Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Harold Abramowitz, Dear Dearly Departed, Palm Press, Long Beach 2008
Andr’s Ajens, Quase Flanders, Quase Extremadura, translated by Erín Moure as translations from south to north with notes, La Mano Izquierda, Victoria, BC 2008
José Felipe Alvergue, Us Look Up / There Red Dwells, P-Queue, Queue Books, Buffalo 2008
Joe Amato, Pain Plus Thyme, Factory School, Queens, NY 2008
Anne Boyer, Art is War, Mizvah Chaps, Lawrence & Boulder 2008
Anne Carson, Short Talks, Brick Books, London Ontario 1992
Jan Conn, Jaguar Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems, Brick Books, London Ontario 2006
Jack Crimmins, The Rust Life, Earthworm Press & Projects, San Francisco 2008
Mark Cunningham, Body Language, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Grafton, VT 2008
Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged, Brick Books, London Ontario 2007
Marshall D. Dury, The Inside of a Load-Bearing Wall, self-published, “just outside of Boston,” 2008
Kate Eichorn, Fond, BookThug, Toronto 2008
K.S. Ernst & Sheila E. Murphy, Permutoria: Visio-Textual Art, Luna Bisonte Prods, Columbus 2008. Available also as a download.
Adam Fieled, When You Bit…, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2008
Lisa Forrest, To the Eaves, BlazeVox Books, Buffalo 2008
Elizabeth P. Glixman, A White Girl Lynching, Pudding House Chap Books, Columbus 2008
Mark Goldstein, After Rilke: To Forget You Sang, BookThug, Toronto 2008
Phil Hall, An Oak Hunch, Brick Books, London Ontario 2005
Charles O. Hartman, New & Selected Poems, Ahsahta Press, Boise 2008.
L.A. Howe, NTR PIC E ST R, Little Scratch Pad Editions, Buffalo 2007
Kent Johnson, Homage to the Last Avant-Garde, Shearsman Books, Exeter, U.K. 2008
Robert Kroetsch, The Ledger, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008
Dennis Lee, Riffs, Brick Books, London Ontario 1995
Karen An-Hwei Lee, Ardor, Tupelo Press, Dorset VT 2008
Travis MacDonald, The O Mission Repo, Fact-Simile, Denver 2008
Mao Zedong, The Poems of Mao Zedong, translated by Willis Barnstone, University of California Press, Berkeley 2008
Kristianne Meal, TwentyTwo: First Pallet, Little Scratch Pad Editons, Buffalo 2007
Catherine Meng, Dokument, Petrichord Books, Cambridge, MA 2008
W.S. Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2008
Geraldine Monk, Ghost & Other Sonnets, Salt, Cambridge, UK, 2008
Marianne Moore, A-Quiver with Significance: Marianne Moore 1932 – 1936, edited by Heather Cass White, ELS Editions, Victoria BC 2008
Dennis O’Driscoll, Reality Check, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2008
David O’Meara, The Vicinity, Brick Books, London Ontario 2003
Doug Nufer, We Were Werewolves, Make Now, Los Angeles 2008
Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance, translated into the French as La danse éliminatoire by Lola Lemire Tostevin, Brick Books, London Ontario 1991
Meredith Quatermain, Matter, BookThug, Toronto 2008
James Reaney, Souwesto Home, Brick Books, London Ontario 2005
Stephen Rodefer, Call It Thought, Carcenet, Manchester, UK 2008
Mercedes Roffé, Like the Rains Come: Selected Poems (1987 – 2006), translated by Janet Greenberg, Shearsman, Exeter U.K. 2008
Kathleen Rooney, Oneiromance (An Epithalamion), Switchback Books, Chicago 2008
Andrew Schelling, Old Tale Road, Empty Bowl, Port Townsend, 2008
Robyn Schiff, Revolver, Kuhl House Poets, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2008
Karen Solie, Modern and Normal, Brick Books, London Ontario 2005
Chuck Stebelton, A Maximal Object, Mizvah Chaps, Lawrence & Boulder 2008
Jordan Stempleman, The Travels, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2008
Stephanie Strickland, Zone: Zero, Ahsahta Press, Boise 2008. Includes CD with digital versions of two of the sequences that appear in the print edition.
John Taggart, There Are Birds, Flood Editions, Chicago 2008
Shelly Taylor, Peaches the Yes Girl, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Brooklyn 2008
John Tranter, The Anaglyph / Brian Henry, John Tranter’s New Form(alism): The Terminal, no publisher listed but prepared for the Poetry and the Trace conference, Victoria, Australia 2008
Lourdes Vázquez, Samandar: Libro de Viajes / Book of Travels, translated by Enriqueta Carrington, TséTsé, Buenos Aires 2007
Fred Wah, Isadora Blue, La Mano Izquierda, Victoria, BC 2008
Emily Warn, Shadow Architect, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2008
Tom Yorty, Words in Season, Little Scratch Pad Editions, Buffalo 2007
Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, Brick Books, London Ontario 1998
Books (Poetry Anthologies)
Jeff Hilson, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, Reality Street Editions, East Sussex, U.K. 2008. Includes Bob Cobbing, Edwin Denby, Bern Porter, Mary Ellen Solt, Jackson Mac Low, Ebbe Borregaard, John Clarke, Ted Berrigan, Anselm Hollo, Beverly Dahlen, Kathleen Fraser, Tom Raworth, Clark Coolidge, Peter Riley, Stephen Rodefer, Lyn Hejinian, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ron Padgett, John Welch, Adrian Clarke, Paul Dutton, Robert Adamson, Thomas A. Clark, Allen Fisher, Geoffrey Young, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Steve McCaffery, Aaron Shurin, Pam Brown, Bill Griffiths, Alan Halsey, Lawrence Upton, Ken Edwards, Jonathan Brannen, Geraldine Monk, Harryette Mullen, William Fuller, Robert Sheppard, Michael Leggott, Juliana Spahr, Michael Farrell, Eleni Sikelianos, Laynie Browne, Lisa Jarnot, more.
C.S. Perez & Todd Melicker, The Lone Mountain Anthology, 2008, Achiote Press, Berkeley 2008. Includes Susanne Dyckman, Amanda Field, Karen Pehlps, Val Witte, Alexandra Mattraw, Hannah Maggiora Wallstrum, Jennifer Reimer, more.
Books (Other)
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 2008
Susanne Christensen & Audun Lindholm, Borders, Chain * Links, Philadelphia & Oakland, 2008. Includes Ida Börel, Matias Faldbakken & Das Beckwerk
Stephen Collis, Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism, ELS Editions, Victoria BC 2008
Allen Ginsberg, The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA 2008
William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, edited by R.B. Parker, The Oxford Shakespeare, Oxford University Press 2008
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One, edited by David Bevington, The Oxford Shakespeare, Oxford University Press 2008
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, edited by Nicholas Brooke, The Oxford Shakespeare, Oxford University Press 2008
William Shakespeare, Othello, edited by Michael Neill, The Oxford Shakespeare, Oxford University Press 2008
William Shakespeare, Richard III, edited by John Jowett, The Oxford Shakespeare, Oxford University Press 2008
Journals
Barrellhouse, no. 6, 2008, Washington, DC. Includes Bill Wyman, Denise Duhamel, Amy Holman, Philip Jenks, Amy Lemmon, Elise Miley, Lev Oborin, Gavin Pate, Laura Solomon, Matvei Yankelevich, more.
Cannot Exist, no. 2, May 2008, Madison. Includes Alan Davies, Judith Goldman, Christina Strong, Gregory Betts, Andy Gricevich, Ray Hsu, more.
Cannot Exist, no. 3, September 2008, Madison. Includes Carrie Etter, Sheila E. Murphy, Lawrence Giffin, Kevin Killian, Mark Lamoureux, more.
Hawk & Whippoorwill:Poems of Man & Nature, vol. 1, issue 1, Summer 2008. Boston. Includes Robert Riche, Jane Levin, C.E. Chaffin, Temple Cone, Ed Minus, more.
Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, no. 11, 2008. Normal, IL. Includes Heriberto Yépez, Roberto Tejada, Urayoán Noel, Renato Gómez, Rose Alcalá, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rensee Gladman, Rochelle Owens, Osvaldo Lamborghini, Gail Schneider, Ramón Garcia, Susan Briante, Francisco Aragón, Dale Smith, Robert Duncan, Valerie Martínez, Lili Maya, Kristin Dykstra, more.
Mantis, no. 7, Summer 2008, Stanford. Special Heidegger & Char feature includes Mark Causey, R.D.V. Glascow, Stuart Kendal, Noreen Khawaja, more. Also includes Marie Etienne, Marilyn Hacker, Rusty Morrison, Peter O’Leary, Elizabeth Robinson, Mathias Svalina, János Marno, more.
Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, no. 6.Summer 2008. Tokyo. Include Ravi Shankar, Jane Hirshfield, David Miller, Uda Kiyoko, Robert Beary, Halvard Johnson, Lionel Kearns, Keiji Minato, Barry Schwabsky, Ruth Lepson, Elizabeth Robinson, Robin Magowin, other.
Open Letter, Thirteenth Series, No. 6, Summer 2008. Strathroy, Ontario . New Canadian Poetries issue, guest-edited by rob mclennan. Includes Nicole Marcotić, Allesandro Porco, Adam Seelig, Jill Hartman, Adeena Karasick, Marck Cochrane, Lisa Robertson, Donato Mancini, Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Derek Beaulieu, Colin Martin, jay millAr & Tim Conley, Jonathan Ball & Max Middle.
Phoebe, vol. 37, no. 2, Fall 2008. Fairfax, VA. Includes Nora Almeida, Anselm Berrigan, Trina Burke, Ben Doller, Dan Ford, Avital Gad-Cykman, Chris Gavaler, Eryn Green, Henry Hart, K.A. Hays, Mel Nichols, The Pines, Dan Pinkerton, Ryan Walker, Mike Young, more.
The Poker, no. 8, Cambridge, MA, 2008. Includes Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Richard Roundy, Anne Boyer, Noah Eli Gordon, Landis Everson, Carol Szamatowicz, Douglas Rothschild, John Wilkinson, Pattie McCarthy, Anselm Berrigan, Robert Kelly, Jennifer Moxley, more.
P-Queue, no. 5, 2008, Buffalo. Includes Eric Elshtain, Ariel Goldberg, Eli Drabman, Julia Drescher, Srikanth Reddy & Dan Beachy-Quick, Linda Russo, more.
Vanitas 3: Popular Song, New York, 2008. Includes Jim Dine, Barry Schwabsky, Larry Sawyer, Rob Halpern, Chis Pusateri, Stephen Ratcliffe, Phoebe Wayne, Charles North, Laura Moriarty, Susan Wheeler, Jen Olin, Elaine Equi, David Trinidad, Anne Waldman, Michael Rothenberg, Louis Armand, Heller Levinson, Paul Pines, Cliff Fyman, Scott Bentley, Ray Di Palma, Bill Berkson & Barrett Watten, more.
Other Media & Formats
Ed Baker, Face Turned to the South / Face Turned to the Wall, Red Ochre Press Broadside, Takoma Park, MD, 2000. Single sheet folded to make a “four-page book.”
Dan Beachy-Quck & Srikanth Reddy, Möbius Crowns, P-Queue, Buffalo, 2008. Two chapbooks (one entitled Möbius Crowns, the other with a line drawing of a Moebius strip for a title, containing what appear to be collaboratively written poems, contained within a fragile brown paper boxlike thingee bound by two bands of paper, one containing the title, the other the names of the authors).
Larry Ochs / Rova (Special Septet & Orketrova), The Mirror World (for Stan Brakhage), Metalanguage, Berkeley, 2007. Double CD.
