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
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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.

This edition is out of print.

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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DAYDREAM

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.

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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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.

Now back in print!

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Reprinted October 2019.
Published in August 2010.

Check out the companion chapbook, Postcards from Mona, by Nor Hall!

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 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.

ELSEWHERE #3

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.

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

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(X in Fix)

by Dara Wier (Barrois/Dixon)

24 pages.
Hand-printed cover, sewn binding.
Published in December 2003.

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.

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SIGNED EDITIONS STILL AVAILABLE! 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 for $100.

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