WORD FOR/WORD #10

Edited by Jonathan Minton. Featuring new work by TSky Contributors Julie Doxsee, kari edwards, and Derek White, who join Bronwen Tate, Josely Vianna Baptista, Tyler Carter, Chris Tonelli, Gherardo Bortolotti, Clayton A. Couch, Eddie Watkins, Catherine Daly, Randall Williams, Malcolm de Chazal, Terence Winch, Marco Giovenale, Derek Henderson, Theodore Worozbyt, Brian Howe, George Kalamaras, Elizabeth Marie Young, Sandra Huber, Lauren Levin, Jon Leon, Marthe Reed, Giuliano Mesa, Michael Robins, Leonardo Guevara Navarro, Jared Schickling, Gautam Verma, Brian Seabolt, Michael Peters, Michael Sikkema, Carol Stetser, and Brian Strang; along with collaborations from Jim Leftwich and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, and cover art from John M. Bennett and Michael Peters.

SENTENCE #4

Guest-edited by Peter Johnson, Sentence #4 includes prose poems from TSky Contributors Jamey Dunham, Louis Jenkins, Ginger Knowlton, Mary A. Koncel, Joyelle McSweeney, Ethan Paquin, and Max Winter, as well as prose poems from Robert Alexander, John Allman, Nin Andrews, Margaret Atwood, Walter Bergen, Chad Bartlett, Louis E. Bourgeois, John Bradley, Jen Bryant, Laura Chester, Killarney Clary, Peter Conners, Matthew Cooperman, Andy Cox, Talia Danesi, Cortney Davis, Michel Delville, Denise Duhamel, Tom Dvorske, Russell Edson, Richard Garcia, Scott Glassman, Georges Godeau (tr. Kathleen McGookey), Ray Gonzalez, Nolan Heinz, Cecil Helman, Friedrich Holderlin (tr. Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff), Brian Johnson, Roxane Beth Johnson, Alice Jones, Christine Boyka Kluge, Gerry LaFemina, David Lehman, P. H. Liotta, Rachel Loden, Gian Lombardo, Eric Lorberer, Robert Lunday, Morton Marcus, Campbell McGrath, Jay Meek, Christopher Merrill, Robert Miltner, Michelle Noteboom, Nina Nyhart, Jane Lunin Perel, Chris Propst, Kerry Reilly, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Maureen Seaton, David Shumate, Barry Silesky, James Tate, Ryan van Cleave, Mark Vinz, Liz Waldner, Rosmarie Waldrop, Thom Ward, Charles Harper Webb, Bruce Weigl, Tom Whalen, Elizabeth Willis, Peter Wortsman, Kirby Wright, and Gary Young.

IS HOLY
by Matt Henriksen

Horse Less Press
6x6, staple-bound, 33 pages.
Cover art by Kate Schapira.

Compostition Marble
by Joshua Corey

Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Series
Winner of the 2005-06 Chapbook award
ISBN: 1-886350-84-1
32 pages, saddle stapled.
$6.00

Cranky #7

The long-awaited seventh issue of Cranky includes a conversation between Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Christian Hawkey, the author of The Book of Funnels (Verse Press, 2004) and the chapbook HourHour (2005); a collaboration between the poet Frances McCue and artist Mohammed Daoudi; and new work by Michele Glazer, Michael Robins, Leonard Gontarek, Shannon Borg, and Paul Maliszewski, among others. The cover design, by Adam Biskupski, is an interpretation of Mohammed Daoudi's mixed media panel painting entitled "My City is So Pretty."

OBERIU
An Anthology of Russian Absurdism

It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in samizdat and emigre publications. Some called it the last of the Russian avant-garde, and others called it the first (and last) instance of Absurdism in Russia; however difficult to classify, it was OBERIU (from an acronym standing for The Union of Real Art), and the pleasures of its poetry and prose are, with this volume, at long last fully open to English-speaking readers.

This anthology includes the work of three writers, Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky, who, between 1927 and 1930, made up the core of OBERIU, and of three others, Nikolai Oleinikov, Leonid Lipavsky, and Yakov Druskin, who, although not members of OBERIU, worked in the same vein. Skillfully translated to preserve the weird charm of the originals, these poems and prose pieces display all the hilarity and tragedy, the illogical action and puppetlike violence and eroticism, and the hallucinatory intensity that brought down the wrath of the Soviet censors. Today they offer an uncanny reflection of the distorted reality they reject.

Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky. Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich, Thomas Epstein, Genya Turovskaya and Ilya Bernstein.

NEW from SLOPE EDITIONS

The Other Side of Landscape:
An Anthology of Contemporary Nordic Poetry

Edited by Anni Sumari and Nicolaj Stochholm

ISBN: 0971821984. 208 pages. Cover: $22 USD.

VIC PERRY AUCTIONING ONE-OF-A-KIND TEXT

From the eBay listing: "Own a piece of OBLIVION. This fragment from an unfinished story begun and abandoned in 1989 that I will never, ever return to is sure to become a treasured part of your art or literature collection and will spawn a teeming colony of mental and spiritual lifeforms within your consciousness. It’s an absolutely authentic handwritten document of the work habits of Vic Perry, virtually published author of the early 21st Century. The subject of the story was the television program “Divorce Court,” adding immeasurably to its relevance and dare I say it, collectability. Needless to say, it is an absolutely one of a kind item. If you don't purchase this worthless story, you will regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life. ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS.

Jenny Boully in Boston Review.

Boully's work is featured in Boston Review's "Poetry Sampler," introduced by Mary Jo Bang. Says Bang: "Boully’s work combines the unapologetically romantic with the quirky factoids of contemporary life. . . . She uses form in a way that undercuts our every expectation based on previous encounters with poetry."

CutBank

features a review of [one love affair]*

H_NGM_N #5, Edited by Nate Pritts

POEMS: Brad Liening • Brett Price • Christopher Mulrooney • Clay Matthews • Corey Mesler • Daniel Becker • Daniel Nester • Dorothea Lasky • Erica Bernheim • Erin Martin • Evan Commander • Gina Myers • Jason Bredle • JD Schraffenberger • Joshua Beckman • Julia Cohen • Matt Hart • Monica Fambrough • Pablo Peschiera • Peter Jay Shippy • Richard Fein • Samuel Amadon • Sheila Murphy • Steve Orlen • Thomas Hummel • Twilight Greenaway

FROM: Adam Clay • Bob Marcacci • Fred Schmalz • Jon Woodward • Lance Phillips • Tyler Carter

EP POETRY: Jake Adam York • Joyelle McSweeney • Richard Meier

FICTION: Dorothy and the Revolution by Vincent Masterson

ESSAYS: Doing It With the R’s - on William Carlos Williams’ To Elsie by Daniel Nester • Reinscribing Event Truth and its Conditions in Robert Duncan, Alain Badiou, and Jean-Luc Nancy by Michael Cross

REVIEWS: Clay Matthews on Jake Adam York • Gina Myers on 5 chapbooks • Jen Tynes on 3 chapbooks • Marci Nelligan on Tim Earley • Matt Hart on Jason Schneiderman • Michael Broder on Ada Limon • Michael Broder on Matt Hart • Nate Pritts on 5 chapbooks • Pablo Peschiera on Sam Taylor • Richard Scheiwe on CD Wright • Matt Dube on fiction chapbooks

ARTIST’S PORTFOLIO: Henry Samelson

COMIX: SOME GRAPHIC SENTENCES by Michael Donnelly