Anthony Opal

Editor at The Economy Press theeconomypress.com Books, chapbooks, translations, etc. anthonyopal.com

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The sun in Chicago at 7:24 pm

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On this 4th of July, one of the best articulations of America’s potential I can think of…

“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

—Walt Whitman

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Broadside available from The Economy Press

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Author: Walt Whitman

Broadside, 11 x 8.5 in

Cotton wove paper, 32 lb / 120 gsm

The Economy Press, 2026

Limited edition, hand-numbered x/50.

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Limited-edition broadside by Matthew Zapruder, illustrated by Eleanor Opal, hand-numbered and signed by the author, x/100.

Available framed or unframed from The Economy Press.

Author: Matthew Zapruder

Illustrator: Eleanor Opal

Broadside, 11 × 8.5 in

Cotton wove paper, 32 lb / 120 gsm

The Economy Press, 2026

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A limited-edition, single-run broadside by Matthew Zapruder is now available from The Economy Press. Each print is hand-numbered, signed by the author, and can be purchased framed or unframed here.

In the interest of producing a unique literary artifact, only 100 broadsides were created, and there will be no additional printings.

Author: Matthew Zapruder

Illustrator: Eleanor Opal

Broadside, 11 x 8.5 in

Cotton wove paper, 32 lb / 120 gsm

The Economy Press, 2026

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“I like music when it’s part of the atmosphere, down the hall, or across the street, when it’s mixed up and part of everything. I like listening to music far away - you hear it wrong. You hear it mixed in with everything else. I usually try to step back so things are a little blurred for me like water stains on the wallpaper. You thought it was part of the design, but it’s not.” (Tom Waits, Travelers Cafe Interview, 1986)

TOM WAITS is a collection of lines written while walking around and hearing Tom Waits playing from a house in the distance.

Available from The Economy Press

Author: Anthony Opal

Booklet, 22 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: English

ISBN: 979-8-9885108-6-4

Released: August 21, 2024

Publisher: The Economy Press

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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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Read interview here

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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 ECONOMY PRESS / theeconomypress.com

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