Be sure to check out the latest online issue of STRIDE (URL below), which
includes a review of three recent Wild Honey Press chapbooks: Sheila E.
Murphy's _Luminarias, Familiar Hinges_, Allen Fisher's _Sojourns_, and the
latest by Randolph Healy himself, himself--_Daylight Saving Sex_. The
reviewer, Andy Brown, devotes half of the review to Sheila Murphy, of whose
work he seems to have a real understanding and which certainly deserves his
praise. But Brown really loses me (and credibility as a reviewer) when he
goes on from there to short-change the work of both Healy and Fisher on the
gormless grounds that he doesn't "(dare I say it?) understand it." (What,
did somebody hold a gun to his head and force him to review these
collections? Come on.) I don't know this particular chapbook by Fisher, but
his work is so world-widely respected that I'm sure _Sojourns_ merits more
respectful treatment than this.

As for _Daylight Saving Sex_, I read it with great pleasure the minute I got
my hands on it and can assure you that, like Randolph's work more generally,
it amply repays savoring for its many subtleties, stylistic and philosophic.
The title charts its parameters, which includes bodily finitude, and the
resistance of life to any sell-by date. As one of the works that marks what
I see as a deepening preoccupation with "lifetime" in Randolph's poetry,
_Daylight Saving Sex_ will certainly have a long shelf-life on _my_ shelf.

Candice



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> Below are details of the 3 books we will be publishing in the first half of
> 2002. We are about to take delivery of Robin Tomen's POINTS OF DEPARTURE:
> ESSAYS ON MODERN JAZZ [10 pounds/18 US dollars], we already have copies of
> ROBERT LAX: SPEAKING INTO SILENCE but this is selling fast, so order now!
> [5.95 pounds/12 dollars]. We still have some copies of the limted edition
> Charles Wright and Franz Wright chapboks too [5 pounds / 10 dollars].
>
> All titles available from Stride, 11 Sylvan Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 6EW,
> England
>
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>
> We were sorry to hear that Nicholas Zurbrugg - one of the authors of ROBERT
> LAX: SPEAKING INTO SILENCE suffered a serious stroke and died earlier this
> week.
>
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>
> Tangents editor and Stride author Alistair Fitchett has a new website
> publishing fifty word fiction. Find out more - and contribute - at
> http://www.fiftywords.co.uk/
>
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>
> We recently received back a few copies of MIXTERY: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR
> ANTHONY BRAXTION which has been out of print for a few years now, and has
> become highly collectable and sort after in the jazz world. If you would
> like a copy please email us; we are asking 25 pounds/50 dollars for these
> remaining copies.
>
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>
> Since the last Stride email newsletter there have been three new sets of
> work at the Stride Magazine website http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk and we
> have also launched our American website, which you can find at
> http://www.stridebooks.com. The stridebooks.co.uk also remains in use.
>
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>
> STRIDE PUBLICATIONS
> FORTHCOMING TITLES FEBRUARY - AUGUST 2002
>
> Non-fiction/Poetry
> WORDS OUT LOUD: TEN ESSAYS ABOUT POETRY READINGS
> edited by Mark Robinson
> Ric Caddel, Keith Jafrate, David Kennedy, Martin Stannard, Mark Robinson,
> Andy Croft, Lawrence Upton, Ellen Phethean, Debjani Chatterjee, Jonathan
> Davidson
> 'I am not a troubadour and I think the public reading of poetry is
> something particularly ghastly.' (Wallace Stevens)
> In recent years Britain has seen a mushrooming of poetry reading
> series and literary festivals which mean that more poets read more often
> than at any time since the troubadours. There are readings in pubs in
> industrial towns, readings in abandoned spaces, reading in town halls,
> libraries, community centres, clubs, prisons, supermarkets and on boats,
> trains and anywhere else you can imagine. Oddly enough this phenomenon has
> received very little critical attention so far. This collection of
> thought-provoking essays will open up fresh dialogue between those who
> secretly agree with Wallace Stevens and those who see the public reading as
> a vital and popularising renewal of the oral tradition.
> These essays are put forward not as definitive answers to the
> question of what goes on at a poetry reading, but as a contribution to what
> needs to be an ongoing debate. The collection covers a spectrum of
> poetries, from a variety of perspectives which do not always accord with
> each other. As such the poetry reading is identical to its parent art form:
> cause for argument and violent objection.
> May 2002 ISBN 1 900152 84 3 £7.95 $15
>
>
>
> Poetry
> FREEDOM TO BREATHE: PROSE POEMS FROM BAUDELAIRE TO PINTER
> edited by Geoffrey Godbert
> Aloysius Bertrand, Ivan Turgenev, Walt Whitman, Charles Baudelaire,
> Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, John Synge, Gertrude Stein, Rainer Maria
> Rilke, Léon Paul Fargue, Max Jacob, Filippo Marinetti, Andrew Bely, James
> Joyce, Mina Loy, Virginia Woolf, Saint-John Perse, Djuna Barnes, E.E.
> Cummings, Tristan Tzara, Henri Michaux , Francis Ponge, George Seferis,
> René Char, James Agee, Aimé Césaire, Elizabeth Smart, Alexander
> Solzhenitsyn, Jack Kerouac, Harold Pinter
> The pedigree of modern prose poetry can be traced from its
> beginnings via the great French poet Charles Baudelaire through such
> leading 19th century works as Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and De Quincey's
> Confessions of an Opium Eater. Not to be confused with poetic prose - even
> the magnificently poetic prose of a Sherwood Anderson or a Carson McCullers
> - prose poetry was taken up by such diverse literary stars as the enfant
> terrible of French poetry, the precocious teenager Arthur Rimbaud and the
> Gothic American, Edgar Allan Poe. Subsequently, prose poems have been
> penned and extended under a variety of names by the international writing
> community. For the author of Ulysses, James Joyce, prose poems were
> Epiphanies; for the experimental American poet E E Cummings, they were
> Condensed Prose; for the equally innovative writings of the remarkable Mina
> Loy, they have emerged as Ready Mades; and for the leader of the Beats,
> Jack Kerouac, Spontaneous Prose.
> Reading the pages of this unique anthology should readily persuade
> those who still need to be that prose poems have achieved a very special
> and lasting place in the world of our literature.
> May 2002 ISBN 1 900152 81 9 £11.95 $20
>
>
>
> Poetry
> THE MAKESHIFT
> Ethan Paquin
> Ethan Paquin's poetry has been published in The Boston Review, New
> American Writing, Verse, Quarterly West, Stand, Conduit, American Letters
> and Commentary and other magazines. He edites the web journal Slope and
> lives in New Hampshire, USA.
> 'Ethan Paquin is a hundred times faster, a hundred times more
> vulnerable, a hundred times more intelligent than many before him. "I drove
> a lawnmower atop a wasp-nest / shearing it." Does he then give us ten
> thousand times more "fragrance", "odor"? Possibly. Yes. The language in The
> Makeshift will survive. It is a trembling seal, a feathery silvery splash,
> everything on the brink. Moving. Memorable.' - Tomaz Salamun
> 'I am touched and amazed by the virtuosity of Ethan Paquin's first
> book. The Makeshift emits an intensity of artistic commitment that can
> hardly be denied, and is clearly (as so few first books are at all) the
> harbinger of great work in the future.' - Franz Wright
> August 2002 ISBN 1 900152 80 0 £7.95 $15
>
>
> Available post free from:
> Stride Publications. 11 Sylvan Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 6EW, England
> www.stridebooks.co.uk
>
> Stride Publications, 85 Old Nashua Road, Londonderry, NH 03053, USA
> www.stridebooks.com
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