http://canariumbooks.org Canarium Books Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:43 +0000 http://canariumbooks.org en http://canariumbooks.org/133536/Robert-Fernandez http://canariumbooks.org/133536/Robert-Fernandez Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:43 +0000 Canarium Books 133536 Robert Fernandez We Are Pharaoh <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133536/FernandezWebAuthor1.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="253" align="left" /> Robert Fernandez’s first book, We Are Pharaoh, will appear from Canarium Books in March 2011. His poems have appeared in Fence, American Letters & Commentary, The Modern Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He was born in Connecticut, raised in Florida, and now lives in Iowa. Click here to read Robert’s poem “Polyhedron” at Web Conjunctions. http://canariumbooks.org/133536/Robert-Fernandez http://canariumbooks.org/133727/The-Canary-Canarium http://canariumbooks.org/133727/The-Canary-Canarium Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:42 +0000 Canarium Books 133727 Canarium is an occasional anthology of new writing. The first issue, Canarium 1, was published in early 2008, in response to a reading and panel (The Poet in the World) at the University of Michigan, sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, the International Institute, Arts on Earth, the MFA in Creative Writing Program, and Rackham Graduate School. Two of Canarium’s editors, Joshua Edwards and Nick Twemlow, have co-edited an independent occasional journal, The Canary, with Anthony Robinson since 2002. We are will be adding free PDF downloads of The Canary here soon, but in the meanwhile, please enjoy Canarium 1, which features Arda Collins, Takashi Hiraide, Sawako Nakayasu, Ed Roberson, Alan Gilbert, Suzanne Dopelt, Cole Swensen, Jibade Khalil-Huffman, Suzanne Buffam, Betsy Andrews, Erica Bernheim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Carter, Eula Biss, Philip Jenks, Simone Muench, and Dunya Mikhail. [Click here to download a PDF of Canarium 1 at MediaFire] http://canariumbooks.org/133727/The-Canary-Canarium http://canariumbooks.org/133534/Paul-Killebrew http://canariumbooks.org/133534/Paul-Killebrew Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:41 +0000 Canarium Books 133534 Paul Killebrew Flowers <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133534/KillebrewCoverSmall.jpg" border="0" width="221" height="320" align="left" /> Paul Killebrew’s first book, Flowers, was published by Canarium Books in April 2010. His chapbook, Forget Rita, was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2003, and Ugly Duckling Presse published another, Inspector vs. Evader, in 2007. John Ashbery has written that Paul “plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding us why we go on coping with it.” Born and raised in Tennessee, he now lives in Louisiana, where he works as a lawyer at Innocence Project New Orleans. Click here to order Flowers or our other titles. Click here to read Paul's poems at the Poetry Foundation archive. Click here to watch Paul read at Pilot Books. “All my poet friends mourned when Paul told us he’d be going into law, so soon after he appeared on the scene as a supernova. ‘No fear. The blue light. My breath washing out in the air.’ Yes. He came out strengthened. Grown in imagination. Bigger in his lucid scanning of America. Rejuvenating. To read him is a delight.” - Tomaz Salamun “I thought: ‘this is an anecdotal phenomenology’ and looked up the derivation of anecdote: ‘thing given out.’ These poems keep giving and giving out; anecdotes evaporate and recrudesce in a different form, in new detail. Meaning emerges as each observation defamiliarizes the next and the prior. An epistemology punctured with an affectionate loathing opens out into love. Agonized, startled, startling wit. Truthtelling that fails because it’s truthful. These poems leave me alert to the floating world. Welcome Paul Killebrew, tabula rascal.” - Catherine Wagner “[Killebrew] plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding us why we go on coping with it, why we’re in it for the long haul, wherever the carpool takes us.” - John Ashbery Click here for a review of Flowers at Publishers Weekly. Click here for one of Paul’s poems at Soft Targets. Click here for an interview with Paul at BOMB magazine's blog. Click here for a review of Flowers at New Pages. Click here for one of Paul’s poems at The Brooklyn Rail. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133534/PaulWebAuthor1.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="253" align="left" /> http://canariumbooks.org/133534/Paul-Killebrew http://canariumbooks.org/133530/Suzanne-Buffam http://canariumbooks.org/133530/Suzanne-Buffam Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:39 +0000 Canarium Books 133530 Suzanne Buffam The Irrationalist <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133530/TheIrrationalistCoverWebsite_1.jpg" border="0" width="237" height="345" align="left" /> Suzanne Buffam’s first book, Past Imperfect, was published in 2005 by House of Anansi Press. The Irrationalist, her second book, was published in the U.S. by Canarium Books and in Canada by House of Anansi Press in April 2010. She’s the recipient of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the CBC Literary Award for Poetry, and her poems have appeared in Boston Review, A Public Space, jubilat, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in Chicago. Click here to order The Irrationalist or our other titles. Click here to read Suzanne's poems at the Poetry Foundation archive. “Buffam’s often deadpan tone is like a magical dustpan that sweeps up the strangest observations and ideas, all worlds to themselves. Her ‘Little Commentaries’—‘On Piñatas,’ ‘On Fountains,’ and ‘On Vanishing Acts’ (to name only a few)—are absolute gems, kin to Anne Carson’s town poems and Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit. Buffam’s poems tug at new corners of the brain. They’re marvelous.” - Matthea Harvey “Buffam begins with a world that ends, a world that is always ending. This is not despair, but a shrewd mind behind an honest eye that in wry observation creates out of small poems a book of knowledge, ‘Little Commentaries,’ which show there is no wisdom unsharpened by wounding wit. That motion is an essential motion, and these are essential poems.” - Dan Beachy-Quick “These poems try to achieve something almost impossible: not to betray the ironic today while celebrating the interiority of a serious meditation. And they succeed in doing it. What a treat!” - Adam Zagajewski Click here for a review of The Irrationalist at Publishers Weekly. Click here for one of Suzanne’s poems at Boston Review. Click here for one of Suzanne’s poems at A Public Space. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133530/SuzanneWebsiteNoHands.jpg" border="0" width="235" height="320" align="left" /> http://canariumbooks.org/133530/Suzanne-Buffam http://canariumbooks.org/133531/John-Beer http://canariumbooks.org/133531/John-Beer Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:38 +0000 Canarium Books 133531 John Beer The Waste Land and Other Poems <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133531/BeerCoverSmall.jpg" border="0" width="220" height="320" align="left" /> John Beer's first book, The Waste Land and Other Poems, was published by Canarium Books in April 2010. His work has appeared in Verse, The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Crowd, and elsewhere. Click here to order The Waste Land and Other Poems or our other titles. Click here to read John's poems at the Poetry Foundation archive. Click here to watch John read at Pilot Books. "Only a genius could write a book called The Waste Land and Other Poems. Well, John Beer is that person. 'I set out to write a treatise on failure, and it turned out my subject was love,' he writes. 'Call it my confusion.' We should all be so confused." - John Ashbery "Am trying in a handful of sentences to write a blurb for John Beer's The Wasteland and Other Poems - something that will describe the newness of the work and something that will praise the invention of it. Have been halfway tempted to simply steal a snippet from someone else's jacket and tailor it to suit J.B. If only it were that easy! Anything I find on the rack is too small. John Beer is a poet of big shoulders. You should have a feel for yourself." - D. A. Powell "There is in John Beer, as I have known since our days in London, a bit of the last younger American poet living the tragedy of Europe. Thus, I was pleased when he sent me the manuscript of The Waste Land and Other Poems (originally titled He Do the Police in Different Voices), asking for my editorial suggestions. Magnanimously, he accepted them all, and so this book is leaner by half than its writer originally envisioned. Strong poets like he know that false pride of Authorship is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. I wrote to him, among other things, in the margin: The image is more than an idea; it is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy!! I also wrote: I guess the definition of a genius is a man or woman surrounded by lunatics. Well, I'll say the following and I won't say more. The Waste Land and Other Poems may or may not be the most important book of American poetry in the last eighty-eight years, but when the next eighty-eight years are up, I give it a good shot to be the most important first book in American poetry since Some Trees. I've been right a number of times before, even if no one seems to be listening. Sometimes lightning strikes a church tower and the whole town catches fire. Who cares then that the act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions? There is surprise and there is awe. Nationalize the big banks." - Kent Johnson "John Beer's long overdue first book is a perfect mirror of a world that has borrowed more than it can ever repay. He embraces and distills 'the bad dream' and all 'the muck' of the recent past, but the momentum of this book is full speed ahead. Unflinching, unrepentant, soulful, brilliantly imagined and with eyes wide open, he is the poet of onwardness for the next century. If ever a book lives up to its title, this one does." - Lewis Warsh Click here to read a review of The Waste Land and Other Poems at the Boston Globe. Click here to read a review of The Waste Land and Other Poems at the Quarterly Conversation. Click here to read an interview with John at Chicago Postmodern Poetry. Click here to read two of John’s poems at Jacket. Click here for a video of John reading at the 2009 Chicago Printers' Ball. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133531/BeerWebPic_1.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="253" align="left" /> http://canariumbooks.org/133531/John-Beer http://canariumbooks.org/133522/Ish-Klein http://canariumbooks.org/133522/Ish-Klein Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:32 +0000 Canarium Books 133522 Ish Klein Union! <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133522/IshCover.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="253" align="left" /> Ish Klein is poet and self-taught film and puppet maker. She is an alumna of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and her films have played at festivals around the world. Canarium Books published her first book, Union!, in 2009 and will publish her next book, For the New Manchurians, in early 2011. She lives in Philadelphia. Click here to order Union! or our other titles. Click here to watch Ish read at Pilot Books. “I mean it when I say Ish Klein is a genius.” - Dorothea Lasky “[Klein’s] work is an extension of her gentle, playful, daring soul.” - Philadelphia City Paper “Klein’s experiment is a socialistic one. Her book can’t be pigeonholed into any one aesthetic or school. Nor does the reader get an immediate sense of Klein’s influences—or, at least, not her contemporary influences. However, with a deranged fervor coloring every page and, beyond that, a reckless sense of compassion, Klein resembles an updated Whitman in the best possible ways.” - Gently Read Literature “Like the title of her first book Union!, poet Ish Klein’s name deserves to be followed by an exclamation point. Make that three of them.” - Poetry Flash Click here to read a review of Union! at Bookslut. Click here to read an article about Ish at the Philadelphia City Paper. Click here to watch some of Ish’s films or The BOO! Show at her YouTube channel. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133522/IshWebPhoto.jpg" border="0" width="194" height="303" align="left" /> http://canariumbooks.org/133522/Ish-Klein http://canariumbooks.org/133526/Tod-Marshall http://canariumbooks.org/133526/Tod-Marshall Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:32 +0000 Canarium Books 133526 Tod Marshall The Tangled Line <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133526/9780982237618_1.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="256" align="left" /> Tod Marshall is the author of The Tangled Line, and Dare Say, and the editor Range of the Possible (which consists of his interviews with American poets) and Range of Voices (an anthology of work by those poets). He lives in Spokane, Washington. Click here to order The Tangled Line or our other titles. Click here to read Tod's poems at the Poetry Foundation archive. Click here to read an interview with Tod at Here Comes Everybody. Click here to read about Tod and The Tangled Line at the Inlander Click here to read a review of The Tangled Line at Coldfront Mag. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/133526/TodWebsite.jpg" border="0" width="222" height="304" align="left" /> http://canariumbooks.org/133526/Tod-Marshall http://canariumbooks.org/113778/Home http://canariumbooks.org/113778/Home Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:55:54 +0000 Canarium Books 113778 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/113778/AllCoversJan10.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="195" align="left" /> Bookstores, libraries, and individuals can order our books from Small Press Distribution Our titles may also be purchased directly from us: HERE Or from Amazon: John Beer's The Waste Land and Other Poems Suzanne Buffam's The Irrationalist Paul Killebrew's Flowers Ish Klein's Union! Tod Marshall's The Tangled Line Teachers, if you're interested in using one of our books for a class, e-mail us for a desk copy: info[at]canariumbooks.org Visit our authors' pages (best viewed with Firefox or Chrome): John Beer Suzanne Buffam Robert Fernandez Paul Killebrew Ish Klein Tod Marshall Thanks to the students at the University of Michigan MFA in Creative Writing Program, for their editorial support. About our authors and books: John at the Boston Globe John at the Quarterly Conversation Suzanne at Publishers Weekly Suzanne at the Toronto Star Suzanne at 360 Main Street Paul at Publishers Weekly Paul interviewed at BOMB magazine's blog Paul at New Pages Ish at Octopus Ish at Philadelphia City Paper Ish at Bookslut Tod at Coldfront Tod at the Inlander <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/113778/CanaryPhotoWebsite.jpg" border="0" width="166" height="149" align="left" /> http://canariumbooks.org/113778/Home http://canariumbooks.org/113837/Readings-Events http://canariumbooks.org/113837/Readings-Events Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:25:26 +0000 Canarium Books 113837 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/113837/AllCoversJan10.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="195" align="left" /> October 16 John Beer, Suzanne Buffam, and Ish Klein Lorem Ipsum Books (time TBA) 1299 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA October 17 3 p.m., location TBA John Beer, Suzanne Buffam, and Ish Klein Canarium authors in Amherst Amherst, MA October 18 Paul Killebrew The Poetry Project New York, NY November 4 Tod Marshall Washington State University Pullman, WA November 10 Suzanne Buffam Columbia College Chicago, IL February 2 Tod Marshall Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA http://canariumbooks.org/113837/Readings-Events http://canariumbooks.org/113790/Authors-Titles http://canariumbooks.org/113790/Authors-Titles Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:52:28 +0000 Canarium Books 113790 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/11096/113790/AllCoversJan10.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="195" align="left" /> AUTHORS 2010 Paul Killebrew (Flowers) Suzanne Buffam (The Irrationalist) John Beer (The Waste Land and Other Poems) 2009 Ish Klein (Union!) Tod Marshall (The Tangled Line) 2011 Robert Fernandez (We Are Pharaoh) _________________________ JOURNAL The Canary / Canarium http://canariumbooks.org/113790/Authors-Titles