Saturday, December 31, 2005
JACK KIMBALL on ED FOSTER'S NEW COLLECTION
Jack Kimball, on his blog Pantaloons, comments on Ed Foster's 2006 book with Marsh Hawk, What He Ought to Know. You can read the whole post here, which notes:
These poems are poised as a cirrus sky, knottings of cadenced desire, unruly, "painted blue for love."
Jack Kimball, on his blog Pantaloons, comments on Ed Foster's 2006 book with Marsh Hawk, What He Ought to Know. You can read the whole post here, which notes:
These poems are poised as a cirrus sky, knottings of cadenced desire, unruly, "painted blue for love."
HARRIET ZINNES RECEIVES NEW REVIEW
Harriet Zinnes' new Marsh Hawk Press book Whither Nonstopping is reviewed by Rodney Robinson in Chicago PostModern Poetry. Mr. Robinson says, among other things, that reading her poems evokes Akhmatova or Mandelstam.
Harriet Zinnes' new Marsh Hawk Press book Whither Nonstopping is reviewed by Rodney Robinson in Chicago PostModern Poetry. Mr. Robinson says, among other things, that reading her poems evokes Akhmatova or Mandelstam.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
THOMAS FINK'S BOOKS ARE FAVORABLY RECEIVED
by poet-educator Chris Murray! Chris reports on Thomas Fink's two Marsh Hawk Books, AFTER TAXES and GOSSIP, at her blog Tex Files. She calls Tom's poems an "intellectual delight"!
by poet-educator Chris Murray! Chris reports on Thomas Fink's two Marsh Hawk Books, AFTER TAXES and GOSSIP, at her blog Tex Files. She calls Tom's poems an "intellectual delight"!
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
MARSH HAWK PRESS AWARDED NYSCA GRANT!
CLMP has awarded Marsh Hawk Press a NYSCA regrant to help establish a Library and Bookstore Liason program.
Part of the aim of the program will be to help librarians catalogue Marsh Hawk Press books as not only “poetry” but also in such specialized sections as those reserved for ethnic, gay, and feminist literature, and for visual arts-related publications -- all of which our press features.
CLMP has awarded Marsh Hawk Press a NYSCA regrant to help establish a Library and Bookstore Liason program.
Part of the aim of the program will be to help librarians catalogue Marsh Hawk Press books as not only “poetry” but also in such specialized sections as those reserved for ethnic, gay, and feminist literature, and for visual arts-related publications -- all of which our press features.
BOOG CITY REVIEWS SANDY MCINTOSH'S NEW COLLECTION!
Congratulations to Sandy McIntosh for this lovely review by Brian Clements, published in Boog City:
Outside the Poet’s Gut
The After-Death History of My Mother
Sandy McIntosh
Marsh Hawk Press
The showcase piece of this book, a long sequence titled “Obsessional,” is remarkable for yoking an engaging Elizabethan literary detective story to a personal narrative about life as a grad school poet. Even more impressive than this set-up actually succeeding is the way McIntosh is able to tie compassion to dagger-thrust humor. If that’s what “obsessional” poetry is—personal narrative of neurosis that is aware a world exists outside the poet’s gut, and is not afraid to tell a joke—maybe it will catch on among those still in the stranglehold of the confessional.
The ending sequence is balanced at the front of the book by the title sequence, composed of memorial lyrics and anecdotes in prose and free verse, at once touching and chilling. With pieces about David Ignatow, Allen Ginsberg, and H. R. Hayes the book leaves a haunting lasting impression, like the poet’s mother in “The Hospital Chair”—“She touches you and tells you you are healed/ and may go home,” but also warns “No one know what will happen/ when I leave my tomb in the night/ to touch you.”
—Brian Clements, Boog City
Congratulations to Sandy McIntosh for this lovely review by Brian Clements, published in Boog City:
Outside the Poet’s Gut
The After-Death History of My Mother
Sandy McIntosh
Marsh Hawk Press
The showcase piece of this book, a long sequence titled “Obsessional,” is remarkable for yoking an engaging Elizabethan literary detective story to a personal narrative about life as a grad school poet. Even more impressive than this set-up actually succeeding is the way McIntosh is able to tie compassion to dagger-thrust humor. If that’s what “obsessional” poetry is—personal narrative of neurosis that is aware a world exists outside the poet’s gut, and is not afraid to tell a joke—maybe it will catch on among those still in the stranglehold of the confessional.
The ending sequence is balanced at the front of the book by the title sequence, composed of memorial lyrics and anecdotes in prose and free verse, at once touching and chilling. With pieces about David Ignatow, Allen Ginsberg, and H. R. Hayes the book leaves a haunting lasting impression, like the poet’s mother in “The Hospital Chair”—“She touches you and tells you you are healed/ and may go home,” but also warns “No one know what will happen/ when I leave my tomb in the night/ to touch you.”
—Brian Clements, Boog City
Friday, December 09, 2005
SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION HOLIDAY READING
Small Press Distribution
Hosts Holiday Open House
Saturday, December 10, 2005, 12-4PM
13,000 books 20-50% off !
Mark McMorris, Eileen Tabios,
Stephanie Young and Scott Inguito
Reading at 2PM
David Buuck on keyboards at 12:30 & 3PM
SPD warehouse, 1341 7th St. (off Gilman), Berkeley, Noon to 4pm
Free snacks & beverages!
Open to the Public
Mark McMorris is this year's Holloway Poet at UC Berkeley & is the author of 6 books of poetry; Eileen Tabios, author of I Take Thee, English For My Beloved, is a winner of the Philippines National Book Award for Poetry. Oakland poet Stephanie Young's first book Telling the Future Off is just out and SF poet Scott Inguito's work is forthcoming in the Anthology of Latino Poets. His chapbook lection is just out from Subday Press. David Buuck, editor of Tripwire, will be on keyboards.
There will also be prizes, gift certificates and donations from SPD's wonderful supporters: Magic Theater, Jeff Maser Bookseller, Anna Asc (Berkeley Massage & Self-Healing Center), The Cheeseboard Collective, Hear Music, Parkway Speakeasy Theater, Landmark Theaters, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Vino!, Ashkenaz, Celadon Teas, Jimmy Bean's Cafe and Festoon Hair Salon.
Small Press Distribution
Hosts Holiday Open House
Saturday, December 10, 2005, 12-4PM
13,000 books 20-50% off !
Mark McMorris, Eileen Tabios,
Stephanie Young and Scott Inguito
Reading at 2PM
David Buuck on keyboards at 12:30 & 3PM
SPD warehouse, 1341 7th St. (off Gilman), Berkeley, Noon to 4pm
Free snacks & beverages!
Open to the Public
Mark McMorris is this year's Holloway Poet at UC Berkeley & is the author of 6 books of poetry; Eileen Tabios, author of I Take Thee, English For My Beloved, is a winner of the Philippines National Book Award for Poetry. Oakland poet Stephanie Young's first book Telling the Future Off is just out and SF poet Scott Inguito's work is forthcoming in the Anthology of Latino Poets. His chapbook lection is just out from Subday Press. David Buuck, editor of Tripwire, will be on keyboards.
There will also be prizes, gift certificates and donations from SPD's wonderful supporters: Magic Theater, Jeff Maser Bookseller, Anna Asc (Berkeley Massage & Self-Healing Center), The Cheeseboard Collective, Hear Music, Parkway Speakeasy Theater, Landmark Theaters, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Vino!, Ashkenaz, Celadon Teas, Jimmy Bean's Cafe and Festoon Hair Salon.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
STEPHEN PAUL MILLER COLLECTION RECOMMENDED BY SPD!
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for November 18-December 6, 2005
ORDERS: 1-800-869-7553
ORDERS@SPDBOOKS.ORG
FAX: 1-510-524-0852
WWW.SPDBOOKS.ORG
Try Electronic Ordering! SPD is on PUBNET (SAN #106-6617)
Questions? Contact Brent Cunningham at brent@spdbooks.org
SKINNY EIGHTH AVE
by Miller, Stephen Paul
$15.00 / paper / pp.128
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-1-7
Poetry. "Stephen Paul Miller is either the Last Poet of the New York School or the First Poet of the New New York School. Probably both..Something more or less Post Modern, Post Post Modern, Post Everything. Finding something to live for in the pain is the joy of this poetry. The Millers, pere et fils, spread it over Everything"-Bob Holman. "Stephen writes his poems on an invisible surface that breathes and grows. It's like watching good poetry happen. It goes and goes. A little tense, but wonderful for it"-Eileen Myles
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=0975919717
SPD RECOMMENDS: NEW TITLES for November 18-December 6, 2005
ORDERS: 1-800-869-7553
ORDERS@SPDBOOKS.ORG
FAX: 1-510-524-0852
WWW.SPDBOOKS.ORG
Try Electronic Ordering! SPD is on PUBNET (SAN #106-6617)
Questions? Contact Brent Cunningham at brent@spdbooks.org
SKINNY EIGHTH AVE
by Miller, Stephen Paul
$15.00 / paper / pp.128
Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9759197-1-7
Poetry. "Stephen Paul Miller is either the Last Poet of the New York School or the First Poet of the New New York School. Probably both..Something more or less Post Modern, Post Post Modern, Post Everything. Finding something to live for in the pain is the joy of this poetry. The Millers, pere et fils, spread it over Everything"-Bob Holman. "Stephen writes his poems on an invisible surface that breathes and grows. It's like watching good poetry happen. It goes and goes. A little tense, but wonderful for it"-Eileen Myles
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=0975919717
Sunday, December 04, 2005
ROGER PAO COMMENTS ON EILEEN TABIOS' POETRY
including her first Marsh Hawk Press collection, Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole --
From the AsianAmericanPoetry Blog:
Sunday, December 04, 2005
On Eileen Tabios
For me, Tabios' poetry has always been at the forefront of the Asian-American poetic avant-garde. Her poems have been continuously innovative and ground-breaking, in terms of style and content, and they have paved the way for the work of other Asian-American, especially Filipina/o-American, poets whose poems reflect her intelligent experimentation with language and identity.
Her poetry embodies the negotiation between form and content in a way that is important to Asian-American poets and others -- especially important for critics who do not believe that experimentation with language and lyricism and narrative/history/identity may be reconciled. In Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole and other poems, she dares to attempt both at the same time, which is no easy task.
Though Tabios is not often mentioned as a central figure in "Asian-American poetry" -- in the sense of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, Cathy Song, and Nellie Wong -- I think that she should be discussed in these terms. All these poets write different types of poems, and her own poetry is different from the work of these poets, charting out a new direction that Asian-American poets have consciously, or subconsciously, attempted to emulate. In addition, she was the editor of one of the most innovative anthologies in Asian-American poetry -- Black Lightning -- which showcases various Asian American poets' describing their own individual poems in progress. Her own poetry should definitely be sought out.
including her first Marsh Hawk Press collection, Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole --
From the AsianAmericanPoetry Blog:
Sunday, December 04, 2005
On Eileen Tabios
For me, Tabios' poetry has always been at the forefront of the Asian-American poetic avant-garde. Her poems have been continuously innovative and ground-breaking, in terms of style and content, and they have paved the way for the work of other Asian-American, especially Filipina/o-American, poets whose poems reflect her intelligent experimentation with language and identity.
Her poetry embodies the negotiation between form and content in a way that is important to Asian-American poets and others -- especially important for critics who do not believe that experimentation with language and lyricism and narrative/history/identity may be reconciled. In Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole and other poems, she dares to attempt both at the same time, which is no easy task.
Though Tabios is not often mentioned as a central figure in "Asian-American poetry" -- in the sense of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, Cathy Song, and Nellie Wong -- I think that she should be discussed in these terms. All these poets write different types of poems, and her own poetry is different from the work of these poets, charting out a new direction that Asian-American poets have consciously, or subconsciously, attempted to emulate. In addition, she was the editor of one of the most innovative anthologies in Asian-American poetry -- Black Lightning -- which showcases various Asian American poets' describing their own individual poems in progress. Her own poetry should definitely be sought out.
