Will Alexander, Inscrutable Elevation
These poems sing against the symbolic order of the physical sciences, the words amplify the mysterious that buoys our understanding. With semantics fibrillated and arcing across the sky, language gestures at a process of care and enchantment and violence. It bucks against the tunnel-vision of administration and gestures at the tracings of a nomadic and itinerant glossographer, at times, delirious with the ambition of poetic improvisation, the paradoxical echoing in liminal space.
Will Alexander's latest collects 35 poems and a drawing by the author, printed in maroon at the beginning of the text.
47 pages, 5” x 8” risograph-printed, saddle-stitched with radiant exterior and interior covers illustrated by Jason Mitchell, and frontispiece drawing by the author. Printed by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia.
200 copies
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Issue 3
Issue 3 is our third compilation.
Josef Kaplan
Maria Sledmere
David Larsen
Kate Frances
Rob Halpern
Andrew Kenower
Stephanie Cawley
64 pages, 8” x 10” risograph-printed, saddle-stitched with radiant exterior and interior covers illustrated by Jason Mitchell and printed by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia.
75 copies
SOLD OUT
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Verity Spott, Went to Get the Sink Unblocker
With you to my ear I couldn't expect to be a blocked person. We find our way. If, by the material consolidation of kitchen bathroom beach sky office interiors, by echo of 'speck' on uninterruptible rant, by the cool, fungal dust and crust that seeks our sanitizing desires, you find yourself barbed and aggravated, a turn of music pulling your lip toward your ear in a loud whisper, yet in loving seized up, trailing the day bubbled up from the gut, from the aisle to the transaction point to the boudoir to the aubade to the escape hatch, then read on. Open its stars to your eyelids. We move into and out of these lines so finely burnished yet so porous: you must experience it firsthand in the throat: repulsion and possession in the same pinch on the breath inhaled and offgassed. It's an intensive, prefrontal lobe picaresque. It will not appease your ethical consumption. It will make dizzy the frame of the tottering states in and around you, shivers on the memory whose ebb finds the face on the beach, the body in the message, in the room, under the stars.
In its nervous rapture of noncompliance with what is outside love, in its anabatic whorls of tempestuous thought-linkage, deviating if and when it pleases, Went to Get the Sink Unblocker is a thrill.
Verity Spott is a poet from Brighton whose publications include The North Road Songbook (Pilot Press), Hopelessness (the 87 Press) and Poems of Sappho (Face Press).
24 pages
100 copies
ISBN: 979-8-9890601-1-5
5.5” x 8” risograph-printed on French Paper by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia
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Issue 2
Issue 2 is our second compilation.
D.S. Marriott
Sara Larsen
Kit Robinson
Devin Johnston
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Marie Buck
Rod Smith
Pattie McCarthy
48 pages, 8” x 10” risograph-printed, saddle-stitched on French paper with radiant exterior and interior covers illustrated by Jason Mitchell and printed by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia.
Limited edition of 125 copies.
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Issue 1
Will Alexander
John Wilkinson
Bridget Talone
Jasmine Gibson
Jennifer Moxley
Oki Sogumi
Connie Scozzaro
Keston Sutherland
50 pages, 8” x 10” risograph-printed, saddle-stitched on French paper with multi-color exterior and interior covers illustrated by Jason Mitchell and printed by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia.
Limited edition of 100 copies.
We are all sold out of Issue 1, but you can download a digital version here.
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