Apologies if you receive this more than once.
Wild Honey Press is delighted to announce the following new publications:
Vivas by Mairéad Byrne and A Defence of Being by Lissa Wolsak
Vivas by Mairéad Byrne.
14.5x16 cm, 20 pages, 250 gsm white Strata card cover, pale blue endpapers,
hand-sewn with azure twist.
Cover image, Memoirs of Milk Bottles, Gold Tops 2003, by Tina Lauren
Vietmeier.
Price euro 5 / USD 5 / STG 3.50
Explore the metaphysics of the eaten bagel as you enter the carnival world
of Mairéad Byrne's latest chapbook. Pitch past pitch of passion,
over-stuffed sofas, Polar ice shelves, film stars, savings accounts,
glorious sights and dairy products are yours as your dreams, or someone
else's, come true in a journey sans safety belt across fourteen streaming
poems with rainbows inside.
A Defence of Being by Lissa Wolsak
14x21 cm, 48 pages, 250 gsm Green Strata card cover, black endpapers, hand
sewn with green twist.
Colour illustration by Allen Fisher.
ISBN 1 903090 42 3
Price: euro 7 / USD 7 / STG 4.50
As George Quasha comments:
If I were to argue at this late date of post-culture the view that "poets
are born, not made", Lissa Wolsak would be my preferred instance, along
with, say, Emily Dickinson or HD - poets through and through, for whom
poetry is not so much choice as life-sustaining access to its own
intelligible current. Such poets are often outsiders in the sense that their
work by its nature is without precedent. That her extraordinary ear for
actual speech nuance (however idiolectual) bespeaks the values of a living
poetics in the historical context of unconsciously suicidal public
discourse; its freshness and always surprising invention of her own
revelatory process has no near neighbors. And if she calls a new thinking
into play, it is so utterly without dogma and so sensitive to the free
movement of mind that its humanness and compassionate nature stand forward.
Therein lies her actual politics, alive in the action of what she calls
"co-mercy". A hard act to co-opt.
More information, including extracts from and images of the chapbooks, can
be found by clicking the links at www.wildhoneypress.com
Since literature is the best currency, swaps are welcome.
best
Randolph
Randolph Healy
www.wildhoneypress.com
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