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December 28, 2007

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

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. 

 


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December 11, 2007

New in Poetry & Theory

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.
 
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What to Read

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  • 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.

 


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