
THE DREAMING LIFE OF SAINT LEONORA DE LA CRUZ, February 2007
by Agnieszka Taborska with Art by Selena Kimball
ISBN 978-1-877675-61-4; 96 pp; paper; illust.; $26.00
The dreaming life of Leonora de la Cruz is absolutely so many things
all packed together that don't know where to start.
It is a prose poem in chapters, of haunting beauty, exactly the kind
of writing Surrealism and we devotees of it most love. And thew
collages are something else: think Ernst and think past him. Truly
one of the most amazing books I have ever had the privilege of
dreaming through.
--Mary Ann Caws
Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature
Graduate School, City University of New York
author of "Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and
Writing," "Surprised in Translation," and many books on Surrealism
and the arts.
WHAT IS THEATRE: A NOVEL IN VERSE
Michael Bonine
ISBN 1-877675-51-2; 92 pp; paper; $15.00
Apollonian works by a poet of extravagant imagination.
Michael Bonine is an old school new voice in American Literature. A voracious metabolizer of Western culture, a sexual Odysseus for our time.
His works are colloquial, lived-in, occasionally vulgar, and always laced with erudite references. Bonine fearlessly takes risks with the subjects he cares most about, in direct language and familiar images. In his long narrative, What is Theatre? there are references enough to please everyone — from opera to tennis to summer of '77 — from Henry James to Judith Krantz. The poet forgets nothing — remembers everything.
His rhythms owe as much to Billy Joel and The O.C as to Nabokov and Chaucer; his words are both streetwise and sweet; swaggering and humble. (P.S. This book is funny!) So what is theatre? You may find your own answer in this poetic Rorschach.
MIRROR MIRROR: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY WE LOOK
Edited by Isabel Duke
ISBN 1-877675-49-0, Illust., $14.00
Anthology of poems by some 6o writers focusing on body images and how they affect the way people feel, live, and behave.
SOLO CROSSING (third printing)
Meg Campbell
ISBN 1-877675-31-8 (third printing), Illust. by Linda Bastian, $12.00
An elegy for a marriage and her solo crossing through separation and divorce to a new life as a woman alone. "Though these lyrics mourn, they are ultimately tinged with joy." — Jane Shore, author of Music Minus One
SPLIT VERSE — POEMS TO HEAL YOUR HEART (anthology) (second printing)
Edited by Meg Campbell and William Duke
ISBN 1-877675-35-0 paper, Illust., $14.00
"Poignant, wry, bitter, or grateful, the poems are brave valedictions to the hope of romance and testimonies to the reputation of poetry as the best and oldest record of human emotion." — Billy Collins
SIGHT LINES
Charlotte Mandel, Photographs by Judy Seigel
ISBN 1-877675-27-X, Illust., $12.00
In her sixth book, Mandel "presses down on the holding pedal of memory,' preserving for us a World War II childhood, the events of a long marriage, domestic and foreign scenes that combine the common-place and the bizarre in crisp and lucid language." — Maxine Kumin.
WHIRLING ROUND THE SUN
Suzanne Noguere
ISBN 1-877675-22-9, Illust., $12.00
"Extraordinarily fine debut volume . . . brilliantly polished poems that simultaneously move and delight. Noguere is a poet to watch" — Dana Gioi
PARALLELS: ARTISTS/POETS
Foreword by art critic Grace Glueck, Introduction by Prof. Mary Ann Caws
Artists Feshbach, Heimarck, and Rosenfeld illustrate 47 Women Poets works.
ISBN 1-877675-14-8, Illust., $12.00
VOICES OF WOMEN: 3 CRITICS ON 3 POETS ON 3 HEROINES (third printing)
Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard
ISBN 0-9602476-1-0, Illust., $8.00
Three critics discuss the poets Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, and Jane Cooper and their tributes to artist/heroines Køllwitz, Modersohn-Becker, and Luxemburg.
ILLUMINATIONS FOR ASPHODEL, THAT GREENY FLOWER
Images by Oriole Farb Feshbach, Poem by William Carlos Williams
Foreword by Stanley Kunitz, Introduction by Amy Clampitt
ISBN 1-877675-09-1, Color Illust., $20.00
Feshbach's collages and the art of Williams's friends (Hartley, Steiglitz, and Melville), combined with Williams's memorabilia and family photographs create an insightful presentation of Williams's beloved poem.