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New from Fish Drum in September 2007:
A SERIES OF SMALL BOXES – by Thomas Devaney

smallboxes In »A Series of Small Boxes«, Thomas Devaney tells us: »Pack your songs, fringe history of television,/ kindergarten constructions, extra socks--/ somehow it all will fit; and what doesn't/ you can bring along too if you'd like.«

This is Thomas Devaney's second collection of poems. He is also the author of »The American Pragmatist Fell in Love« (Banshee Press, 1999) and »Letters to Ernesto Neto« (Germ Folios, 2005). Devaney has the gentle grace of Rilke combined with the wisdom of Solomon. For this he is irresistible.

[His poems] »are vulnerable, pleasurable, tolerant, wary and contemporary.« --Fanny Howe

»The poems are resonant patches of serious life, almost as buoyant as dreams. Their light graces remain etched in the mind.« --John Ashbery

More on Devaney www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/devaney.html

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BAREFOOT ON A DRAWING OF THE SUN – by J. J. Blickstein

»There's something unjaded here, solar and sanguineous; we ought to gamble our conventional lives away in order to see what will grow from this increasing heat.«
Anthony Seidman.

This is the latest collection from JJ Blickstein, a New York poet and visual artist of multi-ethnicity, editor of the award-winning journal Hunger Magazine, stonemason, and martial artist.

»...The most unexpected people arise on the poetic horizon, everyone from Hopper to Nam June Paik, Tarot to European history, Walter Benjamin, labor, water in the form of tears, in sweat glistening on his beloved?s body... The poem, as always when one reads a true poet, is the event; the language is the grain and the delta, and it can bring you anywhere.« --- AS

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Fish Books expected in 2007:
FISH DRUM IS PRODUCING 2 BOOKS and 1 MAGAZINE:

A SERIES OF SMALL BOXES by Tom Devaney
— out in September 2007, compare the announcement above.
THE BANDAGED POETS by Ira Cohen
FISH DRUM MAGAZINE #20, assorted contributors

One of these days we are also going to see »Brain Dead Dog« by Thomas Zummer, a graphical novel (bande dessinée). It's up to Tom.

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