New in Poetry & Theory
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THEORECTICAL WRITINGS, Alain Badiou, Continuum, 292 pgs, $19.95. "Our quarrel can be formulated in a number of ways."
UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006, Tom Beckett, Meritage, 180 pgs, 19.95. "'You're so negative.'//'Yes, yes, yes!'// Unprotected texts."
THE WRITER OF MODERN LIFE: ESSAYS ON BAUDELAIRE, Walter Benjamin, Harvard, 307 pgs, $15.95. Collects the essays "Baudelaire," "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century," "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire," "Central Park," and "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire."
WHAT'S YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD TIME, Bill Berkson & Bernadette Mayer, Atelos, 225 pgs, $13.50. From 1977 to 1985 Berkson and Mayer interviewed each other on an incredibly wide range of topics-- the results are collected here, along with the accompanying letters. It is a joyous, curious, passionate book. "_If you had to choose would you?_"
CONCORDANCE, Mei-mei Bersenbrugge & Kiki Smith, Kelsey St, unpaginated large format pb, $29. "For the first time, I write and you don't know me."
ANNE BOYER'S GOOD APOCALYPSE, Anne Boyer, effing press, 30 pgs, $7. "Bunnies occupy the same / semantic field as question-begging."
GENESIS, GENEALOGIES, GENRES. & GENIUS: THE SECRETS OF THE ARCHIVE, Jacques Derrida, Columbia, cloth 96 pgs, $24.50. "One can, if one likes, call this literary conscience."
ROBERT DUNCAN AND DENISE LEVERTOV: THE POETRY OF POLITICS, THE POLITICS OF POETRY, ed Albert Gelpi & Robert J. Bertholf, Stanford, 209 pgs, $19.95.
Essays by Capinha, Johnston, Hollenberg, Tallman, Shurin, Felstiner, Millier, Dewey, O'Leary, Herrera, Lacey, & the editors.
BLUE STUDIOS: POETRY AND ITS CULTURAL WORK, Rachel Blau DuPlesis, Alabama, $37.95. 12 essays in/on/of Blau DuPlesis'cultural,/poetic/critical practice-- "Notice the tones in which you are fluent; then add the tones in which you stutter. You're beginning to get it."
WAR, THE MUSICAL, Robert Fitterman & Dirk Rowntree, SubPress, 400 pgs, $15. "George Washington / is rumored / to have introduced / the long-eared / horse-donkey"
EFFING MAGAZINE 4, ed David Hadbawnik & Farid Matuk, 98 pgs, $6. Dinh, Smoler, Bronstad, Lauer, Lum, Myles, Young, Koeneke, Tejada, Gevirtz, Neuendorf, Batir, Pardi, &&&.
MI REVOLUESANARY FREN, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ausable, paperback w/ audio cd, 114 pgs, $16. "did is di age af reality / but some a wi a deal wid mitalagy"
RECYCLOPEDIA: TRIMMINGS, S*PeRM**K*T, AND MUSE & DRUDGE, Harryette Mullen, Graywolf, 180 pgs, $15. Reprints 3 classics! "You might be taken for a zoo."
UNDER THAT SILKY ROOF, Elizabeth Robinson, Burning Deck, 74 pgs, $14. ""the golden egg is still there"
TELEMACHIAD, Michael Scharf, Sugarhigh!, unpaginated appprox 60 pgs, $12. "Have you been snooped on?"
WHO OPENS, Jesse Seldess, Kenning, 66 pgs, $12.95. "Saturated unvocalized light"
SILVER STANDARD, Justin Sirois, Newlights, limited edition artist's book, $10. "why don't you just relax?"
Some Bestsellers:
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.
GIRLY MAN, Charles Bernstein, U Chicago, 186 pgs, cloth $24.
I LOVE ARTISTS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, 145 pgs, $19.95. (signed copies)
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN, Ted Berrigan, ed. Alice Notley with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan, U CAL, cloth 750 pgs, $49.95.
THE MEN, Lisa Robertson, BookThug, 72 pgs, $16.
THE FIRE: COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ROBIN BLASER, ed Miriam Nichols, U Cal, 518 pgs, $29.95.
IFLIFE, Bob Perelman, Roof, 136 pgs, $13.95.
CURVES TO THE APPLE, Rosmarie Waldrop, New Directions, 198 pgs, $16.95. POSTCOLONIAL MELANCHOLIA, Paul Gilroy, Columbia, 170 pgs, $18.95.
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.
ELSEWHERE NO. 2, Gary Sullivan, 24 pgs, $3.95.
SELECTED AMAZON REVIEWS, Kevin Killian, Hooke, 54 pgs, $10.
MUSEE MECHANIQUE, Rodney Koeneke, BlazeVOX, 92 pgs, $11.
THE BOOK OF MARTYRDOM & ARTIFICE: FIRST JOURNALS & POEMS 1937-1952, Allen Ginsberg, ed Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, cloth 524 pgs, $27.50.
SPLAY ANTHEM, Nathaniel Mackey, New Directions, 128 pgs, $15.95.
MAINSTREAM, Michael Magee, BlazeVOX, 100 pgs, $10.
SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING, Anselm Berrigan, Edge, 80 pgs, $15.
PETROLEUM HAT, Drew Gardner, Roof, 96 pgs, $12.95.
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL, Charles Baudelaire trans Keith Waldrop, Wesleyan, 196 pgs, cloth $24.95.
ON EARTH: LAST POEMS AND AN ESSAY, Robert Creeley, U Cal, cloth 90 pgs, $21.95.
THE LIVES OF A SPIRIT / GLASSTOWN, Fanny Howe, 140 pgs, Nightboat, $12.
STARTLE RESPONSE, Heather Fuller, O Books, 64 pgs, $12.
POETRY OF THE REVOLUTION: MARX, MANIFESTOES, AND THE AVANT-GARDES,
Martin Puchner, Princeton, 318 pgs, $24.95.
DEATHSTAR/RICO-CHET, Judith Goldman, O Books, 112 pgs, $14.
THE TOTALITY FOR KIDS, Joshua Clover, U Cal, 80 pgs, $16.95.
MEDIATED, Carol Mirakove, Factory School, 94 pgs, $12.
AFTER THE EMPIRE: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE AMERICAN ORDER, Emmanuel Todd, trans C. Jon Delogu, Columbia , 236 pgs, $18.95.
SHADOWTIME, Charles Bernstein, Green Integer, 132 pgs, $11.95.
WHAT IS SAID TO THE POET CONCERNING FLOWERS, Brian Kim Stefans, Factory School, 146 pgs, $14.
ULTRAVIOLETA, Laura Moriarty, Atelos, 270 pgs, $13.50.
NEW MEDIA POETICS: CONTEXTS, TECHNOTEXTS, AND THEORIES, ed Adalaide Morris & Thomas Swiss, MIT, hc 430 pgs, $38.
IN MEMORY OF MY THEORIES, Rod Smith, O Books, 72 pgs, $12.
ORGANIC FURNITURE CELLAR, Jessica Smith, Outside Voices, 96 pgs, $16.
CHEERLEADER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD: COUNCIL BOOK, Stacy Doris, Roof, 88 pgs, $12.95.
STEP, George Albon, Post-Apollo, 66 pgs, $12.
THE THORN, David Larsen, Faux, 84 pgs, $15.
COLLECTED POEMS OF MURIEL RUKEYSER, ed Kaufman & Herzog, U Pittsburgh, 670 pgs, $27.95.
FEAR THE SKY, Rod Smith, Narrow House Recordings, audio CD, $12.
GUY DEBORD: REVOLUTION IN THE SERVICE OF POETRY, Vincent Kaufmann, U Minn, cloth 345 pgs, $29.95.
CHINESE SUN, Arkadii Dragomoshcheko, trans Evgeny Pavlov, Ugly Duckling, 330 pgs, $15.
ORDERING INFORMATION:
List members receive free shipping on orders of more
than $20. Free shipping + 10% discount on orders of
more than $30. 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. We must charge shipping for orders out of the US.
THEORECTICAL WRITINGS, Alain Badiou, Continuum, 292 pgs, $19.95. "Our quarrel can be formulated in a number of ways."
UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006, Tom Beckett, Meritage, 180 pgs, 19.95. "'You're so negative.'//'Yes, yes, yes!'// Unprotected texts."
THE WRITER OF MODERN LIFE: ESSAYS ON BAUDELAIRE, Walter Benjamin, Harvard, 307 pgs, $15.95. Collects the essays "Baudelaire," "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century," "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire," "Central Park," and "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire."
WHAT'S YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD TIME, Bill Berkson & Bernadette Mayer, Atelos, 225 pgs, $13.50. From 1977 to 1985 Berkson and Mayer interviewed each other on an incredibly wide range of topics-- the results are collected here, along with the accompanying letters. It is a joyous, curious, passionate book. "_If you had to choose would you?_"
CONCORDANCE, Mei-mei Bersenbrugge & Kiki Smith, Kelsey St, unpaginated large format pb, $29. "For the first time, I write and you don't know me."
ANNE BOYER'S GOOD APOCALYPSE, Anne Boyer, effing press, 30 pgs, $7. "Bunnies occupy the same / semantic field as question-begging."
GENESIS, GENEALOGIES, GENRES. & GENIUS: THE SECRETS OF THE ARCHIVE, Jacques Derrida, Columbia, cloth 96 pgs, $24.50. "One can, if one likes, call this literary conscience."
ROBERT DUNCAN AND DENISE LEVERTOV: THE POETRY OF POLITICS, THE POLITICS OF POETRY, ed Albert Gelpi & Robert J. Bertholf, Stanford, 209 pgs, $19.95.
Essays by Capinha, Johnston, Hollenberg, Tallman, Shurin, Felstiner, Millier, Dewey, O'Leary, Herrera, Lacey, & the editors.
BLUE STUDIOS: POETRY AND ITS CULTURAL WORK, Rachel Blau DuPlesis, Alabama, $37.95. 12 essays in/on/of Blau DuPlesis'cultural,/poetic/critical practice-- "Notice the tones in which you are fluent; then add the tones in which you stutter. You're beginning to get it."
WAR, THE MUSICAL, Robert Fitterman & Dirk Rowntree, SubPress, 400 pgs, $15. "George Washington / is rumored / to have introduced / the long-eared / horse-donkey"
EFFING MAGAZINE 4, ed David Hadbawnik & Farid Matuk, 98 pgs, $6. Dinh, Smoler, Bronstad, Lauer, Lum, Myles, Young, Koeneke, Tejada, Gevirtz, Neuendorf, Batir, Pardi, &&&.
MI REVOLUESANARY FREN, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ausable, paperback w/ audio cd, 114 pgs, $16. "did is di age af reality / but some a wi a deal wid mitalagy"
RECYCLOPEDIA: TRIMMINGS, S*PeRM**K*T, AND MUSE & DRUDGE, Harryette Mullen, Graywolf, 180 pgs, $15. Reprints 3 classics! "You might be taken for a zoo."
UNDER THAT SILKY ROOF, Elizabeth Robinson, Burning Deck, 74 pgs, $14. ""the golden egg is still there"
TELEMACHIAD, Michael Scharf, Sugarhigh!, unpaginated appprox 60 pgs, $12. "Have you been snooped on?"
WHO OPENS, Jesse Seldess, Kenning, 66 pgs, $12.95. "Saturated unvocalized light"
SILVER STANDARD, Justin Sirois, Newlights, limited edition artist's book, $10. "why don't you just relax?"
Some Bestsellers:
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.
GIRLY MAN, Charles Bernstein, U Chicago, 186 pgs, cloth $24.
I LOVE ARTISTS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, 145 pgs, $19.95. (signed copies)
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN, Ted Berrigan, ed. Alice Notley with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan, U CAL, cloth 750 pgs, $49.95.
THE MEN, Lisa Robertson, BookThug, 72 pgs, $16.
THE FIRE: COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ROBIN BLASER, ed Miriam Nichols, U Cal, 518 pgs, $29.95.
IFLIFE, Bob Perelman, Roof, 136 pgs, $13.95.
CURVES TO THE APPLE, Rosmarie Waldrop, New Directions, 198 pgs, $16.95. POSTCOLONIAL MELANCHOLIA, Paul Gilroy, Columbia, 170 pgs, $18.95.
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.
ELSEWHERE NO. 2, Gary Sullivan, 24 pgs, $3.95.
SELECTED AMAZON REVIEWS, Kevin Killian, Hooke, 54 pgs, $10.
MUSEE MECHANIQUE, Rodney Koeneke, BlazeVOX, 92 pgs, $11.
THE BOOK OF MARTYRDOM & ARTIFICE: FIRST JOURNALS & POEMS 1937-1952, Allen Ginsberg, ed Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, cloth 524 pgs, $27.50.
SPLAY ANTHEM, Nathaniel Mackey, New Directions, 128 pgs, $15.95.
MAINSTREAM, Michael Magee, BlazeVOX, 100 pgs, $10.
SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING, Anselm Berrigan, Edge, 80 pgs, $15.
PETROLEUM HAT, Drew Gardner, Roof, 96 pgs, $12.95.
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL, Charles Baudelaire trans Keith Waldrop, Wesleyan, 196 pgs, cloth $24.95.
ON EARTH: LAST POEMS AND AN ESSAY, Robert Creeley, U Cal, cloth 90 pgs, $21.95.
THE LIVES OF A SPIRIT / GLASSTOWN, Fanny Howe, 140 pgs, Nightboat, $12.
STARTLE RESPONSE, Heather Fuller, O Books, 64 pgs, $12.
POETRY OF THE REVOLUTION: MARX, MANIFESTOES, AND THE AVANT-GARDES,
Martin Puchner, Princeton, 318 pgs, $24.95.
DEATHSTAR/RICO-CHET, Judith Goldman, O Books, 112 pgs, $14.
THE TOTALITY FOR KIDS, Joshua Clover, U Cal, 80 pgs, $16.95.
MEDIATED, Carol Mirakove, Factory School, 94 pgs, $12.
AFTER THE EMPIRE: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE AMERICAN ORDER, Emmanuel Todd, trans C. Jon Delogu, Columbia , 236 pgs, $18.95.
SHADOWTIME, Charles Bernstein, Green Integer, 132 pgs, $11.95.
WHAT IS SAID TO THE POET CONCERNING FLOWERS, Brian Kim Stefans, Factory School, 146 pgs, $14.
ULTRAVIOLETA, Laura Moriarty, Atelos, 270 pgs, $13.50.
NEW MEDIA POETICS: CONTEXTS, TECHNOTEXTS, AND THEORIES, ed Adalaide Morris & Thomas Swiss, MIT, hc 430 pgs, $38.
IN MEMORY OF MY THEORIES, Rod Smith, O Books, 72 pgs, $12.
ORGANIC FURNITURE CELLAR, Jessica Smith, Outside Voices, 96 pgs, $16.
CHEERLEADER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD: COUNCIL BOOK, Stacy Doris, Roof, 88 pgs, $12.95.
STEP, George Albon, Post-Apollo, 66 pgs, $12.
THE THORN, David Larsen, Faux, 84 pgs, $15.
COLLECTED POEMS OF MURIEL RUKEYSER, ed Kaufman & Herzog, U Pittsburgh, 670 pgs, $27.95.
FEAR THE SKY, Rod Smith, Narrow House Recordings, audio CD, $12.
GUY DEBORD: REVOLUTION IN THE SERVICE OF POETRY, Vincent Kaufmann, U Minn, cloth 345 pgs, $29.95.
CHINESE SUN, Arkadii Dragomoshcheko, trans Evgeny Pavlov, Ugly Duckling, 330 pgs, $15.
ORDERING INFORMATION:
List members receive free shipping on orders of more
than $20. Free shipping + 10% discount on orders of
more than $30. 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. We must charge shipping for orders out of the US.
