If I Were Born In Prague
By Guy Jean
Versions by Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky
Perfect-bound chapbook/bilingual edition (French & English) / $10space
Guy Jean is a member of the first generation of French-Canadian poets to re-discover the cultural heritage of Acadia, which Jean describes as, “a folklore truculent with daily life, local lore linked to universal legends and songs handed down from generation to generation rich in 17th century tavern songs and music going back to the troubadours.” This culture was devastated by the violent British takeover of the region. In Jean’s work the influence of this culture and history combined with the more familiar French poetics of Rimbaud and Michaux results in a work of haunting lyricism. The poems are both playful and mythic, while still seriously engaging in questions of inherited violence.
In If I were born in Prague Jean’s work is beautifully re-imagined in versions by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky allowing English readers an entry point into the vital work being done by one of our neighbors.
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Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, July 6th, 2011.
[Cosmic intercon-/nection of all beings?]
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from Notes from Irrelevance by Anselm Berrigan
artwork by Bianca Stone
Letterpressed Broadside/ $5 /Sold-Out
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This limited edition broadside was created for a reading at Metro Rhythm on May 13, 2011.
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Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, June 16th, 2011.
The Other Music: Selected Poems from the 1970s
by Francisca Aguirre
tr. by Montana Ray
PERFECT-BOUND CHAPBOOK / Bilingual edition (Spanish & English)/ $10
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Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, May 30th, 2011.
Why I Am Not a Painter:
A Gathering of Poems by MFA Students in NYC
Perfect-bound book (90 pages)/$15
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Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, May 10th, 2011.
Flood Letters
by Karin Gottshall
Hand-Sewn Chapbook / $10 / Sold-out
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Posted by Iris Cushing, March 16th, 2011.
Russian For Lovers
by Marina Blitshteyn
Hand-sewn chapbook/ sold-out
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Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, February 21st, 2011.
The Repel Broadside(s)
with poems by Mónica de la Torre, Mark Bibbins and Timothy Donnelly
and artwork by Ander Mikalson
3 piece broadside, 13 x 19.5 when assembled / $10 / sold-out
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This limited edition 3 piece broadside was created for a reading at Camel Art Space on January 14, 2011.
Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, January 17th, 2011.
This Landscape
by Paige Ackerson-Kiely & Adie Russell
hand-sewn folio with color artwork/$10
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Posted by Iris Cushing, October 22nd, 2010.
A Sky That Is Never the Same
by S.C. Hahn
Perfect-bound book/ $15
This limited edition poetry collection, S.C. Hahn’s first, was designed and hand stamped by the Swedish designers BankerWessel and published by Stray Dog Press in Stockholm, Sweden.
S. C. Hahn is a native of Nebraska, but has lived in Sweden since 2000. He has been writing since the early 80s, and his poems have appeared in over a hundred journals, and many collections including The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry and The Best of the Prose Poem.
A Sky that is Never the Same is his first full-length collection. In it he investigates global, personal, and imagined history, expatriation, and the shades of difference between loneliness and being alone. The work is at times playful, lyric, surreal, and always eccentric. A Sky That Is Never the Same is an autodidact’s guide to the world, a book in praise of what is forgotten and what has gone unsung.
You can read one of the gorgeous poems from this book at Dossier Journal’s blog.
Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, August 1st, 2010.
