Burning Press
Experimental literature, visual and intermedia poetics, and regional NE Ohio poetry, 1982-2000
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This is an historical site covering the activities of Burning Press, an alternative literary publisher active in Cleveland from 1982-2000. It provides info on various activities and publications, many of which are still available from the archives.
Tom Beckett, Bobbie West, Bob Drake, Eds. 1999, 179pp.
Multifaceted examinations and appreciations of Rae Armantrout's innovative and influential poetry.
Essays by: Lyn Hejinian, Laura Moriarty, Aldon L. Nielsen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Brenda Hillman, Fanny Howe, Ann Vickery, Susan Wheeler, Lydia Davis, Jessica Grim, Kit Robinson, Robert Creeley, Bobbie West, Tom Beckett, David Bromige, Charles Alexander, Hank Lazer, Bob Perelman, and Ron Silliman.
Plus Return Ticket, a selection of poems dedicated to Rae by: Ron Silliman, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Lyn Hejinian, Kit Robinson, Bob Perelman, Steve Benson, Alan Bernheimer, Barrett Watten, and Geoff Young; assembled & edited by Lyn Hejinian.
And, nine poems by Rae Armantrout.
Collected Poems, by Major Ragain. 1996, 123pp.
"These poems are prayer flags starched in buttermilk, ghost tattoos, gravel in the wound, what I found after the city drained lake, arguments against common sense, arrows from the stinking bowman, angel hair on the world tree, chatter from the hanged man, christmas cards to Buddha, quarrels with the mountain named Time, slash marks on the willow tree, music to cauterize sour mouths, a small text of praise, a three wheeled truck, a graveyard full of trash, a case of wobble pop, a clothesline for the naked swamis painted with blue mud, a broken paddle, a ripped sail, a thermos for hot tears..."
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