Post-election poem by Lisa Marie Basile. "My dear, I will be long gone by the time you see the efforts of human madness take shape. He says this, he says this, he says this, as I wriggle in place, the bloodlet of light at my feet."
Poem by Brenda Sieczkowski, following the 2016 US Election: "...we hold onto these truths for dear life we hold these truths hostage we hold a torch for a mirror up to bar no holds on hold the line of the fort of the grudge of these truths we are losing our hold on these truths we are holding a gun to these truths..."
Books by 32 authors and translators on 27 presses, including Ahsahta, Black Radish, Brooklyn Arts Press, Burning Deck, Civil Coping Mechanisms, Dancing Girl, Denver Quarterly, Dusie, Kore Press, Letter Machine Editions, Little Paper Press, Plays Inverse, Ricochet Editions, Tarcher Perigee, and more.
Books by 30 authors on over two dozen presses, including Ahsahta Press, Black Radish Books, Burning Deck, Calamari Archive, Commune Editions, Dusie Press, Hummingbird Press, Llewellyn, Milkweed Editions, New Michigan Press, Plays Inverse, Ricochet Editions, Solid Objects, Subito Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, and more.
"it is not subtle, our kind of sin / as when bioluminescent angels glitter the black expanse / it is called nyctiluca. / isn’t it ravishing? / isn’t it how it feels to hunt / and make of our meat God and child."
Books by 17 authors and translators on 14 presses, including Bear Star, BlazeVox, Burning Deck, Caketrain, Coffee House, Dusie, FSG, Transcendent Zero, Trembling Pillow, and University of Iowa.
“whisperings in the dumpster / all lattices of hesitation to be pulled down by / invasive crawling networks of the underneath / always roiling or just always there…” Excerpts from Elisabeth Workman’s poetry manuscript, You Always Live Again, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.
21 books from Action, Ahsahta, belladonna, Black Ocean, BlazeVox, Bloof, Brooklyn Arts, Calamari, Dusie, Fence, Les Figues, Octopus / Tin House, Ugly Duckling, and University of Arizona.
Once upon a recent time, a very powerful nation attempted to destroy another nation via a military mission deceptively named Operation Sleep. The very powerful nation succeeded, but for a single inexplicable survivor, known to those unmarked as The Lone Survivor. This book includes his story and many versions of what may or may not be the same story.
They dig themselves out of the loam. / They kneel fast to the tether stone. / Cult cinema of leg braces and implants flushed // down the toilet again. Keep one (a)breast / and then switch hit her middle / name to Shape Shift....
to desire
more placid
these autochthonous
throes
how many times
more excruciating
Chewing Wormwood, New York Quarterly, and Publishers Weekly explain their appreciation for Blake Butler's Sky Saw, Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene, and Danielle Pafunda's Manhater.
Derek Beaulieu√¯¯¯Default Publishing for Dusie Kolektiv year 3 (2009)(pdf here)This is a wonderful example of the book as an object, proving that the book-noun is not restricted to, or synonymous with, the codex (though this is [...]
Michelle DetorieOde to IndustryDusie Kollektiv 3 / Playful Rectangle Press, 2009Design and Composition by Michael Labenz for Juliana LeslieCover Fabrication by Henrietta Bobbinclyde and Skip OutReviewed by Juliet Cook“for it to work she has to look [...]
The Stunt Double in WinterRobyn ArtISBN 9780615182629Dusie Press Books, 2008$13Reviewed by Drew DillhuntRobyn Art’s first full-length book of poetry, The Stunt Double in Winter, strives to disentangle the complex, and often veiled, relationship that exists between [...]