INTERNAL RHYME by Thomas M. Cassidy

INTERNAL RHYME

Thomas M. Cassidy

The reader will find in this volume a series of practical and popular discourses, delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, treating upon the evils of the day, giving a clear and full exposition of said evels, and suggesting the remedies by which they may be overcome. - Blaster Al Ackerman

While it is relatively clear how the success of Internal Rhyme can be attributed to its roots in zine culture and dynamic community newsletters, its success and effectiveness as a literary publication is less obvious. In fact, it seems much was done to sabotage any possible ties to "legitimate" vehicles. The truth is that Internal Rhyme was tackling a very tough problem: how do you accurately and authentically present a means of artistic expression that is comprehended differently depending on how it is presented (verbal vs. text), varies from one performance to another (various orators), and changes in its interpretation with each person's internal experience (each reader's mind silently forming words into sentences and paragraphs into stories)? To address this, Internal Rhyme actively shunned the safe presentation of material and avoided using dry antiseptic approaches embraced by many mainstream publications. It aggressively played fast and loose with the rules of how writing should be presented. "And that," according to Robert Frost, "has made all the difference." Stories were presented as articles in a newspaper with headlines that cut to the chase to reveal meaning. Readers were encouraged to play with content through various games, puzzles, and matching exercises. Drawings, collages, and illustrations both supported and juxtaposed written text and newsletter tropes such as footnotes, bylines, and headers offered short insights into the writer's creative process. Internal Rhyme was successful because each issue was a series of experiments in storytelling and active audience engagement. Every element – from fake advertisements to the articulation of incredibly personal memories – supported this goal. - Jeff Rathermel, Artist/Curator

200 pp.

ISBN 9781938521874

$20.99 US

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THE ADVANTAGES OF CABLE by Mark Young

THE ADVANRAGES OF CABLE

Mark Young

Poetry

99 pp.

ISBN 9781938521867

$12.50 US

Mark Young’s The Advantages of Cable focuses on unexpected losses of focus, sudden changes in focal length, and spontaneous cracks in the lens, cracks that fracture, negate or enhance our immediate experience. Our “habitat” is over-defined, and not hospitable, but these sudden tricks of light (or of mind) produce visions of flying ostriches, angry crows, and blood-drinking salamanders: moments when "everybody freezes” and starts speaking “the language of the gypsies,” all the "small things” that open us up to losing “all track” of the fatal limitations of our “habitat.” Reading Mark’s poems is like getting stuck in the revolving door of Marshall Fields, Myer, Selfridge’s, or any large department store. We suddenly realize we’re stuck, recognize our situation very differently than we did ten seconds ago, and can hear each of Mark’s poems as the tink of a ball peen hammer on the glass, trying to free us. — Scott MacLeod

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ANHYDRIDE by John M. Bennett

ANHYDRIDE continues & develops the author's “finest work yet” (Iván Argüelles), of Bennett's groundbreaking book OJIJETE (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020), in which his myriad approaches to an intense kind of totalizing literature come to a head. This new work also takes steps into a kind of visionary or surrealist writing in which text alone seems to reveal what the blind might see. In English with some Spanish, it includes a large selection of Bennett's visual poems.

yr suitcase's melted clam an elote buried in a

sweating street I ,you ,trembled in the

invisible mist of poetry was an acid bath or

windy alkaline ,deventive shoulder's sharp

pain an obsidian watch twists in yr joint

lithic lapse old fool slobbering at yrmy

mud pillow cama de fango y caroña podrida

:hiciste ,já ,de tripas teléfono amordazado con

intextinos guts n' gluts might say – slabs of sky

tilt down ,spill the worn gravel of yr lingual river

$20 US

ISBN 9781938521850

98 pp.

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THE TRANSLATION TO HEAVEN by Iván Argüelles

THE TRANSLATION TO HEAVEN & Related Poems

Iván Argüelles

Iván Argüelles has been publishing what one might call liberating poetry since 1978. Now over eighty, he gives us "Translation to Heaven":

like the time in the country by the temple

out of the sky fell like a mirror copulating

a message on a paper of water hand held

called the Translation-to-Heaven ineffable

so much that one could no longer behold

things of this earth in the same dimension

The power or intelligence of Argüelles’ work and inspiration has not diminished in the nearly fifty years he has been publishing. Labels fly from his oeuvre like leaves in a windstorm. “Surrealist” is one that has been applied but also dismissed. This brief passage in a monumental work tells us the source of the restlessness and panache of his output. In an irreligious age, in which one believes in chaos but not in inspiration, he affirms the sudden, stunning shift into the infinite: “translation” is the deep experience of the visionary, the transcendence that language (what you do with your langue) allows us to achieve. Not Surrealism, which was fundamentally an attack, but a fierce rising up of mind. - Jack Foley

380 pp.

$29 US

ISBN 9781938521843

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ARTHUR DIES, 1St. CHRONICLE, Vol. 5, By Olchar E. Lindsann

ARTHUR DIES, 1St. CHRONICLE, Vol. 5, By Olchar E. Lindsann

"I am once again staggered at the unique I mean UNIQUE appearance of this absolutely multilayered masterpiece, from its ruminating typographies hand-written maps and scribblings to its simply masterful use of language, orthographic corruption phonetic decay faux archaicisms real archaicisms and just plain philological learning. I love the actual feel you present of that mysterious murky period after the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain to the coming of the Angles and Saxons, and the muttering murmurs of the Celtic indigenous folk ... all too much for the mind to take in at once. I simply have to breathe these pages to realize the enormous modernity in this ver-sion of myth and antiquities. Is this literature or a copy of literature? You have put the torch to anyone who thinks they understand poetry. This is incomprehensible quite simply put, the massive fragment of a Brain part bedlam and part ratio-cination. Seen through a glass darkly and magnified by season of tormented myr-midons trying to deconstruct whatever has ever been read before. Unlike anything in print today. Luna Bisonte Prods has to be praised for putting this massive typographical jigsaw puzzle together!" -from comments made by Iván Argüelles; though comments were made before this 2022 publication of Vol. 5, being the last volume of the First Chronicle of ARTHUR DIES, where Ygraine gives birth to Arthur in Chapter VIII of Vol.5. There are also extensive appendices in Vol.5 which summarize each volume's story line and different characters, or explain medieval terminology used in this epic poem.

$25 US

176 pp.

ISBN  9781938521836

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