by Bei Dao
A 23-poem sequence, Bei Dao's "Daydream" was written in 1986 and was among the haunting poems of despair that led the acclaimed Chinese poet to international renown. This riveting version, newly translated by Clayton Eshleman and Lucas Klein, was subsequently included in the duo's book Endure: Poems by Bei Dao (Black Widow Press, 2011).
32 pp, perfect bound. This chapbook is out of print.
Published in December 2010.
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.
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Reprinted October 2019.
Published in August 2010.
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 Swensen
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,
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Published in April 2010.
by Gary Sullivan
Elsewhere #3 collects The New Life comics from Rain Taxi Review of Books, with an introduction by Rain Taxi editor, Eric Lorberer.
24pp, saddle-stitched,
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Published in 2007.