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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:30:51 -1000
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We have, for Subpo folks only, a special on three titles: Care of the Soul,
Spanking the Maid, & The Beast in the Nursery. 

It's a BIG list. Ordering & discount information at the end of the list.
Thanks for your support.

1. _Towards the Primeval Lightning Field_, Will Alexander, O Books, $10.50. A
work of "vertical philosophy", including "Within the Scope of the Post-Mortem
Imam," "Ratio as Wealth by Nomadic Lemur," and "The Whirling King in the Runic
Psychic Theatre." 

2. _Wakefulness_, John Ashbery, FSG, $20. "What good are rules anyway / They
apply only to themselves and other rules"   "go get a job in the monument
industry."  

3. _Hegel After Derrida_, Stuart Barnett ed., Routledge, $25.99. Robert
Bernasconi, John H. Smith, Jean-Luc Nancy, Werner Hamacher, Stuart Barnet,
Suzanne Gearhart, Andrzej Warminski, Simon Critchley, Heinz Kimmerle, Kevin
Thompson, Henry Sussman. "A number of things need to be pointed out here."

4. _Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word_, Charles Bernstein ed.,
Oxford, $24.95. Susan Stewart, Nick Piombino, Bruce Andrews, Marjorie Perloff,
Susan Howe, Joanna Drucker, Steve McCaffery, Dennis Tedlock, Bob Perleman,
Peter Quartermain, Jed Rasula, Peter Middleton, Lorenzo Thomas, Maria Damon,
Susan M. Schultz, Ron Silliman. "What is the relation of sound to meaning?"

5. _Chloroform: An Aesthetics of Critical Writing_, Nick Lawrence & Alisa
Messer ed, $10. Fiona Templeton, Jena Osman, Abby C., Amy Nestor, Lisa
Lucenti, Beth Gerwin, William Howe, Scott Pound, Paul Auster, Benjamin
Friedlander, Sheri Weinstein, Charles Bernstein, Micahel Basinski, Michael
Stancliff, Cynthia Kimball, Carla Billiteri, Bruce Andrews, Loss Glazier,
Martin Spinelli, Ken Sherwood, Ted Pearson, Taylor Brady, Jack Clarke, Kristin
Prevallet. 

6. _The Little Door Slides Back_, Jeff Clark, Sun & Moon, $10.95. "Fathoming
his pomatum."

7. _Life & Death_, Robert Creeley, New Directions, $19.95. "Whatever the hope,
/ here it is lost. // Because we coveted our difference, here is the cost."
The three sections of the book: "Histoire de Florida," "Old Poems, Etc." &
"Life & Death / There / Inside My Head."

8. _Explosive Magazine_, fourth issue, ed Katy Lederer, $5. Lisa Lubasch,
Prageeta Scharma, Rod Smith, Michael Basinski, Eleni Sikelianos, Darin De
Stefano, Gillian Kiley, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Mark Salerno, Travis Ortiz,
Leslie Scalapino, and poetry comics by Dave Morice.

9. _The Tel Quel Reader_, Patrick ffrench and Roland-Francois Lack ed,
Routledge, $24.99. Julia Kristeva, Jean-Joseph Goux, Jean-Louis Baudry, Michel
Foucault, Michelin Pleynet, Philippe Sollers, Marc Devade, Guy Scarpeta,
Roland Barthes. There are 3 pieces by Pleynet, 2 each by Kristeva & Sollers,
as well as a chronological history of Tel Quel.

10. _Aether_, William Fuller, Gaz, $10. "What exhausts the circuit signifies
its revival, without surplus or deficit. Gold is fire, the dialectical
solvent, substratum and act: its vacant murmurings vest the appetites; crooked
and straight, it kindles and extinguishes the mind."

11. _The Germ #1_, ed MacGregor Card and Andrew Maxwell, $6. Guest, Godfrey, P
Gizzi, Coolidge, Prevallet, K Waldrop, Ramke, Hejinian, Rehm, F Howe, Osman,
Spahr, Mac Low, Champion, Zurawski, Joron, R Waldrop, Ducornet, many others.

12. _Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry_, Yunte Huang, Roof, $9.95. "In
acknowledging the foreigness of its source texts, this collection reimagines
the task of translation and the possibilities for cross-cultural points of
contacts, in the process changing the way we view Chinese poetry." --Charles
Bernstein

13. _An Anthology of New (American) Poets_, Lisa Jarnot, Leonard Schwartz, and
Chris Stroffolino ed, Talisman, $21.95. Beth Anderson, Lee Ann Brown, Mary
Burger, Brenda Coultas, Jordan Davis, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Benjamin
Friedlander, Drew Gardner, Peter Gizzi, Renee Gladman, Judith Goldman, Yuri
(Riq) Hospodar, Garrett Kalleberg, Candace Kaucher, Bill Luoma, Kimberly
Lyons, Jeffrey McDaniel, Mark McMorris, Jennifer Moxley, Claire Needell, Hoa
Nguyen, Mark Nowak, Heather Ramsdell, Pam Rehm, Elio Schneeman, Susan M.
Schultz, Eleni Sikelianos, Rod Smith, Juliana Spahr, Edwin Torres, Mark
Wallace, Elizabeth Willis, Thad Ziolkowski. "I wake up and turn again to
poetry"

14. _Lost Wax_, Heather Ramsdell, U Illonois, $11.95. "To welcome the fateful
crumb, press 2"

15. _Rhizome 2_, ed Standard Schaefer & Evan Calbi, $10. Contributors include
Barbara Guest, Scott Katano, Jacques Debrot, Tan Lin, Joe Ross, Graham Foust,
Nick Piombino, Laynie Browne, Ted Greenwald, Patrick Pritchett, W.B. Keckler,
Bruce Andrews, Eugenia Butler, Norma Cole, David Bromige, Mark Wallace, & a
generous section of reviews. 

16. _Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice_, Andrew Ross, NYU, $17.95. The
essays included: "Jobs in Cyberspace," "Mr. Reggae DJ, Meet the International
Monetary Fund," "The Gangsta and the Diva," "The Private Parts of Justice,"
"If the Genes Fit, How Do You Acqit? _O.J. and Science_," "The Great Un-
American Numbers Game," "What the People Want from Art?," "The Lonely Hour of
Scarcity," and "Claims for Cultural Justice."

17. _Poems for the Millenium: The University of California Book of Modern and
Postmodern Poetry, Volume Two_, ed Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, $24.95.


871 pages, too many contributors to list. As with the first volume the scope
is truly international & the editorial commentary is actually informational.
"Put war away with time, come into space."

18. _The Situationist City_, Simon Sadler, MIT, $29.95. "We are not attached
to the charm of ruins"

19. _Poems_, Sappho, translated w/ intro by Willis Barnstone, Sun & Moon,
$10.95. "Don't stir up / small heaps / of beach refuse."

20. _Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women_, ed. Mary
Margaret Sloan, Talisman, $27.95. Niedecker, Guest, Fraser, Mayer, Waldrop,
Brossard,Waldman, Weiner, F Howe, Hejinian, Lauterbach, Notley, Owen, Dahlen,
Berssenbrugge, Child, Armantrout, Acker, S Howe, Drucker, Dreyer, Scalapino,
Moriarty, DuPlessis, Dientsfry, Cha, Darragh, Harryman, Welish, Retallack,
Templeton, Swensen, Myles, Moure, Ward, Day, Mac Cormack, Scott, Mullen, Hunt,
Patton, Cole, Sloan, Bellamy, Grim, Roy, Gevirtz, Kim, Robertson, Neilson, &
wow. Plus 150 pages of poetics.

21. _Writings 1903-1932_, Gertrude Stein, Library of America, $35. Includes
Q.E.D., Three Lives, Portraits and Other Short Works, & The Autobiography of
Alice B. Toklas. The Portraits and Other Short Works covers 375 pages and
includes Tender Buttons, Yet Dish, Turkey and Bones and Eating and We Liked
It, Lifting Belly, Marry Nettie, Acscents in Alsace, An Instant Answer or A
Hundred Prominent Men, A Book Concluding With as a Wife Has a Cow, Composition
as Explanation, An Acquaintance with Description, Patriarchal Poetry, Four
Saints in Three Acts, and much else. 

21. _Writings 1932-1946_, Gertrude Stein, Library of America, $35. Stanzas in
Meditation, Henry James, Lectures in America, Narration: Lecture 3, What are
Masterpieces and Why are There So Few of Them, Geographical History of
America, What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes, Picasso, The World is
Round, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, Ida, Three Sisters Who Are Not
Sisters,
Brewsie and Willie, The Mother of Us All, Reflection on the Atomic Bomb.

22. _Free Space Comix_, Brian Kim Steffans, Roof, $9.95. "Hello! broken /
"Grease!" cast throwing lots at the / Leprechaun / II -- fast as they could
say "Sheena / Easton," / a lung collapsed. Where / is the teeming / parlor?"

23. _Tripwire: a journal of poetics_, ed Yedda Morrison & David Buuck, $6.
Noah de Lissovoy, Eleni Sikelianos, Kathy Lou Schultz, Carolyn Castano,
Rodrigo Toscano, Sarah Anne Cox, Elizabeth Robinson, Tan Lin, Sarah Rosenthal,
Robert Hale, Jocelyn Saidenberg & Brian Strang, Tim Davis, Michelle Rollman,
Elizabeth Treadwell, Myung Mi Kim, Dana Lomax, Molly Hankwitz, Poetry Center
Archives at SF State, Thiagarajah Selvanithy, Mark Wallace, Sherry Brennan.

24. _The Movement of the Free Spirit_, Raoul Vaneigem, Zone, $12.50. Vaneigem
examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and
ecclesiastical authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s. "What needs
to be sought out is the kind of fullfillment that comes when the heart learns
to extract from the uncertain or the unknown a quintessence of love that
allows these circumstances to seem somehow favorable."

25. _WellWellReality [collaborations]_, Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop, Post-Apollo,
$10. "body al- / together too / sophisticated / for the soul if sun /
relentless burns crying _I_ its / image on our retina bit / by bit another"

26. _My Christmas Poem (Sixteen Inches of Snow and a Void)_, Mark Wallace,
PNY/MEB, $5. "I write the day / my own special way-- / bring me as well your
drifting gift."

Some Bestsellas:
_Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustic Technologies_, ed A. Morris,
$24.95.
_Debbie: An Epic_, Lisa Robertson, $14.
_Artificial Heart_, Peter Gizzi, $10.
_A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History_, Manuel De Landa, $24.50.
_Ancestral Cave_, Tom Mandel, $7.50.
_The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book_, ed Andrews & Berstein, $18.95.
_The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books_, John Ashbery, $25.
_Some Other Kind of Mission_, Lisa Jarnot, Burning Deck, $11.
_Some of the Dharma_, Jack Kerouac, Viking, $32.50.
_Continuous Discontinuous_, Andrew Levy, Potes & Poets, $13.50.
_Another Language: Selected Poems_, Rosmarie Waldrop, Talisman, $10.50.
_Frame (1971-1991)_, Barrett Watten, Sun & Moon, $13.95.
_On the Level Everyday: Selected Takes on Poetry and the Art of Living_, Ted
Berrigan, Talisman, $12.95.
_The Psychic Life of Power_, Judith Butler, Stanford, $15.95.
_The Politics of Truth_, Michel Foucault, Autonomedia, $8.
_The Lost Lunar Baedeker_, Mina Loy, FSG, $13. 
_Imagination Verses_, Jennifer Moxley, $8.95.
_I-VI_, John Cage, $24.95.
_MUSICAGE: Cage Muses on Words. Art. Music._, Joan Retallack, $19.95.
_Chain 4_, $10.
_Crayon Premier Issue: Jackson Mac Low Festschrift_, $20.
_Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material World_, Michael
Davidson, $35. 
_In Memory of My Theories_, Rod Smith, $10.50.
_Guy Debord--Revolutionary: A Critical Biography_, Len  Bracken, $14.95.
_Essays Clinical & Critical_, Guy Deleuze, $17.95.
_il cuore : the heart, Selected Poems_ Katthleen Fraser, $12.95
_Perhaps this is a rescue fantasy_, Heather Fuller, $10.
_Nothing Happened and Besides I Wasn't There_, Mark Wallace, $9.50.

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