Recently Received

Books (Poetry)

Lynn Behrendt, Luminous Flux, Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2009

Lynn Behrendt, This My Vertical Body, Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2009

Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven:Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2010

Kate Durbin, The Ravenous Audience, Black Goat, Los Angeles 2009

Ernest Farrés, Edward Hopper, translated by Lawrence Venuti, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2009

K. Lorraine Graham, Terminal Humming, Edge Books, Washington 2009

Norman Finkelstein, Scribe, Dos Madres, Loveland, OH 2009

Roberto Harrison, Urracá, Achiote Press, Berkeley 2009

Jonathan Jones, earful symmetries, The Sticky Pages Press, Brussels 2009

Jonathan Jones, Material Comforts, The Sticky Pages Press, Brussels 2009

Adeena Karasick, Amuse Bouche, Talonbooks, Vancouver 2009

Steve Langan, Meet Me at the Happy Bar, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2009

Lisa Olstein, Lost Alphabet, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009

Sabrina Orah Mark, Tsim Tsum, Saturnalia Books, Philadelphia 2009

Kristi Maxwell, Hush Sessions, Saturnalia Books, Philadelphia 2009

Joseph Mosconi, Galvanized Iron on the Citizens’ Band, Poetic Research Bureau, Glendale, CA 2009

Rick Reid, To be Hung from the Ceiling by Strings of Varying Length, Black Goat, Los Angeles 2009

Nico Vassilakis, Disparate Magnets, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2009

Nico Vassilakis, Protracted Type, Blue Lion Books, West Hartford, CT & Puhos, Kitee, Finland 2009

Mark Wallace, Felonies of Illusion, Edge Books, Washington 2009

 

Books (Poetry Anthology)

Visiting Wallace:Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens, edited by Dennis Barone & James Finnegan, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2009. Includes John Ashbery, Paul Auster, John Berryman, Robert Bly, William Bronk, Robert Creeley, W.S. Di Piero, Annie Finch, Forrest Gander, Dana Gioia, Peter Gizzi, Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard, Susan Howe, Donald Justice, Ann Lauterbach, Robert Lowell, Paul Mariani, James Merrill, Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, David St. John, Carl Sandburg, Ravi Shankar, Mark Strand, William Carlos Williams, Charles Wright

 

Books (Other)

Fielding Dawson, A Great Day for a Ballgame: A Conscious Love Story, Rvive Books, Weston, CT 2009

Fanny Howe, What Did I Do Wrong? Flood Editions, Chicago 2009

Derek McCormack, The Show That Smells, Akashic Books, New York 2009

 

Journals

ESC: English Studies in Canada, vo. 33, no. 4, Dec. 2007, Edmonton. Special Issue on Discreteness: Event and Sound in Poetry, edited by Louis Cabri & Peter Quartermain, Digital Sound Editor Michael S. Hennessey. Includes Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Scott Pound, Bob Perelman, Meredith Quartermain, Tom Orange, Reuven Tsur, Sarah Parry, more. Includes CD with work by Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Bernstein, Geraldine Monk, M. NourbeSe Philip, Brion Gysin, Caroline Bergvall, more.

Grain: Luddite, vol. 36, no. 4, July 2009, Saskatoon. Includes Sony Adams, Maureen Scott Harris, Jeanne Randolph, Miriam Toews, Nel Besner, Tom Hendry, matt robinson, Betsy Warland, Tamara Bond, Joel Katelnikoff, Deborah Schnitzer, Stephanie Yorke, many more.

 

Other Media & Formats

Jeffrey Encke, Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, Last Tango Editions, Seattle 2004. A custom deck of playing cards, with a poem on each card save for the joker, which serves as the colophon.

Richard Owens, Two Ballads, Porch (?) Press, no location or date given, but possibly Buffalo 2009. Two poems printed on the same side of a single sheet of paper (chapbook cover stock), 7 & 7/8ths by 9 ½ inches, folded in half, inside a cover sheet (also chapbook cover stock) 8x10 inches, likewise folded. No binding.

 

 

Still a big stack of books
waiting to be noted here

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Recently Received

Books (Poetry)

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, edited by Karen van Dyck, translated by many hands, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2009

Mary Jo Bang, The Bride of E, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2009

Joshua Beckman, Take It, Wave Books, Seattle / New York 2009

Dave Brinks, The Caveat Onus: Meditations, Black Widow Press, Boston 2009

Michael Carr, Jess Mynes & Aaron Tieger, Necco Face, Editions Louis Wain, no location given, 2009

Jan Conn, Botero’s Beautiful Horses, Brick Books, London, Ont. 2009

Ray Craig, Kiss Me Series / Kitan Club (1952 – 1972) / Figure with Mask, privately printed, San Bruno, CA 2009

Barry Dempster, Love Outlandish, Brick Books, London, Ont. 2009

Noah Falck, Life as a Crossword Puzzle, Encyclopedia Destructica, Pittsburgh 2009

Adam Fieled, Chimes, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2008

Frederick Farryl Goodwin, Virgil’s Cow, Miami University Press, Oxford, OH 2009

Richard Greenfield, Tracer, Omnidawn, Richmond, CA 2009

Kristina Hummel, How Void of Miracles, hand-held editions, Brooklyn / Manhattan 2009

Myung Mi Kim, Penury, Omnidawn, Richmond CA 2009

Ish Klein, Union!, Canarium Books, Ann Arbor / Iowa City / Shanghai 2009

Joanna Klink, Wonder of Birds, hand-held editions, Brooklyn / Manhattan 2009

Noelle Kocot, Sunny Wednesday, Wave Books, Seattle / New York 2009

Glenna Luschei, Salt Lick: A Retrospective of Poetry, preface by Gerald Haslam, West End Press, Albuquerque 2009

Justin Marks, A Million in Prizes, Western Michigan University Press, Kalamazoo 2009

Tod Marshall, The Tangled Line, Canarium Books, Ann Arbor / Iowa City / Shanghai 2009

Ted Mathys, The Spoils, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2009

Mark Nowak, Coal Mountain Elementary, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis 2009

Arthur Rimbaud, The Illuminations, translated by Donald Revell, Omnidawn, Richmond CA 2009

Jason Shinder, Stupid Hope, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2009

Arthur Sze, The Ginko Light, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, What Stillness Illuminated, Parlor Press, W. Lafayette, IN 2008

 

Books (Other)

Graham Foust, On “Sad Songs and Waltzes,” hand-held editions, Brooklyn / Manhattan 2009

Bhanu Kapil, Humanimal: A Project for Future Children, Kelsey Street, Berkeley 2009

Karin Randolph, The Way to an Oblong: A Novella, Green Zone, Brooklyn 2009

 

 

Journals

Grain: Melt, vol. 36, no. 3, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Spring 2009. Includes Madhur Anand, Hollay Ghadery, Aaron Giovannone, Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, Jim Johnstone, Ingrid Ruthig, Jason Stefanik, Michelle Barker, Robin Durnford, more.

Op. Cit. Uma Revista de Estudios AngloAmericanos, no. 10, Lisbon, 2008. Includes Manuel Brito, Cristina Alsina, Gemma López, Enric Monforte, Richard Davis, Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Paula Alexandra Guimarães, Jean-Marie Ruiz & Reinaldo Francisco Silva.

Pleiades, vol. 29, no. 2, Warrensburg, Mo. 2009. Includes Martha Ronk, Elaine terranova, Alicia Ostriker, KarlKrolow, Peter Cooley, G.C. Waldrep, more.

Verse, vol. 26, nos. 1-3, Richmond, VA 2009. Includes Anselm Berrigan, Garrett Caples, Lidija Dimkovska, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Landis Everson, Kathleen Fraser, Pierre Joris, Gérard Macé, Nathaniel Mackey, Bernadette Mayer, Jennifer Moxley, Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, Susan Stewart & Catherine Wagner.

 

 

 

Other Media & Formats

Hassle, no. 5, featuring Whit Griffin, Cornwall UK 2009. A single sheet of A4 paper folded quarto-style including seven poems.

 

 

Still a big stack of books
waiting to be noted here

 

Recently Received

Books (Poetry)

Kathleen Sheeder Bonano, Slamming Open the Door, Alice James Books, Farmington, ME 2009

Juliet Cook, Mondo Crampo, Dusie Press, Zurich 2008

Cheryl Dumesnil, In Praise of Falling, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2009

Alison Hawthorne Deming, Rope, Penguin, New York / London 2009

Amy Gerstler, Dearest Creature, Penguin, New York / London 2009

Judith Goldman, The Dispossessions, Atticus / Finch, Oakland 2009

Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009

Margo Klass & Frank Soos, Double Moon: Constructions & Conversations, Boreal Books, Fairbanks, Alaska 2009

Jenn McCreary, : ab ovo :, Dusie Press, Zurich 2009

Hoa Nguyen, Hecate Lochia, Hot Whiskey Press, Prague 2009

Nathaniel Siegel, Tony, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Brooklyn, #107 of 200 but year not filled in on © page.

Suzanne Stein, Hole in Space, OMG!, no location given (but New Yorkish), 2009

Keith Tuma, The Paris Hilton, Critical Documents, Providence 2009

Arthur Vogelsang, A Planet, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, New York 1983

Arthur Vogelsang, Twentieth Century Women, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA 1988

Arthur Vogelsang, Cities and Towns, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1996

Arthur Vogelsang, Left Wing of a Bird, Sarabande, Louisville 2003

 

Journals

Action Poétique, no. 126, June 2009, Ivry-sur-Siene. Includes Florence Pazzottu, Cozette de Charmoy, Die Wiener Gruppe, Clara Elliott, Alain Lance, Geneviève Huttin, Matthieu Mével, Peter Swanborn, Anibal Cristobo, Bruno Cany, Maria Sabina, Michel Plon, Yves Di Manno, Joseph-Julien Guglielmi, more.

Chicago Review, vol. 54, no. 4, Spring 2009, Chicago. Includes Anne Carson, Saskia Hamilton, Tomaž Šalamun, Jee Young Lee, Rusty Morrison, Elizabeth Willis, Susan Howe, Joshua Kotin, John Beer, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, more.

Zing Magazine, no. 21, New York, 2006/2007. Includes (as curators) Jonas Mekas / James Fuentes, Joseph F. Lovett / Marie Barone, Grace Kim, Janine Gordon, Sari Carel, Tom Sachs, more.

 

Other Media & Formats

Rob Halpern, Some Speculations Around George Oppen’s Parousia, no location (but we’re guessing SF), date or publisher listed. Broadside on card stock, 4” by 10.5”

 

Still a big stack of books
waiting to be noted here

Books Received

 

Poetry

Marie Buck, Life & Style, Patrick Lovelace Editions, Brooklyn 2009

Amy Catanzano, Multiversal, Fordham University Press,New York 2009

Joel Chace, matter no matter, Paper Kite Press, Kingston, PA 2008

Joel Chace, A Script, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2009

René Char, The Brittle Age and Returning Upland, translated by Gustaf Sobin, with a foreward by Mary Ann Caws, Counterpath Press, Denver 2009

Jordan Davis, From Orange to Pink, Fewer & Further Press, Wendell, MA 2009

Olena Kalytiak Davis, On the Kitchen Table From Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed, Hollyridge Press, Venice, CA 2009

Brad Flis, Peasants, Patrick Lovelace Editions, Brooklyn 2009

Celia Gilbert, Something to Exchange, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2009

Kevin Goodan, Winter Tenor, Alice James Books, Farmington, ME 2009

Linda Gregg, Things and Flesh, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 1999

Rob Halpern, Disaster Suites, Palm Press, Long Beach, CA 2009

Serkan Işin, Dada Korkut, Ebabil Yayinlari, Ankara, Turkey 2009

Ruth Lepson, I Went Looking for You, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2009

Paul Pines, Last Call at the Tin Palace, Marsh Hawk Press, East Rockaway 2009

Amelia Rosselli, The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems 1953-1981, translated by Giuseppe Leporace & Deborah Woodard, Chelsea Editions, New York 2009

Tomaž Šalamun, There’s the Hand and There’s the Arid Chair, translated by many hands, edited by Thomas Kane, Counterpath Press, Denver 2009

Rachel M. Simon, Marginal Road, Hollyridge Press, Venice, CA 2009

Stacy Szymaszek, Hyperglossia, Litmus Press, Brooklyn 2009

Gail Wronsky, Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling, Hollyridge Press, Venice, CA 2009

Deborah Woodard, Hunter Mnemonics, Hemel Press, no location listed (but look in Seattle) 2008

 

Other

Jeremy M. Davies, Rose Alley, Counterpath Press, Denver 2009

Michael Heller, Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The Study, Ahadada, Tokyo / Toronto 2009

Paul Pines, My Brother’s Madness: A Memoir, Curbstone Press, Willamantic, CT 2007

Robert Motherwell, The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell, edited by Stephanie Terenzio, University of California Press, Berkeley 1999

 

Journals

Bombay Gin, vol. 35, no. 2, Boulder, 2009. Includes K. Silem Mohammad, Philip Jenks and Simone Muench, David Buuck, Savannah Schroll Guz, Joseph Cooper, Emily Carr, Theodore Worozbyt, dawn lonsinger, Eric Bogosian, Rachael Peckham, Sherman Alexie, Aase Berg translated by Johannes Göransson, Jane Bernstein, Marc Nasdor, Carol Mirakove, Brian Lennon, Adela Miencilova, Akilah Oliver, Alex Shakar, Steffi Drewes, Jefferson Navicky, Sasha Steensen, Steven Salmoni, Nguyen Quyen translated by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phoung, & Anne Waldman (from Naropa Audio Archives)

House Organ, no. 67, Summer 2009, Warren, OH. Includes Richard Grossinger, Harrison Fisher, Peter Lamborn Wilson, A.D. Winans, Sotère Torregian, Clayton Eshleman, Dale Smith, more.

Matrix, no. 83, Summer 2009, Montreal. Includes derek beaulieu, Sam Cecil, Lindsay Cuff, Sarah Gilbert, March Hutchinson, Taien Ng-Chan, Dreen Whershler, more.

 

Other Formats

Jess Mynes, from Sky Brightly Picked, Fewer & Further Press, Wendell, MA 2009. Six poems on two sides of a single sheet of paper folded into fourths.

 

 

Many more books
still to catalog here

Books Received

 

Poetry

Books Received

 

Poetry

Ed Baker, g oo d night, Moria Poetry, Chicago 2009

Elizabeth Bachinsky, Curio: Grotesques & Satires from the Electronic Age, BookThug, Toronto 2009, with an afterword by K. Silem Mohammad

Michael Boughn, 23 Skidoo / SubTractions, BookThug, Toronto 2009

Dorian Brooks, The Wren’s Cry, Ibbetson Street Press, Somerville, MA 2009

Melissa Buzzeo, Face, BookThug, Toronto, 2009

Gillian Conoley, Profane Halo, Verse Press, Amherst 2005

Joseph Cooper, Autobiography of a Stutterer, BlazeVOX (Books), Buffalo 2007

Joseph Cooper, Touch Me, BlazeVOX (Books), Buffalo 2009

Guillevic, Art Poétique, translated by Maureen Smith with Lucie Albertini Guillevic, Black Widow Press, no location given, 2009

Márton Koppány, Endgames, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2008

Natalie Knight, Xenia, Furniture Press, Baltimore 2009

Fred Marchant, The Looking House, Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2009

Helena Mesa, Horse Dance Underwater, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland 2009

Brandon Scott Gorrell, During My Nervous Breakdown I Want a Biographer to be Present, Muumuu House, probably Brooklyn 2009

Evelyn Reilly, Styrofoam, Roof, New York 2009

Kit Robinson, Train I Ride, BookThug, Toronto 2009

Sophie Robinson, a, with a foreward by Caroline Bergvall & an afterword by Diane Ward, Les Figues / TrenchArt: Tracer Series, Los Angeles 2009

André Spears, Nexus of Evil: Late Fragments 1-7, First Intensity Press, Lawrence, KS 2009

Bert Stern, Steerage, Ibbetson Street Press, Somerville, MA 2009

Aaron Tieger, Secret Donut, Pressed Wafer, Boston 2009

Liz Waldner, Trust, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland 2009

Allison Benis White, Self-Portrait with Crayon, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland 2009

Wei Ying-wu, In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu, translated by Red Pine (Bill Porter), Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009

Dean Young, Primitive Mentor, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2008

 

Other

Mark Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Black Widow Press, no location given, 2009

Adam Seelig, Talking Masks, BookThug, Toronto, 2009

Jon Thompson, After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing, Shearsman, Exeter 2009

William Logan, Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue, Columbia University Press, New York 2009

 

Journals

A String of Small Machines, no. 4, House Press, Buffalo / Chicago / New York, 2009. Includes Melissa Severin, Carrie Hunter, Daniel Borzutzky, Andrew Hughes, Gustave Morin, Raúl Zurita (trans. By Anna Deeny), Brenda Iijima & Angee Lennard.

Fact•Simile, vol. 2, no. 1, no location given (but probably Denver or Boulder), Summer 2009. Includes Kristin Prevallet, J. Townsend, Michael Leong, Anselm Parlatore, Kevin Kilroy, Andrew K. Peterson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jefferson Navicky, Marie Larson, David Wolach, Serena Rose Chopra, Robert Roley, Donald Illich, Andrew Lundwall, Ashe Middleton, Joseph Harrington, Sara Nolan, Susan Lewis, Reed Bye, Nick Demske, & Craig Rebele

Mirage #4 / Period(ical) #156, May 2009, San Francisco. Includes Adam Fielede, Colin Herd & Chris Tysh

Ocho #24, Bloomington, IL, June 2009. Twitter poets issue. Includes @ivyalverez, @expatty, @annehaines, @chrissiemkl, @pris2000, @nancydevine,@JSvanBuskirk, @kateeevanswriter, @alexdimitrov, @velveteenrabi, @saeedjones, @stacieboschma, @raysuccre, @memali, @cherylsnell, @andrewdemcak, @poetphd, @Pamel12345, @snakypoet, @williamkenyon, @BlueGrassPoet, @AnnMarieEldon, @yoginipoet, @greenskeptic, @semaphore, @emilyabenton, @shannpalmer, @stoneymoss, @MontMaxton, @outsider_lines, @jsheeler, @Plove413, @lileagle, @ThePoetLizard, @robertleebrewer, @cleocreech & @ckrawitz

The Poker, no. 9, Arlington, MA, 2009. Includes Juliana Spahr, Trey Sager, Laynie Browne, Laura Jaramillo, Jordan Davis, Stephen Burt, George Stanley, Eléna Rivera, Charles North, Ammiel Alcaly, Alice Notley, Erica Wietzman, James Schuyler, George Oppen & Matt Gagnon.

Volt: The War Issue, Corte Madera, CA, 2007. Includes Dennis Philips, Donald Revell, Donna de la Perrière, Leslie Scalapino, Leonard Schwartz, Lida Abdul, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Standard Schaefer, D.A. Powell, Dara Wier, Landis Everson, Paul Vangelisti, Denise Newman, Sherril Jaffe, Liz Waldner, Matthew Zapruder, Rusty Morrison, James Tate, Martha Ronk, John Olson, Brian Teare, Brenda Hillman, Dan Beach-Quick, Joseph Lease, Paul Hoover, Dean Young, Robert Hass, Reginald Shepherd, Aaron Shurin, Steve Dickison, Kathleen Fraser & many more.

Volt, vol. 14, Corte Madera, CA, 2008. Includes Gerald Stern, Timothy Liu, Thaisa Frank, Gail Wronsky, Reginald Shepherd, Julie Carr, Bruce Beasley, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Bin Ramke, Carol Snow, Bruce Bond, Lance Phillips, Tomaz Salamun, Stephanie Strickland, Susan Terris, Tony Triglio, Arthur Vogelsang, G.C. Waldrop, more.

 

Other Formats

. Chú Dai Bi, no author or location given, Ordinary Fool, 2008. Almost certainly John Martone & Charleston, IL respectively. Single 8.5”x5.5” sheet containing 9 photos of the cover envelope and a second torn & shredded sheet (a poem?) in various forest settings. Quarto folded into 5.5”x3” manila envelope.

 

 

Many more books
still to catalog here

sans-