THANK YOU POET-PUBLISHERS!

What I love about the above photo -- of Robert and Elizabeth Murphy who run Dos Madres Press -- is that it allows me a glimpse into the facility (so to speak) of one of my indie publishers. Dos Madres Press published INVENT(ST)ORY and you  can see its blue cover on a box behind Elizabeth. I look at that photo and I'm so moved over the idea of all these poets working selflessly to put out more poetry into the world; often, these poet-publishers work out of their homes and I love the implicit intimacy. Thank you to all poet-publishers: among those who've aided my work, in addition to the Murphys, I think of and thank Jukka-Pekka Kervinen,  Mark Young, William Allegrezza, Catherine Daly, Sandy McIntosh and all the poets of the Marsh Hawk Press collective, Marthe Reed and Nicole Mauro and other poet-editors at Black Radish Books, lars palm, Jesse Glass, Peter Ganick, Kristy Bowen, Tony Frazer, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Steve Tills, Amanda Laughtland, Alec Newman, among others.

I stumbled onto the photo of the Murphys at their new Facebook page set up for AWP.  I won't be at AWP but they will have my book so hope you check out all the lovely Dos Madres books. Speaking of poet-publishers and AWP, you can go HERE for a photo of the founders of Marsh Hawk Press which was recently highlighted by AWP-Facebook. (Marsh Hawk also will bring my latest book, THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS, to AWP).

Lovely poets, lovely publishers, lovely poetry.  Thank you all!

STAR IN ST. HELENA

Between the Farmers' Market and the police log -- exactly where I belong!

STEP UP FOR STEP BELOW!

Well -- it's easy to multitask when one is watching political debate.  So I'm buying poetry books! Such as stocking up on my newest-published book by Meritage Press -- contact Moi if you would like a review copy of

More generally, here’s an update on moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry. 

STEP BELOW: SELECTED POEMS 2000-2015 by William Allegrezza

MY 100 POEMS by lars palm

LITHIC TYPOLOGY by Mark Young

KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

POETRY IS: JOSE GARCIA VILLA’S PHILOSOPHY OF POETRY Edited by Robert King

THE ART OF EXPORTING by Christina Querrer

HUNTER MONIES by Jen Tynes

WHERE THEY WOULD NEVER BE INVITED by Jesse Nissim

IT’LL NEVER BE OVER FOR ME by Mark Lamoreux

THE POET, THE LION, TALKING PICTURES, EL FAROLITO, A WEDDING IN ST. ROCH, THE BIG BOX STORE, THE WARP IN THE MIRROR, SPRING, MIDNIGHTS, FIRE & ALL by C.D. Wright

ONE WITH OTHERS: [A LITTLE BOOK OF HER DAYS] by C.D. Wright

ONE BIG SELF by C.D. Wright

SIGHTINGS: SELECTED WORKS (2000-2001) by Shin Yu Pai

I FORGOT LIGHT BURNS by Eileen R. Tabios

THE FIRST HAY(NA)KU BOOK IN FINLAND!

Heikki Lahnaoja, a poet, librarian and animator, has come out with the first hay(na)ku book in Finland!  Puitten uni, which can be translated to Sleep of Trees -- you can see more information HERE.  And here's its lovely cover:

I'll be interviewing Heikki soon. Watch for details on that!

Meanwhile,
Thank You
Heikki for yours...

STEP BELOW: SELECTED POEMS by WILLIAM ALLEGREZZA!!!

Meritage Press and copublisher i.e. press are delighted to announce the release of:

ISBN No.: 978-1-934299-10-4
Release Date: Spring 2016
Co-published with i.e. press (New York)
Price: $16.00 (currently with a 25% discount at Lulu)
Available from Meritage Press' Lulu.com
Also available direct from the publisher (MeritagePress@aol.com) 


ABOUT THE BOOK

Step Below: Selected Poems 2000-2015 contains a selection of poetry chosen by the poet.  To give the reader a sense of the poet’s development, the book is arranged in chronological order.  It contains work from his major books and several texts that have now gone out of publication.  In it, we can see a sample of Allegrezza’s formal poetic innovations and can hear the pervasive lyric undertone of his work. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Allegrezza is the author of many books of poetry, including Port Light (2014), Densities. Apparitions. (2011), and Fragile Replacements (2007).  He has edited several books, such as La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente (Co-ed. Galo Ghigliotto, 2010) and The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein (2012); in addition, he has curated a reading series, edited presses, and edited journals.  He currently teaches at Indiana University Northwest.

READING DU JOUR

George Oppen Collected, with excerpt from Eliot Weinberger's Preface:

THE PYRAMID ARCHITECT'S BOOK

I'm always gratified when my "older" books get reviewed. Books deserve better than being categorized in "recent" vs. non-recent.  Thanks to Aileen Ibardaloza-Casinetto who apparently inaugurated her Goodreads Reviews with a review of my collected novels, SILK EGG!  She calls me an architect of pyramids -- why not?  Here's an excerpt of the review:

Muted as they are, these images rouse the tenderest of sentiments over the impermanence of structures.  That is to say, the perception of impermanence as directed by experience (or is it the other way around?). Architectural paradoxes aside, the significance of these novels is to present a new way of texturizing orthographical symbols and their meanings using as few combinations as possible. As Tabios puts it, "Look where the window view finally stops…" and/or see the world with words. That is again to say, dare to perceive, represent, truthfully.

You can see entire review HERE.