Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Recently Received

Books (Poetry)

Scot Abels, Rambo Goes to Idaho, BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, NY, 2011

Amanda Ackerman, I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Parrot 8 / Insert Press, Los Angeles, August 2011

Charles Alexander, Pushing Water, Cuneiform Press, Victoria, TX, 2011

Larry Bierman, About There, Beggar Books, Norman, OK, 2010

Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 2011

W.S. Di Piero, Nitro Nights, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 2011

Carmen Giménez Smith, The City She Was, Center for Literary Publishing, Fort Collins, CO, 2011

Peter Gizzi, Threshold Songs, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, CT, 2011

Nazim Hikmet, Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse, translated from the Turkish by Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk, foreword by Edward Hirsch, Persea Books, NYC, 2002

Burt Kimmelman, The Way We Live, Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH, 2011

Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe, Litmus Press, Brooklyn, 2011

Alfred Kreymborg, The Little World, Coward McCann, New York, 1932.

Bill Luoma, Some Math, Kenning Editions, Chicago, 2011

Richard Makin, Dwelling, Reality Street, Hastings, East Sussex, UK, 2011

Alice Notley, Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, CT, 2011

Nicanor Parra, After-Dinner Declarations, translated from the Spanish by Dave Oliphant, Host Publications, Austin, TX 2009

Hyam Plutzik, Apples from Shinar, with an afterword by David Scogtt Kastan, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, CT, 2011

Pam Rehm, The Larger Nature, Flood Editions, Chicago, 2011

Ariana Reines, Mercury, Fence Books, Albany, NY, 2011

Stephen Vincent, After Language: Letters to Jack Spicer, BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, 2011

Anne Waldman, The Iovis Trilogy, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2011

Elizabeth Willis, Address, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, CT, 2011

 

Books (Poetry Anthologies)

Christian Bök, editor, introduction by Margaret Atwood, Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee, Anansi, Toronto, 2002. Includes Leonard Cohen, Audrey Thomas, Graeme Gibson, Ray Smith, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, J. Michael Yates, Andreas Schroeder, Christopher Dewdney, Matt Cohen, Martin Vaughn-James, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, John Riddell, Dave Godfrey, Robert Zend, Derk Wynand, Gail Scott, bpNichol, Steve McCaffery.

Manuel Britos, editor, Los Mejores Poetas Americanos Contemporáneos: Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten, Ediciones Literarias Mandala, Madrid, 2011

Jack David & Robert Lecker, editors, Canadian Poetry, Volume One, introduction by George Woodcock, Stoddart Publishing, Toronto, 1994. Includes Charles Sangster, Isabella Valancy Crawford, W. Wilfred Campbell, Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, D. C. Scott, E. J. Pratt, W. W. E. Ross, Raymond Knister, F. R. Scott, Robert Finch, A. J. M. Smith, Earle Birney, Leo Kennedy, Ralph Gustafson, A. M. Klein, Dorothy Livesay, Anne Wilkinson, Irving Layton, P. K. Page, Miriam Waddington, & Margaret Avison

Rita Dove, editor, The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, Penguin, New York, 2011. Includes Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Angelina Weld Grimké, William Carlos Williams, Sara Teasdale, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Claude McKay, Archibald MacLeish, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Jean Toomer, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson, Hart Crane , Robert Francis, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Stanley Kunitz, W. H. Auden , Theodore Roethke, Charles Olson, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Weldon Kees, Dudley Randall, William Stafford, Ruth Stone, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Meredith, Howard Nemerov, Hayden Carruth, Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, Alan Dugan, Anthony Hecht, Richard Hugo, Denise Levertov, Louis Simpson, Carolyn Kizer , Kenneth Koch, Maxine Kumin, Gerald Stern, A. R. Ammons, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Merrill, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, James Wright, Donald Hall, Philip Levine, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Derek Walcott, Miller Williams, Etheridge Knight, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Audre Lorde Sonia Sanchez, Mark Strand, Russell Edson, Mary Oliver, Charles Wright, Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Frederick Seidel, C. K. Williams, Diane Wakoski, Michael S. Harper, Charles Simic, Paula Gunn Allen, Frank Bidart, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dunn, Robert Pinsky, James Welch, Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dobyns, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, B. H. Fairchild, William Matthews, Sharon Olds, Henry Taylor, Tess Gallagher, Michael Palmer, James Tate, Norman Dubie, Carol Muske-Dukes, Larry Levis, Adrian C. Louis, Thomas Lux, Marilyn Hacker, Ron Silliman, Ai, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nathaniel Mackey, Gregory Orr, Roberta Hill Whiteman, Albert Goldbarth, Heather McHugh, Leslie Marmon Silko, Olga Broumas, Victor Hernández Cruz, Jane Miller, David St. John, C. D. Wright, Carolyn Forché, Jorie Graham, Marie Howe, Joy Harjo, Garrett Hongo, Andrew Hudgins, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rita Dove, Alice Fulton, Barbara Hamby, Mark Jarman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Laurie Sheck, Gary Soto, Susan Stewart, Mark Doty, Harryette Mullen, Franz Wright, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sandra Cisneros, Cornelius Eady, Louise Erdrich, David Mason, Marilyn Chin, Cathy Song, Annie Finch, Li-Young Lee, Carl Phillips, Nick Flynn, Elizabeth Alexander, Reetika Vazirani, Sherman Alexie, Natasha Trethewey, A. E. Stallings, Joanna Klink, Brenda Shaughnessy, Terrance Hayes

Roddy Lumsden & Eloise Stoneborough, editors, The Salt Book of Younger Poets, London, 2011. Includes Rachael Allen, Daniel Barrow, Jack Belloli, Jay Bernard, James Brookes, Phil Brown, Niall Campbell, Kayo Chingonyi, Miranda Cichy, John Clegg, Nia Davies, Amy De’Ath, Inua Ellams, Charlotte Geater, Tom Gilliver, Dai George, Emily Hasler, Oli Hazzard, Dan Hitchens, Sarah Howe, Andrew Jamison, Annie Katchinska, Andrew McMillan, Siofra McSherry, Ben Maier, Laura Marsh, Annabella Massey, James Midgley, Helen Mort, Charlotte Newman, Richard O’Brien, Richard Osmond, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Sophie Robinson, Charlotte Runcie, Ashna Sarkar, William Searle, Colette Sensier, Warsan Shire, Lavinia Singer, Adham Smart, Martha Sprackland, Eloise Stonborough, Emily Tesh, Jack Underwood, Ahren Warner, Ben Wilkinson, Sophie Yeo

 

Books (Other)

Mario Benedetti, The Rest is Jungle & Other Stories, translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales, Host Publications, Austin, TX 2010

Johan de Wit, Gero Nimo, Reality Street, Hastings, East Sussex, UK, 2011

Ted Greenwald, Clearview/Lie, United Artists, Brooklyn, 2011

Barbara Henning, Looking Up Harryette Mullen, introduction by Juliana Spahr, Belladonna, Brooklyn, 2011

John Emil Vincent, editor, After Spicer: Critical Essays, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2011. Includes Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, John Emil Vincent, Catherine Imbriglio, Maria Damon, Norman Finkelstein, Michael Snediker, Anita Sokolsky, Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop

 

Other Media & Notable Formats

Mairéad Byrne, Lucky, Little Red Leaves, no location given, 2011. Handmade chapbook, 4.25” by 5.75” with hand-sewn cover.

Anne Carson, Nox, New Directions, New York, 2010. Boxed facsimile of a handmade book.

Beverly Dahlen, A Reading: Birds, Little Red Leaves, no location given, 2011. Handmade chapbook, 4.25” by 5.75” with hand-sewn cover. (Already in a second printing!)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Draft 96: Velocity, Little Red Leaves, no location given, 2011. Handmade chapbook, 4.25” by 5.75” with hand-sewn cover.

Bhanu Kapil, Nude Page for Ban, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, PA, 2011. “Baseball” trading card

Jimmy Lo, A Reduction, Little Red Leaves, no location given, 2011. Handmade chapbook, 4.25” by 5.75” with hand-sewn cover.

rob mclennan, C. Little Red Leaves, no location given, 2011. Handmade chapbook, 4.25” by 5.75” with hand-sewn cover.

Bob Perelman, First and Last, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, PA, 2011. “Baseball” trading card.

Jamie Townsend, Matryoshka, Little Red Leaves, no location given, 2011. Handmade chapbook, 4.25” by 5.75” with hand-sewn cover.