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by Steve McCaffery with collages by Clelia Scala from Bookthug. Poet and scholar Steve McCaffery reimagines Lewis Carroll’s Alice books in a manner that changes the way readers negotiate Wonderland and its menagerie of characters. Clelia Scala’s collages beautifully annotate McCaffery’s renewed vision of Wonderland. MORE
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Punk, Plunderland, Paper Mosaics, and Artobotic
FROM KOLAJ #20 Artobotic at Edinburgh International Festival
COLLAGE BOOKS Alice in Plunderland by Steve McCaffery with collages by Clelia Scala from Bookthug.
COLLAGE ON VIEW Paper Mosaic: Raven Skye McDonough at Mitchell Gallery in Englewood, Florida, 5 September-4 October 2017.
FROM KOLAJ #20 Afraid of Modern Living: Collage in California's Punk Scene
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Ashley Parker Owens Richmond, Kentucky, USA
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Put on you dancing shoes, folks! Its time for a brand new SPD RECOMMENDS! WOWZA!
Featuring Wave Books Silverfish Review Press Sagging Meniscus Press Les Figues Press Black Square Editions Edge Books Tupelo Press Shearsman Books Eyewear Publishing Inanna Publications Astrophil Press Ahsahta Press Fence / Fence Books Black Lawrence Press BookThug
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SPD RECOMMENDS Silvija by Sandra Ridley (BookThug)
“While the effect of Ridley’s short phrases staccato and accumulate into a complex tapestry that refuses anything straightforward, the emotional content is raw, savage and brutally stark.”—rob mclennan
Feast your eyes and your shelves on May’s SPD Recommends *Backlist*, ten titles that continue to rock our world. Maybe they’ll rock yours too...
1. ANARCH. - Frances Richard
"This collection of poems addresses the fundamental question of our time: what is it to be human? If we are strange to each other and ourselves, then how do we know it? What is strangeness if not a recognition of something we can recognize? We can no longer see the earth (especially from the sky) as unaffected by all our experiments, hurled down, trashed, in pursuit of happiness. Frances Richard goes to the material roots of our search and turns away, and takes off, after another purpose. This book has the spirit of anthropology and philosophy, and also reveals the underlying structures of these two disciplines as a problem for artists to solve. Why? Because if words go down with the rest, and lose their light, we are really finished. Richard is doing what poets are asked to be doing now."—Fanny Howe
2. THOU - Aisha Sasha John
"THOU is a pilgrimage—in which heaven is sought through earth, and relation is material. THOU is a choreography of irresolute bodies, the insistent shifting of their positions. Aisha Sasha John is a poet of centrifugal energy, of reverberant intimacy.”—Michael Nardone
3. UNDER FLAG - Myung Mi Kim
From the publisher: "In UNDER FLAG, Myung Mi Kim writes in a stark, unflinching voice that alternately drives to the core of painful subject matter and backs off to let beauty speak for itself: ‘Save the water from rinsing rice for sleek hair / This is what the young women are told, then they're told / Cut off this hair that cedar combs combed / Empty straw sacks and hide under them / Enemy soldiers are approaching...’.”
4. 2500 Random Things About Me Too - Matias Viegener
"An extraordinary capture of a life and a consciousness in middle age, when mortality and the grid of associations laid by one's personal history cannot be denied. Chained to the task of compiling these 'random' lists, Viegener creates a self-portrait—of the whole world!—that encompasses everything from Descartes to the grooming habits of parrots, with plenty of sex, beauty and boredom. Like Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North, Viegener's journey leads nowhere except to an emptying out. Compulsively readable, the book is a brilliant achievement. I could not put it down."—Chris Kraus
5. Apart - Catherine Taylor
"Catherine Taylor's Apart offers an intimate and sweeping look at the legacy of apartheid, while performing an altogether rare balance of 'lyric seduction' against 'the ugliness of corpses.' Taylor refreshingly treats white guilt and the self-conscious recognition of privilege as starting points rather than conclusions, as she plumbs the depths of history, from which, as she reminds us, 'no one is excused.' The result is edifying, original, and critically rigorous—a poetic and political vibration between 'ecstasy, shame, ecstasy, shame.'"—Maggie Nelson
6. The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers - Bhanu Kapil
From the publisher: "These short pieces reveal new ways of belonging in the world and possibilities for an art grounded in a localized cosmopolitan culture. And Bhanu Kapil writes: ‘As if our responsibilities to each other end at the border of our / countries, or at our cities, or half-way across our cities, or at our / back doors, or at our skins. No.’”
7. The Morning News Is Exciting - Don Mee Choi
"Choi translates feminist politics into an experimental poetry that demilitarizes, deconstructs, and decolonizes any master narrative."—Craig Santos Perez
8. The Men - Lisa Robertson
"...only [Robertson's] poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture." —The Village Voice
9. Earliest Worlds - Eleni Sikelianos
"Earliest Worlds signals poetry's adventurous slide into genres usually left to their proper (read academic) spheres. Sikelianos' practice of mixing discourse and lyric blows up the disciplinary borders as effortlessly as reading a menu of options...behind its self-professed 'gluttony for words,' Earliest Worlds flaunts a sexy insouciance and an uproarious inventiveness."—Chris Tysh
10. The Arab Apocalypse - Etel Adnan
"The Arab Apocalypse is, to date, Adnan's most triumphant battle with the exactness of words." —Douglas Powell
