catalogue

A growing library of small-press works from far afield. Truculent texts, tentacular works needing reader kin, gathered works-on-paper. A personal library made public. These are books I have to share (have to share) with writers, students and readers of poetry for whom multimodality, hybrid-form books, or small-run books produced by indie presses, can come at a prohibitive cost or be altogether evasive. Poetry repays (in) a circular economy.

So here are some contemporary and strange circuit-breakers: genre-inquisitive, formally disruptive, politically non-conformist texts; tenderly aesthetic papered objects troubling definition, asemic, polysemic, germinal; verbo-visual writing, mixed-media writing, hybrid writing, conceptual writing; many texts that care for form as content, others more committed to bothering syntactical structure with intent.

Anyone in Melbourne is welcome to come by my office to browse and borrow this or that. Get in touch to be let in.

Alphabetical by author first name

Allison Parrish
Articulations
2018, Denver: Counterpath

Poet giving a talk on process | Review at Rhizome

Amy Fung
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
2019, Toronto: Book*hug

Write-up and some reviews at publisher’s website

Anne Boyer
Garments Against Women
2015, Boise: Ahsahta Press

Review at the NY Times | Write-up at publisher’s site | Essay by Boyer at The Lifted Brow

Anne Carson
Nox
2010, New York: New Directions

Review at the New Yorker | Carson giving a reading

Beatriz Restrepo Restrepo
Bestiario (in Spanish)
2014, Bogotá: Univ. de los Andes

Bio at Colombia Tienes Escritoras | My verbo-visual translation of some of the poems

Bénédicte Vilgrain (trans. Keith Waldrop)
A Tibetan Grammar
2016 [2001], Providence: Burning Deck Press

Review at Hyperallergic | Write-up at publisher’s website

Bernadette Mayer
Works and Days
2016, New York: New Directions

Review at NY TImes | Write-up at poet’s website incl. Mayer at a reading

eds. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Brown, Teresa Carmody & Vanessa Place
I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women
2012, Los Angeles: Les Figues

Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington, Paul Munden, Jen Webb, Jordan Williams & Caren Florance
Pegs Jars Keys Gaps Nets
2015, Canberra: International Poetry Studies Institute

Catherine Wagner
My New Job
2009, Hudson: Fence Books

Catherine Wagner
Nervous Device
2012, San Francisco: City Lights

Cecilia Vicuña
Saborami
2011 [1973], Oakland: Chainlinks

Bio at poet’s website | Bio at Poets.org

Chantal Neveu (trans. Angela Carr)
Coït
2012 [2011], Toronto: BookThug

Bio at poet’s website | Bio at Poets.org

Christine Friedlander
Avant Gauze
2016, Portland: Magic Helicopter Press

Book trailer | Excerpts at Tarpaulin Sky

eds. Christine Wertheim & Matias Viegener
The noulipian Analects
2016, Los Angeles: Les Figues

Review at the HuffPost | Write-up at publisher’s website

ed. Christine Wertheim
Feminaissance
2010, Los Angeles: Les Figues

Write-up at LA Review of Books | Commentary at Jacket2

ed. Danielle Collobert (trans. Norma Cole)
It Then
1989 [1976], Oakland: O Books

Review of Collobert’s other work at Cordite | Write-up at Small Press Distribution

Demosthenes Agrafiotis (Trans. John & Angela Sakkis)
‘now, 1/3’ & thepoem
2012, Buffulo: BlazeVOX

Bio and catalogue of artists books on poet’s website | Recording of reading

Dodie Bellamy
Cunt Norton
2013, Los Angeles: Les Figues

Review at The American Reader | Excerpt with intro by Maggie Nelson at PEN

Edouard Levé (trans. Lorin Stein)
Autoportrait
2012 (2005), Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press

Edouard Levé (trans. Jan Steyn)
Suicide
2011 (2008), Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press

Edwin Torres
Yes Thing No Thing
2010, New York: Roof Books

Bio at Poetry Foundation | Write-up at publisher’s website

Eileen Myles
Not Me
1991, South Pasadena: Semiotext(e)

Eleni Stecopoulos
Visceral Poetics
2016, Oakland: ON-Contemporary Practice

Commentary at Jacket2 | Write-up at publisher’s website

eds. Erica Hunt & Dawn Lundy Martin
Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing
2018, Tucson: Core Press

Write-up at publisher’s website | Short review at Publishers Weekly

Etel Adnan
The Arab Apocalypse
1989, Sausalito: The Post-Apollo Press

Review at Jacket2 | Interview with Lisa Robertson at BOMB Magazine

Erin Klassen
Happy If You Know It
2017, Toronto: With/out Pretend

Fenn Stewart
Nature
2017, Toronto: Book*hug

Gertrude Stein
Everybody’s Autobiography
1993 [1937], Cambridge: Exact Change

giovanni singleton
American Letters: Works on Paper
2018, Ann Arbor: Canarium Books

Sample at POETRY | Review at Ark.Int.

Harmony Holiday
Hollywood Forever
2017, Albany: Fence Books

Review at LA Review of Books | Interview at BOMB Magazine

Heather Christle
The Trees the Trees
2011, Portland: Octopus Books

Jane Lewty
Bravura Cool
2012, USA: 1913 Press

Some brief blurbs at 1913 Press page

eds. Jena Osman & Juliana Spahr
Chain – literary mag

No. 3: HYBRID GENRES, MIXED MEDIA (PART 2)
No. 4: PROCEDURES
No. 6: LETTERS
No. 7: MEMOIR/ANTI-MEMOIR
No. 8: COMICS
No. 9: DIALOGUE
No. 10: TRANSLUCINACION
No. 11: PUBLIC FORMS

Complete soft copies of all Nos. at Jacket2

Jennifer Hayashida
A Machine Wrote This Song
2018, Seattle: Gramma Press

Book trailor on Vimeo | PEN bio | Book write-up at poet’s website

Jennif(f)er Tamayo
YOU DA ONE
2017, Blacksberg: Noemi Press

Review at LA Review | Review at NDR

Jenny Boully
Not Merely Because of the Unknown that Was Stalking Toward Them
2011, Vermont: Tarpaulin Sky Press

Review at The Iowa Review | Write-up at publisher website

Juliana Spahr
That Winter the Wolf Came
2015, Oakland: Commune Editions

eds. Juliana Spahr & Stephanie Young & many others
A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism
2011, Oakland: ChainLinks

Kathleen Fraser
Moveable TYYPE
2011, Callicoon: Nightboat Books

Bio at Poetry Foundation | Interview at BLARB

Karen Green
Bough Down
2013, Los Angeles: Siglio Press

kari edwards
iduna
2003, US: O Books

Bio at Poetry Foundation | Review on a blog

ed. Katy Bohnic
Please Add to This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer’s Sonnets & Experiments
2014, New York: Tender Buttons Press

Write-up at publisher’s website | Podcast interview with Bernadette Mayer at Commonplace | Bernadette Mayer’s Experiments in full

L. Ann Wheeler
Abandoners
2018, New York: The Operating System

Short reviews at poet’s website | Interview at Medium

Leslie Scalapino & Lyn Hejinian
Sight
1999, Washington: Edge Books

Review at Iowa Review

Li Zilles
Machine Unlearning
2018, Denver: Counterpath

Write-up at publisher’s website

ed. Malcolm Sutton
The Coming Envelope – letterpress poetry mag. Issue 2 Winter 1, 2010 (Yankelevich, Murphy, Davies, Brown, Place); Issue 6 Winter 2, 2012 (Berger, Higgs, Licker, Boughn, Reed)
Toronto: BookThug

Margaret Rhee
Love, Robot
2017, New York: The Operating System

Review at Publishers Weekly | Margaret Rhee’s Kimchi Poetry Machine + bio

Marie Ndiaye (trans. Jordan Stump)
Self-Portrait in Green
2014 [2005], San Francisco: Two Lines Press

Mary Ruefle
A Little White Shadow
2006, Seattle & New York: Wave Books

Michael Farrell
Long Dull Poem
2014, Melbourne: STALE OBJECTS dePRESS

Publisher’s tumblr | Review of Farrell incl. chapbooks

Michelle Detorie
After-Cave
2014, Idaho: Ahsahta Press

Review at Kenyon Review | Interview at Prism Review (Iss. #17)

M. NourbeSe Philip
Zong!
2008, Middletown: Wesleyan

Mónica de la Torre
Public Domain
2008, New York: Roof Books

Bio at Poets.org | Review at Publishers Weekly

Monica Ong
Silent Anatomies
2015, Tucson: Kore Press

Review at Tarpaulin Sky | Review on a blog (Writing with Images)

Nathanaël (self trans.)
Je Nathanaël
2019 [2003], Toronto: Book*hug

Rachel Blau duPlessis
The Collage Poems of Drafts
2011, London: Salt Publishing

Review/essay at Jacket2

Raquel Salas Rivera
Lo Terciario / The tertiary
2018, US: Timeless, Infinite Light

Review at Jacket2 | Interview at Asymptote

Raquel Salas Rivera
While They Sleep (Under the Bed Is Another Country)
2019, Minneapolis: Birds Press

Excerpt at PEN | Review at Medium

Rocío Carlos & Rachel McLeod Kaminer
Attendance
2018, New York: The Operating System

Excerpt at Cultural Weekly

Robert Grenier
A Day at the Beach
2008 [1984], New York: Roof Books

Bio at Poetry | Micro reviews at UPenn

Ron Silliman
Against Conceptual Poetry
2014, Denver: Counterpath

Sawako Nakayasu
Texture Notes
2010, Tucson: Letter Machine Editions

Review at Kenyon Review | Poet’s website including performances, projects, etc

Sawako Nakayasu
The Ants
2014, Los Angeles: Les Figues

Write-up at publisher’s website | Review at Pank Online | Image to the left is a broadside from 18 Owls

Stephen Cain
Etc Phrases
2013, Toronto: Book*hug

Tan Lin
Heath Cours Pak
2012 (2nd ed.), Denver: Counterpath

Interview at Jacket2 | Wikipedia entry

eds. Teresa Carmody & Vanessa Place
TrenchArt Monographs: Hurry Up Please It’s Time
2015, Los Angeles: Les Figues

Write-up at publisher’s website | Interview with Carmody at Entropy

Vanessa Place
Dies: A Sentence
2005, Los Angeles: Les Figues

Excerpt at Poets.org | Write-up at LARB

Vickie Gendreau (trans. Aimee Wall)
Testament
2016 [2012], Toronto: Book*hug

On order

Anouk Durand (trans. Elizabeth Zuba), Eternal Friendship, 2017, LA: Siglio Press

Bernadette Mayer, Memory, 2020, LA: Siglio Press

Lee Ann Brown + Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, Harryette Mullen, Agnes Wiley, Rosmarie Waldrop, Hannah Weiner, Jennifer Moxley, Dodie Bellamy, Michelle Rollman, Laynie Brown, India Radfar & Katy Bohinc, Tender Omnibus (full collected works of the first twenty-five years of Tender Buttons Press), 2016, New York: Tender Buttons

Lisa Robertson, 3 Summers, 2016 Toronto: Coach House Books

Lisa Robertson, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, 2010, Toronto: Coach House Books

Danielle Dutton, Sprawl, 2018, Seattle: Wave Books

Emma Russo, Wave Archive, 2019, Toronto: Book*hug

ed. Frank André Jamme, Tantra Song: Tantric Painting From Rajasthan 2011, LA: Siglio Press

ed. Lucy Ives, The Saddest Thing Is that I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader 2020, LA: Siglio Press

Nancy Spero, Torture of Women, 2010, LA: Siglio Press

Rachel Blau duPlessis, Days and Works, 2017, Boise: Ahsahta Press

Sophie Calle, The Address Book, 2012, LA: Siglio Press

Sophie Calle, Suite Vénitienne, 2015, LA: Siglio Press

Vi Khi Nao, The Proscenium, 2019, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse

Wilson Bueno (trans. Erín Moure), Paraguayan Sea, 2017, Callicoon: Nightboat Books