Poetry. Akilah Oliver's collection of poetry THE PUTTERER'S NOTEBOOK is #3 in the Belladonna Chapbook Series, published in editions of 300. Part of an ongoing series of historico-political note-taking, this radical and incomparable poet continues to question subjectivity, identity, race, gender, geography, travel and the rest of the wrought contemporary landscape. Akilah Oliver has been artist in residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles and has received grants from the California Arts Council, The Flintridge Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. She has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Naropa University. She is currently core faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics' Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. She lives in Brooklyn.

The Putterer's Notebook (Belladonna Chapbook, 3)

Literature & Fiction

Oliver, Akilah

Poetry

Belladonna Books

Poetry. OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS) is the newest book from prolific poet Carla Harryman. "GRNN alert just in--Joseph Cornell is doing the can-can over the delicious debris organization in Harryman's OPEN BOX. This dance of demi-characters--half half, semiquaver, three hooks quarter--places (a State) under an obligation not to maintain armed forces. Next up: removing oneself to another place; migration"--Tina Darragh. Carla Harryman's recent books include BABY and THE WORDS AFTER CARL SANDBURG'S ROOTABAGA STORIES AND JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, both currently available from SPD.

Open Box (Improvisations)

Harryman, Carla

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Rosa Alcala &amp; Monica de la Torre. "Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros"--Forrest Gander. And Jonathan Skinner notes, "Alcala and de la Torre's deft and calm translations offer a superb guide into the hanging gardens of a new, and very old, poetic landscape."

Mauve Sea-Orchids

Zemborain, Lila

Poetry. "A wonderful book of presence where sentences point to new directions of meaning among planets, colors, mechanics, botanic and language itself. A new configuration of feelings and knowledge exposed in the most renewed poetical process of sensing life as it flows. A brilliant book about a new location for our notion of space and time"--Nicole Brossard.

Area

Durand, Marcella

Festival

Mia You