SPD +1

New Books from SPD

The Transformation Juliana Spahr, Atelos, 2007
Nijoles House Hannah Weiner, Potes & Poets, 1981, 1999 [2nd printing]
The Anger Scale Katie Degentesh, Combo Books, 2006
Hannah Weiner's Open House Hannah Weiner, Kenning Editions, 2007
The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes Benjamin Friedlander, subpress, 2007
All Around What Empties Out Linh Dinh, subpress, 2003
Half Angel Half Lunch Sharon Mesmer, Hard Press, 1998
Poem on a Train Jordan Davis, Barque Books, 1998
Rouge State Rodney Koeneke, Pavement Saw Press, 2003
Million Poems Journal Jordan Davis, Faux Press, 2003

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Now these are all neat & fun, don't get me wrong, but the true gem of the day is Caroline Bergvall's Eclat, published by Sound & Language in 1996. There is an ebook version of it on ubu. Otherwise paper copies of it are rarely available & tend to be pricey. It is not fair to the SPD books because this has stolen all of my attention away from them (besides Nijoles House).

It is similar to War, the musical (Fitterman & Rowntree) in the inventiveness of the presentation of the text. Ubu lists the book as a collaboration with the designer Marit Muenzberg. More books need to take advantage of this sort of collaboration between author & artist/designer. "Regular" books seem lacking after reading texts like these. But it doesn't hurt that Bergvall is one of the best poets in the world.


Was a Sally a Sally pushing the out of mine inside-out for
closer fit Item by item flash out a Jill's eye More trouble
in the rubblebubble

Strap-on Moms Fuck Guys

Fresh from an ultrarevitalizing visit to Charleston, where I saw everone I loved & now love them twice as much, I returned to scenic Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to a stuffed mailbox. Within waited the following, which includes a few random books along with lovely packages from London (Atlas Press) & Berkeley (SPD), who somehow erased one of my orders so I got back at them by placing an even-bigger-one, only to realize now, going through the books, that I left out some things I had my eyes upon, like the new Nada Gordon & the Potes & Poets (going wild over them right now) Hannah Weiner boke, Nijole's House. This will be hastily rectified, for sure.

oddz-n-endz:

The Calm Ocean Gerhard Roth, Ariadne, 1993 [insides marked up, booo]
Drafts 15-XXX, The Fold Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Potes & Poets #39, 1997
Twenties Jackson Mac Low, Roof, 1991
Iowa Review (Volume 9, No 3, Summer 1978) [contains WCWilliams' megadirty "Rome"]

& [...............................]

Yo-Yo's With Money Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff, United Artists, 1979 [500 copies]

[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]


from Atlas Press:

Blago Bung Blago Bung Bosso Fataka! Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Walter Serner, Atlas Press, 1995
the autobiography of albert einstein Gerhard Roth, Atlas Press, 1992
The Pataphysical Flook Kevin Jackson, LIP, 2007 [signed]
Circular Walks Around Rowley Hall Andrew Lanyon, LIP, 2007 [signed]
Pataphysics, a Religion in the Making & 'Pataphysics as Apostasy Asger Jorn & Anonymous, LIP, 2007

with Part-Time Pataphysician's postcard included from the DOTARD, a hilarious gift from my friends at Atlas. Thank you.


from SPD:

O Clock Mary Rising Higgins, Potes & Poets #49, 2000
Executive Summary Bruce Andrews, Potes & Poets #18, 1991
The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets Ed Dennis Barone & Peter Ganick, Potes & Poets #32, 1994
Think of One P. Inman, Potes & Poets #3, 1986
A Reading (11-17) Beverly Dahlen, Potes & Poets #19, 1989
Doubt Jim Leftwich, Potes & Poets #51, 2000
Locale Jessica Grim, Potes & Poets #35, 1995
Feminine Hijinx Dodie Bellamy, Hanuman #41, 1990
Sonnets of a Penny-a-Liner Mark Wallace & Lawley Paisley-Jones, Buck Downs Books, 1996
A-Reading Spicer & eighteen sonnets Beverly Dahlen, Chax, 2004
The Black Warrior & Other Poems Denize Lauture, subpress, 2006
A Thousand Devils K. Silem Mohammad, Combo Books, 2004
Draft, Unnumbered: Precis Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nomados, 2003
The Evacuated Forest Papers Jeff Conant, Buck Downs Books, 1998
A Reading 18-20 Beverly Dahlen, Instance Press, 2006
Cunt-Ups Dodie Bellamy, Tender Buttons Books, 2001
Pink Steam Dodie Bellamy, Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004
Academonia Dodie Bellamy, krupskaya, 2006
Itenerant Men Deborah Meadows, krupskaya, 2004
Scratch Space Andrew Levy, Cuneiform Press, 2004
Draft X: Letters Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Singing Horse Press, 1991
Abacus #115 (Jessica Grim), Potes & Poets, 1998
Curve Andrew Levy, O Books, 1994
Aerial #5 Ed Rod Smith, 1989
Dure Craig Dworkin, Cuneiform Press, 2004
Strand Craig Dworkin, Roof, 2005
Kluge: A Meditation and other works Brian Kim Stefans, Roof, 2007

phew,
I've got some reading to do.
See you all later!
See me here at the new Model Homes site, in a list of names that makes me blush.

Happy New Year!