Anthony Opal

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Translated works on sale: 05.15 - 05.31

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Translated works on sale: 05.15 - 05.31

The Economy Press

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HAIKU PAMPHLET SERIES, 10 Volumes

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POEMS OF TANEDA SANTOKA ii is a short collection of Santoka’s haiku on the themes of koboreru (spilling over), afureru (overflowing), and sabishigaru (loneliness or isolation). Each translation is accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration.

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POEMS OF TANEDA SANTOKA ii is a part of The Economy Press Haiku Pamphlet Series.

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Author: Taneda Santoka

Translator: Anthony Opal

Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: Japanese / English

ISBN: 979-8-9885108-8-8

Release Date: October 29, 2024

Publisher: The Economy Press

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Discounts on selected titles for a limited time at theeconomypress.com

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TALIESIN by Caitlin Lorraine Johnson is now available for preorder.

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TALIESIN is an experimental look at the murders and fires that destroyed Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal home in Wisconsin. Details from Wright's life are set at the top of each page with visceral moments from the author’s life at the bottom. Images of the home and grounds are featured throughout.

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I think we look for heroes who believe what we cannot.

It's so easy to let go of what we wanted life to be when we thought it could be anything.

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As a boy, Frank Lloyd Wright often broke free of his uncle's grip to gather weeds he saw sticking out of the snow.

"I have encountered violent breaks in the fields of life and work . . . Romance I have seen as Reality . . . And I have been seeking ideal life and ideal building as, at the very beginning, I sought naked weed rising above blue arabesque, sunshot, on spotless white."

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Author: Caitlin Lorraine Johnson

Booklet, 42 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: English

Release Date: April 21, 2026

Publisher: The Economy Press

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THE END OF by Zachary Schomburg is now available for preorder.

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THE END OF is a collection of poems about endings - the end of Le Bonheur, Japón, Rabbits, Starman, Geometria, The Vanishing, Canoa, Possession, Los Sures, Streetwise, And Life Goes On.

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“THE END OF THE VANISHING”

A woman

waters

a prickly

bush

of little

white

flowers

before

beating

the children

in bad-

minton.

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Author: Zachary Schomburg

Booklet, 22 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: English

Release Date: April 21, 2026

Publisher: The Economy Press

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TALIESIN by Caitlin Lorraine Johnson is now available for preorder

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TALIESIN is an experimental look at the murders and fires that destroyed Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal home in Wisconsin. Details from Wright's life are set at the top of each page with visceral moments from the author’s life at the bottom. Images of the home and grounds are featured throughout.

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As a child, Frank Lloyd Wright listened to his father play Beethoven on the piano late into the night, “Living seemed a kind of ‘listening’ to him . . . Sometimes it was as though a door would open, and he could get the beautiful meaning quite clear. Then it would close and the meaning would be dim or far away. But always there was some meaning.”

The spring I began reading Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography, a coyote started following me on solo-hikes around Griffith Park in Los Angeles. He stayed far enough away that I wasn’t afraid. It was like he knew exactly how much distance allows two creatures to feel alone.

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Author: Caitlin Lorraine Johnson

Booklet, 42 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: English

Release Date: April 21, 2026

Publisher: The Economy Press

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Many thanks to @citylightsbooks for hosting a beautiful reading of Dean Rader’s and Matthew Zapruder’s Economy Press titles

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Haiku Pamphlet Series - Sale - 10 Volumes

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"The house I was born in," Taneda Santoka, Trans. Anthony Opal, from Volume 8

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HAIKU PAMPHLET SERIES - 20% off - 10 Volumes

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HAIKU PAMPHLET SERIES - 20% off - 10 Volumes

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Final day for preorder discount, March 7

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There’s a review of VERSIONS OF JONAH by Tomas Unger in the new issue of The Threepenny Review

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