Re: [New-Poetry] Dérive by Bruna Mori

[James Cervantes]

"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 . . ."

Gad.  That happens to me all the time!  Parks, hills, valleys,
streams, mountains, deserts . . . I ought to write a book about it,
but I drift . . .

- Jim

On 10/13/06, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> *************************
>
> 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
>
> *************************
>
> 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.
>
>
> *************************
> For more info, please feel free to contact Eileen Tabios at
> MeritagePress at aol.com
>
>  ________________________________
>
> 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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