the werld
Claire Becker
Horse Less Press
(c) 2010
Unpaginated staple-bound chapbook. The werds float.
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Estrella's Prophecies : III 22 Shocking Poems by David Baratier (2004)
Estrella's Prophecies : III (22 Shocking Poems)
David Baratier
Luna Bizonte Prodz
Columbus, OH
(c)2004
This is simply an extremely bizarre booklet. Words beyond these are meaningless.
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Pneumatic Antiphonal by Sylvia Legris (2013)
Pneumatic Antiphonal
New Directions Poetry Pamphlet #4
(c) 2013
Quite the coup to be published by New Directions. 47 pages. Illustration in book by author. Cover art by Office of Paul Sahre. Interior design by Erik Rieselbach. 47 pages. Have your dictionary ready.
Lament by Gina Myers (?)
Lament
Gina Myers
unidentified publisher
signed by poet inside
#8 of 36 copies printed. Broadside. Staple-bound
more mystery than information. I am intrigued.
Thursday, August 18, 2022
A collection of ballads and folk songs Burl Ives (1946)
a collection of ballads and folk songs
Burl Ives
Decca Records
(c)1946
This is a booklet that came with a 1946 vinyl record. Full of song lyrics. It's a booklet that I am counting as a "chapbook" since I have seen far too many chapbooks with spine so tiny that no words can be printed on them.
Sunday, August 07, 2022
Two more chapbooks by Megan Kaminski (2013 & 2014)
This Place
Megan Kaminski
Dusie Kollektiv
(c) 2013
&
Wintering Prairie
Megan Kaminski
Dusie Kollektiv
(c) 2014
Published in Zurich, Switzerland
Just to show those lovely forgotten chapbooks that Ms. Kaminski doesn't acknowledge these days.
Saturday, August 06, 2022
Wichman Cometh by Ben Pease (2011)
Ben Pease
Monk Books
New York City
(c)2011
This is a hybrid twice over. It's 41 pages with a spine, okay, so I technically don't call it a chapbook but the spine has no writing on it so what's the point of that? Dead empty space on a black spine which emphasizes the "tiny sliver of nothing" in black space that I am certain was not a conscious thought of the publisher here but - the book contains, in addition to some interesting language formations and topography has addition visual topography that mirrors and reenforces the words in a playful and almost harmonious way. The subtitle of the book, "Selections from a Blockbuster in Verse", ties the threads together well. And the last line of the last poem does not have a period, suggesting to me at least, that there is not "ending" like a good French film which stops without "concluding". Or, say the ending of the American film "Sideways". The "ending" is what you, the viewer, project it to be; the movie doesn't give it to you. It's satisfying in its unending-ness.
WIZ (2011)
The Song Cave
#57 of 100 printed. Signed by "Ben" who is also WIZ or not. This is the 22 book from the Song Cave. Hand printed, I mean, the entire book is written in the author's hand. I have not witnessed anything... well, I have actually but WOW. This is bizarre
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Shrivel and Bloom by Emily Murman (2021)
Emily Murman
dancing girl press & studio
Chicago, IL
(c) 2021
Emily Murman is a poet & educator from Chicago. In April 2019, she was awarded the Gail DeHerder Memorial Prize in Creative Writing. She holds an MFA in poetry from National University. She is the author of two chapbooks, “SHRIVEL AND BLOOM" (Dancing Girl Press, June 2021) and “I want your emergency" (Selcouth Station Press, July 2021).
Some really good poems in this thin slice of heaven.
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