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Saturday

The Burning Chair Readings & Cannibal Books
gleefully extend to you more than enough of an excuse \
to break it down book-release-party-style
with three fantastic poet-editors

Morgan Lucas Schuldt
author of
Verge Free Verse Editions (2007)
& editor of
Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry

Brenda Iijima
author of
Animate, Inanimate Aims Litmus Press (2007)
& editor of
Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs

Mark Lamoureux
author of
Astrometry Organon Spuyten Duyvil (forthcoming)
editor of Cy Gist Press

Saturday, December 15th, 8PM
Unnameable Books
456 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY
unnameablebooks.net
Bring wine etc. We'll bring some,too.

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Daybook of Perversities & Main Events by Frank Sherlock

Cy Gist Press is happy to announce the release of Frank Sherlock’s Daybook of Perversities & Main Events ($6 ppd.). This chapbook-length poem is comprised of brief, almost-formal 5-line stanzas that read like landscape sketches of internal vistas. Opaque and personal at the same time, this poem reveals the sinews, muscles and machines beneath the skin of consciousness. With a fabulous cover by artist Kris Chau.

A beggar from Assisi w/ a bird

                 on his neck is protected by poems

carved into handles of knives   Deep

                 greens are cut from the patio so

they can be pulled & eaten

Also, please be sure to check out the CY GIST PRESS HOLIDAY SPECIAL. This will be the last opportunity to obtain copies of several out –of-print Cy Gist Press titles.

Angels Who Have Suffered the First Forlornment

Angels who have suffered the first forlornment, who now
Lifts up your saddened wings to send you soaring?
O how the mountains thrust up high beyond you,
And how the ocean curls its waves about you!

Angels, awaiting his old command to be forgiven,
Lift up your gentle wings for fresh hosannas.
But how the sharp hills grow up high beyond you,
And how the winds blow down to the very heart.

Humility burns, and banishment is eternal; he said,
Too much hope within us makes us die.
And the mountains use up the heavens all around you,
And the winds and waves are crying, to confuse you.

And this is faleshood, Angels, should he call you; but fold
Your remorseful wings and gently forget his love.
For the mountains are there now, very far above you,
And the winds disperse your godhood everywhere.

-Landis Everson

While you are listening to B. Fleischmann and ISAN, check out the long-awaited first issue of F. Luong and M. Koshkin's Blowfish, where you will find some more Francesca Woodman poems, along with work by Johannes Goransson, John Sakkis, Sawako Nakayasu, Jennifer Koshkina, Ray Hsu, Viterslav Nezval and Mark Ducharme.

More German IDM

German IDM

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Kwakiutl Pumpkins
Originally uploaded by mark_lamoureux

These guys didn't make it, but if they were still around they'd be wishing you a Happy Halloween.

Hi folks, I have some Francesca Woodman poems up at the estimable project:Poetry Sz: Demystifying Mental Illness. Also in this issue are poems by Lois Marie Harrod, Sam Silva, Eve Rifkah, Christopher Barnes, Roger Singer and David McLean.