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quatre par quatre; Poems from the French printable pdf

Philippe Soupault (1897-1990), along with André Breton and Louis Aragon, was the founder of the Surrealist movement, and collaborated with Breton on the first Surrealist document, Les Champs magnétiques. He would later be expelled from the movement for, in his words, “writing novels and smoking English cigarettes.” The poems translated here are from his later work, Sans Phrase (1953).
Jean Follain (1903-1971) first came to the attention of US poetry readers in W.S. Merwin’s as Transparence Of The World published in 1969. More recently a larger comprehensive selection of his work has been published by The Song Cave as Earthly, translated by Andrew Seguin. Follain is noted for his succinct haunting lyrics evocative the landscape of his native Normandy.
Michel Garnau (1939-2021)was a well-known Quebecois playwright and poet born in Montreal. The poems selected here are from poèmes du traducteur (poems of the translator) written while he was translating Leonard Cohen’s Book Of Longing, writing an original poem for each poem he translated. The friend who gifted me this edition called him “the Charles Bukowski of Montreal.”
Robert Hébert is a Montreal based poet and philosopher. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and things Quebecois. His most recent book is La Légende des incarnation (Note Bene, 2025). An interesting feature of Hébert’s is his use of code switching from French to English.
Pat Nolan was born in Montreal and grew up in a bilingual household.

This Imperfect World

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This Imperfect World by Ann Erickson printable pdf

Ann Erickson has written poetry since she was a child. She grew up in northern Indiana, went to college at Swarthmore and traveled in Europe and Africa. She came out to California in the late 1960s and lived on the Russian River for fifty years. In those years on the River, she published her poetry and short prose in over a hundred small press magazines and anthologies, edited tight magazine and performed in poetry readings. Ann is now in Fort Bragg on the Mendocino coast, painting seascapes and writing a little, still.

Bag Of Bones

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Bag Of Bones by Mark Hansen printable pdf

Mark Hansen is a Pacific Northwest artist and poet living near the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers. His girlfriend and two cats tolerate him as much as they are able.

Forward Collision Warning

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Forward Collision Warning by Joel Dailey printable pdf

From high atop FSI (Fell Swoop International) Headquarters in New Orleans, Joel Dailey edits & publishes SWOOPCARDS, an ongoing series of letterpress postcards & broadsides. His latest book is NEW DETAILS EMERGE (New Books, 2023). His previous books all from Lavender Ink include: LOWER 48, MY PSYCHIC DOGS MY LIFE & INDUSTRIAL LOOP.

Jacks Or Better

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Jacks Or Better by Pat Nolan printable pdf

Pat Nolan’s Jacks Or Better is one in a series of travel journals modelled on Basho’s kikō (travel diaries) in which the Japanese poet recorded his travels to meet others engaged in the practice of haikai no renga (linked verse). In Jacks Or Better, Nolan travels by train from the Bay Area to New Orleans to meet up with the poet Andrei Codrescu, and then on to Lakeland, Florida to visit with his parents. Travel journals of this type usually consist of a narrative interspersed with haiku-like poems resembling the prose/poetry form of haibun. Nolan’s other excursions at the behest of the muse include The Cloudy Road To The East (Transfer), Exile’s Return (Exquisite Corpse), Bolinas And Beyond (Exquisite Corpse, later published as Ah Bolinas! in a limited edition by Not My Hat Press), and Irony Road (Milk Magazine).

Bromige Revisited

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Bromige Revisited, Poems by David Bromige printable pdf

David Bromige was born in London, England in 1933 where he was educated and became a prize winning student. Not content to give his life over to academics just yet, he worked as a shepherd in Sweden as might be depicted in a Glen Baxter panel. Eventually he found himself in Canada, in the province of Saskatchewan for a short time before matriculating to Vancouver’s institute of higher learning where he met and was befriended by some of Canada’s great poets writing in English at that time. To further his education he studied at UC Berkeley where his writing came to the attention of the eminent poet Robert Duncan. Soon Bromige was teaching in the California State University system in Sonoma County. He found Luther Burbank’s “paradise on earth” to be quite congenial to his life style until his passing in June of 2009. He was the author of over 40 poetry selection, many of them prize winning works, of a unique wit and contemplative of the vagaries of absurdity. He fits in no neat category stylistically, yet he was long associated with the Language School. IF Wants To Be The Same As IS, a selected collection of his oeuvre, was published by New Star Books of Vancouver in 2018.

onward walking on (1)

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onward walking on (1) by Stephen Ratcliffe printable pdf

Stephen Ratcliffe is the author of more than 25 books of poetry, including m o m e n t (Spuyten Duyvil) Black and Yellow Notebooks (BlazeVox), Rocks and More Rocks (Cuneiform), Painting (Chax) and Selected Days (Counterpath) which won the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, as well as a collection of his correspondence, Barbara Guest : Stephen Ratcliffe : Letters (Chax). He has also written 3 books of literary criticism, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet, Listening to Reading, and Campion: On Song. His ongoing series of eight 1,000-page books written in 1,000 consecutive days are at Editions Eclipse (http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/editions.html) and his series of daily poems-plus-photographs are at Temporality (http://stephenratcliffe.blogspot.com). Publisher of Avenue B books and Emeritus Professor at Mills College, he has lived in Bolinas since 1973.

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[Insert Title] by Gerry Nolan Printable pdf

Gerry Nolan (1947-2025) pursued many creative avenues in his life, and one of them was writing. He published poetry selections in the early 70s, Captain Asthma and Your Book. More recently he participated in The Salt Creek Collective under the auspices of Indiana University. His taste in poetry was eclectic, from Basho to Bukowski; in fiction, from Melville to Elmore Leonard. His real passion, however, was native American culture and arts, a lifelong pursuit. He was by nature a story teller and a trickster, known to some as “Blue Coyote,” a raconteur, a wit, and a pilgrim in search of truth, beauty, and balance in life’s journey.

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Chance Demographic by Simon Schuchat printable pdf

Simon Schuchat has lived in New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow, just to name a few. His translations of Chinese and Russian prose and poetry have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, as has his own poetry, which has also been published in five collections, most out of print except for latest, THE CENTOS OF SIMON SCHUCHAT, from Aerialedge Books in DC. According to Kathy Acker, “his poetry doesn’t tell you stuff: it is consciousness.” Soviet Texts, his translations of Moscow conceptualist poet Dmitri Prigov came out in 2020 from Ugly Duckling Presse. His translation of Zhang Henshui’s 81 DREAMS will appear from Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Renditions Press in the near future.