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![]() Welcome to Fish Books: ![]() New from Fish Drum in September 2007: A SERIES OF SMALL BOXES – by Thomas Devaney ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BAREFOOT ON A DRAWING OF THE SUN – by J. J. Blickstein ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() EXCHANGES OF EARTH & SKY – by Jack Collom Foreword by Sam Keen, Introduction by Marcella Durand ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CONTINUOUS FLAME: A Tribute To Philip Whalen: ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still available: MICHAEL ROTHENBERG'S PARIS JOURNALS ![]() - 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |