L e a v e   B o o k s
p.o. box 786  buffalo, ny  14213-0786

Edited by Kristin Prevallet, Pam Rehm, Juliana
Spahr, Marta Werner, Charlotte Pressler,
and Jennifer Karmin.

Since its inception in 1991, Leave Books has been
a small co-operative press committed to printing
works of poetry, essays on poetry, and prose that
challenge the formal boundaries of writing.

If you are interested in receiving our books,
please send a donation of $20 for individuals /
$35 for institutions for the 1994 series of up to
15 books. Individual books and books from our
backlist are available for $4.  Boxed sets of the
entire run which are hand sewn and signed (when
available), are $100. Checks should be addressed
to the UB Foundation.

The following is a catalogue of our entire chap
book series. * indicates recent books included in
the 1994 series, mentioned above.



* Will Alexander, Arcane Lavender Morals
  Bruce Andrews, Divestiture-E
  Michael Basinski, Mooon Bok: petition,
        invocation & homage
  J. Battaglia, Skin Problems
  Tom Beckett, Economies of Pure Expenditure:
         Notebook
* Guy Beining, Too Far to Hear
  Dodie Bellamy, Answer: from the Letters of
        Mina Harker
  Julia Blumenreich, Artificial Memory
* Laynie Browne, One Constellation
  Lee Ann Brown, Crush
  Elizabeth Burns, Letters to Elizabeth Bishop
  John Byrum, Interalia: Among Other Things
  Tina Darragh, adv. fan--10968 series
* Sally Doyle, Under the Neath
  Peter Ganick, ...As Convenience
  Drew Gardener, The Cover
  Susan Gevirtz, Domino: point of entry
  Jefferson Hansen, gods to the elbows
* Barbara Henning,(with drawings by Georgia Marsh)
         The Passion of Signs
  Le Ann Jacobs, Varieties of Inflorescence
  Robert Kelly, Manifesto: For the Next New
        York School
* Lori Lubeski, Stamina
* Kimberly Lyons, Rhyme the Lake
* Kevin Magee, Tedium Drum, Part II
  Joyce Mansour, (translated by Serge Gavronsky),
         Cris/Screams
  Gale Nelson, Little Red Pump
  Jena Osman, Pump
  Ann Pedone, The Bird Happened
  John Perlman, imperatives of address
  Nick Piombino, Two Essays
* Kristin Prevallet, Perturbation, My Sister
  Bin Ramke, Catalogue Raisonne
  Stephen Ratcliff, Private
  Pam Rehm, Pollux
* Joan Retallack, Icarus fffffalling
  Elizabeth Robinson, Nearings: two poems
  Rena Rosenwasser, Unplace.Place
* Joe Ross, Push
  Susan Schultz, Another Childhood
  Cathleen Shattuck, Three Queens
  Susan Smith Nash, Grammar of the Margin Road
  Juliana Spahr, nuclear
* Cole Swensen, Walk
  Joseph Torra, Domino Sessions
  Bill Tuttle, Private Address
  Keith Waldrop, The Balustrade
  Mark Wallace, You Bring Your Whole Life
        to the Material
  Nena Zivanceivc, I Was This War Reporter
        in Egypt



Also availaible:


A Poetics of Criticism
edited by Juliana Spahr, Kristin Prevallet,
Pam Rehm, Mark Wallace

This collection, which presents the work of over
forty-five poets and scholars from the United
States and Canada, includes essays written as
dialogues, essays composed of quotations, essays
the merge the critical and the poetic. All of them
explore the fluidities and possibilities within a
poetics of criticism. Includes work by Leslie
Scalapino, Jerome McGann, Elizabeth Willis, Dodie
Bellamy and Will Alexander. ($12.95, 315 pages.)


Complications From Standing In a Circle
by Mark Wallace

This book began as a search through the dictionary
for words that the author would otherwise not have
used. It includes twenty nine poems that are a
restless exploration of the possibilities in "what
is not usually noticed." ($6.95, 68 pages.)



Wale; or the Corse
by Elena Rivera

This book was inspired by the author's reading of
Melville's Moby Dick and Charles Olson's Call Me
Ishmael. This is poetry that merges the harmonies
of words with an emotional intensity that over
takes the reader with "silent storms." ($5.00, 33
pages.)