Recently Received

 

Books (Poetry)

Julianna Baggott, Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees, Pleiades Press, Rock Hill, SC / Warrensburg, MO 2007

Ben Lyle Bedard, Implicit Lyrics, Punch Press, Buffalo 2008

David Blair, Ascension Days, Del Sol Press, Washington DC 2008

Laure-Anne Bosselaar, A New Hunger, Ausable Press, Keene, NY 2007

Trevor Calvert, Rarer and More Wonderful, Scrambler Books, Davis , CA 2008

Peter Conners, Of Whiskey and Winter: Prose Poems, White Pine Press, Buffalo 2007

Andrei Codrescu, Jealous Witness, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008. Includes CD of “Maelstrom: Songs of Storm & Exile,” performed by Codrescu and the New Orleans Klezmer AllStars

William Corbett, Opening Day, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn 2008

Peter Culley, The Age of Briggs & Stratton, New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, WA 2008

Jim Daniels, Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies, Eastern Washington University Press, Spokane & Cheney, WA 2007

Ben Friedlander, Drastic Measures, An Anachronism, porci con le ali, Bangor, ME, & Catania Italy 2008.

Isabelle Garron, Face Before Against, translated by Sarah Riggs, Litmus, Brooklyn 2008

Robert Gibb, World Over Water, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville 2007

Gary Gildner, Cleaning a Rainbow, BkMk Press, Kansas City, MO 2007

Diane Glancy, Asylum in the Grasslands, University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2007

Mariela Griffor, House, Mayapple Press, Bay City, MI 2007

John Godfrey, City of Corners, Wave Books, Seattle & New York 2008

Forrest Hamer, Rift, Four Way Books, New York 2007

Fanny Howe, The Lyrics, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2007

J II, Three Trios, translated by Judith Hall, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL 2007

Laura Kasischke, Lilies Without, Ausable Press, Keene, NY 2007

P.H. Liotta, The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments, Quale Press, Florence, MA 2007

Glenna Luschei, Libido Dreams, Artamo Press, Santa Monica 2007

Jack Marshall, The Steel Veil, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008

Charlotte Matthews, Still Enough to be Dreaming, Iris Press, Oak Ridge, TN 2007

John Matthias, Kedging, Salt, Cambridge UK 2007

Jane Mead, The Usable Field, Alice James Books, Framington, ME 2008

Joseph Millar, Fortune, Eastern Washington University Press, Spokane & Cheney, WA 2007

Roger Mitchell, Half / Mask, University of Akron Press, Akron, OH 2007

Sheila E. Murphy, Lineations, Cricket Press (for the Small Chapbook Project), West Hartford , CT 2008

David Mutschlecner, Sign, Ahsahta Press, Boise 2007

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, At the Drive-In Volcano, Tupelo Press, Dorset, VT 2007

Charles North, Cadenza, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn 2007

Donald Platt, My Father Says Grace, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville 2007

Luke Roberts, Ripcord Worship, Grasp Press, Cambridge UK 2008

Judith Roitman, No Face: Selected & New Poems, First Intensity, Lawrence KS 2008

Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Verge, Parlor Press, W. Lafayette, IN 2007

Robert Sheppard, Complete Twentieth Century Blues, Salt, Cambridge UK, 2008

Eleni Sikelianos, Body Clock, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008

Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008

George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem, New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, WA 2008

Josh Stanley, Glogy, Grasp Press, Cambridge UK 2008

Donna Stonecipher, The Cosmopolitan, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2008

Stacy Szymaszek, from Hyperglossia, Hot Whiskey Press, Chicago 2008

Timothy Thornton, Now Vulgate, Grasp Press, Cambridge UK 2008

Tony Tost, Complex Sleep, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2008

Tony Tost, Invisible Bride, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 2004

Terence Winch, Boy Drinkers, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn 2007

Mark Yakich, Green Zone New Orleans, Press Street, New Orleans 2008

 

Books (Poetry Anthology)

Joshua Beckman & Matthew Zapruder, State of the Union: 50 Political Poems, Wave Books, Seattle / New York 2008. Includes John Ashbery, James Tate, Fanny Howe, Anselm Berrigan, Eileen Myles, Terrance Hayes, Albert Goldbarth, Cathy Wagner, Tao Lin, Michael Palmer, Lucille Clifton, Joe Wenderoth, John Yau, Richard Siken, CAConrad, Rebecca Wolff, Peter Gizzi, Forrest Gander, Tao Lin, Reginald Shepherd, Lorenzo Thomas, Edwin Torres, Elizabeth Willis, John Yau, Juliana Spahr, Wang Ping, more.

Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler, editors-in-chief, Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po LISTSERV, preface by Annie Finch, Introduction by D’Arcy Randall, Red Hen Press, Los Angeles 2008. Includes Kelli Russell Agodon, Meena Alexander, Ivy Alvarez, Judith Arcana, Felice Aull, Anny Ballardini, Tara Betts, Susan Bright, Debra Bruce, Laura Cherry, Alison Croggon, Catherine Daly, Kay Day, Carol Dorf, Jilly Dybka, Kate Evans, Suzanne Frischkorn, Gloria Frym, Jeannine Hall Gailey, David Graham, Marilyn Hacker, Liz Henry, Judy Jensen, Judith E. Johnson, more (259 poets from 19 countries).

 

Books (Other)

Amanda Ackerman, Theory of Language, Eohippus Labs, Los Angeles 2007

Stan Apps, Handbook of Poetic Language, Eohippus Labs, Los Angeles 2007

Kelly Lydick, Mastering the Dream, Second Story Books, Oakland 2008.

Michael Theune, editor, Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York 2007. Includes Christopher Bakken, Mark Yakich, D.A. Powell, Prageeta Sharma & Michael Theune, more.

 

Journals

ABC, no. 6, “Haiku Not Bombs” issue by Collective Haiku, Another Brooklyn Chapbook, Brooklyn, 2008. Includes Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay, Shin Yu Pai, Grant-Lee Phillips, Alison Roth, Rick Roth, Denise Siegel, Patrick So.

Aufgabe , no. 7, Brooklyn, 2008. Includes editors notes on “Numbers Trouble” by Paul Foster Johnson, Julian T. Brolaski & E. Tracy Grinnell, Italian feature guest edited by Jennifer Scappettone (includes Emilio Villa, Amelia Rosselli, Andrea Zanzotto, Nanni Cagnone, Milli Graffi, more, with translations by Scappettone, Carl Billitteri, Kathleen Fraser, Pasquale Verdicchio & more), Evelyn Reilly, erica kaufman, kari edwards, Allison Cobb, Sarah Mangold, Jen Coleman, Amy King, Cynthia Sailers, Chris Pusateri, Eléna Rivera, Lisa Samuels, Josha Corvey, Brandon Brown, Jen Tynes, Marcella Durand, Richard Owens, more. 

Damn the Caesars, vol. 4, Buffalo 20008. Includes Lisa Samuels, Alan Gilbert, Stacy Szymaszek, Matvei Yankelevich, Hoa Nguyen, Simon Pettet, mIEKAL aND, Linda Russo, Kyle Schlesinger, C.J. Martin, Billy Mills, Shin Yu Pai & Andrew Shelling, more.

Invisible Ear, no. 1, Northampton, MA, 2008. Includes Joshua Bolton, Heather Christle, Lyndsey Cohen, Marisa Crawford, Christopher DeWeese, Jonathan Hall, Jeannie Hoag, Natalie Lyalin, Amanda Nadelberg, Seth Parker.

Kadar Koli, vol. 2, no. 1, Habenicht Press, San Marcos, TX 2008. Includes Valerie Coulton, Stephen Vincent, Noah Eli Gordon, Sotère Torregian, Michelle Detorie, Susan Gevirtz, Chuck Stebleton, Rusty Morrison, Joseph Massey, Dale Smith, more.

Pleiades, 28:2, Warrensburg, MO, 2008. Includes Laura Jensen symposium (includes Martha Collins, Katie Peterson, Joseph Campana, Jacqueline Lyons & John Gallaher), Lily Brown, D.A. Powell, Ihab Hassan, Troy Jollimore, Mathias Svalina, Arielle Greenberg, David Orr, Chad Parmenter, Rusty Morrison, Jay Thompson, more.

Skein, no. 4, no location given, October 2007. Includes Seth Abramson, Ezekial Black, Joshua Bolton, Nicole Burgund, Heather Christle, Rachel Daly, Lawrence Giffin, Jonathan Hall, more.

Work, no. 5, Oakland, 2008. Includes Paul Deppler, Dan Fisher, Jess Rowan & Sara Wintz

 

Other Media & Formats

Hassle, no. 1, Cornwall UK, 2008, Jimmy Juniper. Single sheet folded into four panels

Hassle, no. 2, Cornwall UK, 2008, Richard Owens. Single sheet folded into four panels.

George Oppen, A Centenary Conversation, Poetics Program, SUNY Buffalo et al, 2008. Program brochure (with inserted schedule) for the recent conference.

Luke Roberts, Impetus / Scatter, Grasp Press, Cambridge UK 2008. Single sheet of card stock folded into a two-page book

Ric Royer, with sound by John Berndt, There Was One & It Was Two, Narrow House, Baltimore 2008. CD & booklet

Timothy Thornton, Motorcade / Police Horse Under Branches, Grasp Press, Cambridge UK 2008. Single sheet of card stock folded into a two-page book

C.P. Wheen, Thwart / No Ascension, Grasp Press, Cambridge UK 2008. Single sheet of card stock folded into a two-page book

Ron Silliman, Charles Alexander, James Fei, 4-25-08 , Cue Art Foundation, New York 2008. DVD video.

 

Still catching up on all items received
since January 11.