Bridge Street Books

Studying Hunger Journals

2011-06-23T11:05:00.000-07:00

Studying Hunger Journals

Bernadette Mayer

Station Hill Press, 460 pgs, $24.95

In 1972 Bernadette Mayer began this project as an aid to psychological counseling, writing in parallel journals so that, as she wrote in one (in bed, on subways, at parties, etc.), her psychiatrist read the other. Using colored pens to “color-code emotions,” she recorded dreams, events, memories, and reflections in a language at once free-ranging and precise—a work that creates its own poetics. She sought “a workable code, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition” of her own mind and to “perform this process of translation” on herself in the interest of evolving an innovative, inquiring language. Studying Hunger Journals registers this intention within a body of poetry John Ashbery has called “magnificent.”

Made public at last in its gorgeous various and unstinting entirety, Studying Hunger Journals reveals itself to be one of the great in fact epic works of a movement that could never be given a name. No label fit for such limitless activity, its terms being those of our restless language and its relentless go-betweens that move and may alter. Attend therefore and let them have their way, these words given without let and best received in kind.
—Clark Coolidge

Alice Notley, Culture of One

2011-03-30T11:19:00.000-07:00

Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one."

Penguin Books, 160 pgs, $18

New in Poetry & Theory

2011-03-15T10:25:00.000-07:00

ATTACK OF THE DIFFICULT POEMS: Essays and Interventions, Charles Bernstein, U. Chicago, 282 pgs, $26. Includes "Against National Poetry Month As Such," "Anything Goes," "Poetry and/or the Sacred," "Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies," "Is Art Criticism Fifty Years Behind Poetry?" and many others.

EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING: Poems & Comics, Sommer Browning, Birds LLC, 98 pgs, $16. "Never believe the concierge."

THE MERIDIAN: Final Version--Drafts--Materials, Paul Celan, trans Pierre Joris, Stanford, 286 pgs, $24.95. "Hostility to art--:... / There is no synthetic poetry--"

CHOMP AWAY, Drew Gardner, Combo, 100 pgs, $13.95. "Doublespeak is probably the best thing you can/ syringe-feed an anorexic bunny."

AGAINST EXPRESSION: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, ed Craig Dworkin & Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern, 656 pgs, $45. "Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing."

THE SOURCE, Noah Eli Gordon, Futurepoem, 126 pgs, $16. "Every time I go out in the street, I immediately start falling in love."

THE WIDE ROAD, Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian,141 pgs, Belladonna, $16. "The reader is lovable."

THAT THIS, Susan Howe, New Directions, 110 pgs, $15.95. "If you die in your sleep do you know you are dead?"

THE MATTER OF CAPITAL: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, Christopher Nealon, Harvard, cloth 198 pgs, $35. Authors examined include Auden, Pound, Ashbery, Spicer, K. Davies, & Rankine.

NEW IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA, Raymond Roussel, trans Mark Ford, Princeton, cloth 256 pgs, $24.95.
"_To read_ often equals _to be tricked_"

A MEGAPHONE: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness
of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism, ed Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, ChainLinks, 403 pgs, $27.95.

MALFEASANCE: Appropriation through Pollution?, Michel Serres, Stanford, 90 pgs, $15.95.

APPLIES TO ORANGES, Maureen Thorson, Ugly Duckling, 60 pgs. $13. ""Sling my hammock where?"

Bestsellers:

MONEY SHOT, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, 80 pgs, cloth $22.95.--signed copies
ADDRESS, Elizabeth Willis, Wesleyan, 64 pgs, cloth $22.95.--signed copies
THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN, U Cal., 240 pgs, $24.95.
THE H.D. BOOK, Robert Duncan, ed Boughn & Coleman, U Cal, cloth 680 pgs, $49.95.
OTHER FLOWERS: Uncollected Poems, James Schuyler, ed Meetze & Pettet, 220 pgs, $18. New in paper.
ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN: Selected Poems, Charles Bernstein, 300 pgs, $20. New in paper.
VERSED, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, 120 pgs, $14.95. New in paper.
FRANK O'HARA NOW: NEW ESSAYS ON THE NEW YORK POET, ed Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery, Liverpool, 258 pgs, $29.95.
CHARLIE CHAN, Yunte Huang, Norton, cloth 360 pgs, $26.95.
SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART: Political Writings, Pierre Bourdieu, New Press, 310 pgs, $18.95.
PROCEDURAL ELEGIES/WESTERN CIV CONT'D/, Joan Retallack, Roof, 120 pgs, $14.95.
HANK, Abraham Smith, Action, 132 pgs, $16.
AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN PARIS, Georges Perec, trans Marc Lowenthal, Wakefield Press, 55 pgs, $12.95.
R'S BOAT, Lisa Robertson, U Cal, $19.95.
CORRESPONDENCE, Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan, trans Wieland Hoban, Seagull Books, cloth 376 pgs, $24.95.
CONTRADICTA APHORISMS, Nick Piombino, Green Integer, $12.95.
THE FRONT, K. Silem Mohammad, Roof, $13.95.
A TONALIST, Laura Moriarty, NightBoat, $14.95.
DEAD AHEAD, Ben Doller, Fence, $16.
CHORA, Sandra Doller, Ahsata, $17.50.
THE SORE THROAT & OTHER POEMS, Aaron Kunin, Fence, $16.
THE MEANING OF SARKOZY, Alain Badiou, Verso, $16.95.
HOPES AND PROSPECTS. Noam Chomsky, Haymarket, $16.
CONTRADICTA APHORISMS, Nick Piombino, Green Integer, $12.95.

Orders of $30 or more receive free shipping. Orders of $60 or more receive a 10% discount and free shipping. There are currently two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us

AWP DC!! Feb 3rd, 4th, & 5th

2011-02-01T20:57:00.000-08:00

Thursday, February 3rd, 6-8 PM
The University of California Press Book Party for
THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN
& THE H.D. BOOK BY ROBERT DUNCAN
with Anselm Berrigan, Cole Swensen, & Rod Smith
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

Thursday, February 3rd, 8 PM
Bridge Street Books presents
THE FOUR SEASONS AWP READING
featuring 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author RAE ARMANTROUT
& internationally recognized poets ANSELM BERRIGAN, TIMOTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT FERNANDEZ, CATHY PARK HONG, ISH KLEIN, K. SILEM MOHAMMAD, CHRIS NEALON, MEL NICHOLS, ED ROBERSON, ELIZABETH WILLIS, & MATHEW ZAPRUDER
@The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW.

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM
THE EDGE READING SERIES
presents The Bridge Street Books AWP reading
ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN, JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON,
EILEEN MYLES, LAURA MORIARTY, MARK MCMORRIS, LEE ANN BROWN, & CHARLES ALEXANDER
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

Saturday, February 5th, 1 PM
The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. With your host BEN ESTES.
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Saturday February 5th, 5 PM
The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading
Leslie Bumstead, Shanna Compton, Brandon Downing, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, K. Lorraine Graham, Dan Gutstein, Lacey Hunter, Doug Lang, K. Silem Mohammad, Christopher Nealon, Mel Nichols, A.L. Nielsen, Tom Orange, Adam Roberts, Sandra Simonds, Rod Smith, Gary Sullivan, & Ryan Walker
@ THE REEF, 2446 18th Street NW, Washington DC

AWP Reading @ Bridge Street, Fri. 2/4, 7 PM

2011-01-27T10:22:00.000-08:00

THE EDGE READING SERIES
presents The Bridge Street Books AWP reading

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM

@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN,
JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, EILEEN MYLES,
MARK MCMORRIS, LAURA MORIARTY, LEE ANN BROWN,
& CHARLES ALEXANDER

Please be advised that space is limited, we recommend that you
come early to assure admission.

Ted Berrigan/Robert Duncan Book Party @ Bridge Street Books, Thurs 2/3, 6-8 PM, w/ Anselm Berrigan, Cole Swensen, & Rod Smith

2011-01-26T16:25:00.000-08:00

Please join Bridge Street Books
& The University of California Press
for a publication celebration

Thursday, February 3rd, 6-8 PM

THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN
&
THE H.D. BOOK BY ROBERT DUNCAN

Poet & editor ANSELM BERRIGAN will present a short reading/talk on The Selected Poems. COLE SWENSEN and ROD SMITH will speak on The H.D. Book.

@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

The H.D. Book
Robert Duncan

This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan’s wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work—at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan’s quest toward a new poetics—is at last complete and available to a wide audience.

The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan

Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates the breadth of Ted Berrigan’s poetic accomplishments by presenting his most celebrated, interesting, and important work. This major second-wave New York School poet is often identified with his early poems, especially The Sonnets, but this selection encompasses his full poetic output, including the later sequences Easter Monday and A Certain Slant of Sunlight, as well as many of his uncollected poems. The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan provides a new perspective for those already familiar with his remarkable wit and invention, and introduces new readers to what John Ashbery called the “crazy energy” of this iconoclastic, funny, brilliant, and highly innovative writer.

Anselm Berrigan's most recent book is Free Cell (City Lights, 2009). He is the author of three collections from Edge Books, Integrity Dramatic Life, Zero Star Hotel, and Some Notes on My Programming. He directed The Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church from 2003 through 2007, and is currently co-chair of the writing program at Bard College summer MFA program, and a professor at Wesleyan University. He co-edited the recently released Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan with Edmund Berrigan for The University of California Press.

Cole Swensen's latest book is Greensward (Ugly Duckling) She teaches
poetry at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her books
include Ours, Goest, Such Rich Hour, Oh, Try, and Noon. Her poetry
has won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the SF State Poetry Center Book
Award. She is the editor/publisher of La Presse which has
published works in translation by Marie Borel, Emmanuel Hocquard,
Claude Royet-Journoud, & others. Swensen is also a translator and has
won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. She teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective
Immediacy, and In Memory of My Theories. He edits the journal
Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in
Washington, DC. Smith is also editing The Selected Letters of
Robert Creeley with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker for The
University of California Press. He was a Visiting Professor
in Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Spring 2010.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
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Washington, DC 20007
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Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the
Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Immediately following the Duncan/Berrigan book party:

Thursday, February 3rd, 8 PM
Bridge Street Books presents
THE FOUR SEASONS AWP READING
featuring 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author RAE ARMANTROUT
& internationally recognized poets ANSELM BERRIGAN, TIMOTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT FERNANDEZ, CATHY PARK HONG, ISH KLEIN, K. SILEM MOHAMMAD, CHRIS NEALON, MEL NICHOLS, ED ROBERSON, ELIZABETH WILLIS, & MATHEW ZAPRUDER
@The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW.
Next door to Bridge Street Books.

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM
Bridge Street Books AWP reading
ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN, JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON,
MARK MCMORRIS, LAURA MORIARTY, LEE ANN BROWN, & CHARLES ALEXANDER
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

Saturday, February 5th, 1 PM
The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. Hosted by Ben Estes.
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Saturday February 5th, 5 PM
The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading
Marie Buck, Leslie Bumstead, Shanna Compton, Brandon Downing, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, K. Lorraine Graham, Dan Gutstein, Lacey Hunter, Ish Klein, Doug Lang, Emily Liebowitz, K. Silem Mohammad, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, A.L. Nielsen, Tom Orange, Adam Roberts, Sandra Simonds, Rod Smith, Gary Sullivan, Anna Vitale, & Ryan Walker
@ THE REEF, 2446 18th Street NW, Washington DC

The Song Cave AWP Reading @ Bridge Street Books, Saturday 2/5, 1 PM

2011-01-22T09:32:00.000-08:00

Saturday, Feb 5th, 1 PM

The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. Hosted by Ben Estes.

@ Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Macgregor Card is the author of The Archers, from The Song Cave. He lives in Queens New York and teaches at Pratt Institute. His first book Duties of an English Foreign Secretary was published by Fence Books. With Andrew Maxwell he edited The Germ: a journal of poetic research.

Jared Stanley is the author of How The Desert Did Me In, from The Song Cave. He lives in Merced California and is also the author of three chapbooks and the collection Book Made of Forest, published by Salt, and an editor of the journal Mrs. Maybe.

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Tonal Saw, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Boston Massachusetts, and is the co-curator of the reading series The Loudest Voice, in Los Angeles. Her work has been published in Denver Quarterly and Colorado Review (among others), and is the author of the digital pop-up book Between Page and Screen.

Andy Fitch is the author of Island, from The Song Cave. He currently lives in Laramie Wyoming, and teaches at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Ten Walks / Two Talks published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and Andy's book Not Intelligent, But Smart: Rethinking Joe Brainard is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Orleans Massachusetts, and is the author of Isa, The Truck Named Isadore published by Slope Editions. Her next book Bright Brave Phenomena, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

Jane Gregory is the author of Some Books, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Berkeley California. Her work has appeared in Notnostrums, Jerry, Mary, and Mutha Fucka.

Rod Smith is the author of What's The Deal, from The Song Cave. He lives in Washington D.C. and is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective Immediacy, and In Memory of My Theories. He is also editing The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker for The University of California Press.

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Four Seasons AWP Reading Thurs 2/3, 8 PM

2011-01-19T15:33:00.000-08:00

Please join us

Thursday February 3rd, 8 PM

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

THE FOUR SEASONS AWP READING

featuring 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author RAE ARMANTROUT
& internationally recognized poets ANSELM BERRIGAN, TIMOTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT FERNANDEZ, CATHY PARK HONG, ISH KLEIN, K. SILEM MOHAMMAD, CHRIS NEALON, MEL NICHOLS, ED ROBERSON, ELIZABETH WILLIS, & MATHEW ZAPRUDER

@ The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown (next to Bridge Street Books)
2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Rae Armantrout is the author of more than ten books of poetry, including Versed (2009), for which she won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. She is a professor of literature and writing at the University of California, San Diego. Her new book is Money Shot.

Anselm Berrigan's most recent book is Free Cell (City Lights, 2009). He is the author of three collections from Edge Books, Integrity & Dramatic Life, Zero Star Hotel, and Some Notes on My Programming. He directed The Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church from 2003 through 2007, and is currently co-chair of the writing program at Bard College summer MFA program, and a professor at Wesleyan University. He co-edited the recently released Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan for The University of California Press with Edmund Berrigan and Alice Notley.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010), and Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003). He is a professor at Columbia University, and has been poetry editor of Boston Review since 1996. He lives in Brooklyn.

Robert Fernandez’s first book, We Are Pharaoh, was just published by Canarium Books, which will also publish his second book, Pink Reef, in 2013. He grew up in Miami and now lives in Iowa City, where he's a fellow in the English PhD program at the University of Iowa.

Cathy Park Hong's second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Her first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. She is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College and is regular faculty at the Queens MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ish Klein's first book, Union!, was published in 2009 by Canarium Books, which has just published her second book, Moving Day. Also an artist and filmmaker, a DVD of some of her short films was just released by Poor Claudia. After many years in Philadelphia, she now lives in Amherst.

K. Silem Mohammad is the author of The Front (Roof Books, 2009) Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), and Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003). He edits the poetry magazine Abraham Lincoln and teaches literature and creative writing at Southern Oregon University.

Chris Nealon is the author of Plummet (Edge Books, 2009), and The Joyous Age (Black Square, 2004). His The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century is soon to be released by Harvard University Press. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall appeared from Duke University Press in 2001. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.

Mel Nichols is the author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (National Poetry Series finalist), Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha 2008), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge 2007), and Day Poems (Edge 2005). Other recent work can be found in Poetry, New Ohio Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches at George Mason University.

Ed Roberson is author of eight books of poetry, most recently To See the Earth Before the End of the World. He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award and his prior books have won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Series.

Elizabeth Willis is Shapiro-Silverberg Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University. She is the author of four books of poetry, The Human Abstract, Turneresque, Meteoric Flowers, and most recently, Address.

Matthew Zapruder's latest book is Come on All You Ghosts, published by Copper Canyon in Fall of 2010. He is also the author of American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002), The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006),winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches poetry as a member of the permanent faculty of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and works as an editor for Wave Books.

Curated by Rod Smith and Nick Twemlow in conjunction with
Wesleyan University Press, Canarium Books, Edge Books,
The Iowa Review, MAKE magazine, & Wave Books.

New at Bridge Street: Brathwaite, Cage, O'Hara Now, Olson, Perec, Poets on Teaching, Retallack, Scalapino, &&&

2010-10-12T12:44:00.000-07:00

We're re-beginning our regular email updates. Thanks for your independent support of a fine independent bookstore, independently. Ordering and discount information at the end of this post.

CORRESPONDENCE, Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan, trans Wieland Hoban, Seagull Books, cloth 376 pgs, $24.95. "I send you many many ardent good thoughts!"

THE COMMUNIST HYPOTHESIS, Alain Badiou, Verso, 280 pgs, $19. "That is what gave the revolt its particular flavour."

ELEGGUAS, Kamau Brathwaite, Wesleyan, cloth 128 pgs, $22.95. "& look / the old man's alligator hands are young"

EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY: THE VISUAL ART OF JOHN CAGE, Hayward Publishing, 160 pgs color throughout, $30. Introduction by Roger Malbert, essays by Jeremy Millar, Irving Sandler, Helen Luckett, and Lauren A. Wright. Interviews with Kathan Brown, Ray Kass, Laura Kuhn, and Julie Lazar.

GILLES DELEUZE & FELIX GUATTARI: INTERSECTING LIVES, FRANCOIS DOSSE, COLUMBIA, cloth 654 pgs, $37.50. A very well-written dual-biography. Dosse authored the two volume History of Structuralism published in the nineties.

CHARLIE CHAN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HONORABLE DETECTIVE AND HIS RENDEVOUS WITH AMERICAN HISTORY, Yunte Huang, Norton, cloth 360 pgs, $26.95.

JACK KEROUAC AND ALLEN GINSBERG: THE LETTERS, Ed. Bill Morgan and David Stanford, VIiking, cloth 500 pgs, $35.00. "All day yesterday I was wearing a hat that wasn't on my head (tell that to Creeley)."

ALFRED JARRY, Jill Fell, Reaktion (Critical Lives), 220 pgs, $16.95. "The various English translations, 'Shittrr!' 'Pschitt!' 'Shite' or 'Crrap' do not have quite the same resonance."

FRANK O'HARA NOW: NEW ESSAYS ON THE NEW YORK POET, ed Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery, Liverpool, 258 pgs, $29.95. Contrinutors: Geoff Ward, Lytle Shaw, Rod Mengham, Andrea Brady, David Herd, Tadeusz Pióro, John Wilkinson, Keston Sutherland, Richard Deming, Josh Robinson, Daniel Kane, Redell Olsen, Will Montgomery, Brian Reed, and Nick Selby.

MUTHOLOGOS: LECTURES AND INTERVIEWS, Charles Olson, ed Ralph Maud, Talonbooks, 496 pgs, $39.95. Revised and substantially expanded from the Butterick edition of thirty years ago. Additions include "Duende, Muse, and Angel," "At Goddard College, April 1962," and a second "On Black Mountain."

AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN PARIS, Georges Perec, trans Marc Lowenthal, Wakefield Press, 55 pgs, $12.95. "Pause."

ABSOLUTE BOB, Anne Portugal, trans Jennifer Moxley, Burning Deck, 120 pgs, $14.
"easy does it the tight map/ of thorax resin memo/ stresses the rough-sketch"

PROCEDURAL ELEGIES/WESTERN CIV CONT'D/, Joan Retallack, Roof, 120 pgs, $14.95. "To draw an analogy at this point would be obscene"

TO SEE THE EARTH BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD, Ed Roberson, Wesleyan, cloth 160 pgs, $22.95. "It is built for a connection I am not"

FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE-FLOWS, Leslie Scalapino, Starcherone Books, 168 pgs, $18. "Globate roses bob in the sea of rain on boughs."

THE DIHEDRONS GAZEELE-DIHEDRALS ZOOM, Leslie Scalapino, Post-Apollo, 168 pgs, $29. "Have thought if you like. They seem to say. When/if you see their redescription. But it won't be."

ONE LAST DITCH, Erik JM Schneider, Atelos, 142pgs, $13.50. "how'd it get to be five."

KURT SCHWITTERS: COLOR AND COLLAGE, ed Isabel Schulz, Menil/Yale, cloth 1278 pgs color throughout, $50.

HANK, Abraham Smith, Action, 132 pgs, $16. "i alone understand hank see"

POETS ON TEACHING: A SOURCEBOOK, ed Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Iowa, 324 pgs, $29.95. Contributors: Kazim Ali, Rae Armantrout, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Dan Beachy-Quick, Bruce Beasley, Claire Becker, Jaswinder Bolina, Jenny Boully, Joel Brouwer, Lily Brown, Laynie Browne, Stephen Burt, Julie Carr, Joshua Clover, Matthew Cooperman, Oliver de la Paz, Linh Dinh, Ben Doller, Sandra Doller, Julie Doxsee, Lisa Fishman, Graham Foust, John Gallaher, Forrest Gander, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Lara Glenum, Kenneth Goldsmith, Johannes Göransson, Noah Eli Gordon, Arielle Greenberg, Richard Greenfield, Sarah Gridley, Anthony Hawley, Terrance Hayes, Eric Hayot, Brian Henry, Brenda Hillman, Jen Hofer, Paul Hoover, Christine Hume, Brenda Iijima, Lisa Jarnot,&&&.

Recent Bestsellers:

REASON AND OTHER WOMEN, Alice Notley, 192 pgs, Chax, $21.
R'S BOAT, Lisa Robertson, U Cal, $19.95.
ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN: SELECTED POEMS, Charles Bernstein, FSG, cloth $26. (signed copies)
BLIND WITNESS: THREE AMERICAN OPERAS, Charles Bernstein, Factory School, $16.
INFERNO (A Poet's Novel), Eileen Myles, OR Books, $16. (signed copies)
AIN'T GOT ALL NIGHT, Buck Downs, $14.95. (signed copies)
WINTER SUN: NOTES ON A VOCATION, Fanny Howe, Graywolf, $15. (signed copies)
SEVEN CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES AND OBITUARY 2004. THE JOY OF COOKING, Tan Lin, Wesleyan, $22.95.
MY NEW JOB, Catherine Wagner, Fence, $16.
A TONALIST, Laura Moriarty, NightBoat, $14.95.
DEAD AHEAD, Ben Doller, Fence, $16.
CHORA, Sandra Doller, Ahsata, $17.50.
THE SORE THROAT & OTHER POEMS, Aaron Kunin, Fence, $16.
THE MEANING OF SARKOZY, Alain Badiou, Verso, $16.95.
HOPES AND PROSPECTS. Noam Chomsky, Haymarket, $16.
CONTRADICTA APHORISMS, Nick Piombino, Green Integer, $12.95.
THE FRONT, K. Silem Mohammad, Roof, $13.95.
1989: BOB DYLAN DIDN'T HAVE THIS TO SING ABOUT, Joshua Clover, U Cal, $16.95.
A COMMUNITY WRITING ITSELF: CONVERSATIONS WITH VANGUARD WRITERS OF THE BAY AREA, ed Sarah Rosenthal, Dalkey Archive, $29.95.
RAGE AND TIME, Peter Sloterdijk, Columbia, cloth $34.50.

UPCOMING BRIDGE STREET READINGS:

Thur. 11/11, 8 pm
Tom Raworth & Steve Zultanski

Sun. 11/21, 7 pm
Cole Swensen & Sarah Riggs

Orders of $30 or more receive free shipping. Orders of $60 or more receive a 10% discount and free shipping. There are currently two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date.

Charles Bernstein at Bridge Street

2010-09-14T14:32:00.000-07:00

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Monday, Sept. 20th 7:30 PM

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Please join us Monday, September 20th for a reading & publication celebration of ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN: SELECTED POEMS, by Charles Bernstein (Farrar Strauss & Giroux).

From 1974 to 2009, Bernstein published 13 full-length collections of poetry along with 21 additional pamphlets and artist’s books, three collections of essays, and two books of libretti. He also has edited numerous magazine, essay, and poetry collections. His writing has been translated into many languages and selected works in translation have been published (or are in process) in Brazil, France, Sweden, Finland, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, and China, where he has been widely honored and is a founder of the Chinese-American Association for Poetry and Poetics.

The New York Times reviews All the Whiskey in Heaven: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/books/review/Fried-t.html
Charles Bernstein at PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bernstein.html
Charles Bernstein at The Electronic Poetry Center: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the
Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Thurs. 9/16 8 pm
Mel Nichols, Kyle Semmel, & David Williams
Music: Jonny Grave
@ Big Bear, 1st & R Streets NW

Sun. 9/19 3 pm
Peter Davis, Shanna Compton, and Magus Magnus
@ DCAC

Sun. 9/26 7 pm
Buck Downs & Eileen Myles
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Wed. 9/29 8 pm (seminar, 5:30 pm)
Fanny Howe
@ Georgetown University

2009-11-18T18:45:00.000-08:00

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 7:00 PM

MICHAEL GIZZI

Michael Gizzi's latest book is New Depths of Deadpan, from Burning Deck Press. He received his BA and MFA from Brown University where he studied with Keith Waldrop. He is also the author of My Terza Rima, No Both, Interferon, Cured in the Going Bebop, Continental Harmony, and many others. Gizzi has edited lingo magazine as well as Hard Press and, with Craig Watson, Qua Books. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

"Cross James Joyce and Jack Nicholson in a high energy construct machine and you have Michael Gizzi's poems." --Lisa Jarnot

Michael Gizzi at PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Gizzi-M.php

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Tuesday, December 8th, 7:30 PM
Jennifer Scappettone & Ryan Walker
@ Bridge Street

Sunday, December 13th, 3 PM
Edge Books Twentieth Anniversary Reading
@ DC Arts Center

Monday, December 14th, 7:30 PM
K. Silem Mohammad, Lacey Hunter, Ken Jacobs
@ Bridge Street

Bill Berkson at Bridge Street, June 14th 7 PM

2009-06-09T13:09:00.000-07:00

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Sunday, June 14th, at 7 PM

BILL BERKSON

Please join us for a reading to celebrate his latest book, Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems.

Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. A poet, critic, teacher, and sometime curator, he moved to Northern California in 1970 and during the next decade edited a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint. From 1984 to 2008 he was a professor of Liberal Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and has contributed reviews and essays to such other journals as Aperture, Artforum, Works on Paper and Modern Painters. His recent books of poetry include Gloria (in a deluxe limited edition with etchings by Alex Katz), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, and Goods and Services. Other books include a collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings: 1985-2003; Sudden Address: Selected lectures 1981-2006; an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What’s Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985. His Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems appeared form Coffee House Press in April 2009. Berkson was the 2006 Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He now lives in New York and San Francisco.

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.

New in Poetry & Theory

2009-04-18T13:33:00.000-07:00

VERSED, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, HC 123 pgs, $22.95. "Look -- I'm cooperating! / I can pull myself apart / and still speak"

THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT 1929-1940, ed Fehsenfeld & Overbeck, Cambridge, 782 pgs, HC $50. "My dear Tom / The discrepancy between mind and body is terrible."

HEGEMONIC LOVE POTION, Jules Boykoff, Factory School, 104 pgs, $15."Do cops hate puppets?"

THE BOOK OF FRANK, C.A. Conrad, Chax, 150 pgs, $16. "they waited to see what Frank would do"

THE CAVE, Clark Coolidge & Bernadette Mayer, Adventures in Poetry, 70 pgs, $16. "He tells us techniques are disappointed now. Six men in plastic."

BODY LANGUAGE, Mark Cunningham, Tarpaulin Sky, 120 pgs, $14. "Regeneration? It comes and goes."

REASON, FAITH, AND REVOLUTION: REFLECTIONS ON THE GOD DEBATE, Terry Eagleton, Yale, HC 185 pgs, $25. "Knowledge is simply one moment or aspect of our bodily collusion in reality, a moment which modernity falsely abstracts and enshrines."

THE WINTER SUN: NOTES ON A VOCATION, Fanny Howe, Graywolf, 198 pgs, $15.
"My father worked for social justice and was eviscerated."

WE SAW THE LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA AND POETRY, Daniel Kane, U Iowa, 270 pgs, HC $39.95. Writers and filmmakers discussed include: Anger, Duncan, Creeley, Brakhage, O'Hara, Leslie, Ginsberg, Chaplin, Frank, Warhol, Malanga, Ashbery, Burckhardt, Jarnot, & Reeves.

CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Factory School, 94 pgs, $15. "time for total reconstruction"

POETRY STATE FOREST, Bernadette Mayer, New Directions, 196 pgs, $17.95. "oops, we're in orono!"

APOCRYPHAL LORCA: TRANSLATION, PARODY, KITSCH, Jonathan Mayhew, U Chicago, HC 222 pgs, $45. An exploration of Lorca's afterlife in U.S. poetic cultures. Includes examinations of the Lorca in/of Hughes, Blackburn, Creeley, Spicer, O'Hara, Duncan, Koch, Rothenberg, and others.

LOVE LESSONS: SELECTED POEMS OF ALDA MERINI, trans Susan Stewart, cloth 130 pgs, $19.95. "There are nights/ that never/ happen."

GIRL SCOUT NATION, Yedda Morrison, Displaced Press, $12.99. "Maybe body?"

HEARTH, Simon Pettet, Talisman House, 178 pgs, $17.95.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: LIFE AND LABOR IN PRECARIOUS TIMES, Andrew Ross, NYU, HC 264 pgs, $27.95.

SOME BESTSELLERS:

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JACK SPICER, ed Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, Wesleyan, HC 465 PGS, $35.
SAGA/CIRCUS, Lyn Hejinian, Omnidawn, 150 pgs, $15.95.
RADICAL VERNACULAR: LORRINE NIEDECKER AND THE POETICS OF PLACE, ed Elizabeth Willis, Iowa, cloth 308 pgs, $39.95.
THE ALPHABET, Ron Silliman, U Alabama, 1062 pgs, $39.95.
COLLAPSIBLE POETICS THEATER, Rodrigo Toscano, Fence, 160 pgs, $19.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA, Kevin Davies, Edge, 146 pgs, $15.
HUGHSON'S TAVERN, Fred Moten, Leon Works, 88 pgs, $15.95.
ADORNO'S NOISE, Carla Harryman, Essay Press, 182 pgs, $14.95.
PICTURE PALACE, Stephanie Young, 114 pgs, ingrimmus, $15.
BICYCLE DAY, Mel Nichols, Slack Buddha, 32 pgs, $6.
CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Farfalla, 50 pgs, $10.
50 YEARS OF RECUPERATION OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, McKenzie Wark, cloth 78 pgs, 30 color illustations, $24.95.
MAXIMUM GAGA, Laura Glenum, Action, 112 pgs, $16.
THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 111 pgs, $13.95.
THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, Allen Ginsberg, ed Bill Morgan,$30.
SICK PLANET, Guy Debord, trans Nicholson-Smith, Seagull, 94 pgs, $16.95.
GRAVE OF LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Alice Notley, Wesleyan, 366 pgs, $22.95.
NTERVIEW WITH ROBERT CREELEY MAY 1998, interview by Brent Cunningham, Hooke Press, 28 pgs, $10.
NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY, ed Michael Almereyda, FSG, cloth 272 pgs, $27.
DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16.
GERTRUDE STEIN: SELECTIONS, Gertrude Stein, ed Joan Retallack, U Cal Press, 352 pgs, $19.95.

There are currently two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date.

Armantrout & Nichols Friday 4/17, 8 PM

2009-04-16T13:24:00.000-07:00

Friday, April 17, 8:00pm
Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols
@ Bridge Street Books

Rae Armantrout came up as a poet in the Bay Area, educated at UC Berkeley, where she studied with Denise Levertov, and San Francisco State (MA, 1975). Subsequently, she was at the center of the first generation of Language Poets, the group in the US most often credited with introducing poetry to postmodernity. Since then Rae Armantrout has forged a growing international reputation--publishing eight remarkable books of poems including the brand new Versed (Wesleyan, 2009). Others books include Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004) and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001), as well as countless poems in anthologies (Best American Poetry 2002, and Postmodern American Poetry, a Norton Anthology, 1994) and gathered in diverse journals such as Conjunctions, Partisan Review, and the LA Times. In 2000, A Wild Salience, a collection of critical writings on the work of Rae Armantrout, was published (Burning Deck). She has taught writing at The University of California San Diego for almost two decades.

Mel Nichols is the author of Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha Press 2008), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones mnichol6 (Edge Books 2007), Day Poems (Edge Books 2005), and due out from Edge Books in mid-April, Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (finalist in the National Poetry Series). With Mark Cunningham she recently collaborated on the online chapbook nightlightnight.

Bridge Street Books is located at 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW-- 5 blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, next to Four Seasons in Georgetown. Phone 202 965 5200.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Sunday, April 19, 3:00 pm
Adam Good & Jon Lee are WE ARE SCIENCE & Thom Donovan
@ DC Arts Center

Sunday, April 26, 7:00 pm
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 17, 3:00 pm
John Coletti & Buck Downs
@ DC Arts Center

Darragh & Kunin Friday 4/10, 8 PM

2009-04-06T11:04:00.000-07:00

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS

TINA DARRAGH
&
AARON KUNIN

FRIDAY, APRIL 10th, 8 PM

Please join us Friday April 10th @ Bridge Street Books for a reading by Aaron Kunin & Tina Darragh.

Tina Darragh lives in Greenbelt, Md. Her books include on the corner to off the corner, Striking Resemblance, a(gain)2 st the odds, adv. fans - the 1968 series, and Dream Rim Instructions. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including the seminal "Language"-oriented anthology, In the American Tree(edited by Ron Silliman).

Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of a collection of small poems about shame, Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books); a chapbook, Secret Architecture (Braincase); and a novel, The Mandarin (Fence). He lives in California and is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Friday, April 17, 8:00pm
Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols

Sunday, April 26, 7:00 pm
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon

Tuesday, June 9th
Buck Downs & Joe Ross

2009-04-02T21:34:00.000-07:00

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Upcoming Readings at Bridge Street

2009-03-29T19:07:00.000-07:00

Friday April 10th, 8 pm
Tina Darragh & Aaron Kunin

Friday April 17th, 8 pm
Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols

Sunday April 26th, 7 pm
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman

Sunday May 10th, 7 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon

Tuesday June 9th, 8 pm
Buck Downs & Joe Ross

New in Poetry & Theory

2008-10-02T08:47:00.000-07:00

Ordering and discount information at the end of this post. Thanks for your support!

ABRAHAM LINCOLN #3, ed Mohammad and Boyer, 67 pgs, $5. Luoma, Collum, Hejinian, Apps, Allison, Bellamy, Norodahl, Genusa, Quarles, Koeneke, Bryant, Knox, Davis, Baumann, & McCrary.

GOD'S LIVESTOCK POLICY, Stan Apps, Les Figues Press, 80 pgs, $15. ""The largest mega-church of mom agreeing."

STATE OF THE UNION: 50 POLITICAL POEMS, ed Beckman & Zapruder, Wave Books, 112 pgs, $14. Ashbery, A Berrigan, Caples, Clifton, Coleman, Conrad, P Gizzi, Hillman, Knox, Lederer, Lin, Myles, Ping, Rohrer, &&&.

BILL, Bill Berkson & Colter Jacobsen, Gallery 16 Editions, cloth, unpaginated, $25. "Blood! No doubt about it!"

LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT, Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, Palm Press, 128 pgs, $15. "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN LIBERATED"

GLAD STONE CHILDREN, Edmund Berrigan, Farfalla Press/ McMillan & Parrish, 84 pgs, $16. "This is no ordinary/ a-sexual reproductive/ history of the sponge."

THE YALE ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH POETRY, ed May Ann Caws, Yale, 646 pgs, $30. New in paper.

80 BEETLES, Mark Cunningham, Otoliths, 88 pgs, $10. "That his colleagues at the news thought his death was news is indeed an important piece of news."

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA, Kevin Davies, Edge, 146 pgs, $15. "I'm not convinced these candidates exist / let alone deserve Secret Service protection"

SPOOKY AS IT IS W/OUT=2 0MEANING TO, Croniamantal (music) Buck Downs (words), CDR, edition of 50 w/ small booklet, $8.

A SICK PLANET, Guy Debord, trans Nicholson-Smith, Seagull, 94 pgs, $16.95. New translations of two texts: "The Decline and Fall of the 'Spectacular' Commodity-Economy," and "The Explosion Point of Ideology in China." The title essay, dating from 1971, is previously unpublished. "When the pitiful masters of a society whose wretched destiny is now discernible . . ."

AREA, Marcella Durand, Belladonna, 90 pgs, $15. "They document it from space."

THE ROUTE, Patrick Durgin & Jen Hofer, Atelos, 198 pgs, $13.50. "I am poor and momentary and resent your guilt"

THE CONSEQUENCE OF INNOVATION; 21ST CENTURY POETICS, ed Craig Dworkin, Roof, 304 pgs, $29.95. Essays by Evans, Bernstein, Rasula, Cole, Biglieri, Ngai, Goldsmith, Stefans, Mohammad, Sullivan, Gottlieb, Sherry, Bergvall, Gilbert, Clune, & Perloff.

PARSE, Craig Dworkin, Atelos, 300 pgs, $13.50. "_Plural Interjection_ semicolon"

THE BIRTH OF BIOPLOITICS, Lectures at the Collège France 1978-1979, Michel Foucault, Palgrave, cloth 346 pgs, $28.95. "In actual fact, the state must be blind to economic processes."

THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, Allen Ginsberg, ed Bill Morgan, Da Capo Press, cloth 470 pgs, $30. "I expect to know this week."

THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 111 pgs, $13.95. New in paper. "Too much spectacle conquers the I."

CITY OF CORNERS, John Godfrey, Wave, 96 pgs, $14. "But it's still only a b reast"

3, Ted Greenwald, Cuneiform, 168 pgs, $15. "You're the other / It's personal / You know / You're the other"

CHAOS, TERRITORY, ART: DELEUZE AND THE FRAMING OF THE EARTH, Elizabeth Grosz, Columbia, cloth118 pgs, $22.50. "Framing is how chaos becomes territory."

ABSOLUTELY EDEN, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, United Artists, 90 pgs, $14. "Oh yes, the Romancer means it."

MOTH LIGHT, Mitch Highfill, Abraham Lincoln, 20 pgs, $5. "It was unknown. I love unknowns."

NIGHT SCENES, Lisa Jarnot, Flood, 70 pgs, $13.95. "This is the best way to do things."

WAKE UP: A LIFE OF THE BUDDHA, Jack Kerouac, intro Robert A F Thurman, cloth 146 pgs, $24.95. "But there was no other way; his relationship with the world had to be snapped."

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, Tao Lin, 104 pgs, Melville House, $14.95. "The hamster lived in Manhattan."

POETRY AS RE-READING: AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE POETRY AND THE POETICS OF COUNTERMETHOD, Ming-Qian Ma, Northwestern, 300 pgs, $32.95. Authors examined include Zukofsky, Oppen, Rakosi, Cage, S Howe, Hejinian, Andrews, and Bernstein.

VERB SAP, Magus Magnus, Narrow House, 72 pgs, $12. "pop-pop-pop"

AETHEL, Donato Mancini, New Star, unpaginated, $21. "Can Poetry Be Matter?"

CHARLES OLSON AT THE HARBOR, Ralph Maud, Talon, 224 pgs, $19.95. "And that's all we get from Clark about this special occasion."

GOODBYE MR SOCIALISM, Antonio Negri in conversation with Raf Valvola Scelsi, Seven Stories, 256 pgs, $15.95. "All of this is ex tremely dangerous."

RADICAL VERNACULAR: LORINE NIEDECKER AND THE POETICS OF PLACE, ed Elizabeth Willis, Iowa, cloth 310 pgs. $39.95. Dafvidson, Pinard, Sikelianos, Skinner, Penberthy, Robertson, Pritchett, Armantrout, Robinson, Jennison, DuPlessis, Weinberger, Breslin, Waldman, Middleton, & Quartermain.

GRAVE OF LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Alice Notley, Wesleyan, 366 pgs, $22.95. New in paper. "I think most / Electrical appliances can be repaired via nipple"

/NOR 2 (New Ohio Review), ed Catherine Taylor, 200 pgs, $12. Abel, Beckman, Watten, Nichols, Moriarty, Moxley, Smith, Florian, Foust, Risset, Darling, Bumstead, Cooperman, Halpern, &&&.

ACTIVE BOUNDARIES:SELECTED ESSAYS AND TALKS, Michael Palmer, New Directions, 294 pgs, $19.95. "I'm no longer so sure that this is very different from poetry."

ZONG!, M. Nourbese Philip as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng, Wesleyan, cloth, 212 pgs, $22.95. "the order in destroy"

LA MEDUSA, Vanessa Place, FC2, 488 pgs, $22. "_Cha-ching!_"

HAUNTED HOUSE, Pierre Reverdy, trans John Ashbery, Brooklyn Rail/Black Square, 72 pgs, $15. Reverdy prose from 1928. "From the weight of the sadness that periodically invades our limbs and the world, we can measure all the advantage there would be for us to make public appearances and evolve in an even larger arena. But this is the hard kernal, the resistant part of universal thought--no doubt the tastiest in the Universe."

THE ALPHABET, Ron Silliman, U Alabama, 1062 pgs, $39.95. "Mindshare."

50 YEARS OF RECUPERATION OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, McKenzie Wark, cloth 78 pgs, 30 color illustations, $24.95. Very Excellent short study focusing not only on Debord but on many often overlooked members of the SI including Constant, Bernstein, Jorn, and Gallizio. "The modern poets led them there."

SOME BESTSELLERS:

FLOWERS OF EVIL, Charles Baudelaire, trans Keith Waldrop, 196 pgs, $16.95.
INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT CREELEY MAY 1998, interview by Brent Cunningham, Hooke Press, 28 pgs, $10.
NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY, ed Michael Almereyda, FSG, cloth 272 pgs, $27.
DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16.
GERTRUDE STEIN: SELECTIONS, Gertrude Stein, ed Joan Retallack, U Cal Press, 352 pgs, $19.95.
THE BOOK OF MARTYRDOM + ARTIFICE: FIRST JOURNALS AND POEMS 1937-1952, Allen Ginsberg, ed Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, Da Capo, 524 pgs, $17.50.
IT'S GO IN HORIZONTAL: SELECTED POEMS, 1974-2006, Leslie Scalapino, 248 pgs, U CAL, $16.95.
GIRLY MAN, Charles Bernstein, U Chicago, 186 pgs, $15.
BREATHALYZER, K. Silem Mohammad, Edge, 80 pgs, $14.
PPL IN A DEPOT, Gary Sullivan, Roof, 104 pgs, $13.95.
NEW EURPOEAN POETS, ed Miller and Prufer, Graywolf, 402 pgs, $18.
JESS: TO AND FROM THE PRINTED PAGE, Independent Curators Intl, 112 pgs, $29.95.
OURS, Cole Swensen, U Cal, 101 pgs, $16.95. "A garden is a tide."
THING OF BEAUTY: NEW AND SELECTED WORKS, Jackson Mac Low, ed Anne Tardos, U Cal, cloth 460 pgs, $34.95.
THE COLLECTED POE MS OF PHILIP WHALEN, ed Michael Rothenberg, Wesleyan, cloth 872 pgs, $49.95.
THE MISSING OCCASION OF SAYING YES, Benjamin Friedlander, Subpress, 196 pgs, $16.
ABOUT NOW: COLLECTED POEMS, Joanne Kyger, Natl Poetry Foundation, 798 pgs, $34.95.
CONTEMPORARY POETICS, ed Louis Armand, Northwestern, 395 pgs, $29.95.
FELONIES OF ILLUSION, Mark Wallace, Edge, 138 pgs, $15.
NINETEEN LINES: A DRAWING CENTER ANTHOLOGY, ed Lytle Shaw, DrawingCenter/Roof, 336 pgs, $24.95.

ORDERING INFORMATION:

There are currently two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date.