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Celebrated Press List
All-Purpose Tragedy, Marie Kazalia
ISBN 1-930903-02-2, 4 x 5 , 32 pages, hand-sewn, 2000, $4.95
Marie Kazalia poetically develops a short, satirical, social poem which opens a teeming array of topics: individuals, rooms, situations societal facades!
Tim Scannel
Small Press Review
At Breakbreath Speed, Randy Fingland
ISBN 1-930903-27-8, 4x 5 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2004, $4.95
has tilled the California poetry fields for
more than 35 years.
Tom Plante
Editor/Publisher Exit 13
Behind Their Heads & Door Cut into The Last Supper, Marie Kazalia
ISBN 1-930903-55-3, 5x 8 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2011, $7.95
Behind Their Heads Poems from each line of The Jacques Prevert poem: To Paint the Portrait of a Bird.
I had this title for a long time, in elementary school a teacher told me about a door for the nuns in that ancient religious structure to pass thru that once solid wall a door cut into The Last Supper, that famous painting, a door that cut off the feet of the star. I wanted to use
my title years ago, in San Francisco, but too many read religious connotations and then I read the irreligious poem by Jacques Prevert,
in PAROLES.
Berkeley Blues, Randy Fingland
ISBN 1-903903-52-9, 5 X 8 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2009, $7.95
Your honesty is Johnny Appleseed!!!!!
Is the Dalai Lama!!!!!
Is the truth that dares not speak but does!!!!!
the longest time poetry emcee in history and the original Johnny Appleseed.
Beyond The Curve in the Path, Alessandro Spinazzi, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-49-9, 5 x 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2009, $9.95
this book has the texture of an ecopol an ecological politics because the care and attentiveness to both the animal and human-animal world which Sandro Spinazzi
lovingly evokes is certain to inspire not only lovers of poetry but those who aspire to link ecologys struggle to the struggle for new-class identity and the ever-developing
revolutionary movement.
Jack Hirschman
From Introduction
Border Songs, Andrea Garbin, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-65-0, 8 x11, 24 pages, hand-sewn, 2011, $15
One cannot read these cantos and the three other poems without realizing that in Andrea Garbin, at a time when the old ideologies
have been consigned to the dustbin of history, and the monstrosities of world crookedness and corruption are rushing thugly (accent on ugly) along, one recognized a poet who is not afraid to name the enemies of the people, and to offer as well the sentiments of brotherhood and friendship that defy such degradation and resist all attempts at making human beings less than they innately are.
Building It In Two Languages: A Contractors English-Spanish Dictionary
of Construction Terminology, Rolf Estela, a licensed California contractor
ISBN 1-930903-04-9, 4 X 5 , 60 pages, saddle-stitched, 2000, $9.95
Building It In Two Languages will maximize any construction activity where an English-speaking contractor or homeowner is
working with Spanish-speaking labor. Over 1,000 entries.
Cant Voice Your Name, Theodora Mastrototaro, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-53-7, 8 X 11, 34 pages, perfect-bound, 2010, $20
Theodora Mastrototaro writes brief and instressed, expressionist word-ventures which are evocative of exquisite presences and withdrawals at the same time. She jukes sensibility around with the sense that one doesnt know whats coming next, but what
is coming will relate to the inner body and that is precisely what gives her poems a subtle sense of great energetic momentum.
Chorale for Geese and a Solo Voice, Andrea Zuccolo, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 0-930903-06-5, 5 X 6 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2001, $7.95
That death, and Zuccolo's ruminations on religion and social catastrophe in a time when the red flag is gone texture this work with struggle through the morass of feelings of oppression and marginalization symbolized by the geese and his solo voice relation to them.
Collected Letters, Randy Fingland
ISBN 1-930903-10-3, 4 X 5 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2002, $4.95
Letters of the alphabet, that is. Poems A, B, C, D, and on to Z.
The Days Will Come, Ferruccio Brugnaro, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-58-8, 8 X 11, 36 pages, perfect bound, 2011, $19.95
In 1998, Ferruccio Brugnaro entered the American grain with the bi-lingual edition of Curbstone Press of his poems, Fist of Sun, which I had the great honor and pleasure of translating. The publication of that book made possible a tour of California (San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento) and Chicago. For the first time since the end
of the second World War, a proletarian working-class communist poet, who had learned to write as a factory worker and had made mimeo copies of his poems and thoughts to be distributed and sounded at factory gates, was able to present his unique creations to American audiences.
Jack Hirschman
from the Introduction
Deep In Far About Throughout Between Yarns, H.D. Moe
ISBN 1-930903-63-4, 8 X 11, 46 pages, hand-sewn, 2011, $12.00
In resurrecting poetry H.D. Moe is Dr. Frankenstein fused with the blood of a poet. These poems come alive in his extraordinary world of meta-language.
Jesse Redpond, poet & cover designer
Dream Routes, Steven Walzer
ISBN 1-930903-37-5, 8 X 11, 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2005, $9.95
Dream routes to enlightened living
Entering Earthquake Country, Kathleen Ellis
ISBN 1-930903-07-3, 5 X 11, 36 pages, perfect bound, 2003, $9.95
Erotic Verses, Lucia Lucchesino, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-903903-24-3, 8 X 11, 78 pages, perfect bound, 2004, $24.95
There is also a hard edge of language and idiom in this book that, though belonging to a tradition of Venitian erotic writers, is distinctly her own; perhaps because, using her bi-sexuality to full effect both as a stance in the poems and with a masculine femininity of lingo that rarely betrays the fact that she is a woman she is able to convey a continual tension as the essence of her desire to fundamentally provoke. Illustrated with author's paintings.
Ever Bolder Rebels, Randy Fingland
ISBN 0-9647373-0-2, 4 X 5 , 32 pages, hand-sewn, 1996, $4.95
pushed what Yeats earlier had called the widening gyre of civil destruction, encouraging ever bolder rebels
Don A. Hoyt
Small Press Review
Eye Power, Hkan Pettersson, Trans. by Jack Hirschman & Agneta Falk
ISBN 1-930903-42-1, 8 X 11, 28 pages, perfect bound, 2006, $20
Pettersson was born in 1964 with cerebral palsey He writes with zest, humor and bite. Hes raunchy as well. Of his birth he has written that, as it was a rough entrewhen doctors looked at me they just shook their heads and said, There is not much hope, but his dick is alright.
Even The Fish Are Drunk Too, Anna Lombardo, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-11-1, 5 X 8 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2002, $7.95
In a decade bombarded by laws and lies after the defeat of communism, in the soviet sense, with revelations of corruption in Italy that have reached deep into the Left and moved that country to a Center-Right rooted in old and new fascisms, Lombardo writes a resistance poetry that exposes the rot of
both public and private lives.
4-Runners, Errol Miller
ISBN 0-9647373-4-5, 6 X 7, 40 pages, hand-sewn, 1999, $4.95
I am prejudiced already towards Mr. Millers work 4-Runners will captivate with its form
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
The Aurorean: a poetry quarterly
Not since Jack Kerouac's San Francisco Blues
Don A. Hoyt
author of The New Kerygma
The Green Land, Vittorio Zanetto, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-59-6, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, saddle-stitched, 2011, $12
Zanetto's poems are startingly simple; that is, not really simple at all but leaving one with the effect of having had the experience of re-experiencing a nature that one has all
but forgotten.
Grip of the Past, Mark States
ISBN 0-9647373-9-6, 5 X 8 , 56 pages, perfect bound, 2000, $7.95
This is a book about recovery from serious injury, death in the family, or other kind of personal loss that has you in the grip of despair, questioning everything and feeling
comfortable about nothing in your life. This poet has shared his experiences openly; hoping youll not only take comfort in not being alone, but also discover the tools
within yourself to build a better future.
The Harbor, The Bay, The Seawall, David Stone
ISBN 1-930903-12-X, 5 X 8 , 36 pages, illustrated, hand-sewn, 2002, $7.95
David Stone, editor of the Blackbird anthology, is the author of nine volumes of poetry, three novels and one play. Born in Chicago, Stone has a degree in philosophy and currently is a resident of Baltimore. Although poems of Baltimore, the waterfront is universal material in the psyche of the world. Paintings and photos by the author.
I-5 Stories, Louis Cuneo
ISBN 1-930903-29-4, 4 X 5 , 16 pages, hand-sewn, 2005, $2.95
Louis Cuneo's compact stories are perhaps flash fiction as he travels long distances. He's the founder of Mother's Hen, a publishing and
producing operation, and is the author of Haiku Revisited.
I Wish To Be Light, Igor Costanzo, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-33-2, 5 X 8 , 48 pages, saddle-stitched, 2005, $12
Igor Costanzo's I Wish To Be Light is a brave attempt to bring light to the world by writing incandescent verses.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In The Executioner's House, Alberto Masala, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-17-0, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, saddle-stitched, 2003, $9.95
Alberto Masala is one of Italy's finest poets, a voice for the people not only of Italy but of all who aspire to a world transformed. Like
many poets throughout the world, he has lived and worked at the margins of existence, where he has written poems that reveal the
core of a totality of hope that authentic poetry always reveals.
Incandescences, Edvino Ugolini, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-22-7, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2004, $9.95
Ugolini writes as one continually in a state of wonder, with a tenderness as well as a rage; and these ranges of feeling make his tributes to say, Carlo Giuliani, the young protestor murdered by the fascist police in 2002 in Genova, and to the Palestinian people in their momentous struggle, all the more poignant.
Iraqi Breviary, Silvio Cumpeta, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-39-1, 64 pages, saddle-stictched, 2006, $15
Every justification for war such as it is is, for just reasons, unacceptable. The poet if one wishes to follow this reasoning is still compelled to indignation, nor does he need to go back to one or another ideology, to different ethics that infest the world. Its enough that his anger is founded on the vision of ` naked, human individuality; enough that his disdain is nourished by a just suspicion of the damned human species, and yet rejects the exterminating will and the power of
rulers, winners, and pitifully aware the daily diligent extermination that courses the earth.
Silvio Cumpeta
from a Note upon the work
The Jewish Plot, Gilles B. Vashon, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-43-X, 8 X 11, 54 pages, perfect bound, 2006, $19.95
The title, The Jewish Plot, is of course a provocatively loaded one, since the notion of a Jewish conspiracy is just about the most
overworked lie of a political cliche that has infested anti-Semitic sensibilities for centuries. Here, since he has written a poem of love and death, he has arranged many of the strophes in this book to typographically conform to the shape of a plot in the burial
sense of that word, and to evoke thereby the grave of the heroine Mona.
John Coltrane & 15 Poems, Yannis Livadas, Trans. by Jack Hirschman & Dimitri Charalambous
ISBN 1-930903-46-4, 8 X 11, 40 pages, perfect bound, 2008, $19.95
The Jazz Poet of Greece, Yannis has succinctly clariried his approach to poetry and jazz: Jazz is pure art. And it is not restricted to the music area. If we consider it as such then we ignore its greatest importance: the fact that above all Jazz is a way of life, an attribute of thinking and doing and, in my case as a poet, a way of writing, of getting into the heart of the poem.
Liberty, Understand?, Sante Notarnicola, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-903903-15-4, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2002, $7.95
Sante Notarnicola is something of a mythic figure to Italians of consciousness and good conscience, and there is plenty of both in Italy. The reason, as with all secular mythology, is rooted in history: for 20 years 20 years, 8 months and 1 day, to be exact from 1967, when he was arrested for
revolutionary activity, Sante knew time as a literal prison, and more than one because he was shuffled around the country. In 1988, and for the next seven years, he was at semi-liberty; that is, he was out but had to report to and sleep in the prison at night. In 1995, and for the next five years, he was at conditional liberty, which would be something like parole in the States. Finally, in 2000, he was completely free.
The Magic Glee Clubs, Pierre Molinier, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-19-7, 8 X 11, 46 pages, perfect bound, 2003, $16
The Molinier experience is one that involves fixation, fetishism, a sexual abandonment to a narcissism that covers fantasies of domination and servitude. For my part, it must be seen in the light of the epoch-making publication of The Story of O, by Pauline Reage (aka Dominique Aury aka Anne Marie Desclos) in 1954, the work that announced the polarity of domination and servitude that was to become the metaphor for neo-(late) capitalism in its fullest development.
Jack Hirschman
from the Introduction
Measurements of Night, Guy R. Beining
ISBN 1-930903-05-7, 4 X 6, 40 pages, hand-sewn w/cover flaps, 2002, $4.95
Measurements of Night II, Guy R. Beining
ISBN 1-930903-28-6, 4 X 6, 40 pages, hand-sewn w/cover flaps, 2004, $4.95
Measurements of Night III, Guy R. Beining
ISBN 1-930903-60-X, 4 X 5 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2011, $4.95
The 3 part Measurements of Night is a series of Guy R. Beinings collage poems scratching that under surface society likes to glance at while pretending to be looking the other way. Direct, abrupt, upending, Beining'smessages are always worth viewing, and with most
folks, viewing more than once.
Megalopolis, Marie Kazalia
ISBN 1-903903-18-9, 4 X 5 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2003, $5.95
The magic of Marie Kazalia's writing is inherent in her elusive ability to have you believing you know her, then almost casually revealing that she isnt the person you thought or assumed she was, always
leaving the aftertaste of mystery behind.
Joseph Verilli
Poet & publisher/editor of Shoes literary zine
Mischief of Osiris, David Stone
ISBN 1-930903-01-4, 4 X 5 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2000, $4.95
Mischief of Osiris is David Stone's sixth collection of poems. Earlier books are: Specular Shards, The Dark Ship Eclipse,
The Joking Muse, Cold Waves and The Sphinx Hotel.
A Mountain Under a Bridge, Franco Carlini, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-03-3, 7 X 8 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2001, $4.95
These poems were taken from Mural (1988) and Silly Village: Poems for Children (1991). His poetry is known for its focus on peasant village life, and has been likened to the work of EdgarLee Masters and William Saroyan. The works were written originally in Sardo and then translated by the author into Italian.
Mouth Bitters, Franco Cardinale, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-48-0, 8 X 11, 40 pages, perfect bound, 2010, $19.95
Franco continues to affirm with headstrong obstinacy that facts come before words If writing poetry doesn't serve to make human
relations, our daily living and our inner and outer world better, then what does writing serve? Writing is an act of thinking and thinking means intervening
Ferruccio Brugnaro
The Incandescent Writings of Franco Cardinale
My Back Yardstick, Tom Plante
ISBN 0-9647373-2-9, 4 X 5 , 36 pages, hand-sewn w/bookmark, 1998, $4.95
Family, job, simple pleasures and spare, clear lines animate Tom Plante's backyard poems. He invites the reader in, offering small
surprises and generous insights.
Leslie Simon
author of High Desire & Collisions and Transformations
My Back Yardstick sparkles with the sweeping expanse of Tom Plante's
mapping memories, a belly full (of words), salted, back to the air a delightful collection from the warm surf of yesterday.
Errol Miller
author of Downward Glide
My Own Afghanistan, Nikki Stiller
ISBN 1-930903-61-8, 5 X 8 , 36 pages, 28 pages, hand-sewn, 2011, $12
Nikki Stiller is a poet of wit, humor, and wisdom.
Gabriel Preil
Winner of the Bialik Prize
one helluva poet.
Helen Papell
Storyteller
The New Youth, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Trans. by Lucia Gazzino, w/intro by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-35-9, 5 X 8 , 52 pages, saddle-stitched, 2005, $14
a selection of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Friulan (the area of Italy known as Friuli, where language not a dialect Friulan or Furlan is spoken and printed) poems translated by Lucia Gazzino, also from Friuli, who writes in Friulan and Italian. These are poems of youth, his own and others, of growing up, of leaving home,
of returning from the city by one of the greatest Italian poets of the 20th century.
Nomenclature, Miigaadiwin, a Forked Tongue, Aja Couchois Duncan
ISBN 1-930-903-54-5, 8 X 11, 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2010, $19.95
She succeeds in evoking resonances not only of her people as a Native American but, in pointing to the Ojibwe roots at every turn of the 4 directions of her style, suggesting that all her linguistic wisdom and wit and soulful sense of love and loneliness come from those deeply poetic Native origins. For though Aja Couchois Duncan emerges from French (the Couchois) and Scottish folk (the Duncan), in this book at least its the Ojibwe (Aja) propulsion that unleashes a grandeur of language, and transforms territories of colonization and exploitation, fragmented love and alienation, into an horizon the human imagination can call home.
Jack Hirschman
from the Introduction
Our Pioneer Ways, Joan McNair Gatten
ISBN 1-930903-26-X, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2004, $9.95
Joan McNair Gatten is native to Carson City, Nevada, daughter to the last of the
pioneers and the culture of Mark Twain. Joan moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 60s to study psychology and music, during the time of the vibrant San Francisco poetry renaissance. Her poetry is published widely, and she is also an occasional artist, piano composer, percussionist, whistler, and
music teacher.
Outlaw Voices, Arthur Winfield Knight
ISBN 0-9647373-7-X, 4 X 5 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2000, $4.95
A strong, sure-handed poetic narrative punctuated by vivid imagery of a colorful aspect of the Old West, the Jesse James
saga. I enjoyed it.
Bert Glick
author of I Used to Be Me
Runner up for best book on the West in the Spur Awards, 2000
Portrait of a Woman, Ferruccio Brugnaro, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-30-8, 5 X 8 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2005, $12
what is new and quite different in this book is the obsessionally specific rendering of the woman, in such a way that he [Brugnaro] achieves what he has entitled (and in a rather
complete way): a portrait that sings off the page with that affirming glow of woman that recovers life in a time when war and death and technological means of destruction are more and more blurring, confusing, if not blinding our abilities simply tosee clearly what is often most fundamental to our existence.
Jack Hirschman
from the Translators Note
Rejecting the New Millennium, Don A. Hoyt
ISBN 0-9647373-6-1, 4 X 5 , 44 pages, hand-sewn, 1999, $4.95
Since we have little choice but to accept the New Millennium, Don's poems give us an opportunity to rethink where we have
been, where we are going, and how we may relate to the dawning of the New Age and the territory left behind.
Errol Miller
author of 4-Runners & Forever Beyond Us
Rites of Love, Tony Vaughan
ISBN 1-930903-36-7, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2003, $9.95
From the poet known for his fusion of music and poetry, this collection of gems.
Sabotages, Michele Licheri, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-08-1, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2002, $9.95
Sandwich Board Shazams, Jacqueline Beier
ISBN 1-930903-50-2, 4 X 5 , 64 pages, hand-sewn, 2008, $9.95
This book, the invention of an invention, in that its author, Jacqueline Beier, has recorded in a notebook the thoughts
and images she originally and magically wrote on the two slices of the Sandwich Board which stands in North Beach's Saroyan Alley near the entrance to Adler's Museum, better
known as Speces Caf, where Jacqui worked as one of the bartenders, covers period from May 13, 2006 to August 19, 2007.
A Short Black Poem, Cletus Nelson Nwadike, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-38-3, 8 X 11, 30 pages, perfect bound, 2006, $19.95
Cletus Nelson Nwadike is a Nigerian who lives in Sweden and writes in the Swedish language whose wisdom comes from an African experience of poetry rooted deeply in
communal life: a way of sayings, aphorisms, received mysteries.
Songs and Poems, Hirsh Glik, Trans. by Jack Hirschman & Zachary Baker
ISBN 1-930903-56-1, 8 X 11, 48 pages, perfect bound, 2010, $19.95
When the news of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna ghetto, it inspired Hirshke to write his famous song-poem, Zog Nit Keynmol (Dont Ever Say), the melody of which was composed by Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass, two Soviet Jewish composer-brothers. In a short time and with amazing speed, Hirsh Gliks song became the anthem of the Resistance: it swept through the ghettoes and camps and became known as The
Song of the Partisans.
Steel Away, Ugo Pierri, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-23-5, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2004, $9.95
Sugar Point, Gari S. Danyl, Trans. by Jack Hirschman and Boadiba
ISBN 1-930903-13-8, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2002, $7.95
Gari S. Danyl is a voice from a strong tradition of revolutionary poetry in Haiti. The post WW II generation of Haitian Creole poetry has included Feliks Moriso-Lewa, the father of the modern movement; the important Marxist poets Pl Larak and Jj Kastra, and the catalyzing work of Jan Mapou, to name but a few.
Tenderhooks, Tony Dingman
ISBN 1-930903-09-X, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2002, $7.95
Poems of North Beach spanning the years from 1991 through 2000 by a veteran of the art community and scene. Many of the poems
depict fellow poets and artists in their habitat.
To Marry the Notion, Stephane Mallarme, Trans. by Jack Hirschman
ISBN 0-9647373-9-6, 5 X 8 , 40 pages, hand-sewn, 2000, $4.95
On a January 1999 reading tour commemorating the publication of my poems in the French language, I found this work of Stephane Mallarme in a small cafe-bookshop
in Paris. Since the text is in the form of jottings on notebook pages in a rapid, elliptic and often broken notation, traditional
Mallarm devotees regard it as the very opposite of his cool, finished and sibilantly constructed poems.
Jack Hirschman
Tourist Snapshots, William Seaton
ISBN 1-930903-40-5, 5 X 8 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 2008, $8.95
Tourist Snapshots is not merely a joy because Bill Seaton evokes a just-so rhymed & free verse a you-are-there feeling: its how he engages us with a sense of history that makes
these observations so worth reading & re-reading. Conversant with a wealth of wisdom garnered from the ancient world, he
creates a context to more fully experience these old-new places against the wacky, fragmented moment of now. He's our Hermes at the crossroads, peeling back a signposts layers not only to turn our route to safety but to return us to a profound & abiding sense of mystery.
Kirpal Gordon
author of Eros in Sanskrit & Jazz Tales from the Ghost Realms
The Trumpeter, David Stone
ISBN 1/930903-41-3, 5 X 8 w/mini book bound-in, hand-sewn, 2006, $9.95
Staccato, lyric language in the tradition of scat singers, jazz soloists, the sting songs can give the pulse, then the salve to disappear the pain. The title poem The Trumpeter is a book within the book.
Vodou Songs, from Savalou E, or A Word to the Wise (Is Enough)
compiled by Rachel Beauvoir & Didier Dominique, Trans. by Boadiba & Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-51-0, 8 X 11, 36 pages, perfect bound, 2009, $20
... Savalou is a key town in the North of Dahomey, which historically stood in resistance to the slave trade and the big kingdoms that engaged in it. It was the gate of Mahi land, where the people were chased to be put into slavery. Conquering Savalou was always an element of key militant strategy.
Rachel Beauvoir
from the Introduction
Walking Through a River of Fire, 100 Yrs of Triangle Fire Poems, ed. Julia Stein
ISBN 1-930903-57-X, 5 X 8 , 44 pages, saddle-stitched, 2011, $12
Walking Through a River of Fire gathers 21 poems by nine poets from over the past century: Morris Rosenfeld, Dana Burnet, Chris Llewellyn, Mary Fell, Hilton Obinzinger, Carol Tarlen, Ruth Daigon, Alice Rogoff,
and Julia Stein. Some of the poems are sharp and accusatory. Some incarnate in the voices of survivors of the fire. Some speak with the
tenderest compassion for the dead and the living. Some report the events, coolly, accurately, while burning with a barely contained rage.
Lyle Daggett
A Burning Patience.blogspot.com
Wisdom Teeth, Jj Kastra/Georges Castera, Trans. by Boadiba & Jack Hirschman
ISBN 1-930903-44-8, 8 X 11, 38 pages, perfect bound, 2007, $20
Wisdom Teeth is the last of the books published during George's exile years in New York. It appeared the year the Duvalier government fell, and comprises 41 poems, all of them of Haiti, many of them projections
into the contradictions of a future which his return to his native land
would manifest.
ZfN (Zen spelled w/F) Pranks, Randy Fingland
ISBN 0-9647373-3-7, 4 X 5 , 36 pages, hand-sewn, 1998, $4.95
Fingland's The Kind Hearted Sutras is even more reminiscent of Gary Snyder's abbreviated lines, as in nose deep/in the purple/throat/of an iris: however the resonances are not abbreviated.
Don A. Hoyt
Small Press Review
