Monday, November 29, 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010



Edward Gorey’s covers for The American Puritans and The American Transcendentalists both edited by Perry Miller.  On The American Puritans, see the steeple in the background.  And notice Gorey’s initials, bottom right-hand corner, above the rock at two-o’clock.  He doesn’t always “sign” his covers.  

Companionables. 

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Monday, November 01, 2010

a noun sing 4 new e·chaps from e·ratio editions

#10. The Galloping Man and five other poems by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. “ . . . how does / a body know, here is a hand, and here, is a sentence / or, / what’s riding on hearts . . . ”

#9. Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham. Two poetic sequences. “ . . . bathe deep in / the barely-there / disassembled gallery / of the everyday . . . ”

#8. Polylogue by Carey Scott Wilkerson. Poems. “ . . . with rules and constitutive games, / with paints and gramarye / with some modicum / of my reckless trust . . . ”

#7. Bashō’s Phonebook. 30 translations by Travis Macdonald. The great Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō goes digital. Conceptual poetry. With translator’s notes.

E·ratio Editions

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