CATALOG
Some of our previously published books are available for sale in limited quantities. Please contact us if you are interested in any of them.
THE APHASIA CAFE
Dawn McGuire
Soft Cover, 72 Pages
April, 2012
$18.95
Description: The poems in The Aphasia Cafe explore what it means to be human when the sense of self can no longer be communicated using spoken or written language. Dawn McGuire, poet and neurologist, writes for the 'everyday' aphasias we all share: how we often can't say what we mean or mean what we say, our falling in the 'fault lines' of language, the threats to self-identity and meaning, in poems about family, bigotry, political and sexual violence, and the counterforces of love and redemption. McGuire's poems are accessible to all as we struggle with our own narratives of self.
AN OLD JUNKER
Howard Junker
Soft Cover, 144 Pages
October, 2011
$10.00
"Whatever it else may be," says Brooks Roddan, IF SF editorial director, "An Old Junker is a report from the trenches. Junker's tale is smart, funny, sad, modest, and full of itself. Best of all he names names."
Junker distilled the book from the 1,306 daily posts he made over five years, while still editing ZYZZYVA.
Junker's rambling plot includes rants, anecdotes, parodies and reviews. He savages Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen and Richard Serra, among others.
He denounces foodieism, directes renewed attention to Edward Bok, and The Tetherballs of Bougainville.
He insists that Kierkegaard is Post-Avant.
He details his day-to-day principles and procedures as an editor...and the agony of wrapping it up and searching for a successor.
And he spices up the text with candid i-Phone snapshots!
In a word, An Old Junker is a strange, marvelous, multi-genre first book—a blognovel, a proto-memoir, a novel of ideas, a coming-of-old-age novel,
a tech manual....
the lyrica poems 2003-2010
Michael Hannon
Soft Cover, 68 pages
June, 2011
$15.00
Description: Six word poems and/or koans presented in series—
what Big Cup saw and how he saw it when he experienced
the words as images masking things, things masking no thing—
reality a slippery fish, the prosody of that. Doom and sense of fun—just so.
back music
vapor trail
frozen auto
EAST OF WEST LA
Kevin McCollister
Soft Cover, 56 pages
$19.99
Description: Kevin McCollister wandered the dimly lit streets of Los Angeles, and his visual poems are assembled in this book. His subjects range from the many bridges, taco stands, hotels, buildings and details of architectural infrastructure to those who people inhabit these same locations.
"You will find, as I did, this work to be a pithy, gritty look at present day
LA done with the eye of an artist."
-Phil Jackson, NBA coach and author
"McCollister's photos are luscious and meditative, conceptual and concrete, painterly and documentary, both Hopper-esque and matter of fact, giving us shadows and depths powerful enough to break through all the noir, bizarro, and sunshine cliches about Los Angeles. Beauty and reality strike equally and hard, giving exquisite and tactile composition to the act, and facts, of seeing."
-Fred Dewey, author
TRUSTING OBLIVION
Michael Hannon
Soft Cover, 54 pages
$22.00
LIMITED QUANTITIES
Description: Hannon does in poem after poem, trust oblivion that is, with the slenderest of reeds.
Michael Hannon's new collection of poems, Trusting Oblivion, was published by if publishing (2002). His work has been widely published in journals and anthologies. He is the author of three full-length collections: Poems & Days (1985), Ordinary Messengers (1991), and Trusting Oblivion (2002). Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon's work, "A very good poet indeed, and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty."
BITTERSWEET KALEIDOSCOPE
Bill Mohr
Soft Cover, 33 pages
$20.00
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Description: The narrative marries the lyrical in this frisky book of poems by the legendary founder of Momentum Press, chronicler of LA’s alt-lit history, and beloved professor at CSULB. If sincerity is the enemy of style, Bill Mohr is a master.
WHATEVER HAPPENED
Tim Reynolds
Soft Cover, 56 pages
SOLD OUT
Description: The A-Z anti-memoir of a poet and who encountered Cummings, Pound, Frost, Borges, Kenneth Rexroth, Rod Serling, William Empson (sealed until 2075) and many others, but who lied about meeting Wallace Stevens. Note: the author wished the book to be called IBMIRD, for the word processing system upon which the book was written, and has insisted ever since on stamping the published version of “ Whatever Happened” with that title whenever he could.
TREE
Brooks Roddan
Joe Goode
Soft Cover, 38 pages
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Description: Joe Goode's brilliant at-one-with-the-place black and white photos, taken when he lived near Springville, California on the western side of the Sierras, and Brooks Roddan's meditative response, a narrative interspersed among Goode's images as a tree might find its place in the forest.