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November 29, 2012
tMoCP makes SLJ’s fantastic Best Fiction of 2012 list!...
tMoCP makes SLJ’s fantastic Best Fiction of 2012 list! Wha-wha-what?! (Such excellent, excellent company for CAM over there.)
November 28, 2012
Tegan and Sara on The Gorburger Show: the absolute best ever.
Tegan and Sara on The Gorburger Show: the absolute best ever.
Not sure that one can ever watch this video too many times. (But...
Not sure that one can ever watch this video too many times. (But I’m happy to test that theory.)
Robyn — “Call Your Girlfriend”
November 26, 2012
"I think I grow more and more poetic. Perhaps I restrained it, and now, like a plant in a pot, it..."
- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 June 1924. (via grecianurn)
November 25, 2012
The animal origami tree at the Museum of Natural History, NYC:...
The animal origami tree at the Museum of Natural History, NYC: pretty much perfection in a Christmas tree.
November 19, 2012
lovelyarc:
I know what you want for a present for the holidays....
I know what you want for a present for the holidays. Ask your family for a 2 year Octopus Books subscription. Buying a subscription is one of the very best ways of supporting Octopus Books, and we’d really appreciate it. As a small and completely independent press, our ability to continue to make the poetry books we believe in depends almost completely on book purchases.
And now that Portland’s own Poor Claudia is the official limited edition chapbook imprint of Octopus Books, we have 2 different subscription options for you. Also, rest assured, the shipping is always on us.
#1. Only OCTOPUS BOOKS. $88 (at least $130 value)
Portuguese by Brandon Shimoda (co-published by Tin House). The first title in a new annual series of poetry books that will be co-published with another independent Portland press, Tin House. Portuguese is Brandon Shimoda’s fourth full-length book of poems.
My Dead by Amy Lawless. A second full-length book of poems by the Brooklyn poet who wrote Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books 2008).
Sexual Boat (Sex Boats) by James Gendron. A first full-length book of poems by the Portland poet who wrote the chapbook, Money Poems (Poor Claudia 2009).
Picasso’s Tears by Wong May. This, Wong May’s fourth book of poems, is her first book since Superstitions was published by Harcourt Brace and in 1978. Harcourt Brace also publishedReports (1972) and A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals (1969), the latter of which was the subject of an Octopus Magazine Recovery Project in issue #3.
Octopus Magazine #16—10 year Anniversary Anthology
AND: at least 4 other TBA full-length poetry titles, including another co-publication with Tin House.
#2. OCTOPUS BOOKS + POOR CLAUDIA: $136 (at least a $220 value):
Receive everything Octopus Books publishes in 2013 and 2014, plus the following from Poor Claudia:
A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse, by Elaine Kahn of Northampton, Mass. (soon to be Oakland, Calif.) Hand-bound 4.5x7.5” chapbook with screenprinted cover. Limited printing of 150.
mu (Dream) so (Window), by Marcus Slease of London, England. Hand-bound 6x6” chapbook with letterpressed cover. Limited printing of 150.
Bart V Univers, by Joel Statz of Portland, Ore.. Hand-bound 4.5x7.5” chapbook with letterpressed cover. All original drawings by Joel Statz with an introduction by poet James Gendron. Limited printing of 200.
You will also receive:
2 other solicited chapbooks that will be determined in December, 2012.
At least 2 future chapbook publications determined by PC’s July open reading period.
A new ephemeral series titled The Architect : occasional 8-page
November 18, 2012
That’s my busted-up reading copy of tMoCP. And those...
That’s my busted-up reading copy of tMoCP. And those earphones coming from deep within it? Well they represent the very kick-ass news that come paperback release time (May, 2013), CAM will also be available as an audio book from audible.com. As Jamie Lowrie might say, “That’s fucking hardcore.”
November 17, 2012
"I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold,..."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via isology)
