POETRY (All titles are paperback unless otherwise noted. Titles include Membrane Press, Open Meeting Books, Word Press and related imprints.) AYER, HILARY VARIATIONS ON THE HERMIT $ 7.00 Translations and adaptaions of Chinese poems (most by T'ao Yaun Ming) exploring the salutory nature of solitude. BERGE, CAROL THE UNEXPECTED $ 6.00 The major collection of Berge's poetry from the late sixties to the mid seventies. BRANDI, JOHN SHADOW PLAY $ 8.00 "I love John Brandi's `pledge to clarity,' his politics in the sense of witness, his candor, his delight & heart toward chilren & friends..." -- Anne Waldman COLEMAN, WANDA AMERICAN SONNETS $ 6.00 "She is funny and mean and for real. A wise woman. A super-deft maker of poems and stories that shift and stun." -- Antioch Review CLARK, LAURIE and THOMAS A. $ 15.00 PROVERBS OF THE MEADOWS AND THE MOUNTAINS Concise poems by Thomas A. and incisive drawings by Laurie work perfectly together in this gentle exploration of nature and sterner view of human interaction with it. EINZIG, BARBARA COLOR $ 7.00 First book by this remarkable poet. The surfaces of objects reflect color as the surfaces of language reveal the nature of words and the eyes that read them. ENSLIN, THEODORE MARKINGS $ 7.00 Tight set of poems centering on definition of place and presence. ENSLIN, THEODORE OPUS 0 $ 7.00 Vintage Enslin. The title, from Bruckner, gives formal key to relation of author to environment - natural, human, historical. FILLIOU, ROBERT ET AL SIX FILLIOUS $15.00 Fillious fluxus classic 14 CHANSONS ET 1 CHARADE, with translations and transformations by George Brecht, Dieter Rot, Dick Higgins, Steve McCaffery, and bpNichol. FOSS, PHILLIP COURTESAN OF SEIZURE $ 8.00 "Foss is among the rare poets today whose work, rather than recycling so much exhausted material, actually comes to inform and reinvigorate language itself." - Gustaf Sobin FOSS, PHILLIP THE EXCESSES. THE CAPRICE $ 10.00 "Make no mistake about it: Foss's reflections are as convincing as cliffs." - Charles Bernstein THE FOUR HORSEMEN THE PROSE TATTOO $ 10.00 Selected Performance Scores by one of the liveliest groups of sound poets to appear in North America. Many scores may be read as visual poetry. FOX, WILLIAM L. SILENCE AND LICENSE $ 10.00 Haunting and subtly subversive minimalism. See sample of plain text in the Light and Dust directory -- the graphic sections have to be seen to be believed -- or disbelieved. JESSICA HAGEDORN and PALOMA HAGEDORN WOO VISIONS OF A DAUGHTER, FORETOLD $6.00 Poems by mother and daughter celebrating their interrelated lives. KEMPTON, KARL RUNE: A SURVEY $ 7.00 Large scale survey of the major work of the supreme master of the visual poetry keyboard. KEMPTON, RUTH & KARL FIRE + WATER $ 5.00 Doodles and sketches left around the house by Ruth reworked by Karl began this collaboration, which became one of the most profound sets of love poems of recent times. KOSTELANETZ, RICHARD SOLOS DUETS TRIOS & CHORUSES $ 10.00 Single words broken down into components. Paired words as poems. Three word poems. Great circular choruses. MAC LOW, JACKSON FRENCH SONNETS $ 7.00 Delightful, witty, and absorbing sonnets created by the interaction of a favorite copy of a French dictionary and Shakespeare's sonnets. BPNICHOL SHARP FACTS $ 30.00 Part of Nichol's TRANSLATING TRANSLATING APOLLINAIRE project, much of which was published by L & D and is waiting funds for a reprint. This segment translates the base poem "Translating Apollinaire" into images through xerographic decay. Pages are xeroxes made by Nichol and Karl Young in 1981. A book for dedicated Nichol and/or creative xeroxes aficionados. A book that cannot be reprinted. MERNIT, SUSAN TREE CLIMBING $ 6.00 Personal history grows into personal mythology, which joins the myths and archetypes of Jewish tradition and of the world. OLSON, TOBY CHANGING APPEARANCE $ 15.00 Collected poems 1965 -1970. Largest collection of Olson's poetry to date. Includes reprints of 6 books and poems not previously published. OLSON, TOBY HOME $ 8.00 Toby Olson has in the most profound sense a moralist's love of the things of this world...which moves into deeply satisfying metaphysical realms -- Armand Schwerner RENIKER, SHERRY & YOUNG, KARL A FEW SHORT LINES $ 7.00 2 books in 1. Reniker's VANISHING PEACE, poems 1982 - 1992 and Young's WHAT TO WHISPER UNTIL IT RAINS, short poems 1963 - 1972. Duet with curious harmonies. ROSENBLATT, SUZANNE SHORELINES $ 15.00 Inextricably fussed drawings and poems dealing with the places where land and water meet, and the people who may be found there. ROTHENBERG, JEROME ABULAFIA'S CIRCLES $ 6.00 Poems addressing three messianic figures: Abraham Abulafia Jacob Frank, and Tristan Tzara. ROTHENBERG, JEROME GEMATRIA 27 $ 10.00 Rothenberg's first published Gematria poems made from Kabbalistic equations. Boxed set of poem cards with backs that can be assembled as puzzles. ROTHENBERG, JEROME THE NOTEBOOKS $ 7.00 Poems from Rothenberg's notebooks written while he was editing the anthology A BIG JEWISH BOOK. SANDERS, EDWARD CRACKS OF GRACE $ 5.00 Small book that runs the gamut of Sander's concerns and apptoaches: lyrics to satire to political activism. Includes a section of his work in progress, *CHEKHOV.* TAGGART, JOHN DEHISCENCE $ 6.00 One of Taggart's earliest, and strongest, minimalist workings. TAGGART, JOHN DODEKA $ 6.00 Preface by Robert Duncan. Sequence created using geometric model tell of Hippasus, the philosopher who revealed the secret of mathematical imperfection -- or CHAOS. TARN, NATHANIEL THE MICROCOSM $ 5.00 The delicay of these multi-tiered love poems makes this collection unique in Tarn's opus. WELLMAN, DON FIELDS $ 10.00 "Wellman's brilliant variousness is complex of the world's. He has done his singular work with dedicated mind and heart - it's a very solid book, and should make a useful splash." -- Robert Creeley YOUNG, KARL DAYS AND YEARS $ 5.00 YOUNG, KARL ORANGE GOLD $ 3.00 Part 1 of THE RING OF INDOCHINA. Fractal structuring relates sandwhich bags to body bags, life in tunnels to the nature of time, opera to napalm. YOUNG, KARL TO DREAM KALAPUYA $ 6.00 Elegy for the Lower Umpqua people of British Columbia, composed using systematic-chance processes from a vocabulary from their remaining stories. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSAYS A SYMPOSIUM ON CLARK COOL SILLIMAN, RON, ED. $ 5.00 The first large scale consideration of Clark Coolidge's work, and a major critical effort by Ron Silliman. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CATALOGUES INTERNATIONAL SHADOWS PROJECT - 1990 Karl Young, curator $ 5.00 Illustrated catalogue for mail-art show in memory of the victims of Hiroshima and opposing the further production and use of nuclear weapons. INTERNATIONL SHADOWS PROJECT - 1991 Karl Young, cuartor $ 3.00 Catalogue for 1991 Shadows Project show, stressing the need for continued opposition to nuclear weapons despite the moment's illusions of security. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW FIRE AUDIO CASSETTES TAPES BPNICHOL EAR RATIONAL (Solo Performances 1970-1980) $ 10.00 A Pharaoh's name transformed into rock n roll, a children's ditty goes into electronic outer space, much more . . . RAFAEL BARRETO-RIVERA SCRABBLE BABBLE $ 10.00 Abstract solos, with strong undercurrents from Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens. DUTTON, PAUL FUGITIVE FORMS $ 10.00 Dutton, the bass voice of the Four Horsemen, brings his thorough knowledge of everything from field hollers to Kurt Schwitters to these solos. OLSON, TOBY HOME $ 10.00 Refreshingly straight-forward reading of Olson book, HOME [which is in the poetry section of this directory]. ROTHENBERG, JEROME POLAND/1931 $ 10.00 Considered by many to be Rothenberg's best recorded performance to date. TAGGART, JOHN READING $ 10.00 Taggart reading his first four books. Objectivist base leading up to, but not including, minimalist work such as DEHISCENCE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BROADSIDES JAPANESE VISUAL POETRY $ 7.00 5 4-fold broadsides by Mori, Hiro, Hiroshi, Syoji, Kyuyo WORD/WOMEN BROADSIDES $ 5.00 4-folds by Etel Adnan, Judy Katz-Levine, Leza Lowitz MAASO, MOLINA, AND EVERS SINGING IN ENCHANTED WATER $ 5.00 Bilingual wall mount broadside set of a Yaqui Deer Dance song, with extensive notes, guides to pronunciation, etc. SZE, ARTHUR THE SILK ROAD $ 3.00 Haunting meditation leading from lost empires of Central Asia through the Chinese language through the threat of nuclear holocaust to a sense of balance in the world. WINKLER, MICHAEL WHERE SIGNS RESEMBLE THOUGHTS $ 3.00 Visual poetry classic, in which a simple text is transformed into a set of ideograms, or glyphs, or icons, or mandalas that work in circles instead of lines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Items on this list may be ordered through the Grist On-Line Bookstore (see toll-free number listed in the Bookstore) or from the publisher at 7112 27th Ave. Kenosha, WI 53143 Please add $2.00 for shipping and handling on 1 to 3 titles, $1.00 for each five after that.