NEW TITLES FROM NOMADOS (NOVEMBER 2003)
FROM M-TALÁ by CHUS PATO. Trans. from the Galician by ERÍN MOURE. 44pp ISBN 0-9731521-8-4. $12.00 plus $2.50 for p & p. (A poet, who has always shunned metaphor and lyric escapism, puts the world on poetic display and pulls it apart in its complexity. Helena González Fernández)
HI DDEVIOLETH I DDE VIOLET by KATHLEEN FRASER. 36pp ISBN 0-9731521-7-6
$12.00 plus $2.50 for p & p. (Fraser's linguistic play and typographical invention have never been more assured and brilliant. Marjorie Perloff)
DRAFT, UNNUMBERED: PRÉCIS by RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS. 32pp ISBN 0-9731521-6-8. $12.00 plus $2.50 for p & p. (Précis proposes, "in the name of gloss," a narrative accompaniment to the first 57 poems of DuPlessis's ongoing series, Drafts, composing a different order of folding-on-itself than readers have encountered thus far, one subjectively tensed between notions of summary and draft. Louis Cabri)
THE IRREPARABLE by ROBIN BLASER. 32pp ISBN 0-9731521-1-7. $10.00 plus $2.50 for p & p. (Who else but a poet, and not just any poet but Canada's Robin Blaser, could take on that word "transcendence" and recuperate it in the moment of a civic frame, one with the capacity to restore us to the "world" restless in world, the "where is" which is where we abide. Erín Moure)
FORTHCOMING
WORLD ON FIRE by CHARLES BERNSTEIN. BACKLIST
SEVEN GLASS BOWLS by DAPHNE MARLATT. 24pp ISBN 0-9731521-5-X. $10.00 plus $2.50 p & p. ("Home and the closeness of the beloved," she writes. There can be no subject as important to the poet and the rest of us, and in this lovely poem, Daphne Marlatt continuously achieves her best yet "homing in." That present participle is our sweet clue to a mystery we are encouraged to enter. Gladly. George Bowering)
FAT CHANCE by DODIE BELLAMY. 40pp ISBN 0-9731521-3-3. $12.00 plus $2.50 p & p (Bellamy's Fat Chance is pellucid, masterful prose, at once a bodiceful of grainy secrets, a set of falsities, and a treasury of urbane/innocent candor. There are many reasons I read Bellamy, not least for the rapidity of insight, mediumistic sprit, and her enormous, at times jocular, tenderness. Lissa Wolsak)
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS: A PLAY by KEVIN KILLIAN. 76pp ISBN 0-9731521-4-1.
$14.00 plus $2.50 p & p. (Will Gabrielle Kerouac be able to protect the befuddled genius of her son, Jack, from Hollywood producers hot to make a musical out of his masterpiece, On the Road, a book she herself wrote while he was unconscious? Will she find love in the arms of ailing heiress Sunny von Bulow? Killian exposes at every turn the tangled contradictions of modern life, the fragility of the individual talent, the weird panic that ensues when suddenly you remember that many years ago you gave your baby away at the top of a waterfall)
WANDERS. Nineteen poems by ROBIN BLASER with nineteen responses by Meredith Quartermain. 40pp ISBN 0-9731521-0-9. $10.00 plus $2.50 p & p. (A spring-coiled peck from Dickinson on the pitch-perfect cheek of Marianne Moore. Daniel Comiskey ++ An amazing, even jaw dropping performance . . . .
her poems absolutely stand up to the challenge of Blaser's own . . . . The sum of it is totally exhilarating. Ron Silliman)
A THOUSAND MORNINGS by MEREDITH QUARTERMAIN. 90pp ISBN 0-9731521-2-5. $14.00 plus $2.50 p & p. (a serious-playful and engaging work in which she weighs and sounds what presents itself outside a real window, inside language, and through verbal-emotional associations. This work creates an osmotic border between seeing and writing, a realist hypnogogic passage between memory and today, between outside and inside, between now and then. That anywhere is everywhere is proven once again with this brave, enchanting book. Rachel Blau DuPlessis)
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