New 2008 Titles!

Midnights Poetry by Jane Miller Artwork by Beverly Pepper Introduction by C.D. Wright   ISBN 978-0-9754990-6-1 / $16 "An absorbing performance of art taken to the brink. There is nothing prosaic about Midnights. No one is simply cooking carrots; rather all of its parts contribute to a gestalt of living, loving and losing in a reel of feeling that nonetheless attains a bracing lucidity. This is an incandescent text, and Beverly Pepper’s drawings hold its ardor to its mark." —C.D. Wright   $16

Famous Last Words by Catherine Pierce Winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize Judged by John Yau ISBN 978-0-9754990-7-8 / $14 "“Catherine Pierce gets to the conundrum of language; we want to believe what it says and we don’t believe it. She understands our need to tell tall stories, to exaggerate and embellish, to become figures that we are not, but wish to be. Her empathy for the abject in us is always riddled with humor, self-mocking, sharp, and, at times, painful. Recognizing that words can be both a solace and an accuser, Pierce walks that tightrope with grace." —John Yau "With a marvelously open-hearted candor, Catherine Pierce troubles both the past and future — the homelands of her lyric art — as much as she summons them into life. ‘Be kind to old photographs,’ one poem tells us, ‘but not overly kind.’ Where other poets are flip, she’s seriously playful; where other poets are timid, she’s determined to engage the particulars behind which experience hides. Even more remarkably, the poems in this collection somehow manage to sing the way their subjects think, and the tone of that voice enlightens everything it touches.” —Sherod Santos "Catherine Pierce has written an exhilarating book, one that rewards its lucky reader with intelligence and lyric grace and dance-hall, crushed corsage swing. A pure delight." —Lynne McMahon $14

2006/7 Titles

Stigmata Errata Etcetera Poetry by Bill Knott Artwork by Star Black Introduction by Mark Doty   ISBN 978-0-9754990-4-7 / $16 "Excellent new poems by prolific surrealist, grouchy comic, underground hero and oddball formal virtuoso Bill Knott ("One of my pores creaks/ when I pass through it/.../ soon for the last time") join haunting, humorous collages by poet and artist Star Black..." —Publisher's Weekly   "...Knott is one of the best poets writing in English... The poems here form thoughtful patterns." —John Cotter, Open Letters Monthly   "Still pure, his new poems are ice—refined, crystalline and sharp." —Brooklyn Rail $16

Dummy Fire by Sarah Vap Winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize Judged by Forrest Gander ISBN 978-0-9754990-5-4 / $14 "From the verses of gnostic antiquity to Whitman's drawn chorus of lading, from winter wilderness to the dazzling volunteering imagery of her solitary voice, Sarah Vap startles again and again with a quiet, hermetic originality that American poetry has never succesfully supported before—she is brilliant and something entirely new under the sun." —Norman Dubie "Dummy Fire is outstanding in its originality, its vividness, and its explosive lyrical esprit. Throughout the dream realm and the domestic, Vap illuminates the strangest of places with her uncompromising spiritual light." —Blackbird: a journal of literature and the arts $14

 

2005 Titles

Ing Grish Poetry by John Yau Artwork by Thomas Nozkowski Introduction by Barry Schwabsky Winner of the Small Press Traffic Book of the Year!!!   "There is no mistaking Yau's exceptional talent (or Nozkowkis') in this unusual and beautiful book." —Sima Rabinowitz, Dragonfire $16

Correspondence by Kathleen Graber Winner of the 2005 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize Judged by Bob Hicok "Correspondence is a fresh accomplishment, swift with feeling and intelligence, the work of a restless critical mind mapping its way toward a means to bear the weight of love." —Mark Doty "There is a mending quality to Graber's imagination, a mending of self by extension into the world. This is a wonderful book." —Bob Hicok $14

2004 Titles
Blackboards Poetry by Tomaz Salamun (translated by Michael Biggins) Artwork by Metka Krasovec Introduction by John Yau $16	The Babies by Sabrina Orah Mark Winner of the 2004 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize Judged by Jane Miller $14

 

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2002 Titles