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 d. a. levy &  the mimeograph revolution

An anthology of writing by and about d.a.levy.
Chronology of his life and work, Biographical essays, Photographs, Interviews, Profiles, Statements, Letters, Art Work, Collage, Poems and Critical appreciations of his writing and art levy's “Cleveland Prints” Eight pages in full color.

Contributors: Ed Sanders, T.L. Kryss, rjs, Karl Young, Allen Frost, Joel Lipman, Kent Taylor, Mark Kuhar, Ingrid Swanberg, Larry Smith, Russell Salamon, John Jacob, Doug Manson, Michael Basinski, Jim Lang, and others.    

Book includes updated dvd of Kon Petrochuk’s film if i scratch, if i write

"The d.a.levy book is a marvel. You were able to bring together so much of his work plus all that material about him. It is a great collection."  -Dean H. Keler

                                                    1-933964-07-3  276 pages  OUT OF PRINT

CLEVELAND POETRY SCENES

edited by 

Larry Smith & Mary E. Weems & Nina Freedlander Gibans

"Poetry has a long and living history in Cleveland, Ohio, and this examination of its past through the lens of its vibrant present is a treasure in and of itself. They are all here, the great ones who showed the way: Langston Hughes, d.a.levy, Alberta Turner, Robert Wallace, Daniel Thompson. They set the bar pretty high. But as the editors demonstrate, their sons and daughters carry on, bringing the word to the city's streets and universities, libraries and coffeehouses."  ~ Ron Antonucci

 304 pages of Cleveland Poetry Scenes from 1945 to the Present. 6 x 9 with over 50 photographs of people and places from the times. Includes an anthology of 40 key Cleveland poets with bio and statements from each.

Unbroken Circle: Stories of

Cultural Diversity in the South

Eds. Julia Watts and Larry Smith



26 fine authors share stories that embrace cultural diversity in the South.

Including: Laura Argiri, Anna Cabe, James E Cherry, Haley Fedor, Nancy Gustafson, Melanie Haws, Randall Horton, David Hunter, Robin Lippincott, Jeff Mann, Okey Napier, Chris Offutt, Erin Paul, Lynn Pruett, Cynthia Rand, Tom Ray, Bonnie Schell, Lacey Schmidt, L. Mahayla Smith, Spaine Stephens, Charles Dodd White, Anne Whitehouse, Meredith Sue Willis, Katie Winkler 



 "In turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gathering of diverse voices, Watts and Smith give us just that. A girl molds clay against her deaf brother’s ears to heal him. A gay man finds his Appalachian clan in a dark world. These are stories and essays about the blues, about poverty, about families lost and made. Unbroken Circle is about broken and unbroken lives, and ultimately, hope." —Karen Salyer McElmurray, author of Surrendered Child

Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia
Eds. Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith

Appalachia verite...This fine collection edited and introduced by Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith includes this short fiction:

"On the Road with C.T. Savage" by Meredith Sue Willis, "Burning Off into Forever" by David Joy, "The Wife You Wanted" by Marie Manilla, "Wild Kind" by Matt Brock, "The Hanging" by Darnell Arnoult, "Confluence" by Mesha Maren, "Covered Bridge" by Taylor Brown, "Obituary" by Jacinda Townsend, "Cell-Life" by Carrie Mullins, "The Hawkins Boy" by Charles Dodd White, "White Freightliner Blues" by Jon Sealy, "That Familiar Ache" by Savannah Sipple, "Monkey Proof" by Rusty Barnes, "Echolocation" by Mark Powell, "A Story to Tell" by Chris Holbrook, "Back Porch" by Chris Offutt

Appalachia Now hops on the back of a motorcycle for a wild ride through the hills we know best--Vicco, Hazard, branches, mine access roads. Fiddle tunes and black lung and the photoelectric gleam of stars. But these haunting stories take us way beyond the familiar. They are as skillfully wrought with the visible world as they are with the luminous being in the hollow of a cupped hand. I couldn't put this book down and when I did, my heart ached to step back inside the pages. ~ Karen McElmurray

178 pgs.  $17

Degrees of Elevation:

Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia

Edited by Charles Dodd White & Page Seay

A wonderful and rich collection of some of our best fiction writers treating the American landscape of Appalachia and its people.

Writers include: Rusty Barnes,  Sheldon Lee Compton, Jarrid Deaton, Richard Hague, Silas House, Chris Holbrook, Denton Loving, Mindy Beth Miller, John McManus, Jim Nichols, Valerie Nieman, Chris
Offutt, Mark Powell, Ron Rash, Alex Taylor, Crystal Wilkinson

"From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these stories will strike the reader as both absolutely true and as unforgettable, like the high pure ring of an ax on a cold winter morning, vibrating across distance, hanging in the air long afterward."  -Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace

                                     186 pgs. 978-1-933964-39-3

 An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth  Patchen

Forward by Richar Peek; Essay by Jonathan Clark

 This book documents the 2011 exhibition  of the poet-artiist graphic work held in his centennial  year at the University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library. At the same time it celebrates Patchen's artisitc achievement through this generous selection of images illuminating his life, his work, and his world.

 Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Patchen

America Zen

A Gathering of Poets

Edited by Ray McNiece and Larry Smith

This America Zen Poets gathering includes: NIN ANDREWS (Ohio), DAVID BUDBILL (Vermont), THOMAS RAIN CROWE (North Carolina), KATHE DAVIS (Ohio), DIANE DI PRIMA (California), STANFORD M. FORRESTER (Connecticut), TESS GALLAGHER (Washington), MARGARET GIBSON (Connecticut), JOHN GILGUN (Missouri), NETTA GILLESPIE (Illinois), SAM HAMILL (Washington), WILLIAM HEYEN (New York), JANE HIRSHFIELD (California), HOLLY HUGHES (Washington), MARY SUE KOEPPEL (Florida), MARK KUHAR (Ohio), MAC LOJOWSKY (California), RAY MCNIECE (Ohio), TOM MONTAG (Wisconsin), SHIN YU PAI (Massachusetts) * PAUL S. PIPER (Washington), MAJ RAGAIN (Ohio), DAVID RAY (Arizona), SEIDO RAY RONCI (Missouri), ANDREW SCHELLING (Colorado), PAUL SKYRM (Ohio), LARRY SMITH (Ohio), TONY TRIGILIO (Illinois), CHASE TWICHELL (New York), and ANNE WALDMAN (New York).

A Big wonderful collection of American Poets writing in the spirit of Zen.

260 pgs.  978-0-933087-91-0 $15.00

Evensong:

Contemporary Poets on Spirituality

The book contains profiles, statements, and 5 poems from each poet. The contributors include Francisco Aragon, Robin Behn, Christopher Buckley, Chris Bursk, Todd Davis, Travis Denton, Camille Dungy, Stephen Dunn, Stuart Dybek, Angie Estes, Annie Finch, Patricia Goedicke, Dennis Hinrichsen, Richard Jackson, Mia Leonin, Timothy Liu, Denise Low, Shara McCallum, Alicia Ostriker, Eric Pankey, Tim Seibles, Ravi Shankar, Vivian Shipley, Elizabeth Socolow, Cathy Song, Gerald Stern, Marc Straus, Michael Waters, Claude Wilkinson, Sholeh Wolpe, Charles Wright. 

               Family Matters:

           Poems of Our Families

POEMS OF: Elders--Birth--Children--Couples--Parenting--Family Portraits--Family Life--Aging--Death



POEMS BY: Elders: Louise Bogan, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Edgar Lee Masters, Kenneth Patchen, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, William Carlos Williams, James Wright

Contemporaries: Nin Andrews, Maggie Anderson, Antler, Ellen Bass, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Laura Treacy Bentley, Abigail Beckel, CL Bledsoe, Don Bogen, Allen Braden, Jeanne Bryner, Gregory Byrd, Neil Carpathias, Richard Carr, Johnson Cheu, Daryl Ngee Chinn, David Citino, Paola Corso, Alice Cone, Barbara Crooker, Thomas Rain Crowe, Jim Daniels, Kate Daniels, Todd Davis, Susan Elbe, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Diane Gilliam Fisher, Kathleen Fraser, Allen Frost, Richard Garcia, David Lee Garrison, Suzannah Gilman, William Greenway, Tina Mozelle Harris, Joy Harjo, Steven Haven, Rasma Haidri, David Hassler, Michael Hettich, Marianna Hofer, Holly Hughes, Bonnie Jacobson, Hershman John, George Kalamaras, Arthur Winfield Knight, Ted Kooser, Lolette Kuby, Li-Young Lee, Jim Lenfestey, Cathy Lentes, Lyn Lifshin, Diane Lockward, Laura Loomis, Jack McGuane, Michael McGriff, Irene McKinney, Sandra Marshburn, Peter Meinke, Andrew Merton, Corey Mesler, Robert Miltner, Greg Moglia, Sean Nevin, Edwina Pendarvis, Lynn Powell, David Pichaske, Chad Prevost, David Ray, Susan Rich, William Pitt Root, Michael Salinger, Vivian Shipley, Penelope Scambly Schott, Derek Sheffield, Noelle Sickels, Larry Smith, Gary Soto, Margo Solod, P. J. Taylor, Marianne Taylor, Richard Tayson, Susan Terris, Carine Topal, Jim Tolan, Eric Torgersen, Pamela Uschuk, Jeff Vande Zande, Claudia Van Gerven, Adam Vines, Gail Waldstein, Ron Wallace, Toshi Washizu, Mary E.Weems, Patricia Wellingham-Jones

232 pgs.  978-0933087958

On the Clock

Contemporary Short Stories of Work

A collection of stories from our top writers which confronts and reveals our working life today. Edited by Jeff Vande Zande and Josh Maday in the Working Lives Fiction Series from Bottom Dog Press. Authors include: Jim Daniels, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Daniel Orozco, Kennebrew Surant, Rick Attig, Lolita Hernandez, Michael Martone, Matthew Salesses, Matt Bell, M. Kaat Toy, Sean Lovelace, Billie Louise Jones, Lita Kurth, Anne Shewring, Dustin Hoffman, Tania Hershman, Nick Kocz, Michael Zadoorian, Steve Himmer, Pete Anderson, Pete Fromm

188 pgs....$15