tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47909306927327926022024-03-21T06:48:53.386-07:00Meritage PressMeritage Press is "small but mighty"--Kevin Killian. This blog provides information about Meritage Press' books, including what readers think of them ... as you can see from links, people usually love our books! So why not check out our books, Lulu (in some cases), Amazon (in most cases) and selected special bookstores and libraries near you! CONTACT: MeritagePress@gmail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-57897261251782481282023-01-30T14:34:00.000-08:002023-01-30T14:34:32.793-08:00SELECTED MERITAGE PRESS PROJECTS<div style="text-align: center;">
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<em>(Projects listed in reverse chronological order of publication date)</em></div>
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<b><i>Songs to Come for the Salamander: Poems 2013-2021 </i>by Mark Young </b><div>(Selected & With Introduction by Thomas Fink)<div>Co-published with Sandy Press</div><div><b><a href="https://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2021/10/songs-to-come-for-salamander-by-mark.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Book Link</span></a></b></div><div>Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@gmail.com)</div><div><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Review</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-style: normal;">at </span><i><a href="https://jacket2.org/reviews/swirling-life-dance"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Jacket2</b></span></a></i><span style="font-style: normal;">, January 17, 2023</span></div><div><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><i><b>*****</b></i></div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><i style="font-weight: bold;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A 15th Year Commemorative Anthology </i><b>edited by Eileen R. Tabios</b></div><div>Published by Paloma Press with sponsorship by Meritage Press</div><div><b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/haynaku-15/">Book Link</a></b></div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><i><b>*****</b></i></div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><i><b>HEDGE FUND CERTAINTY</b></i> by Thomas Fink<br />
<b><a href="https://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2019/09/hedge-fund-certainty-by-thomas-fink.html"><span style="color: blue;">Book Link</span></a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@gmail.com), and <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/thomas-fink/hedge-fund-uncertainty/paperback/product-24216179.html"><span style="color: blue;">Lulu</span></a>.<br />
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<b><i>THE STRIP HAY(NA)KU PROJECT </i>edited by Ernesto Priego</b><br />
<b><a href="https://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-strip-haynaku-project-edited-by.html"><span style="color: blue;">Book Link</span></a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@gmail.com), and <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/ernesto-priego/the-strip-haynaku-project/paperback/product-1z9p87yy.html">Lulu</a>.</span><br />
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<b><i>Reporting Live from You Know Where</i> by Sheila E. Murphy</b><br />
<b><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/haynaku-a-poetry-book-opportunity/"><span style="color: blue;">Book Link</span></a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@gmail.com), Amazon, and <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/sheila-murphy/reporting-live-from-you-know-where/paperback/product-23638794.html">Lulu</a>.</b><br />
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Exchange with Nathaly Herrera and Thomas Fink at <i><a href="https://dichtungyammer.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/exchange-with-sheila-e-murphy-on-reporting-live-from-you-know-where/">Dichtung Yammer</a></i>, March 2, 2019<br />
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<b><i>some more strange meteorites </i>by Mark Young</b><br />
Meritage Press Link <b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2017/02/some-more-strange-meteorites-by-mark.html">HERE</a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@gmail.com) and <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/some-more-strange-meteorites/paperback/product-23054440.html">Lulu</a></b><br />
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<b><i>STEP BELOW: Selected Poems 2000-2015 </i>by William Allegrezza</b><br />
Meritage Press Link <b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2016/02/step-below-selected-poems-2000-2015-by.html">HERE</a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@gmail.com) and <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/william-allegrezza/step-below-selected-poems-2000-2015/paperback/product-22562599.html">Lulu</a></b> (which currently has a 25% discount)<br />
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<b>Reviews & Engagements:</b><br />
at <b><a href="http://hybrids11.blogspot.se/2016/06/book-review.html?m=1"><i>Hybrids: Book Review</i>, June 22, 2016</a></b><br />
at <b><a href="http://galatearesurrects2017.blogspot.com/2017/03/step-below-selected-poems-2000-2015-by.html"><i>Galatea Resurrects,</i> March 2017</a></b><br />
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<b><i>HOTUS POTUS</i> by Mark Young</b><br />
Meritage Press Link <b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2015/01/hotus-potus-by-mark-young.html">HERE</a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@aol.com) and <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/hotus-potus/paperback/product-22001285.html">Lulu</a></b><br />
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<b>Reviews & Engagements:</b><br />
at <b><a href="http://galatearesurrection25.blogspot.com/2015/11/hotus-potus-by-mark-young.html"><i>Galatea Resurrects #25</i>, Dec. 1, 2015</a></b><br />
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<b><i>PORT LIGHT: A Hay(na)ku Collection</i> by William Allegrezza</b><br />
Meritage Press Link <b><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2014/08/port-light-haynaku-collection-by.html">HERE</a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@aol.com) and <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/william-allegrezza/port-light-a-haynaku-collection/paperback/product-21781993.html">Lulu</a></b><br />
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<b>Reviews & Engagements:</b><br />
<b>at <a href="http://galatearesurrects2017.blogspot.com/2017/04/port-light-by-william-allegrezza.html"><i>Galatea Resurrects</i>, April 10, 2017</a></b><br />
at <b><a href="http://galatearesurrection24.blogspot.com/2015/05/port-light-haynaku-collection-by.html"><i>Galatea Resurrects #24</i>, May 12, 2015</a></b><br />
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<i><b>VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A Storm of Filipino Poets</b></i><br />
<b>Edited by Eileen R. Tabios</b><br />
Meritage Press Link <b><a href="http://versestyphoonyolanda.blogspot.com/">HERE</a></b><br />
Order through Meritage Press (MeritagePress@aol.com) and <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/eileen-tabios/verses-typhoon-yolanda-a-storm-of-filipino-poets/paperback/product-21515174.html">Lulu.com</a></b><br />
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Reviews & Updates: <b><a href="http://versestyphoonyolanda.blogspot.com/">http://versestyphoonyolanda.blogspot.com</a></b><br />
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<strong><em>DAWAC And Other Memoir-Narratives</em> by Beatriz Tilan Tabios</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <strong><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/dawac-and-other-memoir-narratives-by.html">HERE</a></strong><br />
Order through Meritage Press (<a href="mailto:MeritagePress@aol.com">MeritagePress@aol.com</a>), <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/DAWAC-Memoir-Narratives-Beatriz-Tabios/dp/0982649355/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356153620&sr=1-1&keywords=Beatriz+Tilan+Tabios">Amazon.com</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/beatriz-tilan-tabios/dawac-and-other-memoir-narratives/paperback/product-20386719.html">Lulu.com</a></strong><br />
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<strong><em>BEAUTIFUL EYES</em> with text by Gayle Romasanta and illustrations by Ramon Abad. Translations by <span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">translators Carmen and Pat Romasanta -- OUT OF PRINT</span></strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <strong><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/10/beautiful-eyes-by-gayle-romasanta-and.html">HERE</a></strong><br />
Facebook Link<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beautiful-Eyes-Childrens-TagalogEnglish-Book/386521651391320?ref=ts"><strong>HERE</strong></a><br />
Order as a print chapbook through Meritage Press (<a href="mailto:MeritagePress@aol.com">MeritagePress@aol.com</a>)<br />
Order as an E-chapbook through LULU's account <strong><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/gayle-romasanta-and-ramon-abad/beautiful-eyes/ebook/product-20064455.html">HERE</a></strong>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOOeo6Z63uU&feature=youtu.be">Adobo Nation, Aug. 13, 2012</a></strong><br />
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<strong><em>CARLOS VILLA AND THE INTEGRITY OF SPACES</em>, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves </strong><br />
Meritage Press Link<strong> </strong><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/carlos-villa-and-integrity-of-spaces.html"><bold><strong>HERE</strong></bold></a><br />
Order through LULU Account <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/carlos-villa-and-the-integrity-of-spaces/16665045?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At<strong> <a href="http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2012/02/portrait-artist-city"><i>HYPHEN</i> by Marian Desai, Feb. 9, 2012</a></strong><br />
At <strong><a href="http://www.iexaminer.org/arts/carlos-villa-and-the-integrity-of-spaces/"><em>International Examiner</em> by Carina Del Rosario, Aug. 1, 2012</a></strong><br />
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<strong><em>BOUGH BREAKS </em>by Tamiko Beyer</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/bough-breaks-by-tamiko-beyer.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
Order through Meritage Press' LULU Account <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bough-breaks/13007053"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://lanternreview.com/blog/2011/08/04/review-tamiko-beyers-bough-breaks/"><strong><em>Lantern Review </em>by Monica Mody, Aug. 4, 2011</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://lanternreview.com/blog/2011/08/04/review-tamiko-beyers-bough-breaks/"><strong><em>The Blood-Jet Writing Hour</em>: Interview by Rachelle Cruz, July 12, 2011</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH (Vol. 1 and 2)</em> by John Bloomberg-Rissman</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/flux-clot-froth-vol-1-and-2-by-john.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
Order through Meritage Press' LULU Account <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/flux-clot-froth-vol-1/13576411"><strong>HERE for Vol. 1 </strong></a>and <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/flux-clot-and-froth-vol-2/13576404"><strong>HERE for Vol. 2</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://tom-beckett.blogspot.com/2011/02/too-brief-note-on-flux-clot-froth-vol.html"><strong><em>L'Amour Fou </em>by Tom Beckett, Feb. 23, 2011</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://verysmallkitchen.com/2011/02/15/john-bloomberg-rissman-in-the-house-of-the-hangman-362-and-a-short-note/"><strong>A Very Small Kitchen by David Berridge, February 2011</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>ARCHIPELAGO DUST</em> by Karen Llagas</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/archipelago-dust-by-karen-llagas.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
Order through Meritage Press' LULU Account <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/archipelago-dust/12102743"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <b><a href="http://halohaloreview.blogspot.com/2015/09/archipelago-dust-by-karen-llagas.html">T<i>he Halo-Halo Review</i> by Allen Bramhall, September 2015</a></b><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection17.blogspot.com/2011/12/archipelago-dust-by-karen-llagas.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 17 </em>by G. Justin Hulog, Dec. 22, 2011</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.asiancha.com/issue/13/abigaillicad2"><strong><em>Cha: An Asian Literary Journal</em>, February 2011: "The 1.5 Generation: Karen Llagas's <em>Archipelago Dust</em>" by Abigail Licad</strong></a><br />
At <a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/kaleidoscope-reading-series-report-karen-llagas-benjamin-bac-sierra-brian-teare"><strong><em>Jacket2</em>: "Kaleidoscope Reading Series report: Karen Llagas, Benjamin Bac Sierra & Brian Teare" by Stephanie Young</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT,</em> anthology curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-chained-haynaku-project-curated-by.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
Order through Meritage Press' LULU Account <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/chained-hay%28na%29ku/12049346"><strong>HERE</strong></a>. <br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At<strong> <a href="http://halohaloreview.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-chained-haynaku-project-curated-by.html">THE HALO-HALO REVIEW Mangozine #3, by Chris Mansel, August 2016</a></strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection16.blogspot.com/2011/03/chained-haynaku-project-curated-by-ivy.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 16 </em>by Nicholas T. Spatafora, April 5, 2011</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-haynaku-anthologies-editedcurated.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 15 </em>by Aileen Ibardaloza, Dec. 7, 2010</strong></a><br />
At <strong><a href="http://jeanvengua.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/chained-haynaku-kapwa/"><em>Jean Vengua Blog</em>, August 7, 2010 by Jean Vengua</a></strong><br />
At <a href="http://butterflyhunt.tumblr.com/post/947262582/just-out-the-chained-hay-na-ku-project-curated-by-ivy"><strong><em>Butterfly Hunt</em>, August 13, 2010 by Ernesto Priego</strong></a><br />
At <strong><a href="http://tribute-airy.blogspot.com/2010/08/chained-haynaku-project_23.html"><em>Tribute-Airy Blog</em>, August 23, 2010 by Allen Bramhall</a></strong><br />
An <a href="http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.chained.htm#chained"><strong>Ariadne Unst Review, August 29, 2010</strong></a><br />
A <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3RHKIAU90F1M3/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm"><strong>review by Amazon Top Ten Reviewer Grady Harp, Sept. 2, 2010</strong></a><br />
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<strong>HAY(NA)KU FOR HAITI</strong><br />
More information on this series <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2010/02/haynaku-for-haiti.html"><strong>HERE </strong></a>for the following Haiti Fundraiser Booklets by<br />
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<strong>#1:</strong> <em>PARTICLE AND WAVE and FROM THE CHAIR</em>, two hay(na)ku sequences by Jean Vengua<br />
<strong>#2: </strong><em>On A Pyre: An Ars Poetica </em>by Eileen R. Tabios<br />
<strong>#3:</strong> <em>Hay(na)ku for Haiti </em>by Tom Beckett<br />
<strong>#4:</strong> <em>when the earth moves </em>by Lars Palm<br />
<strong>#5:</strong> <em>After René Depestre’s “My Definition of Poetry”, as translated by Edwidge Danticat, with lines at the end by Lafcadio Hearn </em>by John Bloomberg-Rissman.<br />
<strong>#6:</strong> <em>Mrs. Quake </em>by Nicole Mauro<br />
<strong>#7:</strong> <em>Through Having Been, Vol. 1</em> by William Allegrezza<br />
<strong>#8:</strong> <em>Through Having Been, Vol. 2</em> by William Allegrezza<br />
<strong>#9:</strong> <em>blonde topography: a terse set of tercets </em>by steve dalachinsky<br />
<strong>#10:</strong> <em>Drop, Portion and Assignment </em>by Peg Duthie <br />
<strong>#11:</strong> <em>As I Speed to Your Place </em>by Amanda Laughtland<br />
<strong>#12:</strong> <em>REBIRTH </em>by Cynthia M. Phillips<br />
<strong>#13:</strong> <em>in articulate concision of appendices</em> by David C. Kopaska-Merkel<br />
<strong>#14:</strong>from <em>Delicacies in FRACTUS CORPUS </em>by Ric Carfagna (Vol. 1), Hay(na)ku-ed Translations by Eileen Tabios<br />
<strong>#15:</strong> <em>Last word is the poet’s calling </em>by Aileen Ibardaloza<br />
<strong>#16: </strong><em>Times in Rhymes, Ruins </em>by Jon Curley<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://tribute-airy.blogspot.com/2011/01/haynaku-for-haiti.html"><strong><em>Tributary </em>by Allen Bramhall, Jan. 1, 2011</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/haynaku-for-haiti.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 15 </em>by Jim McCrary, Dec. 7, 2010</strong></a><br />
At <strong><a href="http://larspalm.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/reading-haiti/"><em>Mischievoice</em>, March 10, 2010 by Lars Palm</a></strong><br />
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<strong><em>AUTOPSY TURVY </em>by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/autopsy-turvy-collaborative-poems-by.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
Order through Meritage Press' LULU Account <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/autopsyturvy/8139354"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <strong><a href="http://galatearesurrection19.blogspot.com/2012/12/partyknife-by-dan-mager-and-autopsy.html"><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 19</em> by Lucy Biederman, Dec. 17, 2012</a></strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/autopsy-turvy-by-thomas-fink-and-maya.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 15 </em>by Nicholas T. Spatafora, Dec. 7, 2010</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/autopsy-turvy-by-thomas-fink-maya.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 15 </em>by Jon Curley, Dec. 7, 2010</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>TRAJE DE BODA </em>by Aileen Ibardaloza</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/traje-de-boda-by-aileen-ibardaloza.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
Order through Meritage Press' LULU Account <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/traje-de-boda/8225976"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At<strong> <a href="http://halohaloreview.blogspot.com/2016/08/traje-de-boda-by-aileen-ibardaloza.html"><i>THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3</i> by Chris Mansel, August 2016</a></strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/traje-de-boda-poems-by-aileen.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 15 </em>by Albert B. Casuga, Dec. 7, 2010</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2010/07/30/the-blood-jet-writing-hour"><strong><em>Blood Jet Writing Hour</em>, BlogTalkRadio, interviewed by Rachelle Cruz, July 30, 2010</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://allegrezza.blogspot.com/2010/07/daily-glance-aileen-ibardalozas-traje.html"><strong><em>p-ramblings </em>by William Allegrezza, July 28, 2010</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>HOUSECAT KUNG FU</em> by Geoffrey Gatza (2009)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <strong><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/11/housecat-kung-fu-strange-poems-for-wild.html">HERE</a></strong>. <br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/housecat-kung-fu-by-geoffrey-gatza.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 13 </em>by Thomas Fink</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R1DR9ZQG8CWXVP/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm"><strong>Geckos with Bristles </strong></a>by Kevin Killian at Amazon Reviews, May 21, 2009<br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/2009/05/housecat-kung-fu-by-geoffrey-gatza.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 12 </em>by Ruth Lepson</strong></a><br />
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<strong>“TINY BOOKS” FUNDRAISER FOR <a href="http://heifer.org/">HEIFER INTERNATIONAL </a>(2007)</strong><br />
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Other information <a href="http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/tiny-books-of-poetry-feeding-world.html"><strong>HERE </strong></a>on the Tiny Books Series:<br />
<em>RANDION SCREPTS</em> by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (2008)<br />
<em>(B)ITS</em> by Joel Chace (2008)<br />
from <em>THE TRADITION </em>by Juliana Spahr (2008)<br />
<em>SOME HAY </em>by Lars Palm (2007)<br />
<em>SPEAK WHICH: HAY(NA)KU POEMS</em> by Jill Jones (2007)<br />
<em>“…AND THEN THE WIND DID BLOW: JAINAKU POEMS </em>by Ernesto Priego (2007)<br />
<em>STEPS: A NOTEBOOK </em>by Tom Beckett (2007)<br />
<em>ALL ALONE AGAIN </em>by Dan Waber (2007)<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
On <a href="http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/2009/05/bits-by-joel-chace.html"><strong><em>b(its)</em> by Joel Chace by Ruth Lepson, <em>Galatea Resurrects No. 12</em></strong></a><br />
On <em>Steps: A Notebook </em>by Tom Beckett at <a href="http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/publications-by-john-bloomberg-rissman.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 8</em> by Ernesto Priego</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/02/one-2-free-for-5ve-sex-sever-ache.html"><strong><em>dbqp: visualizing poetics</em>, Feb. 15, 2008 by Geof Huth</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://scorecard.typepad.com/crag_hills_poetry_score/haynaku/index.html"><strong><em>Poetry Scorecard</em>, July 31, 2007 by Crg Hill</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.fauxpress.com/kimball/res/shared.pdf"><strong>Faux Press by Jack Kimball</strong></a><br />
On <a href="http://galatearesurrection10.blogspot.com/2008/07/publications-by-david-bromige-rychard.html"><strong><em>from THE TRANSFORMATION </em>by Juliana Spahr, at <em>Galatea Resurrects No. 10 </em>by Jim McCrary</strong></a> <br />
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<strong><em>PELICAN DREAMING: POEMS 1959-2008 </em>by Mark Young, Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink</strong><br />
<em>Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/pelican-dreaming-poems-1959-2008-by.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a></em><br />
Order through Meritage Press' Lulu Account at: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1955266">http://www.lulu.com/content/1955266</a><br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/pelican-dreaming-poems-1959-2008-by.html"><strong><em>Issue 217 of Landfall</em>, </strong></a>May 2009 [published by Otago University Press] by Martin Edmonds<br />
At <a href="http://books.scoop.co.nz/2009/10/25/improvisations-and-ruins/"><strong><em>Scoop Review of Books</em>, </strong></a>October 2009 by Scott Hamilton <br />
<a href="http://bigbridge.org/BB14/MOUNG.HTM"><strong>Magritte's Razor </strong></a>at <em>Big Bridge </em>14, 2009 by Tom Hibbard <br />
At <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/r-young-rb-manning.shtml"><strong><em>JACKET Magazine 36</em>, 2008 by Nicholas Manning</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://adamfieled.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-favorite-things-pt1.html"><strong><em>Stoning the Devil</em>, Jan. 7, 2009 by Adam Fieled</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://slimwindows.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelican-dreaming-poems-1959-2008.html"><strong><em>Slim Windows</em>, Sept. 10, 2008, by Tom Beckett</strong></a><br />
At <strong><a href="http://nickpiombino.blogspot.com/2008/09/contradicta-those-long-accustomed-to.html">Fait Accompli Blog, Sept. 10, 2008 by Nick Piombino</a></strong><br />
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<strong><em>THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II</em>, Co-Eds. Jean Vengua & Mark Young (2008, co-published with xPress(ed), Finland)</strong><br />
<em>Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-haynaku-anthology-vol-ii-edited-by.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a></em><br />
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Other information about the anthology <a href="http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/"><strong>HERE (Hay(na)ku Blog).</strong></a><br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <b><a href="http://halohaloreview.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-haynaku-anthology-vol-ii-edited-by.html">T<i>he Halo-Halo Review</i> by Allen Bramhall, September 2015</a></b><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-haynaku-anthologies-editedcurated.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 15 </em>by Aileen Ibardaloza, Dec. 7, 2010</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://arroyochamisa.blogspot.com/2008/05/haynaku-2.html"><strong><em>Arroyo Chamisa</em>, May 28, 2008, by Alex Gildzen</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com/2009/01/john-olson-on-haynaku.html"><strong><em>Blind Chatelaine's Poetics</em>, Jan. 28, 2009, by John Olson</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>DISAPPOINTED PSALMS</em>, poetry by Brian Clements (2008)</strong><br />
<em>Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/disappointed-psalms-by-brian-clements.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a></em><br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://allegrezza.blogspot.com/2010/05/daily-glance-brian-clements.html"><strong><em>P-ramblings Daily Glance</em> by William Allegrezza, May 5, 2010</strong></a><br />
An <strong><a href="http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Clements%20interview.htm">interview </a>at <em>The Argotist Online</em></strong><br />
An <a href="http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/clements.htm"><strong>interview at <em>Chicago Postmodern Poetry</em></strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>PRAU</em>, poetry by Jean Vengua (2007)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/prau-by-jean-vengua.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At<strong> <a href="http://halohaloreview.blogspot.com/2016/08/prau-by-jean-vengua.html">THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3 by Chris Mansel, August 2016</a></strong><br />
At <a href="http://allegrezza.blogspot.com/2010/06/daily-glance-jean-venguas-prau-explores.html"><strong><em>p-ramblings </em>by William Allegrezza, June 1, 2010</strong></a><br />
At <b><a href="http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/04/01/prau-by-jean-vengua/"><i>HER CIRCLE</i> by Lee Kottner</a></b><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/2010/04/prau-by-jean-vengua.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 14 </em>by Jeff Harrison</strong></a> <br />
At <a href="http://newmysticsreviews.blogspot.com/2009/01/review-of-prau-by-jean-vengua-meritage.html"><strong><em>New Mystics</em>, Jan. 30, 2009, by Joey Madia</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/prau-by-jean-vengua.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 11 by Brett Duchon</em></strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection9.blogspot.com/2008/03/prau-by-jean-vengua.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 9</em> by John Bloomberg-Rissman</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection10.blogspot.com/2008/07/prau-by-jean-vengua_19.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 10</em> by Leny M. Strobel </strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection10.blogspot.com/2008/07/prau-by-jean-vengua.html"><strong><em>Philippine News </em>by Allen Gaborro </strong></a><br />
A <a href="http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/poets/jean.vengua.htm"><strong>review by Joan Zimmerman</strong></a><br />
An <a href="http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2006/01/interview-with-jean-vengua.html"><strong>interview at <em>E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S</em>, Jan. 1, 2006</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO-AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS</em>, Ed. Theodore S. Gonzalves (2007)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/stage-presence-conversations-with.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://www.ourownvoice.com/essays/essay2008a-9.shtml"><strong><em>Our Own Voice</em>, February 2008 by Laura Huggins</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://globalnation.inquirer.net/ofwspotlight/ofwspotlight/view/20080107-110942/Doctor-Boogienights"><strong><em>Philippine Daily Inquirer,</em> Jan. 7, 2008 by Ben Pimentel, Jr.</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.iexaminer.org/archives/?p=937"><strong><em>International Examiner</em>, 2008 by Eydie Detera</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?%20%3Cbr%20/%3Eblogid=5&entry_id=24540"><strong><em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>, February 27, 2008: "Stage Presence - New book on Fil-Am artists," Pinoy Pod (podcast)</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.filipinoexpress.com/22/19_op-ed.html"><strong><em>The Filipino Express</em>, 2008, "Celebrating the Printed Word: Young Authors Hosted at Consulate</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection10.blogspot.com/2008/07/stage-presence-edited-by-theodore-s.html"><strong><em>Philippine News</em>, May 2008 by Allen Gaborro </strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/articles/2010/10/0104.html"><strong><em>JAZZ NEWS</em>, October 26, 2010, Review by Ron Sagye La Rue </strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>COMPLICATIONS</em>, poetry by Garrett Caples (2007)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/complications-by-garrett-caples.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <b><a href="https://jacket2.org/reviews/dear-garrett-caples"><i>Jacket2</i> by Michael Kelleher, June 20, 2013</a></b><br />
At <a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html"><strong>PhillySound Feature #7: Garrett Caples, Aug. 30, 2009, an interview by CA Conrad</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/2009/05/complications-by-garrett-caples.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 12</em>, May 2009, a reprinted review by <em>Talisman </em>by John Olson</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2008spring/capleswenderoth.shtml"><strong><em>Rain Taxi</em>, Spring 2008 by Kevin Carollo</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://versemag.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-review-of-garrett-caples.html"><strong><em>Verse Magazine</em>, April 22, 2008 by Brian Strang</strong></a><br />
At the <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0817,all-hail-caesura,419567,10.html"><strong><em>Village Voice</em>, April 22, 2008 by Alan Gilbert</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/complications-by-garrett-caples.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 11 by Brett Duchon</em></strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection16.blogspot.com/2011/03/complications-by-garrett-caples.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 16 by Jeff Harrison</em></strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS</em>, poetry by William Allegrezza (2007)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/fragile-replacements-by-william.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection17.blogspot.com/2011/12/fragile-replacements-by-william.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects </em>No. 17 by Allen Bramhall</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/2009/05/fragile-replacements-by-william.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects </em>No. 12 by Tom Hibbard</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_07_013125.php"><strong><em>Bookslut </em>by Gina Myers, July 2008</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/fragile-replacements-by-william.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 8</em> by Thomas Fink</strong></a><br />
An <a href="http://12or20questions.blogspot.com/2008/01/12-or-20-questions-with-william.html"><strong>interview at <em>12 or 20 questions</em>, Jan. 14, 2008</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>DAYS POEM, VOLS. 1 & 2</em>, poetry by Allen Bramhall (2007)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <strong><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/days-poem-by-allen-bramhall.html">HERE</a></strong>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection16.blogspot.com/2011/03/days-poem-by-allen-bramhall.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 16 </em>by Nicholas T. Spatafora, April 5, 2011</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection9.blogspot.com/2008/03/days-poem-vols-i-and-ii-by-allen.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 9</em> by Anny Ballardini</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/days-poem-volumes-i-and-ii-by-allen.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 8 </em>by Jeff Harrison</strong></a><br />
An <a href="http://anticview.blogspot.com/"><strong>Ongoing Interview at <em>Antic View </em>(3-plus years now) with Jeff Harrison</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>KALI’S BLADE</em>, poetry (with kali martial arts poetics) by Michelle Bautista (2006)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/kalis-blade-by-michelle-bautista.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>. Kindle Edition (for a mere $0.99!) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0022NGSSG?tag=gurasblog-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B0022NGSSG&adid=0XH01NHECAK3FKN948CE&"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2009/08/nar-reviews-two-meritage-press-titles.html"><strong><em>North American Review</em></strong></a>, May-August 2009, by Vince Gotera<br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/2009/05/kata-by-james-maughn-and-kalis-blade-by.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 12 </em>by Jean Vengua</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/kalis-blade-by-michelle-bautista.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 11</em></strong></a> by Katherine Levy<br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection7.blogspot.com/2007/08/kalis-blade-by-michelle-bautista.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 7</em> by Julie R. Enszer</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com/2007/02/kalis-blade-by-michelle-bautista.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 5 </em>by William Allegrezza</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://innotherwords.blogspot.com/2007/11/on-feminism-women-of-color-poetics-and.html"><strong><em>INN OTHER WORDS</em>, Nov. 8, 2007, by Barbara Jane Reyes</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>DERIVE</em>, poetry with visual art collaboration by Bruna Mori & Matthew Kinney (2006)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/derive-by-bruna-mori-with-paintings-by.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/ecopoetics/index.html"><strong><em>HOW2</em>, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Summer 2008, "Ecopoetics: Drawing on Calfskin Vellum by Jane Sprague"</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-fink-review-of-bruna-moris.html"><strong><em>Otoliths 4</em>, Feb. 1, 2007, by Thomas Fink</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2007summer/mori.shtml"><strong><em>Rain Taxi </em>by Craig Perez</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/bmori.htm"><strong><em>Chicago Postmodern Poetry</em></strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.amyking.org/blog/"><strong><em>Amy King's </em><em>Alias</em>, March 23, 2008, by Amy King</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://la-lit.com/writers/la-lit-13-bruna-mori/"><strong><em>L.A. Lit</em></strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/986946.Derive"><strong><em>Good Reads </em>by Oscar Bermeo</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://innotherwords.blogspot.com/2007/11/on-feminism-women-of-color-poetics-and.html"><strong><em>INN OTHER WORDS</em>, Nov. 8, 2007, by Barbara Jane Reyes</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS (1978-2006)</em> by Tom Beckett (2006)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/unprotected-texts-selected-poems-1978.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc50.pdf"><strong><em>Boog City</em>, 2008, by John Mercuri Dooley</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2006/10/erotics-of-thought.html"><strong><em>dbqp: visualizing poetics</em>, Oct. 18, 2006, by Geof Huth</strong></a> <br />
At <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/33/hiraldo-beckett.shtml"><strong><em>Jacket Magazine 33</em>, July 2007 by Carlos Hiraldo</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/34/fink-questions.shtml"><strong><em>Jacket Magazine </em>34,October 2007,</strong> "The Poetry of Questions" by Thomas Fink</a> <br />
At <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/25/lopez-beck.html"><strong><em>Jacket Magazine 25</em>, February 2004, Conversation with Richard Lopez</strong></a><br />
A <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2007/11/tom-beckett-cambridge-eros-and-exigesis.html"><strong>reading report at <em>dbqp: visualizing poetics</em>, Nov. 5, 2007 by Geof Huth</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.shannacompton.com/2006/11/unprotected-texts-by-tom-beckett.html"><strong>Shanna Compton's Blog, Nov. 27, 2006</strong></a> <br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/publications-by-john-bloomberg-rissman.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 8</em> by Ernesto Priego</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com/2007/02/unprotected-texts-selected-poems-1978.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 5 </em>by John Bloomberg-Rissman</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/unprotected-texts-selected-poems-1978.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4</em> by Nicholas Manning</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/unprotected-texts-selected-poems-1978_30.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4</em> by Fionna Doney Simmonds</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/unprotected-texts-selected-poems-1978_29.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4 </em>by Beatriz Tabios</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://pantaloons.blogspot.com/search?q=unprotected+texts"><strong>Pantaloons Blog, Nov. 8, 2007 by Jack Kimball</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>NOT EVEN DOGS</em>, poetry & first single-author hay(na)ku collection by Ernesto Priego (2006)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/not-even-dogs-by-ernesto-priego.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
An <a href="http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2007/01/interview-with-ernesto-priego.html"><strong>interview at <em>E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S</em>, January 2007</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://newmysticsreviews.blogspot.com/2009/06/review-of-not-even-dogs-haynaku-poems.html"><strong><em>New Mystics Review</em>, June 23, 2009 by Joey Madia</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.wordforword.info/vol11/fink.htm"><strong><em>Word For/Word #11</em>, Winter 2007 by Thomas Fink</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/fragile-replacements-by-william.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 7</em> by John Bloomberg-Rissman</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com/2007/02/not-even-dogs-by-ernesto-priego-plus.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 5 </em>by Mario Mireles</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/not-even-dogs-by-ernesto-priego.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4 </em>by Leny M. Strobel</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://kathang-pinay.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_kathang-pinay_archive.html"><strong><em>Kathang-Pinay Blog</em> by Leny M. Strobel</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/2006/08/not-even-dogs-by-ernesto-priego.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 3 </em>by Allen Bramhall</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>THE FIRST HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY</em>, Co-Eds. Jean Vengua & Mark Young (2005, co-published with xPress(ed), Finland)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-haynaku-anthology-edited-by.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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Other information about the anthology <a href="http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/"><strong>HERE (Hay(na)ku Blog).</strong></a><br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.htm"><strong><em>Poetry Form</em>, an anthology review by Joan Zimmerman</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.vengua.htm"><strong><em>Poetry Form</em>, an interview of anthology editor Jean Vengua by Joan Zimmerman</strong></a><br />
At<a href="http://galatearesurrection.blogspot.com/2006/03/first-haynaku-anthology-ed-by-jean.html"><strong> <em>Galatea Resurrects No. 1</em> by Yvonne Hortillo</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://filipinaveritas.blogspot.com/2006/01/book-review-first-haynaku-anthology.html"><strong><em>Listen & Be Heard</em>, Jan. 27, 2006 by Annabelle Udo</strong></a><br />
An <a href="http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2006/01/interview-with-jean-vengua.html"><strong>interview with Jean Vengua at <em>E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S</em>, Jan. 1, 2006</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>THE OBEDIENT DOOR</em>, poetry by Sean Tumoana Finney with reproductions of original drawings by Ward Schumaker (2005)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-obedient-door-by-sean-tumoana-finney.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/obedient-door-by-sean-finney.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4 </em>by Fionna Doney Simmonds</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http:/"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 1 </em>by Laurel Johnson</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>PINOY POETICS: A COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON FILIPINO AND FILIPINO-AMERICAN POETICS</em>, Ed. Nick Carbo (2004)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/pinoy-poetics-collection-of.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://moriapoetry.com/montes.html"><strong><em>Moria Poetry </em>by Veronica Montes</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection2.blogspot.com/2006/05/pinoy-poetics-edited-by-nick-carbo.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 2</em> by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection.blogspot.com/2006/03/pinoy-poetics-ed-by-nick-carbo.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 1 </em>by Abigail Licad</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc09.pdf"><strong><em>Boog City</em>, 2003 by Jane Sprague</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection10.blogspot.com/2008/07/pinoy-poetics-collection-of.html"><strong><em>Philippine Star</em>, Manila, 2004 by Juaniyo Arcellana</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/pinoy-poetics-ed-by-nick-carbo-and.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 11</em></strong></a> by Aileen Ibardaloza<br />
An <a href="http://www.el-ghibli.provincia.bologna.it/id_1-issue_01_05-section_6-index_pos_5-inlingua_t.html"><strong>interview with <em>Pinoy Poetics</em> editor Nick Carbo at El-Ghibli.org-Letteratura della migrazione by Elisabetta Marino</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>THE ORACULAR SONNETS</em>, poetry collaboration by Mark Young & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (2004)</strong><br />
Free Download at Meritage Press Link <a href="http://randomflux.info/pdf/oracular3.pdf"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
An <a href="http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2006/01/interview-with-mark-young.html"><strong>interview at <em>E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S</em>, Jan. 23, 2006</strong></a><br />
An <a href="http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2005/05/jukka-pekka-kervinen-interviewed-by.html"><strong>interview with Jukka-Pekka Kervinen at An interview at E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S, May 10, 2005</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>[WAYS], </em>poetry with visual art collaboration by Barry Schwabsky and Hong Seung-Hye (2004, co-published with Artsonje Center, Seoul)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/ways-by-barry-schwabsky-and-hong-seung.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection2.blogspot.com/2006/05/ways-by-barry-schwabsky-hong-seung-hye.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 2</em> by Ernesto Priego</strong></a> <br />
An <a href="http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/07/barry-schwabsky-was-born-in-paterson.html"><strong>interview at Here Comes Everybody</strong></a><br />
An <a href="http://artrecess.blogspot.com/2007/10/waxing-hot-poetics-dialogue-barry.html"><strong>interview at P.F.S. Post</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>OPERA: POEMS 1981-2002 </em>by Barry Schwabsky (2003)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/opera-poems-1981-2002-by-barry-schwabsky.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
An <a href="http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2007/05/interview-with-barry-schwabsky.html"><strong>interview at <em>E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S</em>, May 6, 2007</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc09.pdf"><strong><em>Boog City</em>, 2003 by Jane Sprague</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/opera-poems-1981-2002-by-barry.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4</em> by Fionna Doney Simmonds</strong> <br />At </a><a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/opera-poems-1981-2002-by-barry_29.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4 </em>by Michelle Bautista</strong></a><br />
At <strong><em><a href="http://galatearesurrection2.blogspot.com/2006/05/opera-poems-1981-2002-by-barry.html">Galatea Resurrects No. 2 by Laurel Johnson</a></em></strong><br />
An <a href="http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/07/barry-schwabsky-was-born-in-paterson.html"><strong>interview at Here Comes Everybody</strong></a><br />
An <a href="http://artrecess.blogspot.com/2007/10/waxing-hot-poetics-dialogue-barry.html"><strong>interview at P.F.S. Post</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>MUSEUM OF ABSENCES</em>, poetry by Luis H. Francia (2003, co-published with the University of the Philippines Press, Manila)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/museum-of-absences-by-luis-francia.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2009/08/nar-reviews-two-meritage-press-titles.html"><strong><em>North American Review</em></strong></a>, May-August 2009, by Vince Gotera <br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/museum-of-absences-by-luis-h-francia.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 11</em></strong></a> by Monna Wong<br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/museum-of-absences-by-luis-h-francia.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 4</em> by Rhett Pascual</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection.blogspot.com/2006/03/museum-of-absences-by-luis-h-francia.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 1 </em>by Yvonne Hortillo</strong></a><br />
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*****<br />
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<strong><em>ER, UM</em>, poetry with drawings by Garrett Caples and Hu Xin (2002,out-of-print)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/er-um-by-garrett-caples-hu-xin.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc09.pdf"><strong><em>Boog City</em>, 2003 by Jane Sprague</strong></a><br />
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<strong><em>100 MORE JOKES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD</em>, etchings-based collaboration by John Yau and Archie Rand (2001)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/100-more-jokes-from-book-of-dead-by.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://galatearesurrection9.blogspot.com/2008/03/nine-books-by-john-yau.html"><strong><em>Galatea Resurrects No. 9</em> by Brian Clements</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/02/05/archieRand.html"><strong><em>Columbia News</em>, “Archie Rand’s Collaboration with Poets” by Suzanne Trimel</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc09.pdf"><strong><em>Boog City</em>, 2003 by Jane Sprague</strong></a><br />
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<strong>“COLD WATER FLAT”, a signed etching in a numbered edition of 37 by John Yau and Archie Rand (2001)</strong><br />
Meritage Press Link <a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/08/cold-water-flat-by-archie-rand-and-john.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>Reviews & Engagements:</strong><br />
At <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/02/05/archieRand.html"><strong><em>Columbia News</em>, “Archie Rand’s Collaboration with Poets” by Suzanne Trimel</strong></a><br />
At <a href="http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc09.pdf"><strong><em>Boog City</em>, 2003 by Jane Sprague</strong></a></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-29544736624671649332022-07-13T15:57:00.000-07:002022-07-13T15:57:42.626-07:00Meritage Press Statement<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Click on images to enlarge</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><br /></i></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGuJ3FJ1wTTYdAAZIry9wdjLPt54SWWNM03qrm2gpDaLQrXK1eo9LmhmBZZIpn7LbLctwXfq4EKp8-sFiDKAg-2oyZYdG145iBnYBA8BEnL6noUeV9u7XjV7dRSzJkkLKoJWJsA5UwVGBFperRqhinIBqiIoXz6ix5gjhyg5j4syn9OUifrlcWhQ/s2048/1angelo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGuJ3FJ1wTTYdAAZIry9wdjLPt54SWWNM03qrm2gpDaLQrXK1eo9LmhmBZZIpn7LbLctwXfq4EKp8-sFiDKAg-2oyZYdG145iBnYBA8BEnL6noUeV9u7XjV7dRSzJkkLKoJWJsA5UwVGBFperRqhinIBqiIoXz6ix5gjhyg5j4syn9OUifrlcWhQ/w400-h266/1angelo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Angelo V. Suarez in the back with striped hat, bearded and sweaty and from whose grasp police had just pulled away artist Matthew Militar; photo by photojournalist Mark Saludes</i></div><p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meritage Press Statement:</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Meritage Press is a multidisciplinary press with a strong interest in Filipino arts and literature.</span> <span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">On June 9, 2022 in the Philippines, over 90 people—including writers, poets, artists, journalists, cultural workers, and farmers—were arrested while they engaged in peaceful assembly in support of land reform and farmers in Tarlac. Most were formally charged with obstruction of justice and malicious mischief, with each charge facing a potential sentence of six months imprisonment. Bail amounts were also set at a punishing amount for most of the detainees. The arrested included poet <b><a href="https://jacket2.org/content/angelo-v-suárez"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Angelo V. Suarez</span></a></b> and his partner, choreographer Donna Miranda. Recently, the charges they faced were expanded to include human trafficking and child exploitation, which reflect how Philippine authorities are using judicial harassment to silence the freedom of expression. (More information is available through <b><a href="https://pen-international.org/news/philippines-alarm-over-mass-arrests-journalists-writers-artists-other-cultural-workers"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">PEN-International</span></a></b>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Poet/conceptual artist Angelo Suarez is known to Meritage Press for his innovative poetry and prose, as well as his strong interest in supporting the unjustly disenfranchised. Author of <i>Philippine English: A Novel</i> (2015); <i>Interview, Ariane: A Stock Epic</i> (2013), and <i>Poem of Diminishing Poeticity</i> (2014), he is among those younger Filipinos working to help fashion a more just society in the Philippines. Meritage Press stands by him and others in the Philippines who have chosen to dedicate themselves to social and land justice and now risk their lives to create a better country for their people. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">We also urge the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) to intervene on behalf of the artists accosted by the police and defend the freedoms of expression, assembly, and association upheld by these artists.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Eileen R. Tabios</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Founder of Meritage Press<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2014/08/selected-meritage-press-projects.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Authors with Meritage Press books</span></a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">William Allegrezza</b><span>, author of <i>Port Light: A Hay(na)ku Collection, </i> <i>STEP BELOW: Selected Poems 2000-2015, </i>and<i> Through Having Been (Vols. 1 and 2)</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Ivy Alvarez, </b></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">co-editor of </span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Chained Hay(na)ku Project </i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and featured poet</span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> in VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Michelle Bautista,</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> author of <i>Kali's Blade</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Tom Beckett</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, author of <i>Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems 1978-2006 </i>and<i> Hay(na)ku for Haiti</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>C. Mehrl Bennett</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 400;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>John M. Bennett</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Charles Bernstein</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 400;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">John Bloomberg-Rissman</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, author of<i> Flux, Cloth & Froth</i> (Vols. 1 and 2) and co-editor of <i>The Chained Hay(na)ku Project</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nick Carbo, </b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">editor of <i>PINOY POETICS: A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino-American Poetics</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Paul Cassinetto</b>, featured poet in <i>HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Brian Clements,</b> author of <i>Disappointed Psalms</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Jon Curley</b>, author of <i>Times in Rhymes, Ruins</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><b>Melinda Luisa de Jesus</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 400;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Carol Dorf</b>, featured poet in <i>HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Peg Duthie</b>, featured poet in <i>HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Thomas Fink,</b> author of <i>Hedge Fund Certainty</i> and co-author of <i>Autopsy Turvy</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Luis H. Francia,</b> author of <i>Museum of Absences</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Theodore S. Gonzalves</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, editor of <i>Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino-American Performing Artists</i> and <i>Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><b>Vince Gotera</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 400;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology </i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><i style="font-weight: 400;"> The First Hay(na)ku Anthology</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b><b>Crag Hill</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 400;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Aileen Ibardaloza Cassinetto</b>, author of <i>Traje de Boda </i>and<i> Last Word is the Poet's Calling</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Jukka-Pekka Kervinen</b>, co-author of <i>The Oracular Sonnets </i>and author of<i> Randion </i></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>Screpts</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Karen Llagas</b>, author of <i>Archipelago Dust</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Jim McCrary</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, featured poet in </span><i>HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Sandy McIntosh</b>, featured poet in <i>The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Vol. II</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Lani Montreal</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, featured poet in </span><i>HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Sheila E. Murphy</b>, author of <i>Reporting Live From You Know Where</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Eunice Barbara C Novio</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Jose Padua</b>, featured poet in <i>HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Elizabeth Robinson</b></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Vol. II </i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and</span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </i><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Barry Schwabsky</b>, author of <i>OPERA: Poems 1981-2002</i> and <i>[WAYS]</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b>Zvi A. Sesling</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-weight: 400;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-weight: 400;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Emeniano Somoza, Jr.</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Leny M. Strobel</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">HAY(NA)KU 15: A Commemorative 15th Year Anniversary Anthology</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Joel Tan</b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">, featured poet in </span><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">PINOY POETICS: A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino-American Poetics</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><b style="font-style: normal;">Glynda T. 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Please feel free to research their achievements since they are listed on this Statement only with their Meritage Press books.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZbO6r72hsG5912KsoKb056OLMgRgdTV1qJND30PNfL-s5qogk1IHlzBl7tcNMWbxAzCuGjXB46oDPcLmgQ6zHEoiOIze-AmKFxKt6GzYK9Bmtynlou-5CFNpvd1bIb18qLEKKGDoNlWIW4QsKhV1HX16rUnhirEy1_LXiHBNo5y6lX0bBsxC4A/s2048/2angelo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZbO6r72hsG5912KsoKb056OLMgRgdTV1qJND30PNfL-s5qogk1IHlzBl7tcNMWbxAzCuGjXB46oDPcLmgQ6zHEoiOIze-AmKFxKt6GzYK9Bmtynlou-5CFNpvd1bIb18qLEKKGDoNlWIW4QsKhV1HX16rUnhirEy1_LXiHBNo5y6lX0bBsxC4A/w400-h266/2angelo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Angelo V. 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The little ditty "democracy" registers the claim that "no-one// knows the/ words to" the "song" (the concept of democracy) even though "every-/ one sings" it, and "since violence is learned" tells us that "tolerance is no/ longer available, is replaced by trauma." Although nothing in the poems—not even such affirmations of aesthetic transport as "Constant Craving," which speaks of music "that acts as/ axis to steady everything around"—makes one identify the poet as a bright-eyed optimist, various moments in the work display too much respect for the complexity of cause and effect, limitations of human perception, the transience of trends, and sudden appearances of the unexpected to place sustained credence in large generalizations and foregone conclusions.<br /><br /><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><b>Review at <i>Jacket2</i>, Jan 17, 2023</b></span></div><div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="https://jacket2.org/reviews/swirling-life-dance"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"A swirling life dance" </span></a><span style="color: #333333;">by John Geraets</span></span></div><div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-5114237276822099522019-11-29T14:14:00.000-08:002019-11-29T14:14:05.473-08:00HEDGE FUND CERTAINTY by THOMAS FINK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Thomas Fink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ISBN: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">978-1-934299-14-2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Price: $15.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pages: 74</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Release Date: September 2019</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">You are invited to order the book through Meritage Press' Lulu Account <b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/thomas-fink/hedge-fund-uncertainty/paperback/product-24216179.html">HERE</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Poet Thomas Fink is a landscape artist with words. And in the same way that landscapes depict disparate objects and spaces in a non-narrative relationship to each other, this literary artist’s poems present what feel like chance clusters of words in their seeming unrelatedness, but which are actually meticulously-composed visual abstractions that tickle, jog, and surprise a reader’s attention. His is an art of erratic suggestion that deftly conveys a sense of the spontaneous free association. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In his world, rational expectations are playfully ambushed and taunted into yielding and letting go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">By turns, we are confronted with possibilities of sense and non-sense that refresh and liberate us from the shackles of meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">One might experience this as a shower of delight that washes away a staid resignation to what is or seems in favor of a tingling irrational exuberance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.6pt;">In short, the orderly requirements of cognition are neutralized and surpassed in a rare adventure of the unexpected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">So, be cautioned and prepared: to read and engage with these poems is to take a joyous “magical mystery tour” into an uncharted dimension of experience – a sort of enriching “acid-induced journey” without any disabling after-effects.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-34307287158885529242019-03-28T10:50:00.000-07:002019-03-28T11:06:37.505-07:00THE STRIP HAY(NA)KU PROJECT edited by ERNESTO PRIEGO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i>The Strip Hay(na)ku Project. A collaborative experiment in sequential graphic poetics</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Edited by Ernesto Priego<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">With contributions by John Bloomberg-Rissman, Sam Bloomberg-Rissman, Amy Bernier, lola bola (Jane Ogilvie), Horacio Castillo, Ira Franco, Ernesto Priego, and Ginger Stickney.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Foreword by Eileen R. Tabios</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Introduction by Ernesto Priego</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Release Date: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">April 2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Page Count: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">48 pages, full colour.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Price: US$14.00 or equivalent </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Distributor: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/ernesto-priego/the-strip-haynaku-project/paperback/product-24042202.html"><span style="color: blue;">Lulu (Laughing/Ouch/Cube/Publications account)</span></a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Meritage Press and Laughing/Ouch/Cube/Publications are pleased to announce the release of </span><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">The Strip Hay(na)ku Project</span></u></i></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">, a collection of hay(na)ku poems in comic strip form, edited and co-created by Ernesto Priego with contributors John Bloomberg-Rissman, Sam Bloomberg-Rissman, Amy Bernier, lola bola (Jane Ogilvie), Horacio Castillo, Ira Franco, Ernesto Priego, and Ginger Stickney.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"Hay naku" is a common Filipino expression covering a variety of contexts—like the word "Oh." The "hay(na)ku" is a 21st century poetic form invented by Eileen R. Tabios. It is a six-word tercet with the first line being one word, the second line being two words, and the third line being three words. Poets around the world have used the form and have created text and visual variations of the form, including the “chained hay(na)ku” which strings together more than one tercet as well as the reverse hay(na)ku where the word count is reversed. Ernesto Priego started co-creating "strip hay(na)ku" poems in 2008, inspired by examples of Slovenian "strip haiku".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">About The Strip Hay(na)ku Project:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"Hay(na)ku, a 21st century fixed verse form, has inherited haiku-sensibility (with its caesuras or paradigm shifts) and added to it a new kind of game, with 1, 2, and 3 words, perfect for the special needs of alphabetical writings. The inventive collaborators of this book successfully transplanted hay(na)ku – not only its basic form but its spirit as well – into the field of visual writing, and what we get is new and exciting. The book contains real comic strips but almost as soon as I started reading/watching the panels I had the strong impression that instead of the usual multitude of voices, speakers, actors etc. we have only two "heroes", so to speak, inside and outside, and even they are not so different, to say the least. There is no comic strip without a story, and this time we are told and shown (but the texts and images don’t explain each other, their connection is inspiringly dissociative), how those heroes or perspectives keep changing places. It happens gently, almost invisibly…"</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";">-Márton Koppány<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><b>Ernesto Priego</b> is a lecturer at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City, University of London. He is the founder and editor in chief of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. He co-curated, with Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman and Eileen R. Tabios, The Chained Hay(na)ku Project (Meritage Press and xPress(ed) 2010). He is also the author of Not Even Dogs. Hay(na)ku Poems (Meritage Press, 2006); the amazing adventures of Gravity & Grace (Otoliths 2008); The Present Day. The Mañana Poems (Leafe Press 2010); Ahí donde no estás. De nombres propios y otros fantasmas (Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura 2013); and, with Simon Grennan and Peter Wilkins, the non-fiction comic Parables of Care. Creative Responses to Dementia Care (City, University of London, University of Chester and Douglas College, 2017). He posts things online whenever he is able to at his blog, epriego.blog, and on Twitter @ernestopriego.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman";"><b>Eileen R. Tabios</b> has released over 50 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her books include a form-based "Selected Poems" series: <i>The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019; THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry (2001-2009); INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & new 1996-2015</i>, and <i>THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems and New 1998-2010.</i> Recent poetry collections include <i>HIRAETH: Tercets From the Last Archipelago, MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator, TANKA: Vol. 1</i>, and <i>ONE TWO THREE: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems</i> which is a bilingual English-Spanish edition with translator Rebeka Lembo. Forthcoming is <i>WITNESS IN A CONVEX MIRROR</i> which will inaugurate Tinfish Press’s ”Pacific response to John Ashbery.” She also invented the poetry form “hay(na)ku” whose 15-year anniversary in 2018 is celebrated at the San Francisco and Saint Helena Public Libraries. More information about her works is available at </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: transparent;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">http://eileenrtabios.com</span></u></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman";">.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-48655975273439945402017-02-21T11:00:00.000-08:002017-02-21T17:14:51.722-08:00SOME MORE STRANGE METEORITES by MARK YOUNG<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">ISBN: 978-1-934299-11-1</span></div>
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Young rakes the zeitgeist, separating memes from disparate media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything looks like something else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some
more strange meteorites</i> is the work of a master poet at the top of his
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figures brightly in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some more strange
meteorites</i>. The poet as appreciator-in-chief discovers or invents a voice
to house and sing each philosophically vivid poem. He locates kindred mouths
and brains that carry rich history and disconnection, matching each to each. A
masterful spirit of inclusiveness pervades this extremely satisfying book,
linking unlikely figures, finding the future in the past, and inviting the
reader to follow the writer’s brilliant lead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark Young is the editor of <i>Otoliths</i>, lives in
a small town in North Queensland in Australia, & has been publishing poetry
for nearly sixty years. He is the author of over thirty-five books, primarily
text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history.
His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Step Below: Selected Poems 2000-2015
</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">contains a
selection of poetry chosen by the poet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To give the reader a sense of the poet’s development, the book is arranged
in chronological order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It contains work
from his major books and several texts that have now gone out of
publication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In it, we can see a sample
of Allegrezza’s formal poetic innovations and can hear the pervasive lyric
undertone of his work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">William
Allegrezza is the author of many books of poetry, including <i><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2014/08/port-light-haynaku-collection-by.html">Port Light</a></i>
(2014), <i>Densities. Apparitions.</i> (2011), and <i><a href="http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2012/09/fragile-replacements-by-william.html">Fragile Replacements</a></i>
(2007).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has edited several books,
such as<i> La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente</i>
(Co-ed. Galo Ghigliotto, 2010) and <i>The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein </i>(2012);
in addition, he has curated a reading series, edited presses, and edited
journals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He currently teaches at
Indiana University Northwest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">ISBN No.: 978-0-9826493-8-1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">Release Date: January 2014</span><br style="line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">Price: $14</span><br style="line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">Currently Available for $9.80 from Lulu.com at </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/hotus-potus/paperback/product-22001285.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/hotus-potus/paperback/product-22001285.html</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">Also available direct from the publisher (MeritagePress@aol.com) and </span><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">soon from Amazon.com</span><br style="line-height: 19.5px;" /><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ABOUT THE BOOK:</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
20<sup>th</sup> century cliché was that POTUS was the most powerful man in the
world. We’ve since realized that that’s a load of hocus pocus, but, before that
revelation, Mark Young committed his life to carrying around a heavy tape
recorder in order to document for posterity the utterances of the forty-four
Presidents of the United States. Now he has sifted through the more than 200
years of those recordings in order to bring to the reader the cream of the
cream, <i>HOTUS POTUS</i>, presidential insights from an assembled cast that includes
slave owners & supporters of emancipation; governors, generals, & those
who never saw war but still won one for the gipper; rough riders & builders
of smooth highways. Liars & truthtellers. So far there are no women. Let’s
hope that changes soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Born in Hokitika, New Zealand, &
now living in North Queensland in Australia, Mark Young has been publishing
poetry for fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized, & his
essays & poetry translated into a number of languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">He is the author of more than
twenty-five books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction
& art history. His most recent books are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the eclectic world</i> from gradient books of Finland, & a chapbook
of visual poems, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arachnid Nebula</i>,
from Luna Bisonte Prods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: Fall 2014</span><br />
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<i><b>UPDATE:</b> The print version is now out of print. You can still order BEAUTIFUL EYES as an E-book by clicking on link below.</i><br />
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A bilingual children’s book by Gayle Romasanta, Ramon Abad and translators Carmen and Pat Romasanta, in both printed chapbook and e-book formats<br />
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Release Date: 2012<br />
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Print chapbook: $12.00 from Meritage Press<br />
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E-book Retail Price: $9.99 from Meritage Press’ Lulu account at <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/gayle-romasanta-and-ramon-abad/beautiful-eyes/ebook/product-20064455.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/gayle-romasanta-and-ramon-abad/beautiful-eyes/ebook/product-20064455.html</a> <br />
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Chapbook ISBN: 978-0-9826493-3-6<br />
E-book ISBN: 978-0-9826493-4-3<br />
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce its latest release, the bilingual beginning reader children's book <em>Beautiful Eyes</em> with text by Gayle Romasanta, Tagalog translations by Carmen and Pat Romasanta, and illustrations by Ramon Abad. <br />
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Meritage Press is proud to support this project, a needed addition to bilingual children’s literature involving Filipino culture.<br />
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<strong>ORDERING INFO</strong><br />
Available for purchase either as a saddle-stitched paperback on quality paper or as an eBook through Lulu.com<br />
To order a hard copy for $12.00 plus s & h and tax, email the publisher directly at MeritagePress@aol.com<br />
To order an eBook for $9.99 retail, click this link to go to Meritage Press' Lulu site:<br />
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<strong>ABOUT THE eBOOK</strong> <br />
The eBook can be read on iPhone, iPad, Kindle and other tablets that can read the PDF format. Kindle users may need to download the eBook to their computer then email the file to their Kindle. See Kindle instructions on transferring files to Kindle.<br />
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<strong>ABOUT THE BOOK</strong> <br />
<em>Beautiful Eyes</em> is based on the timeless motor skills and memory game taught to Filipino babies. An adult says to the baby, “Beautiful Eyes!” Based on memory, a baby will open and close her eyes, batting them for all to see! Beautiful Eyes also emphasizes the beauty that is the Filipino self. It aims to nurture this sense of self early on in the baby years for little ones to take into adulthood—and for adults to remember this sense of self as they read to their children.<br />
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<strong>YOUTUBE INTERVIEW</strong><br />
Interview of Gayle Romasanta and Ramon Abad available at GMA's <em>Pusong Pinoy</em>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQs4MGlS3g&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQs4MGlS3g&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR</strong><br />
<strong><br /></strong><strong>Gayle Romasanta</strong> was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to the United States when she was 1 ½ years old. When she was five she wrote a short story about the little people who lived underground. After this story, she knew she wanted to be a writer. Along the way she learned to play the violin, joined a funny theater group, went to art school, and had two babies. She continues to write and publish her creative writing. <br />
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<strong>Ramon Abad</strong> was born in Iligan City, Mindanao, Philippines and moved to the United States when he was almost 2 years old. When he was four he would draw on everything: on walls, in books, and on recycled paper from his dad’s work. Now as a grown-up he draws on a computer, but he still also draws on recycled paper.<br />
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For more information, please email the publisher at <a href="mailto:MeritagePress@aol.com">MeritagePress@aol.com</a> ***** <em>Beautiful Eyes</em> has become one of Meritage Press' most popular titles. For example, here are the Cabinet members of Cal State Long Beach's Pilipino American Coalition playing with the book! <br />
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More information about the book also is available at its Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beautiful-Eyes-Childrens-TagalogEnglish-Book/386521651391320?ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beautiful-Eyes-Childrens-TagalogEnglish-Book/386521651391320?ref=ts</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-7541974240967929822012-09-22T17:24:00.000-07:002012-10-23T12:04:12.282-07:00DAWAC and Other Memoir-Narratives by Beatriz Tilan Tabios<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release Date: Fall-Winter 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Available for $12.50 through Meritage Press (<a href="mailto:MeritagePress@aol.com">MeritagePress@aol.com</a>) and Lulu.com (<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/beatriz-tilan-tabios/dawac-and-other-memoir-narratives/paperback/product-20386719.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/beatriz-tilan-tabios/dawac-and-other-memoir-narratives/paperback/product-20386719.html</a>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meritage Press is delighted to release a first book by a first-time author just shy of her 83rd birthday: <strong><em>DAWAC and Other Memoir-Narratives</em> by Beatriz Tilan Tabios</strong>. <em>DAWAC</em> presents Mrs. Tabios' childhood memories of Babaylans (indigenous Filipino healers) as well as surviving the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Someone came to the forest to let us know that the [Japanese] enemy had not yet come back from the east. The Soriano family would have gone into the forest, too. So we stayed where we were. I had my little book, the <em>Iliad</em>. I added it to the things in my bag. It was light anyway so it didn’t make a difference even if I had to carry it while we were walking and sometimes running up the hillsides. I started reading it as soon as we sat down in a spot surrounded by low bushes. I was engrossed in the fight between Hector and Achilles. I wanted to know who would win. I was cheering for Hector. My mother told my brothers and me that we could eat some of the brown sugar we had in our bags. My brothers did, but I saved mine in case we would stay there longer. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of a sudden we heard gun shots, continuous gun shots. It sounded like many guns were fired at the same time. We all dove into a large hole near us. I was on top of those who reached the hole ahead of me. I heard the men whisper, “Machine guns!” We remained crouched for a long time. When the suspense overcame me, I stood up. I saw a Japanese soldier standing on a high ridge south of us. I dropped back to my crouching position. I didn’t tell the others what I saw, but I was expecting to be pierced by a bayonet any minute. </span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beatriz Tilan Tabios received her B.A. with English as her major from the Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. She developed her love for poetry as a sixth-grader reading Homer, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge while trying to survive World War II. She would further develop her appreciation for literature as a college student instructed by poet <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_L._Tiempo"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Edith Tiempo</span></strong></a></b>, the first woman to receive the title of National Artist for Literature in the Philippines. Critic and fictionist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edilberto_K._Tiempo"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dr. Edilberto Tiempo</span></strong></a></b>, then the head of Silliman University’s English Department, encouraged Mrs. Tabios to continue her study of English and American literature. As a result, Mrs. Tabios wrote her Master of Arts thesis, one of the earliest investigations, regarding Filipino literature, of “(The Use of) Local Color in Short Stories in English.” Later, Mrs. Tabios taught English literature at Dagupan College (now University of Pangasinan) and University of Baguio, before becoming a teacher at Brent School, a boarding school initially built for children from U.S.-American military, missionary and gold-mining families stationed in the Far East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found Beatriz Tilan Tabios’ memoir to be in the classical style of story-telling, worthy of her training under Edilberto and Edith Tiempo. I read “Dawac” and liked the characterization of Apo Kattim, particularly the use of an Igolot extract that was the colloquial dialect in the sanctuaries of Baguling, La Union, where my family evacuated and were sheltered by the bagos (Ilocano-Igolot-Pangasinense mix) during the Japanese mop-up operation before Americans and Filipino guerrillas liberated the Northern provinces and the Cordilleras. I still speak a smattering of the Igolot of Apo Kattim, which I picked up as toddler during our refuge in Baguling’s mountains. Mrs. Tabios’ use of the dialect makes for an authentic character as memorable as those mang-ngagas or herbolarios. I, too, was "cured" by an Apo Anong when I was a little boy—he brushed some leaves all over my fevered body (according to my mother) to trap the "evil spirit" inside an egg; after praying to rid the spell that "punished" me, he threw the egg into some banana grove in my grandmother's orchard (my mother swears to God the egg did not break!). The next day found me running around with my rambunctious cousins as I’d been "cured" of the malady. I learned these from mother's own memoir. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—Albert B. Casuga, author of <em>A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems</em></span></blockquote>
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I read the 1st part, the title story/memoir. It was great. And I mean great. It was perfect. Oddly enough, in a way, I thought of Clarice Lispector's first novel, <em>Near to the Wild Heart</em>; there are scenes from her childhood in there that are wonderful. So thank you, very very much.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-31336231206931271302012-09-18T11:04:00.001-07:002012-10-23T12:07:10.482-07:00CARLOS VILLA AND THE INTEGRITY OF SPACES, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves<br />
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<em>CARLOS VILLA AND THE INTEGRITY OF SPACES</em>, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves<br />
Release Date: Fall 2011<br />
ISBN No.: 978-0-615-52120-6<br />
Price: $40.00<br />
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Meritage Press (San Francisco & St. Helena) is delighted to announce the release of <em>CARLOS VILLA AND THE INTEGRITY OF SPACES</em>, edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves. This long-overdue book takes a critical look at the life and work of one of the most celebrated Filipino American artists of our time and a leading light in the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich history of creative arts. The book includes essays and poetry by Bill Berkson, Theodore S. Gonzalves, David A.M. Goldberg, Mark Dean Johnson, Margo Machida, Moira Roth, and Carlos Villa; and features a gallery of 77 color and b&w images from Villa's career.<br />
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<strong>ADVANCE WORDS on this project include:</strong><br />
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“For this beautiful book, cultural studies scholar Theo Gonzalves brings together the most relevant and important voices on the work of Carlos Villa, which spans more than half a century. Together with Gonzalves’ own detailed and nuanced essay, which provides a rich context for our understanding and appreciation of Villa’s art and life, they variously illuminate how the artist’s vision emerges from Filipino American history, how his work engages the work of other American visual artists, and how he thinks about and makes art. The book ends as powerfully as it begins, with Villa’s own words, both as a teacher and artist. Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces is the definitive work on one of the most important American artists of our time.”<br />
—Elaine H. Kim, author of <em>Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art</em><br />
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“Here, finally, is the book that Carlos Villa so richly deserves. His fascinating art-and-life trajectory is explored by an equally stellar group of writers who weave the links (and ruptures) between Filipino/U.S. histories, art worlds, jazz, Asian American arts, San Francisco, and Villa’s gifts for friendship, teaching, and cultural activism. His art is memorable, powerful, and moving. So is this book.”<br />
—Lucy R. Lippard, author of <em>Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America</em><br />
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“When I first moved to the Bay Area in 1990, I remember seeing a pair of feathered shoes in a glass box. The implication—that by lifting the glass the shoes might fly away—did not feel like mainstream art or party line culture. It felt like a leap both personal and tribal. Looking back, I can now see the leap that Carlos Villa took as something close to my own immigration, one having always stood for a non-ideological American multiculturalism firmly grounded in the steps of his—and our—own journey.”<br />
—Hung Liu, Professor of Studio Art, Mills College<br />
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“Carlos Villa is a legendary figure in the arts and in the struggles of a multicultural generation. For over four decades he has created work from the soul of his ancestry, language, and ceremonial vision. His generous leadership in the movement for cultural rights has brought together the luminaries of our time. His contribution to global artistic expressions is immense and incalculable and his iconic work marks an era critical to the arts in America.”<br />
—Amalia Mesa-Bains, artist and author of <em>Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art</em><br />
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“A wonderfully rich and important anthology that generously offers several instances of Carlos Villa’s own words with writings by distinguished contributors. Editor Gonzalves critically coheres a lively collection of essays and a brilliant piece of pantoum poetry, from discussions of the manong legacy to an assertion of hybridity and the primacy of art. Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces will ensure the artist his rightful place in art and cultural history.”<br />
—Yong Soon Min, Professor of Studio Art, University of California at Irvine<br />
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“This remarkable book on Carlos Villa—artist, educator, curator, and author—reveals the breadth of his work worldwide. His World’s in Collision has been one of the most important texts for the education of students and artists for over two decades; and his own art extends the cultural range of visual perception.”<br />
—Keith A. Morrison, art educator, curator, art critic, and administrator <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-90261503831091403022012-09-17T20:35:00.001-07:002012-10-29T13:12:51.805-07:00bough breaks by Tamiko Beyer<br />
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ISBN 13: 978-0-9826493-2-9<br />
Price: $12.50<br />
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Meritage Press is pleased to announce the release of <em>bough breaks</em>, a first chapbook by Tamiko Beyer, a poet, writer, and educator based in Brooklyn. She is the poetry editor of <em>Drunken Boat</em> and leads creative writing workshop for at-risk youth and other community groups. A Kundiman Fellow, she is also a founding member of Agent 409: a queer writing collective in New York City.<br />
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<strong>ABOUT THE BOOK:</strong> <br />
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The poetic sequence <em>bough breaks</em> sets out to interrogate queer motherhood, implications of gender, and the politics of adoption. Traveling across terrains (New York, Bangkok, Honolulu, Tokyo) and time (from the speaker’s childhood to an imagined future that holds or does not hold an adopted child) the poem teases apart the idea of conception. Queer in content and form, this fiercely feminist yet tenderly personal poem takes on the lullaby-lyric of parenthood to lay claim, surprise, and engage.<br />
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<strong>ADVANCE WORDS INCLUDE:</strong><br />
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Lullabies are strange things. They console and terrify with a single melodic truth: the beauty of life is the mystery of death. Tamiko Beyer understands the uncanny spirit of the lullaby. She wields her lyric power deftly, taking words like “being,” “parent,” and “poet,” and splintering their meaning. She skillfully breaks and resets form, creating poems that are terse, tender and ultimately, enduring.<br />
—Tisa Bryant<br />
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In a trance-driven lineage of serious thinkers which include the likes of Myung Mi Kim, Jessica Grim and Bruna Mori, Tamiko Beyer does not separate the experience of a gendered body from genres of thought. This writing lies down between poetry and theory and makes a bed there, a bed of textured experience and fabulous rhythms. <br />
—Kazim Ali<br />
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Our poems may be our babies, as a friend said to Tamiko Beyer, but the desire for a baby can be a very complicated poem. Beyer charts her desire for a child through lenses of memory, what ifs, hormones, possible adoptions, and unsimple yearning. Where “neither gender nor sex [is] fixed,” a baby must be found rather than conceived in the standard way. Beyer's chapbook adds to a growing body of poetry about non-traditional families. It is a book about bodies, their transformations and their costs (“...more money if... // a) special needs b) forgiven c) teenager”). But it also a book about family values, real ones.<br />
—Susan M. Schultz<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-65855377637139295112012-09-17T20:32:00.000-07:002012-10-29T13:14:05.292-07:00Flux, Clot & Froth, Vol. 1 and 2 by John Bloomberg-Rissman<br />
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<em>Flux, Clot & Froth, Vol. 1</em><br />
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Poems by John Bloomberg-Rissman<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-9-1 <br />
Price: $29.00<br />
Pages: 714<br />
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<em>Flux, Clot & Forth, Vol. 2</em><br />
Apparatus to Poems in Vol. 1 by John Bloomberg-Rissman<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0-9826493-0-5 <br />
Price: $21.00<br />
Pages: 242<br />
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Meritage Press is pleased to release <em>Flux, Clot & Froth</em> by John Bloomberg-Rissman, a two-volume project comprised of poems in Volume 1 and "Apparatus" or Notes to Poems in Volume 2.<br />
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On 23 Nov 08, John Bloomberg-Rissman finished transforming his crazy stacks of later 20th- and early 21st-century Anglophone literature into organized shelves. Looking at those shelves, he decided to "unpack" them through a longish poem: "Find something from the 1st book on the 1st shelf. Follow that with something from the 1st book on the 2nd shelf. Etc etc. Intersperse whatever I like from whatever source appeals to me. Intersperse a number of Autopoetic recursions. Form: hay(na)ku. I expect this to go on for several months.” Several became many, and the result is an epic-length mixtape composed of thousands of algorithmically/intuitively-derived fully annotated oft-mangled bits of écriture/parole. Truman Capote once famously said of Jack Kerouac’s work, “This isn’t writing, it’s typing.” Had he lived he would have said of <em>Flux, Clot & Froth</em>, “This isn’t typing, it’s cutnpaste.” But, as Heinrich Heine (or Ferenc Molnár?) is reputed to have replied on his deathbed when asked if he wanted last rites, “Nah. Whether or not he exists, God will forgive me. It’s his job.” Volume 1 contains the poem. Volume 2 contains 2,700+ notes which source the approximately 4,000 texts Bloomberg-Rissman sampled. <br />
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<strong>ADVANCE WORDS Include:</strong><br />
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“At the heart of infinity is the accumulative event. John Bloomberg-Rissman, poet of mixmastery, dis-complicates a vastness of textonality, meticulously cites each source, then honors the poundage of forebears by locating a fresh, consistently revealing work, flush with ripening seeds.Flux, Clot & Froth accomplishes with specificity a surprisingly large, clear, deeply felt ceremony of the new poem that gleams across patens that protect and honor poetic roots, both past and current. The poem earns traction by unearthing the connections among a dizzying array of source material to discover a transcendent work. Unhesitatingly brilliant, Flux, Clot & Froth speaks beyond itself as testament to a rigorous and unparalleled synthesis of attention and humility.”<br />
—Sheila E. Murphy<br />
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“An extreme example of what I’ve elsewhere called “othering” or, borrowing the phrase from John Cage, “writing through,” Bloomberg-Rissman’s Flux, Clot & Froth is a 700+ page magnum opus constructed (almost) entirely from words or sounds appropriated from 1000 other writers. That this is done without any sacrifice of coherence or feeling or intelligence & in a voice that remains unified & “personal” throughout is a testament to the communal nature of language & thought of which our individualities are a crucial if sometimes questioned part. While Bloomberg-Rissman is not alone in the pursuit of such an outcome, his beautifully wrought & linked three-line stanzas & other groupings present what may well remain a milestone of a new communal poetics.”<br />
—Jerome Rothenberg</blockquote>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-46361177506798780472012-09-17T20:28:00.002-07:002016-05-13T23:24:38.072-07:00Archipelago Dust by Karen Llagas<br />
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ISBN 13: 978-0-9826493-1-2<br />
Price: $15.00<br />
Distributors: Meritage Press, Amazon and Lulu (<a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/archipelago-dust/12040333">http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/archipelago-dust/12040333</a>)<br />
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Meritage Press is pleased to announce the release of <em>Archipelago Dust</em>, a first book by Karen Llagas and also the recipient of the second Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;">Also a recipient of a Hedgebrook residency and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, she holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and a BA in Economics from Ateneo de Manila. A lecturer on Filipino language and culture and Southeast Asian literature at UC Berkeley, she also co-authors </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;">500 Tagalog Verbs</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"> (forthcoming from Tuttle) and works as Tagalog interpreter and translator.</span><br />
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<strong>Advance words for <em>Archipelago Dust</em> include:</strong><br />
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Nostalgia, according to Hollis Frampton, should be translated as the "wounds of returning." Llagas's book explores the wounds—but also pleasures—of returning to a rich mixture of sensation and dialect, whether in Manila or San Francisco, news or myth. At one point, her speaker moves to "praise what refuses to be translated." But then, because wounds and words are not enough, she continues: "Praise, too, the thorax/and its steady vibrations... the lover's body still/warming my bed, his sex/mercifully relentless."<br />
—Tung-Hui Hu, <em>Mine</em><br />
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Karen Llagas' poems reveal an introspective speaker, one who reflects on the adopted "America" around her with such thoughtfulness and grace. Llagas' poems also deceive in their apparent order but surprise in their leaps. These leaps represent a speaker who longs for connection to all of her lovers, whether being the past, culture, or romantic loves, but ultimately one who cannot fully connect. In the powerful poem "Canvas," the speaker lists the mundane keys with other things that can't ever be reached or neatly filed away: "Keys, sadness, childhood, where do you put them away?"<br />
—Victoria Chang, <em>Circle</em> and <em>Salvinia Molesta</em> <br />
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In one of her poems Karen Llagas intones, “Praise what refuses to be translated,” a statement that could serve as the directive which underwrites her poetry’s fierce inquiries. Whether writing about the dissonant intimacies of family life or of romantic attachment, the vivid textures of a homeland or the problematic home that is America, Llagas gives necessary depth to things that our present culture often translates into facile verbal commodities. Llagas’s lyricism gives back a complex and sensuous measure to the world she writes about, in poems that are haunted, tender, and ardent. <br />
—Rick Barot, <em>The Darker Fall</em> and <em>Want</em></blockquote>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-40957952813999493122012-09-17T20:26:00.000-07:002012-10-29T13:22:25.527-07:00THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT Curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios<br />
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<em><strong>THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT</strong></em> <br />
Curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios<br />
ISBN-13: 978-951-9198-78-1<br />
Price: $16.95<br />
Release Date: 2010<br />
Distributors: Meritage Press, Amazon and Lulu (<a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/chained-hay%28na%29ku/12049346">http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/chained-hay%28na%29ku/12049346</a>)<br />
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The <strong><a href="http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/">hay(na)ku's</a></strong> swift popularity would not have been possible without internet-based communication. With the internet's capacity for engendering collaborations, it was inevitable that a collaborative hay(na)ku project such as <em>THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU</em> would arise. It, of course, was fitting that <em>THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU</em> began with an invitation from a blog. On June 24, 2007, an invitation was posted on http://chainedhaynaku.wordpress.com/ for poets to participate in hay(na)ku collaborations. Nearly a hundred poets and artists from around the world responded, and this anthology is one result, along with friendships and much fun!<br />
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The following is an excerpt from the collaborative poem by <em>THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU’s</em> curators—Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen R. Tabios—posted on the invitational blog as an example of hay(na)ku collaboration:<br />
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Hear<br />
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where nothing<br />
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is said. Here<br />
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where<br />
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everything worth<br />
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En<br />
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arche en<br />
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ho logos, kai<br />
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ho …<br />
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the bush<br />
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suddenly ablaze, sky<br />
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flaming<br />
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in your<br />
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eyes and mine, <br />
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blood<br />
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melting to<br />
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ink in our<br />
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veins,<br />
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then leaking<br />
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to shape gold<br />
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letters<br />
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on correspondence<br />
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masquerading as books. <br />
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Here<br />
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where Nothing<br />
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where<br />
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Nothing is<br />
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said, watch smoke rise<br />
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<em>THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU</em> is also beautifully designed by <strong><a href="http://melissanolledo.com/">Melissa Nolledo</a></strong>.<br />
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More information about the hay(na)ku poetic form is available at <em>The Hay(na)ku Poetry Blog</em> (<strong><a href="http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/">http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com</a></strong> )<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-79352626715914920262012-09-17T09:46:00.001-07:002012-11-01T19:44:08.266-07:00AUTOPSY TURVY: Collaborative Poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason<br />
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-7-7<br />
Price: $16.00<br />
Distributors: Meritage Press and <strong><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/thomas-fink-and-maya-diablo-mason/autopsyturvy/paperback/product-6356332.html">Lulu</a></strong><br />
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of <em>AUTOPSY TURVY</em>, a collaborative book of poems by father-daughter Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason. A book of "utterly wishful miraculously wistful costumed poems" (Tan Lin), <em>AUTOPSY TURVY</em> gathers terse, springy, psychologically intense eleven-line lyrics and hay(na)ku-based pieces, a 15-poem series called "Bee" that spells out the tangles of family and finances, a surreal poetic play entitled "Invisible Surgeon," and much else. According to Denise Duhamel, Fink and Mason's "poetry. . . goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety."<br />
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Thomas Fink’s fifth book of poetry, <em>Clarity and Other Poems</em>, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008. His chapbooks, <em>Generic Whistle-Stop</em> (Portable Press at YoYo Labs) and <em>Yinglish Strophes 1-19</em> (Truck Books) appeared in 2009. <em>A Different Sense of Power</em> (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited <em>“Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics</em>. His work is included in <em>The Best American Poetry 2007</em> (Scribner’s). Fink’s paintings hang in various collections.<br />
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Maya Diablo Mason was published in <em>The First Hay(na)ku Anthology</em> (Meritage, 2006) and her collaborative work has appeared in<em> Otoliths, 21 Stars Review, BlazeVox, Of(f) Course, Long Island Sounds Anthology 2008 and 2009, Marsh Hawk Review, Pinstripe Fedora</em> and <em>EOAGH</em>. A high school student in Long Island, New York, she plans to pursue a career in drama, visual art, or writing.<br />
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Some ADVANCE WORDS for <em>AUTOPSY TURVY</em>:<br />
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In <em>AUTOPSY TURVY</em>, Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason (a father and daughter collaborative team) give us poetry that goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety. These poems—about death and dying, inheritance (monetarily and otherwise), and family—put the “Pan” in deadpan. <em>AUTOPSY TURVY</em> is as magical and mysterious as the Greek god of nature or the moon of Saturn. This poetry pair is funny, smart, and profound.<br />
--Denise Duhamel<br />
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These utterly wishful miraculously wistful costumed poems are made up--of messages, notes, offhand remarks, smiles, half anecdotes, beautiful smirks, let-downs, put-downs, winks, disgust, jokes and riddles—that pass between child and parent, father and daughter, and everything said between a laugh a yawn a cry. “Forgot my ocean.” I cried. I laughed. I read “I have something sleepy to tell you.” And then I read “Some of those flowers could crack abstruse dance codes.” And then: “Girls get their food from tulips.” <br />
--Tan Lin<br />
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<em>AUTOPSY TURVY</em> is the record of a series of remarkable poetic jam sessions between (father) Thomas Fink and (daughter) Maya Diablo Mason. Tom and Maya work together in the way that family members do: finishing one another's sentences. And they finish them to a high sheen. <br />
--Tom Beckett </blockquote>
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-8-4<br />
80 pages<br />
Price: $16.00<br />
Distributors: Meritage Press and <strong><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/aileen-ibardaloza/traje-de-boda/paperback/product-6359820.html;jsessionid=A76B088FE74F48295ED6805DE39FDA4E">Lulu</a></strong><br />
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of <em>traje de boda</em>, a first poetry book by Aileen Ibardaloza.<br />
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Aileen Ibardaloza is a poet and memoirist who first trained as a molecular biologist. She grew up in Manila, and studied and traveled around Asia and Europe before joining her family in the United States in 2000. She was married in 2009; she and her husband live in the San Francisco bay area with their two cats. Also the Associate Editor of <em>Our Own Voice Literary Ezine</em>, she has seen writings appear in various online and print media including <em>Manorborn; 1000 Views of Girl Singing</em> (Leafe Press, U.K. and California, 2009); <em>A Taste of Home</em> (Anvil, Manila, 2008); <em>Fellowship; Moria Poetry</em>; and <em>Galatea Resurrects</em>. <br />
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About this project, advance words include:<br />
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Aileen Ibardaloza’s first book is a charmer more than a disarmer of the complicated relationships between men and women, mothers and daughters, or colonized and colonizer. The intensity of her voice is not unlike the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral with llantos like these: “I say it’s all right./Yes, if I ever lose my mouth,” and “My old same hides/her face behind a fan.” traje de boda belongs on any serious bookshelf of contemporary poetry. <br />
—Nick Carbó, author of <em>Chinese, Japanese, What are These?</em></blockquote>
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<strong><em>Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children</em> by Geoffrey Gatza</strong><br />
Release Date: 2009<br />
ISBN: 978-0-9794119-6-0<br />
Price: U.S. $16.00<br />
Distributors: Meritage Press and Small Press Distribution<br />
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Geoffrey Gatza's poetry for children has been one of the greatest secrets in contemporary poetry. Meritage Press is delighted to share this secret by releasing Gatza's inaugural book of poetry for children (of all ages): <em>Housecat Kung Fu</em>. <br />
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Gatza is the author of seven other books of poetry; his <em>Not So Fast Robespierre</em> and <em>Kenmore: Poem Unlimited</em> are available from Menendez Publishing. He is also the editor and publisher of BlazeVOX [books]. Gatza lives in Kenmore, New York. More information about him is available at <a href="http://geoffreygatza.com/">http://geoffreygatza.com</a> and <a href="http://blazevox.org/">http://blazevox.org</a>. <br />
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Meritage Press is pleased to share an excerpt from one of the many delightful poems in <em>Housecat Kung Fu</em> -- this is from "Lorikeet Landing":<br />
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Last Wednesday I overheard<br />
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a listening booth<br />
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a comfy ocean chair<br />
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a wisdom tooth<br />
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a mystical flying mare<br />
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or maybe a common pea<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-2310869716568974942012-09-17T09:31:00.000-07:002012-11-01T19:50:28.461-07:00PELICAN DREAMING: POEMS 1959-2008 by Mark Young<br />
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<em>PELICAN DREAMING: POEMS 1959-2008</em> by Mark Young<br />
Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink<br />
ISBN: 978-0-9794119-5-3<br />
412 pages<br />
Price: $24.00<br />
Release Date: 2008<br />
Distributors: Meritage Press and Lulu at <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1955266">http://www.lulu.com/content/1955266</a><br />
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of <em>PELICAN DREAMING: Poems 1959-2008 by Mark Young</em>, Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink.<br />
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Mark Young was born in New Zealand, but has lived for more than half his life in Australia. First published in 1959, his work has appeared in a large number of both electronic & print journals, & he has been included in many anthologies. His publications range from the first book on modern New Zealand painting through more than a dozen collections of poetry & his co-editorship with Jean Vengua of two anthologies of hay(na)ku to a speculative novella, the allegrezza ficcione. These days he spends most of his time editing the e-zine <em>Otoliths</em> & nurturing the steadily-increasing catalog of its print publishing arm. <br />
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About this project, Mark Young shares:<br />
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"My father died when he was 93, &, even then, his death was at least partially due to complications from an amputated leg. Which means there are longevity genes in my family. So it's somewhat ironic that the earliest poem in this selection / collection, "Lizard", written when I was seventeen — 'When one is seventeen, one isn't serious' wrote Rimbaud, in error, but he can be forgiven for he was only fifteen when he wrote the line — stems from feelings of mortality brought on by the teenage angst that beset me at the time.<br />
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"As the subtitle of this book indicates — Poems 1959-2008 — those feelings were somewhat premature. But they're still around, since my vision of a neat fifty years of poetry was taken over once again by similar feelings: I wanted the book out there in order to make sure that I was around to see it.<br />
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"There is a rough chronological order to the book, based on the order of the books from which the selections were made, but that is for convenience. I have nearly always followed the maxim 'Let the poem shape itself.' So there are streams & themes that overlap across collections, across times, in a variety of concurrent styles. As Thomas Fink writes in his Introduction:<br />
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"'If anyone these days is hanging onto a notion of consistent stylistic evolution as aesthetic merit, this volume will do its best to disorient them, as Young's 'many mansions' feature a variety of architectural modes. Could one predict the flights of Betabet from the unified narrative of 'Grafton Bridge,' much less 'Lizard'? 'George W.'s Language Primer' and 'Maxims for Tom Beckett' are both very funny poems, but their humor is achieved in extremely different ways. If someone didn't know who wrote either 'The Baggage Card' or 'The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even,' would s/he necessarily assume that the same author was responsible for both? Mark Young has the courage to be traditional, imagistically or narratively direct, discrete, serial, surreal, 'experimental,' and 'difficult' in the same season, year, or cluster of years. The reward is ours.'<br />
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"Tom's selection was done with total independence. All I did was give him the poems, in a variety of formats — e-books, chapbooks, full collections, blog postings, manuscripts — & let him have his way with me. Or, at least, my output. My gratitude for & pleasure with what he has selected & written to in his Introduction is immense. I have gained insights from his insightfulness. The reward is mine. &, I hope, yours."</blockquote>
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<strong>A Nota Bene from Tom Beckett:</strong> <br />
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"I've had the privilege of reading this book in manuscript. It is as fantastically and variously beautiful a book of poetry as one can find. If you only read one selected poems in the coming year, read <em>Pelican Dreaming</em>."<br />
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-4-6 <br />
ISBN-10: 0-9794119-4-7 <br />
Price: $16.00<br />
Release Date: Fall 2008<br />
Distributors: Small Press Distribution, Amazon.com & <a href="mailto:MeritagePress@aol.com">MeritagePress@aol.com</a><br />
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of <em>Disappointed Psalms</em> by Brian Clements. This poetry collection is published as the recipient of the Colombian Poetry Gift sponsored by Meritage Press. <br />
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After years of working exclusively in the prose poem, Brian Clements shifts in <em>Disappointed Psalms</em> to short bursts, in turns raw and lyrical, that turn the languages of war and religion, so frequently aligned, against themselves. Combining short phrases from <em>The Book of Psalms</em> and catch phrases from the post-9/11 cultural reservoir with Clement's own lamentations on lost faith, these short poems and the litany that closes the book, like all the best political poems, attempt to wrest the ability to make meaning from the hands of spin doctors, liars, dissemblers and would-be builders of empire.<br />
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Brian Clements is the author of several collections of poetry, including <em>And How To End It</em> and <em>Essays Against Ruin.</em> He edits the small press Firewheel Editions and its <em>Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics</em> and coordinates the MFA in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-39674200284094417492012-09-15T18:03:00.003-07:002012-11-01T19:54:52.545-07:00THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, Vol II, Edited by Jean Vengua & Mark Young<br />
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ISBN 951-9198-73-3<br />
ISBN 978-951-9198-73-6<br />
Pages: 148<br />
Price: $16.95<br />
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<em>Poetry. Multicultural Studies.</em> The "hay(na)ku" is a poetic form invented by Eileen Tabios, as inspired by Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, and Tabios' meditations on the Filipino transcolonial and diasporic experience. The form is deceptively simple: a tercet comprised of one-, two- and three-word lines. Many poets also created variations from the basic form, attesting to its paradoxical suppleness despite its minimalist orientation.<br />
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Meritage Press (St. Helena & San Francisco) and xPress(ed) (Puhos, Finland) are delighted to announce the release of <em>THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II</em>, edited by Mark Young and Jean Vengua.<br />
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Since <em>The First Hay(na)ku Anthology's</em> release in 2005, the hay(na)ku has appeared in many literary journals, anthologies and single-author poetry collections worldwide. Artists have created visual hay(na)ku. The form has been written in Spanish, English, French, Finnish, Dutch, Tagalog, and Norwegian. It has been taught in classrooms, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) features an hay(na)ku webpage in their online journal, Periódico de Poesía. Members of UNAM'S Faculty of Literature and Philosophy/Facultad de Filosofia y Letras are also preparing a full Spanish translation of The First Hay(na)ku Anthology for future release. Reflecting the hay(na)ku's continued popularity, <em>THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II</em> is released just three years after the first hay(na)ku anthology. A third anthology is also in the works: <em>The Chained Hay(na)ku</em> which would present hay(na)ku collaborations among three or more writers. We hope readers enjoy this volume, and are encouraged to try writing their own hay(na)ku! For this poetic form also was created as an Invitation to Poetry.<br />
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More information about the hay(na)ku poetic form is available at <a href="http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/">http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com</a>. The former link identifies the poet-participants, while the latter shares some poets' thoughts on the hay(na)ku's attractiveness. The hay(na)ku has been one of the most popular new poetic forms in recent times; 39 poets participated in the soon-to-be-out-of-print first anthology. In Vol. II, 51 poets from around the world (and representing a multiplicity of poetics) participate. <br />
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For more information, contact MeritagePress@aol.com<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4790930692732792602.post-91892388219898511502012-09-15T18:02:00.000-07:002012-11-01T19:59:59.093-07:00STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves<br />
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-3-9<br />
ISBN-10: 0-9794119-3-9<br />
Release Date: 2007<br />
Price: $22.00<br />
Pages: 208<br />
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Distribution: Available (1) directly from Meritage Press (Email us at MeritagePress@aol.com); (2) from Meritage Press' Lulu Account at <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1315302">http://www.lulu.com/content/1315302</a>; and (3) from Amazon.com<br />
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of a historic document: <em>STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS</em>, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves, a musician and assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. <br />
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<em>STAGE PRESENCE</em> is a collection of essays and interviews with Filipino American performing artists. Each of the chapters features critically acclaimed and popular artists in their own right, who have also mentored hundreds of dancers, comedians, theater artists and musicians of all genres. In this rare collection, performers take time off stage to speak candidly about their creative processes, revealing personal frustrations and triumphs, while testifying to the challenges of what it could mean to be an artist of Filipino descent working and living in the United States. <br />
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Featuring: musicians Eleanor Academia, Gabe Baltazar Jr., Danongan Kalanduyan; bandleader and poet Jessica Hagedorn; choreographers and dancers Joel Jacinto, Alleluia Panis, and Pearl Ubungen; and theater artists Remé Grefalda, Allan Manalo and Ralph Peña. The book also includes a thought-provoking foreword by scholar and musician Ricardo D. Trimillos.<br />
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Some ADVANCE WORDS speak to the project's significance:<br />
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“Fusing history, culture, jazz, and art, Stage Presence is one big happening jam session featuring ten Filipino American performing artists rapping on their craft, their process, their defiance to be boxed in by the category-obsessed American market, and their hunger and struggles necessary to stay true to their vision, identity, and art.”<br />
— R. Zamora Linmark, author of <em>Rolling the R’s, Prime Time Apparitions</em> and <em>Leche</em><br />
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“This collection of interviews and reflections by many of the leading Filipino American cultural workers demonstrates the range and vitality of Filipino American performing arts – an inspiring and dynamic range of practices encompassing everything from kulintang to head-banging heavy metal, from college PCNs to off-Broadway New York theatre, from the Bayanihan to site-specific performance art. Stage Presence gives us a view rarely available to students, scholars, and audiences: the winding paths through history and identity that led these groundbreaking artists into the spotlight.”<br />
— Karen Shimakawa, author of <em>National Abjection</em><br />
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“When the New York Times looks at Filipinos, it sees only house maids and cooks, copycats, and mimics. But when scholar and artist Theo Gonzalves looks at and talks with his compatriots, he sees stunningly original and creative thinkers who use an eclectic range of forms and methods to make art and perform culture. This book is dizzy and alive with the Filipino soul. Read at your own risk!”<br />
— Karin Aguilar-San Juan, editor of <em>The State of Asian America</em> </blockquote>
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<strong>ABOUT THE EDITOR:</strong><br />
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Professor Theodore S. Gonzalves studied at Santa Clara University (BA Political Science), San Francisco State University (MA Political Science), and at the University of California at Irvine (PhD Comparative Culture). His areas of scholarly interest include: Filipino/American cultures, histories & politics; U.S-Philippine relations; ethnic and cultural studies; cultural nationalisms and the performing arts.<br />
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Professor Gonzalves has taught college and university courses since 1991 at the following institutions: the University of California (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine & Los Angeles), the California State University (Sacramento, San Francisco & San Jose), Pomona College, and Santa Clara University. Gonzalves also lectured at the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, in the department of English. In addition to teaching in the American Studies department at UH Manoa, Gonzalves cross-lists courses with the Ethnic Studies Department; he is also affiliated with the Center for Philippine Studies and the International Cultural Studies Program.<br />
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In the field of performing arts, Gonzalves has served as a board member for Bindlestiff Studio, a San Francisco performing arts venue; co-founder of Jeepney Dash Records, an artist-run recording label; keyboardist for the Legendary Bobby Banduria; and musical director for "tongue in A mood" Theatre. Gonzalves' musical work has been featured at concerts such as the Asian American Jazz Festival and theater & music festivals at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He has also written, produced and performed several scores for independent film projects.<br />
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Gonzalves has received a Meet the Composer Award from the Meet the Composer Fund in New York. He was named a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2005, Gonzalves lectured and researched in the Philippines as a U.S. Fulbright Senior Scholar<br />
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ISBN-10: 0-9794119-2-0 <br />
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-2-2 <br />
Price: $16.95<br />
Release date: December 2007<br />
Distributors: Meritage Press, Amazon.com<br />
For more info: MeritagePress@aol.com<br />
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Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of <em>Prau</em>, the inaugural full-length poetry collection by Monterey Bay Area-based poet Jean Vengua. Prau is also the winner of The Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize which was a global competition open to Filipino poets.<br />
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Jean Vengua's poetry has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies, including <em>Going Home to a Landscape, Babaylan, x-stream, Interlope, Returning a Borrowed Tongue, Fugacity 05, Sidereality, Moria</em>, and <em>Otoliths</em>, and in her chapbook, <em>The Aching Vicinities</em> (Otoliths). With Mark Young, she is editor of <em>The First Hay(na)ku Anthology</em> and <em>Hay(na)ku Anthology, Volume 2</em>. Jean's essays, articles and reviews on literature and music have been published in many journals including <em>Jouvert, Geopolitics of the Visual</em> (Ateneo Univ. Press), <em>Pinoy Poetics, Our Own Voice</em>, Seattle's <em>International Examiner (Pacific Reader),</em> and <em>CultureCatch.com.</em><br />
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ADVANCE WORDS from prominent poets attest to Prau's power and beauty:<br />
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Jean Vengua is a poet of the typo, the missed step, the happy and unhappy accident; in short, she is a poet of linguistic and global migration. Prau moves its reader from the Philippines to the Bay Area and back, "always mining past present tenses." In her aptly titled prose poem, "Momentum," Vengua links Gustav Mahler, her mother, Buffalo Soldiers, Marie Curie, Roberto Matta, and Jose Rizal in a dance of histories real and imagined. The momentum of her writing brings together what is otherwise ripped asunder: "That is to make beautiful where the dissonance begins to tear."<br />
--Susan M. Schultz, Editor of Tinfish Press<br />
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Prau sets forth on its courageous voyage through time and spirit with a meditation on the year 1911, the date of the author's mother's birth, that sails us through the worlds of Mahler, Marie Curie, Moses Browning (who invented the M-1911 Colt 45 to kill intransigent Filipino "moros" in Mindanao), the H - Bomb, Matta, the polymath Rizal, Dapitan and the migratory routes of her father's wandering ukulele. Vengua's poems gently yet firmly navigate us towards yet to be explored spheres of psychological and lyrical revelation where "by turns and in rounds we are angry, indifferent and in love" and "without ghosts, the obscurity of night becomes real." This is page-turner, addictive poetry that never falters in its gaze at the integrity of dream and the dream of integrity.<br />
--Nick Piombino, author of <em>Fait Accompli</em><br />
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At last, this pioneer of the literary blog scene who I have followed through cyberspace since the nineties has a book of poetry that I can take home with me! Vengua's poetry delves into the very nature of culture and custom. An ordinary postage stamp triggers a multi-racial dilemma. A personal memento unlocks a sequence of historic ramifications witnessing the first ever explosion of a hydrogen bomb. This is poetry tempered by the movements of New Historicism, Postmodern irony and the culture clash of living in California. Languages abound. A typo or a footnote can become central to the themes she navigates in her agile prau, sorting through truth, folklore, dream, memory, and pure desire. <br />
--Catalina Cariaga, author of <em>Cultural Evidence</em></blockquote>
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-1-5 <br />
ISBN-10: 0-9794119-1-2 <br />
Release Date: Fall 2007<br />
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Meritage Press is pleased to publish <em>Complications</em>, the second full-length poetry collection by Oakland-based poet Garrett Caples. Reflecting the moral disintegration of the post-9/11 world, <em>Complications</em> is an even wilder, darker, funnier exploration of poetic consciousness than its predecessor, <em>The Garrett Caples Reader</em>. From semiotic reportage to automatic writing, oulipian constraint to straightforward elegy, Complications is an eclectic tour de force in the service of a fundamental proposition: "surreality is real."<br />
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<strong>Praise for <em>The Garrett Caples Reader</em></strong> <br />
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"a wonderful book of prose and poetry."<br />
--Philip Lamantia<br />
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"a lovely piece of work all the way through."<br />
--Robert Creeley<br />
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<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</strong><br />
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Born in Lawrence, MA in 1972, Garrett Caples is a poet living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of <em>The Garrett Caples Reader</em> (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999), <em>er um</em> (Meritage Press, 2002), and <em>The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop</em> (Ninevolt, 2004). He has published numerous essays, articles, and reviews. He currently writes on hip hop for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.<br />
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Distributors: Meritage Press, Amazon.com<br />
Contact: MeritagePress@aol.com<br />
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