Poetry. Australian ethnohistorian Greg Dening argues that there are two views that define the Pacific: a view from the sea (the view of those who arrived from elsewhere) and the view from the land (those who were already there). THINGS OF EACH POSSIBLE RELATION HASHING AGAINST ONE ANOTHER is a series of poems that opens with the view from the sea and ends with the view from the land and are about the ecological hashing that happens as these two views meet in Hawai'i.

Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another

Literature & Fiction

SPAHR, Juliana

Poetry

Palm Press

Skinner's work engages the various meanings of life outdoors, in the shape of a changing response to questions posed by the environments the poet physically inhabits. In part, the poetry operates as an instrument of research into a particular natural environment or a geological formation or species. In exchange, it offers forms of life measured to particular places, an invitation to inhabit the evolutionary imagination of the senses and of those places. His first book-length collection, Political Cactus Poems, which stem from the poet's life in the Southwest, challenges the pristine agenda of nature poetry by hybridizing themes from the lives of humans and cacti.

Political Cactus Poems

Jonathan Skinner

Poetry. Los Angeles is known to be the most photographed city in the world, and its deep connection to the movie industry means that it is frequently mistaken for someplace else. Through gesture and image, BIRDS OF LOS ANGELES is a modern, metaphysical exploration of the way Southern California's rich cultural and environmental landscapes are misperceived.

Birds of Los Angeles

Walters, Wendy S.

Poetry. Borrowing from the North American Jesuit Relations and the Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses of the Jesuits in China, (DIS)ORIENT FOCUSES on the obsession of charting. Charting the lakes and rivers of lands on both sides of the Bering Strait, charting the borders of our own containers. Mapping as a means of showing greatness or inferiority. Do we map our borders based on what is reported or echoed back by others? "If the savages are to be believed.../...and we even traced out from their reports a map of the whole of the new country." An exploration of borders, based partially on the ideas of psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, on history, but mostly of the self experienced though the other.

Disorient

Stevens, James Thomas

In juxtaposing poem sequences respective to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the breakdown of a family, An Educated Heart raises again the troublesome question of the relationship between the public and the private, in the specific context of a woman's voice.  While the two sequences are clearly delineated, the collection also includes poems which could refer to family life, or war, or both.  The poems relating to Iraq are by and large composed of fragments of Internet coverage of the war, and an aesthetic of collage, fragmentation, and brokenness pervades the book.

An Educated Heart

Mairéad Byrne

Cultural Writing. Essays. !WORKERS OF THE WORD, UNITE AND FIGHT! examines current crises in the literary landscape and book culture of the United States. Nowak's influential essay on not-for-profit literary centers in the era of corporate mergers is republished here in conjunction with his previously unavailable essay, "Neoliberalism, Collective Action, and the American MFA Industry"--a challenge to public intellectuals, culture workers, and collectives to impede and revise the American MFA industry and its subsidiary industries through cultural adjustments. This new essay also outlines the interventions of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers in its struggle to organize a Borders bookstore in Minneapolis.

Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight!

Politics & Social Sciences

Nowak, Mark

Politics & Government

Poetry. Of his text, poet Christian Peet writes, "THE NINES might be read also as 5) unrelated questions parading as definite answers, 6) an act of resistance against narrative's stranglehold on meaning-making, via the delimiting of causes and effects, 7) a parody non-fiction's throat-clearing seriousness and eagerness to impart 'facts,' 8) an indictment of the privileging of the intellect over the senses-the hallmark of Civilization-and thus, ultimately...9) an indictment of the very idea of Civilization, that ecocidal Moloch not one fang less terrible for being a complete sham." In the THE NINES Peet creates a framework of intertextuality with an incredibly diverse range of works-ranging from Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time to Curtis Marlow's Breakdancing, Anne Waldman' and Marilyn Webb's Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute to Kenneth Clark's Landscape into Art-creating a book of poems as energetic and iconoclastic as its sources.

The Nines

Peet, Christian

Poetry. "Dana Teen Lomax's work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely "discourses" but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where "the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$." CURRENCY is nothing less than an oppositional archeology of consumer culture as it reproduces its logics on and in our bodies--both personal and body-political--against a field of possibilities increasingly threatened by the privatization and colonization of the life-world. Writing a radical biopolitics--a "biopoethics"--would be that practice that articulates itself in resistant song, and, that in Lomax's expanded field, of necessity also dances, in paroxysms full of both rage and desire"--David Buuck.

Currency

Lomax, Dana Teen

Business & Money

Marcel Duchamp once said: “It all started with Gustave Courbet.” Should the avant garde of today pay for the mistakes of its inspirational predecessors? In The Present Work, movement and moment, Marcel Duchamp and Gustave Courbet, crows and poets, progress and chance, all toggle back and forth between each other, contesting history, primacy, ideas of beginning and ending. The continuum is broken, parts become autonomous. The moment is separate from all other moments—it drops out of the line, out of the set, out of the continuum. The Cast of Characters includes a Scrap of Paper, Definition, Back Home, Interjection, Martini, Synopsis, Transcript, unknown soldiers of poetry, and many more.

The Present Work

Matvei Yankelevich

Poetry. CD included. The first book-length work by this South Carolinian/Southern Californian writer collects songs, essays, poetry, brief prose stories and documents from his unusual epistolary archive. Choate combines close attention to graphic detail--from page design to the evocativity of intentional misspelling--with a heightened focus on the influence of sonic texture over a words' migration between the page and the person. A wry but contagious humor underlies each piece. Includes "Laser Pointers Put the Demon in Demonstrate." Accompanying each book is a CD featuring musical renditions and other sonic performances of the work.

Language Makes Plastic of the Body

Choate, Andrew

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