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eleven long poems, cover art by Richard Tuttle ... Read more

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CONCORDANCE is a new collaborative work by two acclaimed contemporary artists, poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and sculptor Kiki Smith. Inspired by Smith's image of a dandelion, whose floating silks Berssenbrugge compares to reading, the poet asks, "What if images were Eros as words?" In her deceptively childlike book, with its aura of fairy tale, large type and over-scale imagery, Berssenbrugge's poem traces embeddings of human and animal bodies, ideas, dreams and emotion in a concordance of parallel and contingent contexts. Smith's pochoirs of Eros as seeds, feathers, star-like explosions, and wide-eyed, unblinking owls embed the emotion Berssenbrugge's poetry ignites through brilliant insights that surface as layers of a "streaming consciousness . . . emanating from stars symbiotic with individuation. A second poem, RED QUIET, designed by Smith as brown typography on red Eames paper, explores the related theme of the force fields of attraction and repetition that can be created by words, emotion, images "He calls the location of accidents a morphic field: their recurrence is resonance, as of an archetype with the vibration of a seed."A Special Editions of Concordance, signed by Berssenbrugge and Smith and containing a limited edition print of an actual page of the book, is available from KSP for $350. ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY PRIZE

In her new collection of poems, NEST, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's unhurried cadences are animated by a newly intimate voice: "Domestic space oozes light through a loophole, mother to mother, so close I can't catch it through myself." NEST illuminates the architecture of domesticity, the gravitational flex of human relationships, and the physical structure of the home.The central motif of the book, as critic Christine Hume writes, "is the uterine nest as well as the French n'est (isn't); it's made of earth and sky.Both practically and structurally, it's the image of return, an object built by and for the body." As always, Berssenbrugge's "discursive music" enchants. ... Read more

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Brilliant subtlety
This book was one of those I had leant out and had to buy anew. Berssenbrugge's gaze made into language forces me to re-see my own landscape, to note the way the world shifts at nightfall and divisions unite. There is something akin to abstracted sense exploration taking place here, if that is even possible. A fabulous collection, perhaps her best, and which for lovers of poetry is a great gift for the self or a friend.

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge is a Genius
She is my favorite poet.Her elegant lines are illuminated by phenomenological insights and pure beauty. ... Read more

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poetry, 1984 American Book Award ... Read more

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poetry & drawings in collaborative artists' book ... Read more

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poems & a play, originally from 1974 ... Read more

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Accompanying a unique exhibition at the respected Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, this book is a remarkable combination of the work of poets and artists, that explores in new ways the relationship between the visual and the verbal. In his preface, Charles Bernstein writes:"Not words and pictures but poems as visual objects. Not poems about pictures but pictures that are poems. Not works closed in a book but hanging on a wall or suspended from the ceiling or rising from the floor or sounding from inside a figure or embedded with paint on a canvas or written in the sky or flickering on a screen." Co-curator Jay Sanders explains in his introduction:"We had a gallery and we wanted to flood it with poetry. Not with "poetic" artwork, but with actual poetry, made by poets. But, we have gallery walls, not pages in a book. So we organized a show of art overrun with poetry and a show of poetry riddled with art."

Artists include among others: Carl Andre, Arakawa, Susan Bee, Tom Phillips, Mira Schor, Kiki Smith, Philip Guston, Wallace Berman, Robert Smithson, Richard Tuttle, Michael Snow. Poets include among others: David Antin, Robert Creeley, Clark Coolidge, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, John Cage, Madeline Gins, Lyn Hejinian, Kenneth Goldsmith, Robert Grenier, Tan Lin, Jackson MacLow, Steve McCaffery, Emily McVarnish, Nick Piombino.

Edited by Charles Bernstein and Jay Sanders.
42 b&w.
7 x 10 in. ... Read more

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Poetry. David Bromige has said of DEVOLUTION: I have been waiting for this poetry a long time, a poetry politically relevant and at the same time unapologetic in its confidence. These works are completely current, and history will welcome them again and again. The shock of their forms makes us recognize 'the new world order,' not alone through the deliberations that precede their construction, but by a daemonic ability, a something which springs on the near side of explanation, and this current runs under the reference-nets, rising and dipping like the sacred Alph. ... Read more

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poetry, w/art by Richard Tuttle ... Read more

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Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style--its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jeff Harrison, Catherynne M. Valente, Dorianne Laux, Dorothy Barresi, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Jonathan Holden, Neal Lawrence, Barry Jean Ancelet, Rod Smith, Daniel B. Lucas, E. A. Richardson, William James Austin, Steve Dalachinsky, Goodale Sisters, Ben Lerner, Lee Upton, Diana Lewis Burgin, Jody Gladding, Garrett Hongo, Sean Singer, Lyn Hejinian, Horace Gregory, William Corbett, William Virgil Davis, Thax Douglas, Elizabeth Willis, John Godfrey Saxe, James Sallis, Robert Gibb, Jimmy Santiago Baca, John B. Tabb, Ray Dipalma, Tony Crunk, Andrew Demcak, Liam Rector, Loyd Haberly, Jake Adam York, Kim Stafford, Davis Mccombs, Martha Collins, Sandra Mcpherson, Richard Watson Gilder, Mark Yakich, Richard Cecil, Alice Brown, Valerie Wohlfeld, Janice N. Harrington, Thomas Swiss, Margaret Widdemer, Lucy Grealy, Kenn Nesbitt, Christian Hawkey, Richard Henry Stoddard, Morris Rosenfeld, Jim Daniels, Peter Streckfus, D. A. Powell, William Ross Wallace, Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc, Alan Sondheim, Ernest Neal, Jessica Fisher, Nathaniel Mackey, Nick Montfort, Jessica Care Moore, Laurie Lamon, David O'neil, Alix Olson, Aleda Shirley, Ron Padgett, Amy King, Jeanpaul Ferro, Arda Collins, Amanda Auchter, Langdon Smith, A. E. Stallings, Thomas Bolt, Joan Murray, S.a. Griffin, Martin Nakell, Randall Mann, Garrett Caples, Brad Leithauser, Edward Mccrorie, Elaine Equi, Joy Harjo, Bessie Anderson Stanley, Tracy K. Smith, Martin Pousson, Joan Retallack, Oliver Herford, Pliny Earle, Sandra M. Castillo, Myung Mi Kim, Samuel Ullman, Wyn Cooper, Lenelle Moise, Laura Crafton Gilpin, Lorenzo Thomas, Alexander Chee, George Edward Woodberry, Dana Levin, Daniel Hall, Tina Darragh, Park Benjamin, Sr., Carolyn Wells, Neeli Cherkovski, Timothy Steele, Alexander Kuo, Jon Anderson, Kevin Young, Andrew Zawacki, Paul Beatty, George Shepard Chappell, Dixon Lanier Merritt, Maggie Estep, Carl Solomon, Sam Walter Foss, Bao Phi, Reginald Gibbons, Mary Baine Campbell...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4480518 ... Read more

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BOMB 96, Summer 2006, 25th Anniversary Double Issue, featuring: Interviews with Jesper Just by RoseLess Goldberg, Liz Larner by Jane Dickson, Bernard Pffaretti by Joe Fyfe, Tony Oursler by Alan Licht, Anthony Coleman by Micheal Goldberg, Chris Abani and Colm Toibin, Kimiko Hahn by Laurie Sheck, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge by Michele Gerber Klein, William Forsythe by Gabriella de Ferrari, Park Chanwook by Esther K. Chae, and A.R. Gurney by Romulus Linney. Essays by John Miller on Nicolas Guagnini, Dona Nelson on Steven Charles, and Mimi Thompson and Keith Sonnier on Lluis Lleo. Fiction & Poetry by Yvonne Rainer, Kelvin Christopher James, Dana Caspersen, Dennis Cooper, Guy Gallo, and Rachel Kushner. Artwork by Tony Fitzpatrick, Jason Langer, and Sarah Charlesworth. ... Read more

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"Desire, for hire, would tire a shire," James Joyce wrote in Finnegans Wake, though Conjunctions: 48 proposes the shire'd be tired even if the desire weren't hired. Desire informs everything we do, from the smallest gestures to the grandest concerns. When it establishes residence in the heart, it becomes a tireless engine, motivating good, and by turns evil. Yearning can be sexual or religious, charitable or greedy, thoughtful or callous, profound as belief or superficial as a whim. Is there any more formidable, defining emotion? Mary Gaitskill, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Robert Kelly, Carole Maso, Brian Evenson, Robert Olen Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, Will Self, David Shields, Frederic Tuten and Rikki Ducornet, mong others, explore its tricky terrain in never-before-published essays, memoirs, poetry and fiction. Faces of Desire is an exuberant look--now grim, now hilarious, now poignant--into one of the most mysterious and crucial forces of life. ... Read more

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VHS - 1 Hour, 12 minutes. ... Read more