Susana Gardner's Herso an heirship in waves -- Black Radish Blog

Susana Gardner's new collection of poetry from Black Radish Books, Herso an heirship in waves, is now available from SPD, and you can read j/j hastain's review at the publisher's blog.


Cathy Wagner writes of this collection, "I don't know another poet so formally daring. Rebellious curlicue and lace significant: the pages gleam with pleasure, finesse and audacious measure of human becoming. A consideration of feminine inheritance, rebirth paroled by langue, a her(o)'s journey as decadently articulated as sea-froth. Find it too pretty at your peril—you'll get pricked by the fine point on this punning."

Lara Durback responds to Carrie Hunter's The Incompossible

A new response to Carrie Hunter's The Incompossible by Lara Durback now up at Black Radish Blog: "Like me, Carrie yearns for graph paper....I think the yearning for the grid is about wanting to draw around the grid, wanting to write diagonally on the grid, write all over and take apart the grid.  Wanting to think about how to get around the grid, this 'real' predisposed, measured, mapped plan of living."  Read Lara's full response at here.


The Incompossible is available from SPD.

Erik Noonan responds to The Incompossible

Check out the review by Erik Noonan of Carrie Hunter's new Black Radish book: "The Incompossible enjoins its readership to read and speak and write as if the common tongue were actually worth something – that is, the book addresses the faculty of articulation in every sphere of life."  Read his full review here.

Carrie Hunter's The Incompossible now at SPD

 Carrie Hunter's AMAZING The Incompossible, published by Black Radish Books, is now available from SPD, and you can read j hastain's response at the Black Radish blog

Jared Stanley on James Maughn's Arakaki Permutations

Black Radish Blog has a new posting up: Jared Stanley responds to James Maughn's Arakaki Permutations: "a great pleasure to read – the mind turning the graphemes into motions."  http://blackradishblog.blogspot.com/

Laura Goldstein responds to Gaze at Black Radish Blog

Laura Goldstein responds to Gaze -- "Confronted with images that reach us like missiles we have to conjure in order to confront" -- at Black Radish Blog.

Gaze is available from SPD.

Douglas A. Martin on Schaeppi's Sonja Sekula

Black Radish blog has a new response to Kathrin Schaeppi's Sonja Sekula: Grace in a cow's EYE : a memoir :

A canvas: If you think of the book as a work place (space), if you think of it as a way for stretching out

A canvas of: poems the poet-author/artist makes (marks)

A canvas from notebooks: words the responses to visual stimulus

(unlike Hannah Weiner, she here will not write on forehead)

-- Read more here.

New book by Kathrin Schaeppi: a response by Rebecca Brown at Black Radish blog

Black Radish Books' blog has just posted a response by Rebecca Brown to Kathrin Schaeppi's Sonja Sekula: Grace in a cow's EYE : a memoir : -- an incandescent ecstacy riffing on Sekula's words themselves, Brown's response riding the big wave of Schaeppi's collage-driven text -- check it out here.

Gaze in Best of 2010 list at No Tell Motel

Gaze (Black Radish Books) appears on David Wolach's "Best Poetry Books of 2010" at No Tell Motel: http://notellpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-poetry-books-of-2010-david-wolach.html -- along with Eleni Stecopolous' Armies of Compassion, Brenda Iijima's revv.you'll--ution, Mark Lamoureaux's Spectre, Rachel Zolf's Neighbor Procedure, and six others.

Copies of Gaze are available from SPD: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982573105/gaze.aspx

Kathrin's Schaeppi's new collection

Kathrin Schaeppi's new poetry collection from Black Radish Books is now available: Sonja Sekula, Grace in a Cow's Eye: A Memoir. Check it out!

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Heather Momyer dons Hecate's mask for All Haints Eve and responds to Mark Lamoureux's Spectre. Check it out at Black Radish Books' blog here.

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Mark Lamoureux's Spectre

Mark Lamoureux's new book Spectre is out from Black Radish Books. You can catch a glimpse of it at on "SPD Recommends" or buy a copy here.

A marriage of the fantastic to the absurd--the monstrous and the transcendent, the ridiculous and the delightful, the ordinary and the other-worldly: Lamoureux pursues a deliciously strange seam of Nazis, superheroes, aliens, mythologies, monstrous fungi, altered consciousness, magic, and spirits, a carnival-esque world scored by a voice alternately sardonic, wistful, and ironic. A potent and beguiling collection.

If you would like to review Spectre, contact Black Radish Books for a free copy at blackradishbooks at gmail dot com