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.
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.
