Welcome to Fish Books: New from Fish Drum in September 2007: A SERIES OF SMALL BOXES – by Thomas Devaney In »A Series of Small Boxes«, Thomas Devaney tells us: »Pack your songs, fringe history of television,/ kindergarten constructions, extra socks--/ somehow it all will fit; and what doesn't/ you can bring along too if you'd like.« This is Thomas Devaney's second collection of poems. He is also the author of »The American Pragmatist Fell in Love« (Banshee Press, 1999) and »Letters to Ernesto Neto« (Germ Folios, 2005). Devaney has the gentle grace of Rilke combined with the wisdom of Solomon. For this he is irresistible. [His poems] »are vulnerable, pleasurable, tolerant, wary and contemporary.« --Fanny Howe »The poems are resonant patches of serious life, almost as buoyant as dreams. Their light graces remain etched in the mind.« --John Ashbery More on Devaney www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/devaney.html Easily obtainable: Send $15. to Fish Drum Inc. To order please download order form. Add $3.50 S&H for retail sales BAREFOOT ON A DRAWING OF THE SUN – by J. J. Blickstein »There's something unjaded here, solar and sanguineous; we ought to gamble our conventional lives away in order to see what will grow from this increasing heat.« Anthony Seidman. This is the latest collection from JJ Blickstein, a New York poet and visual artist of multi-ethnicity, editor of the award-winning journal Hunger Magazine, stonemason, and martial artist. »...The most unexpected people arise on the poetic horizon, everyone from Hopper to Nam June Paik, Tarot to European history, Walter Benjamin, labor, water in the form of tears, in sweat glistening on his beloved?s body... The poem, as always when one reads a true poet, is the event; the language is the grain and the delta, and it can bring you anywhere.« --- AS Easily obtainable: Send $15. to Fish Drum Inc. To order please download order form. Add $3.50 S&H for retail sales EXCHANGES OF EARTH & SKY – by Jack Collom Foreword by Sam Keen, Introduction by Marcella Durand Exchanges of Earth & Sky is poet Jack Collom's collage-rich paean to birds in all their experimental flights. You have to be alert as to what's earth and what's sky. This is Collom's 21st book of poetry, all published by small presses. He lives in Boulder and teaches at Naropa University. He has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. "[Birds] foretell the future, their perspective is free and unique and quick. Just like Jack Collom in this Field Guide to Birds for Poets." ---Joanne Kyger. "Elegant and contrary. The ecology of a mind in flight." ---Michael Rothenberg Easily obtainable: Send $15. to Fish Drum Inc. To order please download order form. Add $3.50 S&H for retail sales CONTINUOUS FLAME: A Tribute To Philip Whalen: Fish Drum has put out a special book to honor Philip Whalen: poet, priest, and friend. It is co-edited by Michael Rothenberg and Suzi Winson. Contributors include Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, David Meltzer, Michael McClure, Leslie Scalapino, Abbie Winson, Robert Winson, and other colleagues and close friends of Philip's. This 152 page volume sells for $20. Some of the proceeds will go to Poets In Need, Inc., which gives Whalen grants to established poets in crises. For Fish Drum subscribers, the book counts for 2 issues of Fish Drum Magazine. Easily obtainable: Send 20 $ to Fish Drum Inc. To order please download order form. Please add $3.50 S&H for retail sales Still available: MICHAEL ROTHENBERG'S PARIS JOURNALS "This is a poignant document, in the tradition of the journal travel writer from Basho to Kerouac..." - Joanne Kyger "The poet rips off his iron mask & reveals himself to himself with grace & seduction. ... A poet at the door of the new Millennium." - Ira Cohen "... extraordinary loops of mind migration here...Rothenberg¹s spirited document is a plugged in tour..." - John Brandi Michael Rothenberg is also the author of * FAVORITE SONGS, Big Bridge Press, CA 1990 * MAN/WOMAN, Big Bridge Press, CA 1988 * NIGHTMARE OF THE VIOLINS, Twowindows Press,    CA 1986 * WHAT THE FISH SAW, Twowindows Press, CA 1984. He recently edited * OVERTIME, poems by Philip Whalen, Penguin Putnam Inc., 1999. Easily obtainable: Send $11. to Fish Drum Inc. To order please download oder form. Please add $3.50 S&H for retail sales