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In the mail today: tear sheets from ZYX! ZYX is a stapled broadsheet, edited by Arnold Skemer. Writes Jacqueline Karp in New Hope International, of Skeemer: “How could I have lived so long without Arnold Skemer’s editorials?”.
Alongside reviews of The Kingdom Of Farfelu & Paper Moons and New Phobe (from Unbearable Books), was a great review of Skip Fox’s At That. Writes Skemer:
This is a fiction of odd vignettes, bizarre excursions into human perversity, idiosyncratic screeds, peculiar closets of strange possessions, a crazy grab bag of odds and ends, a curiosity shop in a lunatic asylum, a morbid sewage of ntellectual observation that breaks all the rules of “well wrought Fiction,” (to use a cliche). The first thing you notice about AT THAT is the high quality of the verbiage. This is not facile writing but is multiple cuts above the ordinary. Each “vignette,” appropriately numbered in some sequential that can’t be readily fathomed, exudes a complex and muscular verbal structure that occasionally requires real work on the part of the reader, but yet sometimes does not, simply listening to the run of imprecations, word baths of contempt, paroxysms of dissatisfaction. This is not a segmented tale or even a non-sequential tale at all but rather like listening to a very verbal stranger who has had a bit to drink and is unloading on much of what disgusts him in the world. This is not a bad thing. In such circumstances it is fun reliving the convulsive maledicta of an extended freak show, a rhapsody of exacting dissections on the days and week thereafter. There are times when the reader is not always receptive to these endless successions of bitter wit. My advice is to save it for a day when you are. On a few occasions I found it tedious. Fox falters sometimes and resorts to lists of things or goes down a blind alley. And now, a provocative quote: “How do you like the view from the anus, its folds like little waving arms of a petroglyphic bug or canoe, view of the preconscious wagging its little heads, an anal eye as portal between fossa, hint of vistas beyond, to which many are drawn, then fiercely accommodated with the postmodern lobotomy, television, Alzheimer’s in installments, cerebral liquescence dissolving neural plaque like stripping the hallways of high school in dreams, each evening the nibbling between lobes, you can barely hear it, an ambient whine.”
It occurs to the reviewer that this “fiction” is an excellent model for those wishing to get as far away from the conventional ways of fiction, towards a “commonplace book” of oddness, random thoughts, a diary of observations of an insane world. There are no characters that develop, no plot, just the cavalcade of a bizarre kaleidoscopic world of incongruity and the observation of the bizarre.
By way of Jesse this photo; from right to left: Maya Glass, Shizumi Corman, Youichi Glass (munching on Candy), Cid Corman, Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg.
Which serves as an appropriate introduction for an upcoming Ahadada Event that we are all very excited about here. Ahadada’s goin’ to Califoria! Venice, to read at Beyond Baroque.
“It’s a place where you can experience both nationally renowned and outrageous emerging art all at the same time.” And that about sums up the evening that Ahadada has in store for you!
17 December 2005, Saturday - 7:30 PM
AHADADA BOOKS Presents
Join the writers and poets of Ahadada Books, which in 1999 began publishing broadsides, chapbooks, and more, from the US, Canada, and Japan. JESSE GLASS has been anthologized most recently in Visiting Walt (Iowa); a selected poems is forthcoming from West House. CATHERINE DALY’s books include has Locket (Tupelo) and DaDaDa (Salt) and an upcoming Ahadada chapbook. BRUNA MORI’s New York cityscape poems, with ink paintings by Matthew Kinney, is forthcoming from Meritage. She’s appeared in Fence, ZYZZYVA, Trepan, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Ahadada. DANIEL SENDECKI’s Strange Currencies came out from Ahadada in 2003. He is working on a long poem inspired by George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous.” JEROME ROTHENBERG is author of over seventy books of poetry including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931, A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970-1985, Khurbn, and recently, A Paradise of Poets and A Book of Witness (all New Directions), as well as a forthcoming chapbook from Ahadada.
17 December 2005, Saturday - 9:00 PM
CID CORMAN TRIBUTE and MEMORIAL
The legendary poet, translator, and editor CID CORMAN (b. 1924) passed away on March 12, 2004. Join JEROME ROTHENBERG and Ahadada Press in a tribute to this key figure in American poetry of the second half of the 20th century. Corman published more than 100 books and pamphlets and edited the influential literary journal Origin, among others. In 1990, his two vol. selected poems OF ran to some 1500 poems; Volume 3 appeared in 1998. With Ahadada authors. Bring Corman correspondence, books, or magazines from which to read and share and celebrate. All welcome. Proceeds from this event will be donated to Cid’s wife, Shizumi, and be used to defray the cost of a plot and memorial for Cid.
What’s Beyond Baroque you ask? Straight from the guide book you all love to hate, the Lonely Planet, and rated the #2 attraction in Venice, (after the beach, of course) comes the following passage:
“Dark glasses and turtlenecks may have gone out of fashion, but the beat lives on at this funky place. It’s been the center for literary arts in Venice since 1968. Here, word is spoken, read, displayed and sung. It’s a place where you can experience both nationally renowned and outrageous emerging art all at the same time. The well-crammed bookstore sells cheap books by local artists as well as all of the classics. Free writing workshops are offered throughout the week as well.”
We’re pleased to announce the release of Skip Fox’s “At That”. It’s available now from Ahadada Books and SPD. See below for ordering details.
You can download & print the press release by clicking here.
Fox, Skip
ISBN 0-9732233-6-7
?At That? by Skip Fox. 192 pages, 5.25? x 7.25? USD $16.95/ CDN $12.95
Poetry. Skip Fox, with the concern of an entomologist, presents passages sprawling and pinned in a shadow box of observations and odd lots. Framed under double glass, the mounting board of At That writhes with a cast of freaks: Ezekiel in the streets, a kitty bomb squad, sadists on steroids, the shadow of Cadmus, kingfishers, omen clad apertures of evening with cicada wings, heart attacks of clouds rolling in off the Gulf, a city mouse, spastic proctologists, and so forth, all projecting their “goods” in spate: smatterings, obsolete creeds, mordacious stumps, “furious opinions, exaggerations, fabrications,” neo-prophetic stylings, verbal molestations, elegiac mumblings, the silence above a shallow grave, etc.
Currently serving what appears to be a life sentence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Skip Fox has worked in woods, warehouses, shake and shingle mills, lumber yards, ketchup & catfood factories, mental hospitals, and so on.
It gives us great pleasure to that Paolo Javier’s the time at the end of this writing was honoured by Small Press Traffic as one of five outstanding books of poetry to represent SPT’s choice for ‘Books of the Year 2004′. Other poets honoured alongside Paolo were Jeanne Heuving, Christine Hume, Kaia Sand, and Ron Silliman. Read a PDF of the press release by clicking here.
If you’re in the States, best bet is to grab Paolo’s book from Paolo’s page at Small Press Distribution. We’re getting close to the end of our print run, and this announcement will probably see us sell out of this fine book?so grab ‘em while ya can!
If you’re in Canada or on the other side of the pond(s), best to drop us a line, or browse through our store.
On a personal note, I’d just like to say that Paolo’s book was a daring first book, the time at the end of this writing It was presented to us a few years ago, when a newly reinvigorated Ahadada was looking for something that encapsulated our aesthetic. So kudos to Paolo for having the courage to take risks in his first book. It paid off not only with great honor for the Press, but ensured that we will continue to present young, important voices.
Writes Rodrigo Toscano: “Paolo Javier’s 60 lv bo(e)mbs is one of the most radically detourned poetics that I’ve encountered in a long time. Rocking hard the perimeter of a national American literary metabolic center, Javier deftly develops what critical theorists have only been able to talk about: the birth of a non-idealist anticipatory-resilient para-national subject. His poetry engenders a polysemic motility that gives inner-life to this new state of independence. What does that mean? It means your kolonial momma’s got your poppa’s digits ? by the products.
This fall, just in time for the Fall/Winter catalogs, we’re produced two new titles: At That by Skip Fox and Secret, but Kept it Room by Mike Gubser. Click here for the print ad.
Here’s a sneak peak at the ad copy that will run this fall and an introduction for these two very different, very unique voices.
Fox, Skip
ISBN 0-9732233-6-7 At That by Skip Fox.
192 pages, 5.25? x 7.25? USD $16.95
Poetry. Skip Fox, with the concern of an entomologist, presents passages sprawling and pinned in a shadow box of observations and odd lots. Framed under double glass, the mounting board of At That writhes with a cast of freaks: Ezekiel in the streets, a kitty bomb squad, sadists on steroids, the shadow of Cadmus, kingfishers, omen clad apertures of evening with cicada wings, heart attacks of clouds rolling in off the Gulf, a city mouse, spastic proctologists, and so forth, all projecting their “goods” in spate: smatterings, obsolete creeds, mordacious stumps, “furious opinions, exaggerations, fabrications,” neo-prophetic stylings, verbal molestations, elegiac mumblings, the silence above a shallow grave, etc.
Currently serving what appears to be a life sentence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Skip Fox has worked in woods, warehouses, shake and shingle mills, lumber yards, ketchup & catfood factories, mental hospitals, and so on.
Now available from Small Press Distribution. Click here.
Gubser, Mike
ISBN 0-9732233-7-5. Secret, but kept it room by Mike Gubser.
88 pages, 5.25? x 7.25?, price USD $12.99
Poetry. Secret, but Kept it Room explores the development and stasis over time of self as image?at once real and artificial, subjective and perspectival, engaged in the physical world and torn from it, a self often disappearing into non-self. Mike Gubser treats the art of poetry as, in some sense, the art of experiment and problem-solving by placing the notion of self in various contexts?romance, depression, friendship, travel, memory, isolation?and poetic forms?visual, musical, lyrical modernist, numeric?to see how it reacts.
Mike Gubser has published various chapbooks and a book on turn-of-the-century Austria entitled Time’s Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in fin-de-siecle Austria (Wayne State Press, 2005). Presently, he is a history professor at James Madison University in Virginia. Before then, he worked as a high school teacher, a writer for an international development organization, an instructor at San Quentin Penitentiary and an English teacher in Czechoslovakia.
“I am also in the position of literary editor, and I was browsing your online store. I’m interested in developments on your e-chapbook series. Have you found the series successful? Do you have plans to expand the project?”
I thought I’d turn my answer into a post. In just a few days, Eileen Tabios’ “Songs of the Colon” has surpassed 200 downloads. We are looking at releasing an e-chapbook every three weeks for the remainder of the summer. Up next? Something from David Kennedy!
We live at a peculiar juncture, it goes without saying, wherein the book and the internet still, however briefly in the grand scheme of things, co-exist as mediums.
William Gibson has an interesting take on all of this, in the most recent issue of Wired magazine wherein he describes the the traditional album as “archaically passive”. It’s doomed to fail, he writes, because of another archaic term: the audience. In a refutation of Milton Berle’s famous rhetorical question “what is this, an audience or an oil painting?”, the audience today isn’t watching at all, it’s involving itself. It’s becoming part of that which it consumes.
In a sense, this is the problem that plagues that pesky RIAA; repeated ad nauseum, it simply is trying to hold on to a method of delivery that does not keep pace with the rapidly changing nature of digital media. It’s a dinosaur.
It’s cool to see how we, as poets and editors, are reacting to the rapid pace of change. Tony Tost, over in the Unquiet Grave raises some interesting points in an argument born on Ron Silliman’s blog (when Ron claimed that nobody does the online thing half as well as Jacket:
Someone in his comments trots out the “get rid of issues” argument, but I’m not convinced. Ultimately, web journals serve as massive databases and archives, and I think should be geared and edited towards that means to be of most use, and I think the issue by issue format is the best way of doing this; it might be an arbitrary organizing device for an online journal, but it is a means of organizing and editing at a workable level.
What will be interesting to watch, will be the manner by which the digital age rethinks the book, the way technology popularizes new forms of art, vis-a-vis jazz and the long-playing album.
And this brings up the point that I want to close with. Is Ahadada Books dedicated to expanding its online chapbook project? Absolutely. Why? Because it serves the community in the manner by which it is demanding to be served. The audience, now more than ever, is asking for quick, unfettered, access to work.
Why? I guess its a measure of the digital age. Within a couple of days, a handful of sites had already posted capsule reviews of “Songs of the Colon”. People were starting to become involved in the dialogue that it provokes. The work makes its way into the collective conscious more expediently. It is the speed that this recombinant, collective age demands.
And it, in my estimation, is a gorgeous thing to watch.
Forthcoming September 2005 from O Books, the anticipated second book of verse from Paolo Javier. Check it out here. With a cover image by Mel Vera Cruz and designed by Amy Evans McClure (looks beautiful!).
Not only am I intrigued by the sample poem included over on O Books website, I’m greatly encouraged by the seeming titular play on the Magnetic Field’s 69 Love Songs.
Regardless, Paolo’s got the stuff, and if you don’t believe me — I have the evidence! Check him out at Boog City’s “d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press” reading in January this past year. You can find the video over here. I love that video — and while you’re diggin’ around, be sure to check out the other fine poets that repped Ahadada that evening here.
Here’s the obligatory (but no less interesting) blurbs:
?Paolo Javier?s 60 lv Bo(e)mbs is one of the most radically detourned poetics that I?ve encountered in a long time. Rocking hard the perimeter of a national American literary metabolic center, Javier deftly develops what critical theorists have only been able to talk about: the birth of a non-idealist anticipatory-resilient para-national subject. His poetry engenders a polysemic motility that gives inner-life to this new state of independence. What does that mean? It means your kolonial momma?s got your poppa?s digits ? by the products.??Rodrigo Toscano
“I am happy to think of Clark Coolidge when I read these brain-racing improvs, even though they are spun out on tropical and topical and political and polyvocal chords. These poems carry the youth of the world a whole step forward in all possible ways.”?Fanny Howe.
Can’t wait to check this out! Be sure to check out Paolo Javier’s title from Ahadada Books, the time at the end of this writing. One of the most endearing things about Paolo’s first book is the habit it has of falling open to the words “Fuck Me!” emblazoned in 36 point Garamond. What’s in store for us with his next collection?
Since its debut on November 3, 2004 The Witness has generated quite a buzz for Ahadada Books. With 4415 views and 204 megabytes of text downloaded, the Witness has proved an invaluable resource for historians and scholars and we are committed to providing this resource for free.
Included here are a couple of articles that have appeared in traditional print publications that focus on The Witness. As always, the full text of the witness is available here. You may also download Jamie Kellie’s Advocate piece in its original form here.
Putting the byte on literature In Maryland and the nation, public libraries are seeing growing demand by readers for e-books.
By Josh Mitchell
Sun Staff
Originally published June 2, 2005
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes up 366 pages. That’s the old way of measuring books.
Now, as an e-book, it’s 1,400 kilobytes, or about five minutes of download time for each - if you have a fast modem.
Hoping to keep pace with technology - as well as patrons’ changing habits - public libraries across Maryland now offer many titles as electronic books, a format that has been around for years but is experiencing a surge in popularity.
Fourteen library systems in the state - including in Baltimore and surrounding counties - began offering e-books within the past month. And this summer, they will launch downloadable audio books.
“Different media are available, and there’s a public demand for them,” said Jim Fish, director of the Baltimore County Public Library. “Really good libraries evolve. E-books are something librarians have been watching for years now.”
Libraries in other states are evolving, too. Nationally, more than half of all libraries serving towns of more than 100,000 people offer e-books, according to a recent survey conducted by Richard Boss, an information technology consultant in Baltimore.
Patrons visit a library’s Web site to view titles and descriptions. After a library card number is entered, available books can be accessed with a computer or a personal digital assistant - such as a Palm Pilot - using Adobe Reader software.
“The file contains two components. One is the actual book and the other is the software that allows you to access the book for a certain period of time,” said Scott Reinhart, assistant director of the Carroll County Public Library.
After three weeks, a patron’s access to the book expires, eliminating the prospect of late fees.
Cardholders in Maryland have checked out 1,118 titles. Another 352 titles are on waiting lists.
And library administrators expect usage to rise as they buy more titles from OverDrive Inc., a Cleveland company that provides the software behind the e-books.
“They’re more popular than I even expected,” Reinhart said. “I thought it would start more slowly and just build because we haven’t had any huge press release or anything.”
Reinhart recently downloaded two Sidney Sheldon novels onto his laptop computer for a trip to Western Maryland.
“The words are still the words, it’s just the delivery mechanism is a little different,” Reinhart said. “I was still able to get immersed in the language.”
The best part, he said: “You don’t have to worry about carting around 10 books that weigh a pound apiece.”
The e-book program costs a library $5,720 initially, then $3,200 annually for a system such as that at the Hartford County Public Library, which has a $13.4 million budget.
“One person can use the e-book at one time,” said Jamie Watson, assistant materials manager at the Harford library. “So it’s just like a regular library book. We buy multiple copies of things that are going to be popular.”
Some of the most popular e-books are CliffsNotes study guides and other reference publications, according to Boss.
His research showed that libraries have not seen a decline in the circulation of printed books since the introduction of e-books.
Despite the advent of the new service, area librarians are not predicting the demise of the traditional book.
“I think the paper book isn’t going away any time soon,” Watson said. “People really like the aesthetic of the paper book, turning the page, looking at the cover.”
E-book technology has been around at least since 2000, when Stephen King released “Riding the Bullet” solely online. But he abandoned the experiment because of Internet piracy - more than half of the people who subscribed to the book had not actually paid for it.
E-books have become a way for lesser-known authors to be published. When Jesse Glass wrote The Witness: Slavery in 19th-Century Carroll County, he did not want people to have to pay for the book, he said. So he offers free downloads of the book through his online publishing Web site, Ahadada Books.
“It will remain free of charge as a matter of principle,” Glass wrote in an e-mail from Japan, where he teaches. “They’re available to anyone in the world who has access to the technology to download and print them.”
Slavery Book Published
By Jamie Kelly
Advocate Staffwriter
Originally published December 8, 2004
In the late 1980s, Jesse Glass took some time off from graduate school in Wisconsin and came back to his hometown of Westminster. He fell back in love with the history of the town. That research led him to publish several works, the most recent of which is an electronic book called “The Witness: Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Carroll County, Maryland.” His first book was “Ghosts and Legends of Carroll County, Maryland.” He decided to put the book up for free download on his Web site.
“I’ve always been interested in new poetry and Ahadada Books, run with my co-editor and friend Dan Sendecki, allows me to do just that,’ Glass said. “In addition I can communicate my ideas on a variety of subjects using the [Web log] function. Once again, without the technology of the Internet, none of this could happen. Dan Sendecki is in Canada and I’m here in Japan.” In an interview conducted over e-mail, Glass said he decided to make the book available to the public for free because the information is valuable to anyone studying slavery. “And it’s hard ?really hard? to put a price on the results of so much pain and sadness,” he wrote.
Q: What made you pick slavery in Carroll?
A: I took a six-month hiatus from graduate school from 1984 to 1985 for personal reasons. One day, going through the library at the Historical Society of Carroll County, I came across a bound report by a high school student on the subject of Maryland slavery. It was an admirable effort, though not very informative about the subject of Carroll County slavery. In fact, it listed “Ghosts and Legends of Carroll County, Maryland” as the source of information on that subject. I decided then and there to begin the project that eventually became the “Witness.” Why? There is much more to be said regarding slavery in Carroll County besides the legend of the cruel Leigh Master and his slaves, as compelling a story as it is. You see, I regard legends as the smoke that tells us of the fire. And in Carroll County, and before that, in Frederick County, and before that as early as the first African Americans being brought to the East coast of North America in the early 17th century, that fire had been blazing. You see, the story of Leigh Master is about one human being behaving monstrously to other human beings, and in Carroll County, as in most of America right up until the end of the Civil War ? and beyond ? the simple truth is that there were countless Leigh Masters. I spent most of my days combing through the newspaper holdings in the Historical Society. My brothers helped on occasion and a student interested in the project from Western Maryland College put in a small amount of effort. I might add that I was simultaneously working on two other Carroll County projects at that time: an anthology of 19th century Carroll County Newspaper poets, that eventually became my book “The Hidden Muse,” and a selection of writings from both The Carroll County Democrat and the American Sentinel that would later become “Newspaper Wars: Know Nothings, Alms House Scandals, and the Death of a Civil War Editor.”
Q: Was the experience of a slave in Carroll representative of what slaves all over Mary- land would have gone through?
A: Yes, I believe it was, and I tried to indicate this by including virtually all the reports regarding national and international slavery in the “Witness,” and thereby establishing a context for the local reports. Of course, there was an irony in Carroll County slavery, and that was the fact that Carroll County is so close to the Pennsylvania border and freedom ? that is, until the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
Q: What are some of the dif- ficulties in researching long- distance?
A: Well, I did the bulk of my research in 1984-85, when I was a full-time resident of Carroll County. I returned to the University of Wisconsin, got married, finished my degree, then began my career in Japan as a professor of American literature, and all that time the results of my research lay in boxes. It was about 1996 when I found the opportunity and the wherewithal to begin to publish the results of my Carroll County studies. That was also the time that I discovered for myself the startling technology of the Internet. Indeed, were it not for the Internet and the information revolution it ushered in, most of what I have done would not be available to more than just a handful of people. Yet there is one abiding human element in all of this on-going research and that is my friendship with Dr. Melvin D. Palmer, Professor Emeritus of McDaniel College. He and his wife Nancy have faithfully helped and encouraged me through all these many years. We connect over the Internet and through the phone and the mail about things related to Carroll County. Del has checked facts, taken pictures, and uncovered connections that have helped me continue these projects, even though I’ve lived now in Japan for more than 12 years.
Q: How much effort did the research take?
A: A tremendous amount, as anyone who worked at the Historical Society at that time can attest. I’d come in when the place opened and would be the last to leave. I did this at the same time that I was working night jobs. Fortunately, my mother and father allowed me to stay at home for little or no rent and room and board money. I thank them for that.
Q: How long was the book in the making?
A: The database that I compiled was available to a few researchers by 1987, but the book itself did not begin to take shape until 1997. The compilation went through considerable revision and enlargement between ?97 and the summer of 2004. I decided to publish the final version of the “Witness” on the net early this month.
Q: How much information is out there on slavery?
A: Oh there’s lots. The “Witness” is only the beginning ? a start. Last year when I visited Carroll County, the researchers at the Historical Society showed me material that would make a good beginning for another volume. For instance, there’s the story of the stone carver who lived in Carroll County who bought his family out of slavery because of the artistry of his tombstones. He could not read or write apparently, but his sense of design in his lettering and carving make his tombstones real works of folk art.
Recently, there’s been a flurry of activity at Ahadada Books, as we are gearing up for a slew of summer/fall titles. Over the next few months, we will be pleased to present upcoming work from the following authors…
Currently serving what appears to be a life sentence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Skip Fox writes poetry, prose, and short fictions as well as reviews. He also has three chapbooks, one bibliography (on Creeley, Dorn, and Duncan) and years on MLA Bibliography and Bulletin of Bibliography. He graduated from Bowling Green State. He has worked in woods (Pacific Northwest), warehouses (San Francisco), shake and shingle mills (Beaver, WA), lumber yards, ketchup & catfood factories, Chrysler, mental hospitals (Ohio, seven years), and so on.
In cooperation with West House Books, we’re proud to present a Selected from Jesse Glass. In addition to his work as Publisher of Ahadada Books, Jesse Glass is a professor of Literature and History in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs at Meikai (Bright Sea) University in Chiba, Japan. Look for Glass’ work on UbuWeb, in the film ‘Faites vos Jeux’ by Filgruppe Chaos, in Visiting Walt from the University of Iowa Press, and in scads of literart magazines and websites devoted to the “sweet science.”
Catherine Daly is a critic and poet. She’s author of DaDaDa (Salt Publishing, 2003), a trilogy which has become the first volume of a 1,000 page project called CONFITEOR, as well as of Locket (Tupelo Press, 2005), which was released in April 2005 and should be reaching bookstores soon.
“Eileen Tabios is a world class poet with serious talent. In ancient Greece, Philosophers defined ekphrasis as a vivid description intended to bring the subject before the mind’s eye of the listener. [She] is ultimately successful in this artistic enterprise of bringing the subject before the mind’s eye of the readers and these readers will not only be enlightened but informed.”
- Nick Carbo for 2ndAvenuePoetry.
“Corcoran emerged into view around 1985 … and has produced consistently ever since – something that is true of no other individual. It is this strength and calm which have made him a giant figure of the middle generation, placed between the generation radicalised thirty years ago by the counter-culture and the younger generation. ”
- Andrew Duncan, Poetry Salzburg Review 4, Spring 2003.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Poetry, The New Yorker and elsewhere. “Perchik is the most widely published unknown poet in America” according Library Journal (November 15, 2000). Readers interested in learning more about him are invited to read his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and view a complete bibliography here.
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We’re pleased to announce the release of Skip Fox’s “At That”. It’s available now from Ahadada Books and SPD. See below for ordering details.
