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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