Submitted by boss on 6 February, 2012 - 13:02
US Trade, 64pp, €12, April 2012
ISBN 979-10-90394-26-1
Translated from Swedish by the author.
The cover image is by Dylan Harris.
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Submitted by boss on 6 February, 2012 - 13:09
US Trade, 148pp, €12, March 2012
ISBN 979-10-90394-31-5
The cover image is by Peter Cunningham.
LAUNCH: John Kliphan’s wake: The Highlander, 8 rue de Nevers, 1pm, March 4th.
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Published posthumously for John Kliphan’s wake.
John Kliphan (b.1933, Boston – d. 2012, Paris) was a passionate and compassionate poet, teacher and lawyer. His poems are direct in approach, accessible yet incisive, lyrical by nature and often humorous. First published in Boston, then San Francisco, where he lived for many years, he befriended the Beats and was counsel for the North Beach art community. In the 1980’s Kliphan moved to Paris, where he founded and directed the Live Poets Society, an internationally recognized series of readings celebrating the oral tradition of poetry while providing a venue for new voices and verse in Paris, the city’s longest-running series of its kind. Invited to perform his work at poetry readings around the world, Kliphan was author of three books of poetry as well as individual poems and various articles published in the United States and Europe. Jennifer Pinard
Submitted by boss on 23 January, 2012 - 08:37
In English and French, traduit de l’anglais (Etats-Unis) par Anne Talvaz
US Trade, 64pp, €12, January 2012
ISBN 979-10-90394-06-3
The cover image is “59” collage, 2010 by Sarah Petlin.
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I deeply admire the intelligent and passionate poetry of Pansy Maurer-Alvarez. … Perhaps paradoxically, as a poet she is both distant and painfully close, chilly and burning, … In a quiet way, her poems even have the ability to make ordinary words strange. Elinor Nauen
Submitted by boss on 4 December, 2011 - 11:48
A5, 28pp, January 2012
ISBN 979-10-90394-22-3
Striking, slightly off-key or quirky images rub shoulders with an intensity of feeling and experience….. intricacy of style, strong authorial presence and descriptive and narrative edginess.
Alan Hardy, NHI Review
Submitted by boss on 4 December, 2011 - 11:40
A5, 28pp, €5, November 2011
ISBN 979-10-90394-23-0
The cover image is a detail from Boat by Migle Semetaite.
why have we not heard of Justina Semetaite until now? with Parted this wrong will be corrected. when she talks to herself about good-byes “The garden is empty, or is it my eyes?” when she writes postcards “Through your white, glossy moss.” when in the long powerful closing poem “maybe the blossoms of books, maybe the sound of trees, maybe the wall, greeting an old woman’s flickers.” this is just the beginning, right?
lars palm, author of road song for
Submitted by boss on 4 December, 2011 - 11:31
A5, 32pp inc. colour, €8, December 2011
ISBN 979-10-90394-24-7
With TWEET TWEET TWEET, Santos has created a world both elegiac and exuberant, where “wind-up owls whirr incessantly” and poets are “endlessly sculpting birds out of words.” Funny, sincere, and self-aware, these are the poems of our moment and its changing modes of reality and connection. A collection of “exquisite topiaries,” disarming and affecting.
Paula Bohince, author of Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
Submitted by boss on 4 December, 2011 - 11:25
US Trade, 84 pages, €12, December 2011
ISBN 979-10-90394-20-9
The cover image is Wolf Eat Wolf by Magnhild Opdøl
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Knowing what’s out there in the world doesn’t mean you also have to let it destroy you. The good is taken with the bad in Wolf Down, and the transition from one to the other is seamless, and the mark of a writer as tired yet willing and eager to continue on. It is the gratitude of still being alive, coming through the minor and severe hells of an ordinary day more or less intact. It is not something easily gained in life, but it’s always worth trying for. The writer capable of telling us of their journey through this as well as Liccione will never lack for material. When the material is as good as that which is found in Wolf Down we gain almost as much as he does. Just by reading what’s on his mind. Gabriel Ricard, Unlikely Blog
Submitted by boss on 4 December, 2011 - 10:37
Traduction au français, par Anne Talvaz, de Previous Vertigos
A5, 28pp, €5, Janvier 2012
ISBN 979-10-90394-25-4
Submitted by boss on 4 December, 2011 - 10:25
A5, 32pp, €5, November 2011
ISBN 979-10-90394-19-3
The cover image is Constellation 2 (oil on canvas) by Esther Garcia Eder.
Peneloping is a beautiful energy construct of poems calling to mind’s ear both the participial glee of Gertrude Stein’s “continuous present” and the verbal shapeshifting of James Joyce. Antics and intricate care: “bespun and bespanning/allhere/and beshifting”. Kudos to Amy Hollowell’s exuberant and special measure.
Anne Waldman, author of Fast Speaking Woman
Submitted by boss on 4 December, 2011 - 10:19
A5, 40pp, €5, November 2011
ISBN 979-10-90394-10-0
The cover image is by Joshua Neves and Graham Bury.
It is exciting to discover a new poet and a new press. Megan Fernandes is a sophisticated and sensitive writer, and her poems are, by turn, surprising, vivid and affecting. Organ Speech is unnervingly good.
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