Aerial/Edge

10/15/2009

New Cathy Eisenhower from Roof Books


Anne Boyer on Cathy Eisenhower's would with and, just out from Roof Books.

"So often poets think they are celebrating language for all of its possibilities, but I think, too, poetry can be a kind of war against language for all the ways it fucks us over -- like how it can mean, or not mean, enough."

9/20/2009

Plummet by Chris Nealon! New from Edge.


Plummet
Chris Nealon
ISBN 978-1-890311-29-2
64 pgs, Cover by Liliane Lijn
Design by Justin Sirois
2009

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge
(regularly $15)

"Nothing you read will help you now"; "I am not gay, I am from the future!"; "Classicism: build your buildings so that even conquering hordes will be like, No way." Plummet is a post-catastrophic work written largely before the current all-American, i.e. global, plunge— imagine a kind of clairvoyant O'Hara distracted by Adorno, and Bear Stearns. It's that pit of the stomach feeling—“Will there be sirens? Toxins? I imagine violence miming reconciliation and then back again." In The Believer , Stephen Burt observed of The Joyous Age that "Nealon's bracing and bitter debut both enters and mocks the tradition of kaleidoscopic, difficult poetry as grand social critique, and makes most new work in that mode sound sloppy or bland by contrast.” In other words, as it says in this new collection "Lifted from the cadences you know and then let fall.”

8/30/2009

Tim Davis - The New Antiquity

7/05/2009

Graham & Wallace at Le Next, Ivy Writers Series, Paris

IVY WRITERS PRESENTS

Mark Wallace
& K. Lorraine Graham

Tuesday, the 7th of July 2009
at 7:30pm

AT : Le Next
17 rue Tiquetonne 75002 Paris
M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles
Gratuit! Free!
(+infos sur le blog: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com)

BIOS/BIBLIOS:

Mark Wallace is the author of a number of books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and criticism. “Temporary Worker Rides A Subway” won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. He is the author of a multi-genre work, “Haze”, and a novel, “Dead Carnival”. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and along with Steven Marks, he edited “Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s” (University of Alabama Press), a collection of 26 essays by different writers. Most recently he has published a collection of tales, “Walking Dreams”, and a book of poems, “Felonies of Illusion”. He teaches at California State University, San Marcos.

K. Lorraine Graham is a writer and visual artist. Graham is the author of “Terminal Humming” (Edge Books, 2009), as well as the recording “Moving Walkways” (Narrowhouse Recordings, 2006) and numerous chapbooks, including “And so for you there is no heartbreak” (Dusie Kollektiv, 2008), “Diverse Speculations Descending Therefrom” (Dusie Kollektiv, 2007), “See It Everywhere” (Big Game Books, 2006), “Terminal Humming” (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), With Mark Wallace, 1994-2004 (Subpoetics Self-Publish or Perish, 2004), “Dear [Blank] I Believe in Other Worlds” (Phylum Press, 2003) and “It Does Not Go Back” (Subpoetics Self-Publish or Perish, 2002). “Large Waves to Large Obstacles” is forthcoming from Take Home Project. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in reviews such as Traffic, Area Sneaks, and Foursquare. She currently lives in southern California. You can find her online at terminalhumming.blogspot.com

6/25/2009

Terminal Humming by K. Lorraine Graham!



Terminal Humming

by K. Lorraine Graham

regularly $16.00

$12 direct from Edge Books, postpaid.


96 pages
Cover by the author
ISBN 978-1-890331-31-5

All "this shining and this flutter [!]." Terminal Humming is a very exciting book and I love it. Eavesdropping and borrowing from diverse discourses, K. Lorraine Graham has created a complex "essay on scrounging." It is a wonderfully violent "attempt to unleash inner badness" in poems that are hot and audacious, in a girly way: "Wonder Woman boots twirl twirl." Terminal Humming is just the right amount of weird. In it, "kinks become beautiful and obvious," and "language [hums] as angry form." Read this "downwind chess urine bird bathing extravaganza" of a book! NADA GORDON

Map and start K. Lorraine Graham’s Man-cunt. Honeybucket defoliates broadcast. Too personal? She keeps it normal and lumpy. Scattered disco balls mutilated by grisly pixies. This shining and this clutter. Their cunning bodies, well stocked. She rammed her glistening ovipositor into his abdomen. Imbued doll I am not. Warning! Warning! I clash looking for just a regular body in a supergirl outfit. All soft and twisted and inexpensive and consumable with a nice bike and nice bike gear. Hottie wanting sweet inside sprawl (Female until further notice) mixing information substitutes. Automatic shredder joy rehearsing pitch incineration. Squirming again and again (editing) editing (editing) (editing) something (editing) very (editing). Edit looks stupid. Change the finish. Overcome emotion by funding. Written in a kind of stripper life often scattered communication prosthetics mutilated by beauty. You find them here. ABIGAIL CHILD

Using irony, charm, and unexpected associations, the poems of Terminal Humming challenge any sense of women's situation being normal or transparent. These ambitious and invasive poems make us attentive to the steady drone of put-downs and put-ons that form so much of our discourse. Parcels of ostensibly innocuous information reveal their condescension or malice on Graham's pages, drawing us into the contours of an everyday life that is fine, okay enough—yet threatenednonetheless. And yet the poems have the strength of their whimsy, an outraged whimsy which ever-so-casually threatens back. This is the everyday as counter-attack! STAN APPS

11/28/2008

Clearing Without Reversal by Cathy Eisenhower


NEW FROM EDGE BOOKS


Clearing Without Reversal

Cathy Eisenhower
978-1-890311-27-8
Cover by the author
Design by Justin Sirois
80 pgs

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge (regularly $15)

We are deceived at every level by our behavior. You are grammar and the city is syntax. This book has the brilliant, vulgar, infinite, intimate, alluring vivacity of the real. If you search these poems for meaning that can be summarized, you will find multiple meanings, all of them capable of confounding any summary by proposing its own opposite, its own doppelganger, its own disguise, its own cohort. Cathy Eisenhower brandishes the whip. The psyche rises as a mist from things that are wet. --Doug Lang

These poems glow in the dark. And are so sharp—("fleet of heart"). And every here word is true—startlingly ordered, uncannily combined, in harsh light—("the time it takes / to wash the fire from your face")—bringing truth back again to beauty—not an easy beauty, but a smart one, hard-won, and permanent. --Cole Swensen

11/15/2008

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA by Kevin Davies


NEW!

The Golden Age of Paraphernalia
Kevin Davies

ISBN 13: 978-1-890311-28-5
142 pgs, Cover by Benjamin Friedlander

Regularly $15
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge

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