Hi all — while I’m working on getting a selection from Mark Spitzer’s newest Ahadada venture, Age of the Demon Tools, up on Ahadada Radio (Mark reads selections), I’m going to post the sell sheet here. Feel free to print off, post up and pass around! Would be much appreciated! Click here to download!

More soon!

Hi all! Just a quick note to let you know that Jesse and I will be working on posting up a couple of new projects this weekend. The first, Mark Spitzer’s newest bad-ass book, Age of the Demon Tools. Writes Skip Fox of Spitzer’s new book:

Triage of daily life and text, mines in the headlines, flat faced mutancy in the details of man’s folly and avarice, rapacity and ballsack confusion, set against an individual pastorale amid the cowpies, text addled by brush, “angry vines,” and “channel cats with mongo backs,” sluiced with wind and wave, in turn set against the maw of what increasingly seems to no longer exist, green world of birdsong, face of simple intention, word strong as bough, and so forth (and yet . . .). Text with an edge like a serial killer’s holiday in a target rich environment, the monkeyward of Washington, or the plains of Iraq and Afghanistan, corporate board rooms and city council meetings clotted with preening inanities in the form of the human, etc., the text’s language slick as a lineman’s clit, doffing a nod to the warbled wordexitry of Burgess and the wee ones who sleep in eaves, all woven with the witchery of electronic missives, condensing words to mush. Spitzer in battle-rut (Moloch panting beneath.)

—Skip Fox, author of At That

More today and tomorrow from us!

Happy Easter from all of us down here at Ahadada Books!

We’re happy to announce that the latest offering from Alison Croggon is now available for download!

Check out all of our Ebook offerings in our catalog by clicking here. Read more about Alison Croggon via her author profile.

Torque is the third release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series edited by Catherine Daly — it’s the eighteenth online chapbook offered by Ahadada.

We’ve posted notices at both our MySpace and Small Press Exchange sites.

Learn more about Alison by clicking here!

Lindley Williams Hubbell was born in Connecticut in 1901 and died at the age of 93. He was educated by tutors and was Long a resident of Kyoto, where beginning in 1953 he worked as a professor of English literature at Doshisha University. He became a Japanese citizen in 1960, taking the name Hayashi Shuseki. His volumes of poetry have been published by Yale, Knopf, Alan Swallow, and others.

Jesse first wrote about Hubbell in this blog in January 2006. Check out his post here.

We are pleased to begin offering Hubbell’s works (published by the Ikuta Press). Check out our shop here.

If you have any questions, or would like to order a book — feel free to contact us!

Hey all! Just a quick note to let you know that T.A. Noonan’s Darjeeling has been posted for download. Check out Noonan’s blog here. Look for work from Hank Lazer to follow in the next few days — a good way to start off 2008! More soon from us.

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We publish catalogs two or three times per year, including our Online Catalog, which is updated more frequently.

We have now updated our Catalog to include some forthcoming titles — including Burton Watson’s translation of Lu You. More information can be found here.

Here’s the link to the updated PDF of our catalog.

Along with our new submissions policy, Dan and I are working on a subscription plan for people interested in receiving a selection of our past and future publications. Details forthcoming. Jesse

From this date on, anyone submitting material for possible publication by Ahadada Books through our website will be asked first to purchase one of our books or help us place a book or books in a library near them. We encourage those who ask us to help them, to help us. This is only fair. Submissions without publication purchase or an offer of library placement help will not be considered and will not be aknowledged. Please Note–Purchasing one or more Ahadada books or library placement does not guarantee publication by us, but merely initiates the submission process. Thank you.

Hi all — just took the opportunity to post an interview by Patrizia Hayashi with Kikuko Otake. On a recent trip to California, she had the chance to speak with the author of Masako’s Story. They spoke of her book and her plans for the future. Check out the interview here.