
Free with subscriptions and to friends of the press
SDDDRTT-123 by Bishop Morda (10) (no longer available)
Report on Community by Joel Kuszai (50)
Filmic 10 by Joel Kuszai (50)
Riven by Cynthia Kimball (100)
Barstokai by Michael Basinski (100)
28 for the Road by Kristin Prevallet (100)
A concise history of works published by Meow Press
1st Season: 1993-1994
Michael Basinski, Cnyttan
Benjamin Friedlander, Anterior Future
Bill Tuttle, Epistolary Poems
Elizabeth Robinson, Iemanje
Pierre Joris, Winnetou Old
Leslie Scalapino, The Line
George Albon, King
Strike-Shortened 2nd Season: 1994
Rachel Tzvia Back, Litany
Robert Fitterman, Metropolis
Bishop Morda, SDDDRTT-123
Ben Friedlander, Knot
Mark Johnson, Three Bad Wishes
Spring 1995
Beginning a fifth season of small press publication, Meow Press is
featuring the work of senior Language Poets and many supporting and
distorting younger poets both avowing and
disavowing the historic literary movement. Also
this semester, Meow Press Textbooks makes its
debut in the theoretical/academic marketplace.
Rachel Back, LITANY
Ben Friedlander, A KNOT IS NOT A TANGLE
James Sherry, FOUR FOR BEN
Dubravka Djuric, COSMOPOLITAN ALPHABET
Misko Suvakovic, PAS TOUT (Meow Press Textbook)
Charles Bernstein, THE SUBJECT
Andrews/Bernstein/Sherry, ART/TECHNOLOGY: 20 Brief Proposals (1984)
(Meow Press Textbook)
For more information, please contact:
Joel Kuszai
Meow Press
P.O. Box 527
Buffalo, NY 14226
kuszai@acsu.buffalo.edu