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  • Small Press

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    by Entropy February 9, 2016

    I want the press to have a sense of immediacy vital to a small-ish, specific contemporary reading audience that seeks literature with a what I call a visceral-mystical aesthetic—work that seeks a way to engage the big questions by examining the particular leaky, fleshy, grotesque difficulties, embarrassments, and traumas of being embodied.

    co•im•press’s closest influences are Action Books, Black Ocean, Noemi Press, Spork, Birds of Lace, Fence, and Tarpaulin Sky. The editorial perspective of the journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas is also a significant influence (Roberto Tejada, Kristin Dykstra, and Gabriel Bernal Granados, editors). I worked on production and marketing/distribution for Mandorla from 2009 to 2013 via Illinois State University’s Publications Unit, and through that work, I also learned of its forerunner in spirit, El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn (Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragon, editors; there is a really great documentary on The Plumed Horn, too). I admire the way Mandorla’s editors and contributing editors created an open, networked community of writers across languages, borders, hemispheres, which can be divisive elements if we let them. Working with Kristin Dykstra when she was at ISU, I learned: that publishing can be a political act, to respect translators as much as authors, and the importance of translation as an art and practice. I also became attuned to the shameful dearth of translated works published in the US.

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    The Untranslatable

    by Guest Contributor November 20, 2015

    Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, edited by Barbara Cassin Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood Princeton University Press, 2014 1344 pages – Princeton / Amazon   Strictly…

  • LiteratureReview

    A short review of Now and At the Hour of Our Death

    by Alex Kalamaroff October 20, 2015

    Now and At the Hour of our Death by Susan Moreira Marques Translated by Julia Sanches And Other Stories, 2015 128 pages – And Other Stories / Amazon   Portuguese journalist Susana…

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    The Corpse In Question: A Review of The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz

    by Meghan Lamb October 19, 2015

    The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz Translated by Adrian Nathan West Dorothy, 2015 144 pages – Dorothy / Amazon   When reading The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz, I…

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    Goodmorning Menagerie

    by Entropy September 29, 2015

    What does small press publishing need most? Apart from many wealthy benefactors, small presses need more (reasonably affordable) venues to generate visibility for themselves and their authors. AWP, SPD, and bookstores are all great (most of the time), but their cost and cuts are often large enough that presses like ours can’t afford to take advantage of them. We could really use a soulful Amazon that doesn’t take 40% of the book price, which is sometimes the entire profit margin of our books. While small presses are trying to globalize the voices we represent, we also need a more localized book economy, including more readings and independent literary conferences, especially as AWP becomes more inaccessible and hostile to organizations and people who aren’t already in power in the lit world. We see small presses as a destabilizing and disruptive force, maybe even socialist in a way, and we would like to see that becoming more visible.

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    Lightduress, My Literacy Narrative

    by Sylvia Chan September 24, 2015

      It’s hard for me to write scholarly work, though I’ve been told by poets and scholarly writers alike that I’ve a scholarly mind. I’m sure this stems from what…

  • Small Press

    Canarium Books

    by Entropy July 14, 2015

    Canarium’s editorial vision changes with the ongoing conversation between the editors, which is increasingly informed by our growing list. We’ve been fortunate to publish quite a few first books, and the support of emerging poets is definitely central to our mission, as is the publication of works in translation. I don’t want to impose any framework on the individual collections, which together constitute a rather large aesthetic field, but I will say that I think they all grapple with language and history in fascinating ways. I’ll leave the rest of the adjectives for the critics.

  • Small Press

    Flood Editions

    by Entropy June 23, 2015

    From the start our focus has been poetry, primarily work that might be described as modernist, but far-flung and eclectic. Our sixty-odd books include British and Australian poets; translations from ancient Chinese, Greek, and Persian; innovative new work alongside lost modernist classics; the living and the dead. In this way we hope to find new paths to the present. Our mission is to present such work in finely made yet affordable editions.

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    “A way of belonging to the future”: A Conversation With Carmen Boullosa

    by Joe Milazzo June 11, 2015

    It may not be evident from the questions posed below, much less whatever line they may be drawing, sinking, etc., but Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014)…

  • Small Press

    Two Lines Press

    by Entropy May 12, 2015

    Every person who purchases a Two Lines Press subscription is a godsend. They’re our core, and they’re just so so important. It’s money in the bank, and it’s people who are giving us a huge vote of confidence by saying they trust whatever we’re going to put out there. We like to thank them whenever we can—for 2014 we printed up special, signed chapbooks from Naja Marie Aidt’s Baboon, and this year we collaborated with the translator Jan Steyn to produce a really cool, hand-pressed erasure/translation/mutation broadside. There were definitely some eyes popping from sockets when those things arrived in the mail!

  • Small Press

    Wave Books

    by Entropy April 24, 2015

    It’s fantastic to have so many readers enthusiastic about poetry and about physical/print books. We have many people writing to us, wanting to visit, wanting to work in our office, inviting our authors to do events—there is just an outpouring of love and enthusiasm all the time, and not just from younger writers or from MFA programs but from poets around the world, actually. It’s great to be part of this community. And nice books coming from all over the place—small and micro presses doing such beautiful work and inspiring each other. It’s really cool.

  • Small Press

    Ugly Duckling Presse

    by Entropy March 24, 2015

    Somehow we manage to balance the productive tension of being a volunteer-run collective with the demands of producing an output (24+ books a year) comparable to that of a much larger publishing house. A huge part of it is the fact that we are nonprofit, and therefore don’t define success according to profit margins. Because we have a tiny paid staff and limited financial resources, we are always trying to be more efficient with how we spend money. It’s a question of proper management of our resources, the most valuable of which is the energy of our interns, apprentices, volunteers, and editors.

  • Small Press

    Anomalous Press

    by Entropy February 27, 2015

    Well, something I love about Anomalous: it’s not just out for experimental writing (which is more and more my aesthetics), or essays about the Icelandic penis museum, or e-lit. It’s a home for writing that may not, for whatever reason, find a good home elsewhere. My influences are varied and wide, but I read primarily translated poetry, and so I tend to have a really international sensibility. I find a lot of American poets really insular, and so I’m always looking for things that broaden the possibilities of poetry in English.

    My mission is to create beautiful, strange little books that a grad student studying the small press movement of the early 21st century will find in a special collections somewhere and they will make her head explode.

  • Small Press

    Fitzcarraldo Editions

    by Entropy February 3, 2015

    We wanted to design the books to make them visually striking and desirable as objects, because that’s how we believe books will survive in the new media age. It’s difficult enough to sell books, and good design makes you stand out from the crowd. With this in mind, each book is published as a paperback original with French flaps, using a custom serif typeface (called Fitzcarraldo) drawn by Ray O’Meara.

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