Wednesday, April 27, 2016

New titles at Black Radish Books

Spring 2016 has been busy with new books by both Jen Tynes and Jesse Nissim.

 
Deftly flipping the quotidian inside out and on its head, Jen Tynes’ Hunter Monies leaves one wondering which rabbit/wormhole she, and we with her, have fallen through. Her fissured narratives relentlessly embrace the fractured, composite texture of experience and memory, unstitching the certainties by which we navigate our lives, provoking the ‘queer’ pediment just underneath: “a blue insulator / come to me like a bird.” Hunter Monies scissors open syntax, stitches idioms, spells trouble. Jen Tyne’s images soar across one another, droll grotesques by which to see our way through. Go on “out in the lush” with her, “all the men draped // in pink sateen,” wearing this “dream crown, a crown made of everything.”  Jen Tynes’ Hunter Monies is available at SPD.


And just about to arrive at SPD, Where they would never be invited by Jesse Nissim.


The uncanny architecture of the three long poems that make up Jesse Nissim’s Where they would never be invited is in itself elegiac and moving. And elegy, here, “sieving morality from myth / in filmy layers” is complicated. As age-old longings to make a home have become “a famous scene of captivity,” is it we who are culpable? Have we come to inhabit our desires as if squatters in a devastation we cannot afford to own? Yet, Nissim’s voice never falters in its tender attention to our “tilted” dreams and “translucent illusions” born in capitalism’s centrifuge. And, yes, page by page, stunningly, the poems eviscerate American capitalism—even as lawn chairs, bathtubs, fences, backyards, and wall paint are spun and lifted up in compassionate articulation until they form a “single logic,” which like a dream, “hunts the internal.” And, not just the internal, but the eternal as well, for as Nissim tells us, “the real broken transaction is darkness.” — Barbara Tomash



Thursday, January 7, 2016

News from Black Radish: jj hastain, Mark Lamoureux, and Valerie Witte

jj hastain has work in a new project in Greece: "a thing like you and me."

Christopher Schaeffer interviews Mark Lamoureux at Tinge Magazine.

And  Valerie Witte has work in a new anthology, Remembering the Days That Breathed Pink, forthcoming from Quaci Press. As well as a reading at an exhibition of her work at Eastern Illinois University where a collaboration with artist Jennifer York is on view:

Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery

Jennifer Yorke: Savage Breast
with experimental poet Valerie Witte

January 11th-February 5th
closed January 18th for MLK day

Reception:
Friday February 19th, 6-9pm

Artist Talk and reading by visiting poet Valerie Witte
Wednesday January 27th, 3pm


Valerie Witte at Northeastern Illinois University

Valerie Witte, author of a game of correspondence, in a collaboration with artist Jennifer Yorke:
Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery
    Jennifer Yorke: Savage Breast
with experimental poet Valerie Witte


 January 11th-February 5th
closed January 18th for MLK day    

Reception:
 Friday February 19th, 6-9pm 

Artist Talk and reading by visiting poet Valerie Witte
Wednesday January 27th, 3pm

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Sneak peek at three new Black Radish titles

Check out the cover for j/j hastain's new title, ready in just a couple of weeks, and draft covers for Carrie Hunter's Orphan Machines and David James Miller's CANT .




Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Brittany Billmeyer-Finn interviewed about her forthcoming book the meshes


Brittany Billmeyer-Finn, whose Black Radish title the meshes will appear Fall 2015, talks with Madison Davis about the work as both book and performance at OPEN HOUSE POETRY.

Black Radish's Kindergarde at the Birthday Party Pledge

Black Radish Book’s Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children has been recommended by the Birthday Party Pledge, an organization which seeks:
  • To encourage childhood literacy in order to promote a lifelong love of books.
  • To assist adults in providing children with books that truly reflect the diverse society in which we live.
Have a look at all the work recommended at The Birthday Party Pledge! http://birthdaypartypledge.com/poetry/

Friday, May 1, 2015

Readings by Black Radish authors Jesse Nissim and Marthe Reed

Black Radish authors Marthe Reed and Jesse Nissim will be reading tonight in Syracuse, NY, at The Downtown Writer's Center (340 Montgomery St.). 7pm

Marthe Reed will also be reading Monday, May 4th in the Bianca Room of Pace University's New York City campus to celebrate Handmade/HomemadeExhibit 2015: Northeast by Northwest. Readers also include Jody Gladding and Bertha Rogers.