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>/ubu Editons :: Spring 2004 Titles
>http://ubu.com/ubu
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>This year's titles range from the visually sophisticated Concrete poetry of
>Gustave Morin, a native of Windsor who spent 10 years on his "novel" A
>Penny
>Dreadful, to an obscure volume of satirical translations of Baudelaire by
>the English poet Nicholas Moore, from the experiments in frame and format
>that Caroline Bergvall and designer Marit Meunzberg explore in their daring
>resetting of the poet's Eclat, to the equally daring, if entirely
>unscrupulous, logorrhea that is the 130 pages of another "novel," Name, by
>Toadex Hobogrammathon.
>
>The big news this year might be the introduction of color into the pantheon
>of effects being used in our e-books: both Bergvall's Eclat and my own
>Alpha
>Betty's Chronicles rely heavily on it, in ways that would have been
>unsuitable to html and impossibly expensive to print in a book. Likewise,
>the volumes by Morin and Lytle Shaw - two of his uniquely low-tech Shark
>chapbooks - are primarily graphic works, while the titles by Craig Dworkin,
>Robert Fitterman and Larry Price attempt to re-conceptualize the page of an
>Adobe Acrobat file as a middle-space that ironizes the permanence of type
>(Dworkin's use of Courier fonts) or digital flow (Fitterman's box-like
>containers) as well as the "writing on the wall" soixante-huitard-style
>(Price's poster-style typography).
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>Of the republications, we are happy to present the final section of Ron
>Silliman's The Age of Huts, The Chinese Notebook, probably the most
>influential of his early books outside of Kejtak, two small works by the
>increasingly-prized Jean Day, whose 1998 Atelos volume, The Literal World,
>woke so many up to her understated talents. Robert Kelly's quasi-fiction -
>yes, yet another "novel" - called The Cruise of the Pnyx has long been one
>of my favorites of his, but has never appeared in another book, nor has the
>original Station Hill edition of 1979 been republished.
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>New writers include the playwright Madelyn Kent, whose Shufu plays - part
>Butoh, part Richard Maxwell-like deadpan, with a touch of Clark Coolidge --
>are bound to become recognized as innovative theater, and Aaron Kunin, who
>is becoming known in New York and elsewhere as a writer of uncommon
>intelligence and tremendous technical precision. The English poet Ira
>Lightman drops in on the series like a lightning bolt, spreading his art in
>a sort of spirit of personal renaissance, while Barbara Cole's Foxy Moron -
>a text I see as existing somewhere between poetry and drama if only because
>she reads it so well in public - strikes a little lower, not so much toward
>"renaissance" as sexual catharsis, over and over again.
>
>Lastly, we are especially happy to have Deanna Ferguson's long-awaited
>follow-up collection to her 1993 book The Relative Minor (which appears as
>a
>reprint in last year's series). Several of the poems in Rough Bush have
>already played parts in some of the signal poetics statements of the
>nineties; it's good to finally have such a stash of Ferguson's recent
>writings in one place.
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>Enjoy!
>
>--Brian Kim Stefans
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>/ubu Editions can be accessed at:
>http://ubu.com/ubu
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>Eclat
>Caroline Bergvall
>http://ubu.com/ubu/bergvall_eclat.html
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>Situation Comedies: Foxy Moron
>Barbara Cole
>http://ubu.com/ubu/cole_foxy.html
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>Linear C & The I and the You
>Jean Day
>http://ubu.com/ubu/day_linear.html
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>Smokes
>Craig Dworkin
>http://ubu.com/ubu/dworkin_smokes.html
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>Rough Bush and other poems
>Deanna Ferguson
>http://ubu.com/ubu/ferguson_bush.html
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>This Window Makes Me Feel
>Robert Fitterman
>http://ubu.com/ubu/fitterman_window.html
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>Name, a novel
>Toadex Hobogrammathon
>http://ubu.com/ubu/toadex_name.html
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>Cruise of the Pnyx
>Robert Kelly
>http://ubu.com/ubu/kelly_pnyx.html
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>São Paolo
>Madelyn Kent
>http://ubu.com/ubu/kent_sao.html
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>The Mauberley Series
>Aaron Kunin
>http://ubu.com/ubu/kunin_mauberley.html
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>Trancelated (from Coinsides)
>Ira Lightman
>http://ubu.com/ubu/lightman_trance.html
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>Spleen: Thirty-one versions of Baudelaire's Je suis comme le roi...
>Nicholas Moore
>http://ubu.com/ubu/moore_spleen.html
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>Spaghetti Dreadful (trailer for A Penny Dreadful)
>Gustave Morin
>http://ubu.com/ubu/morin_spaghetti.html
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>Circadium
>Larry Price
>http://ubu.com/ubu/price_circadium.html
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>Gulf & Alpha Betty's Chronicles
>Brian Kim Stefans
>http://ubu.com/ubu/stefans_alpha.html
>http://ubu.com/ubu/stefans_gulf.html
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>Low-Level Bureaucratic Structures Principles of the Emeryville Shellmound
>Lytle Shaw
>http://ubu.com/ubu/shaw_low.html
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>The Chinese Notebook
>Ron Silliman
>http://ubu.com/ubu/silliman_chinese.html
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>/ubu Editions can be accessed at:
>http://ubu.com/ubu
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