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You know it. You might love it. It's DIAGRAM III, the third print anthology from the NMP. For all your diagrammatic needs, or if you want a way to measure the leaping ability of common marmosets, or even if you just want another fix of your favorite work from the online magazine DIAGRAM: then this work is for you. Paperback, 6" x 9", 276pp. $14. Preorder your copy today. (They ship 01.30.08.) ISBN: 978-1-934832-04-2 [Anthology Details coming 01.30.08] |
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DIAGRAM.2 is the second excellent print anthology, hopefully useful to you in artifact slash book format as opposed to the sweet, sweet online goodness that is mostly DIAGRAM. This one you can hold in your hands, trade with your friends (collect all 500!), and gift and regift to your heart's content. You don't hate children, do you? Then (or even if you do) buy this bad boy today. Paperback, 6" x 9", 256 pp, finely-designed, finely-printed, $12.95. ISBN: 0-9762092-1-7 Distributed by Baker & Taylor. |
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(Some from) DIAGRAM: a Print Anthology features selections from our first two years plus much more. Published in 2003 by Del Sol Press. We love our online presence, but there is something about having the book, the fact of the thing, artifact, in front of you and thumbing through its pages. The art is crisper, more detailed, larger. The texts are even more satisfying. Plus you can rip out the pages of the pieces you just don't like. Smear the margins with your Dorito-stained or blood-stained fingers, depending whether you come from lunch or murder. Paperback, 6.14" x 9.21", 228 pp, finely-designed, finely-printed. ISBN: 0-9725095-8-5 Distributed by Baker & Taylor. |
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| 2008 Chapbook Series Subscription | Buy a subscription to the entire 2008 chapbook series. $28 gets you all our chapbooks published in the last half of 2008: chapbooks by 2008 contest winner Marc McKee as well as chapbooks by Rachel Moritz, Chlöe Joan López, and Jennifer Moss. This new series is perfect-bound, full-color covers, and hella pretty as far as artifacts go. You can also buy them at Amazon when they're out, but why don't we just skip the middleman. Subscriptions also make sweet sweet Christmas gifts. Note: chapbooks will be mailed when they are published (Oct 08 to Dec 08). |
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| [TBA] | Quodlibet: Chloë Joan López (2008 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest finalist) The cute new size: 5" x 8", 56pp, perfect bound, rocking color cover. $9.00. [pdf press release to come] ISBN: 978-1-934832-18-9. |
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Beast, to Be Your Friend: Jennifer Moss (2008 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest finalist) This chapbook is a strange beast indeed. Beautiful and odd in equal measure, these poems charm, are charms themselves collected on a string, shining, shrinking, shirking all of their duties, opting instead for play. Instead they make up a tiny bestiary (birds, goats, calves, cows, centaurs, octopi, zebras, dogs, and more) and court the darkness under everything. The cute new size: 5" x 8", 48pp, perfect bound, rocking color cover. $8.00. ISBN: 978-1-934832-19-6. Release date: 01/01/09. Shipping now! |
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What Apocalypse?: Marc McKee The 2008 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest winner! An oddity, an excavation, an exclamation, an excoriation, a string of direct addresses to the world—both the one we know and the brightly-colored one just undeneath our every precipice, this chapbook is fabulous in all senses of the word, including burning Camaros, prosthetic limbs, Lethe, the poet Jason Bredle, the Wig-o-Rama, a repurposed porpoise, terror, beauty, love, the cinema, sharks, and much light. 56pp of gloriousness, you’ll want to read it. the cute new plus size: 5.5" x 8.5", 56pp, perfect bound, rocking color cover. $9.00. ISBN: 978-1-934832-17-2. |
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The Rachel Moritz Package includes both of her chapbooks. All yours for $14. Get up to date on your Moritz. Seriously. Or buy them individually. We don't care. | $14 | |
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Night-Sea: Rachel Moritz Rachel's new chapbook is gorgeous, languagey, and strange. Haunting is one word we might use to define it. Also amazing. If you liked The Winchester Monologues (and who didn't), then here's more Moritz for you. If you don't know The Winchester Monologues, you are missing out like crazy. the cute new size: 5" x 8", 56pp, perfect bound, rocking color cover. $9.00. ISBN: 978-1-934832-16-5. |
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stitched (a surface opens): Arianne Zwartjes These intricate essays use mathematics and poetry, the intersection of language and thought, to interrogate and describe the world. The cast list includes Gauss, Euclid, Weil, Rumi, Heidegger, Eliot, Carson, and Calvino. Thinky and beautiful, Zwartjes's essays are open, electrical explorations in space. 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-02-8 |
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Our Aperture: Ander Monson Elegaic and occasionally formal as always, this new collection of Monson's poems explores virtual and physical spaces, lining up world after world after world. These poems list, go associative, riffing on the manifestations of our manufactured lives. From methylchloroisothiazolinone, the wonderfully-named shampoo ingredient, to actor Wil Wheaton and digital shivs, these poems explore the muchness and emptiness of our lives. [Preorder: chapbook released and shipped on 30 January 2008] 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-03-5 |
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Jacket of the Straits: Vincent Zompa Presented here for you: three long and beautiful, spatial and fragmented, poems, variously influenced by Jorge Luis Borges’ Labyrinths, by James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, and by influence itself. There’s much water here, and language, book and song, all taken apart and reassembled into something surprising and new. 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-0-9791501-8-0 |
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Scorpionica: Karyna McGlynn These are dark and playful, sometimes brutal, seemingly confessional poems. Here you will find: long electric hair, death by tetherball rope, sex, termite-infested houses, potato salads, prehistoric birds, body of missing teen found in family shed, a cousin’s slender curling neck, and suburban barbarism, among much more. 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-01-1 |
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The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon: Charles Jensen This beautiful, haunting text describes Maribel Dixon’s crossing over to the Ghost-World and Edward’s attempts to reach her there, to bring her back or go himself—via found documents, interviews, prose fragments, and reassembled poems. 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-934832-00-4. |
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Creation Myths: Mathias Svalina
This book offers, as the title suggests, a variety of creation myths that come in as beautiful, thoughtful, bizarre, hilarious, absurd, theological, disturbing, wack, and generally spectacular. Svalina has answers to most, if not all, of your theological questions concerning dimensionality, bacon, Larry Bird, teambuilding, chemistry, Des Moines, office supplies, and unexpected catastrophe. 5.5" x 8.5", 44pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-9-7. |
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Arbor: Melissa Ginsburg Poems that exist in and emanate out of silence and horizontal spaces, and a great deal of cold, Ginsburg's excellent Arbor is dark and clear and beautiful, all still water and towering columns of air. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-4-2. |
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A Conventional Weather: John Pursley III These poems include all of the following: supermarket fluourescence, wood thrushes, Chet Baker, geological strata, periodicity, failure, kerosene, gasoline, and varieties of light. Plus more of course. They’re restless, thoughtful, always in motion. You will enjoy following their constantly surprising and entertaining gaze. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-3-5. |
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Feign: Kristy Bowen Bowen writes: "And what else to do with a girl / with a mouth like a dirty book, / a burnt out car." We could not have said it better ourselves. We'd rather just listen to her characters acting out in these ingenious poems. They're beautiful, not a little dangerous, a touch magical, algebraical (if that's a word at all—well, it is now; Bowen has driven us, pleasingly, to this). They are good. Better than. 48pp, $8. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-2-8.
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In the Particular Particular: Stephanie Anderson It's a great debut: we are thrilled to announce
the These poems smoke when sprayed with water: that is how hot they are. (Technically that's evaporation, but it looks a lot like smoke.) They are each like evaporations, evocations, interactions with the world via verb and adjective and noun. They are gloriously in love with language, and we believe you will love them in return. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 48pp. $8.00. ISBN: 978-0-9791501-1-1.
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Exit Interview: Paul Guest Just released, Paul Guest's new chapbook, Exit Interview. It's great. The work here is lyric, luminous, hilarious and heartbreaking by turns. Axe that: that description just doesn't do it justice; it's blurbese. Let us just say that this is really good. The poems are tender and speculative, lit up by Elvis, Jonny Quest, robot butlers and the general widespread need for them, the invisible man, Godzilla, and the worlds of pain and memory and love. [Download Press Release in PDF] 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $8.00. ISBN: 0-9762092-7-6.
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The Batteries: G. C. Waldrep Just released in February 2006, G.C. Waldrep's The Batteries is available now! Buy this lovely chapbook, a lyric meditation on the now-abandoned California seacoast fortifications of the Marin Headlands, now. In typical Waldrep fashion, these longer poems are thoughtful and evocative, introspective and fluid, above all, luminous. Includes photographs by Jennifer MacKenzie. 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $8.00. ISBN: 0-9762092-5-X. |
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Murmuration: Sima Rabinowitz Just released in February 2006, 2004 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest finalist Sima Rabinowitz brings you a chapbook exploring the interior lives of spiritualists, scientists, and taxonomists. 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $8.00. ISBN: 0-9762092-6-8 |
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A Ghost as King of the Rabbits: Joshua Marie Wilkinson 2005 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest finalist, and winner of the University of Iowa Poetry Prize. This long fragmented poem plays on the Wallace Stevens poem of the inverted title. This chapbook will Check out his work in DIAGRAM issues [4.3], [5.4] 5.5" x 8.5", 40 pp. $7.00. ISBN 0-9762092-3-3 [press release & order form in pdf]
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Halflives: Andrew Gottlieb A 2005 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest finalist, Gottlieb's chapbook falls on the more traditional side of the poetry fence. These poems are expertly imagistic and linguistic. Check out his work in DIAGRAM issues [3.5], [5.3], [5.5] 5.5" x 8.5", 40 pp. $7.00. ISBN 0-9762092-4-1 [press release & order form in pdf]
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The Winchester Monologues: Rachel Moritz Check out her work in DIAGRAM issues [3.3], [4.3], [5.5] The 2005 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest winner, Rachel Moritz's chapbook consists of one long, researched (occasionally-digressing-into-prose) poem, combined with a set of poems touring the Winchester house. This is an exceptionally fine poetic debut. 5.5" x 8.5", 48 pp. $8.00. ISBN 0-9762092-2-5 [press release & order form in pdf]
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Old Voile: Molly Tenenbaum A finalist in the 2004 contest, this manuscript was so good that we had to publish it regardless. Molly's work is one of a kind. She also plays old time music, and publishes poems widely. This book is lovely, airy (mostly), and playful. Check out her work in DIAGRAM issues [5.3] and [4.4] 5.5" x 8.5", 32 pp. $7.00. ISBN 0-9762092-0-9 |
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A Twelve Step Guide: Jason Bredle Our 2004 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest winner is the most hilarious (and pathological) book you'll read all year. His work is bizarre, beautiful, and inventive. Sample it in DIAGRAM issue [4.4] and see for yourself. Now buy the book. 5.5" x 8.5", 48 pp. $7.00. ISBN 0-9725095-7-7 |
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Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials: Arielle Greenberg This is another strange project that is very much in keeping with her other books. She's exciting, energetic, diffuse at times, and linguistically definitely on. This chapbook tries to parse the real-life strange world of a murder trial through the lens of a sort-of bluegrass opera. Really odd. Really good. She was a finalist for our contest in 2003. Check out her work in DIAGRAM issue [3.4]. 5.5" x 8.5", 32pp. $7.00. ISBN 0-9725095-6-9 |
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Practices: Barbara Maloutas Our 2003 chapbook contest winner, this chapbook is a real treat--featuring diagrammy images paired with prose poems. Easily our most diagrammatic chapbook, Practices is a feast for the eyes and mouth. Check out her work in DIAGRAM issues [3.2] and [5.4]. 5.5" x 8.5", 32pp. $6.00. ISBN 0-9725095-3-4 [This title is Out of Print, unfortunately] |
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The Moon is a Lighthouse: Peter Markus The one and only. This is a prose chapbook—often going lyric, but still they're stories—interested in mud, the girl, the moon, the river, the fish, and the ever-present brothers. Markus is creating a strange new world in his prose, and he keeps going back to it again and again. This is beautiful, mysterious, primal, and often very strange. Check out his work in DIAGRAM issue [3.4]. 5.5" x 8.5", 40 pp. $6.00. ISBN 0-9725095-4-2 |
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Notebook. Knife. Mentholatum.: Simone Muench One of the more straight-ahead lineated poetry chapbooks we've published, Simone dazzles with her wordplay and associative logic. this chapbook certainly has a female bent (we hesitate to say feminist, in that it's not overtly political). Her other two books are available from Sarabande Books and Helicon Nine Editions. Check out her work in DIAGRAM issue [3.4]. 5.5" x 8.5", 44 pp. $6.00. ISBN 0-9725095-5-0 |
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The David Museum: Ron Mohring Still a classic, still selling well, our 2002 chapbook contest winner is more traditional poetry than some of our titles, but is just fantastic. Ron's work is tender, heart-wrecking, and beautiful. Reminscent at times of some of Mark Doty's poems (in both form and content, we think), this chapbook is lovely, dark, and deep. Go here. Read this. Check out his work in DIAGRAM issues [2.1] and [2.3]. 5.5" x 8.5", 40pp. $5.00. ISBN: 0-9725095-1-8 |
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Mistranslating Neruda: Matt Mason One of the odder projects we've ever taken on. Mistranslating Neruda is a translation of Pablo Neruda's poetry by a poet who knows very little Spanish. The general arc of Neruda's poems comes through regardless, and it's almost as if Mason is channeling Neruda, or reconstructing him out of more American fragments. This book is a stunning and unusual achievement. Check out his work in DIAGRAM issue [2.1]. 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $5.00. ISBN: 0-9725095-2-6 |
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A Calendar of Crows: Michael Sowder Michael Sowder was our first contest winner back in 2001. While he has gone on to bigger glories, this chapbook is still essential. It is an actual calendar (12 poems, 12 months) of crows (plus of course the term describes a group of crows). By turns funny and wrenching, we endorse this chapbook wholeheartedly. Check out his work in DIAGRAM issue [2.1]. 5.5" x 8.5", 36pp. $5.00. ISBN: 0-9725095-0-X |
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| — THE QUARTER CHAPBOOK SERIES — | |||
An Unknown History of Detroit: Alicia Holmes
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| The Book of Lila: Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis | qchap | $2 | |
| By Chain, By Stair, By Rope: Ben Gunsberg | qchap | — | *** Out of Print |
| A Numerical Devotional by Emma Ramey | qchap | $2 | |
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| Safety Features: Ander Monson |
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