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<b><i>FIRST THE BURNING</i></b> begins with a girl emerging soot-smeared from a river, having miraculously survived a fire that engulfed everything for miles. "Every so often there's a fire that changes everything," she explains. But what if that fire somehow returns to burn again, impossibly, every day? What happens to the girl who survives, who does she become? As she persists in the cycle of daily disaster, she begins to wonder if there is more than one girl, herself and another, a not-quite twin, in her perpetually scorched surroundings. Every day as the townspeople are "strung onto the fire like beads," we lose track of which fire is raging now, and which girl in these burning woods is which.<br />
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They say that just before the fire arrived, animals came pouring silently<br />
out of the forest, all kinds together, heading to the river, “enemies and friends,”<br />
their tongues hanging out.<br />
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For days before, the sun was “red” and “swollen,”<br />
“many times its normal size.”<br />
The moon was “not itself.”<br />
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The earth is always showing us how to have the wildest experiences.<br />
While she runs, I remain still and mark her trail<br />
like an axe blaze on a tree.<br />
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Also this: up close, her pupil moves quickly,<br />
like a whole other creature living in her head.<br />
If you don’t know what I mean, maybe it’s been too long<br />
since you’ve had a friend.<br />
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Haven’t you ever been a rough, rough man a hundred miles away<br />
from even a scrap of soft cloth to rub against your skin?<br />
Then you look down and see a bolt of silk.<br />
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Not once such a man? I don’t believe you.<br />
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<b>About the author:</b><br />
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Catie Rosemurgy is the author of two books of poems, <i>My Favorite Apocalypse</i> and <i>The Stranger Manual</i>, both from Graywolf Press. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the College of New Jersey. First the Burning is an excerpt from a longer book in progress, <i>The Forthcoming Disasters of Gold River</i>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">This time around, Davis started not with a question but a dare as his constraint: create an endless list of band names, each plausible, spanning a variety of musical styles and eras, without exhausting the concept.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><i>BAND NAMES & OTHER POEMS</i> is the result of that experiment, the Oulipo-inflected descendent of Raymond Queneau’s <i>100,000,000,000,000 Poems</i>, sort of, but funnier and about bands. Turns out, naming bands is a peculiar linguistic activity—they’ve got their own grammar, and a flexible form that’s as ready to satirize current events as to indulge in a really bad pun. Readers will soon find themselves visualizing and even hearing the bands: understanding how Shock Fawn differs from The Stitch Release, why Stations of the Crossbow could never share a bill with Trauma Rasta or Gretchen Retch, while Midnight in Fairy Tales opening for Paper Kate makes total sense. When Trump Wall and the Mexico Pays does a contemporary-country cover of “Foreign Scandal” by 80s punk legends Reagan’s Assassination the crowd goes unwittingly wild.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><b>Two books in one!</b> <i>OTHER POEMS</i> consists of 40 standalone pieces like “Ocean Radiator,” “The Use of Youth,” “The Future as We Planned It,” and “Succeeding in America.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><b>PETER DAVIS</b>'s previous books of poetry are <i>Hitler’s Mustache</i>, <i>Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!</i>, and <i>TINA</i>. He writes, draws, and makes music in Muncie, Indiana, where he lives with his wife and kids and teaches at Ball State University. For more information visit <a href="http://artisnecessary.com/">artisnecessary.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">Poems from this new book have appeared in <i>Ampersand</i>; the <i>Awl</i>; the <i>Believer</i>; <i>Big Bell</i>; <i>Columbia Poetry Review</i>; <i>Forklift, Ohio</i>; <i>Masque and Spectacle</i>; <i>interrupture</i>; <i>Juked</i>; <i>Omniverse</i>; <i>Open Letters Monthly</i>; <i>Poet Lore</i>; <i>Powder Keg</i>; <i>Rhino</i>; and <i>Sixth Finch</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>Succeeding in America</b></span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">It is not as if I can capture the high road simply</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">by mowing everyone down at the ankles. In fact,</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">as I try to navigate the crust, I find my desire</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">to spring forward is held in check my desire</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">to fall back. It’s like, for each and every Newton</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">there is an opposite Newton, say, a fig, a Wayne</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">who is chubby as a tween but a real fucker</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">on the banjo. Also, as far as showmanship goes,</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">it’s hard to beat a drum harder than all the</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">daydreaming eyes at the soda fountain or all</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">the twinkling cheeks at the record store. For</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">every black button on a lapel, there is a tiny wish</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">in my heart. At every hopeful talent show</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">the number of dance steps is the same number</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">of steps to my bed. In my bed, where my dreams</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">are cartoon surfers, I can feel the musing of</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">the future. I feel the skin that isn’t yours spread</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">across an ocean that isn’t ours. It’s like the foam</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">in my throat is a bubbled snake, like the vest</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">in my chest is a fur grenade.</span></span></div>
shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-70045321405574035262018-05-01T09:45:00.000-04:002018-05-22T13:46:03.312-04:00Note on shipping to Canada<br />
<b>We are unpleasantly surprised to find it is no longer practical for us to ship our books to readers and reviewers in Canada, at least not directly from our HQ in New Jersey.</b><br />
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Here are the new USPS rules: <a href="http://blog.stamps.com/2017/12/26/important-usps-making-changes-first-class-mail-international-flats/">http://blog.stamps.com/2017/12/26/important-usps-making-changes-first-class-mail-international-flats/</a><br />
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We have processed all outstanding orders, but as of today we will be refusing/refunding orders and review copies that call for shipping into Canada. We're researching some workarounds, but here's the gist:<br />
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For a typical 6-oz. poetry paperback, the shipping to Canada via First Class International Package Rate would be $9.50 US, above and beyond the $15 or $16 cover price.<br />
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Some of our books are a good deal heavier than that. Recently it cost us $16 in postage to mail a single copy of our largest book to a reviewer in Canada. To ship that book to a reader, we'd have to charge $32, double the cover price.<br />
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We can reroute review copy requests via our international printer network, but that also costs us $10 a pop. So we can't do that, like, a lot.<br />
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We are internationally distributed though, via Ingram/Lightning Source and various wholesalers. So your favorite local booksellers and online bookstores up there should be able to get the books to you that way, with much lower shipping fees.<br />
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Exception: We think the chapbooks can still squeak by as First Class International Letter Rate, unless they are over 3.5 oz. The only way to get our handmades is to order them directly. We're upset that this means some chapbooks may not be available to our readers outside the US.<br />
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But we'll keep looking into this.<br />
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<b>In the meantime, please note that the PayPal buttons on this site do not accurately reflect this new rule, and orders placed to Canadian addresses will be refunded/rerouted as necessary.</b> (We're about to rebuild the site and store and will address that then. Our Square store only accepts US orders anyway, per their own policy.)<br />
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<br />bloofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15256403077181555431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-52336324553960789972018-04-25T21:48:00.002-04:002018-04-25T21:48:45.475-04:00My pre-revolutionary decadenceMy body is ready to defend my babyand run. The ants scout new paths.<br />
Or I am agitated, anxious and irritable<br />
while the male dove sits on the eggs at night<br />
and the female roosts nearby. The mild<br />
mania of sleep deprivation and the<br />
sleep deprivation of late Capitalism. The<br />
good enough worker and the good<br />
enough mother. No more "mom" as<br />
prefix, no more reader suggestions<br />
on regressions and sleeping. I lack<br />
ambition but want some things: Love,<br />
sleep, travel, wit, a healthy spine.<br />
A spine with natural curves. Slight euphoria.<br />
<br />K. Lorraine Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-49296109330179201402018-04-19T00:56:00.000-04:002018-04-19T00:56:02.542-04:00Figure 16 <span id="docs-internal-guid-bff5b218-dc40-f07f-a9ec-cbab5a6eac30" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone can say he might have made errors in judgement or most of the performers were the audience but did the intended recipient ever hear </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you are my favorite professor so far in collage</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? The book most occupied was the one counting on modular dividers while the mail carriers and adjuncts changed without notice Does anyone need a general understanding when the obvious pelts us daily? Right under our noses which have mysteriously departed or euphemism for being suffocated in the immediate death-trap of planning or not planning for that which isn’t Paradox of </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">discarded objects that ought to be described </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would rather be a student in collage than college in mess than mass no paradise The dancers rearrange themselves to think about gravity as agency then drape their bodies over the nearest available surface-- watermelon ottoman autocratic exaggeration each other each other each other Attention glues to contact Instead of going to sleep she said I’m just going to close my eyes and think about what I might dream about</span>elisabeth workmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16623611324116897322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-33322367428091947802018-04-17T21:29:00.001-04:002018-04-17T21:29:15.388-04:00Affect-moulding behaviour(Milk) expression. Napoleon thought he was civilized<br />
and civilizing when he marched his army to Egypt<br />
in 1798. And in 1932 the Seventh Heavy Battery<br />
of the Royal Australian Artillery alighted at<br />
Campion in Western Australia to shoot migrating emu.<br />
That was this morning. Is a breast pump face plate<br />
replaceable? When babies who can barely<br />
speak great each other with waves. Rabbits touch noses,<br />
and I am strangely familiar with colleagues. We're<br />
alive, please don't fire me. The breast pump face<br />
plate is broken. There is no one to appreciate<br />
how calm I am or see my abbreviated rage <br />
toward this badly-made object, it's design unchanged<br />
since the 30s. Abbreviated rage about metonymy:<br />
that old cow. There's this idea that animals can<br />
shake off stress and not take things personally.<br />
There's this idea that we can suffer less. K. Lorraine Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-63541582213491711882018-04-10T21:42:00.001-04:002018-04-10T21:42:41.131-04:00Without WarningOne day, I will begin dressing like Tania Balachova<br />
as Inèz Serrano in <i>Huis clos </i>and I will be<br />
honest about my evil deeds and cruelty.<br />
But just now I tried to rub toothpaste<br />
into my dry hands. I have a leather sofa<br />
from Ikea, not <i>un</i><span class="st"><em> canapé bleu</em>. I think of the savory </span><br />
<span class="st">snack first not an antique sofa. </span><br />
<span class="st">I'm so tired. An antique sofa sounds uncomfortable.</span><br />
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<i><i><i><i><i><span lang="fr"></span></i></i></i></i></i>K. Lorraine Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-49087959842642081592018-04-09T09:14:00.000-04:002018-04-09T09:19:02.641-04:00Jennifer L. Knox in the Washington Post<br />
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A glorious surprise! We didn't know this was coming, but it's a great piece in the <i>Washington Post</i> for National Poetry Month/NaPoWriMo, in which Jen discusses what happened in her classroom when a student (for the first time in her experience) included an ableist slur in a poem he brought to workshop.</div>
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/04/09/i-really-wanted-that-student-to-feel-censored-a-poetry-class-confronts-slurs-and-finds-grace/" target="_blank">Read it here</a>. </div>
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Find all four of Jennifer's books—<i>Days for Shame & Failure, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, Drunk by Noon,</i> and <i>A Gringo Like Me</i>—<a href="http://www.bloofbooks.com/store.html" target="_blank">in our store here.</a>bloofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15256403077181555431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-66977988333386218832018-04-08T22:40:00.004-04:002018-04-10T23:08:51.539-04:008<span style="color: #454545;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">[expired]</span></span>bloofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15256403077181555431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-23269799862083421262018-04-08T21:40:00.002-04:002018-04-08T21:40:43.702-04:00An Elaborate Kind of TurnWhen emotion becomes uncontainable, what<br />
happens when we map the cave, visit the penguin<br />
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colony, create a database of all the flowering trees<br />
in our quadrant of the city? I've said that linoleum<br />
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would be better than wall-to-wall, that a cave<br />
is as good as a portal, that I'm sorry for breaking<br />
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that vase while doing a particular kind of pirouette<br />
with a name I don't know then remember:<br />
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<i>fouettees rond de jambe en tournant</i>. It's absurd<br />
to wake up in bed instead of somewhere on the<br />
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Platte River in Nebraska at sunset, near migrating<br />
sandhill cranes. In the story, she does not dream of levitating.<br />
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She just levitates. <br />
K. Lorraine Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-29775852094758039622018-04-07T22:04:00.002-04:002018-04-07T22:10:37.481-04:00Water, Light, AirI'm giving you everything. You can't<br />
know anything. She's not going to read that<br />
Jean-Paul Sartre play, not today. To celebrate<br />
an unremarkable birthday in her late 30s,<br />
she went to a Theravada Buddhist monastery <br />
in rural West Virginia to cultivate awareness<br />
of death. "Of course I want to die, Mom."<br />
There are hundreds of mattress reviews<br />
declaring how "very firm" the mattress is,<br />
but it's so soft, and what is language, anyway:<br />
"Sometimes I lay in bed and think about<br />
what it would be like to live on a pirate ship,"<br />
she said. I look at a bird, probably a robin<br />
or sparrow or dove. Imagine rage you cannot imagine<br />
between every sentence. What has someone<br />
done to you and what have you done. What's missing<br />
is the sound of the dishwasher. The headache <br />
that begins in your teeth. The sound of your<br />
sweetheart breathing. Everything is missing.K. Lorraine Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-31895759449622361232018-04-06T23:13:00.000-04:002018-04-07T14:36:03.896-04:00Kash6: 8-count<span style="font-family: "garamond";">She walked at a clip down the street</span><span style="font-family: "garamond";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond";">cross </span><span style="font-family: "garamond";">the vision</span><span style="font-family: "garamond";"> of a humble </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond";">A metronome beats until stopped.</span></div>
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bloofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15256403077181555431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-35377826987069720552018-03-22T16:27:00.002-04:002018-04-01T09:54:37.243-04:00April at the Bloof Blog, aka NaPoWriMo 2018<br />
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We're going to write poems every day in April, participating in NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, a public poetry celebration initiated by Maureen Thorson. Read about the history of this unofficial, unaffiliated, noncommerical event <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/about/" target="_blank">here</a>. NaPoWriMo coincides but is unaffiliated with that other April poetry thing—<a href="https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home" target="_blank">National Poetry Month</a> sponsored by our friends at the Academy of American Poets/Poets.org. <br />
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Remember blogs? We're delighted to discover we still have one. We're gonna be redesigning the site soon to streamline and update lots of its features, including this old thang. The URL might change a bit, but we'll let you know. Because we have stuff to tell you <i>that we want you to actually see</i>.*<br />
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First, if you preordered a copy of <b>Peter Davis's </b><i><b>BAND NAMES & OTHER POEMS</b><span style="color: red;"> </span></i>it is now in the mail. You will have it in a few days (if you don't have it already). It'll start showing up in stores/online stores sometime next month.<br />
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<b>__________________ after dreaming that hungry women may resort to violence</b> </blockquote>
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An all-woman riot in the wilderness &<br />
chained vultures & wolves smell the brawl<br />
from their caves & forests policing, by force<br />
of habit wanting everything for themselves<br />
but the women channel a raging<br />
feast, raining from the sky &<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"__________ my loved blacknesses & some blacknesses I knew" </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">at </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/58023#">Poetry</a></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Three more from the chapbook</b> at <i><a href="http://dreginald.com/index.php/issues/issue-three/khadijah-queen">Dreginald</a></i></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.khadijahqueen.com/">Khadijah Queen</a></b> is the author of four books, most recently <i>Fearful Beloved</i> (2015), and four chapbooks. In 2015, The Relationship theater company staged her verse play, <i>Non-Sequitur</i>, in NYC as part of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers, with publication by Litmus Press. Individual poems appear in <i>Brooklyn Magazine</i>, <i>Tin House</i>, <i>Fence</i>, <i>jubilat</i>, <i>Best American Nonrequired Reading</i>, <i>Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq</i>, and widely in other journals and anthologies. Her fifth book, <i>I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On</i>, will be published by YesYes Books in spring 2017. She is core faculty for the low residency Mile-High MFA program at Regis University.<br />
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Cover painting: Untitled (2010), Khadijah Queen<br />
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<i>Exercises in Painting</i> is the fifth chapbook in the 2015–2016 series from Bloof Books. Each chapbook in the series is released in a limited edition of one hundred numbered copies, followed by a digital release, and eventually in a combination volume called <i>Bound</i>.shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-29091279274128600132017-08-09T14:12:00.001-04:002018-02-08T09:27:17.402-05:00Ghosts, Models, Visions by Ginger Ko<iframe height="600" src="http://squareup.com/market/bloof-books/item/ghosts-models-visions-by-ginger-ko" width="600"></iframe><br />
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<b>THE ROTTED WATER OF MY URBANITY</b><br />
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I can’t make<br />
anything from me,<br />
anything not<br />
already dead. I look<br />
to my family<br />
but none of them<br />
are like me. They<br />
have led up to me.<br />
What do we do<br />
when they no longer<br />
need the mannequin<br />
casings for their<br />
clever matrices?<br />
I asked a keeper<br />
and they became<br />
so angry that they<br />
led me to the edge<br />
of the dolphin tank,<br />
pointed at the warders<br />
who must masturbate<br />
the males, massaging<br />
pink extensions<br />
as the dolphins float<br />
belly up against<br />
the poolside. When<br />
your own body<br />
is meaningless, when<br />
you sit at home<br />
on soft furniture<br />
because your<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">CRAWLSPACE by Nikki Wallschlaeger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Publication date: May 2017</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">ISBN: 978-0-9965868-5-6</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bloof is thrilled to announce the first book in our 2017 lineup: <i>CRAWLSPACE</i> by Nikki Wallschlaeger. We have already had the pleasure of working with Nikki on her graphic chapbook, <i>I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel,</i> and we can't wait to bring this new book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The second book by the author of <i>Houses</i>, <i>CRAWLSPACE</i> collects thirty-six pieces built on the foundation of the sonnet, ranging in length from fourteen lines to longer works stacking multiple sonnets into linked sequences. <i style="font-family: inherit;">CRAWLSPACE</i> deepens and extends the house metaphor from Wallschlaeger's first book, while opening up more initmate and sometimes darker intellectual territory. Where <i>Houses</i> explored the mental/emotional/physical sheltered spaces in which we live out and construct our lives, <i>Crawlspace</i> explores the the more constricted spaces, the tighter concealed passages running above and below. These sonnets aim to be </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">"very very fraught with you." </span><br />
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Publication is scheduled for May 2017. <b>To reserve a review copy or invite Nikki to do a reading, contact Shanna Compton: info at bloof books dot com.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Form is everywhere & it’s useless to deny it, so I like to play with the illusion of having control. This is from a series of sonnets that I’ve placed into small buildings, but since the bank owns the buildings that I move in, I am only paying mortgage. We have an understanding. The sonnet has agreed to the task of my subversions, that the security guard is on a permanent lunch break so we can get inside. A window that is open on the top floor? A claw in the painting? These are my micro-victories against hegemony."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Nikki Wallschlaeger</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"> is the author of </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780990813934/houses.aspx">Houses</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"> (Horse Less, 2015), and the chapbooks <i>I<a href="http://news.bloofbooks.com/2015/11/preorder-i-hate-telling-you-how-i.html"> Hate Telling You How I Really Feel</a></i> (Bloof, 2016) and </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://horselesspress.org/2014/02/23/i-would-be-the-happiest-bird-by-nikki-wallschlaeger/">I Would Be the Happiest Bird</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"> (Horse Less, 2014). She is currently at work on a book of sonnets called </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Crawlspace</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">, some of which can be found in the </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Brooklyn Rail</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">, </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Fanzine</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">, </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Elective Affinities</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">, the </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Account</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">, the </span><i style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">Inquisitive Eater</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">, and elsewhere. </span><a href="http://www.nikkiwallschlaeger.com/" style="color: #4d469c; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">www.nikkiwallschlaeger.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Poems from <i>Crawlspace</i> have appeared in <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">the</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> Brooklyn Rail, P-Queue, TheThe Poetry Blog, </i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">the</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> Account, Fanzine, Elective Affinities, Dusie, </i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">the</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> Philadelphia Review, Quaint Magazine, </i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">the</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> Enemy,</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> the</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> Inquisitive Eater, </i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">the <i>Poetry Project Newsletter </i>& elsewhere.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Face me in your sonnets so I can permanently grieve</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">is really what the roses say to the antebellum purling </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">dogtags of myself. It’s one of our common flowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">along with the gardenia, violet, & heady geranium</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">leaning into a postcard advertising vintage weedkiller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It makes it difficult to approach the crowd with love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I turn an unnatural whip of red like a baboon’s crypt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Whether or not they like it depends on their versions</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of paternalistic stylecraft, the jetskis they rode in on</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">red and black girls grown for their gutted waterpetals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Afterwards I hear their toasts while I pour champagne</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">to health and happiness. I trip on a slab of calf muscle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">the grooms giving the essential lists of panting warning</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is the big gulp of seaworld sacraments I have sampled</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">when they asked me to be a bridesmaid in topos red tulle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">the families who have grown me out of hysterical divide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have been their servant. I’ve listened to their decimations</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of languor, that slow cookin is always the best way to unite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve been pregnant before and I will be wrecked pregnant </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">again: heavier with the tree slits of Mary Turner’s baby</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">who sings of rapturous hexes oiled by the truly innocent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">These Dostoyevskian friends, what can you say to them</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">who choose the inconsequential as their primary crime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Like the good shigella drugged citizens that they are,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">they handwax the long calvacade of cars with Jackie O</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">fibroids, the journeymen specializing in overseeing</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">plant lacuna switches & steel workboots that massacre</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">babies not ready to be born w/ tinted glass is my belly</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">all the babies covered in secret eyes blinking for our nights</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">running with their infant infareds, flashing through the paths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We are in hiding. We make pot roast sandwiches for senators</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">as I trace my eyes down to the documents being fabricated</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">over their lunch hours I know I will have to wipe down this</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">table when they finish. A newspaper asks,” How many words</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">can you make out of the word arrogate?” next to a crossword</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">puzzle about cinema noir. How much of it can be destroyed</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">if it’s designed to kill you cuz Baldwin says here it comes again</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">when you’ve already been walking for miles, talkin back to cops</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and your voice gets auto-tuned swelled with dripping generations</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of statesmen. By the glow of mycelium lakes who are connecting</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">the old growth trees for shelter: We, as marked women transform</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "source sans pro";">ourselves. We are the wood violets and roses stretching in the rain. </span><br />
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<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://thefanzine.com/sonnet-13/" style="font-family: inherit;">Sonnet (13): Mother you want is going to yell at you</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, from </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Fanzine</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://theaccountmagazine.com/?article=sonnet-8" style="font-family: inherit;">Sonnet (8): Do not feed the inquisitive machine,</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Account</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.poetryproject.org/15746-2/" style="font-family: inherit;">Sonnet (29): To drag one's razed cesarean stories,</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from the Poetry Project website</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://inquisitiveeater.com/2015/08/14/tie-poet-of-the-month-sonnet-59-by-nikki-wallschlaeger/">Sonnet (59): Three scoops of natural black hair,</a> from the <i>Inquisitive Eater</i></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/09/poetry/nikki-wallschlaeger" style="font-family: inherit;">Four Sonnets (57, 41, 34, 51)</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, from the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Brooklyn Rail</i></span></span></li>
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<i>HYMN: An Ovulution</i> is the second chapbook in the 2015 series from Bloof Books. Each chapbook in the series is released in a limited edition of one hundred numbered copies, followed by a digital release, and eventually a combination volume called <i>Bound</i>.<br />
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Hera knows where the $$ comes from. to give</div>
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her some idea of the landscape it’s porcine</div>
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February and the biscuits ain’t risin’</div>
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down pink plastic selfies and sluts.</div>
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the fogwitch goes in and out. in and out.</div>
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Hera’s left defrosting the ladder</div>
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the fogwitch knows where the Dr. keeps</div>
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his other. under the matte black slacks</div>
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Hera wonders did she eat the animal beneath</div>
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the fur. her lips and fingers are blue. she leaves</div>
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prints on the satin documentation. she leaves</div>
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prints where no one will find ’em</div>
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the Dr. ain’t in but he sure ain’t out.</div>
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<b style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mel Coyle</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 16px;"> is from Chicago and other places where the corn grows. Currently, she lives in Ohio where she coedits <i>TENDE RLOIN</i>, an online poetry gallery. You can find some of her work online.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenn Marie Nunes</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "droid serif"; font-size: 16px;"> is the author of four chapbooks, including <i>Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of Object</i> from dancing girl press. Her work appears most recently in <i>Similar:Peaks::,</i> <i>Tupelo Quarterly</i>, <i>Smoking Glue Gun</i>, and <i>Southeast Fiction</i>, and she is coeditor of <i>TENDE RLOIN</i>, an online gallery for poetry. Her first full-length collection, selected by Switchback Books as the winner of their first-ever Queer Voices Award, is <i>And/Or</i>, and <i>Juned</i> is now available from YesYes Books.</span></div>
shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227386964261066015.post-91319175813176957142017-02-26T12:36:00.003-05:002017-02-26T12:36:45.213-05:00SOLD OUT, coming soon in free e-book PDF formats<h3>
The following chapbooks have recently sold out: </h3>
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<i>The Library of Congress Censored Interview</i> by CAConrad</div>
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<i>Knotted. </i>left, by Alyssa Lynee</div>
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Maureen Thorson's <i>The Woman, the Mirror, the Eye</i></div>
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<i>HYMN: An Ovulution</i> by Mel Coyle & Jenn Marie Nunes</div>
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We have two more chapbooks forthcoming still before we open again for Open Reading Period for new chapbook submissions, by Catie Rosemurgy & Ginger Ko. More about those soon.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bloof Books will be participating in the AWP Conference & Bookfair next week in Washington DC. We will be reading, paneling, writing & otherwise making our voices heard. Though we recognize the timing of this conference is not ideal, we feel it is important to carry on with our small-press and poetic activities (not to mention our jobs!) in spite of our intense opposition to this new administration. We wish all our readers & fellows resilience & strength of heart. <em>We thank you all for your efforts</em>—seen & unseen. We will never stop resisting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Bloof Books & Black Radish Books will be at table 625 </strong>in the bookfair, all three days: Thursday 2/9, Friday 2/10, Saturday 2/11. The bookfair hours are 8:30–5:00. <strong>Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Pl. NW</strong><br /><br />We will be debuting all three of our new books! Details below. And of course bringing our full catalog. As usual, we'll be offering exclusive bookfair discounts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our first releases of 2017 are ready for your preorders. We're so excited to bring you Nikki Wallschlaeger's second book, <em>Crawlspace</em>, a collection of fiercely experimental sonnets; K. Lorraine's beautifully present second book, <em>The Rest Is Censored</em>; and this horror-inflected sixth book by Danielle Pafunda, <em>The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</em>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://news.bloofbooks.com/2017/01/coming-soon-dead-girls-speak-in-unison.html" target="_blank">The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://news.bloofbooks.com/2016/03/the-rest-is-censored-by-k-lorraine.html" target="_blank">The Rest Is Censored</a></span></div>
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Thursday, February 9</h2>
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9:00–10:15 a.m. Panel</h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Shanna Compton</strong> is a panelist on a forum about the long poem: <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9381" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Long & Winding Road</a>, with R. Erica Doyle, Katrina Vandenberg, John Gallaher, and Matthew Thorburn. Marriott Marquis, Marquis Salon 9 & 10, Meeting Level Two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>BLOOF's side of the bookfair table may not be open during this panel, but we'll see you there immediately after, by 10:30 a.m.</b></span></div>
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7:00–9:00 p.m. Readings</h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Khadijah Queen, Mg Roberts, Danielle Pafunda, Anastacia Renee Tolbert, Becca Klaver, Natalie Eilbert, K. Lorraine Graham, Jackie Clark, Sandra Simonds & more! </strong><br /><br />Offsite reading: <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/event.php?id=1849813748634201" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1849813748634201/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D">Black Radish + Bloof Books at AWP 2017</a><br /><br />DC Arts Center Theater (2nd Floor)<br />2438 Eighteenth Street NW<br />in Adams Morgan<br />Free admission<br /><br /><strong>Maureen Thorson</strong> is reading at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1189730187806935/">Resist/Replenish: Coven Press</a><br />Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe 2477-2475 18th St NW</span></div>
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10:30–11:45 a.m. Panel</h4>
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<strong style="font-family: inherit;">Danielle Pafunda</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;"> will be signing copies of her new book, <i>The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</i>, and offering tarot readings. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Washington Convention Center, AWP Bookfair, Table #625.</span><br />
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1:30-2:45 p.m. Panel</h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Becca Klaver</strong> is a panelist on <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.awpwriter.org%2Fawp_conference%2Fevent_detail%2F8289&h=ATMNwyd8dnFR_Cr5ahjLO7mC-dBo0bvdscmUgpHbah4JwBrwtPeOZ6jbIztfQn2viHfaU6FAKT7_9IDTszBSn_ktJgaw-IKqSe4074Ki4QuA_7-BmRp8QRTuB0gk1tkxnWcEaviwnA&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Poetics of Empire: Five Books</a>, with Farid Matuk, Laura Jaramillo, Christopher Kempf & Sam Taylor. Marriot Marquis, Supreme Court, Meeting Level Four.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><strong>Becca Klaver & Jennifer L. Knox</strong> will be signing copies of their new books, <i>Empire Wasted</i> and <i>Days of Shame & Failure.</i> Washington Convention Center, AWP Bookfair, Table #625.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><strong>Khadijah Queen</strong> is a panelist on <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9228" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legacies of the Badass: Black Feminist Writing</a> in the Millennium, with Ruth Ellen Kocher, Dawn Lundy Martin, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & Duriel E. Harris. Washington Convention Center, Room 209ABC, Level Two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Danielle Pafunda</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;"> will be signing copies of her new book, <i>The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</i>, and offering tarot readings. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Washington Convention Center, AWP Bookfair, Table #625.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">ISBN: 978-0-9965868-6-3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Publication date: April 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A second redesigned & updated edition of </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by Danielle Pafunda is now available for preorder from Bloof Books. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is Danielle Pafunda's sixth collection of poems. Two of Danielle's other books are <a href="http://www.bloofbooks.com/store.html">also available from Bloof: <i>My Zorba</i> and <i>Natural History Rape Museum</i>.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Danielle Pafunda abolishes the stereotype of prissy, dainty girls in her thrilling poetry collection The Dead Girls Speak in Unison. Set in a surrealistic underworld, takes on the collective voice of empowered female corpses and ironically uses quaint language and structure to describe the true nature of women. […] Pafunda’s collection leaves readers craving more of its 'rotten pages.' 'If you’re looking for something pretty,' don’t look here. <b>—<i>Verse</i>, Brittany Capps </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"We don’t often see choral speakers, but speaking in unison gives these 'girls' collective presence, forcing us to face gender violence. [T]he girls gain a certain power in this…raw girls who bypass maturity, who are as rank and offensive as possible. These unrefined girls are deeply unsettling." <b>—<i>The Plot</i>, Heidi Czerwiec</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where’s our deady daddy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where’s our dear dead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">dada man?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re all dolled up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re curls and pearls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and ruffled pants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We’ve tacked our skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">back ontobones, and hissing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">roaches at our throats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gemless, rigged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re daddy’s girls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">we’re apples</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">pierced through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the heart, the socket</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">or the eye once was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We’ve his eyes, in fact</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">his expression fixed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a fix, a needle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">dropping down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a syringe full of seed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">or this bombed-out hide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Danielle Pafunda</b> is the author of </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Bloof Books, 2017), <i>Natural History Rape Museum</i> (Bloof Books, 2013), <i>Manhater</i> (Dusie Press, 2012), <i>Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies</i> (Noemi Press, 2010), <i>My Zorba</i> (Bloof Books, 2008), <i>Pretty Young Thing</i> (Soft Skull Press, 2005), and the chapbooks <i>Cram</i> (Essay Press, 2015) and <i>When You Left Me in the Rutted Terrain of Our Love at the Border, Which I Could Not Cross, Remaining a Citizen of this Corrupt Land</i> (Birds of Lace, 2014). Her poems have appeared in three editions of <i>The Best American Poetry </i>and have been anthologized in <i>Beauty is a Verb</i>: <i>The Poetics of Disability </i>(Cinco Puntos Press, 2011), <i>Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics </i>(Saturnalia Books, 2010), <i>Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting & Child Rearing</i> (Fence Books, 2007), </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Hick Poetics</i> (Lost Roads Press, 2015) and <i>Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation </i>(Penguin, 2015). </span><br />
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