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Jo Nesbo Book Party April 30 6 pm

2008-04-19T18:54:58Z

April 30: Redbreast Reading Washington, D.C.

Jo Nesbø visits Washington D.C. to read from “The Redbreast” at Bridge Street Books. Following the reading there will be a discussion and book signing. The event is co-sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

When: Wednesday April 30, 6:00pm
Where: Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Info: Call (202) 965-5200. Space is limited, so please RSVP by Friday, April 25, to amyk@mfa.no or (202) 944 8925.

2008-04-04T17:25:59Z

Please join us at Bridge Street

Sunday, April 6, 7:00 pm

for a reading from the new anthology

Contemporary Russian Poetry
from Dalkey Archive Press

Evgeny Bunimovich, Elena Fanailova, & Yuli Gugolev

Evgeny Bunimovich was born in 1954 in Moscow. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including Yestestvenniy otbor [Natural Selection] (Moscow: MIKPRO, 2001), which won the Moscow Prize in Literature and Art, and, most recently, Yezhednevnik [Daily Journal] (Moscow: OGI, 2006). He is a recipient of the Order of Academic Palms (France) and President of the Moscow International Festival of Poets. As a columnist for Novaya Gazyeta, he won the Best Individual Style in Journalism Prize and the Union of Journalists of Russia Prize. He teaches mathematics, and has authored several textbooks, He is Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Education Department.

Elena Fanailova was born in 1962 in the Voronezhskaya region. She is the author of Puteshestvie [Travels] (St. Petersburg: Severo-Zapad — Mitin zhurnal, 1994), S osobym tsinizmom [With Particular Cynicism] (Moscow: NLO, 2000), Transilvaniya bespokoit [Transylvania is Worrisome] (Moscow: OGI, 2002), and Russkaya versiya [Russian Version] (Moscow: Zapasniy Vykhod, 2005). An English translation of her work is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (1999) and the Moskovskiy schyot Grand Prize 2003). She works as a journalist for the Moscow bureau of Radio Svoboda.

Yuli Gugolev was born in 1964 in Moscow. He is a translator and the author of two books of poetry: Polnoe. Sobranie sochineniy [Complete Works] (Moscow: OGI, 2000) and Komandirovochnye predpisaniya [Official Instructions] (Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2006), which won the Moskovskiy schyot Grand Prize. He works in the regional division of the International Commission of the Red Cross in the Russian Federation.

Bridge Street Books is located 5 blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, next to Four Seasons in Georgetown at the end of M street open Monday - Saturday: 10:30am - 9pm Sunday: 12pm - 8pm (202) 965-5200

New in Poetry & Theory

2008-04-04T17:12:30Z

POETRY & LANGUAGE WRITING: OBJECTIVE AND SURREAL, David Arnold, Liverpool University Press, cloth 200 pgs, $49.95. From jacket copy: "David Arnold grasps the nettle of language poetry, reassessing its relationship with surrealism and providing a scholarly, intelligent way of understanding the movement. Among the poets whose work is discussed are Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer and Barrett Watten."

FLOWERS OF EVIL, Charles Baudelaire, trans Keith Waldrop, 196 pgs, $16.95. New in paperback. "You worms!"

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Rosemary Lloyd, Reaktion Books, Critical Lives, 192 pgs, $16.95. A brief biographical study of Baudelaire. "Anger seems to have been the main source of his intoxication during these months."

GIRLY MAN, Charles Bernstein, U Chicago, 186 pgs, $15. New in paper. "That's so cool."

THE SCENTED FOX, Laynie Browne, Natl Poetry Series Selected by Alice Notley, Wave Books, 120 pgs, $14. "So and so died from 1750 to the present."

FORMS OF YOUTH: 20TH-CENTURY POETRY AND ADOLESCENCE, Stephen Burt, Columbia, cloth 264 pgs, $35. From the jacket: "Stephen Burt demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works." Authors examined include Williams, Auden, Bunting, Oppen, Brooks, and Lowell.

SNOW PART / SCHNEEPART, Paul Celan, trans Ian Fairley, Sheep Meadow, 198 pgs, $19.95. "someone who stabbed himself in you"

JEAN COCTEAU, James S. Williams, Reaktion Books, Critical Lives, 254 pgs, $16.95. Biography. "The result is a work of calculated voyeuristic fascination as we observe in keyhole detail every movement and twitch of the characters."

INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT CREELEY MAY 1998, interview by Brent Cunningham, Hooke Press, 28 pgs, $10. "I think myth is mouth. That's what myth is . . . that's what speech is: myth, what's said."

PSYCHE: INVENTIONS OF THE OTHER, VOLUME II, Jacques Derrida, Stanford, 340 pgs, $24.95.

COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF THE WORD: THE CONSERVATIVE ATTACK ON MODERN POETRY 1945-1960, Alan Filreis, UNC PRESS, cloth 422 pgs, $40. From the jacket: "During the Cold War, an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. . . . By analyzing correspondence, decoding pseudonyms, drawing new connections through the archives, and conducting interviews, Filreis shows that an informal network of antimodernists was effectivein suppressing or distorting the postwar careers of many poets whose work had appeared regularly in the 1930s."

THE BOOK OF MARTYRDOM + ARTIFICE: FIRST JOURNALS AND POEMS 1937-1952, Allen Ginsberg, ed Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, Da Capo, 524 pgs, $17.50. New in paper. "Dig the dignity of these buildings."

NEWCOMER CAN'T SWIM, Renee Gladman, Kelsey Street, 106 pgs, $16.95. "Talk to the sky like that."

AUTOBIOGRAPHY / OUGHTOBIOGRAPHY, Anthony Hawley, Counterpath, 32 pgs, $10."I plead for edge but come up blurred."

JAMESON ON JAMESON: CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURAL MARXISM, Frederic Jameson, ed Ian Buchanan, Duke, 278 pgs, $22.95. "I don't think it's particularly important to retain the word 'Hegalian.'"

POETIC OBLIGATION: ETHICS IN EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN POETRY AFTER 1945, G. Matthew Jenkins, Iowa, cloth 264 pgs, $42.50. From the jacket: "American experimental poetry is usually read in either political or moral terms. Poetic Obligation, by contrast, considers the poems of Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian in terms of the philosophical notion of ethical obligation to the Other in language. Jenkins's historical trajectory enables him to consider the full breadth of ethical topics that have driven theoretical debate since the end of World War II."

HUMAN SCALE, Michael Kelleher, BlazeVox, 88 pgs, $12. "And now there isn't anyone left except them."

NOT VERACRUZ, Joanne Kyger, Libellum, 48 pgs, $10. "Ok. What's the law?"

BASS CATHEDRAL, Nathaniel Mackey, New Directions, 188 pgs, $16.95.

CRITICAL WRITINGS, F T Marinetti, ed Gunter Berghaus, trans Doug Thomson, FSG, 550 pgs, $20. "Have you ever witnessed a gathering of young, revolutionary anarchists?"

BREATHALYZER, K. Silem Mohammad, Edge, 80 pgs, $14. "dark energy rules the universe"

A SEMBLANCE: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS 1975-2007, Laura Moriarty, Omnidawn, 220 pgs, $14.95. "Loss as rest from meaning."

AN AIR FORCE, Laura Moriarty, Hooke Press, 28 pgs, $10. "Are brands more powerful than governments?"

FLET: A NOVEL, Joyelle McSweeney, Fence, 140 pgs, $15.

ANNOYING DIABETIC BITCH, Sharon Mesmer, Combo, 122 pgs, $13.95. Includes the hits "I Miss His Penninsula," "What is Wrong With Our Savior's Wedgie?," "God's Little Weenie," "I Chose the Wrong Power Animal," &, of course, "Squid vs Assclown."

BICYCLE DAY, Mel Nichols, Slack Buddha, 32 pgs, $6. "O infrequent appliance / time has only something to do with you"

PHILOSOPHICAL CHRONICLES, Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham, 72 pgs, $16.

BALLAD OF JAMIE ALLAN, Tom Pickard, Flood, 104 pgs, $14.95. "And kept dangerous company."

IT'S GO IN HORIZONTAL: SELECTED POEMS, 1974-2006, Leslie Scalapino, 248 pgs, U CAL, $16.95. "It's on the red ball a retina."

GERTRUDE STEIN: SELECTIONS, Gertrude Stein, ed Joan Retallack, U Cal Press, 352 pgs, $19.95. 72 page introduction by Retallack w/ numerous illustrations, selections from across Stein's career, 1905-1936.

PPL IN A DEPOT, Gary Sullivan, Roof, 104 pgs, $13.95. "POLICEMAN: God, your poetry is so amazing! Especially 'Fantasy.'"

OURS, Cole Swensen, U Cal, 101 pgs, $16.95. "A garden is a tide."

FELONIES OF ILLUSION, Mark Wallace, Edge, 138 pgs, $15. ""You're accused of murder."

WALKING DREAMS: SELECTED EARLY TALES, Mark Wallace, Blaze Vox, 108 pgs, $14. "Nothing anywhere can be avoided."
ON SPEC, Tyrone Williams, Omnidawn, 160 pgs, "In brief--psst!-- / not shh!-- "

THE PRESENTABLE ART OF READING ABSENCE, Jay Wright, Dalkey Archive, 80 pgs, $12.95. "Remove emptiness. / Replace nothing."

POLYNOMIALS AND POLLEN, Jay Wright, Dalkey Archive, 126 pgs, $12.95.

MUSIC'S MASK AND MEASURE, Jay Wright, Flood, 56 pgs, $12.95."All song is bent"

SOME BESTSELLERS:

THING OF BEAUTY: NEW AND SELECTED WORKS, Jackson Mac Low, ed Anne Tardos, U Cal, cloth 460 pgs, $34.95.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP WHALEN, ed Michael Rothenberg, Wesleyan, cloth 872 pgs, $49.95.
CONTEMPORARY POETICS, ed Louis Armand, Northwestern, 395 pgs, $29.95.
DARK BRANDON, Brandon Downing, Grievous Pictures, DVD 116 minutes, $14.99.
THE POEM OF A LIFE: A BIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS ZUKOFSKY, Mark Scroggins, Shoemaker & Hoard, cloth 572 pgs, $30.
AWE, Dorothy Lasky, Wave, 76 pgs, $14.
JESS: TO AND FROM THE PRINTED PAGE, Independent Curators Intl, 112 pgs, $29.95.
DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16.
NOTES FROM THE AIR: SELECTED LATER POEMS, John Ashbery, Ecco, cloth 364 pgs, $34.95.
THE MISSING OCCASION OF SAYING YES, Benjamin Friedlander, Subpress, 196 pgs, $16.
ABOUT NOW: COLLECTED POEMS, Joanne Kyger, Natl Poetry Foundation, 798 pgs, $34.95.
IN THE PINES, Alice Notley, Penguin, 132 pgs, $18
NEXT LIFE, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, 80 pgs, $13.95.
THE MIDDLE ROOM, Jennifer Moxley, Subpress, 633 pgs, $25.
BEYOND BULLETS: THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Jules Boykoff, AK Press, 464 pgs, $21.95.
WOMEN, THE NEW YORK SCHOOL, AND OTHER ABSTRACTIONS, Maggie Nelson, U Iowa, cloth 296 pgs, $42.50.
PROSE POEMS, Pierre Reverdy, trans Ron Padgett, Brooklyn Rail/Black Square, 64 pgs, $15.
HORACE, Tim Atkins, O Books, 78 pgs, $12.
COMPLEX SLEEP, Tony Tost, U Iowa, 108 pgs, $16.
ED DORN LIVE: LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, AND OUTTAKES, ed Joseph Richey, U. Michigan, 174 pgs, $18.95.
THRALL, Susan Gevirtz, Post-Apollo, 104 pgs, $15.
JOHN ASHBERY AND YOU: HIS LATER BOOKS, John Emil Vincent, U Georgia, cloth 196 pgs, $32.95.
WAR AND PEACE 3 --THE FUTURE--, ed Judith Goldman & Leslie Scalapino, O Books, 164 pgs, $14.
SOULS OF THE LABADIE TRACT, Susan Howe, New Directions, 128 pgs, $16.95.
4 OR 5, P. Inman, interrupting cow, 28 pgs, $5.
TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS, ed & trans Matvei Yankelevich, Overlook, cloth 288 pgs, $35.
ART AND REVOLUTION: TRANSVERSAL ACTIVISM IN THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY, Gerald Raunig, Semiotext(e), 320 pgs, $17.95.
METEORIC FLOWERS, Elizabeth Willis, Wesleyan, 84 pgs, $13.95.
FOLLY, Nada Gordon, Roof, 128 pgs, $13.95.
MY ANGIE DICKINSON, Michael Magee, Zasterlee, 80 pgs, $12.95.
NINETEEN LINES: A DRAWING CENTER ANTHOLOGY, ed Lytle Shaw, DrawingCenter/Roof, 336 pgs, $24.95.
DAY OCEAN STATE OF STAR'S NIGHT: POEMS & WRITINGS 1989 & 1999-2006, Leslie Scalapino, Green Integer, 208 pgs, $17.95.

ORDERING INFORMATION:

There are two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date.

Book Launch for Karren Alenier's The Steiny Road to Operadom, Tuesday, January 8th, 7-9 PM

2007-12-28T17:31:38Z

Please join us for a book party for poet Karren LaLonde Alenier's The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas. Through the lens of Gertrude Stein & Virgil Thomson, comes stories of creating opera in American from such artists as Placido Domingo, Mark Adamo, and Libby Larsen.

Tuesday, January 8th, 7-9 PM

2814 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC

ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, 5 blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

New in Poetry & Theory

2007-12-11T18:45:53Z

CONTEMPORARY POETICS, ed Louis Armand, Northwestern, 395 pgs, $29.95. Bernstein, Perloff, Nolan, Theall, Perelman, Critchley, Huppatz, Delville and Norris, Nirenberg, Sutherland, Andrews, de Campos, Tofts, UImer, Miller, Wark, Sondheim, McCaffery, & Fisher.

DARK BRANDON, Brandon Downing, Grievous Pictures, DVD 116 minutes, $14.99. THE Flarf movie! Just in time for the holidays! Get one for every assclown on your list!

JOSEPH CORNELL'S DREAMS, ed w/ intro by Catherine Corman, Exact Change, 144 pgs, $15.95. Dream selections from Cornell's diaries. "field mouse / dream of mouse / live coals walking right into them unscathed"

JESS: TO AND FROM THE PRINTED PAGE, Ingrid Schaffner, Prologue by John Ashbery, Essay by Lisa Jarnot, Independent Curators Intl, 112 pgs, color illustrations throughout, $29.95. "Only the inscrutable amuses."

AWE, Dorothy Lasky, Wave, 76 pgs, $14. "He was actually part bunny and part man."

THING OF BEAUTY: NEW AND SELECTED WORKS, Jackson Mac Low, ed Anne Tardos, U Cal, cloth 460 pgs, $34.95. A generous, beautifully set selection of Mac Low's work from 1937 - 2004. "THE MOSSES TURN TOWARD THE LIGHT. / THE FLOWERS TURN TOWARD THE LIGHT. / THE TREES TURN TOWARD THE LIGHT."

A VOCABULARY OF THINKING: GERTRUDE STEIN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INNOVATIVE WOMEN'S POETRY, Deborah M. Mix, U. Iowa, cloth 218 pgs, $39.95. Maps a reading of Stein's writing as vocabulary, rather than lexicon, in relation to the work of Mullen, Marlatt, Hejinian, & Hak Kyung Cha.

O CADOIRO, Erin Moure, Anansi, 136 pgs, $13.95. "Cataract I see you!"

THE ALPHABET GAME: A bpNICHOL READER, ed Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson, Coach House, 336 pgs, $18.95. "we have moved beyond belief / into a moon that is no longer there"

GEORGE OPPEN AND THE FATE OF MODERNISM, Peter Nicholls, cloth 230 pgs, $99.
Expensive yes, but a nmajor study so had to mention here.

THE UBERREADER: SELECTED WORKS OF AVITAL RONNELL, ed Diane Davis, U Illinois, 346 pgs, $30. "Why is the body prepared for drugs?"

INFAMOUS LANDSCAPES, Prageeta Sharma, Fence, 68 pgs, $15. "We crashed and burned, so what now?"

LINGOS I - IX, Ulf Stolterfoht, trans Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck, 126 pgs, $14. "let us picture the thinker then: as a young beast."

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP WHALEN, ed Michael Rothenberg, Wesleyan, cloth 872 pgs, $49.95. "The poems and the writing all are yours."

THE POEM OF A LIFE: A BIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS ZUKOFSKY, Mark Scroggins, Shoemaker & Hoard, cloth 572 pgs, $30.

SOME BESTSELLERS:

NOTES FROM THE AIR: SELECTED LATER POEMS, John Ashbery, Ecco, cloth 364 pgs, $34.95.
ABOUT NOW: COLLECTED POEMS, Joanne Kyger, Natl Poetry Foundation, 798 pgs, $34.95.
IN THE PINES, Alice Notley, Penguin, 132 pgs, $18
DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16.
NEXT LIFE, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, 80 pgs, $13.95.
THE MIDDLE ROOM, Jennifer Moxley, Subpress, 633 pgs, $25.
BEYOND BULLETS: THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Jules Boykoff, AK Press, 464 pgs, $21.95.
WOMEN, THE NEW YORK SCHOOL, AND OTHER ABSTRACTIONS, Maggie Nelson, U Iowa, cloth 296 pgs, $42.50.
PROSE POEMS, Pierre Reverdy, trans Ron Padgett, Brooklyn Rail/Black Square, 64 pgs, $15.
HORACE, Tim Atkins, O Books, 78 pgs, $12.
DISPOSED, Steve Dickison, Post-Apollo, 54 pgs, $15.
THE MARVELOUS BONES OF TIME, Brenda Coultas, Coffee House, 144 pgs, $15.
THE MISSING OCCASION OF SAYING YES, Benjamin Friedlander, Subpress, 196 pgs, $16.
COMPLEX SLEEP, Tony Tost, U Iowa, 108 pgs, $16.
ED DORN LIVE: LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, AND OUTTAKES, ed Joseph Richey, U. Michigan, 174 pgs, $18.95.
THRALL, Susan Gevirtz, Post-Apollo, 104 pgs, $15.
JOHN ASHBERY AND YOU: HIS LATER BOOKS, John Emil Vincent, U Georgia, cloth 196 pgs, $32.95.
WAR AND PEACE 3 --THE FUTURE--, ed Judith Goldman & Leslie Scalapino, O Books, 164 pgs, $14.
SOULS OF THE LABADIE TRACT, Susan Howe, New Directions, 128 pgs, $16.95.
4 OR 5, P. Inman, interrupting cow, 28 pgs, $5.
TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS, ed & trans Matvei Yankelevich, Overlook, cloth 288 pgs, $35.
ON THE EDGE: COLLECTED LONG POEMS, Kenneth Koch, Knopf, cloth 416 pgs, $35.
COVERS, Susan Landers, O Books, 56 pgs, $12.
ART AND REVOLUTION: TRANSVERSAL ACTIVISM IN THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY, Gerald Raunig, Semiotext(e), 320 pgs, $17.95.
METEORIC FLOWERS, Elizabeth Willis, Wesleyan, 84 pgs, $13.95. New in paperback.
TELEGRAPH, Kaya Oakes, Pavement Saw, 78 pgs, $14.
HOW TO BE PERFECT, Ron Padgett, Coffee House, 114 pgs, $15.
THE GRAND PIANO PART 3, Benson, Mandel, Harryman, Armantrout, Hejinian, Perelman, Watten, Pearson, Robinson, & Silliman, Mode A, 128 pgs, $12.95.
SUDDEN ADDRESS: SELECTED LECTURES 1981-2006, Bill Berkson, Cuneiform, 110 pgs, $10.
STARSDOWN, Jasper Bernes, ingirimusnoctetconsumimugi, 96 pgs, $13.
PROFANATIONS, Giorgio Agamben, trans Jeff Fort, Zone, 104 pgs, cloth $25.95.
OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS), Carla Harryman, Belladonna, 88 pgs, $12.
THINE INSTEAD THINK, Jeffrey Jullich, Harry Tankoos, 116 pgs, $15.
THIN GLOVES, Deborah Meadows, Green Integer, 136 pgs, $12.95.
LIP WOLF, Laura Solorzano, trans Jen Hofer, Action Books, 118 pgs, $14.
HANNAH WEINER'S OPEN HOUSE, edited, with an introduction by Patrick Durgin, 180 pgs, $14.95.
A BOOK OF PROPHECIES, John Wieners, Bootstrap, 140 pgs, $15.
HUMAN RESOURCES, Rachel Zolf, Coach House, 96 pgs, $14.95.
THE TRANSFORMATION, Juliana Spahr, Atelos, 230 pgs, $13.50.
SWOON NOIR, Bruce Andrews, Chax, 136 pgs, $16.
COLLECTED PROSE, Rae Armantrout, Singing Horse, 172 pgs, $17.
THE AGE OF HUTS (COMPLEAT), Ron Silliman, U. Cal, 311 pgs, $19.95.
DS (2), Kamau Brathwaite, New Directions, 266 pgs, $18.95.
OUR FRIENDS WILL PASS AMONG YOU SILENTLY, Bill Berkson, Owl Press, 64 pgs, $14.
CALLER AND OTHER PIECES, Tom Raworth, Edge, 48 pgs, $12.50.
THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, cloth 112 pgs, $22.95.
DAILY SONNETS, Laynie Browne, 164 pgs, $15.50.
JAM ALERTS, Linh Dinh, Chax, 146 pgs, $16.
ULULU, Thalia Field, Coffee House, 256 pgs, $25.
FOLLY, Nada Gordon, Roof, 128 pgs, $13.95.
A FIDDLE PULLED FROM THE THROAT OF A SPARROW, Noah Eli Gordon, New Issues, 96 pgs, $14.
MY ANGIE DICKINSON, Michael Magee, Zasterlee, 80 pgs, $12.95.NINETEEN LINES: A DRAWING CENTER ANTHOLOGY, ed Lytle Shaw, DrawingCenter/Roof, 336 pgs, $24.95.
I, AFTERLIFE: ESSAY IN MOURNING TIME, Kristin Prevallet, 66 pgs, $12.95.
DAY OCEAN STATE OF STAR'S NIGHT: POEMS & WRITINGS 1989 & 1999-2006, Leslie Scalapino, Green Integer, 208 pgs, $17.95.
KLUGE: A MEDITATION, Brian Kim Stefans, Roof, 128 pgs, $13.95.

ORDERING INFORMATION:

There are two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date.

What to Read

2007-12-11T18:24:15Z

Hardcover: 288 pages, $30.00
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0415967143

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde, examining why they are lionized by some critics and reviled by others, while influencing musicians across such divides as genre, geography, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Mandel offers fresh insights into their careers from interviews with all three artists and many of their significant collaborators, as well as a thorough overview of earlier interpretations of their work.

New Picabia - I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER

2007-10-16T20:17:22Z

I Am a Beautiful Monster provides the texts of all of Picabia's significant publications, his books Fifty-two Mirrors, Poems and Drawings of the Daughter Born without a Mother, Purring Poetry, Unique Eunuch, Yes No, Chi-lo-sa, Thoughts without Language, and others, all presented complete, many of them accompanied by their original illustrations.

October 2007
7 x 9, 560 pp., 20 illus.
$39.95/£22.95 (CLOTH)

ISBN-10:
0-262-16243-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-16243-2

from I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER:

IN ORDER TO LOVE
SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO
HAVE SEEN IT OR HEARD IT

FOR A LONG TIME YOU BUNCH OF IDIOTS

[...]
I saw me
onion soup
cracked like a gong
big discount
[...]

"Francis Picabia's raucous early Dada poems dare the unprecedented and traffic in the sheer possibilities of abstract shimmering gesture. His late aphorisms are startling bolts of congealed thought. Marc Lowenthal has done the history of radical modernist poetry a great service by bringing these works of exquisitely offbeat taste and intoxicating élan into English. His translations of the turbulent work of this 'freeloading angel' show uncanny skill and welcome verve."
--Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania

New in Poetry & Theory

2007-10-02T02:54:04Z

PROFANATIONS, Giorgio Agamben, trans Jeff Fort, Zone, 104 pgs, cloth $25.95. "Special being is absolutely insubstantial."

NEXT LIFE, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, 80 pgs, $13.95. New in paperback.

COLLECTED POEMS, Paul Auster, Overlook, 208 pgs, $16.95. New in paperback.

THE GRAND PIANO PART 3, Benson, Mandel, Harryman, Armantrout, Hejinian, Perelman, Watten, Pearson, Robinson, & Silliman, Mode A, 128 pgs, $12.95. "A theater in which no money changes hands?"

SUDDEN ADDRESS: SELECTED LECTURES 1981-2006, Bill Berkson, Cuneiform, 110 pgs, $10. Includes the lectures: "Poetry and Painting," "Travels with Guston," History and Truth," "Frank O'Hara at 30," & others.

STARSDOWN, Jasper Bernes, ingirimusnoctetconsumimugi, 96 pgs, $13. "Downloading the earth from space for free from home"

COUNTING ON PLANET ZERO, Clark coolidge, Fewer & Further Press, unpaginated chapbook, $8."They made an enlargement of it"

THE MARVELOUS BONES OF TIME, Brenda Coultas, Coffee House, 144 pgs, $15. "Gazing at the spiderlegged ink"

THE MISSING OCCASION OF SAYING YES, Benjamin Friedlander, Subpress, 196 pgs, $16. "What would it mean / to be untrammeled?"

OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS), Carla Harryman, Belladonna, 88 pgs, $12. "Thank something else"

THE LYRICS, Fanny Howe, Graywolf, 86 pgs, $14. "Veer uninvited"

THINE INSTEAD THINK, Jeffrey Jullich, Harry Tankoos, 116 pgs, $15. "Quite a feat."

ABOUT NOW: COLLECTED POEMS, Joanne Kyger, Natl Poetry Foundation, 798 pgs, $34.95. "Well, rise this time, and leave the body"

THIN GLOVES, Deborah Meadows, Green Integer, 136 pgs, $12.95. "Argent par lad or laddie / with beadle of a cry"

THE MIDDLE ROOM, Jennifer Moxley, Subpress, 633 pgs, $25. "Though I had not yet read 'A,' I would have defended its greatness, for I was at a stage of life when disputed renown was endorsement enough, and many were the books with which I'd imagined myself to have an affinity before I had actually read them.

IN THE PINES, Alice Notley, Penguin, 132 pgs, $18. "I don't have a meaning. That pleases me."

TELEGRAPH, Kaya Oakes, Pavement Saw, 78 pgs, $14. "Even if you had to force it, you had to take your turn."

HOW TO BE PERFECT, Ron Padgett, Coffee House, 114 pgs, $15. "Where are those books I ordered, and what were they . . ."

VERTIGO, Martha Ronk, Coffee House, 72 pgs, $15. "More and more I feel compelled to look over at her"

ENERGY OF DELUSION: A BOOK ON PLOT, Viktor Shklovsky, Dalkey Archive, 428 pgs, $14.95. "Many people spoke and wrote: how is it possible not to have an end?"

DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16. ""It would be best / if no one pretended."

LIP WOLF, Laura Solorzano, trans Jen Hofer, Action Books, 118 pgs, $14. "your vein ink that debates itself in the flame."

THE EMBATTLED LYRIC, Nathaniel Tarn, Stanford, 270 pgs, $21.95. Chapters include "Toward Any Geography / Toward Any America Whatsoever," "On Michel Leiris,""The Issue of New Forms," "The Heraldic Vision," &&.

THE POPEDOLOGY OF AN AMBIENT LANGUAGE, Edwin Torres, Atelos, 178 pgs, $13.50. "-Will you kiss on my rats, Mary?"

COMPLEX SLEEP, Tony Tost, U Iowa, 108 pgs, $16. "Be proof against your will"
HANNAH WEINER'S OPEN HOUSE, edited, with an introduction by Patrick Durgin, 180 pgs, $14.95. Still new after all these months! "I am trying to show the mind."

A BOOK OF PROPHECIES, John Wieners, Bootstrap, 140 pgs, $15. "I have tried other men, / they do not help."

THE PICTURES, Max Winter, Tarpaulin Sky, 70 pgs, $12. "The rest of us might blur as well"

HUMAN RESOURCES, Rachel Zolf, Coach House, 96 pgs, $14.95. "Forget the self without your pain you're nothing."

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2007-06-02T20:45:51Z

SWOON NOIR, Bruce Andrews, Chax, 136 pgs, $16. "You're the reason I'm Lying"

COLLECTED PROSE, Rae Armantrout, Singing Horse, 172 pgs, $17. Includes "Why Don't Women Do Language-Oriented Writing?," "Mainstream Marginality," "Poetic Silence," "Chesire Poetics," "Darkinfested," &&&.

DS (2), Kamau Brathwaite, New Directions, 266 pgs, $18.95. "My mother now come in. into my coma of dream. into>"

DAILY SONNETS, Laynie Browne, 164 pgs, $15.50. "Hitting will / never pronounce / Heathers (of) / Avail"

LEARNING TO LIVE FINALLY: THE LAST INTERVIEW, Jacques Derrida, Melville House, 96 pgs, $15.95. "To feel joy and to weep over the death that awaits are for me the same thing."

JAM ALERTS, Linh Dinh, Chax, 146 pgs, $16. "Stop torturing me, OK?"

ULULU, Thalia Field, Coffee House, 256 pgs, $25. "Shhhhhhhh."

FOLLY, Nada Gordon, Roof, 128 pgs, $13.95. "A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why."

A FIDDLE PULLED FROM THE THROAT OF A SPARROW, Noah Eli Gordon, New Issues, 96 pgs, $14. "praise the beautiful insects"

SELECTED POEMS, Kenneth Koch, ed Ron Padgett, Library of America, cloth 192 pgs, $20. "I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut"

MY ANGIE DICKINSON, Michael Magee, Zasterlee, 80 pgs, $12.95. "Featherspoon becomes -- a test case -- / Featuring Michael Caine -- / The censors -- would Never again allow / Such massive violence "in" -- the screen"

SORRY, TREE, Eileen Myles, Wave Books, $14. "I love you too / don't fuck up my hair"

NINETEEN LINES: A DRAWING CENTER ANTHOLOGY, ed Lytle Shaw, DrawingCenter/Roof, 336 pgs, $24.95. Alcalay, Ashbery, Bernstein, A. Berrigan, Bok, Bonvicino, Brown, Cabral de Melo Neto, Clark, Darragh, A. Davies, K. Davies, Davis, Dau, DeGraff, Derksen, Downs, Drucker, Durnad, Elmslie, Farrell, Fitterman, Frielander, Gladman, Goldsmith, Gordon & Sullivan, Harryman, Hejinian, Howe, Hunt, Knowles, Larsen, Levitsky, Lin, Mac Low, Luoma, Marcus, Mayer, McVarish, Mlinko, Moxley, Myles, Owen, Raworth, Robertson, Smith, Spahr, Stefans, Tillman, Torres, Vicuna, Warsh, Watten, Welish, & Young.

I, AFTERLIFE: ESSAY IN MOURNING TIME, Kristin Prevallet, 66 pgs, $12.95.
"Don't turn corners too sharply or you might run over something you once loved."

DAY OCEAN STATE OF STAR'S NIGHT: POEMS & WRITINGS 1989 & 1999-2006, Leslie Scalapino, Green Integer, 208 pgs, $17.95. "Extraordinary rendition (s) to go _on_"

THE TRANSFORMATION, Juliana Spahr, Atelos, 230 pgs, $13.50. "What they realized about themselves was that most often they dismissed the thinking."

KLUGE: A MEDITATION, Brian Kim Stefans, Roof, 128 pgs, $13.95. "The globe shags the land / of light's / discrete/ damaging. I/ my/ locks / error (omit/ enough) lantern/ wrestle."

ONE BIG SELF, C.D. Wright, Copper Canyon, 88 pgs, $15. "That dog, the guard said, is emancipated"

Signed copies:

THE AGE OF HUTS (COMPLEAT), Ron Silliman, U. Cal, 311 pgs, $19.95.
THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, cloth 112 pgs, $22.95.
SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER, Peter Gizzi, 102 pgs, $13.95.
TO THE COGNOSCENTI, Tom Mandel, Atelos, 170 pgs, $13.50.
GIRLY MAN, Charles Bernstein, U Chicago, 186 pgs, cloth $24.
SHADOWTIME, Charles Bernstein, Green Integer, 130 pgs, $11.95.
TURNERESQUE, Elizabeth Willis, Burning Deck, 96 pgs, $14.
COLLECTED POEMS, Tom Raworth, Carcanet, $29.95.

Some Best Sellers:

NEXT LIFE, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, cloth 78 pgs, $22.95.
A WORLDLY COUNTRY, John Ashbery, Ecco, cloth 78 pgs, $23.95.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN, Ted Berrigan, U CAL, cloth 750 pgs, $24.95.
NECESSARY STRANGERS, Graham Foust, Flood, 68 pgs, $12.95.
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (1965-2006), David Shapiro, Overlook, cloth 268 pgs, $21.95.
ON THE ANARCHY OF POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY: A GUIDE FOR THE UNRULY, Gerald L. Bruns, Fordham, 274 pgs, $24.
THE CHURCH -- THE SCHOOL -- THE BEER, Chris Cheek, Plantarchy, 198 pgs, $10.
CHILDREN OF THE OUTER DARK: THE POETRY OF CHRISTOPHER DEWDNEY, selected and with an introduction by Karl E. Jirgens, Wilfried Laurier University Press, 78 pgs, $14.95.
RING RANG WRONG, Suzanne Doppelt, trans Cole Swensen, Burning Deck, 70 pgs, $14. "Stars look a lot like bees."
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE, Buck Downs / BE LIGHT, Chris Toll, Apathy Press, 64 pgs, $10. 2 books in one. "bye bye blues"
Way More West, Ed Dorn, Penguin, $20.
SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, ed Duhamel, Seaton, & Trinidad, Soft Skull, 398 pgs, $19.95.
RIPPLE EFFECT, Elaine Equi, Coffee House, 272 pgs, $18.
DON'T EVER GET FAMOUS: ESSAYS ON NEW YORK WRITING AFTER THE NEW YORK SCHOOL, ed Daniel Kane, Dalkey Archive, 400 pgs, $34.95.
A READING 8-10, Beverly dahlen, Instance Press, $12.
CASE SENSITIVE, Kate Greenstreet, Ahsahta, $16.
MIRRORS FOR GOLD, Roberto Tejada, Krupskaya, $14.
ACADEMONIA, Dodie Bellamy, Krupskaya, $14.
SINCE I MOVED IN, Tim Peterson, Chax, 96 pgs, $16.
MIRTH, Linda Russo, Chax, 100 pgs, $16.
WHAT'S YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD TIME, Bill Berkson & Bernadette Mayer, Atelos, 225 pgs, $13.50.
AGAINST THE DAY, Thomas Pynchon, Penguin, cloth 1,085 pgs, $35.00.
OBERIU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ABSURDISM, ed Eugene Ostasevsky, Northwestern, 260 pgs, $22.95.
ALMA, OR THE DEAD WOMAN, Alice Notley, Granary, 344 pgs, $17.95.
COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT CREELEY 1975-2005, University of California, cloth 662 pgs, $49.95.
GRAVE OF LIGHT: SELECTED POEMS 1970-2005, Alice Notley, Wesleyan, cloth 368 pgs, $29.95.
THE MEN, Lisa Robertson, BookThug, 72 pgs, $16.
UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006, Tom Beckett, Meritage, 180 pgs, 19.95.
AT ALL (TOM RAWORTH AND HIS COLLAGES), Norma Cole, Hooke Press, 34 pgs, $10.
CO, Bruce Andrews with Barbara Cole, Jesse Freeman, Jessica Grim, Yedda Morrison, & Kim Rosefield, Roof, 104 pgs, $12.95.

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RON SILLIMAN & TOM MANDEL @ Bridge Street, Sunday May 27th 7PM

2007-05-23T01:06:27Z

Please join us at Bridge Street Books

SUNDAY, MAY 27th at 7 PM

RON SILLIMAN
& TOM MANDEL

A reading and publication celebration.

Ron Silliman's THE AGE OF HUTS (COMPLEAT) was recently published by The 
University of California Press. Among his twenty-six books to date are ABC, 
PARADISE, LIT, WHAT, THE NEW SENTENCE (criticism), DEMO TO INK, TONER, 
WOUNDWOOD, and UNDER ALBANY (memoir). He also edited the seminal anthology IN 
THE AMERICAN TREE. Silliman's notoriety has grown considerably since 2002, due 
in large part to his popular and controversial weblog, Silliman's Blog ( 
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/) -- arguably the most influential 
English-language blog on the web devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics. In 
early February 2007, Silliman's Blog surpassed 1,000,000 hits.

Tom Mandel's most recent book is TO THE COGNOSCENTI from Atelos. His twelve 
volumes of poetry include REALISM, FOUR STRANGE BOOKS, THE PROSPECT OF RELEASE, 
ABSENCE SENSORIUM (a collaboration with Daniel Davidson), and ANCESTRAL CAVE. He 
studied at The University of Chicago with Hannah Arendt and has lived in New 
York, Paris, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and now resides in Lewes, Delaware.

In the late seventies Mandel and Silliman co-curated a reading series at the 
Grand Piano, a coffee house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. 
Several members of that community-- Bob Perelman, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Pearson, Rae 
Armantrout, Kit Robinson, Carla Harryman, Barrett Watten, Mandel, and Silliman, 
are writing "an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography" called The Grand 
Piano. The first two volumes have recently appeared. 

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Peter Gizzi at Bridge Street 4/6/07 8 PM

2007-04-04T22:11:37Z

Please join us for a particularly delicious Friday night event at Bridge Street Books.

Friday April 6th, 8 PM

PETER GIZZI

A reading and publication celebration for his new book
from Wesleyan University Press, THE OUTERNATIONALE.

Gizzi’s other collections include Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), and Periplum and other poems (Salt, 2004). He is also the editor of The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). Gizzi has taught at Brown University and The University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently teaches in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Adrienne Rich writes of The Outernationale: “Peter Gizzi's disturbing lyricism is like no other—the innermost whir of the daily curtain rising on outer catastrophe.” & Anselm Berrigan adds: “Peter Gizzi's achingly beautiful poems create tiny openings for being – the whole lonely, searching grandeur of a one—to find and examine its contours between the conditions of ‘what happened’ and ‘what’s happening.’”

Gizzi’s author page at the EPC

& profile at The Academy of American Poets

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, 5 blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro station (blue & orange lines).

Mirth - Linda Russo

2007-02-26T18:15:48Z

MIRTH by Linda Russo

Chax Press
$16, 106 pages

Linda Russo speaks for and to this “girl cold” spacetime, in blazes and remedies, with mirth — scholarly and civic, this work divines.
— Elizabeth Treadwell

Steve Lacy: Conversations

2007-02-24T20:24:24Z

Steve Lacy: Conversations
Jason Weiss, Ed.
Softcover; 289 pages
Duke, 2006
Clifford Allen review at allaboutjazz

The Great War For Civilisation by Robert Fisk

2007-02-24T19:01:48Z

New in paperback, Fisk's The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Midle East is unquestionably one of the most important considerations of the region published in recent times.

Vintage Books, 1111 pgs, $20.00.

Podur interview with Fisk at Z Net.

Charles Bernstein at Bridge Street, Sunday 11/19 7 PM

2006-11-14T21:34:55Z

Please join us

Sunday, November 19th at 7 PM

for a reading by

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Charles Bernstein is the author of 30 books of poetry and libretti, including Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Shadowtime (Green Integer, 2005), With Strings (University of Chicago Press, 2001), and Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000). He has published two books of essays and one essay/poem collection: My Way: Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1999); A Poetics (Harvard University Press, 1992); Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon Press, 1986, 1994; reprinted by Northwestern University Press, 2001). Bernstein is Donald T. Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-founder and co-editor, with Al Filreis, of PENNsound (writing.upenn.edu/pennsund); and editor, and co-founder, with Loss Pequenño Glazier, of The Electronic Poetry Center (epc.buffalo.edu). In 2006, Bernstein was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Jo Nesbo Book Party April 30 6 pm

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Book Launch for Karren Alenier's The Steiny Road to Operadom, Tuesday, January 8th, 7-9 PM

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RON SILLIMAN & TOM MANDEL @ Bridge Street, Sunday May 27th 7PM

Peter Gizzi at Bridge Street 4/6/07 8 PM

Mirth - Linda Russo

Chax Press $16, 106 pages

Linda Russo speaks for and to this “girl cold” spacetime, in blazes and remedies, with mirth — scholarly and civic, this work divines. — Elizabeth Treadwell

Steve Lacy: Conversations

The Great War For Civilisation by Robert Fisk

Charles Bernstein at Bridge Street, Sunday 11/19 7 PM

Chax Press
$16, 106 pages

Linda Russo speaks for and to this “girl cold” spacetime, in blazes and remedies, with mirth — scholarly and civic, this work divines.
— Elizabeth Treadwell