Poetry New York

From UDP:

      From the PSA citation:
"The world was not ready when William Carlos Williams first published Kora in Hell in 1920 and the complete version of Spring & All three years later. Those books had a profound impact on American writing, even though they languished out of print for decades until they were brought back by City Lights in 1957 and Frontier Press in 1970. Aram Saroyan's minimal poems were even more of a scandal when they first appeared in the 1960s, foretelling not one, but several of the directions that American poetry would take in their wake, even as they too went out of print and stayed that way for over thirty years until Ugly Duckling Presse of Brooklyn seized the opportunity to make them available again. Like all miniaturists, Aram Saroyan uses the poem as a giant magnifying glass on the language of our lives and the processes we use to understand this. A work like "Blod" - that's the entire text - calls up not merely the words blood and bod, but all the sexuality that truncated latter term conveys, refusing to settle on one side or the other. Reading Complete Minimal Poems, we are struck by just how sturdy these poems have proven to be and just how brightly Saroyan's sense of humor shines through these pages. These poems are works of great optimism, and are as radical and strong in 2008 as the day they were written."   -- RON SILLIMAN

The awards ceremony takes place Monday, April 21st, at 7pm at the Grand Ballroom of the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. For more information visit http://www.poetrysociety.org/index.html.

Aram Saroyan's Complete Minimal Poems is available through SPD, or directly from the publisher at UDP's website, where it's $5 bucks off the cover price & the shipping is free.



Upcoming Events

Thursday, April 17, at 7pm [CHICAGO]
DAN MACHLIN (author of Dear Body:, UDP, 2007)
with Heidi McKye and Sarah Rosenblum
@ POWELL'S NORTH
2850 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

Saturday, April 19, at 4pm [NYC]
DAN MACHLIN / SEGUE SERIES
@ BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 Bowery, between Houston & Bleecker

Tuesday, April 22, at 5pm [NYC]
LEONARD SCHWARTZ and Mercedes Roffé
Celebrate their new books from Shearsman Books, Chax Press, and Ugly Duckling Presse.
(Limited signed editions of THE LIBRARY OF SEVEN READINGS by Leonard Schwartz from UDP.)
@ BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 Bowery, between Houston & Bleecker

Friday, April 25, at 8pm [BROOKLYN]
UDP at The Old American Can Factory:
Phil Cordelli, G.L. Ford, Elizabeth Reddin, Filip Marinovich
Some UDP editors and collaborators share their work in a beautiful room
in the mythic building that houses the Ugly Duckling Presse workshop. 
UDP books will be sold at deep discount, as long as you can carry them away.
@ THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY
232 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY
(corner of 3rd Ave and 3rd St., near the Gowanus Canal, F or R trains nearby)

Tuesday, April 29, at 5pm [NYC]
Anna Moschovakis and Matvei Yankelevich
two UDP editors read their poems and talk about stuff
@ BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 Bowery, between Houston & Bleecker


     -- IN MAY --

Friday, May 9, at 8pm[NYC]
SAM TRUITT and STACY SZYMASZEK
@ PEACE ON A
166 Avenue A (between 10th & 11th)

Thursday, May 15 (tba) [NYC]
SEGUE BOOK FAIR / new books from small presses
Figures, Granary, Roof, United Artists, Yo-Yo Labs, Bootstrap, and UDP
@ TBA

Monday, May 26, at 8pm [NYC]
KATE COLBY and JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN
@ THE POETRY PROJECT AT ST MARKS CHURCH

Wednesday, May 28, at 8pm [NYC]
6x6 SALON at THE KITCHEN
Release of new issues; Readings by 6x6 poets;
Music by THE QUAVERS and I FEEL TRACTOR.
@ THE KITCHEN
512 W. 19th Street, NYC

New & Fortchoming Books from UDP


 BOOK OF FEARS
by Ava Fedorov

Artist Ava Fedorov's Book of Fears is just that: a catalog of fears, from the generic and universal to the idiosyncratic or perverse, drawn in pencil into the pages of the artist's notebook and reproduced here in a limited-edition book -- for fearful readers of any age.

A Limited Edition Picture Book, 72 pages, drawings & text, $15 in stores / $12 at UDP


 LULLABY
by Christine Hume
with music by James Marks

Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense is an essay-poem with a soundtrack.
The text uses the lullaby to investigate rhythm as innate instinct and drive. The CD that accompanies the text, a collage of found sounds interlaced with a more traditionally composed acoustic guitar instrumentation, is meant to give the reader a more engrossed and nuanced sense of the "event" of the text and of the lullaby itself as an all-encompassing, complex sensory experience.
Poetry & Music, hand-bound chapbook with CD, 14 pages, $14 in stores / $10 at UDP
( DIRECT ORDERS WILL BE SENT IN MAY; IN BOOKSTORES IN JUNE )


 ONE OF A KIND
by Jack Micheline
edited by Julien Poirier

A book of art and writing by the American poet, Jack Micheline. One Of A Kind combines unpublished work selected from the poet's archives with rare writings from all points in his career. It is the first large selction of Micheline's work to appear since 1999.

Poetry / Art, 160 pages, percect-bound, distributed by SPD, $15 in stores / $12 at UDP
( DIRECT ORDERS WILL BE SENT IN MAY; IN BOOKSTORES IN JUNE )


Recently Published


 UNBECOMING BEHAVIOR
by Kate Colby

"To use her own words, Kate Colby's poetry 'cannibalizes' and 'interbreeds' with itself, with the author's life, and with the work and life of Jane Bowles, the great 20th century fiction writer and playwright. This booklength poem creates its own trajectory-a set of rapid explosions which transform into caresses." -- Lewis Warsh
Poetry, 64 pages, percect-bound, distributed by SPD, $14 in stores / $10 at UDP


 A DIFFERENT PRACTICE by Fredrik Nyberg
translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida

A Different Practice is Jennifer Hayashida's translation of Swedish poet Fredrik Nyberg's influential book En annorlunda praktik, containing the five original sections "Rotor blades, movements 1-5," "Pets-the private," "You...," "Shall these hands," and "The Years." Showing the influences of Ashbery, Roubaud, and Susan Howe, Nyberg's quiet but forceful poems contend with the difficulties of using poetry as a form of remembrance. Through the transcription of memory, the collection creates its own fluid, mysterious, and startlingly intimate sense of time.
Poetry / Translation, 128 pages, smyth-sewn, distributed by SPD, $14 in stores / $12 at UDP


 EAST SLOPE by Su Shi
translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang

Su Shi was born in Meishan, Sichuan Province in the year 1037 and died in 1101. As poet- painter-calligrapher he is recognized as the singular figure of the Song Dynasty. At age twenty-two he passed the highest imperial examinations and for the rest of his life moved from post to post as a rootless, wandering government magistrate. He wrote this cycle of eight poems and a praface in exile in 1081, while farming a plot of land on East Slope.

Poetry / Translation, 24 pages, 9x12 chapbook, saddle-stitched and hand bound, $15 in stores / $12 at UDP


 FLEETING MEMORIES
by Michael Ruby

Fleeting Memories is the first section of Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices, a trilogy that documents three "varieties of psychic experience." It is presented here as a web-based slide-show, and a searchable PDF.

Poetry / Experimental Memoir, Free Web Book


Full Presse Subscription '08

 Just a few Full Presse Subscriptions are still available for '08.
We only have about TEN subscriptions left!

$80 for a basic subscription (over 15 books and chaps, plus ephemera...)
$125 for a supporting subscription (same stuff, better karma)

(We limit subscriptions to 100 so that we can ensure that every subscriber gets a copy of the limited-edition chapbooks and ephemera. So get them while they last!...)
 

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