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Rafael Ballesteros

Fernando de Rojas Asleep on His Own Hand by Rafael Ballesteros Translated from the Spanish by Steven J. Stewart Toad Press

Rafael Ballesteros (1938-) lives in the Mediterranean city of Màlaga. He was a member of Spain's national legislature and helped draft its post-Franco constitution. Ballesteros is the author of numerous works of poetry and criticism, including the collection of poems Los dominios de la emoción which was released in 2003 by Pre-textos (Valencia, Spain). He is also the founder of Editorial Veramar, a publisher of experimental literature from Spain (www.editorialveramar.com).

Steven J. Stewart was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship for Translation by the National Endowment for the Arts. His book of translations of Spanish poet Rafael Pérez Estrada, Devoured by the Moon, which was published by Hanging Loose in 2004, was a finalist for the 2005 PEN USA translation award.

$5.00 | In Stock: 4 copies

Charles Baudelaire

THE REBEL Poems by Charles Baudelaire American Versions by Leslie H. Whitten Jr. PRESA :S: PRESS, 2005

Whitten has not just captured the recurrent symbols and images that express Baudelaire's deep thematics, but he has found the rare and fragile metric and lyric devices to orchestrate and give nuance to the extraordinarily varied Fluers.
--Maurice A. O'Meara, Ph.D., Poet Laureate of France

$7.00 | 48 Pages | In Stock: 2

David Beard

Voices by David Beard Blue Violin Press, 2003

"David Beard presents us with a collection fierce and intoxicating, poems about himself interwoven with the plight of the mentally ill."
-Broken Streets

"A book brave and good, each poem is compelling."
-Green River Review

$8.00 | ISBN 0-943795-63-X | In Stock: 3 copies

Gary Beck

The Conquest of Somalia by Gary Beck Červená Barva Press, 2008: Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He currently lives in New York City, where he's busy writing fiction and his short stories have recently appeared in numerous literary magazines.
$7.00 | 36 Pages | In Stock

Bernadette Benati

Seventh Heaven and other poems by Bernadette Benati The Feral Press, 2006

$10.00 | 15 Pages | In Stock: 4

John M. Bennett

Cantar Del Huff A Bilingual Edition by John M. Bennett Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006

CANTAR DEL HUFF - A series of poems - as narrative as anything Bennett has ever written - in a medieval Spanish form. Bennett's translations into Spanish face the original English.

Excerpts

His poetry scrapes along the roughened floors and causes us a kind of pain, so that ultimately language is restored to us in a new skin, and we are somehow made grateful like Vallejo before him, Bennett is willingly to go deeply into debt for his art in order finally to give it to us for free. Bennett isn't interested in converting you, or taking you prisoner; You must understand something is happening, that is sufficient, and that it will happen with or without you.
--Jon Cone

One has to winnow through the garbage to find such real experimenters as John M. Bennett, now considered a pioneer in this field. With his additional interest in the visual aspect of writing, Bennett harkens to earlier schools such as dada and surrealism, as well as to such poets as Guillaume Appolinaire or Vicent Huidobro. Indeed, the reader will find nothing that is neat and tidy here, nothing that speaks for order either internal or external...
--Ivan Arguelles

$12.00 | ISBN: 1892280469 | 183 Pages | In Stock: 1

Instruction Book by John M. Bennett Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006

INSTRUCTION BOOK - Poems written in the form of absurdist instructions. Reading these poems WILL change your life.

$9.00 | ISBN: 1892280493 | 117 Pages | In Stock: 1

LAP GUN CUT by John M. Bennett & F. A. Nettelbeck Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006

LAP GUN CUT - A long collaborative poem by Bennett and "Bug Death" author F. A. Nettelbeck. Like nothing you've ever read.

$7.00 | ISBN: 1892280507 | 14 Pages | In Stock: 1

SOUND DIRT by Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006

SOUND DIRT - Textual and visual poems, created collaboratively by Bennett and Jim Leftwich. An opulent production, with many works in color.

$12.00 | ISBN: 1892280477 | 173 Pages | In Stock: 1

Anthony Bernini

Distant Kinships poems of Anthony Bernini A.P.D., 2002

The poems of Anthony Bernini are favorites of those who attend poetry readings in the Capital District of Upstate NY. Now, with this book, the rest of the world can get to know his poems too.
"In Bernini's poetry, we encounter love and the loss of love, generosity of spirit and cruelty, mystery and understanding, the profound in the mundane, the hope of the pessimistic optimist… a wry, realistic, yet tender smile for a confused humanity that doesn't seem to have much of a chance but carries on anyway, not having much of a choice."
-from the introduction by Michael Mannion

$12.00 | ISBN 0-9714631-2-3 | 51 Pages | In Stock: 3 copies

Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal

Raw Materials by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal Pygmy Forest Press: With his first collection, Raw Materials, I sense that Luis Cuanhtemoc Berriozabal is just getting started. These poems are evidence of a great voice warming to its deceptively simple and immediate themes, and a great heart and mind beginning a journey that is sure to range over the earth for many decades to come-if we are so lucky. Among new poets, Berriozabal is the rare, authentic article.
--Michael McClintock, Editor
The New American Imagist
$10.00 | ISBN: | 89 Pages | In Stock: 3

M. Teresa Blaylock

Mirrors of Darkness and Light by M. Teresa Blaylock Publish America

(Excerpt from back of the book)
Mirrors of Darkness and Light is a compilation of stories,myths, and magic in poetry. It encompasses a wide range of subjects from political commentary to gothic fairy tales and murder...

$14.95 | ISBN 1-4241-0359-2 | 76 Pages | In Stock: 5

C. L. Bledsoe

Anthem poems by CL Bledsoe Červená Barva Press, 2009

CL Bledsoe has published work in over 200 journals and anthologies, including The Cimarron Review, Nimrod and The Arkansas Review. Winner of the Blue Collar Review's Working People's Poetry Contest, he is also a 3-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine. http://www.ghotimag.com and the author of a chapbook entitled_______(Want/Need)

CL Bledsoe's Anthem is succinct, shrewd and contemporary. Bledsoe is a modern-age poet with the unique ability to bring the reader smack into the moment with him ... Anthem's poems are no exception. Often confessional, occasionally biting, Bledsoe proves once again that he is the poet for generation X, Y and whatever lies beyond.
-Patricia Gomes, editor of Adagio Verse Quarterly and poetry moderator of iVillage's Poet's Workshop

Fresh, funny, hip, anarchic, jaded, secretly hopeful, angry, wry, laid-back: to read CL Bledsoe's Anthem is to enter a world that may make you twitch - but will surely help you keep on keeping on. These songs of punked-out innocence stage-strut across the page, even when they claim they're simply slacking on the couch. Join Frog and Death and the absinthe squirrels on a savvy, consciousness-jolting road-trip through the landscape of right now. I loved this smart and artful book. I bet you will to. Open it. Find out.
-Jeanne Larsen, winner of the AWP poetry book award

$15.00 | ISBN 978-0-615-25796-9 | 65 Pages | In Stock

Louis E. Bourgeois

Alice by Louis E. Bourgeois PRESA :S: PRESS, 2007

…His work is void of spurious hope, yet taunts us with a lingering sense of individual purpose.
--Laura Qa, Red Dragon Press

$6.00 | 40 Pages | In Stock: 3

Victoria Bouroncle

The Circle and the Line by Victoria Bouroncle Pygmy Forest Press, 1994

Victoria Bouroncle has taught English in South America and worked as a freelance writer in Cairo, Egypt. In 1991, she received a Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowship.

$8.00 | ISBN: 944550-34-7 | 57 Pages | In Stock: 3

David Robert Boyce

Bits and Pieces by David Robert Boyce Copyright 2006 by David Robert Boyce: David is a member of the Arizona, Utah, and New Jersey Poetry Societies, and is affiliated with NORAZ Poets. His work has appeared in many journals including Utah Sings Volume VII, The Collared Peccary, A String of Colored Beads, and The Noise.
$1.00 | 8 Pages | In Stock: 5

Mary Bonina

Living Proof by Mary Bonina Červená Barva Press, 2007

Review excerpt from: Prick of the spindle,
"Mary Bonina’s Living Proof is a hefty 45 pages and worth every drop of ink Červená Barva Press shelled out to bring it into the world. Each poem reads like a miniature story, stabbing at the heart of memory and nostalgia, capturing lifetimes in a single moment or turn of phrase..."
--Jen Garfield, editor
Prick of the Spindle

To read the whole review:
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/

These are poems concerned with the primary relationships of our lives -- family, friends, lovers, nature -- and in them, there is always the larger world rattling around. This volume of narratives, lyrics, dialogues, and found poems demonstrates Bonina's accomplishment and range. Here is an assured voice imbued with musicality, surprising us in the simple way it offers up deeper meaning, often using imagery drawn from the everyday.

"...the voice of these poems knows death, luck, the mall, the hard edges of place, New England places, the violence of the world. It runs very concretely and in many poems, past what its bearer sees as if standing still in deep attention. It is written so that "he who runs may read" but turns entirely inside out the terms and assumptions of that old insult. What a place this human world would be if we all ran at Mary Bonina's speed, what Flannery O'Connor once called the terrible speed of mercy."
--Mary Baine Campbell
author of TROUBLE (poems), Carnegie Mellon U Press and The World, The Flesh, and Angels (poems), Beacon Press

$7.00 | 46 Pages | In Stock: 20

Thom Brucie

Still Waters by Thom Brucie Tight Curtain Press, 2006

"These extraordinarily moving stories explore the intricacies of human suffering and joy. Thom Brucie writes with rare power and insight; his lyrical descriptions echo in the heart and mind of the reader."
-Libby Tucker, author of Campus Legends

-Thom Brucie is a 2006 Georgia Author of the Year Nominee

$16.00 | ISBN 0-9774897-1-X | 102 Pages | In Stock: 5 copies

Anne Brudevold

Luminal Wait by Anne Brudevold Eden River Press, 2006

I relish the times I have the priviledge to read her prose and poetry; I am always astonished by her ability to surprise the reader with a turn of phrase, an apt metaphor that I never have thought of myself, or a new way to examine human behavior or a social issue.
--Fanny Rothschild

As a writer, Anne has had many of her poems published and her desire to return to writing fiction will no doubt result in further publishing achievements. She has a good eye for critique and has worked with aspiring writers, (myself included) to further their vision and edit their work to a polish.
--Mary Lawrence

$6.00 | 26 Pages | In Stock: 3 (signed copies)

Lloyd Van Brunt

Delirium Selected Poems by Lloyd Van Brunt PRESA :S: PRESS, 2006

(Excerpts)
Lloyd Van Brunt writes good and elegant poetry about such everyday subjects as a wife awakening in bed, or a meal cooking on the stove. His metaphors are never predictable…
--Norman Mailer

What is remarkable, though…is his use of language which, in a word, must be termed brilliant.
--David Ignatow, The New York Times Book Review

The images display the poet's energetic imagination, at once holy and feral.
--Publishers Weekly

$6.00 | 46 Pages | In Stock: 1

Martin Burke

Beowulf by Martin Burke Červená Barva Press, 2009

"Burke is the eloquent essayist of the sublime"
Projected Letters

"His style is far ahead in terms of imaginative inventiveness
This is startling, original work"
Kiosque Review

Beowulf

TO BEGIN with the hero is inaccurate

Begin with his opposite
The one he must meet
The one he will forever be named by

Begin with time ripening to a specific purpose
With events entering history at a critical moment
Begin with Grendel

Grendel: beast/man/beast
Grendel: purpose-driven like no other
Grendel: a law unto himself

This is the one who names the hero for all time
The one doomed from the beginning
And yet this is not a minor role

O no
Not Grendel
Not the man-beast as he broods in his lair
Not as he plots the destruction he will bring
Not as he delights in the prospect

And he will bring destruction
O yes
Destruction and wanton despair
To those who cannot fight him

Martin Burke was born in Ireland but lives now in Brugge, Belgium

$7.00 | 52 Pages | In Stock

Philip E. Burnham, Jr.

A Careful Scattering by Philip E. Burnham, Jr. With illustrations by Louise and Elizabeth Burnham Červená Barva Press, 2007: Each year, for the forty-two Christmases of our married life, my wife, Louise Hassel Burnham, illustrated the poems I wrote to celebrate the festival season of the years’ ending and beginning, the Solstice, Christmas, and New Year. Her illustrations were in a variety of media: line drawings, block prints (both wood and vegetable), collage and paint. Many of the drawings represent views of our house in Newton, Massachusetts, including such details as the front door, a mirror in the hall, the fireplace. Others include the names and places of family and friends woven into trees. Louise’s final card, from 2001, is a gathering up of many earlier cards. While the original intent of these cards was to celebrate a single year, together they sum up our lives over four decades. We discussed their publication before her death, and it was she who chose the title, “A Careful Scattering.” In their publication I want to remember our partnership, and to dedicate this book to her memory with love.
$16.95 | ISBN 978-1-4357-0003-1 | 98 Pages | In Stock: 30

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