While Dan Sendecki is working to transform this site into a larger, more spacious production, with room for our RADIO AHADADA and more on-line chapbooks, we’re busy reading some exceptional books:

Women of the Beat Generation by Brenda Knight gives us the faces of Helen Adam, Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs, Eileen Kaufman, and Elise Cowan and for that alone the book is worth the price.

Tom Raworth’s Collected Poems (Carcanet) is a brick of a book that offers us way more than Tottering State, yet I can’t help liking the latter better for its friendlier feel. I recall buying a heavily thumbed and slightly beat-up copy of the latter in an Edinburgh Waterstone’s and feeling as if a silent bomb had gone off in my head every time I opened it up. Perhaps it’s the cheaper paper (now falling apart in Japan’s humidity) that warms my fingers and the book’s portability (just right to toss in a backpack) that does it. Still and all, great stuff.

Trilogy and Hagoromo by Yoko Danno. If Catherine Daley is the new Mina Loy for the 21st century, then surely Yoko Danno is our post-post modern H.D.

Wittengenstein’s Ladder by Marjorie Perloff. Interesting stuff, but I’m sure Wittgenstein would have found it all ridiculous, if not a bit insulting. Imagine trying to find a seat for Stein and her epigones above the salt at the Master’s table! No, better bring in Zane Grey, complete with cowboy hat.