___A V E N U E___B___ _____________________________________________________________________________ New Titles (1995) _____________________________________________________________________________ REGISTERS/ (PEOPLE IN ALL) by Clark Coolidge 88 pages ISBN 0-939691-10-8 $9.95 Written between May '89 and August '92, these fifty sections of 3-line stanza/chords continue Coolidge's fast-forward drive to explore how sheets of sound can be made to echo thought itself: ." . . . Off where nerves rattle and glance interminable, the sphere of the bygone syllable. Lit as if sound, a cascade to a bell." (OUTSIDE) by Todd Baron 88 pages ISBN 0-939691-11-6 $9.95 "Todd Baron's poems in (OUTSIDE) have a clarity that is not being either speech or thought while seeming the reverberation of 'the public' from inside 'someone,' "not lines or rhythms or even/ anything from the outside but on paper from the voice above the water-level/ shouting something beneath." The sense of the poems' shape crosses a spatial line or level they make that is public/interior." Leslie Scalapino _____________________________________________________________________________ Recent Titles _____________________________________________________________________________ Amblyopia by Jena Osman 48 pages ISBN 0-939691-09-4 $8.00 "Amblyopia is an invitation to a new architecture, where spaces are construed with artifacts of the mindQfavorite haunts, obscure discoveries, longings, persons and objectsQas well as vital responses to the habitat it creates. Each gesture leaves a trace "representing a kind of revolution or paragraph on a relatively fragile topic." The writing is precise and lush. That we get to follow Jena Osman into her theatre of invention is an exhilirating pleasure of the first order." Ann Lauterbach Second Law by Elizabeth Willis 64 pages ISBN 0-939691-08- $8.95 "Elizabeth Willis's work is a wonder: an open tangle of thought, a mark in the darkness, a sudden projection: 'striving between light/ and the force of a body/ that is light.' These poems draw amazingly delicate boundaries among the soul's constellations of ambiguities." Beverly Dahlen Linen Minus by Susan Gevirtz 64 pages ISBN 0-939691-07-8 $8.00 "'Who wants? / Who walks? Who wants to walk?' When is repetition a kind of answer? 'The word ignites.' Read the work ignites. Repetition forms the answer, but what kind of answer? What kind of repetition? Gevirtz's transformations are unexpected progressions. Deliberate progressions roll internal rhyme into chords of the marvelous, into rhythmic visibility, flaunting precognition, pluralizing it. Progressions enact sensuous form, defer seams, reach unexpected grammatical conclusions. Restating progressions ritualize. Action thrills meaning among this cast of secret agents. 'I defy you.'" Norma Cole _____________________________________________________________________________ Also Available _____________________________________________________________________________ News on Skis poems by Peter Ganick 64 pages ISBN 0-939691-07-8 $8.00 Talking in Tranquility: Interviews with Ted Berrigan edited by Stephen Ratcliffe and Leslie Scalapino (published with O Books) 208 pages ISBN 0-939691-05-1 $10.50 Post Hoc poems by Michael Davidson 96 pages ISBN 0-939691-04-3 $8.00 Words nd Ends from Ez poems by Jackson Mac Low 96 pages ISBN 0-939691-03-5 $7.50 Among the Blacks fiction/translation/memoir by Raymond Roussel & Ron Padgett 64 pages ISBN 0-939691-02-7 $7.50 Japan poems by Maxine Chernoff 48 pages ISBN 0-939691-01-9 $6.00 Distance poems by Stephen Ratcliffe 112 pages ISBN 0-939691-00-0 $6.00 _____________________________________________________________________________ Please include a check for retail total plus $1.50 for postage and handling for the first title, $.50 for each additional title. Avenue B P.O. Box 542 Bolinas, CA 94924 _____________________________________________________________________________