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Fine Press Books


Ephemera

Alphabet Man

by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz
(LPCB031) - 5 5/8" x 4 5/8" - 24 pages - Hand silkscreened Cover

The concrete poems in this volume are produced using all of the letters of the alphabet each exactly one time. Clean, provocative, and almost sculptural, Liszkiewicz plays with a very plastic conception of language. A must for those interested in the visual use of the letter.

$6.00

Market Freakout

by Stan Apps
(LPCB029) - 7 1/4" x 8 3/4" - 20 pages - Two color Hand Silkscreened Cover

Poetry is like the forces of the market. Adjustment of the forces is like being in love with "Santheripean Kingdies." Apps takes us on a poly-vocal exploration of the realities of a world run by Wall Street.

$6.00

Ladybug Laws

by Laura Moriarty
(LPCB029) - 7 1/4" x 7 1/4" - 24 pages - Die Cut Cover

An imagined society of Ladybugs, you and I--Moriarty takes us into the realm of the possible where language and civil disobedience are both games to be played for real. "Some writers to their readers are as spiders / But you to me as reader are insectivore / Or creature of paradise"

$6.00

Sonnagrams 1-20

by K. Silem Mohammad
(LPCB028) - 7 1/4"x7 1/4" - 28 pages - Three Color Hand Silk Screened Cover

The first installment of K. Silem Mohammad's anagrammatic manipulations of Shakespeare that tell us, among other things, that "Richard Nixon screwed a giant squid," and that there is "a word the OED omits," and "Whoever says it retches, dies, and shits." This one's a killer!

$6.00

Exilio-Globo-Ejército (a grito) / Globo-Exhilio-Army (to yawp for)

by Rodrigo Toscano
(LPCB027) - 7 1/4"x8 3/4" - 48 pages - Hand Painted Cover

Rodrigo Toscano's first bi-lingual collection. Political and personal, Toscano applies his keen vision and rhythm to the world.

$6.00

StoneSoup

by Nava Fader
(LPCB026) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 20 pages

Nava Fader riffs off of very fables, nursery rhymes, legends, and other poems.

$6.00

Mesostic Tea

by Alec Finlay
(LPCB025) - 7 1/4"x9" - 32 pages

A sequence of Finlay's daily meditations on teas.

$6.00

Weak Link

by Rob Halpern
(LPCB024) - 7 1/4"x8 3/4" - 32 pages - Silk Screen Cover

What happens when all of the links are the weak link?

$6.00

Lip Service

by Mathew Timmons
(LPCB023) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 28 pages

Paying it to everything and everyone. Then pulling teeth.

$6.00

Time Machine

by Ric Royer
(LPCB022) - 7 1/4"x8 3/4" - 36 pages - Silk Screen Cover

A time traveller's blog that not only recounts meeting the saints, but gets their phone numbers.

$6.00

Bicycle Day

by Mel Nichols
(LPCB021) - 7 1/4"x8 3/4" - 32 pages - Silk Screen Cover

Every day is a trip.

$6.00

Hole in the Ground

by Catherine Wagner
(LPCB020) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 28 pages

Wagner, mixing song and verse, explores the mores of interpersonal relationships.

$5.00

Except Me, On Which Seldom I Am Gazing

by Aaren Yandrich
(LPCB019) - 7 "x8 1/2" - 20 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

after Celan

by David Baratier
(LPCB018) - 5 1/4"x6 1/2" - 20 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

An Awkward Alphabet

by Nils Ya
(LPCB017) - 5 1/4"x6 1/2" - 30 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

American Dialectics

by Tom Orange
(LPCB016) - 5 1/4"x6 1/2" - 24 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

Dementia Blog: September 2006

by Susan M. Schultz
(LPCB015) - 7 1/4"x9" - 32 pages - Silk Screen Cover

Description coming soon.

$5.00

No Bridge to Kentucky

by Christopher Mattison
(LPCB014) - 4 1/4"x5 1/2" - 16 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

A Garland of Garish Vagaries

by Gary Roberts
(LPCB013) - 5 1/2"x5 1/2" - 28 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

Oh Boy

by Mark Wallace
(LPCB012) - 4 1/4"x5 1/2" - 20 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

Silk Flowers by Nada Gordon

by Benjamin Friedlander with a Preface by Nada Gordon
(LPCB011) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 20 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

The Dew Neal

by Douglas Manson
(LPCB010) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 16 pages

Description coming soon.

$5.00

AAB

by Tyrone Williams
(LPCB009) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 24 pages

Chords of language and blues infuse these poems and a one act play.

$5.00

She Kept Birds

by Geraldine Monk
(LPCB008) - 4 1/4"x5 1/2" - 24 pages

From her larger project Mary Queen of Scots Monk takes us on a somewhat eclectic bird watching adventure.

$5.00

Topical Ointment

by Keith Tuma
(LPCB007) - 4'1/4"x11'0" - 16 pages

In this political collection, Tuma takes on war, George W. Bush, and the ills of the early 21st Century. Not quite a balm for the conscience, this collection of poetic political critiques are equal opportunity jibes.

$5.00

Exact Rubber Bridges

by Ralph Hawkins
(LPCB006) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 20 pages

As he puts it “A thematic work!”, Hawkins’ visual composition constructed out of diagrams, illustrations of amphibians and motor vehicles tells, among other stories, the tale of a young salamander learning to drive.

$5.00

Terminal Humming

by K. Lorraine Graham
(LPCB005) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 20 pages

Graham moves us through an airport filled with strangers and stranger thoughts.

$5.00

In Addition

by Alan Halsey
(LPCB004) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 20 pages

Channeling the spirits of the long dead literary past, Halsey brings us seventeen more of his Lives of the Poets.

$5.00

Pomes Popeye Papyrus

by Michael Basinski
(LPCB003) - 5 1/2"x8 1/2" - 20 pages

Basinski has taken us on a somewhat cracked tour of the supermarket.

$5.00

ZIP Code Poems

by Stephen T. Vessels
(LPCB002) - 4 3/4"x5 3/4" - 24 pages

These tanka-like epistolary poetic meditations derive their syllabic structure from ZIP Codes. Illustrations by the author.

Out of Print

Sound Swarms & Other Poems

by Daniel Bouchard
(LPCB001) - 5 1/4"x8 1/2" - 16 pages

William Blake meets several Dead Presidents.

$5.00