Recently Received

 

Books (Poetry)

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New & Selected Poems, edited by Karen van Dyck, many translators, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2009

Ed Baker, Between Two Houses, Poems-for-All, Sacramento 2007

Micah Ballard, Parish Krewes, Bootstrap Press, Lowell, MA 2009

Adam Fieled, Opera Bufa, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2007

Adam Fieled, Posit, Dusie/e-chap, location never given, 2008

Karl Gartung, Now That Memory Has Become So Important, MWPH Books, Fairwater, WI 2008

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, After the Palace Burns, Zoo Press, Lincoln, NE 2003

Tinker Greene, Funeral Sentences, self-published, San Francisco 2008

Lyn Hejinian, Saga / Circus, Omnidawn, Richmond, CA 2008

P. Inman, Ad Finitum, If P Then Q, Manchester, U.K. 2008

(Author not credited, but the design suggests that it’s John Martone), All Saints, no location given, no date

Jim McCrary, All That: The Collected Chapbooks, ManyPenny Press, Moscow, ID 2008

Teresa K. Miller, Forever No Lo, Tarpaulin Sky, Grafton, VT 2008

Fred Moten, Hughson’s Tavern, Leon Works, no location given, 2008

Anne Portugal, Quisite Moment, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck, Providence 2008

Allison Power, You Americans, Brooklyn 2008

Brandon Shimoda, The Inland Sea, Tarpaulin Sky, Grafton, VT 2008

Jordan Stempleman, String Parade, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2008

Joseph Stroud, Of This World, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009

James Thomas Stevens & Nicolas A. Destino, Of Kingdoms & Kangaroo, First Intensity Press, Lawrence, KS 2008

Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 – 2003, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 2004

Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop, Flat with No Key, Burning Deck, Providence 2008

Hannah Zeavin, Circa, Hanging Loose, Brooklyn 2009

 

Books (Poetry Anthologies)

The Emohippus Greeting Card, first series, editing uncertain, Eohippus Labs, Los Angeles 2008. Includes Teresa Carmody, Dan Richert, Mathew Timmons, Vannesa Place, Allison Carter.

 

Books (Other)

Laura Chester, Rancho Weirdo, Bootstrap Press, Lowell 2008

Michael Cross & Andrew Rippeon, Building is a Process / Light is an Element: Essays and Excursions for Myung Mi Kim, P-Queue / Queue Books, Buffalo 2008

Derek Fenner, I No Longer Believe in the Sun: Love Letters to Katie Couric, Bootstrap Press, Lowell, MA 2009

Fanny Howe, The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, Graywolf Press, St. Paul, 2009

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Arts and Literature, Penn State Press, University Park , PA 2007

.M. G. Le Clézio, The Prospector, translated by Carol Marks, David R. Godine, Jaffrey, NH 1993 (new edition)

Ralph Maud, Charles Olson at the Harbor, Talon Books, Vancouver 2008

Jena Osman, Refuge / Refugee, Chain / Links, Oakland & Philadelphia, 2008. Includes essays by Emily Abendroth, Bryan Finoki, Amze Emmons & the Documentary Project for Refugee Youth

Kirm Rosenfield, Re: Evolution, with an introduction by Sianne Ngai, an analysis by Diana Hamilton & a research paper by Jennifer Calkins, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles, 2008.

Gustaf Sobin, Aura: Last Essays, Counterpath Press, Denver 2009

 

Journals

Open Letter, thirteenth series, no. 7, Fall 2008, Strathoy, Ontario. Special issue: Dialogues on Poetics & Public Culture: Includes Fred Wah, Lily Cho & Melina Baum Singer, Lianne Moyes, Claire Huot, Robert Majzels, Tara Lee, George Elliott Clarke, Rubelise da Cunha, Lee Maracle, Karis Shearer & Frank Davey (“Schlemiel and the Cat in the Hat”), Kit Dobson & Jeff Derksen, Jessica Wyman & Kathleen Ritter, Ashok Mathur & Smaro Kamboureli

Poetry Project Newsletter, no. 217, New York, December 2008 / January 2009. Includes Harrison Rodney, Chris Martin, Kristin Prevallet & Lee Ann Brown (on Helen Adam), Stephanie Young, Karen Weiser, Thom Donovan, Paul Foster Johnson, Edmund Berrigan, Diana Hamilton, Mike Hauser, Macgregor Card, Carol Mirakove, Dana Ward, Brian Teare, Sara Wintz, Jen Coleman, Stacy Szymaszek & Corrine Fitzpatrick

Process, no. 1, Gloucester MA, July 2008. Includes Clayton Eshleman, Alan Davies, Diane Wakoski, Christopher Rizzo, Jerry Rothenberg, Nathaniel Tarn, Pierre Joris, Nancy Kuhl, Janet Rodney, Edward Dahlberg, Michael Rumaker, more.

Thuggery & Grace, no. 4, Nov. 2008, Denver. Includes Eileen Myles, Ed Bowes, Philip Whalen, Reed Bye, Sara Velahn, Maureen Owen, more. (Final print issue. “We’re planning on going digital…”)

Tinfish, no. 18½, Kāne’ohe, HI 2008. Poetry Puzzles and Games Issue. Includes Susan M. Schultz, Lian Lederman, Allison Utley, Jenifer Wofford, Isaac Parker, Sally French, Jason Teraoka, Kai Gaspar, Sage Uilani Takehiro, Ryan Oishi, Jill Yamasawa & Tiare Picard

Work, no. 11, Oakland, 2008. Includes Linda Russo, Dana Teen Lomax, Sean Hill, Lara Durback, Francis Raven.

Zoland Poetry, no. 3, Hanover, NH, February 2009. Includes Jared Stanley, Nuno Júdice, Chris Glomski, Nick Twemlow, Matthew Shenoda, Nathaniel Tarn, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Brent Cunningham, Noah Eli Gordon, Le Phan Le, Chris Pusateri, Susan Baran, Iana Boukova, Alice Miller, Albert Goldbarth, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Roxanne Halpine, Nathalie Stephens, Lynn Xu, Marc Cohen, Chen Li, Major Jackson, Ron Horning, Ed Barrett, Oles Ilchenko, DA Powell, William Corbett, Ron Padgett, Édouard Glissant, many, many more.

 

Still a big stack of books
waiting to be noted here

  

Recently Received

 

Books (Poetry)

Caroline Bergvall, Alyson Singes, Belladonna Books, Brooklyn 2008

Daniel ƒ. Bradley, T=i=d=y Language, Outlands, Toronto, 2008

Robert Desnos, Essential Poems & Writings of Robert Desnos, translated by Mary Ann Caws, Terry Hale, Martin Sorrell, Bill Zavatsky, Joanathan Eburne, Katharine Conley, Patricia Terry, Timothy Ades, Kenneth Rexroth, Paul Auster & Stephen Romer, edited with an introduction & essay by Mary Ann Caws, Boston 2007

Marcella Durand, Area, Belladonna Books, Brooklyn 2008

Paul Eluard, Capital of Pain, translated by Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry & Nancy Kline with an introduction & essay Mary Ann Caws, Black Widow, Boston 2006

Carol Guess, Tinderbox Lawn, Rose Metal Press, Brookline, MA 2008

Barbara Guest, The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest, edited by Hadley Haden Guest, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CA 2008

Olav H. Hauge, The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems, translated by Robert Bly & Robert Hedin, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2008

Peter Jaeger, Eckhart Cars, Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK 2004

Peter Jaeger, Prop, Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK 2007

Andrew Joron, The Sound Mirror, Flood Editions, Chicago 2008

John Kinsella, Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography: Three New Works, W.W. Norton, New York & London 2008

Sarah Lindsey, Twigs & Knucklebones, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2008

Valery Larbaud, The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth, translated by Ron Padgett & Bill Zavatsky, Black Widow Press, Boston 2008

John Olson, Backscatter: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow, Boston 2008

Richard Owens, Delaware Memoranda, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2008

Raymond Queneau, Eyeseas (Les Zioux), translated with an introduction by Daniela Hurezanu & Stephen Kessler

Michael Schiavo, The Mad Song, foreword by Douglas Crase, The Shires Press, Manchester NH 2008

Sandra Simonds, Warsaw Bikini, Bloof Books, Central New Jersey, 2009

Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry, edited by Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 2008

 

Books (Poetry Anthologies)

Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21^st Century, edited by Roger Farr, Capilano University Editions, North Vancouver 2008. Includes Oana Avasilichioaei, George Bowering, Louis Cabri, Jeff Derksen, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Maxine Gold, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Donato Mancini, Darren Wershler, Rita Wong, more.

Sidebrow 01, edited by Jason Snyder, John Cleary & Kristine Leja, Sidebrow, San Francisco 2008. Includes A.K. Arkadin, Andrea Baker, Julia Bloch, Jimmy Chen, Steve Dalachinsky, Catherine Daly, Brett Evans, Noah Eli Gordon, rob mclennan, Kristin Prevallet, Stephen Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Robinson, Ed Skoog, Chris Stroffolino, Cole Swensen, Chris Tysh, Nico Vassilakis, James Wagner, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, more.

 

Books (Other)

Peter Jaeger, ABC of Reading TRG, Talon, Vancouver, 1999

 

Journals

Action Poetique, no. 193, Ivry-sur-Siene, France, September 2008. Hahhah Höch feature (includes Isabelle Garron, Kurt Schwitters, Ursula Krechel, Henri DeLuy, Til Brugman, more), Jacques Roubaud, Tom Raworth, more.

Crayon 5, “On Beauty,” Milwaukee & New York, 2008. Includes Andrew Levy, Beverly Dahlen, Kristen Gallagher, Joe Amato, Cecilia Vicuña, Nicole Brossard, Rob Halpern, Carolee Schneeman, Julie Patton, Sawako Nakayasu, Kristin Prevallet, Brenda Iijima, Steve Benson, Laynie Browne, Diane Ward, Thom Donovan, Alan Davies, Roberto Harrison, Lisa Robertson, P. Inaman, Andrew Klobucar, Linh Dinh, John Shoptaw, Laura Sims, Pat Reed, Judith Goldman, more.

Tight, no. 3, Manchester Center, VT, 2008. Includes Andrew Mister, Ryan Murphy, Lisa Jarnot, James Meetze, Gabriel Gudding, Arlo Quint, Daniel Nester, Sandra Simonds, Shanna Compton, John Koethe, Buck Downs, Aaron Belz, Nora Almeida, Jess Mynes, Charles Wright, Matt Hart, Robert Kelly, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Joseph Massey, more.

 

Other Forms & Media

Or, issue one, Los Angeles, 2008. Include Adonis, Amiri Baraka, Ahmed Barakat, Guy Bennett, Neeli Cherkovski, Gillian Conoley, Ray DiPalma, Gary Gach, Marco Giovenale, Owen Hill, Ken McCullough, Douglas Messerli, Laura Moriarty, Nick Piombino, Martha Ronk, Standard Schaefer, Toni Simon, Adriano Satola, Paul Vangelisti, more. Oversized tabloid.

The Blue Letter, Brooklyn, November 2008. Marie Buck, Brad Flis, Lisa Robertson and Dara Wier. In the form of a 16-page letter, duplex printed, on (naturally) yellow paper.

 

Still a big stack of books
waiting to be noted here

   

Recently Received

 

Books (Poetry)

Kostas Anagnopoulos, Various Sex Acts, Insurance Editions, Jackson Heights, NY 2008

Rae Armantrout, Versed, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 2009

Brandon Brown, Camels!, Taxt Press, Oakland 2008

Asher Ghaffar, Wasps in a Golden Dream Hum a Strange Music, ECW Press, Toronto 2008

Ben Hersey, This is What We are Up Against, The Chuckwagon, Southampton, MA 2008

Daniel Kane, Ostentation of Peacocks, Egg Box Publishing, no location given (but perhaps Norwich, UK), 2008

Paul Foster Johnson, Refrains / Unworkings, Apostrophe Books, no location given 2008

Mark Lamoureux, Astrometry Orgonon, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2008

Gian Lombardo, Aid & Abet, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2008

Rebecca Loudon, Cadaver Dogs, No Tell Books, Reston, VA 2008

Hilda Raz, All Odd and Splendid, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 2008

Brandon Shimoda, The Alps, Flim¹ Forum Press, Slingerlands, NY 2008

Grzegorz Wróblewski, Our Flying Objects: Selected Poems, translated from the Polish by the author, Adam Zdrodowski, Malcolm Sinclair, Joel Leonard Katz & Rod Mengham, Cartalia Poetry Series / Euipage, Cambridge, UK 2007

 

Books (Other)

Benoit B. Mandlebrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, W.H. Freeman & Company, New York & Oxford, UK 1983

Jean-Luc Marion, Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness, translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky, Stanford, Palo Alto 2002

Jean-Luc Marion, In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena, translated by Robyn Horner & Vincent Berraud, Fordham University Press, New York, 2002

 

Journals

Fence, no. 20, Winter 2008-2009, Albany, NY. Includes Michael S. Harper, Daniel Kane, Joe Ashby Porter, Shelley Jackson, Srikanth Reddy, Sina Queyras, Catherine Meng, Rae Armantrout, Ranbir Sidhu, Jordan Davis, Stephanie Strickland, Brandon Shimoda, Brian Kim Stefans, more.

 

¹ Not a typo.

    

Recently Received

 

Books (Poetry)

Robert Adamson, The Golden Bird, Black Inc. Books, Melbourne 2008

Ed Baker, Restoration Poems: 1972 – 2007, Country Valley Press, Gardnerville, NV 2008

Allison Carter, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement, with an introduction by Danielle Dutton, Les Figues, Los Angeles 2008

John Donlan, Spirit Engine, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008

Nabile Farès, Hearing Your Story: Songs of History and Life for Sand Roses, English translation by Peter Thompson, introduction by Réda Bensmaïa, University of New Orleans Press, New Orleans 2008

John Giorno, Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962 – 2007, edited by Marcus Boon, Soft Skull, Berkeley 2008

Ted Greenwald, In Your Dreams, BlazeVox, Buffalo 2008

Owen Hill, Against the Weather, Blue Press, Santa Cruz 2008

Friedrich Hölderlin, Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover, Omnidawn, Richmond, CA 2008

Brenda Klar, Cypress, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008

Brenda Leifso, Daughters of Men, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008

John Levy, Oblivion Tyrants Crumbs, First Intensity, Lawrence, KS 2008

Billy Little, St. Ink, Capilano University Editions, selected by Jamie Reid & George Stanley, North Vancouver, BC 2008

Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008

Sheila E. Murphy, Collected Chapbooks, Blue Lion Books, Puhos, Finland & West Hartford, CT 2008

David O’Meara, Noble Gas, Penny Black, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008

Monty Reid, The Luskville Reductions, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008

Sam Sampson, Everything Talks, Auckland University Press, Auckland, New Zealand 2008

Sue Sinclair, Breaker, Brick Books, London, Ontario 2008

Susan Wheeler, Assorted Poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2009 (!)

Ronaldo V. Wilson, Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2008

Laura Winter, Coming Here to be Alone, Mountains and Rivers, Eugene 2008

 

Books (Other)

John Ashbery & James Schuyler, A Nest of Ninnies, Dalkey Archive, Champaign, IL 2008

Aaron Cometbus, The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah, published as Cometbus no. 51, Berkeley 2008

Alfred Corn, The Poem’s Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2008

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Dust, translations from the Russian by Thomas Epstein, Evgeny Pavlov, Shushan Avagyan & ana Lucic, Dalkey Archive, Champaign, IL 2008

J.M.G. Le Clézio, The Prospector, translated by Carol Marks, David Godine, Boston 1993

John Olson, Souls of Wind, Quale Press, Williamsburg, MA 2008

Vanessa Place, La Medusa, Fiction Collective 2, Tuscaloosa 2008

Jonathan Strong, Drawn From Life, Quale Press, Williamsburg, MA 2008

Magdalena Zurawski, The Bruise, FC2, Tuscaloosa, AL 2008

 

Journals

House Organ, no. 64, Fall 2008, Lakewood, OH. Includes Brian Richards, Ed Sanders, Kenneth Warren, Hugh Fox, Stephen Ellis, Curtis Faville, Tom Clark, Cliff Fyman, Michael Rothenberg, Stephen Paul Miller, Diane di Prima, John Bennett, A.L. Nielsen, more.

No, issue no. 7, 2008, Santa Monica. Includes Heather Christle, Lyn Hejinian, Peter Cole, Elizabeth Willis, C.D. Wright, Paul Hoover, Nichita Stanescu, Keith Waldrop, Geneviève Desrosiers, Thalia Field, Forrest Gander, Nathaniel Mackey, Ann Lauterbach, Richard Foreman, Kate Colby, Aaron Kunin, Jennifer Moxley, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Rae Armantrout, Michael Clure, Michael Palmer

Poetry Project Newsletter, no. 216, October/November 2008, New York. Includes Dale Smith, Tim Dlugos, David Trinidad, Marcella Durand, Elizabeth Robinson, Urayoán Noel, Susie Timmons, Prageeta Sharma, Kimberly Lyons, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Vyt Bakaitis.

Verse, vol. 24, no. 1-3, 2008, Richmond, VA. French Poetry & Poetics issue. Includes Emmanuel Hocquard, Caroline DuBois, Dominque Fourcade, Jacques Roubaud, Pierre Alferi, Craig Dworkin, Olivier Cadiot, Claude Royet-Journaud, Philippe Jaccottet, Marie Borel, Michael Heller, Ted Pearson, Nathalie Stephens, Rusty Morrison, Eleni Sikelianos, Dawn-Michelle Baude, Laird Hunt, Paul Kane, Kristin Prevallet, Nicholas Manning, Marcella Durand, more.