Rain Taxi Chapbooks
Rain Taxi not only provides reviews of thought-provoking literature, it seeks to contribute to the publishing of innovative and original works with two chapbook series, the Brainstorm Series and OHM Editions.
You can purchase Rain Taxi chapbooks with a credit card using the secure portals below, or send check or money order to:
Rain Taxi
P.O. Box 3840
Minneapolis, MN 55403
OHM Editions
The ohm is a measure of resistance.
“The poem must resist the intelligence / Almost successfully.”
Traces
by Nor Hall
In verse and prose, Nor Hall's Traces imagines the life of a Catholic nun who travels through Europe during the war-torn 1940s.
Nor Hall is a Jungian psychoanalyst, noted playwright, imaginal dramaturge, and conducts classes in initiation psychology for a variety of audiences: literary, Jungian, feminist, artistic, theological, and academic. Her publications include The Moon and the Virgin, Those Women, Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine, Broodmales, and The End of the Iron Age.
36pp, perfect bound, only $7.50
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Published in August 2010.
Seamless Matter: Thirty Stills
by Ravi Shankar
cover art by Sol LeWitt
Tightly organized and orchestrated, these nut-like poems take a microscope to nature, opening it up then opening it further until the reader is lost amid rich minutia, among once-familiar objects now made strange. It’s the language itself that does the trick—Shankar has a marvelous way of getting sound and phrasing to say both something and themselves. —Cole Swenson
The sound-work of these poems is meticulous and impressive. Their field-guide knowledge runs deep. And the book, when read as a whole, becomes nothing less than a praise song of our shared physicality, and of existence known, as it must be, under the scepter of time. —Jane Hirshfield
Ravi Shankar edits Drunken Boat. His books include Instrumentality and Wanton Textiles, and he co-edited the anthology Language for a New Century.
30pp, perfect bound, only $7.50
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Published in April 2010.
Brainstorm Series
The Rain Taxi Brainstorm Series brings you limited edition chapbooks by accomplished writers, each limited to 300 copies or less. Signed editions are still available for many of these fine titles with a tax-deductible donation to Rain Taxi, Inc., a nonprofit organization.
The Road To Camden
by Kees ’t Hart
translated from the Dutch by Frans Cateau van Rosevelt
A meditation on a journey to Walt Whitman's home.
36 pp., Perfect Bound. Edition limited to 200 copies, $9.00 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 Hardcover (black boards with silver stamping) copies are lettered and signed by the author. Signed copies are available with a $250 donation to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in October 2007.
City Of
by Alice Notley
A dynamic new sequence, never before published, by the prize-winning author of Disobedience.
28 pp., saddle-stitched, printed vellum endpapers. Edition limited to 200 copies, $9.00 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies are lettered and signed by the author, and each signed copy is accompanied by an original 6" x 9" watercolor by Alice Notley. Signed copies are available with a $250 donation to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in December 2005.
Revival House
by Donald Revell
Ten riveting new poems weave apocalyptic visions into a cinematic frame of mind, by the winner of the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for My Mojave.
28 pp., perfect bound, edition limited to 226 copies, $9.00 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 are lettered and signed by the author. Signed copies are available with a $100 donation to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in October 2004.
(X in Fix)
by Dara Wier
Five dazzling poems in a large format chapbook (6.5" by 11") explore interior states of consciousness as they fixate on objects and their words.
24 pp., hand-printed cover, sewn binding, Only a few copies left! $15.00 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies, lettered and signed by the author, include a letterpress-printed postcard (also limited to 26 copies) of an additional poem, "Choreography of a Fool's Destiny." This special limited edition is available with a donation of $100 to Rain Taxi. Click
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Published in December 2003.
Dying Trees
by Nathaniel Tarn
In Dying Trees, acclaimed poet and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn brilliantly interweaves poems about political, botanical, and personal cancer; the result is an intensely lyrical suite, sure to rank among the best of Tarn's recent work.
Letterpress cover, Japanese stab binding, 32 pp., edition limited to 200 copies, $9.00 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 are lettered and signed by the author. Signed copies are available with a $100 donation to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in April 2003.
A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems
translated by Paul Auster
Originally published in 1972, this out-of-print gem is highly sought after by collectors. For this revised edition, Paul Auster has made some changes and added a preface. Featuring work by Artuad, Char, Breton, Éluard, Péret, Aragon, Soupault, Desnos, and Arp.
A new edition is available now for puchase!
35 pp., perfect bound, second edition limited to 300 copies, $9.00 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author, and include a letterpress-printed bookmark (also limited to 26 copies) of a Char poem from the anthology. This special limited edition is available with a donation of $150 to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in August 2002.
The House of Sara Loo
by Russell Edson
New prose poems from the master of the form! Cover art by the author.
"Edson writes better about the claustrophobia of family than anybody ever has." —James Tate
This chapbook is available now for purchase!
27 pp., perfect bound, edition limited to 300 copies, $9.00 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author. A signed copy is available with a donation of $100 to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in November 2001.
Calendar
by Anne Waldman and Rikki Ducornet
A collaborative work containing twelve broadsides, one for each month of the year, with new poems by Anne Waldman and artwork by Rikki Ducornet.
13 pp, 9" x 14" unbound broadsides, $12 (includes S& H in the U.S.; Can/Mexico button ads $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author. A signed copy is available with a $100 donation to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in November 2000.
Serious Poems
by Kai Nieminen
The first English translation of one of Finland's best-loved contemporary poets, full of sharp insight and generous humor. Translated by poet Anselm Hollo.
40 pp., perfect bound, $7.50 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author. A signed copy is available with a donation of $50 to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in June 2000.
Police Story
by James Tate
Twenty-one poems of small town life gone berserk from the Pulitzer-prize winning poet.
32 pp., saddle-stitched: Sorry, this chapbook is SOLD OUT.
26 copies were lettered and signed by the author and were accompanied by a handset broadside of an additional poem, "Torture." This special edition is SOLD OUT.
Published in December 1999.
The Switch
by Stephen Dixon
A harrowing tale of one man's effort to see the world through the eyes of his disabled wife, with illustrations by the author.
32 pp. saddle-stitched, $6.50 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author. A signed copy is available with a donation of $50 to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in February 1999.
Merrill Cove
by Paul Metcalf
Written in the late 1950s while Metcalf resided in North Carolina, this poem-suite has remained unpublished until now. Letterpress cover by Greg Boyd.
28 pp. saddle-stitched, $6.50 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author. A signed copy is available with a donation of $50 to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in August 1998.
The Aranea Constellation
by Clayton Eshleman
Exploring the relevance of paleolithic cave imagery to 20th century crises, Eshleman here attempts to situate poetry in its oldest and deepest context. With artwork by Irving Petlin.
29 pp. saddle-stitched, $6.50 (includes S&H in the U.S.; Can/Mex adds $1 shipping. For international orders, click on the overseas button which adds $3.00 shipping).
26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author. A signed copy is available with a donation of $50 to Rain Taxi. You may make your donation via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.
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Published in March 1998.
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