Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Anne Boyer, The Romance of Happy Workers, , Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2008
Brandon Brown, Wondrous Things I Have Seen, Big Game Books, Washington, DC 2007
Sabrina Calle, The Gilles Poem: Winter 2006 Collection, Transmission Press, San Francisco 2007
Sarah Campbell, The Maximum, Bonfire Press, Fort Collins, CO 2008
Kate Colby, Unbecoming Behavior, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn 2008
Wade Fletcher, Snitch Culture, dusi/echaps, dusie.org, 2007
Alex Gildzen, It’s All a Movie, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia, 2007
Alex Gildzen, Outlaw Dreams, Green Panda Press, Cleveland Heights, OH 2008
Harvey Goldner, The Resurrection of Bert Ringold: Selected Poems, Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso 2008
Lars Gustafsson, A Time in Xanadu, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA 2008
Linda Hogan, Rounding the Human Corners, , Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2008
Alexander Hutchison, Scales Dog, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK 2007
Eugen Jebeleanu, Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems, translated from the Romanian by Matthew Zapruder & Radu Ioanid, introduction by Andrei Codrescu, , Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2008
Trevor Joyce, What’s in Store, New Writer’s Press & The Gig, Dublin & Toronto 2007
Luke Kennard, The Harbour Beyond the Movie, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK 2007
David Kennedy, The Devil’s Bookshop, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK 2007
Carolyn Knox, Quaker Guns, Wave Books, Seattle & New York 2008
Douglas A. Martin, In the Time of Assignments, Soft Skull Press, Berkeley 2008
Ander Monson, Our Aperture, New Michigan Press, Grand Rapids 2007
Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears, translated from Belarusian by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright & Franz Wright, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA 2008
Pablo Neruda, The Hands of Day, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA 2008
Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA 2008
Alexander Skidan, Red Shifting, translated by Genya Turovskaya, Eugene Ostashevsky, Evgeny Pavlov, Jacob Edmond & Natasha Randall, introduction by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn 2008
Joseph Somoza, Shock of White Hair, Sin Fronteras, Las Cruces, NM 2007
A.B. Spellman, Things I Must Have Known, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2008
Ruth Stone, What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA 2008
Will Stone, Glaciation, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2007
Sandra Tappenden, Speed, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK 2007
Heather Thomas, Blue Ruby, Foothills Publishing, Kanona, NY 2008
Steven Waling, Travelator, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK 2007
Marjorie Welish, Isle of the Signatories, , Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2008
Jay Wright, Polynomials and Pollen: Parables, Proverbs, Paradigms and Praise for Lois, Dalkey Archive, Champaign, IL 2008
Jay Wright, The Presentable Art of Reading Absence, Dalkey Archive, Champaign, IL 2008
Books (Anthologies)
Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries, edited by Reginald Shepherd, Counterpath Press, Denver, 2008. Includes Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Kathleen Fraser, Forrest Gander, C.S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Brenda Hillman, Timothy Liu, Nathaniel Mackey, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Martha Ronk, Aaron Shurin, Carol Snow, Susan Stewart, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welsh, Elizabeth Willis, more.
Poets Bookshelf II: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art, edited by Peter Davis & Tom Koontz, Barnwood Press, Seattle 2008. Includes Jack Anderson, Ivan Arguelles, Mary Jo Bang, Ellen Bass, Robert Bly, Andrea Hollander Budy, Mairead Byrne, Nick Carbó, Maxine Chernoff, Tom Clark, Joshua Clover, Andrei Codrescu, Shanna Compton, Alfred Corn, Catherine Daly, Linh Dinh, Edward Field, Forrest Gander, Sandra M. Gilbert, Kenneth Goldsmith, Noah Eli Gordon, H.L. Hix, Anselm Hollo, Janet
Holmes, Cathy Park Hong, Ilya Kaminsky, Robert Kelly, Amy King, Jennifer L. Knox, Ted Kooser, Greg Kuzma, Ben Lerner, Haki R. Madhubuti, David Mason, Gail Mazur, Judith Moffett, K. Silem Mohammad, Willam Mohr, Charles North, Kate Northrop, Jena Osman, Alicia Ostriker, Linda Pastan, Simon Perchik, Bob Perelman, Marge Piercy, Katha Pollitt, David Ray, Jerome Rothenberg, Jerome Sala, Dennis Schmitz, Grace Schulman, Lloyd Schwartz, David Shapiro, Reginald Shepherd, Dale Smith, Eileen R. Tabios, Tony Tost, Diane Wakoski, Diane Ward, Barrett Watten, Miller Williams & many more.
Stacy S: Autoportraits, OMG Press, San Francisco 2007. Includes Trane Devore, Renee Gladman, Lisa Jarnot, Kevin Killian, Anne Tardos, Tim Peterson (or Trace), Elizabeth Robinson, David Gatten & photos by Stacy Szymaszek.
Books (Other)
Alan Filreis, Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2008
Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev, Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’ Doomed Love, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA 2007
Sophocles, Ajax, translated by John Tipton, Flood Editions, Chicago 2008
Joseph Torra, They Say: A Novel, Quale Press, Florence, MA 2007
Journals
First Intensity, no. 22, Fall 2007, Lawrence, KS. Includes Barry Gifford, Nathaniel Tarn, Ken Irby, Simon Perchik, John Olson, Anis Shivani, Rochelle Owens, Elizabeth Robinson, Mark Salerno, Whit Griffin, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Norman Weinstein, Lori Baker, Caryn Mrriam-Goldberg, John Phillips, Carol Novack, Xue Di, Andrew Zawacki, more.
Matrix, no. 79, 2008, Concordia University, Montreal 2008. Includes Dennis Lee, Stuart Ross, Darren Wershler-Henry, feature on “The New Underground” including Lisa Foad, Jenny Spirisi, Marcus McCann, Helen Heffernan, Evan Jordan, Katrina Best, Ian Williams, more.
Phoebe vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 2008, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Includes Charles Bernstein, Anne Boyer, Kim Chinquee, Michelle Detorie, Joe Hall, Liberty Heise, Karen Rigby, Jennifer Scappettone, Jessic Smith, Michael Wolfe, more.
Pleiades 28:1, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO. Includes Stephen Burt, Mark Halliday, Kim Addonizio, Claire Hero, Astrid Cabral (translated by Alexis Levitin), David Wagoner, Ngo Tu Lap (translated by Martha Collins & the author), Albert Goldbarth, Malachi Black, Campbell McGrath, Roberto Bolaño (translated by Laura Healy), Page Hill Starzinger, Robert Archambeau, Jerry Harp, Nancy Kuhl, Joan Houlihan on Sarah Hannah, more, more, more.
The Sienese Shredder, no. 2, New York, NY 2008. Includes Brice Brown, Paul Verlaine, Karen Swenson, Christophe, David Gray, Simon Cutts, Christian Hawkey, Guillaume Appolinaire, Richard Hennessy & Carter Ratcliff, Bill Zavatsky, André du Bouchet, Trevor Winkfield, Ron Padgett, Robert Desnos, Richard Denning with Don Joint, Nancy Kuhl & Duncan Hannah, William Corbett, Jasper Johns, James Meetze, James Schuyler, Mary Heilmann, Thomas Devaney,. a CD by Charles North & more, more, more.
Small Town XII, San Francisco 2007. Includes rob mclennan, Arielle Guy, Michael Slosek, Robin Demers, Carrie Hunter, Kathryn l. pringle, John Sakkis, Dorthea Lasky, Brandon Brown.
Zoland Poetry no. 1, Hanover, NH 2007. Sam Cornish, Mani Rao,
Charles North, Barbara Jane Reyes, Sarah Fox, Ange Mlinko, Dean Young, Ben
Friedlander, Patricia Smith, Valerie Duff, Jacqueline Waters, Jack Collom, Lyn Hejinian, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Meg Tyler, Ilya Bernstein, Gian Lobardo, Rachel Loden, Devin Johnston, lots of translations, more.
Zoland Poetry no. 2, Hanover, NH 2008. Miles Champion, Connie Deanovich, Bei Dao (translated by Eliot Weinberger), Tony Towle, Merrill Gilfillan, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Scappettone, Elizabeth Robinson, Anne Porter, Joan Walsh, Lee Harwood (includes interview by Bill Corbett), John Estes, Deborah Meadows, Timothy Liu, more.
Just some of the items received since January 11
-- to be continued