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the meh of z z z z by Pam Brown
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Since 1971 Australian poet Pam Brown has published many books and chapbooks including Text thing (Little Esther Books, 2002), Dear Deliria and True Thoughts
(Salt Publishing, 2003 and 2008). She has also written for film and
theatre. She collaborated with Seattle-based Egyptian poet Maged Zaher
on a collection of poems called farout library software published by Tinfish Press in 2007. Her next book Authentic Local is due from Papertiger Media in 2010.
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has earned a living variously and, until recently, spent many years
thoroughly absorbed in the processes of classification and archiving at
a sciences library at the University of Sydney.
For five years, from 1997 until 2002, she was the poetry editor of the Australian literary quarterly Overland and currently co-edits Jacket magazine. She is also associated with HOW2 and Fulcrum
magazines. Born in Seymour Victoria, in her imagination Pam Brown lives
in Hellbourg, La Réunion, in real life she is currently doing time in
Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. She keeps a blog at thedeletions.blogspot.com (http://thedeletions.blogspot.com). |
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After Lolita by Cassandra Atherton
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present After Lolita by Cassandra L. Atherton. After Lolita is the twenty-seventh release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Cassandra Atherton is a writer, critic and balletomane from Victoria, Australia. She completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Her book, Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry, was published by Australian Scholarly press and she is currently revising Wise Guys: The Role and Responsibility of the Academic Public Intellectual in America for publication.
This book is based on her interviews with Professors Harold Bloom,
Camille Paglia, Stephen Greenblatt, Todd Gitlin, Howard Zinn and Noam
Chomsky, among many others. She is a lead interviewer for the University of California’s Writing on the Edge journal and a reviewer for the Italian journal Il Tolomeo. She is currently editing an Australian edition of the journal Ekleksographia.
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lectures at both The University of Melbourne and Deakin University in
Australian literature, Canonical Poetry, Literary Classics,
Romanticism, Modernism and Creative Writing. She has published extensively in Australian and American journals and her novel, The Man Jar, is being published later this year by Printed Matter Press. She is currently working on her second novel, Cherry Bomb, after being awarded the Felix Meyer Fellowship and traveling to Japan to research the floating world and roricon. She would like to return to Tokyo in the next few years to live and teach.
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2008, Cassandra married Dr Glenn Moore, a lecturer in American history
at The University of Melbourne, in Boston, Massachusetts. They live with their two ragdoll cats, Bellamy and Tallulah in Moonee Ponds.
Cassandra is obsessed with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Christian Louboutin
shoes, Alannah Hill dresses, cherry blossoms and Long Island Iced Teas. |
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The Heartbeat Is a Fractal by Amy Catanzano
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present The Heartbeat Is a Fractal by Amy Catanzano. The Heartbeat Is a Fractal is the twenty-sixth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Amy Catanzano is the author of Multiversal (Fordham University Press, 2009), selected by Michael Palmer for the Poets Out Loud Prize, and iEpiphany (Erudite Fangs, 2008). Her poetry and prose have been published in literary journals such as Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky, La Petite Zine, and Colorado Review. Her writing is also included in the anthology, A Best of Fence.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she works and teaches in the
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in
Boulder, Colorado. |
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Lost in Music Found Again by Peter Riley and Kelvin Corcoran
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present Lost in Music Found Again by Peter Riley and Kelvin Corcoran. Lost in Music Found Again is the twenty-fifth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Peter Riley was born in Stockport in 1940. He has had fifteen books published, mostly of poetry, the latest a
book of prose poems, Greek Passages (Shearsman 2009). A selected poems, Passing Measures, was published
by Carcanet in 2000. In 1985 he returned to Cambridge after a varied lack of career, and ran a poetry book
business until he retired in 2005.
Kelvin Corcoran was born in 1956. He is the author of ten collections of poetry, the most recent of which
is Backward Turning Sea. He also has two recent chapbooks: Helen Mania from Poetical Histories—a
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Recommendation—and Roger Hilton's Sugar from Leafe Press, both of which are collected in this publication.
In addition he has interviewed Lee Harwood for the volume Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee
Harwood, published in June 2008. |
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Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Turco
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Putnam Turco. Attic, Shed, and Barn is the twenty-fifth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Lewis Turco is the author of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics,
known to three generations of poets and students of poetry as “the
poet’s Bible.” He was founding director of both the Cleveland State
University Poetry Center in 1962 and the Creative Writing Program at
the State University of New York College at Oswego in 1968 from which
he retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1996. He took his B. A.
from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his M. A. from the
University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received a first honorary
degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University, and a second
in 2009 from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. His poems, essays,
stories and plays have appeared in most of the major literary
periodicals over more than a half-century, and in over one hundred
books and anthologies. Of his fifty books, chapbooks and monographs,
his volume of criticism, Visions and Revisions of American Poetry won the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986, and his A Book of Fears: Poems,
with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual
Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize in 1998. His most recent volumes areThe Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court 1953-2004; Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems, 1959-2007; The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories 2008; Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, and La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs,
both published in 2009. In 1999 he received the John Ciardi Award for
lifetime achievement in poetry sponsored by the periodical Italian Americana
and the National Italian American Foundation., and in 2007 the Robert
Fitzgerald Prosody Award given by the West Chester University Poetry
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