ARTHUR DIES: Second Chronicle, Vol. 1

This is the 6th volume in Lindsann's onging King Arthur chromicles.

Attend! Here comes Wort, Arthurs and all! As if sprung from a centuries long incantation, Arthur, in ink and blood, achieves the s'Word in the s'Tone, in this his maiden quest, moving from kitchen-waif to child-king (all in in one morning shift!), and handily evoking the legends of Perceval and Beaumains, in this tidal contribution to the Arthurian trade, by one Sir Lindsann. - Warren Fry

Olchar Lindsann’s Arthur chronicles are narrated by someone or someones afflicted with chronological schizophrenia, a syndrome which is perhaps humanity’s real and universal condition. Meta-referential, auto-referential, de-referential; exploding and recreating the English language; the volumes are a great work of Baroque poetry or literature, totally and wonderfully out-of-step with the current whimpering swarms of clichés that characterize current North American poetries. Thank you, Olchar, thank you! -Dr. John M. Bennett

Also includes comments by Scott Macleod, and an afterword by Jim Leftwich.

$24.00 US

170 pages

ISBN 9781938521997

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LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE by John M. Bennett

LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE  -  John M. Bennett

John M. Bennett’s LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE is pamjacked with everything we’ve come to expect of & enjoy in his work — an erudition, his ability with words & their placement (including a remarkable skill to break them up so they break out by themselves), a recognition & appreciation of others, his prolificacy. Plus an underlying social awareness whose presence is always there; & a humor that tends to lurk throughout but sometimes will be allowed to take center stage. I’m still cracking up over “PEPPERONI BRAIN SCAN.” — Mark Young

In his most recent book, LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE (which Bennett translates as "A Laundry Called Name"), there is a poem entitled "break fast." Why is there a space in the middle of the word "breakfast." Make a break for it, and do it fast. Put an end to your refusal to eat (to consume? to possess? to process? to ruminate?) And do it at the start of your day, as a source of nutrition. Why do I need to remove the space between before attempting to assess the available or potential meanings? Are Bennett poems always primarily about reading, in the sense that reading is often if not always primarily about thinking?

— Jim Leftwich

$12.00 US

122 pages, color cover

In english and Spanish

ISBN 978-1-938521-98-0

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gratitude is a multitude by jim leftwich

Jim Leftwich

Gratitude Is a Multitude

"gratitude Is a multitude" at first glance appears to be a book of fragments, which it is. But it is at the same time a flowing, which is fundamentally coherent. It takes place as a journey, or wandering, through an outside and an inside. It is analogous in some ways to Basho’s "Journey to the Deep North". Jim Leftwich’s poems, however, are not haiku, though they do often have a haiku-like aesthetic, interspersed with longer contextualizing passages.: Is the roadsign / loose oily purse / cannibals scratchy / zinc in curtains Venn diagram index / fact is fiction / fiction is finance / finance is fungible / focus group backdrop / fractal heads shrunken The book is a kind of meditation, focusing on the surrounding world/environment, and on the mind’s movements as part of that world: Thinkable rustling / dancing stories iterated / trampoline sitting Temporarily Guar gum / intentional spine / chaos stocking hat gremlin gestures porous / haberdasher perplexing / glittered horribly i muttering / Mumbling i There is an attention to the tiniest and largest details of place and mind, a phenomenon reinforced by the many photos, mostly involving water: which suggests that the world, and the mind in the world, exist in streams of change. Streams in which words grow out of words, in which thought is a movement of language, in which words exist in interconnected layers: cones Nominal / Comic iconic / macaroni Conical / Monadic Canonical nemesis Bucolic / Xeric Nematode Comedic Full disclosure: this is related to a process in my own work I have called "Transduction", which I only mention because Leftwich refers to it. Transduction involves explicit attention paid to the resonances in individual words and phrases: remnants slant ear / consciousness of / material multiplicity transduction (John M. Bennett) / Roots Grow other roots And rooms growing other / Forms Growing corms and / Cornstalks… This is a book created with extreme attention, and the reader will be deeply rewarded by entering and re-creating that attention. -John M. Bennett

$20 US

308 pp.

ISBN 9781938521973

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LOS POEMAS DE NCAR MESMERI por Roberto Net Carlo

LOS POEMAS DE NCAR MESMERI

Roberto Net Carlo

104 pp.

ISBN 978-1-938521-96-6

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Roberto Net Carlo (Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 1954). Poeta y artista que propaga su obra extensa y alucinante como Roberto Ncar en Facebook, es un “vallejiano urbano” según Rafael Acevedo. Sobre Ncar, dice Ana Lindner: “Tratando de establecer un orden en su propio caos existencial, convida vida a esta conjunción de imagen y palabra, entre la realidad contextualizada y el lenguaje pérfido en su función expresiva: logra, así, una poética mordiente mediante la reelaboración permanente de nuevos dispositivos poéticos puestos en la escena de lo cotidiano.” Una cotidianidad que incluye una visión aguda de los estragos del colonialismo en su tierra natal. Estos temas se rematan en su segundo libro en Luna Bisonte Prods, a menudo con formas de repetición y variación de frases y palabras que intensifican su visión y su experiencia honda de la vida en un mundo dominado por el posible colapso de la civilización humana. Un colapso que experimenta en el contexto muy personal e íntima de su vida en un mundo dañado por las injusticias del colonialismo, y un clima destruído por el capitalismo. Muchos de los poemas se pueden leer como partituras performativas. Y a veces hay un surrealismo que nos recuerda del gran poeta Aimé Cesaire, también caribeño. Escribe Ncar: “…la necesidad representar / el tao de la nada / la nada del tao / los tildes del caos / la delgadura de una boca que nos recuerda un girasol la / imagen de un túnel tumbado…” El libro incluye algunos poemas y formas visuales.

UNNUMBERED POEMS AND DRAWINGS by Tom Furgas

TOM FURGAS

UNNUMBERED POEMS AND DRAWINGS

Fluxus-like and lettristic word play, surrealist structures and forms, free association texts, and enigmatic graphic works - are they oneiric mandalas? – this collection by composer, musician, poet, and graphic artist Tom Furgas leaves one delighted by its great variety of styles, forms, and linguistic discoveries.  Or as he says in the poem A Citadel Seder (or; Ash Christmas):

     ornate tractors roll down to the roman pentagram

     amid much clapping and clicking

     sardonic opal in the nitroglycerin burdens, and

     thermal thunder over the yearbook rosetta arena.

- John M. Bennett

107 pp.

ISBN 781938521959

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