As citizens in the commonwealth of language, we are anxious to make new work freely and easily available, using the swift herald of the internet to bring readers chapbooks and other texts they can read and download without cost. The first publications in this series:
Eyeland, photos by Charlotte Mandell with texts by Lynn Behrendt, Billie Chernicoff, Robert Kelly, and Tamas Panitz.
A chapbook of poems by Tamas Panitz, THE EMPTY STATIONS.
THE LANGUAGE OF EDEN by Robert Kelly.
OVERTURE by Eléna Rivera.
free floating instant nations: preverbs by George Quasha.
Old Codger’s Rants and Reveries by Charles Stein.
For Else by Cameron Seglias.
ANSWER THE LIGHT, drawings by Sherry Williams and poems by Robert Kelly.
TWO AMBERS, poems by Anne Gorrick.
The Fifteen Promises of Our Lady by Sophie Strand.
FOURTEEN COMPLEX VIBRATIONS OF THE BASILAR MEMBRANE by Michael Ives.
Eaux Metambesen! Photos by Charlotte Mandell.
The Pleasures, poems by Billie Chernicoff.
ABANDONED LINES by Thomas Meyer.
Madonna as Pelican by Celia Bland.
THE MAXIMS OF MARTIN TRAUBENRITTER
In Her Wake by Dorota Czerner, with images by Hanna Sidorowicz.
Lechah Dodi by Alana Siegel.
GRADIVA by BILLIE CHERNICOFF
SONNETS by Ian Dreiblatt.
RUN and other poems by Lynn Behrendt.
NON-JURING EPISCOPALIAN LUDDITE SONNETS by Peter Lamborn Wilson.
CLAWS by Barbara Leon and Robert Kelly.
The Lemon by Ben Tripp.
A BREAK IN THE WEATHER by Robert Kelly.
SEVEN FAIRY TALES by Robert Kelly.
Reflets dans l’eau by Charlotte Mandell.
A LADY’S SHOE by Carey Harrison.
AS THE HAND HOLDS THE SHAPE OF THE STONE IT HAS THROWN and other poems by L. S. Asekoff
PIECES OF A LARGER PICTURE: PAINTINGS BY PAUL HOTVEDT.
A BOOK OF SPELLS by Mikhail Horowitz.
I TAROCCHI NUOVI by Robert Kelly.
BETTY: Remembering Betty Reid Mandell.
A Book of Foxes by Pierre Joris.
STEPS by Robert Kelly.
THE DRAWN MOON, images by Louise Smith, texts by Tamas Panitz.
the eros of soft exterior shocks by George Quasha.
THE CERTAINTIES OF MARTIN TRAUBENRITTER
Approximately Near by Kimberly Lyons.
A Journal of Places by Brenda Coultas.
BESTIARY by Lila Dunlap.
Le Bon Dieu Drives a Flying Something / Psychic Robot Loves You by Micaela Morrissette.
MARVIN: REMEMBERING MARVIN MANDELL 1927-2017.
CONCEIT: Poems by Anne Gorrick, Photographs by Charlotte Mandell
THE POEMS OF SAMUEL JASON MARLES
SEA GLASS by Billie Chernicoff
NEW WORLDS IN OLD STONES, photographs by Mary Frances
CONCEALED IN BRIGHTNESS: Photographs by Charlotte Mandell, poems by Robert Kelly
Co•Configurative Eternities, paintings by Ashley Garrett with preverbs by George Quasha
TAROT IMAGES, paintings by Ashley Garrett with poems by Billie Chernicoff, Lila Dunlap, Robert Kelly, and Tamas Panitz
NUMBERS, drawings by Louise Smith with poems by Tamas Panitz
BLUE TONGUES OF FIRE, paintings by Sterrett Smith with poems by Robert Kelly
LANDFALL, photographs by Mary Frances
THE CLOUDHERDING BOOK, poems by Robert Kelly written to photographs by Charlotte Mandell
UNDER THE WINDOW by Joel Newberger
MYTHOS, poems by Jeffrey Katz with paintings by Mary Katz
ARC by Tamas Panitz
A MONTH OF MEANINGS, drawings by Sherry Williams
WATER COLOR, poems by Lila Dunlap written to drawings by Sherry Williams
SURFACE RETENTION, poems by George Quasha written to photographs by Susan Quasha
HOMAGE TO THE ALPHABET, with texts by Vyt Bakaitis, Celia Bland, Terence Boylan, Billie Chernicoff, Lila Dunlap, Mikhail Horowitz, Robert Kelly, Kimberly Lyons, Charlotte Mandell, Joel Newberger, Tamas Panitz, Rachel Pollack, Elizabeth Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg, Charles Stein, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Maggie Louisa Zavgren
THE READER, a brief manifesto by Robert Kelly
THE QUESTING by Robert Kelly
TRIPTYCH by Maggie Louisa Zavgren
Doors / Türen by Robert Kelly, Selected and Translated into German by Urs Engeler
LEAFLIGHT: Summer Photographs by Charlotte Mandell with Texts by Robert Kelly
HILARITAS SUBLIME, Photos by Susan Quasha with Preverbs by George Quasha
SHADOWS’ SHADOWS, Drawings with Foto-Projections by Nancy Goldring, with Introduction by Giulia Oskian
THE PICTURE OF THE SPIRIT by Elizabeth Robinson
STRINGS by Robert Kelly
VEGETARIAN VAMPIRES by Irakli Qolbaia
POÉSIES by Georges Schehadé, Selected and Translated by Austin Carder
GLASSHOUSE by Mary Frances
LINDENWOOD by Dorota Czerner
THE LIBERATIVE SPACE THAT MIGHT BE POETRY: Detachment and Commitment in Robert Kelly’s The Hexagon by Charles Stein
MAUVE by Kimberly Lyons
NEW: PARALLEL WILLOWS by Robin Freund
About “the flanges of words”
In 1855 Whitman took some leftover green paper covers from the first edition of Leaves of Grass, cut them small, and bound them into at least one pocket notepad. Once in the library of the generous Charles Feinman in Detroit, I held that notebook in my hand, opened it, and found that Whitman had written on only one page, and on it only one phrase: “the flanges of words.” That phrase has haunted me ever since, with its precise delineation of how words fit together in poetry, joining always firmly, but always at some angle.
— from Robert Kelly’s “The Book” in the forthcoming (November 2014) issue of Conjunctions: 63
About Metambesen:
Metambesen is the old name of the stream that flows from the silver lodes of the Taghkanic Hills to the Hudson, passing the house where these words are edited. When we first moved here, old men still panned for gold dust in its waters. On the maps they call it the Sawkill.