SOME MORE STRANGE METEORITES by MARK YOUNG

some more strange meteorites

ISBN: 978-1-934299-11-1

Release Date: February 2017

No. of Pages: 132
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ADVANCE WORDS:

Mark Young rakes the zeitgeist, separating memes from disparate media.  Everything looks like something else.  Nothing is the same.  some more strange meteorites is the work of a master poet at the top of his game.

--Tom Beckett

Chance figures brightly in some more strange meteorites. 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.

—Sheila E. Murphy

ABOUT THE POET:

Mark Young is the editor of Otoliths, 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 into a number of languages.

Recent books include Mineral Terpsichore & Ley Lines, from gradient books of Finland, & The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago. Recent e-books include The Holy Sonnets unDonne, from Red Ceilings Press; For the Witches of Romania, from Beard of Bees; & a few geographies, from One Sentence Poems.

STEP BELOW: SELECTED POEMS 2000-2015 by WILLIAM ALLEGREZZA

ISBN No.: 978-1-934299-10-4
Release Date: Spring 2016
Co-published with i.e. press (New York)
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Step Below: Selected Poems 2000-2015 contains a selection of poetry chosen by the poet.  To give the reader a sense of the poet’s development, the book is arranged in chronological order.  It contains work from his major books and several texts that have now gone out of publication.  In it, we can see a sample of Allegrezza’s formal poetic innovations and can hear the pervasive lyric undertone of his work.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Allegrezza is the author of many books of poetry, including Port Light (2014), Densities. Apparitions. (2011), and Fragile Replacements (2007).  He has edited several books, such as La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente (Co-ed. Galo Ghigliotto, 2010) and The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein (2012); in addition, he has curated a reading series, edited presses, and edited journals.  He currently teaches at Indiana University Northwest.