[New-Poetry] Dérive by Bruna Mori

[Anny Ballardini]

A Special Pre-Release Offer For:

Dérive
poems by Bruna Mori
paintings by Matthew Kinney
ISBN-10: 0-9709179-6-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-9709179-5-9
Release date: November 2006
Distributors: Small Press Distribution, Amazon.com & www.MeritagePress.com
For more info: MeritagePress at aol.com

Relevant categories: Poetry. Creative Nonfiction. Urban Studies. Cultural
Studies. Women's Studies.

Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of Bruna Mori's
long-awaited first poetry collection, Dérive, which also presents reproductions of
paintings by New York-based artist Matthew Kinney. Drawn by the New York cityscape
and encounters found there, physical trajectories are mapped in words and
sumi-ink. Poems that depict an ever-shifting subjectivity within the urban sphere
are interspersed with paintings of architectures dis/assembling.

>From Second Avenue to 242nd Street, spanning mahjongg parlors and halfway
houses, "Bruna Mori creates a lyrical alchemy of the debris and mythology of New
Amsterdam (Brenda Coultas)." "Mori rides the New York City subway to its
terminus, and in so doing reminds us that those oft forgotten souls who inhabit
urban outreaches are adamant bridges between their old world and new (Martine
Bellen)."

The book honors (and strays from) the Situationist theory of the dérive, or
"drift"--where one or more persons during a certain period let themselves be
attracted to the terrain, détourning one's steps on noncapitalized time. Through
drift, Mori "found" collaborator Matthew Kinney painting the skyline in
sumi-ink on a torn-edged canvas--a carryover from his skate-punk days when he
regularly made impromptu washes on cardboard kept in his backpack. Not long after,
they decided to combine their work.

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To celebrate Dérive's release, Meritage Press is pleased to offer a Release
Special through November 30, 2006. For $11.00, you can obtain a copy of Dérive-
a savings off the book's retail price of $14.95-plus free shipping/handling to
U.S. addresses. Just send a check made out to "Meritage Press" to:

Eileen Tabios
Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road
St. Helena, CA 94574

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MORE ADVANCE WORDS:
"Mori is not only a cogent observer of life and its environs but a
magnanimous participant who shines a light on the profound beauty of no-name pizza
parlors and sweaty flesh that bears green tattoos of the heart."
-Martine Bellen

"Dérive is an animated guidebook to the boroughs of my city and should be
required reading for travelers and residents alike."
-Brenda Coultas

"Much to admire. In the range of experiences detailed and the ever-shifting
vantage point, the city and its inhabitants emerge as vastly various and yet
inextricably bound to one another."
-lê thi diem thúy

"A deft poetic journey through the fissures and ironies of city life."
-Norman M. Klein

Bruna Mori was born in Japan and has lived primarily in the United
States--mostly in New York, and Louisiana and California. Tergiversation (Ahadada Books,
2006) and The Approximations (2nd Avenue Poetry, 2006) are her first
chapbooks, and Dérive is her first book. A writer and editor, she teaches at Art
Center College of Design and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her
BA and MFA degrees were completed at the University of California, San Diego
and Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Matthew Kinney was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts. A visual artist with an
emphasis on painting and sculpture, he presently has a studio space at Spire
Studios in Beacon, New York; also an advocate of sustainable agriculture, he
works at Windfall Farms in Montgomery. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn
and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.


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For more info, please feel free to contact Eileen Tabios at
MeritagePress at aol.com


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Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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