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new from Effing Press: KISS A BOMB TATTOO by Hoa Nguyen

KISS A BOMB TATTOO
by Hoa Nguyen

40 pages
saddle-stitched
w/ letterpress covers
5 x 7.5

isbn 0-9794745-5-8
$8.00

printed and bound in an edition of 467
February, 2009

new from Effing Press: IN THE BIRD'S BREATH by Marcia Roberts

IN THE BIRD'S BREATH
by Marcia Roberts

64 pages
saddle-stitched
w/ letterpress covers
5 x 7.5

isbn 0-9794745-7-4
$8.00

printed and bound in an edition of 471 copies
January, 2009

Effing Press at AWP - Chicago

Bibliophiles and Effing Heads,

Come see, handle, and attempt to steal effing titles new and old at the AWP Bookfair in Chicago, next week February 11-14.  We'll be at table #774.

We'll be debuting at least two new titles there as well. Come smell the freshness.

ALSO

We'll be participating in this off site small press affair Friday, Feb 13 at Links Hall :

FEBRUARY 13: Friday Night in Chicago

Red Rover Series presents Experiment #26: A Small Press Showcase

with

Action Books, Effing Press, Flood Editions, Futurepoem books, Les Figues Press, Slack Buddha Press, Switchback Books, & Ugly Duckling Presse. 

Readings by

Jessica Bozek, Amina Cain, Marcella Durand, Bill Fuller, Gloria Frym, Kim Hyesoon, Alta Ifland, Nancy Kuhl, Dan Machlin, Don Mee, Mel Nichols, Hoa Nguyen, Kathleen Rooney, Susan Schultz, John Tipton, & Ronaldo V. Wilson.

8 - 11:30pm

$5

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labor and $

four books, two hands, one press, one month, one binding needle, three thread spools, -0 bank account.

consider a  pre-order for any of the following:

KISS A BOMB TATTOO by Hoa Nguyen, $8.00

AUTUMN'S SLANT by Marcia Roberts, $8.00

IN THE BIRD'S BREATH by Marcia Roberts, $10

for you that pre-order any of these books we will send you a complimentary copy of effing magazine #7 to tide you over until the books are mailed.

cha!

EDWARD DORN & THE WESTERN WORLD by Amiri Baraka

New from Skanky Possum and Effing Press:

 
Ed Dorn & the Western World
by Amiri Baraka

40 pages, saddle-stitched w/
letterpress covers

This is Baraka's keynote address at the "Ed Dorn Symposium" March o8 at the University of Colorado in Boulder

$10

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From the book:

The moving out to investigate the real West the Westness of us, that is the real openness, newness, freshness, innovation of America the promise is to finally see that this promise has been the threatened future of this world of European invention and discovery, colonialism and capitalism and imperialism and always war and this Afro Asian Latino world of submission and imprisonment and defeat. But it has been that tribe of Dorn's that has also slipped outside the well advertised virtues of this hell and to include them in the torture must make Dorn then search outside the given, outside the relentlessly stated lie of American democracy to see that America and its place in the world for what they actually are.

this weekend

get your live Lester on in Durham

HERRON / KNOX / COMPTON : minor american reading
hosted by kathryn l. pringle & Magdalena Zurawski

Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Ken Rumble's apartment in Durham, NC, US
500 n. duke st., apt. 55-204
Durham, NC
Map: http://tr.im/minor
(Google map with street view of 500 N Duke St building,  from corner of Duke St & Corporation)  To get there: Come up Duke St. from Main (or the vicinity) and turn  right onto Corporation Drive across from DSA, then take  an immediate left into the parking lot and then find a  parking space there.

About the poets
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*Patrick Herron* (http://patrickherron.com) is a poet, artist and information scientist living in Chapel Hill, NC, USA. His doll Lester is  the author of the book Be Somebody (2008, Effing Press, recently reviewed in the Independent: http://tr.im/lesreview) while Patrick is the author of several books of poetry including The American Godwar Complex (2004, BlazeVox) as well as a recent book on text mining and  scientific discovery (2008, Verlag Dr. Mueller). Patrick's web art has  appeared in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and his proximate.org  (http://proximate.org) is part of the permanent collection of the New Museum for Contemporary Art. You may find some of Patrick's poems and essays in journals such as The Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, A Chide's Alphabet, and Talisman. He is the founder of the Carrboro  International Poetry Festival, a member of the board of Carolina Wren Press, winner of the 2005 Triangle Arts Award from The Independent (Durham NC), and a former Carrboro NC Poet Laureate. Patrick teaches new media studies, develops serious games, and studies semiotic landscapes of innovation for the Jenkins Chair at Duke University. He is working on a new volume of poetry tentatively entited Embedded.

*Jennifer L. Knox* was born in Lancaster, California, where absolutely anything can be made into a bong. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies The Best American Poetry (1997, 2003 and 2006), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books, and The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present. She has taught poetry writing at New York University and Hunter College, and is available for children's parties, seances, and
tradeshow booth demonstrations. She lives in Brooklyn. For more information, see www.jenniferlknox.com.

*Shanna Compton* is the author of For Girls & Others (Bloof Books, 2008), Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005), and several chapbooks, as well as the editor of GAMERS (Soft Skull, 2004). Her poems and essays have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2005. She teaches at The New School and runs the DIY Poetry Publishing Cooperative at diypublishing.blogspot.com. She lives in a valley near a river in New Jersey. For more information, see www.shannacompton.com.

Feel free to bring beer, wine, crackers, cheese, chips, dips, carrots, celery, ice cream, bread, soup, apples, tomatoes, brazil nuts, religious iconography, a table cloth, root beer, toilet paper, salt & pepper, water, pita bread, some cds, a couch, your "issues," a sandwich, bacon, walnuts, a comfy chair, pillows, a sleeping bag, your nail file, a
hatchet, peanut butter, a fruit log, the way that you walk, a camera, a video-camera, a voice recorder, a baby, your cell phones, extra shoelaces, some spaghetti, an onion, a tray of delicious cured meats, forks, a spare tire, a friend, jewelry, donations, refrigerator magnets, a light bulb, other assorted paper products that could include napkins, several feathers, a cucumber, sake, a dingo, a McCain supporter, a copy of your diploma, a copy of a picture of your refrigerator, a refrigerator, a stamp with "Texas" on it, an extra pair of sneakers, an overweight balloon operator, a nice rabbit stew, a map, a picture of our lord jesus christ, your "schtick," that ass, a clown, fall leaves, a cabbage, mango, avocado, steak tartar, sushi, a boy named Sue, the woman crossing the street, a copy of an issue of Carolina Parent, flowers, \candles, body oil, apple sauce, and a bicycle helmet.

review of Lester's BE SOMEBODY

at the Independent Weekly

Ozarked.

The Frank Stanford festival was a lot of fun. Great to see so many people paying tribute to the man and his words. F-ville treated us nice with its smallness and friendliness and its cold and delicious beers.

And props to Choctaw Nation and you know why. you know.

I owe many books to several people who ordered last week and the week before. Those will go out in tomorrow and Friday's mail. If you have a problem with that please write your congress woman then come smell the ink on my hands.

I received the following emails today. Feast.

"In the galaxy where all is beauty i fine it necessary to approach your Platform these way, well i apologies for the inconvenient it will take you to listen to my magistrate,i got your contact when i was searching for business partner,one fact to know is that, the essential sadness is to pass through life without experience, yet is also sad to pass through life without sharing once experience and weakness to others,if this is true of me."

and

"No not wearing costume to work,too much work involved, and too sexy for work also. By time you wear all day it wd put you in damper for night, wears off excitement too."

to the Ozarks

After 4 days and nights of printing I'm off to Fayetteville, AR for the Frank Stanford lit fest (with some damn fine looking broadsides tucked under my arm). Effing book and magazine orders will ship next week (and sorry some of you have had to wait an extra week - it's been nuts in this here studio).

If you are in Austin there is this happening next week hosted by POETRY TEXAS:

Poet and Critic John Taggart
"A Night of Poetry at UT's Joyne's Room"
Thursday, October 23 at 7:00pm

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until next week here is some feel good for ye:

this pleases

people pissed off pleases. people having a laugh also pleases.

Hoa Nguyen poems featured today at Wave Books' PoetryPolitic

4 poems and audio links from Hoa's effing book RED JUICE.  here (day 24)

a Farid Matuk poem from the effing book IS IT THE KING? and an audio link of his reading of it was featured on the site as well, on Sept. 28 (day 14).  here




thanks to Brandon Shimoda for the heads up.

And we're back.

Hello Citizens.

Took a much needed breather from press work and book slinging these past few weeks / months  and have been laying low, living large, hanging with friends,  not quitting smoking, lovin, steaming mussels, printing,  reading, poetrying, neglecting, ignoring, supporting, hiding, loafing, bathing, braying, driving all over this city  and fighting the police.

Ramping up with the good work now and proclamate labor and salvation in the form of collectible, sexable literary pap from the effing press to your mailboxes and hands. Your pretty pretty hands.

The summer was slow and dusty. Book orders and printing jobs were little and the money was none. It's still dusty in central T but the orders and printing work are starting to flow in again (and out) so there is fuel for the engine of bookmaking. Praise Ganesh. Fearhimlovehim.

The effing website will be updated shortly as well.

In the works (to repeat myself from months ago):

An Amiri Baraka essay in booklet form called "Ed Dorn & The Western World" (co-published with Skanky Possum Press).

A two poem flip book by Marcia Roberts.

a new collection from Hoa Nguyen called Kiss a Bomb Tattoo.

a wry beaut from Dale Smith called Cosmograph.

and finally, the David Meltzer collection Angelize that has been difficult (for no good reason) to produce.

Currently working on some fine printing for the upcoming Frank Stanford Literary Festival in Fayetteville, AR -- a broadside of a Frank poem as well as the program cover, both designed by Katy Henriksen of Cannibal. Just about ready to order the plates and papers.

I'll be at the festival as well and am looking forward to the poems/poets and the Ozarks in autumnal chaos.

Finishing up a piece of mine own lingua to be published as booklet in this year's Dusie Kollective chapbook swap. Punching the keys. Staring into space. Poet labor.

My bud Richard Owens (of Damn the Caesars and Punch Press) has a new book out from BlazeVox in Buffalo, NY called Delaware Memoranda.  It was my privilege to design the covers for this fantastic book of poems. Check it oot.

Also, the craftmaster Friedrich Kerksieck of Small Fires Press has put out a second edition of my poem Some Bridges Migrate with artwork by Austin artist Cherie Weaver. Bound and letterpress printed as nicely as the first edition, but for this run Friedrich The Wizard has made the cover paper with his own two hands. And it's great, this Friedrich-made paper.  Supporthimpraisehim.

There is more news and talking from our heads. There will be more.

The dow is down but not you.

SloPo

Dale Smith discusses the need for a Slow Poetry

poetry at Okay Mountain Saturday 6/21