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.

Rehearsing the Symptoms

by Rosmarie Waldrop

33 pages, perfect bound.
Limited edition of 150 copies.
Published in March 2019.

"The hand gets ready to write. Could we not call this manual labor? Or a stage in the Great Work of rendering the corporeal cat incorporeal while giving her body to the bodiless word? Even if it's from despairing of my own body?" This riveting suite of poems tackles the big questions that come with existing on this odd, old world. It's worth the trip. Cover collage by Keith Waldrop.

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26 copies are lettered and signed by the author. Signed copies are available for $100. You may purchase via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.

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Calendar
by Anne Waldman
and Rikki Ducornet

by Anne Waldman and Rikki Ducornet

13 pp, 9" x 14" unbound broadsides.
Published in November 2000.

A collaborative work containing twelve broadsides, one for each month of the year, with new poems by Anne Waldman and artwork by Rikki Ducornet.

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26 copies have been lettered and signed by the author. A signed copy is available for $100. You may purchase a signed copy via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.

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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.

A Pound of Steam

Dessa

Acclaimed as a songwriter, performer, and recording artist, the whirlwind force known as Dessa wears one moniker with particular pride: writer. A Pound of Steam presents seven poems exploring identity and alienation, a philosophical bent that can be found in her song lyrics, but here goes further to unearth truths about the human condition.

Dessa, born and raised in Minneapolis, is a poet, essayist, and musician. She studied philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Before earning her living in the arts, Dessa wrote pacemaker manuals, waited tables, painted faces, and sold knives. In her early twenties, Dessa joined the Doomtree collective. With that group, Dessa published her first literary collection, Spiral Bound, and released more than a dozen recorded projects. She now splits her time between a Minneapolis apartment and an Econoline tour van.

23 pp., perfect bound. Published 2013.

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Rain Taxi, in partnership with Dessa, is a fiscal year 2013 recipient of a Cultural Community Partnership grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Egyptian Sonnets

by John Yau

32 pp., saddle-stitched
Edition of 226 copies
Published in March 2012.

The twenty-four poems of Yau's Egyptian Sonnets journey through a night-time landscape populated by jackels, hippos, and fading moments of time, where "dust lips were all that remained."

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26 copies are lettered and signed by the author and include original art by the author. Signed copies are available for $250. You may purchase these via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.

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The Zoo Club

by James Tate

30 pp., perfect bound.
Edition of 300 copies.
Published in June 2011.

The first rule of The Zoo Club is there is no zoo, except perhaps the zoo of life: llamas that aren’t there, exploding furnaces, the dreaming dead... in his inimitable fashion, James Tate’s new prose poems explore the strange synergies of life.

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26 hardcover silver stamped copies are lettered and signed by the author. Signed copies are available for $250. You may purchase these via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.

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Chapter 28

by Richard Hell

28 pp., saddle-stitched.
Edition limited to 200 copies.
Published in October 2010.

A no-holds-barred, sexually explicit, alternate version of a chapter from Richard Hell's autobiography, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp, this limited edition chapbook offers a conceptually complex meditation on the music-era sex life of one of punk's originators and leading provocateurs. Cover drawing mixing the words “slave” and “salve” by Richard Hell and Christopher Wool. Read a review of this chapbook HERE!

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Kentucky-HellBroadside

26 additional copies are lettered and signed by the author, and come with a limited edition, 6" x 13" letterpress broadside of an additional excerpt entitled "Kentucky," also signed by the author. A lettered, signed set is available for $250. You may purchase these via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.

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The Road To Camden

by Kees ’t Hart
translated from the Dutch by Frans Cateau van Rosevelt

36 pp., Perfect Bound.
Edition limited to 200 copies.
Published in October 2007.

A meditation on a journey to Walt Whitman's home.

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26 Hardcover (black boards with silver stamping) copies are lettered and signed by the author. Signed copies are available for $250. You may pay via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.

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City Of

by Alice Notley

28 pp., saddle-stitched, printed vellum endpapers.
Edition limited to 200 copies.
Published in December 2005.

A dynamic new sequence, never before published, by the prize-winning author of Disobedience.

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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 for $250. You may purchase these via Paypal using a credit card or bank transfer.

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Revival House

by Donald Revell

28 pp., perfect bound, edition.
Limited to 226 copies.
Published in October 2004.

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.

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