Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2012-12bjpcat Legal
2012-12bjpcat Legal
Broken Jaw Press Inc. is a self-distributing independent publisher based in Fredericton, NB. Founded by author artist Joe Blades in the winter of 1984 in Banff, AB we have been publishing trade books, chapbooks, zines, cards, and other mostly literary stuff since 1985. Trade: 40% discount. Libraries & educational: 20% discount. Wholesale: 46% discount. Orders for 19 books (including trade, libraries & wholesale): 20% discount. Individuals: no discount. Shipping charges apply to all orders. Canadian purchases of books and shipping subject to GST (and/or applicable HST on non-books and shipping to BC, NB, NL, NS and ON customers). All non-Canadian orders/sales must be prepaidbank draft, money order, certified cheque, Western Union transfer, or MoneyGramno personal cheques, no cash in mail, please. We also accept credit card and other payment sources via PayPal (account: sales@brokenjaw.com) for your convence. Some book pages on our website are set up for direct purchases. Otherwise, please query for the total for your order. Trade returns: Permission required. Maximum returns of 25% from Canadian trade accounts only for return of items sold on BJP invoices. Broken Jaw Press will process items that can be resold, provided the returns are: a) in saleable condition; b) sent no less than 90 days after being invoiced; c) made available for resale after being processed back into stock no more than 365 days after being invoiced. Early returns are permissible for event stock. Returns must be sent at the customers expense. No non-Canadian or international returns. Broken Jaw Press Inc. www.brokenjaw.com Box 596 Stn A sales@brokenjaw.com Fredericton NB E3B 5A6 Canada T506 454.5127, F 506 454.5134 http://brokenjawpress.blogspot.com & join us on our Facebook page
12
2012 catalogue
BOOK RAT
Cover photo by Nat Hall from the book From Shore to Shoormal (2012). Broken Jaw Press acknowledges the support of the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for eligible titles in its publishing activity.
www.brokenjaw.com
1
NEW
liszt listening lists (a symphonic poem performance) after peter allen performing franz liszt
Joe Blades 21 October 2011 Poetry 5.5 x 8.5, 12-pages self-cover, hand-bound by the author with raw linen thread Colour LED-printed on cover stock throughout Signed and numbered limited edition of 50 ISBN 978-1-55391-110-4. $15. No trade/jobber discounts. Fundraiser for Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Fredericton. www.brokenjaw.com/catalog/pg132.htm 2011 marks Hungarian pianistcomposer Franz Liszts bicentenary. Among other things, he composed orchestral music he called symphonic poems that interpreted poems, paintings or other non-musical sources. As a twist on this idea, the Charlotte Street Arts Centre will host visual artists and writers to interpret, during the concert, the musical works presented (from the Program). Joe Blades was one of three Fredericton artists invited to create during Peter Allens recital on 19 October 2011. Blades chose to mostly write poetry in response to the actions and environment felt in Liszts music in Peter Allens powerful performance. During Sonata in B minor Blades weaves the music-inpired poetry with images from his experiences in Central Europe and, especially, in Budapest, Hungary. During the next two days Blades produced a near-instant chapbook of his symphonic poem. The typeset poem overprinted on images of the poems original handwritten journal pages make for a visually rich presentation. Joe Blades lives in Fredericton, NB where he is an artist, educator, and an author with seven poetry books including River Suite (InsomniacPress), Casemate Poems (Collected) (Chaudiere Books) and Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry (Ekstasis Editions). Three books are translated into Serbian, and two translations into Spanish are in the works. Past President of the League of Canadian Poets, he is also publisher of Broken Jaw Press, and producerhost of Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton s Writing & Arts Show at CHSR 97.9 FM. His website is www.joeblades.com
11
RECENT
RECENT
NEW
Antologa chiquita
Carlos Morales July 2012 Poetry 7 x 5.5 tpb, 79 pp ISBN 978-1-55391-112-8, $15 www.brokenjaw.com/catalog/pg133.htm Carlos Morales demuestra poseer una palabra potica luminosa tanto en poemas de gran ternura como en los de profundo dolor, pero ahora s/ que mi corazn se quedar con ellas, dice en uno de sus poemas. Hondura de pensamiento, y escritura de poeta realizado. Carlos Morales shows he possesses a luminous poetic voice, be it in poems that show great tenderness or in ones of deep pain; one of his poems states but now I know/ my heart will stay with them. Great depth and writings by an accomplished poet. Nela Rio, Directora, Captulo de Fredericton, Academia Iberoamericana de Poesa Carlos Morales naci en Juaya, ciudad del departamento de Sonsonate, en El Salvador, en 1965. Comenz a escribir poesa, alrededor de 1987, siendo estudiante de la Universidad de El Salvador. En medio de la ms grande ofensiva de la guerrilla salvadorea, en 1989, durante la guerra civil que vivi el pas, result capturado por fuerzas del gobierno y liberado tres semanas despus. Lo anterior provoc la decisin de emigrar a Canad en 1991. A partir del ao siguiente se incorpor a las actividades literarias de Fredericton, Nuevo Brunswick, ciudad donde ha vivido desde entonces, participando en recitales y promocionando la poesa latinoamericana. En 2006 inici sus estudios de doctorado en Letras en la Universidad de Valladolid, en Espaa. Carlos Morales was born in the city of Juaya, in the province of Sonsonate, El Salvador, in 1965. He started writing poetry around 1987, as a student at the University of El Salvador. In the midst of the largest Salvadoran guerrilla offensive, in 1989, during the countrys civil war, he was captured by government forces and released three weeks later. He emigrated to Canada in 1991. The following year he joined in literary activities in Fredericton, NB, participating in poetry readings and promoting Latin American poetry. In 2006, he began his PhD in Literature at the University of Valladolid in Spain.
4
NEW
Dirty Semiotics
Jessie Patrick Ferguson November 2011 Visual poetry 8.5 x 5.5 tpb, 95 pp ISBN 978-1-55391-107-4, $16 www.brokenjaw.com/catalog/pg131.htm Jesse Patrick Fergusons Dirty Semiotics reveals language in its foetal state. Unborn and still connected to the womb, these poems wriggle and squirm in the amniotic fluid of language. Ferguson delivers poetry swaddled in barcodes, collaged images and the strange sutures of meaning and message delivery. Dirty Semiotics passes the Apgar test of poetry and yelps in a newborn language. derek beaulieu In the creation of visual poetry () to crack, stretch, and isolate letters, words, and found materials is to say, Hi. I think youre interesting; how do you work? The estrangement of signifier and signified does not necessitate nihilism. Language has been buffeted, bastardized, and truncated in innumerable ways, and yet it persists. The fact that I cant put it back together again doesnt trouble me at all; I like language, even with its stitches and scars showing. With the underlying impetus identified, we must ask that perennial question of visual poeticswhat, if anything, does such poetry mean? It has been suggested by some that it should mean nothing, that it should carry the viewer outside the realm of standard signification, which has been tainted by its association with commerce. In this view, visual poetry would function in a similar way to the Buddhist koan, producing flashes of non-meaning, of enlightenment. Jesse Patrick Ferguson Jesse Patrick Ferguson has lived in Cornwall, and Ottawa, Ont.; Fredericton, NB; Sydney, NS. He has published visual and lyric poems in ten countries. Recently, his writing appeared in Canadian Literature, Drunken Boat, Prairie Fire, Dusie, The Walrus, Poetry and Harpers. His work is in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, edited by A.F. Moritz. Jesse has helped to edit several Canadian literary journals including The Fiddlehead, and in fall 2009 he published his first fulllength collection of lyric poetry, Harmonics (Freehand Books). He is also a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick, a folk singer, and multi-instrumentalist.
9
RECENT
RECENT
NEW
Also available: Starting from Promise (2nd ed.) 2004, Poetry, 8.5 x 5.5 tpb, 88 pp 978-1-55391-026-8. $18.95
5
NEW
Los puentes del Ro San Juan / Bridges over the Saint John River
Nela Rio & M. Travis Lane, editoras / editors mayo 2011 Poemas / poetry 8.5 x 5.5 tpb, 143 pp ISBN 978-1-55391-095-4, $21 www.brokenjaw.com/catalog/pg128.htm Captulo de Fredericon de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesa Antologia Bilinge / Bilingual Anthology Poetas / Poets: Lady Rojas Benavente Joe Blades Lynn Davies Jo-Anne Elder Hugh Hazelton M.TravisLane Julio Torres Recinos Nela Rio Traductores al ingls: Hugh Hazelton Elizabeth Gamble Miller Edith Jonsson-Devillers Alicia Zavala Galvn Translators into Spanish: Natalia Crespo Gabriela Etcheverry Hugh Hazelton Sophie M. Lavoie Una vez ms, el flamante Captulo de Fredericton en la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesa lleva adelante una inicitativa que pone en valor la poesa, simplementela poesa sin adjetivos, porque se lanza a hacerla compatible convarias lenguas del mundo. Once again the extraordinary Fredericton Chapter of the Academia Iberoamericana de Poesa is exercising an initiative that honours poetry, simply poetry, without adjectives, with the purpose of achieving compatibility between various world languages. Juan Ruiz de Torres, Fundador y Documentalista Academia Iberoamericana de Poesa, Madrid, Espaa Nela Riopoeta, escritora, artista y crtica literaria. Nacida en Argentina, se volvi ciudadana canadiense en 1977. Public dos libros de poesa en Espaa, y seis en el Canad. M. Travis Lane has lived in Fredericton, NB since 1960, where she has been Honorary Research Associate with the English Dept. at UNB and has written many reviews for The Fiddlehead. The author of ten poetry books, her collections include The Book of Widows, and The Crisp Day Closing On My Hand. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, Raging Grannies, and Voice of Women for Peace.
RECENT
Whilst Donna Allard writes on the coastal fringe in New Brunswick, Canada, Nat Hall walks and writes by her shoormal, somewhere on the 60th parallel in her windswept Shetland Islands, Scotlands most northerly archipelago. Shore, as described by J. L. Leprohon in her Sea Shore Musings poem, is the Creators powerin her own Canadian home, Mysterious, moaning main,/ in dreams Ill see thy snow-white foam. Its described by Chiles bard Pablo Neruda in No me hagan caso / Forget about Me, as a place where the sea washes, throws up crab claws and skulls of many kinds Shoormal, as defined by Robert Alan Jamieson in his Shoormal, A Sequence of Movements (Polygon, 1986): In Shetland, da shoormal is the shallows on a beach; the space between the tides where the moon weighs the density of the ocean that area where sand shifts. From Shore to Shoormal is a journey between Acadias Shediac Bay and Shetlands Ninian Sandsa celebration of the poets shared North Atlantic. Donna Allard: acadianroseAcadian-born, New Brunswick-based barefoot gardener, pirate poet, and peacemaker. She became inspired by poet Milton Acorn, and poeteditor Libby Oughton. Her mentor was poet activist Valerie LaPointe. Nat Hall: nordicblackbirdNorman-born, Shetland-based poet and visual artist, world intellectual nomad, who lives and writes on 60 North. https://nordicblackbird.wordpress.com/
BS Poetry Society