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JOHN BRADLEY. What Is Borne. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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Bob Arnold. My Sweetest Friend. 2010.
48 pages
hand-sewn wraps
three color text with photographs
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Bob Arnold, A Possible Eden. 2010
Bob Arnold's new book of modern fables
With two paintings by the author
Three color text
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40 pages
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BROOKS JOHNSON. the people of the state of illinois vs brooks johnson. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / postpaid
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PAM BROWN. Sentimental. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / postpaid
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MERRILL GILFILLAN. Treehouse Haibun. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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ALVARO CARDONA-HINE. Little Songs To Sing While Singing. 2010. Fifteen poems and one painting, "The Blue Barn" by this author who lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Lovely three-color booklet with wrap band. Your choice of either signed or unsigned editions. Unsigned $10 / Signed available, please inquire. (International orders kindly inquire)
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RAY DI PALMA. House of Keys. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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GEORGE KALAMARAS. Mingus Mingus Mingus. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / postpaid // signed $15 postpaid
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DONNA FLEISCHER. Twinkle, Twinkle. 2010. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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JOHN LATTA. A Year (Days Off). 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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JOHN BENNETT. Dancing On The Wind. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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Bob Arnold. "Farm Visit". 2010. In three-color showcase, handmade edition. Wraps. $15 / Signed available, please inquire
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MICHAEL HETTICH. More Than Gratitude. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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BOB ARNOLD. Bakery. 2010. In three-color fold out performance. $8.95, unsigned / Signed available, please inquire
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ANDREW SCHELLING. Arapaho Songbook II. 2010. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. $10, unsigned postpaid / Signed available, please inquire
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JEFFERY BEAM. Me Moving. 2010. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band.. $10, unsigned, postpaid / Signed available, please inquire
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Cid Corman. A Language Without Words / copyright 1972, 2010 first published by Byways 6, 1972 : Gerry Loose, Essex, UK. Our ever thanks for Gerry to reprint & bring this one back into the fold. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. $10
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Bob Arnold. Save Yourself. 2010. In three-color showcase, handmade edition. Wraps. Signed. $20
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NORMAN SCHAEFER Little Sierra Nevada Poems / 2010. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. With photograph by Kevin Garner, looking from Lone Pine to Mt. Whitney. $10 / Signed available, please inquire
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Vassilis Zambaras IN CREDIBLE EVIDENCE / 2010. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. $8.95
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SIMON VINKENOOG poems: 1950-2006 / Translations by Gerard Bellaart, Frederique Berringer, Louise Landes Levi & Hans Plomp and afterword by Louise Landes Levi. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. $10
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JOSEPH MASSEY Mock Orange / 2010. A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. $8.95
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David Shapiro. "To THE EARTH or A LAST POEM". Love Thy Poet Spring Equinox 2010. Three color postcard poem.
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Walter Franceschi. A Good Idea. 2010 — A three color fold-out booklet of poems with wrap around band. $7.95
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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, translated by Mark Terrill. Under Glass. 2010 — In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed by the translator Mark Terrill and unsigned editions. $7.95 / Signed available, please inquire
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Marcia Roberts. Collagraphs. 2010 — In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / Signed available, please inquire
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ANNOUNCING ~ JIM CARROLL
by
TOM CLARK
cover photograph by Mary K.Greer
"A poet departs, too soon, and there is a void that will not be filled. From somewhere deep and old the tears well up in the dark night.
When I met Jim in 1967 he was seventeen. He had been leading a triple life: high school All-American basketball star, heroin addict/ street hustler, poet."
The above is from Tom Clark's wee memoir of Jim Carroll newly published from Longhouse for the Spring Equinox 2010. With photographs by Bill Berkson, Mary K. Greer, and Beatrice Murch.
In glossy photographic wraps, hand sewn in four colors. Ready to be slipped into your back pocket, or anyone's.
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Tom Clark's Jim Carroll is now available from -
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Tom Clark was born in Chicago 1941. Man of letters in poetry, prose, biography and the fine art of proper blogging — see: Beyond the Pale.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, he then attended Cambridge University and University of Essex before returning to the United States in 1967. A long time resident of the American west, he makes his home with Angelica in Berkeley, California. This is Tom's second Longhouse publication along with Single - Longhouse, 2009.
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Ed Markowski. A Chinese Box. 2010 — In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $20
Dudley Laufman. Sycthing. 2010 — In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $20
Gloria Frym. Mind Over Matter. 2010 — In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $20
Daniel Smith. Fatherland. 2010 — New poems from this midwest farmer & poet detailing generations of hardwork and earned abilities, plus pulling up stakes from one long term family farm in Illinois for Wisconsin. In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $20
Bob Arnold. In A Cabin, In A Wood. 2010 — Well over a dozen new poems from the Vermont countryside of daily chores and everlasting love. In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $20
Bob Arnold. Villa of Souls. 2010 — A foldout portfolio of Bob Arnold's stonework and photographs from a back woodlot in Vermont. A continuation of his earlier book on stone-building On Stone. This portrait holds both photographs and poems by the poet. In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $10 / signed $20
Bob Arnold. More Questions. 2009 — a book for children or the child in the adult, asking the simplest questions often best left unasnwered. In three-color showcase, handmade edition. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $15 / signed $30
John Levy. Research Regarding Poetry and Driving. 2010
A half dozen new prose poems, some first published in U.K., (Stride) and here at Longhouse on the Longhouse Birdhouse. In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $20
Tom Clark. Single. 2009
A tall three-color foldout folio of new poems by Tom, many drawn by the poet from his blog Tom Clark: Beyond the Pale. A union truly between the screen appearance and paper edition. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95
Austin Smith. Instructions For HowTo Put An Old Horse Down. 2009
A tall three-color folio of new poems. Austin Smith was born and raised on a family farm in Illinois. The son of the poet Daniel Smith, Austin has had two publications issued from Longhouse: Wheat & Distance and Instructions for How to Put An Old Horse Down. The family have recently moved their good work and farm chores to rural Wisconsin. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $20
Bob Arnold. What Is October. 2009
One poem - 4 1/4 x 6, three-color card, celebrating a season. Ideal for posting or framing. $7.95 / signed $15
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Rebel Shoes: a valentine
I am only handsome as you
are lovely. I am the djinn
of your heart. We are smart
set of two, a pair of aces, couple
jivin' fools, gifted in the hard art
of going dancing by car.
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Guy Birchard. Cigarette Cards. 2009
Eighteen new poems by Guy in this accordion fold-out, three color chaplet with wrap around band. Signed and unsigned editions. $10.00 / signed $25
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MY POEMS
Full of shit
you say?
Buddhists say
mud / mire
of lake's bottom
gives lotus its flower. |
Jonathan Greene. Feed The Lotus. 2009
A dozen new poems by Jonathan in this accordion fold-out, three color chaplet with wrap around band. Unsigned editions & signed. $10.00 / signed $25
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from CLAIR DE LUNE
Might makes right. The music escapes its plot.
Story's tyranny surrenders to a lush chromatic swoon.
An end to civilizations as we know them.
Thank god! Already (and only late spring)
the light belongs to summer.
Where thereis a way
there is a will.
daode jing
Not anything moonligt speaks of.
Not the dead. Hillside
at dusk flattens and rises.
No more landscape than pattern.
No more pattern than content.
No more content than form.
No more form than fondness.
(continued...)
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Thomas Meyer. Vespers & Clair de Lune. 2009
A tall three-color foldout folio of new poems by Thomas Meyer, two long poems shimmering. There are both signed and unsigned editions. 7.95 / signed $20
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Protein residue occurs
on 83 knife, flint, & axe edges,
oh the falcons hang,
13,000 years
above a smoky blue cache
what animals the tools scraped,
teb-iinis broken horn
wox niiinon bear teepee
but those peaks there, no, never,
'it is never summer there.'
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Andrew Schelling. from the Arapaho Songbook. 2009
A dozen new poems by Andrew, drawn from a longer work-in-progress, in this accordion fold-out, three color chaplet with wrap around band. Signed and unsigned editions. $10.00 / signed $20
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Jason Clark. Abandoned Kingdoms 1-6. 2009.
Jason's artist notebook of abandoned tree houses from the northern woods —
six portraits on fold-out leaf with the artist's text, and one poem by Bob Arnold. Limited edition. $7.95. Signed $20
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soft owl calls in dawn snow just
so & snow calling dawn owls in
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the pond's interior has two herons
inside I swim slow air
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leaves still on the tree wind mooching
as far as they're able I'm rooted here |
Gerry Loose. Starworks. 2009.
Gerry on his houseboat, wood's trail, or town walk blown this way from Scotland —
double leaf catch of many many poems. Limited edition $10.00. Signed $25
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sunrise –
a moth that didn't get
out of the room
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within hearing —
new leaves
a day older
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which star
—
which star
further |
Gary Hotham. Sand Over Sand. 2009.
Whether Maryland, Germany, Norway, small poems go with Gary —
this single leaf foldout of a dozen new poems. Limited edition. $8.95. Signed $25
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HONOR
let me tell you one thing about suicide
if a loved one has the guts or the heartbreak
to pull this off, you better have the same to
say this is how it all ended
even if you argue with her or him in your mind
every day as you bake bread
rake leaves
drive to work
return library books
tie your shoes
walk a cross walk
mail a letter
split wood
and try to sing in the shower again
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Bob Arnold, My Sweetest Friend. 2009
A triple brochure wrap of 38 poems as one-long-poem tribute, concerning the sudden loss of an older sister who was once a close childhood friend.Signed. $30
Bill Porter. The Great Kashgar Bus Convoy. (Longhouse, 2009)
Prose. This account has been edited from a series of 280 two-minute programs on the Silk Road Bill Porter wrote and produced for an English-language radio station in Hong Kong in 1992. We are happy to share this publication with Kyoto Journal. As a translator of ancient Chinese text, Bill Porter is also known as Red Pine. Tall, double three-color booklets in wrap around band. Signed and unsigned. Very limited signed editions available. Unsigned $10 / Signed $30
Philip Rowland, someone one once ran away with
Fold-out booklet of poems in blue wrapper with wrap around band. $8.95 / Signed $20
[please visit A Longhouse Birdhouse posting Monday, August 17, 2009 for more information]
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I’ve lived my whole life by rivers and seas, and for thirty-five years on the shores of my love for Kristine. Hence the title of this book: “Bodies of Water.” Love poems to Kristine which contain water imagery and poems to rivers, to oceans... Like a river, this small fold-out book begins with a little fold and extends into a serpentine whole—a ribbon of words. For me water gathers all, especially my love for my soul mate, my muse, my wife and lover, Kristine, with whom I’ve shared, for thirty-five years, the presence of rivers and oceans - the Amazon, the Hillsborough, the Hudson, the Piraí, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean.
The love poems in this book are taken from a longer book I am selecting of love poems to Kristine, written over these many years and to this day. My love for Kristine was so private, so intimate, that I was inhibited from publishing them, but I have realized how absurd it is to be shy about something so central to my being. Plus, our children are old enough to read about the physical passion I have for their mother!
In love and poetry,
Nicomedes
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Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz, Bodies of Water
Love poems and poems of rivers 15 new poems by this poet from the Amazon. One of our largest fold out booklets $15 / Signed $30
Ira Cohen, God’s Mirror / White Poem
Two poem fold out booklet "I woke this morning from a dream..." in wild paisley wrap, one of a kind. Unsigned $12.95 / Signed $40
Abdulqâder Bidel, BIDEL’S RUBÁIÁT
Adaptations by Robin Magowan
14 poems adapted by Robin Magowan from the world and mind of Abdulqâder Bidel (1644-1721) in colored wraps, Tibetan and silkscreen variations. Unsigned. $10 / signed by the translator $25
John Levy, Jimmy's Girlfriends and His Late Mother
In the world of law and order comes this John Levy short story presented as tandem booklet in wrap around band. Very limited. Signed edition $20
Bob Arnold, On Which~Way Trail
Love poems from the woods and the trail. 24 poems wrapped in a variation of handmade covers and endpapers. All with a bent toward different centuries. Very limited and handmade. Unsigned $15 / Signed $20
John Levy, The Nightest
The largest Longhouse foldout possible, many sheets of twenty poems selected by Bob Arnold and designed in three color tucked into two varied papers, heavy grassland and brown batik. Signed and unsigned wrap around bands. Unsigned $15 / Signed $25
Rene Daumal, Memorables
Three color foldout booklet of one long poem Memorables translated by Louise Landes Levi tucked into sky blue papers with signed by the translator and unsigned wrap around band. Unsigned $8.95 / Signed $25
Rafael Cadenas, from Lover
14 poems by the Venezzuelan poet Rafael Cadenas and translated by the British native Rowena Hill. Foldout three color sheets in red sky in the morning papers with signed and unsigned wrap around bands. Unsigned $10 / Signed $30
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PATHS INTO THE SHADOW-RUT
of your hand.
From the four-finger-furrow
I root out
petrified blessing |
Paul Celan. A Handful of Sleep Seed. Translated by Cal Kinnear.
New translations by Cal Kinnear of the wondrous German-speaking poet and one of the major European voices of the 20th century. Paul Celan was born Paul Ancel in Romania in 1920 who lost both his parents in extermination camp World War II. Celan escaped but was in a labor camp until 1944. He took of the study of German literature after settling in Paris in 1948 which remained his home until his suicide (drowning) in 1970. His influence on world poetry has been resonating ever since.
Three color fold-out accordian booklet stuffed with poems With decorative wrap around band. $10 / Signed by the translator $25
Paul Celan. "Voices"
A Longhouse postcard poem of Paul Celan translated by Cal Kinnear, part of the Longhouse Love Thy Poet More & More...! series. Three color. 4-1/4 x 6. $10
Andy Clausen. The Old Wobbly's Prayer.
A worker's song for these troubled CEO-thieving economic times - Andy Clausen speaks to the spirit of good will. Part of the Longhouse Love Thy Poet More & More...! series. Three color. 4-1/4 x 6. $10
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HOLLY
the robin
in the tall shiny
tree
a big plump
wind-fluffed
berry |
Hanne Bramness. Winter Flowers ~
2009. A companion volume to Flower Pieces by Hanne Bramness published by Longhouse. These near dozen new poems from Norway, translated by the author and Frances Presley. Fold-out format in rose wraps, many colored with band. 10 / signed $20
Bob Arnold. Cup. Longhouse 2009. Many new poems from a winter ice-age. Handmade and handbound in johnny jump-ups stiff wraps. This many-colored sequence is limited to 50 signed copies. $20
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I tell the truth,
there's no doubt about it -
whoever takes the life of another creature
goes the dark
road to hell. |
Andrew Schelling, translator. Dadu (1544-1604). 2009. Born in Ahmedabad. Called Dadu Dhayal (the Compassionate), He was a cotton-carder, an occupation in which low-caste Hindus lived at close quarters with Muslims. His Sakhis owe much to Kabir and other North Indian poets. In sparkle gold wraps, many color fold-out with wrap around band. $10 / signed $15
Stephen Lewandowski. Meeting the Bear. 2009. A Longhouse flip-up booklet. One poem. May be framed or carried in shirt pocket $8.95
Louise Landes Levi. word on the street.
2009. Itinerant poet Louise Landes Levi cries out from the street a poem of THOU SHALL NOT KILL to Israel and Hamas in this one long poem fold-out tipped into violet with wrap around band. New and limited. $8.95 / signed $15
Ryokan. I Pass Through This World
Four Seasons of Poetry - 47 poems to be exact - all translated by Dennis Maloney. Longhouse, 2009. Many colored fold-put booklet in golden sleeve. Limited $10
Bob Arnold, Glade
- from a woodcutter's notebook. Longhouse 2009. This sheaf of poems of work and love, Many colored fold-out booklet wrapped in leaf sleeve with wrap around band. $10 / $15 signed Limited
Pell Tanner. The Poems I Really Love.
Longhouse, 2009. Introduction by Chinese scholar and poet JP Seaton. 21 poems with a deep chinese influence. Many colored fold-out booklet in Asian screen print sleeve. $15
Andrew Schelling,
Lal Ded,
b. 1320, Kashmir
Just short
of a dozen translated poems that suggest a deep allegiance to
the Kashmiri form of Siva worship, in foldout chaplet style and
bound in elegant screenprint wraps with textual band. $15
Siimon Petkovich,
Forests
of Clarity
Siimon is
not a typo but a real one, heritage part Croatian/part Australian
and brought forth here in a 19 poem booklet to announce the Longhouse
new year of 2009. $8.95
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Whit Griffin,
Wanhope
: certainly
native spiritual and maybe supernatural poems of the earth To
feel so much despair amid / this beauty is a curse. Wondrous
chapbook clutch of poems wrapped in bled blue papers
$10 / very
limited signed $15 |
Wanhope
To feel so much despair
amid
this beauty is a curse. A laugh
over roasting meat, one stranger
with another. Joyous in the promise
of peaceful death; no more hovering
over cold fire.
Why won't this damn stone
speak?
You can look at a newly
sprouted pea
and imagine there is a creator behind
it. But all you find is dirt and water.
On the road to Ophir,
gallant in deceitful
sunlight. Proof of a lost cause. The useless
thought of sitting for a portrait. No one
should know what we looked like.
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the quiet garden
is green
and looks out on blue
leaning on the slope
it inclines to the sea
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Thomas A Clark,
The
Quiet Garden
: the fourth
Longhouse booklet by one of Scotland's finest ~ cut glass poems
as silent as they come.
$8.95 / very
limited signed $15 |
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Michael Mauri,
Florida
Turnips
: forester
and poet Michael Mauri spins a true tale of western Massachusetts
nuclear power and resistance through historical, imaginary and
real figures. One long poem folded up into Bodhi leaf wraps
$12 / very
limited signed $15 |
FLORIDA
TURNIPS
(Monroe and Florida,
Massachusetts)
Lunchtime, hanging with
the NUKE-lear crew
beer and a paper-plate of potato chips
at Pixie's Depot hoping-no
dust falls-out on me
talking on background
radiation, show
you their film-badge
cracker-jacks, sinister glow
iso-TOPE
bottom-shelf-liqueurs
a badge you can drink? A juke-box and backdrop
a turkey-hunting video
on the TV screens
women start unzipping jeans
on their way to the restroom
a man orders six or seven beers;
things are pretty casual around here.
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QUESTION
In your eyes, child,
I saw the question you could not
speak either, the question you fled from
with movements cut out of happy days you had never seen
only inherited from the vast darkness beneath us
Your joy that resembled weeping, jumps and leaps
resembling a landslide
of light and voices, small as you were
You ran in and out of rooms
with energy that never dwindled
I saw in your eyes, child,
pain that you did not know
anything about, howls you pushed millimeters away
edges of drops you balanced on, vacantly. How
could I imagine a way into your
submarine forests of grass
or meet you
in cold, uninitiated cathedrals
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Lars Amund Vaage, The Institution Poems
: the Norwegian novelist and
poet's second collection with us - facing the hardships and duties
of a loved one. Many poems wrapped up into royal papers. $15
/ very
limited signed $20 |
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Gerald Hausman,
Bokeelia
: from coastal
Florida, hidden away with turtles, lizards and moon filled ponds,
comes this poet's first book of poems in twenty years. A lot
of poems tucked up and away in this seaside beauty
$10 / very
limited signed $15 |
Meeting
Geronimo at Dunkin Donuts
The guy sitting next
to me looks
like Geronimo.
We drink our coffee, in silence.
Black no sugar no cream.
He turns to me, "Who's your favorite conductor?"
"Railroad?" I ask.
"Symphony, man."
"I don't know."
He says, "For me, Ormandy,
Fiedler, Leinsdorf, Ozawa."
I tell him: "I stood next to Seiji Ozawa, once."
His eyebrows raise. "Yeah, what'd he look like?"
"Small, intense, nice hair."
"You ever see Ormandy?"
"I lived down the street from him."
"Yeah, what's he look like?"
"Old man in a heavy overcoat."
We sip black coffee, in silence.
He says, "You see Ormandy, tell him I said hello."
"Ormandy's dead."
"No, way. He's still trodding the earth
just like Geronimo."
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Rose
In every garden there
is a rose
like the red mouth of a child
forming words to itself
or a kind smile
which lacks intent
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Hanne Bramness, Flower Pieces
: from Norway, the flowers
and one poet there. We think an absolute gem. Many poems folded
up into fern etched wraps
$10 / very limited signed $20 |
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Bob Arnold, the gardener says...
: one long poem of many small
poems - really for children, or the one in you - folded all up
into actual flower petaled handmade papers
$10 / very limited signed $15 |
hours before the rain
you walk out into the gardens
dreamy, as if something is coming
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Music
& poetry, Sarasvati has two breasts
One's sweet at first sip
the other, well, you need to
chew it a while. |
Andrew Schelling / Anonymous,
from
the Sanskrit
:in the morning mail one day
came these two new translation surprises from the ancient lovers
by Andrew, and by the afternoon we had the little booklet sized
up and printed pretty, and he had copies back in Colorado in
a day or two giving them away, the only way
$10 |
Cid Corman, The Next One Thousand
Years
The Selected
Poems and Translations of this internationally acclaimed poet,
translator, and editor of the seminal journal Origin - edited
by Ce Rosenow & Bob Arnold, Longhouse, 2008. 224 pages. $15
(plus s/h). Distribution exclusively through Longhouse
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Pir
Zia Inayat-Khan &
Peter Lamborn Wilson
GHAZAL
FROM THE
DIVAN-I GHALIB
1
Surely not every lovely
face has been revealed
in
tulip or rose. There must
be at least a few still sealed
in
dust.
3
The Daughters of Atlas
modestly veil themselves all day
their
nakedness hid by light:
so whence this lewd display
by
night?
12
If I approach her door,
then how could I retort
to
the insults she'll unleash? -
my prayers all spent on the porter
as
bakhsheesh! |
 
Wilson, Peter Lamborn and Pir
Zia Inayat-Khan. Ghazal
from the Divan-i Ghalib.
Fine firebrand red with floating cloud band. Three color fold-out
booklet. No one's like Peter Lamborn Wilson to yesterday into
today, exquisite selection of poems here. New and limited. $10
or / Signed $15 |
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Walter Franceschi Little Satori. Fine kidding paper wraps with floating
cloud band. Three color fold-out booklet.The Italian poets first
book! New and limited. $8.95 |
Walter
Franceschi
Little
Satori
CHINA IN THE
EARLY MORNING
I have just been in China
for a space of time as long
as it has taken two Chinese
girls to walk past me.
LITTLE
SATORI
Beauty
is a sudden
thing.
GREAT
BRITAIN IN FLORENCE AFTER A RAINY DAY
on a damp sidewalk
in the process of drying
a
Great-Britain-shaped spot |
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Bob
Arnold
Dream Come True
CONTAGIOUS
Just the way your loose
Hair sweeps your cheek
Loosens me
SUNLIGHT
Doesn't it feel like it is
There for you when you
Sit in the room with it
NOTORIOUS
He's the town crazy
And we've been in town only five seconds
And he's found us
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Bob Arnold. Dream Come True
20 fold-out poems wrapped in
Japanese handmade iris paper in Lokta band. An expanded edition
from the tel-let 2001. More poems and one correction! Signed
$15 |
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Forrest Gander, translator. Three Spanish Poets ~ Marcos
Canteli, Carlos Pardo, Elena Medel
Forrest Gander has assembled three young
Spanish poets born between 1974 and 1985, all who have published
internationally with books or in anthologies. We offer here a
fine selection from all three poets translated by the poet Forrest
Gander, English text. Brown bark wraps with decorative wrap around
band. $10. |
Three
Spanish Poets
Marcos Canteli Carlos Pardo Elena Medel
Translated
by Forrest Gander
Elena
Medel ~ from
Tara
The Kids
Who Die
The kids who die
can choose between jumping during the day on lovely
concrete
beds or eating the sheets really slowly
with
their eyes closed, blissful.
The privilege of flannel. Two hundredth parts of fear
for
letting go of their hand: along the avenue they clutch
for the tips of my fingers, nipping at me, Mama.
Already my legs are shot and I sing in an undertone, looking
for
a
place near my father, so they fall together with me
before
entering the house.
What a blast in the vestibule: I'm so mellow, I couldn't die.
I have friends without dreams or pajamas. They smell the coming
festival and convert their thermometers
into a good night song, and they've died and nevertheless,
they put equal faith in January and in the windows, in the voice
of
snow.
Life's like that for kids who die. Cushy. Pretty
sweet.
Such a pleasure, extinguishing childhood |
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Hoa
Nguyen
What Have You
THE
PROBLEM
The problem with the
lights and the
smell of apples rotting
sliced apples
I put into the lights
cleaning them out
in order to see better not
a good spot
for apples
I talked to the invasive
tree
how to replace China Berry Poison
ivy
Running bamboo humans Literally
knocking it over crack
the big limb
how to restore as
in the children's book
looking for the ordinary snortle pig
plants animals
and homes equally numbered
Peed in the backyard long
black skirt
to mark this mine
I talked to the tree pee
smell
for raccoons and possum natives
Death is the return to
the mother
return to the wet place
Our local creek: Boggy
my fear of it stagnant
smell trash
and rats nesting
lesser herons rocks
and
bottle tops
Water sample August 4,
2006
North Boggy Creek at Airport Blvd.
Nitrate 2.08 BAD
Phosphate .07 POOR
Sinking reading
of massive phyto-plankton
& algae bloom
Hypoxic zone Gulf
of Mexico dead zone
Sized larger than New Jersey
August Perseids seen
from the stoop |
Hoa Nguyen. What Have You, 2008
A fat booklet of new poems
by Hoa - one of our largest booklets to date. 3 fold-out scroll
sheets tucked up into lovely Asian screenprint with cloud wrap
around band. Both unsigned and signed editions. Unsigned $15.95
/ Signed $25
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Mark Terrill.
Superabundance
A native of
California and former merchant seaman who has been writing, translating
and scraping by in Europe since the early 1980s. We offer here
a sheaf of nine new poems in pumpkin wraps with decorative band.
$10 |
Mark
Terrill
Superabundance
A POEM
FOR THE REAR GUARD
Along about the time
freedom
became a product
and
war
the currency with which
that product could
allegedly
be
purchased
the gypsies
packed up their things
and
hit the road
and the dust
kicked up by their horses
slowly
settled
on the tables outside
the Café des Despotes
where this poem
was
found
scrawled on a
wine-stained tablecloth
in the crepuscular evening
of one of the last days
on
earth. |
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Nicolas
Born
The Bill for Room
11
Translated
from the German by Mark Terrill
Landscape
with Large Car
With such a large car
we have to get through
dead or
alive
in back of the neck music
which
never stops
sweet air of Montana bitter air of Missouri
our
coats flap as though we were on the run
we tank up
dogcatchers
roam about
us in the side glances of the cowboys
us in the generous shadow of an airplane
us outside the line of fire in Chicago
we
shake William Fulbright's hand
we
ghost through Arkansas
we visit the grave of a poet during our lifetime
green all around with just a tinge of yellow
the demonstration runs in the flames of Phoenix
we are a point which moves itself westwards
we are not Americans
but
belong to them
a sheriff forces us to stop
no we haven't picked up any black hitchhiker
we are not horse thieves albeit Germans
our politeness is the politeness of foreigners
we're
moving faster
we mean we're roaring
wrapped
up in sweet air
and in a music that never stops
we
get old very slowly
many thanks Pentagon
for this statistical delay-effect |
Nicolas Born.
The
Bill for Room 11
A fine selection
of poems from this 20th century German master translated by Mark
Terrill in violet wraps with double-sided printed wrap around
band. $10 |
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Dale Smith. Wild Chickens. Fine orange or leather color wraps
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latest selection of poems! New and limited. $8.95 / Signed $15
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Dale
Smith
Wild
Chickens
Such
a Blue
Branches break the sky
with pagan stillness.
Sap
moves. The wood's
nodes
will spread
into
summer mulberry.
There are so many things
alive
right now
in
the ancient sunlight.
Listen to grackles.
Listen to song birds
and
their sudden shifts
of attention.
Such
a blue goes far
beyond
their limbs. |
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Anne
Waldman
Mammalian
the tree is the
repository
its aspen leaves turn yellow
the tray is the mesa
civilization
is laceration
the hurricane is relentless
the masters are exposed
the light is
your discourse
the globe will be ablaze
the horizon travels
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Anne Waldman. Mammalian. Longhouse (late 2007). Handbag pink
Lokta wraps with floating cloud band. Three color fold-out booklet.
Poems short & absorbing found world-wide with this traveler
along the trail. New and limited. $12.95 / Signed $15
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Han Shan / Translations by
J. P. Seaton / art by Jerome Seaton My Home's A Hole. Fine and bright with Lokta band. Three color
extensive fold-out booklet in Bodha leaf paper. New and limited.
A pattern of poems by the Cold Mountain legend with commentary
by noted Chinese scholar and poet J. P. Seaton. $15 or / Signed
$20 |
Han Shan ~ My Home's A Hole
Translations
by J. P. Seaton
I
My father and mother
were thrifty, hard workers.
The grain fields, the vegetable plots they left me,
are good as any man's.
My wife keeps the loom click-clacking,
My boy can goo-goo with the best.
I can clap the time for the flowers to dance to,
or just sit and listen to the birds when they sing.
And who should come by from time to time
to sigh their admiration?
The woodcutters do!
~ This poem gets a little extra buzz
from the fact that the woodcutter was a heroic legendary figure
among Taoists and other romantic folks seeking the joys of rural
retirement, maybe because he is free, self employed as a provider
of a renewable resource that everyone always needs (for cooking,
heating, tool making and building). The new farmer Han Shan proudly
claims a place in their company here. Pretty soon we'll watch
Han Shan the Romantic back to the earther discover that farming
involves a lot of hard work and a whole lot more good luck than
woodcutting. Maybe the farmer Han Shan knew all this, and his
persona here is meant to set us up to suffer the inevitable hard
times that will soon come hangin' 'round his cabin door.
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Simon
Pettet
FEAST
OR FAMINE
A Spectre
for Brenda Coultas
My dear,
It's lovely to linger near
the scenes of the earth,
to be near,
to hear
what you have to say,
what pours forth ceaselessly
from your garrulous mouth(s)
in these latter days
(which we won't call these latter days!),
to scrutinize and survey
your glossolalia,
to see you
to see what you do
I'm here. |
Simon Pettet. Feast Or Famine. Fine winter sky blue with floating
cloud band. Three color fold-out booklet. Dance the day away
with a survivor's latest selection of poems. New and limited. $8.95.
Signed $15 |
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Cid Corman, Karmal Fudge Or Just
Plain Sludge
Based on Bhatrihari, edited
from the unpublished OF, volumes four and five, by Bob Arnold,
literary executor for Cid Corman. New in roaring red Lokta paper,
three color throughout accordion wraps in decorative wrap around
band. $10
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Cid
Corman
KARMAL FUDGE OR
JUST PLAIN SLUDGE
4.
Do your damnedest
you aint done nothin' yet.
10.
Poet - let
the words you have lived
give life to others
and you will have lived
beyond all other
poetry.
14.
Fools and sages
learn to put up
with each other
best silently. |
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Mariah Fox. i am i
Fold-out with text by the artist
of six original color paintings. Subject matter ranging from
Andy Warhol to Basquiat, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison and others.
Two editions unsigned in tan wraps with wrap around band and
signed in turquoise Lokta wraps with wrap around band. Unsigned
$7.95 / Signed $12
Bob Arnold. 'birches'. Flip-up booklet. New and limited. Signed $12
Arnold,
Bob, editor ~ Origin,
Sixth Series The Complete Issues, Quartet and the Coda ~ Longhouse, 2008 First edition / CD-Rom E-book
Origin Sixth Series quartet & Coda (five issues in all) published
as a PDF e-book on CD with nearly 250 contributors and a whalloping
1,700 colorful pages of poetry, prose, art and photographs. After
nearly a year of free reading of the series from our website,
now is your chance to own your own copy. Poetry / Anthology /
CD-Rom E-book 29572 : $20 (+ $2.50 s/h)
Please have a look and see
if this beauty can fit into your teaching plans, as well as a
title to interest friends, colleagues and all libraries. We'd
love it if other poets, readers & teachers took up the CD
anthology as a companion.
System requirements: the PDF
files with high quality resolution best read with Adobe Acrobat
Reader 5.0 or later version / Windows with Autorun capability
/ Mac users please first link to Origin-Introduction.pdf for
bookmark navigation / Table of Contents now with bookmark links
Decorative CD in C-Pak
To avoid confusion amongst
the purists, we have prepared ORIGIN, Sixth Series as a tribute
to Cid Corman. No one in his right mind is attempting to do Origin
the way Cid would. Impossible. For a rousing history of Origin,
please read A Gist of Origin edited by Cid Corman.
This sixth series is a four-issue
Origin-set that leafed out during the Spring months of 2007,
culminating with a 'coda' issue in December. It is the very last
of Origin, ever.
A small part of this series
had Cid Corman's personal touch ~ in particular, some of the
feature poets names chosen. After Cid's passing, poets were then
gathered by editor Bob Arnold as more a celebration to poetry
and for Cid. It has became a leafy canopy of many poets from
around the world ~ ancients to the remarkably young ~ and all
of the set is published as a PDF file. It's meant to read on
the screen, and more, to be now shared as an e-book on CD.
shed in attractive printed booklets available from our press.
The Origin set reaches 1,700
pages, with 250 artists & poets strong.
Origin Poets & Artists:
Dobree Adams ~ Rae Armantrout
~ Bob Arnold / Origin Feature 1~ Carson Arnold ~ Susan Arnold
~ Ed Baker ~ Amiri Baraka ~ Jeffery Beam ~ Franco Beltrametti
~ Jan Bender ~ John Bennett ~ Sophia Bentinck ~ Carol Berge ~
Romulo Bernardo / trans. Janine Pommy Vega ~ Guy Birchard ~ Kevin
Bowen ~ John Bradley / Cheng Hui ~ Hanne Bramness ~ Alan Brilliant
~ Rolf Brinkmann ~ David Brinks ~ Maggie Brown ~ Pam Brown ~
David Budbill ~ Clifford Burke ~ Bobby Byrd ~ Alex Caldiero ~
Alvaro Cardona-Hine ~ Hayden Carruth ~ Sean Casey ~ Beth Chasse
~ David-Baptist Chirot ~ Cid Corman Letters to Judith Binder
~ Cid Corman Letters to Louise Landes Levi ~ Carson Cistulli
~ Laurie Clark ~ Thomas A. Clark ~ Andy Clausen ~ Steve Clay
~ Ira Cohen ~ Marcel Cohen / trans. Cid Corman ~ Jack Collom
~ Rita Corbin ~ Cid Corman ~ Shizumi Corman ~ Arlene Corwin ~
Robert Creeley ~ Simon Cutts ~ Rene Daumal ~ Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
~ Jim Dodge ~ Kim Dorman ~ Ray Drew ~ Reidar Ekner ~ Theodore
Enslin / Origin Archive ~ Rita degli Esposti / trans. by Coco
Gordon ~ George Evans ~ Clive Faust ~ Alec Finlay ~ Ian Hamilton
Finlay / Origin Archive Feature ~ Dennis Formento ~ Walter Franceschi
~ Gloria Frym ~ Forrest Gander / translations of Marcos Canteli,
Carlos Pardo & Elena Medel ~ Megan M. Garr ~ Jacqueline Gens
~ Sergio Geyda / trans. George Evans & Daisy Zamora ~ Man
Giac / trans. Kevin Bowen ~ David Giannini ~ Michael Gizzi ~
Peter Gizzi ~ Jesse Glass ~ Lyle Glazier ~ Charles Goodrich ~
Kirpal Gordon ~ Elio Grasso / Franco Beltrametti ~ Sam Green
~ Jonathan Greene ~ Sam Grolmes ~ Sam Hamill ~ Marie Harris ~
Caroline Hartge ~ Terry Hauptman ~ Gerald Hausman ~ Kris Hemensley
~ David Hess ~ Michael Hettich ~ David Hinton / Wei Ying-wu ~
Mikhail Horowitz ~ Gary Hotham ~ Kuan Hsiu / trans. J. P. Seaton
~ Stefan Hyner ~ Brenda Iijima ~ Erling Inreeide ~ Lisa Jarnot
~ Tom Jay ~ Brooks Johnson ~ Kent Johnson ~ Greg Joly ~ Hettie
Jones ~ George Kalamaras ~ Lenore Kandel ~ Yoshie Kaneiri ~ Eliot
Katz ~ Judy Katz-Levine ~ Cralan Kelder ~ Miyazawa Kenji / trans.
Gerald Hausman & Kenji Okuhira ~ Miyazawa Kenji / trans.
Hiroaki Sato ~ Kit Kennedy ~ Bill Knott ~ James Koller ~ Richard
Kostelanetz ~ Mark Kuniya ~ Joanne Kyger ~ John Latta ~ Alan
Lau ~ Dudley Laufman ~ Gary Lawless ~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Joseph
Lease ~ Louise Landes Levi ~ John Levy ~ Chung Ling ~ Khong Lo
/ trans. Kevin Bowen ~ Ron Loewinsohn ~ Gerard Malanga ~ Jerry
Martien ~ Stephen-Paul Martin ~ John Martone / Origin Feature
3 ~ Joseph Massey ~ Sebastian Matthews ~ Farid Matuk ~ Michael
Mauri ~ Howard McCord ~ Duncan McNaughton ~ Tim McNulty ~ Nora
Mehrhoff ~ Charlie Mehrhoff / Origin Feature 2 ~ Yuan Mei / trans.
J. P. Seaton ~ Richard Meltzer ~ Henri Michaux / trans. Cid Corman
~ David Miller ~ Sabine Miller ~ Billy Mills ~ Peter Money ~
Tom Montag ~ Barbara Moraff ~ Giuseppe Moretti ~ Sheila Murphy
~ Eileen Myles ~ Vivek Narayanan ~ Hoa Nguyen / Origin Feature
4 ~ Lorine Niedecker / Origin Archive ~ Mike O'Connor ~ Mike
/ Hermit-Sage Tradition O'Connor / Hermit-Sage Tradition ~ Josip
Osti / trans. Barbara Subert ~ Maureen Owen ~ Richard Owens ~
Ron Padgett ~ Shin Yu Pai ~ Ethan Paquin ~ Jenny Penberthy ~
Omar Perez Lopez / trans. Kristin Dykstra & Nick Lawrence
~ John Perlman ~ Will Petersen ~ Stephen Petroff ~ Simon Pettet
~ Denis Philippe / trans. Cid Corman ~ Janos Pilinszky / trans.
Cid Corman ~ Plucked Chicken / Origin Archive ~ Verandah Porche
~ Meredith Quartermain ~ Peter Quartermain ~ Jerry Reddan ~ Tangram
~ Peter Riley ~ Marcia Roberts ~ Elizabeth Robinson ~ Janet Rodney
~ Martin Jack Rosenblum ~ Ce Rosenow ~ Michael Rothenberg ~ Gail
Roub ~ Philip Rowland ~ Eero Ruuttila ~ Albert Saijo ~ Nanao
Sakaki ~ Frank Samperi ~ Edward Sanders ~ Charles Sandy ~ Steve
Sanfield ~ Santoka / trans. Scott Watson ~ Aram Saroyan ~ Leslie
Scalapino ~ Andrew Schelling ~ Silke Scheuermann ~ George Schneeman
~ Maurice Scully ~ J. P. Seaton ~ Jerome Seaton ~ Fred Jeremy
(F. J.) Seligson ~ Sengai / trans. Cid Corman ~ Han Shan / trans.
J. P. Seaton ~ David Shapiro ~ Gail Sher ~ Kazuko Shiraishi /
trans. Yumiko Tsumura & Samuel Grolmes ~ Eleni Sikelianos
~ John Sinclair ~ Austin Smith ~ Daniel Smith ~ Patricia Smith
~ Dale Smith / Origin Feature 4 ~ Gary Snyder / Origin Archive
Feature ~ Clemens Starck ~ Rose Styron ~ Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz
~ John Suiter ~ Robert Sund ~ Arthur Sze ~ John Taggart ~ Ishii
Tatsuhiko / trans. Hiroaki Sato ~ Mark Terrill ~ Nguyen Quang
Thieu / trans. Kevin Bowen ~ Sophia Thor ~ Tony Tost ~ John Tranter
~ Tree Hugger ~ Yumiko Tsumura ~ Gael Turnbull ~ Lars Amund /
trans. Hanne Bramness Vaage ~ Blanca Varela / trans. Roberto
Tejada ~ Laki Vazakas ~ Janine Pommy Vega ~ John Vieira ~ Anne
Waldman ~ Catherine Walsh ~ Phyllis Walsh ~ Scott Watson ~ James
L. Weil ~ Michael Dylan Welch ~ Robert West ~ Philip Whalen /
Origin Archive ~ J. D. Whitney ~ Wild Hawthorn Press / Origin
Archive ~ Peter Lamborn Wilson / Pir Zia Inayat-Khan ~ Laura
Winter ~ Jane Wodening ~ Peter Yovu ~ Daisy Zamora ~
Longhouse 2007 titles
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. $10 / One of only 24, very limited
signed $20
Rae
Armantrout. Concentrate
Three color fold out
accordion style booklet of new poems in texture wrap, with cloud
pattern wrap around band. $15.95 / One of 24 only, very limited
signed $30
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
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 $15
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. $12.95
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! $15
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. $10 / 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 :
~
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.
~
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.
~
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 th
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
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
Barbara
Moraff. "Vermont farm richly green". Longhouse 2007. Love Thy Poet 58. Three color postcard poem.
Limited edition. $10 postpaid.
~
Duncan
McNaughton. Insistence. Longhouse 2007. Love Thy Poet 57. Three color postcard poem.
Limited edition. $10 postpaid.
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