[New-Poetry] Atticus/Finch presents: Myung Mi Kim's River Antes

[Anny Ballardini]

www.atticusfinch.org

and

[Please forward this message to all interested parties. Word of mouth is, of 
course, how small presses survive!]

We at Atticus/Finch are going out of our damn minds daydreaming about our 
newest book, and we simply couldn't wait another minute to scream about it 
at the top of our fragile, slightly crystallized lungs. We're a bit giddy 
about this one, and while it's true we're mostly giddy, this time it's 
justified. Friends, I'm honored to announce the release of our eighth 
chapbook: Myung Mi Kim's River Antes.

Since 2002's Commons, Atticus/Finch has been hard at work trying to secure 
the rights to Myung Mi Kim's new project, and while this is not entirely the 
case, it's one hundred percent true that we've devoured each and every 
magazine appearance we could find since then, praying to 
whoever-it-is-these-days-who-publishes-fancy-trade-edition-books to do the 
damn thing. In the meantime, we took matters in our own hands and printed 
the most elegant book we had in us. And boy did we have it in us.

River Antes begins where Commons left off: square in a highly charged 
manifold where the constellated image of culture, language, and 
signification stands as the analogue of the subject's experience of family, 
honor, and place. These poems challenge us to interface with each event of 
language as the site of historical responsibility-the instant in which what 
is said, what is claimed, resonates between what was, what is to come, and 
what could have been.

There are only 150 copies of this book in the world, all made by my two 
little hands to be held gently in yours. If you'd like a copy, please order 
soon (as these books sell out FAST). If you are concerned about getting a 
copy, please consider requesting a standing order for future books.

And don't forget to swing by our website, www.atticusfinch.org, to read some 
sample poems and take a look at the cover (click on the book's title for all 
the details). We're still working on getting Pay Pal going on the web, so, 
until then, all books are mail-order only.

To obtain a copy, send $8 (well-concealed cash, check, or money order (made 
payable to Michael Cross)) to:

Atticus/Finch Chapbooks
c/o Michael Cross
State University of New York at Buffalo
Samuel Clemens Hall #306
Buffalo NY 14260-4610

[$8, folks, is the price of a movie ticket! Get your money's worth!]

And look for the following A/F volumes soon:

John Taggart, Unveiling/Marianne Moore (Winter 2006)
Rob Halpern and Taylor Brady, TBA (2007)
Patrick F. Durgin, Imitation Poems (2007)

[[One last word, if you've made it this far, about small press publishing. 
I've received emails here and there wondering why these books aren't in 
bookstores, and why, finally, the print run is so small. I don't distribute 
these books because they sell out before I can get them on the shelves. And 
they sell out because I can only, realistically, print 150-200 by myself. I 
am absolutely committed to getting these books into peoples lives, but I 
refuse to compromise the quality of the product. I want to sew and fold and 
cut each book in a manner that does justice to the labor of the poetry. And, 
in order to make more, I'd have to make differently (i.e. mass produce, 
using cheaper papers, etc.). My interest in chapbook publishing has always 
been to bridge the gap between the poet and her readers. Instead of waiting 
two to five to ten years to see a trade-edition in print, I'd like to get 
the book quickly into the hands of folks who care, and I'd like the book to 
transfer the labor of its production (as language, as a thing, etc.) in 
order to do justice to the reader's labor of reception. I don't plan on 
making these books any differently, but I DO want to ensure that the folks 
that NEED get them. And in order to do this, I need the support of the 
poetry community to help spread the word to interested parties before my 
stock is bone dry. In the meantime, I hope to make it easier to order off 
the webpage, and I also hope to spend this year making free online e-books 
of all the chapbooks that have sold out, as well as (and this may be pure 
fantasy, but I'm going to do what I can) audio recordings of readings from 
each manuscript. Finally (and I'm getting off topic here but I'm on a 
roll!), I'm committed to investigating the chapbook as form, versus chapbook 
as full-length teaser. This is why I am starting to commission projects 
specifically for Atticus/Finch-works that interrogate the mid-length poem, 
the short serial, the collaborative, etc. Hope you'll stay on board for the 
ride, and thanks for your continued support!]]

PPS. You're receiving these emails because we love you. If you've decided we 
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a black, unmarked sedan drawing pictures of what we once were in lipstick.




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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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