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Longhouse's BIBLIOGRAPHY 1971-2007! complete with editor Bob Arnold's annotations and a galaxy of press title images. Please visit! A 'continuing chalkboard' :

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Bibliography Part One 1971 - 1989 and Bibliography Part Two 1990 - 2006


 

A Longhouse Reader Summer 2008~ sharing a sample of our booklets published so far this year


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2008-2010 titles from Longhouse

2007 titles from Longhouse

updated February, 2010

 

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TOM CLARK, JANINE POMMY VEGA, CID CORMAN, DUDLEY LAUFMAN. BOB ARNOLD, ED MARKOWSKI, MARCIA ROBERTS

 

GLORIA FRYM

Gloria Frym. Mind Over Matter. 2010 — In three-color fold out performance. There are both signed and unsigned editions. $7.95 / signed $12.9

 

Daniel Smith

 

 

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 $15

 

In A Cabin

 

 

 

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 $15

 

 

Stone

 

 

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 $15

 

more questions

 

Bob Arnold. More Questions. 2010 — 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 $20

 

 

john levy 2009

 

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 $15

 

 

 

Tom Clark

 

 

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 / signed $15

 

 

 

Austin Smith

 

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 $15

 

 

 

Bob Arnold

 

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 $12

 

 

 

Guy Birchard

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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 $15

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Greene

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 / unsigned $15

 

 

 

 

Thomas Meyer

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...)

 

 

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 $15

 

 

 

 

Andrew Schelling

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.'

 

   

 

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 $15

 

 

~ also ~

 

jason clark jason clark 3 jason clark 2

 

 

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 $15

 

 

 

gerry loose

soft owl calls in dawn snow just

 

so & snow calling dawn owls in

 

 

 

~

 

 

 

the pond's interior has two herons

 

inside I swim slow air

 

 

 

~

 

 

 

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 $15

 

gary hotham

sunrise –

 

a moth that didn't get

 

out of the room

 

 

 

~

 

 

 

within hearing —

 

new leaves

 

a day older

 

 

 

~

 

 

 

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 $15

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Arnold MSF

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

 

 

 

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. $20

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Porter

 

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 $20

 

 

 

Rowland

 

 

 

Philip Rowland, someone one once ran away with

 

Fold-out booklet of poems in blue wrapper with wrap around band. $8.95 / Signed $15

[please visit A Longhouse Birdhouse posting Monday, August 17, 2009 for more information]

 

 

nicomedes

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

 

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 $20

 

 

ira cohen

 

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 $10 / Signed $20

 

 

 

robin magowan

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 $15

 

 

 

john levy jimmy

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 $15

 

bob arnold which

 

 

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 cover 1 John Levy cover 2

 

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 $20

 

Rene Daumal

 

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 $15

 

 

 

Rafael Cadenas

 

 

 

 

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 $25

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Celan

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 $15

 

 

 

 

Paul Celan Postcard

 

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. $8.95

 

 

 

 

Andy Clausen

 

 

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. $8.95

 

 

 

 

 

hanne bramness

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cup

 

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

 

 

 

 

Dadu

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

 

 

bear

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

 

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

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

 

 

glade

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

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





Authors & Titles Published by Longhouse

 
Since 1971

Longhouse has been working as one outfit incorporating the building trades of stone work and carpentry along with publishing limited edition books, pamphlets, broadsides, postcards and anthologies of poetry--nearly everything has been given away free. The idea of free is a good one, it disappears the capital structure and allows people to finally meet one another. Grants, subscriptions and all the rest will soon prove to be more nonsense than necessary for poetry--poets can't help themselves, they write poems all the time and read the books, many go to great lengths to beg, borrow or steal a book. That's a good sign. If a small press publisher wants to work hard, many dozens of books will be readily traded each year with other publishers. Instead of goofing for grants and becoming a bureaucrat and not feeling exactly honest, the small press publisher can learn a trade, teach, grow a larger garden, drive a cab. Real people still do this. Watch this: In 1985 Longhouse took steps to sell books as a mail-order bookseller. What we sold directly spring-fed back to what Longhouse wished to publish. We joined arms with good friend Cid Corman (Origin Press) in Japan and began working globally with poets and writers. Hardcase-backwoods-types, we never gave computers or internet access a thought until one day a friend brought us to cyber-earth and explained how booksellers in the middle of nowhere can sell books over the internet to China, England and Des Moines. In many ways the system has the age old romantic quality of bookselling and reading: someone (us) wrapping the book especially and a reader (you) receiving the book slipped out of the mailer and into your hands. Bullseye. This activity was once enjoyed only by eccentrics, scholars and island types, so hop aboard. It's a brave new world. --

Bob Arnold

[Poetry Project Newsletter February/March 1999]

 


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