TURPENTINE by Mark Young

TURPENTINE by Mark Young

Poetry, $12.00 US

ISBN 9781938521638

100 pp.

This masterful poetry extinguishes those artificial lines that distinguish a moment from a century. It is all here and available to us, Mark Young shows. “A late/afternoon/point of co-/incidence // this bench/in the/Botanical Gardens/shared/with Desnos/& Diogenes” reminds us nature crafts consciousness right back at us. “Black cockatoos . . .small white flowers.” This against the beautiful political purity of stating the truth in “damp trumpets.”

Where are the

submarines? I

shouted out. You

promised you'd

drain the swamp

so I'd be able

to see the submarines

that were lying

on the bottom.

Things come together from a distance above, revealing equally how far they are apart. Mark Young’s keen eye disturbs predictability. He knows from many angles refutation and commingling. Pachelbel’s Canon and mismatched feelings between a man and a woman.  -  Sheila E. Murphy

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OJIJETE by John M. Bennett

OJIJETE

With Prologues by Luis Bravo, Iván Argüelles, and Juan Ángel Italiano

“I consider OJIJETE Bennett's finest work yet with its graphics, typography, marvelous cacophony/mayhem of language, confusion of music and sound, tonalities and accents in dialects hitherto unimagined! Insanity masked as poetry in its most primordial semi-conscious origins namely the utterance of the sacred vowels and regurgitating them ad infinitum in cosmic misrepresentations.” -Iván Argüelles/ / “Bennett cultivates an experimental poetics which works through intermediality; his iconoclastic attitude places him outside the “what must be done” of the academies and the “what will they say” of the literary cliques. Today at 77 years of age he continues being the “seminal poet” perceived by Richard Kostelanetz decades ago; his production proliferates in a continuum which snakes among multiple languages, through which he moves naturally. His is a vital and subversive poetics, which uses no passport between languages nor is detained at the frontiers of what is already known.” -Luis Bravo“I consider OJIJETE Bennett's finest work yet with its graphics, typography, marvelous cacophony/mayhem of language, confusion of music and sound, tonalities and accents in dialects hitherto unimagined! Insanity masked as poetry in its most primordial semi-conscious origins namely the utterance of the sacred vowels and regurgitating them ad infinitum in cosmic misrepresentations.” -Iván Argüelles/ / “Bennett cultivates an experimental poetics which works through intermediality; his iconoclastic attitude places him outside the “what must be done” of the academies and the “what will they say” of the literary cliques. Today at 77 years of age he continues being the “seminal poet” perceived by Richard Kostelanetz decades ago; his production proliferates in a continuum which snakes among multiple languages, through which he moves naturally. His is a vital and subversive poetics, which uses no passport between languages nor is detained at the frontiers of what is already known.” -Luis Bravo

POETRY

$20.00

ISBN 9781938521621

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TOCHTLI by John M. Bennett & Tom Furgas

TOCHTLI: Four Pieces, by John M. Bennett, Edited and Realized for Piano by Tom Furgas

Includes the Original Score, the Edited Score, and an audio CD of the Furgas performance.

$10.00

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be/ond seh flinges by Jim Leftwich & Steve Dalachinsky

With some sort of strange anxiety caused by the unknowable elements of the title of the book bugging my brain, I brave myself to go through the table of contents. Poems. OK. A relief. Then, my mind gets messy again following the massive endless list of the poem titles. It starts with 1.plums; 2.plopperly slashed; 3.astral viaduct frogret... ends with 128. WOODY BLIN BLEEDING (another casualty of the real). Just to go through all the titles makes me dizzy & unstable. Am I uncomfortable in this “crazyness”? Yes/“No” at the same time. How strangely fabulous it is to be able to have the oppositional feelings together as if embracing the long lost twin emotions you didn’t know you had! Poems presented here are like amalgams of Plus/Minus; Black/White; Music/Anti-Music; Sanity/Insanity; Fun/Disgust… all gelled into gems. Not just experimenting with the language for the experiments’ sake, but Jim & Steve are playing with the language as musicians play with notes & artists play with their métier & ideas. - from the afterword by Yuko Otomo

INCLUDES AN AFTERWORD BY YUKO OTOMO

COLLABORATIVE POEMS

130 pp.

$19

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BURSTING PRESENTS by Jim Leftwich

 Includes an Afterword by Mark Young

Jim Leftwich’s BURSTING PRESENTS presents his virtuosity in full flight. It's many things —388 short poems that flow & adhere to create a 388 stanza long poem; a journal of a month; at times a commentary on things read or observed in that period of time. It shares with what Jim describes as "expositions" — seemingly syllable by syllable readings of the poems of others — a desire to explore, to expose, the endoskeleton of the work. It plays with words, it plays on words. As example, "vErbiaGe" transforms to "foLiaGe VeRbaTim" in the space between poems. The word "bard," variously defined as a skilled poet-singer, a story teller, verse-maker, oral historian, & genealogist, springs to mind when I consider Jim's work. Add to that its spontaneity & lack of hesitation, the rapid transition from idea to idea, & we're delving into the improvisation of the masters, whether it be the staccato Monk or the ebullient Parker. BURSTING PRESENTS enhances the breadth & depth of an already impressive poetic canon. - From the Afterword by Mark Young

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129 pp.

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