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.

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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.

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Watch for the print ad in an upcoming issue of Word