Hello Dears...
As most of you know I edit DUSIE!
dusie.org
Dusie is many things, a kollektiv group, an online journal and a press of many materials....
notably chapbooks and BOOKS!
http://www.dusie.org/dusiepressbooks.html
As editor, I am looking for folks to engage with the texts...
I have many fairly recent and forthcoming beauts...and need some hopeful soldiers to help me spread the word!
I will send you books for your efforts (including book to be reviewed)
Please backchannel (dusieli at gmail) if you are interested!!!
Roseate, Points of Gold
Laynie Browne
PubDate: 2/2/2011
ISBN: 9780981980836
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $15.00
Pages: 108
Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid's Grimoire
Arielle Guy
PubDate: 1/11/2011
ISBN: 9780981980829
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $15.00
Pages: 70
The Contortions
Nicole MauroPubDate: 8/17/2009
ISBN: 9780981980812
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $15.00
Pages: 82
The Butterflies and the Burnings
Anne BlonsteinPubDate: 5/22/2009
ISBN: 9780615185798
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $20.00
Pages: 182
in the bird museum
kristy bowenPubDate: 6/2/2009
ISBN: 9780615256863
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $15.00
Pages: 108
:ab ovo:
jenn mccreary
PubDate: 5/5/2009
ISBN: 9780981980805
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $15.00
Pages: 102
Strata
Joe Ross
Pubdate: 11/1/2008
ISBN:9780615188232
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price:$15.00
Pages: 80
The Stunt Double in Winter
Robyn Art
Pubdate: 8/25/2008
ISBN: 9780615182629
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price:$13.00
Pages: 114
The Singers& The Notes
Logan Ryan Smith
Pubdate: 9/6/2009
ISBN: 9780615142357
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price:$15.00
Pages: 130
Cornstarch Figurine
Elizabeth Treadwell
Pubdate: 7/14/2006
ISBN: 9781411679986
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price:$13.00
Pages: 134
and forthcoming very very soon!
Virginia or the mud-flap girl by Elizabeth Treadwell
Manhater by Danielle Pafunda
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Friday, October 07, 2011
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess
Amelia K. Bowler Reviews
Tinderbox Lawn
Prose poems by Carol Guess, Rosemetal Press, 2008
Tinderbox Lawn lives in the hugeness of small moments, the hazards of love, and the fierceness of the mundane. It is the place you find yourself when you step past secrecy into façade, displaying photos of your brother instead of admitting your love. A place where sex and chores blur – where it’s a given that your body is commodity, but getting paid for it is punishable by death and dumping in the river.
Tinderbox Lawn’s fast pace and slight limp may trick you into reading it quickly, but is really a book that wants to be read slowly, carefully, aloud, and again – and it’s worth your time to comply. Carol Guess is skilled with sound, and her narrator’s voice is exact, imagistic, and insightful. The mood of fear and apprehension surrounding the Green River killings is the backdrop for some of her most beautiful and frightening images. “The girls are swimming. See their bright hair” follows a description of strippers’ clothing scattered like tinsel across Seattle.
Spread across Washington State, with touchstones in Seattle, Bellingham, and the south Sound grounds Gary Ridgeway prowled, Tinderbox Lawn is a statement of desire and of danger. We are invited to feel the fear that seems constant to the narrator, who says, as if reassuring herself, “Supermarkets aren’t dangerous; back alleys are dangerous.” But later the crying sex-cam neighbor brews tea with “mint so sharp it cuts teacups to shards.” And everything is about to catch on fire, and the Burlington Northern may kill you, and even the death of the refrigerator deserves mourning.
Late in the book, one section reads simply: “I may be a liar, but it’s my version of the story you’ll remember.” Through the narrator, Guess touches on a truth of individual experience – the subjectivity and selectivity of memory, so universal in its tiny intimacies. When “Freed from the constraint of narrative” she writes “You’re using your fists to solve everyday problems. I mean—your breasts to suggest sexual tension. You’re out of control. I mean—out of paper” you know that it’s all true – or perhaps that the truth doesn’t matter.
The violence of love. The shape of the state. The fragment is the whole and the echo is the statement and the memory of water is the same as being wet.
I don’t want to write a review of this book; I want to write poems about this book. Think blackberries and train tracks, think blood shed by accident and on purpose. The places you want to leave but can’t. This book is a space to live inside, a place to recognize, like being reminded of a dream.
Tinderbox Lawn
Prose poems by Carol Guess, Rosemetal Press, 2008
Tinderbox Lawn lives in the hugeness of small moments, the hazards of love, and the fierceness of the mundane. It is the place you find yourself when you step past secrecy into façade, displaying photos of your brother instead of admitting your love. A place where sex and chores blur – where it’s a given that your body is commodity, but getting paid for it is punishable by death and dumping in the river.
Tinderbox Lawn’s fast pace and slight limp may trick you into reading it quickly, but is really a book that wants to be read slowly, carefully, aloud, and again – and it’s worth your time to comply. Carol Guess is skilled with sound, and her narrator’s voice is exact, imagistic, and insightful. The mood of fear and apprehension surrounding the Green River killings is the backdrop for some of her most beautiful and frightening images. “The girls are swimming. See their bright hair” follows a description of strippers’ clothing scattered like tinsel across Seattle.
Spread across Washington State, with touchstones in Seattle, Bellingham, and the south Sound grounds Gary Ridgeway prowled, Tinderbox Lawn is a statement of desire and of danger. We are invited to feel the fear that seems constant to the narrator, who says, as if reassuring herself, “Supermarkets aren’t dangerous; back alleys are dangerous.” But later the crying sex-cam neighbor brews tea with “mint so sharp it cuts teacups to shards.” And everything is about to catch on fire, and the Burlington Northern may kill you, and even the death of the refrigerator deserves mourning.
Late in the book, one section reads simply: “I may be a liar, but it’s my version of the story you’ll remember.” Through the narrator, Guess touches on a truth of individual experience – the subjectivity and selectivity of memory, so universal in its tiny intimacies. When “Freed from the constraint of narrative” she writes “You’re using your fists to solve everyday problems. I mean—your breasts to suggest sexual tension. You’re out of control. I mean—out of paper” you know that it’s all true – or perhaps that the truth doesn’t matter.
The violence of love. The shape of the state. The fragment is the whole and the echo is the statement and the memory of water is the same as being wet.
I don’t want to write a review of this book; I want to write poems about this book. Think blackberries and train tracks, think blood shed by accident and on purpose. The places you want to leave but can’t. This book is a space to live inside, a place to recognize, like being reminded of a dream.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
dusie news . . .reviews . . . CALLS
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'Tis been a long while since I have posted here, much has occured in way of publishing large and small in way of Dusie, the kollektiv chap publishing projekt and Dusie Books. It is the third year in way of the kollektiv. Jessica Smith has created a new platform for Dusie in way of Dusie Reviews, which will hopefully be the non-sequitor answer in creating more reviews and more importantly discussions in way of modern poetics and Dusie. Either email Jessica or myself if you would like a review copy of either a forthcoming chap or one previously published via the Dusie Kollektiv Chap Projekt. Most are available on Goodreads.com Go to goodreads and enter the search phrase "Dusie" For each Dusie review published I will offer Dusie goods, in way of wee chaps, books and Dusie Kollektiv Chaps. So, go get yr Dusie groove on, over 107 chaps are already listed, many of which have free pdf's attached.
CALL FOR REVIEWS CALL FOR REVIEWS CALL FOR REVIEWS CALL FOR REVIEWS CALL FOR REVIEWS
Dusie Blog is presently transitioning into a new review blog which is accepting and publishing news and updates of Dusie poets, as well as all sorts of reviews of poetry books(for all books, author need not have appeared in the dusie.org journal previously) essays, poetic objects, interviews, et al. I will also list books received. So, if you would like your book, chap or poetic object to be listed, featured and/or considered for review please send 2 copies here. If you only have limited funds or copies, no worries, 1 copy will suffice. Or if you have a pdf copy of the book that works too (and I will only send it out for reviews of course) Naturally, Book-in hand reviews are preferred, but sometimes virtual routes must be taken! Any questions or ideas, or if you are a Dusie poet (previously published in Dusie or one of the kollektiv's) Please lemme know! of any new news and or publications!
Vielen Dank!!!
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