Sure Thing by Robin F. Brox Now Available!

 Like the images in this thoughtful debut, Brox's poems chart our attraction to surfaces, textures, and weathers with a calm hand intent on recording the "tenderest ambivalences" of our desires and senses.

—Jennifer Moxley

There is a kind of abstraction, based not on reductive form, nor on self-expressive mark making but on the endless variation of form, colour and shifting scale in the natural world. In this vigorous, detailed and abstracted poetry the most traditional matter: season, climate, weather, plants, is specified as human bodies move and make their lives in post-industrial landscapes that nature has recolonized. Focused on physical changes in state and their environmental and metabolic outcomes, these serial poems and binary arrays have a fierce grip on the complexity of our experience.

—Tony Lopez

These poems are wordplay, but simultaneously, mature work beyond the "I" of youth, poems of body and eye. They are sensual, full of weather, color and texture, images tangible as weather and rope. Brox binds up the known with the unrecognized, makes new things.

—Celia White

"no ideas/ but in things pulled close . . ."  thus articulates Robin Brox, "over burdock wildly," the poetics of this stunning collection. Playful, "glass-sharp in the shadows," Brox's devotions transmit affection and repulsion through the surfaces of a place lived raw and tenderly noted.  These are vital poems for difficult weather, language roughed and unexpectedly straight to the heart, lit with the uncanny light of attention both heavenly and subterranean, born when we "love what/ seems barren."  A brave, exquisite and necessary book.

—Jonathan Skinner

Robin Brox pushes at the “membranes between worlds” in her Sure Thing, worlds cluttered with “experience’s self made / detritus.” Time, though, is Brox’s true world, her muse and her medium. She agitate and plays with it, accelerates, extenuates, and records it “rippling open,” always weaving back to January, always beginning. Sure Thing is unblinkingly situated in a cold climate, one that “attacks but we regenerate.” Robin Brox’s honest and powerful poetry witnesses attack and ensures regeneration.

— Sherry Robbins

Robin F. Brox was born in 1978. Sure Thing is her first full-length book of poems; it contains references to Alice Notley, the NHL, Rainer Maria Rilke, television’s The Simpsons, the Bay of Fundy, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Emily Dickinson, Coogan’s Bluff, Walt Whitman, & others. A poet & teaching artist, she is the founder of Saucebox, a small press & occasional performance series devoted to women artists. She has degrees from SUNY–Buffalo & The University of Maine–Orono. Brox’s poems have been or will be published in Foursquare, Stolen Island Review, name, Artvoice, Hemlock, Nickel City Nights, drill, The Buffalo News, & others; chapbooks include Who’s That Girl (1999), Word/Body (2000, includes color reproduction of paintings by the author), Saucebox: an anthology of women writers (2003), ache (2003), Tinsel Strength (2005), ’s words (2008), & “When In Doubt, Cowboy Out,” a section of the long poem A. Concoct Key Gush Run, is available from Binge Press (2011). She may be reached at robinbrox@ymail.com.

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· Paperback: 102 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-017-0

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Nomads with Samsonite by Timothy Bradford with cover art by Julie Mehretu Now Available!

Timothy Bradford gnaws on the big questions: should I run with my pack, or should I go it alone?  Where to find enlightenment?  What is a dead animal?  What is the spirit’s realm?  The mind falls into its quandaries, and the body, drunk with it, tags along.  These poems, roving across continents, restlessly seek to locate consciousness in the world, a universe which “opens like a tulip / or closes like a fist,” where the poet is not afraid to admit: “I forget / which.” 

—Eleni Sikelianos, author of Body Clock and The Book of Jon

I have not been so moved by a collection of poems in a long, long time. I thought I was turning into the character Anders from that Tobias Wolff story "Bullet in the Brain,” but Nomads With Samsonite saved me. It's heartbreaking slash heartwarming, smart, and enthralling. I found the book "settling on me like an x-ray apron" and transporting me back to a time of poetic innocence I had seemingly lost the instinct to yearn for.

—Jerry Williams, author of Admission and Casino of the Sun

Deeply ruminative, with the collision of both an expansive & a recitative logic system, Nomads with Samsonitepopulates the world with exactly what it is already full of.  But in this naming & numbering, in these poems of questioning & wondering, Timothy Bradford has presented his readers with a new language for living carefully, with love & attention.

—Nate Pritts, author of Big Bright Sun & editor of H_NGM_N

Timothy Bradford is the author of the introduction to Sadhus (Cuerpos Pintados, 2003), a photography book on the ascetics of South Asia. In 2005, he received the Koret Foundation’s Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award for his novel-in-progress based on the history of the Vélodrome d’Hiver, and from 2007 to 2009, he was a guest researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent in Paris. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals including 42opus, Bombay Gin,CrossConnect, DIAGRAM, Drunken Boat, ecopoetics, H_NGM_N, Mudlark, No Tell Motel, Poems & Plays, and Upstairs at Duroc. He currently teaches English at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with his wife, two sons, and an ever-changing menagerie just outside of Oklahoma City.

· Paperback: 112 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· Cover artist: Julie Mehretu 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-045-3

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SHE, A BLUEPRINT by Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West Now Available!

 She, A Blueprint, with poems by Michelle Naka Pierce and images by Sue Hammond West, addresses the territorial space of both architecture and women’s bodies. Inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s “building cuttings,” the text takes back the domicile as “if the insides were outside.” At the same time, Hammond West creates diagrammatic drawings with delicate washes and a subtle geometry, using collage and the tracings of words. The collaboration fosters an intimate interchange between words and art, creating a space for woven fragments, swerving fissures, and harmonic overlays.

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Trailers by Michael Basinski Now Available!

 With Trailers, Michael Basinski engages in a Joycean celebration 
offloOwering. As he 'gave up and just repeated again and again singing 
softly, deeply with his eyes closed', the language bloomed past the 
letters, numerals, wingdings, webs and crickets into a dream language of 
the 'noise for active space'.

— derek beaulieu

Michael Basinski is the Curator of the Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. His many books include his BlazeVOX titles All My Eggs Are Broken and Gerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction. Among his other 40 titles are Poems Popeye Papyrus (Slack Buddha Press) and Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad). His poems and other works have appeared in many magazines including Dandelion, BoxKite, Open Letter, Torgue, Explosive Magazine, First Offense, Terrible Work, Kenning, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, House Organ, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Pilot, 1913, Filling Station, Talisman, Western Humanities Review, Vanitas, Public Illumination, and Poetry.

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· Paperback: 124 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-0458-3

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“Only a coherent perception of life, informed by artistic engagement, can offer the cynic of a dark age any hope or enlightenment, and make a largely brutish, inhuman existence bearable, enabling us to interpret life’s strangeness through the refined sensibility of what language pries open, allowing us to see, feel, touch and smell, if not intuit, the intimate war between perception and reality, ego and self, from which emerges the mind’s meaning and purpose for existing.”

Chuck Richardson, author of Smoke and So It Seams

“Forgetfulness of everything but bliss,”

John Keats, The Fall of Hyperion: Canto I

Jared Schickling’s other books of poetry are Aurora, submissions, O, and Zero’s Blooming Excursion (BlazeVOX [books], 2007-10).  He is an editor at Delete Press, eccolinguistics, andReconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture.  He lives in upstate New York.

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· Paperback: 84 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-069-9

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