Eirik Steinhoff

A Fiery Flying Roule (1-25) collects a series of pamphlets that circulated in the vicinity of the Oakland Commune (a.k.a. Occupy Oakland) in late 2011 and early 2012. Under a title recycled from a pair of pamphlets rife with prophetic do-it-yourself political theory first released in London in 1649 (shortly after the decapitation of Charles I), these latter-day Roules splice the antinomian enthusiasm and polyphonic communism of the Levellers, Diggers, and Ranters of the mid-seventeenth century with the manic connect-the-dot-logic of Dr. Bronner’s soap bottle labels....

Fall 2013

George Quasha and Jerome Rothenberg

Celebrated, controversial, influential, this highly unconventional and ground-breaking anthology of American poetry was widely read and taught throughout the 70s and early 80s. Treating the visionary and the experimental as essential American values,  America a Prophecy maps...

Erik Vatne

Cartographies of Silence comprises over one hundred untitled poem fragments  - what the poet calls "unconscious interruptions" - what navigate maps of being/non-being, writing/speaking/thinking, to reveal the mind-body experience where silence meets language...

Paul Celan and Susan H. Gillespie

Paul Celan, arguably the mid-20th century’s most important German-language poet, is commonly pigeonholed as a poet of the Holocaust — a term that he, however, never used. Undoing facile assumptions about Celan, Corona charts a more idiosyncratic and personal path through Celan’s large oeuvre...

Spring 2013

Peter Lamborn Wilson

Of Ec(o)logues, a Menippean Satyre (mixed poetry and prose, mixed serious and humorous) inspired by Virgil’s Eclogues, Charles Stein writes, "It is my hope that this book will come as something of a revelation to the world of poetry: a revelation that poetry this good and good in this way can be produced in our times; good as rhythmically and sonorously exciting, expressive, intuitive, intelligent, well-measured, suitably barbaric, historically redolent, politically, metaphysically, even soteriologically astute..."

Charles Stein

FROM MIMIR'S HEAD comprises two reciprocal passes through the same terrain—a sequence of poems mostly exploring ontological matters in a variety of verse inventions, and a series of notes in a prose equally exploratory and inventive...

Kyoko Hayashi and Eiko Otake

FROM TRINITY TO TRINITY recounts the pilgrimage of Japanese atomic-bomb survivor Kyoko Hayashi to the Trinity Site in northern New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb test was conducted...

Andy Mister

Part lyric essay, part annotated checklist, Andy Mister’s Liner Notes is a meditation on alienation and pop culture, a memoir about forgetting and trying not to forget. Beginning with the Beach Boy’s unfinished masterpiece "Smile," Mister describes a world populated by ghosts adrift on a sea of drug use, boredom and popular entertainment...

Spring 2013

George Quasha

Scorned Beauty Comes Up From Behind: Preverbs is one of seven “preverb complexes” comprising the unpublished book Exchanging Intentions, itself one of seven books of preverbs, of which the first to be published was Verbal Paradise (Zasterle: 2011)...

Lissa Wolsak

With the publication of this volume, Lissa Wolsak — who seemingly emerged as a fully-formed poet in the mid-1990s after various other pursuits — emerges for the first time once again...