Recently Received

 

Books (Poetry)

Samuel Amadon, Spy Poem, Projective Industries, Hartford CT 2008

Anny Ballardini, Ghost Dance in 33 Movements, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia

Kevin Bowen, Thái Bình: Great Peace, Press Wafer, Boston 2009

Michael Carr, Out Another, Petrichord Books, Cambridge, MA 2008

Richard Deming & Nancy Kuhl, Winter 2008, Phylum Press, New Haven 2008

Adam Fieled, Help!, Greying Ghost, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 2008

David Gruber, Sleeper’s Republic, Astrophil Press, Jacksonville, FL 2008

Carolyn Guinzio, Quarry, Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press, West Lafayette, IN 2008

Jared Hayes, from Fifty Farms, Caribou Press (for the Dusie Kollektiv), location never given, but we think this one was Maine, 2008

Miguel Hernández, The Prison Poems, translated & introduced by Michael Smith, Parlor Press, West. Lafayette, IN 2008

David Huerta, Before Saying Any of the Great Words, translated by Mark Schafer, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009

Thomas Hummel, Point and Line to Plane, Projective Industries, Hartford CT 2008

Brenda Iijima, Subsistence Equipment, Faux Press, Cambridge, MA 2008

Ellen Kennedy, Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs, Muumuu House, no location given, 2009

Miranda Mellis, Materialisms, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Brooklyn 2008

Gina Myers, Behind the R, Ypolita Press, San Francisco 2008

Jess Mynes, If and When, Katalanché Press, Cambridge, MA 2008

Jennie Neighbors, Between the Twilight and the Sky, Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press, West Lafayette , IN 2008

Pablo Neruda, World’s End, translated by William O’Daly, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009

Thibault Raoult, El P.E., Projective Industries, Hartford CT 2008

G. Emil Reutter, Blue Collar Poet, StoneGarden.net Publishing, Danville, CA 2009

Frances Richard, Shaved Code, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Brooklyn 2008

Andrew Michael Roberts, Something Has to Happen Next, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2009

Boyer Rickel, remanence, Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press, West Lafayette, IN 2008

Zach Savich, Full Catastrophe Living, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2009

Zoë Skoulding, From Here, images by Simonetta Moro, Ypolita Press, San Francisco 2008

G. C. Waldrep, Archicembalo, Tupelo Press, North Adams, MA 2008

Emily Wilson, Micrographia, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2009

 

Books (Poetry Anthologies)

Ámbar Past, with Xalik Guzmán Bakbalom & Xpetra Ernandes, IncantationsL Songs, Spells, and Images by Mayan Women, Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso 2009. Includes Maria Tzu, Manwela Kokoroch, Bernal Diaz de Castillo, Fiar Diego de Landa, Munda Tostón, Maria Xila, Petú Bak Bolom, author unknown, many more.

 

Books (Other)

Roger Farr, Reg Johanson, Aaron Vidaver, PILLS: N 49.19.47 – W 123.8.11, Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies, Vancouver , BC (Coast Salish Territory) 2008. Notes for discussion at the Kootenay School of Writing “Positions” colloquium.

Michael O’Brien, Readings, Press Wafer, Boston 2009

Robert D. Richardson, First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2009

Ira Sadoff, History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2009

Henry Weinfield, The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2009

Journals

Cannot Exist, no. 4, Madison, January 2009. Includes Rodrigo Toscano, Carrie Hunter, Raymond Farr, Thom Donovan, Eileen Myles, Lynn Behrendt, more.

Invisible Ear, no. 2, Northampton, Mass, October 2008. Includes Marie Buck, Jessica Fjeld, Brad Flis, Lawrence Giffin, Rachel B. Gaser, Ben Kopel, Lily Ladewig, Emily Pettit, Alex Phillips & Jono Tosch.

Kankazine, Best of 2004 – 2007, no location given (but we’re thinking Kankakee County, IL). Includes Miranda Mead, V.S. Pruett, more.

Kankazine, Starting 2008, no location given (but we’re thinking Kankakee County, IL). Includes Leslie Pelaez, Jose Castillo,  Erin Schumaker, more.

Kankazine, Summerish 2008, no location given (but we’re thinking Kankakee County, IL). Includes H. Douglas King, Hans Stern, more.

Kankazine, Ending 2008, no location given (but we’re thinking Kankakee County, IL). Includes David Thomas Jarecki, Solomon Jackson, more.

Lana Turner, no. 1, no location (but Los Angeles is likely), Fall 2008. Includes Kiwao Nomura, Cesar Aira, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Ewa Chrusciel, Annah Sobelman, Peter Eirich, Josef Kaplan, Sawako Nakayasu, Karen Garthe, Sandra Simonds, Martha Ronk, Joshua Clover, Conrad Stewart, Alain Badiou, Calvin Bedient, J. Scott Smith, Saadi Yousef, Sargon Boulus, Jane Miller, Jorie Graham, Brenda Hillman, Cathy Park Hong, Jasper Bernes, Srikanth Reddy, Shane Book, Matthew Cooperman, Judith Taylor, John Lucas, Gopal Balakrishnan, Matt Lau, Amy Kim, Barbara Guest, Andrew Joron, Marjorie Perloff, David Lau, Annah Sobelman, Brenda Hillman, Martha Ronk, Timothy Donnelly, Nahrain Al-Mousawi, Rusty Morrison, Juliana Spahr, Molly Bendall, Joel Brouwer, Andrea Quaid, Srikanth Reddy & Cole Swensen

 

Other Media, Formats

Anonymous, Before the Forest Engine, Park Book Three, no location or date – gorgeous little chapbook with illustrations that function as a “flip-book”

Anonymous, no title, publisher or date listed, eight-page book on a single sheet of paper, poems about pebbles in a minuscule & unreadable calligraphy (but looks very nice)

C. Shoup, Kankakee County Artist Cards, Bradley, IL. Oversized postcards with envelopes. Tied together with string (as were the issues of Kankazine).Quality twine.

 

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