Books recently received and noted. Readers and publishers are encouraged to send in listings for this section, or copies of new books for review in "alerst". (See masthead for postal address.) Many small press books, particularly if not listed with ordering addresses, may be ordered from Small Press Distribution: spd@igc.apc.org/ FAX (510) 524-0852 /or, toll-free (800) 869-7553.


a+bend press, editor Jill Stengel, 3862 21st Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, jilith@aol.com, all titles 1999.

SAYING NO. 3 by Jenna Roper Harmon

a s f a r a s by Jen Hofer

Genealogy by Kathy Lou Schultz

22 by Katherine Spelling

Spelt by Susan Gevirtz and Myung Mi Kim

Eve Doe: Prior to Landscape by Elizabeth Treadwell

definite articles by Sarah Anne Cox

Waltzing the Map byStandard Schaefer

extraneous roses by Lisa Kovaleski

Room by Dana Teen Lomax

 

Donna Brook, A More Human Face, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1999.

Nicole Brossard, Typhon Dru, tr. Caroline Bergvall Reality Street Editions, 4 Howard Ct., Peckham Rye, London, SE15 3PH, www.demon.co.uk/eastfield/reality/ (1997)

Laynie Brown, The Agency of Wind, Avec books, Pengrove, CA, 1999.

Lee Ann Brown, Polyverse, New American Poetry Series, Sun & Moon, www.sunmoon.com, 1999.

Tina Celona, Songs & Scores, Spectacular Books, c/o Katy Lederer, 226 West 108th St., #2D, New York, NY 10025, 1998.

Barbara Cole, Postcards, Beautiful Swimmer Press, beautswim@aol.com, 1998.

Norma Cole, Moira, O books, www.obooks.com.

Brenda Coultas, A Summer Newsreel, Second Story Books, c/o Mary Burger, 85 Henry Street, #5, San Francisco, CA 94114, mburger@adobe.com, 1999.

Connie Deanovich, Zombie Jet, Zoland Books, www.zolandbooks.com, 1999.

Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, ed. R.W. Franklin, Harvard University Press, www.hup.harvard.edu, 1998.

Johanna Drucker, Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics, Granary Books, http//www.granarybooks.com, 1999.

Marcella Durand, City of Ports, Situations Press, 71 Greene Street, New York, NY 10013, 1999.

Elaine Equi, Voice-Over, Coffee House Press, www.coffeehousepress.org, 1998.

Elizabeth Fodasky, Fracas, Krupskaya, PO Box, 420249, San Francisco, CA, 94142, jocelyns@sirius.com, 1999.

Kathleen Fraser, Translating the Unspeakable/ Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, University of Alabama Press, www.uapress.ua.edu, forthcoming November 1999.

Gloria Frym, Distance No Object, City Lights Publishers, www.citylights.com, 1999.

Susan Gevirtz, Black Box Cutaway, Kelsey Street Press, kelseyst@sirius.com, 1998.

Renee Gladman, Not Right Now, Second Story Books, c/o Mary Burger, 85 Henry Street, #5, San Francisco, CA 94114, 1999.

Liz Gonzales, Beneath Bone, Manifest Press, syllogism2@aol.com, (forthcoming).

Barbara Guest

If So Tell Me, Reality Street Editions, 4 Howard Ct., Peckham Rye, London, SE15 3PH, www.demon.co.uk/eastfield/reality/, 1999.

Rocks On A Platter, Wesleyan University Press, university.press@dartmouth.edu, 1999

Kimiko Hahn, Volatile, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, NY 1999.

Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino, Sight, Edge Books, PO Box 25642, Washington, DC 20007, 1999.

Fanny Howe, Forged, The Post-Apollo Press, 35 Marie Street, Sausalito, CA 94965, 1999.

Denise Levertov, The Great Unknowing: Last Poems, New Directions, 80 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10011, 1999.

Joyce Mansour, Dechirures (Torn Apart), tr. Serge Gavronsky, Bitter Oleander Press, Fayetteville, NY, 1999.

Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day (reissue), New Directions, 80 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10011, 1999.

Gillian McCain, Religion, The Figures Press, 5 Castle Hill Avenue, Great Barrington, MA 01230, 1999.

Sharon Mesmer, Half Angel, Half Lunch, Hard Press, PO Box 184, West Stockbridge, MA, 1998.

m.mara ann, editor, WOOD a web and print book series

Zoe Krylova and Amy Kubes, the flickering world (summer 1999)

Josef Szuecs and Mauro Efef, rust enso, (summer 1999)

Jill Stengel, Jill Koetke and Holly Kreuter, cartography (winter 1998)

Myung Mi Kim, Under Flag, Kelsey Street Press, kelseyst@sirius.com, 1998.

Ange Mlinko, Matinees, Zoland Books, www.zolandbooks.com, 1999.

Laura Mullen, The Tales of Horror, Kelsey Street Press, kelseyst@sirius.com, 1999.

Jena Osman, The Character, Barnard New Women Poets Series, Beacon Press, www.beacon.org, 1999.

Ambar Past, The Sea On Its Side, tr. Jack Hirschman, The Post-Apollo press, 35 Marie Street, Sausalito, CA 94965, 1993.

Wang Ping ed., New Generation: Poems from China Today, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1999.

Claudia Rankine, The End of The Alphbet, Grove Press, New York, NY, 1998.

Elizabeth Robinson

The Seed for Bread, Kelsey Street Press, kelseyst@sirius.com, 1999.

LODGER, Arcturus Chaplet #3, charssmith@aol.com, 1999.

Debbie—an Epic, Reality Street Editions, 4 Howard Ct., Peckham Rye, London, SE15 3PH, www.demon.co.uk/eastfield/reality/, (co-publication with New Star Books, Canada) 1997.

Camille Roy, Swarm, Black Star Series, 4303 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, 1998.

Juliana Spahr, Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism, Spectacular Books, c/o Katy Lederer, 226 West 108th St., #2D, New York, NY 10025, 1998.

Cole Swenson, Noon, Sun & Moon, www.sunmoon.com, 1998.

Carol Szamatowicz, Cats & Birds, Stuyvesant Books, 524 East 20th St., 7D, New York, NY 10009, 1998.

Susan Thackrey, Empty Gate, Listening Chamber, 1605 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94703, 1999.

Cecilia Vicuna, Instan, Kelsey Street Press, kelseyst@sirius.com, 1999.

Catherine Wagner, Fraction Anthems, 811 Books, c/o Joshua Beckman, YMCA Writers Voice, 350 North First Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85003, 1999.

Rosmarie Waldrop, Reluctant Gravities, New Directions, 80 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10011, 1999.

Jo Ann Wasserman, what counts as proof, Sugar Books, New York City, 1999.


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