Cryptych
Melissa Bell
Black Buzzard Press
Fall Church, VA
(c) 1994
Okay, this is the 13th chapbook in the series from a press I never heard of that was located about 12 miles from where I live and I have never seen any chapbook by this press, can't find a single reference anywhere and unless the illustrator Jeffrey Thompson or the editor Bradley Strahan are still around and want to have a chat, I am flummoxed about this press. Actually, no
I wrote a piece about this Press in 2013 for a chapbook by a different poet and the location of the press was Austin, Texas. That chapbook was published in 2007.
Between the two, I like this one better. The poetry is a little better but I really like the feel and look of it more.
AND I just found a blog that a B.R.S. had for the Press when it was in Texas. Why did I write "when it was"? Because the last blog entry was in 2008. B.R.S. have to be the initials for Bradley R. Strahan.
All that said, I am definitely curious about their origins which I suspect took place in Northern VA sometime prior to 1994.
And further I found bio info on B.R.S. that he taught at Georgetown for 12 years, which definitely places him in the DC area (which Falls Church is part of)
