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March 15, 2015
Jack Spicer Broadsides: Four Unpublished Poems
We’re so thrilled to offer for sale a suite of four letterpress broadsides featuring unpublished poems by Jack Spicer, illustrated by Kevin Killian, Norma Cole, Paul Klinger, and Kyle Schlesinger!
When Julia devises a fundraiser, she goes for substance: the proceeds from sales of these broadsides will go to fund the printing of our first major art book, The Collages of Helen Adam, to be published with the help of The Poetry Collection of The University at Buffalo where Helen Adam’s papers are housed. Helen Adam was one of the participants in Spicer’s Poetry as Magic Workshop, and her collages made quite a splash in the recent Jess/Duncan exhibit.
We’re especially fond of the deluxe edition of this suite, which includes a letterpress print of a crayon portrait of Billy the Kid by Norma Cole, who was (if you’re late to read Jarnot’s Robert Duncan bio) a familiar of the Jess/Duncan household, which power couple published the original chapbook of Spicer’s Billy the Kid under their Enkidu Surrogate imprint in 1959 while they were living in Stinson Beach. The Helen Adam art book will contain photos taken during this time, at the very house in fact.
Anyone willing to help us spread word about this fundraiser by posting it to their favorite social media site can receive a free copy of Julia’s VIZ chapbook. Simply screenshot your tweet/post or whatever it is and email it with your postal address, subject line FREE VIZ, to further.other.book.works@gmail.com.
BUY NOW (Domestic Shipping):
Purchase the Standard Edition, 4 broadsides ($40+$10 shipping)
Purchase the Deluxe Edition, 5 signed broadsides ($100+$10 shipping)BUY NOW (International Shipping):
Purchase the Standard Edition, 4 broadsides ($40+$20 shipping)
Purchase the Deluxe Edition, 5 signed broadsides ($100+$20 shipping)
Above: Kevin Killian’s broadside. 4-color letterpress print with additional handwork (highlighter, post-it note, inkjet Giants insignia). Printed from polymer, digitized from Killian’s original hand-lettered design. Edition of 116, 26 of which are signed and lettered.
Above: Norma Cole’s broadside. 2-color letterpress print. Printed from polymer, digitized from Cole’s original crayon drawing. Edition of 116, 26 of which are signed and lettered.
Above: Paul Klinger’s broadside. 2-color letterpress print. Printed from polymer, detail digitized from Klinger’s “Le buzzard,” a multi-colored contact print taken from the carcass of a dead vulture. Edition of 116, 26 of which are signed and lettered.
Above: Kyle Schlesinger’s broadside. 3-color letterpress print. Typeset and designed by Schlesinger, and printed from polymer. Edition of 116, 26 of which are signed and lettered.
For the bibliophiles: The deluxe edition of this suite includes signed copies of each broadside, AND a letterpress print of Norma Cole’s portrait of Billy the Kid. Printed from polymer on handmade Twinrocker Rotunda. Edition of 15 signed and numbered copies, 12 of which are offered for sale.
All broadsides were printed by C.J. Martin on a 10x15″ Heidelberg Windmill, at F.O.B.W. studios in Colorado Springs, CO. Below are some process shots from the variously inked-up press (& at least one of the accidentally inked-up tympan!):
March 12, 2015
mashatupitsyn:
"What is seeing if not a deferred touch? But what is a deferred touch if not a...
"What is seeing if not a deferred touch? But what is a deferred touch if not a touching that sharpens or concentrates without reserve, up to a necessary excess, the point, the tip, and the instant through which the touch detaches itself from what it touches, at the very moment when it touches it? Without this detachment, without this recoil or retreat, the touch would no longer be what it is, and would no longer do what it does (or it would not let itelf do what it lets itself do). It would begin to reify itself in a grip, in an adhesion or a sticking, indeed, in an agglutination that would grasp the touch in the thing and the thing within it, matching and appropriating the one to the other and then the one in the other. There would be no identification, fixation, property, immobility. ‘Do not hold me back’ amounts to saying ‘Touch me with a real touch, one that is restrained, nonappropriating and nonidentifying.’ Caress me, don’t touch me."
-Jean-Luc Nancy, Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body
"Touch me with a real touch"
March 9, 2015
I'm reading on 3/21 with Maureen Owen, Matvei Yankelevich, and Robbie Wendeborn
Happy Vernal Equinox! Come celebrate Just-Spring with us. Our March Leon Affair reading features C.J. Martin, Maureen Owen, Matvei Yankelevich, and Robert Alan Wendeborn sharing their work on Saturday, March 21 at the Leon Gallery (1112 E 17th Ave., Denver, CO) at 7 pm.
C.J. Martin is the author of Two Books (Compline, 2011), as well as many chapbooks, most recently LAND (Compline, 2014), Medical Parts (NewLights Press, 2014) and Unused Cover (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs (2013). His essays and reviews have appeared in ON: Contemporary Practice, Jacket2, and American Book Review. He lives in Colorado Springs and works as a book designer, printer and bookbinder. With Julia Drescher, he publishes Further Other Book Works. He keeps a poetry tumblr at http://martin-cj.tumblr.com/.
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Maureen Owen is the author of Erosion’s Pull from Coffee House Press, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her title American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. She has taught at Naropa University, both on campus and in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program, in Naropa’s Summer Writing Program, and edited Naropa’s on-line zine not enough night. Her newest title Edges of Water is available from Chax Press. She has most recently had work in The Denver Quarterly, Vanitas, Bombay Gin’s Anselm Hollo Issue and in New American Writing 2014. She can be found reading her work on the PennSound website.
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Robert Alan Wendeborn puts the bubbles in the beer at Ska Brewing. His poetry, reviews, and art have been featured in Pank, Sink Review, The Collagist and other cool places. His first book, The Blank Target, will be out April 6, 2015 from The Lettered Streets Press. His first chapbook, a collaboration with poet Krystal Languell, titled Diamonds in the Flesh, will also be out this spring from Double Cross Press. He currently lives and writes and loves in Durango, Colorado.
Matvei Yankelevich is the author Alpha Donut (United Artists Books), Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), and a forthcoming book-length poem, Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square Editions). He is the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook/Ardis) and co-translator of the National Translation Award-winning An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky (NYRB Poets). Affiliations include: Ugly Duckling Presse, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Columbia University’s School of the Arts. In March and April, Matvei is teaching a course in Small Press Practices at Colorado College.
furtherotherbookworks:
The super limited suite of Spicer...
The super limited suite of Spicer broadsides will include this letterpress print of a crayon portrait of Billy the Kid by Norma Cole. Printed on handmade Twinrocker Rotunda. They came out completely gorgeous.
jeandonnelly:
pleased to share more work from my serial poem At...
pleased to share more work from my serial poem At Will now up & in great company in the latest issue of Opon
http://opon.org/issue4/
This looks like an amazing issue….
March 7, 2015
alexanderchee:stephanmaximilianhuber:nevver:Sonic youthKim...
Kim Gordon, New York, 1970
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March 6, 2015
March 3, 2015
Maureen Owen, from ZOMBIE NOTES (Sun, 1985). This is from a...
Maureen Owen, from ZOMBIE NOTES (Sun, 1985). This is from a gorgeous sequence called “Letters to the Letters S and F.”
March 2, 2015
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