http://canariumbooks.org Canarium Books Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:04:39 +0000 http://canariumbooks.org en http://canariumbooks.org/Emmanuel-Hocquard http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Emmanuel-Hocquard Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:04:39 +0000 Canarium Books 2535771 The Invention of Glass (2012) [translated by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith] This is a narrative that tries to explain and to crystalize (the fourth state of water) a situation that has not yet been clarified. Under the guise of memory’s particular logic, its play of facets turns to fiction because its sense takes shape only as the series of grammatical phrases unfolds, fusing shadows and blind spots. And yet, like glass, which is a liquid, the poem is amorphous. It streams off in all directions, but reflects nothing. What is the meaning of blue? No one needs to interrogate the concept of blue to know what it means. Emmanuel Hocquard was born in 1940 and grew up in Tangiers. He is the author of over 20 books in his native French, many of which have been translated into English. <img src="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/2535771/51eNxNmxZwL._SL500_AA300__200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/2535771/51eNxNmxZwL._SL500_AA300__o.jpg" data-mid="13264639" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon Click here for a Flavorwire article that features The Invention of Glass as one of "12 great small press books recommended by literary insiders." Click here for a review of The Invention of Glass at rob mclennan's blog. http://canariumbooks.org/Anthony-Madrid http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Anthony-Madrid Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:36:20 +0000 Canarium Books 2535678 I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say (2012) Allusive, oracular, heretical, brash, learned, apocalyptic, astronomical, funny, lustful, and deceptively wise, Anthony Madrid's long-awaited first collection, I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say, is a book of ghazals that assault conventions while often reading like deranged love letters. <img src="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/2535678/51Rja-e-t8L._SL500_AA300__200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/2535678/51Rja-e-t8L._SL500_AA300__o.jpg" data-mid="13264653" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon Click here to read an interview with Anthony at Phantom Limb. Click here to read an interview with Anthony at The Best American Poetry blog. Click here to read Anthony's poem, "In Hell the Units Are the Gallon and the Fuck," at the Poetry Foundation archive. http://canariumbooks.org/Darcie-Dennigan http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Darcie-Dennigan Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:47:26 +0000 Canarium Books 2535641 Madame X (2012) All wide awake in a state of delirium, Darcie Dennigan's second collection, Madame X, stands at the intersection of the surreal and the historical, an ill communication of the anxieties and ecstasies of the 21st century. Her first collection, Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, was selected by Alice Fulton for the Poets Out Loud Prize, and was published by Fordham University Press in 2008. <img src="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/2535641/51O9I9-skpL._SL500_AA300__200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload11.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/2535641/51O9I9-skpL._SL500_AA300__o.jpg" data-mid="13264659" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon Click here to read a review of Madame X at Publishers Weekly. Click here to read Darcie's poem, "The Center of Worthwhile Things," at the Poetry Society of America's website. http://canariumbooks.org/Gleb-Shulpyakov http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Gleb-Shulpyakov Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:18:07 +0000 Canarium Books 862311 A Fireproof Box (2011) (translated from the Russian by Christopher Mattison) Finalist for the 2012 Three Percent Best Translated Book Award. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/862311/AFireproofBoxSmallPic_200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/862311/AFireproofBoxSmallPic_o.jpg" data-mid="4407001" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon A Fireproof Box is the first English-language translation of poems by important young Russian poet, novelist, and translator Gleb Shulpyakov, who was awarded the prestigious Triumph Prize for his poetry in 2001. As Evgeny Rein states in his introduction to the collection, Shulpyakov’s poetry is that of one “who understands the value of existence, of the spiritual richness of existence which can descend upon any person.” “Gleb Shulpyakov is not only the inheritor of a great tradition and anti-tradition of Russian poetry, but also a new internationalist who understands the value of the local, of the immediate. In this poetry full of wonder and respect, of sharp and insightful investigation of cultural heritage, the creative process, ways of seeing, and the ironies of the self in day-to-day life, we see something new and unique. This poet will mark his time. Gleb Shulpyakov is one of the handful of poets writing now I would confidently term ‘a poet of genius’.” —John Kinsella Click here to read a review of A Fireproof Box at The Rumpus. Click here to read a review of A Fireproof Box at New Pages. Click here to read a review of A Fireproof Box at The Black Sheep Dances. http://canariumbooks.org/Robert-Fernandez http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Robert-Fernandez Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:43 +0000 Canarium Books 133536 We Are Pharaoh (2011) We Are Pharaoh is the debut collection from Robert Fernandez, native of Miami, recipient of a PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry, and resident of Iowa City. Like a fever or a fire, this book sweeps across our contemporary cultural landscape, setting aglow and surveying its elements, then cataloging the embers. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133536/WeArePharaohSmallPic_200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133536/WeArePharaohSmallPic_o.jpg" data-mid="4406982" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from AMAZON “In the tragic recognition–(or barbaric imperial yawp?)–of its title, We Are Pharaoh refuses to disavow the poet’s imbrication within the collective nightmare of modernity. Here, Fernandez uncovers the terrible beauty and truth of our first-person plural condition: ‘the voice stark, near-black, mutely blue, a Portland Vase across which cameo jackals tangle.’ This startling work turns a new page on the poetry of our historical moment.” —Srikanth Reddy “We Are Pharaoh is a luscious saturnalia of language, adapting New York School painterliness to an erotic tropical sensibility: ‘A mandrill clutching the throat in the billiard hall of Pele.’ Its magic raises the pulse.” —Ange Mlinko “Robert Fernandez writes the poetry of a lavish daytime, the record of an inexhaustible world. How generative the gathering of ideas, the assembly of blessings in the form of a visible ‘train from Sharm el-Sheikh,’ where the air gives to each thing an exact place, a name-rhythm, but only for the moment, because myriad possibilities exist to recall." —Mark McMorris Click here to read "Hell Me Down" from We Are Pharaoh at the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets feature on Robert. Click here to read a review of We Are Pharaoh at Colorado Review. Click here to read a review of We Are Pharaoh at The Volta. Click here to read a review of We Are Pharaoh at Gently Read Literature. Click here to read a review of We Are Pharaoh at HTMLGIANT. Click here to read a review of We Are Pharaoh at Drunken Boat. http://canariumbooks.org/The-Canary-Canarium http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/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, co-edited an independent occasional journal, The Canary, with Anthony Robinson from 2002 until 2007. http://canariumbooks.org/Paul-Killebrew http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Paul-Killebrew Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:41 +0000 Canarium Books 133534 Flowers (2010) 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. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133534/FlowersSmallPic_200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133534/FlowersSmallPic_o.jpg" data-mid="4406952" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon Click here to read Paul's poems at the Poetry Foundation archive. Click here for one of Paul’s poems at Soft Targets. 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 a review of Flowers at Harp & Altar. 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. http://canariumbooks.org/Suzanne-Buffam http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Suzanne-Buffam Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:39 +0000 Canarium Books 133530 The Irrationalist (2010) *Shortlisted for the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize* In acclaimed poet Suzanne Buffam's second collection, her unusual range, formal rigor, and imaginative force are on full display as we are introduced to the wry meditations of a literary "irrationalist" who pursues her own poetic logic beyond the bounds of reason. Throughout the collection, in resolutely modern, rueful and eccentric lyrics, she investigates the shifting grounds of knowledge while refusing to take any philosophical authority too seriously. Together, these poems compose a swift, durable, protean argument for the necessity of interior maps in a world that may be on the eve of extinction, but whose darkness is continually illuminated by a pyrotechnics of curiosity, candor, and wit. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133530/TheIrrationalistSmallPicjpg_200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133530/TheIrrationalistSmallPicjpg_o.jpg" data-mid="4406713" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon 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 a review of The Irrationalist at Colorado Review. Click here for a review of The Irrationalist at Read This Awesome Book. Click here for a review of The Irrationalist at 360 Main Street. Click here for a review of The Irrationalist at Lemon Hound. Click here for a review of The Irrationalist at The Critical Flame. Click here for one of Suzanne’s poems at Boston Review. Click here for one of Suzanne’s poems at A Public Space. http://canariumbooks.org/John-Beer http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/John-Beer Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:38 +0000 Canarium Books 133531 The Waste Land and Other Poems (2010) *Winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America* *Shortlisted for The Believer Poetry Award* John Beer's first collection, The Waste Land and Other Poems, employs the wit of a philosopher and the ear of a poet to stage ways of reading that are political, personal, and theoretical. The speaker of these poems also brings humor to the dissecting table, to prod the legacies of great works of the imagination while balancing irony and affection. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133531/TheWasteLandSmallPic_200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133531/TheWasteLandSmallPic_o.jpg" data-mid="4406682" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon "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 in the Boston Review. 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 Colorado Review. 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. Click here to read John's poems at the Poetry Foundation archive. Click here to watch John read at the University of Chicago. Click here to watch John read at Pilot Books. http://canariumbooks.org/Tod-Marshall http://canariumbooks.org/following/canariumbooks.org/Tod-Marshall Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:21:32 +0000 Canarium Books 133526 The Tangled Line (2009) Subtly incorporating myth, history, landscape, pop culture, and aesthetics as possible solaces within the labyrinth of grief, Tod Marshall's The Tangled Line explores the fragile circumstances of family and fatherhood. These poems remind us that when we try to possess, literally or figuratively, materially or metaphorically, legally or lyrically, we create the possibility of violence to ourselves, others, and the world—often injuring that which we hold most dear. Marshall is the also the author of another collection of poetry, 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. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133526/TheTangledLineSmallPic_200.jpg" width="200" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/11096/133526/TheTangledLineSmallPic_o.jpg" data-mid="4406638" border="0" align="left"/> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> Or get it from SPD Or get it from Amazon 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.