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"
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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.
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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.
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