 Every Month is Poetry Month at Longhouse! Fresh Titles Now Available with FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.! 2007
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Thomas A. Clark. Grey.
Three color fold out accordion style booklet of poems, large sheet edition. In blue/grey by the sea cover with floating cloud wrap around band. $8.95 / Signed edition $15
Cid Corman. NY 1934
Postcard poem. 4-1/4 x 5-1/2. Three color. In the Love Thy Poet More! series. $10
Bob Arnold. Another one of those true stories from poetry land.
Three color fold out accordion style booklet of prose. In gold twinkle cover with Lokta paper wrap around band. Signed edition $12
Bob Arnold. Make Do
Postcard poem. 4-1/4 x 5-1/2. Three color. The last card in the Love Thy Poet series, this being #60. Signed by the poet $10
Bob Arnold. "every tower teeters"
Postcard poem. 4-1/4 x 5-1/2. Three color. The premier card in the Love Thy Poet More! series. Signed by the poet $10
Cid Corman as poet and translator
Cid Corman. New Proverbs.
Snow white slip card. Three color. $7.95
Rumi / Cid Corman, translator. "What can I do - friends?"
Golden speckled slip card. Three color. $7.95
John Taggart. Precise Notation.
Three color fold out accordion style booklet of poems, large sheet edition. In turned leaf foliage cover with floating cloud wrap around band. $8.95 / Signed edition $15
Omar Perez. Fleet Star.
Translated by Kristin Dykstra and Nick Lawrence. Three color fold out accordion style booklet of many new poems by this Cuban poet. Prepared exclusively with Longhouse by the translator Kristin Dykstra. Revolution red wraps with cloud band. Bilingual edition. $10 / signed edition by translator Kristin Dykstra $15
Joanne Kyger. All Over The Place
Three color fold out accordion style booklet of a one poem tribute to Cid Corman. Lokta leaf wrapper with like texture band.One of only 24, very limited signed $20
Ursula K. Le Guin. Four Different Poems.
Three color fold out accordion style booklet of four new poems by this west coast and planetary legend in the poetries and science fiction fields. Lokta texture wrap around band. $8.95 / One of only 24, very limited signed $15
Rae Armantrout. Concentrate
Three color fold out accordion style booklet of new poems in texture wrap, with cloud pattern wrap around band. $8.95 / One of 24 only, very limited signed $15
Leslie Scalapino. No.
Three color 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 decorative card. Unsigned $10 / One of 24 very limited signed by the poet. $15
Elizabeth Robinson. from Blue Heron.
Three color fold out accordion booklet in indigo wraps with floating cloud band. Unsigned $8.95 / very limited edition signed $12
Jeffery Beam. Gospel Earth II
1 of 50 copies. A dozen poems continuing the cycle from the poet's earlier Longhouse publication Gospel Earth. Three color fold out accordion style booklet in Lokta texture wrap around band with an extra poem on the back of the band. $8.95 / very limited signed $12
J. D. Whitney. Cousins
1 of 50 copies. A dozen short poems on fold out accordion style booklet. Three color with attractive wrap around band. $8.95
Jane Wodening. Following Frogs
1 of 50 copies. Two stories in fold out accordion style booklet. Three color with decorative wrap around band. $8.95
Cralan Kelder. City Boy
1 of 50 copies. Four page accordion-style fold out in children's wrapping paper cover. Three color. An attractive wrap around band $10
Alex Caldiero. Islander
1 of 50 copies. Four page accordion style fold out. Three color. An attractive wrap around band $8.95
Edward Sanders. Persephone's Mouth.
Mossy by the creek Lokta wrap with paper cloud band, you can just feel Spring! With three color two sheet fan fold-out text of five poems spanning personal, domestic and political of this far-ranging rover. Plus art work by the poet! The fountain is still there $12
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Patricia Smith. Almost.
Darkness crepe wrap cover stock with Lokta band. A single poem and sheet fan fold-out dedicated to Cindy Sheehan ~ mother to mother, so to speak. Three color text right on the cusp of almost.$10
David Budbill. Nine Taoist Poems.
Gold sparkle wrap cover with Lokta band. Two Vermont poets put their heads together as Bob Arnold edits up nine Taoist poems written by David Budbill from his mountain recluse home. Three color single sheet fan fold-out of poems that just empty the way. $8.95 / signed edition by the poet $12
Daisy Zamora. A Diego Rivera On Valencia Street.
Bull-charging red Lokta wrap and band, quite a charge! With three color two-sheet fan fold-out text of six poems written in English and Spanish, translated by George Evans & Daisy Zamora. $10
PROPOSAL
Now that we've come back
from that dream
we went on scattering
it along a path we chose without
knowing,
let's collect the pieces
shining in the depths
of memory like stars
in deepest night.
Let's gather the dispersed
splendor fragments into a lamp
to illuminate our faces,
and light, at least, a small bonfire
to shelter us against the wild.
Translation George Evans & Daisy Zamora
Austin Smith. Wheat and Distance.
Blue sky wrap cover with Lokta band and back side poem attached. This single sheet fan fold-out of haiku by a young Midwestern master in three color text, and twenty poems, makes for a rightful companion. $8.95
David Hinton, translations. Wei Ying-wu
Heralding the transition into the second phase of T'ang Dynasty poetry - which is known for its introspective and experimental poetries - noted translator David Hinton selects a half dozen poems and a revelatory introduction to the poetry, times, and life of this rivers-and-mountains poet. Extracted from a large anthology of classical Chinese Poetry that will be issued from FSG in 2008. A well packed illuminated one! Covering from Shih Ching (@1500BCE) to the end of the Sung Dynasty (1200 CE). Printed on Van Gogh fields yellow cover wrap with Lokta band. Three color text, illustrated. $10
Lars Amund Vaage. The Sheep Farmer Poem.
One of our thickest fold-out offerings yet, from this excellent Norwegian writer, translated by Hanne Bramness. In heavy decorative leaf cloth wrap with Lokta band. These poems follow on foot and trail the comings and goings and life of a sheep farmer in the wilds of Norway. A true world! $12.95
Miyazawa Kenji. Blue Haze.
Translated by Kenji Okuhira & Gerald Hausman. Gold sparkle wrap cover with Lokta band. Single sheet fan fold-out of five poems translated by the poet Gerald Hausman and Japanese companion Kenji Okuhira make an exquisite edition to this luminous poet's world. Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was a devout Buddhist with a life long activist's passion for the peasant life of the Iwate region, better known as the Tibet of Japan. $8.95 / signed edition by the translator Gerald Hausman $12
Robert Sund. from Taos Mountain.
Robert Sund was a quiet legend of the Pacific Northwest. This selection of poems is from the poet's newest book Taos Mountain, Poet's House Press, and is published with gracious permission and unity with the Robert Sund Poet's House Trust - www.poetshousetrust.org. In heavy decorative leaf cloth wrap with Lokta band. An exquisite little gem. $12.95
Kent Johnson. I Once Met.
One of 75. Our largest and tallest booklet yet! from the world-wide traveling mind of grand adventures and some mishaps by Kent Johnson. In tall gold sparkle wrap with sky blue endpapers and gold thread sewn. Very limited numbers, some of which are signed by the author. Catch it while it's hot. $40 signed [ + $3.50 shipping & handling]
from I Once Met :
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I once met Robert Duncan. This was in Milwaukee, and I was just becoming curious about poetry. He had just read at Woodland Pattern, and I was--amazing though it now seems--one of five or seven people in the audience. Robert, this is Kent, said Karl Gartung. Kent, Robert Duncan. One of his eyes was looking at me, while the other, his glass eye, looked elsewhere in the distance. He was wearing a large, dark hat and a great cape, too. Well then: Why did you come? he said, in a kind of thousand year-old growl. I was, I believe, 20 or 21. I don't know, I said, I think it was your poem, "Oftentimes a Meadow Is Permitted to Come Back to Me" It is wonderful, I sometimes read that poem to myself out loud. I have it in an anthology called The American Poetries of the New, I said. You mean The New American Poetry, said Karl, And the poem is called Yes, yes! I interrupted loudly, That's the title of the book, The New American Poetry! And then I said, Have you also written books, Mr. Duncan, because I would like to read more of your poetry. He slowly turned (I can see it plainly still) his hatted head towards Karl. He was, more or less, in profile. And his glass eye now stared, very oddly, straight at me. And I don't really recall anything after that.
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I once met Carl Rakosi. This was in 1992, at Orono, after I'd presented a paper about Louis Zukofsky's 80 Flowers. I'd just published an essay on Rakosi in a fat book about him, from the National Poetry Foundation, wherein I contrasted his prosody with that of Wallace Stevens, a topic that on the surface of it, seems admittedly a bit ridiculous. I'd had a few drinks at the cash bar right before and was feeling fine, quite confident, at ease in my skin. Young man, I just loved your talk, said Rakosi, already then 90 years old, I believe. Good job. And I know Louis would have been totally delighted I smiled. Well, thank you, Mr. Rakosi, I said, That certainly means a lot to me. And I thought it showed promise, too, said Charles Bernstein, out of nowhere, somewhat assertively extending his hand to me. I'm sure this is a great moment for you, to meet Carl Rakosi, isn't it? I reached out, squeezed Bernstein's hand, looked him in the eyes, and said, Yes, it certainly is, Charles. And one day, when you look back on things, you'll realize that this was an actually great moment for you, too. I laughed, casually, and Rakosi squinted his twinkling eyes and laughed merrily, as well. And Armand Schwerner laughed, and Michael Heller laughed, and Keith Tuma did, too. And so did Marjorie Perloff, though I noticed she caught herself and stopped. Bernstein looked at Bob Perelman, who'd been on my panel, and then at Barrett Watten, who had asked me a long question involving Schoenberg, dodecaphony, and Russian Formalism, and then at, I think, Bruce Andrews, and said seargeant-like, OK, let's go to lunch. And so they did, very unsmiling, out the door, the four in a kind of platoon line. And Carl Rakosi grabbed my ear and tugged at it, still giggling, like a grandfather lovingly teasing a suddenly found bastard son, one with a small attitude problem, but showing some promise, nevertheless.
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Tsering Wangmo Dhompa. A long absence and poems of apprehension. For Cid
New poems by this Tibetan poet which will grace the debut issue of Origin Sixth Series in March 2007. These poems are for Cid Corman written by the poet after long travels in 2006 through her homeland of Tibet and now resettled in San Francisco. In royal blue Lokta wraps with band. $10
Mike O' Connor. Five Poems of the Hermit-Sage Tradition, T'ang Dynasty. Translated from the Ch'uan T'ang shih
and the Zhongguo Fodao shige zonghui
More of Mike O'Connor's wild-rooted and mountain high translations from the Pacific Northwest meets China. In rooster-comb red sparkle wraps with Lokta band. These are five poems cut deep from the T'ang Dynasty. $8.95
George Evans. Everyone A Soldier for Something.
Designed just for this showcase, a new style booklet out of the Longhouse from the veteran and seasoned poet George Evans who puts an old soldier's eye to things. From Vietnam to burning Iraq, George Evans once again shows us what it is to be a patriot. In deep turquoise wrap, with Lokta band. $12.95
Laurie Clark. How Many?.
In Nepalese decorative cover stock. How many different items can you fit in a matchbox? From Scotland, Laurie Clark reveals fifty items can be admitted. Six panel fold out art work with three color text, folded up into this shirt pocket-size booklet. $10
Cid Corman. from A Short Guide to Human Being, 18 poems
In Nepalese decorative cover stock with three color fold out text
A SHORT GUIDE TO HUMAN BEING is a collection of poems composed/revised mainly in the mid90s by Cid Corman culling work from earlier times (70s-80s-90s) and shaping a book of well over 200 finished poems. While reading & gathering extensively over the winter of 2007 for Cid's proposed 'selected poems' (with Ce Rosenow), I came upon this manuscript and started to sift eagerly. The bulk of loose pages jammed just barely into its tight binder. A rejection letter from Farrar, Straus & Giroux pinned in with it all. This is but a portion of what they rejected. - Bob Arnold (literary executor for Cid Corman). $10
Bobby Byrd. Is this what love is?
Cinematic and always heart-felt. These short-of-a-dozen poems to grandchildren, loves, mockingbirds and Sunday morning in three color fold-out booklet with wrap around band. Limited edition. $8.95
From Bobby Byrd's "Is this what love is?" ~
A Story for the Grandchildren
Well, we didn't have a plan.
We had instead a blue Ford window van.
1960, six-cylinder.
Sometimes we took out the backseat
and put in a mattress or a couch.
A few times we put in everything we owned
and headed off to God-knows where.
Colorado, for instance, and three kids
who became your mother or fathers
or aunt and uncles.
Forgive us.
We just didn't have a plan.
Somewhere we have an old suitcase
where we put all of our secrets.
Don't go looking for it.
Metaphors, like God, don't exist.
Andy Clausen. Design.
One long fold-out poem dedicated to Janine Pommy Vega in three color booklet with wrap around band. Limited edition. $8.95
Alec Finlay. Hand Stamp.
Stamp designs by Alec Finlay of Edinburgh Scotland & hand-stamped on the kitchen table at Longhouse January 2007 by Bob & Susan Arnold. Not machine made, so expect altered courses. Three color fold-out booklet with wrap around band. Limited edition. $10
Stefan Hyner. The Desert Wastes of Civilization.
Nearly a dozen new poems by this German poet and translator in three color fold-out booklet with wrap around band. Limited edition. $8.95
Joseph Massey. November Graph.
An even dozen new poems folding out into your hands by this weather's edge poet in three color fold-out booklet with wrap around band. Limited edition. $8.95
From Joseph Massey's "November Graph" ~
after Bronk
Words
occur
to gather
a world --
not the
world.
Barbara Moraff. Footprint.
A half dozen poems in fold-out format from this northern Vermont poet and potter in three color booklet with wrap around band. Limited edition. $8.95
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Duncan McNaughton. Insistence. Longhouse 2007. Love Thy Poet 57. Three color postcard poem. Limited edition. $10 postpaid.
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