LONGHOUSE BIBLIOGRAPHY 2008 ~
LONGHOUSE
BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART FOUR ~ 2008
Many of our handmade booklets, postcards, and books from over the years by poets world wide
Welcome to Longhouse's bibliography,
covering 42 years of steady publications. The press was created
by Bob Arnold in 1971, the year he was drafted by the Army and
stationed with Conscientious Objector status in southern Vermont
during the last gruesome stages of the Vietnam War. Bob was heading
there anyway ... being employed by a brotherly minister of the
local Episcopal church, and therein was found the key to Longhouse's
future: the church office held an AB Dick mimeograph machine, and the rest is history.
Bob
Arnold edited, designed and
printed each title entry below. Publishing, designing and believing
would be greatly enhanced by Susan Arnold from 1974 onwards.
All has been published and continued without a cent of financial
assistance in the way of grants, fellowships, subscription and
especially government or corporate funding. The dear "individuals"
infusing the list of guardian angels, supporters and heart-felt
benefactors are now family in the editor's mind. In the 1980s,
a bookshop was established. Being too rural in location for steady customers, Longhouse went online as a bookshop, and
to this day the website supplements the necessary income to keep
the press afloat. Gracias.
The following anecdotes were
taken as self-interviews 'speaking' into the computer screen,
a dizzy art-form in itself. Where the reader feels the "I"
and "we" of the speaker are confusing (and it may be),
just imagine an old-fashioned marriage (Susan and Bob) - where one is often both - and in this regard, as
it is.
The format has been purposely
designed to act as a chalk board where the editor is certain
folks will come forth with corrections as they read along, and
remind the poor editor of his possible shoddy memory. Be inclined.
The editor will also practice his own revisions, so these pages
will be active with wings.
New capsule portraits will now begin at
the start of 2008 and follow up to New Year 2013 ~
~ 2008 ~
2008. Bob Arnold. 'birches'. Flip-up booklet.
: I'm writing this
now in the summer of 2012 looking back five years at what had happened
and is still happening. Let's begin! 2008 started off with a tiny hand
flip-up card of one of my poems, sent out free and tucked often into
hand written correspondence. No one complained.
2008. Bob Arnold. Dream Come True. 20 fold-out poems wrapped in
Japanese handmade iris paper in Lokta band. An expanded edition
from the tel-let 2001. More poems and one correction!
: more short poems by Bob, collected over a
year or two and wrapped up in Lokta paper we were at the time finding
in a shop selling at a very reasonable price. Out of one sheet I could
handmake 18 booklets. This sequence had been first published by John
Martone at tel-let, then expanded here, and likewise translated by Lars
Amund Vaage into a bilingual Norwegian/English cloth edition published
by Hanne Bramness, with drawings by Laurie Clark.
2008. Bob Arnold, the gardener says...
one long poem of many small
poems - really for children, or the one in you - folded all up
into actual flower petaled handmade papers
: it was meant for children and I often
reached to send a copy, or share a copy, with adults that were nicely
child-like. Yes, a personal decision. It looks to be Lokta wrapping left
over from the previous booklet. Almost always we work with what we have
on hand. A lifetime of living out in the woods, and starting off having
to hike to town 10 miles if I ever wanted anything,has given me a
discipline to be happy with what I have. When I'm not, we make a special
trip and sometimes it's well worth it for a special someone (meaning a
poet).
2008. Arnold,
Bob, editor ~ Origin,
Sixth Series The Complete Issues, Quartet and the Coda ~ Longhouse, 2008 First edition / CD-Rom E-book
Origin Sixth Series quartet & Coda (five issues in all) published
as a PDF e-book on CD with nearly 250 contributors and a whalloping
1,700 colorful pages of poetry, prose, art and photographs. After
nearly a year of free reading of the series from our website,
now is your chance to own your own copy. Poetry / Anthology /
CD-Rom E-book 29572 : $20 (+ $2.50 s/h)
Please have a look and see
if this beauty can fit into your teaching plans, as well as a
title to interest friends, colleagues and all libraries. We'd
love it if other poets, readers & teachers took up the CD
anthology as a companion.
System requirements: the PDF
files with high quality resolution best read with Adobe Acrobat
Reader 5.0 or later version / Windows with Autorun capability
/ Mac users please first link to Origin-Introduction.pdf for
bookmark navigation / Table of Contents now with bookmark links.
Decorative CD in C-Pak.
To avoid confusion amongst
the purists, we have prepared ORIGIN, Sixth Series as a tribute
to Cid Corman. No one in his right mind is attempting to do Origin
the way Cid would. Impossible. For a rousing history of Origin,
please read A Gist of Origin edited by Cid Corman.
This sixth series is a four-issue
Origin-set that leafed out during the Spring months of 2007,
culminating with a 'coda' issue in December. It is the very last
of Origin, ever.
A small part of this series
had Cid Corman's personal touch ~ in particular, some of the
feature poets names chosen. After Cid's passing, poets were then
gathered by editor Bob Arnold as more a celebration to poetry
and for Cid. It has became a leafy canopy of many poets from
around the world ~ ancients to the remarkably young ~ and all
of the set is published as a PDF file. It's meant to read on
the screen, and more, to be now shared as an e-book on CD.
The Origin set reaches 1,700
pages, with 250 artists and poets strong.
Origin Poets & Artists: Dobree Adams ~ Rae
Armantrout ~ Bob Arnold / Origin Feature 1~ Carson Arnold ~ Susan Arnold
~ Ed Baker ~ Amiri Baraka ~ Jeffery Beam ~ Franco Beltrametti ~ Jan
Bender ~ John Bennett ~ Sophia Bentinck ~ Carol Berge ~ Romulo Bernardo /
trans. Janine Pommy Vega ~ Guy Birchard ~ Kevin Bowen ~ John Bradley /
Cheng Hui ~ Hanne Bramness ~ Alan Brilliant ~ Rolf Brinkmann ~ David
Brinks ~ Maggie Brown ~ Pam Brown ~ David Budbill ~ Clifford Burke ~
Bobby Byrd ~ Alex Caldiero ~ Alvaro Cardona-Hine ~ Hayden Carruth ~ Sean
Casey ~ Beth Chasse ~ David-Baptist Chirot ~ Cid Corman Letters to
Judith Binder ~ Cid Corman Letters to Louise Landes Levi ~ Carson
Cistulli ~ Laurie Clark ~ Thomas A. Clark ~ Andy Clausen ~ Steve Clay ~
Ira Cohen ~ Marcel Cohen / trans. Cid Corman ~ Jack Collom ~ Rita Corbin
~ Cid Corman ~ Shizumi Corman ~ Arlene Corwin ~ Robert Creeley ~ Simon
Cutts ~ Rene Daumal ~ Tsering Wangmo Dhompa ~ Jim Dodge ~ Kim Dorman ~
Ray Drew ~ Reidar Ekner ~ Theodore Enslin / Origin Archive ~ Rita degli
Esposti / trans. by Coco Gordon ~ George Evans ~ Clive Faust ~ Alec
Finlay ~ Ian Hamilton Finlay / Origin Archive Feature ~ Dennis Formento ~
Walter Franceschi ~ Gloria Frym ~ Forrest Gander / translations of
Marcos Canteli, Carlos Pardo & Elena Medel ~ Megan M. Garr ~
Jacqueline Gens ~ Sergio Geyda / trans. George Evans & Daisy Zamora ~
Man Giac / trans. Kevin Bowen ~ David Giannini ~ Michael Gizzi ~ Peter
Gizzi ~ Jesse Glass ~ Lyle Glazier ~ Charles Goodrich ~ Kirpal Gordon ~
Elio Grasso / Franco Beltrametti ~ Sam Green ~ Jonathan Greene ~ Sam
Grolmes ~ Sam Hamill ~ Marie Harris ~ Caroline Hartge ~ Terry Hauptman ~
Gerald Hausman ~ Kris Hemensley ~ David Hess ~ Michael Hettich ~ David
Hinton / Wei Ying-wu ~ Mikhail Horowitz ~ Gary Hotham ~ Kuan Hsiu /
trans. J. P. Seaton ~ Stefan Hyner ~ Brenda Iijima ~ Erling Inreeide ~
Lisa Jarnot ~ Tom Jay ~ Brooks Johnson ~ Kent Johnson ~ Greg Joly ~
Hettie Jones ~ George Kalamaras ~ Lenore Kandel ~ Yoshie Kaneiri ~ Eliot
Katz ~ Judy Katz-Levine ~ Cralan Kelder ~ Miyazawa Kenji / trans.
Gerald Hausman & Kenji Okuhira ~ Miyazawa Kenji / trans. Hiroaki
Sato ~ Kit Kennedy ~ Bill Knott ~ James Koller ~ Richard Kostelanetz ~
Mark Kuniya ~ Joanne Kyger ~ John Latta ~ Alan Lau ~ Dudley Laufman ~
Gary Lawless ~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Joseph Lease ~ Louise Landes Levi ~
John Levy ~ Chung Ling ~ Khong Lo / trans. Kevin Bowen ~ Ron Loewinsohn ~
Gerard Malanga ~ Jerry Martien ~ Stephen-Paul Martin ~ John Martone /
Origin Feature 3 ~ Joseph Massey ~ Sebastian Matthews ~ Farid Matuk ~
Michael Mauri ~ Howard McCord ~ Duncan McNaughton ~ Tim McNulty ~ Nora
Mehrhoff ~ Charlie Mehrhoff / Origin Feature 2 ~ Yuan Mei / trans. J. P.
Seaton ~ Richard Meltzer ~ Henri Michaux / trans. Cid Corman ~ David
Miller ~ Sabine Miller ~ Billy Mills ~ Peter Money ~ Tom Montag ~
Barbara Moraff ~ Giuseppe Moretti ~ Sheila Murphy ~ Eileen Myles ~ Vivek
Narayanan ~ Hoa Nguyen / Origin Feature 4 ~ Lorine Niedecker / Origin
Archive ~ Mike O'Connor ~ Mike / Hermit-Sage Tradition O'Connor /
Hermit-Sage Tradition ~ Josip Osti / trans. Barbara Subert ~ Maureen
Owen ~ Richard Owens ~ Ron Padgett ~ Shin Yu Pai ~ Ethan Paquin ~ Jenny
Penberthy ~ Omar Perez Lopez / trans. Kristin Dykstra & Nick
Lawrence ~ John Perlman ~ Will Petersen ~ Stephen Petroff ~ Simon Pettet
~ Denis Philippe / trans. Cid Corman ~ Janos Pilinszky / trans. Cid
Corman ~ Plucked Chicken / Origin Archive ~ Verandah Porche ~ Meredith
Quartermain ~ Peter Quartermain ~ Jerry Reddan ~ Tangram ~ Peter Riley ~
Marcia Roberts ~ Elizabeth Robinson ~ Janet Rodney ~ Martin Jack
Rosenblum ~ Ce Rosenow ~ Michael Rothenberg ~ Gail Roub ~ Philip Rowland
~ Eero Ruuttila ~ Albert Saijo ~ Nanao Sakaki ~ Frank Samperi ~ Edward
Sanders ~ Charles Sandy ~ Steve Sanfield ~ Santoka / trans. Scott
Watson ~ Aram Saroyan ~ Leslie Scalapino ~ Andrew Schelling ~ Silke
Scheuermann ~ George Schneeman ~ Maurice Scully ~ J. P. Seaton ~ Jerome
Seaton ~ Fred Jeremy (F. J.) Seligson ~ Sengai / trans. Cid Corman ~
Han Shan / trans. J. P. Seaton ~ David Shapiro ~ Gail Sher ~ Kazuko
Shiraishi / trans. Yumiko Tsumura & Samuel Grolmes ~ Eleni
Sikelianos ~ John Sinclair ~ Austin Smith ~ Daniel Smith ~ Patricia
Smith ~ Dale Smith / Origin Feature 4 ~ Gary Snyder / Origin Archive
Feature ~ Clemens Starck ~ Rose Styron ~ Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz ~ John
Suiter ~ Robert Sund ~ Arthur Sze ~ John Taggart ~ Ishii Tatsuhiko /
trans. Hiroaki Sato ~ Mark Terrill ~ Nguyen Quang Thieu / trans. Kevin
Bowen ~ Sophia Thor ~ Tony Tost ~ John Tranter ~ Tree Hugger ~ Yumiko
Tsumura ~ Gael Turnbull ~ Lars Amund / trans. Hanne Bramness Vaage ~
Blanca Varela / trans. Roberto Tejada ~ Laki Vazakas ~ Janine Pommy Vega
~ John Vieira ~ Anne Waldman ~ Catherine Walsh ~ Phyllis Walsh ~ Scott
Watson ~ James L. Weil ~ Michael Dylan Welch ~ Robert West ~ Philip
Whalen / Origin Archive ~ J. D. Whitney ~ Wild Hawthorn Press / Origin
Archive ~ Peter Lamborn Wilson / Pir Zia Inayat-Khan ~ Laura Winter ~
Jane Wodening ~ Peter Yovu ~ Daisy Zamora ~
: this is already too massive to write a
quip about. It dominated one whole year for us, hundreds of poets, mucho
correspondence on my end collecting and editing, then Susan's
contribution of 8 hour days screening everything and setting them onto
the Internet. We had help. Someone, anonymous, sent us a financial
donation out of the goodness of their heart. Someone else we know
contributed handsomely in more ways than one. John Martone bought us a
scanner. David Giannini went out of his way to print the whole text
issue after issue (I edited 4 issues, really anthologies) so we have a
paper copy of the huge text. There are only two paper collections, I
believe. David owns one, we own the other. After we got through the year
we had a CD-disc format prepared of the entire show: poems, art work
etc. and this can still be purchased from us. All the ceremony of the
year was for Cid and Shizumi Corman. I had taken over Cid's wishes of
wanting to see an Origin, sixth series made. So it was made.
Innumerable booklets would be made out of
this series, or lengthened into booklets, by many of the poets
involved. I will pinpoint these as we go along.
2008. Nicolas Born. The
Bill for Room 11. fine selection
of poems from this 20th century German master translated by Mark
Terrill in violet wraps with double-sided printed wrap around
band.
:we've enjoyed working with Mark, stationed for
decades now over in Germany (originally a California boy) either
booklets of his own poems, or his translations. Born is one more of
Mark's astute choices.
2008. Hanne Bramness, Flower Pieces. from Norway, the flowers
and one poet there. We think an absolute gem. Many poems folded
up into fern etched wraps
: we have prepared many booklets by Norway's Hanne
Bramness, often delicate and well rooted poemscapes that take over the
day once read. The booklets like to go outdoors with you, from where
they came.
2008. Thomas A Clark, The
Quiet Garden. the fourth
Longhouse booklet by one of Scotland's finest ~ cut glass poems
as silent as they come.
: Tom is one of the wonders of the
British Isles, for decades, and with a continuity that rivals a tree and
its foliage year by year, so do the poems and visual pieces from the
hand of Tom. Over the years, from Scotland, he has sent me manuscripts
when I've asked. When I've asked.
2008. Cid Corman, The Next One Thousand
Years. The Selected
Poems and Translations of this internationally acclaimed poet,
translator, and editor of the seminal journal Origin - edited
by Ce Rosenow & Bob Arnold, Longhouse, 2008. 224 pages. $15
(plus s/h). Distribution exclusively through Longhouse
: someone recently wrote to tell me
this collection is "poorly edited", which is an opinion, and any opinion
is one to deal with openly and do with it as one must. My 'must' is the
book is done. Another good year spent with a fellow worker, this time
Ce Rosenow, selecting mainly the shorter poems from Cid Corman's vast
sea of poems. Sea? How about seas! The book is certainly not "poorly
edited". It is taken from one corner of Cid, but a corner that ran
deeply throughout his range of work. We also included many of his
translations and wanted them seated in the selection as if one and all
with Cid. So no fanfare. Cid ran his translations, like his poetry,
through one Corman filter. We hold the unpublished manuscripts from
Cid's opus work "of", and purposely did not choose from that work (yet).
Down the road we would like to see the whole five volumes of "of"
attached to the already three volumes in print. The cover photograph for
The Next One Thousand Years is by Dobree Adams, leading to a haunt by Basho. Basho and Cid were friends.
2008. Mariah Fox. i am i
. Fold-out with text by the artist
of six original color paintings. Subject matter ranging from
Andy Warhol to Basquiat, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison and others.
Two editions unsigned in tan wraps with wrap around band and
signed in turquoise Lokta wraps with wrap around band.
: Mariah Fox is the daughter of poet and
storyteller Gerald Hausman (and author Lorry Hausman) and Gerry is an old pal and I just knew
learning that his daughter was an artist she might have something for us
to print and share. It happened just like that. Marish lives and works
in Miami, which if you want to work together, isn't at all that far from
Vermont.
2008. Walter Franceschi Little Satori. Fine kidding paper wraps with floating
cloud band. Three color fold-out booklet.The Italian poets first
book! New and limited.
:Walter Franceschi, after some years sending us small
handmade boolets that he would make of his poems, and then where we did
two booklets, and charmed by both, has disappeared on us. Walter lives
and works in Italy, and though Susan hasn't been there since she was 7
years old, she can picture where he is and tell me things. I'll wait for
Walter to tell me some more one day. We keep the booklets in print.
2008. Forrest Gander, translator. Three Spanish Poets ~ Marcos
Canteli, Carlos Pardo, Elena Medel
Forrest Gander has assembled three young
Spanish poets born between 1974 and 1985, all who have published
internationally with books or in anthologies. We offer here a
fine selection from all three poets translated by the poet Forrest
Gander, English text. Brown bark wraps with decorative wrap around
band
: Forrest may have come to me through the wide and
glad hand of Kent Johnson, a remarkable fellow, really. As is Forrest.
Kent sent my way many poets during the ORIGIN, sixth series collecting,
and many stuck with us for further work. . .this booklet being one. The
Spanish poets were chosen and shared by Forrest and we hopefully did the
rest.
2008. Whit Griffin, Wanhope. certainly
native spiritual and maybe supernatural poems of the earth To
feel so much despair amid / this beauty is a curse. Wondrous
chapbook clutch of poems wrapped in bled blue papers
: I can be old-fashioned so I immediately heard and felt
and even could smell what I believe is Civil War when I was reading
these poems by Whit. There is an undoubtedly mystical breeze working
through these poems as well, and it all makes for a royal unique poet.
This is one of two booklets we will publish by Whit over the next few
years.
2008. Han Shan / Translations by
J. P. Seaton / art by Jerome Seaton My Home's A Hole. Fine and bright with Lokta band. Three color
extensive fold-out booklet in Bodha leaf paper. New and limited.
A pattern of poems by the Cold Mountain legend with commentary
by noted Chinese scholar and poet J. P. Seaton.
: Sandy Seaton came to us for a few years and just put
down his knapsack of wisdom Chinese and said the same time I did, "we
can make some booklets together, you and me." So we did. I believe some
of all the booklets eventually went into his quite handsome Shambhala
book publications, with no word of credit to us as first publishing, but
who's counting? Not us. The pleasure has all been in doing the
booklets, sometimes with a helping hand from Sandy's artist son Jerome.
That's his calligraphy you see on the title page. Since the 1960s J.P.
Seaton (Sandy) has been one of the premiere translators of ancient
Chinese. From what I gather, he's every day working on another poem.
2008. Gerald Hausman, Bokeelia. from coastal
Florida, hidden away with turtles, lizards and moon filled ponds,
comes this poet's first book of poems in twenty years. A lot
of poems tucked up and away in this seaside beauty
:Bokeelia is a spot, hidden I bet,
somewhere in Florida, and Gerald Hausman knows where it is and allows us
a peek and another peek and more peeks (because he is never selfish)
and what and where this world where he makes his poems is from. You go
there. But only if you let~go. I selected and edited these poems
together for Gerry. When we tried it for a second booklet, it didn't
work. That's a behind-the-scenes tidbit. Here's another one: we'll try
one again, someday.
2008. Michael Mauri, Florida
Turnips. forester
and poet Michael Mauri spins a true tale of western Massachusetts
nuclear power and resistance through historical, imaginary and
real figures. One long poem folded up into Bodhi leaf wraps
: Mike Mauri is both a forester (employment, he has a
family, two beautiful daughters) and a poet, and he rides the range of
discovery out on the land where he brings his poems from. This booklet
deals with nuclear power, land, people, our eco-system, survival, and
momentarily between all those atoms, some dangers, a long poem writ.
2008. Hoa Nguyen. What Have You. A fat booklet of new poems
by Hoa - one of our largest booklets to date. 3 fold-out scroll
sheets tucked up into lovely Asian screenprint with cloud wrap
around band. Both unsigned and signed editions.
: Hoa would probably only publish with us once,
she's in demand, so if we are going to dance once, let's make it with
the finest papers we can find in a 10 mile radius (try never to spread
yourself too far) and make it the largest booklet we've ever done in the
foldout method. Usually our booklets are one or two pages that fold
out. With Hoa we insisted on three pages because she had such good work
that needed to be kept in one cabinet. It took some pressing down to
keep that cabinet closed as paper bulk. The outer wraps is Asian quality
with gilt lacings.
2008. Simon Pettet. Feast Or Famine. Fine winter sky blue with floating
cloud band. Three color fold-out booklet. Dance the day away
with a survivor's latest selection of poems. New and limited.
: Simon is about the only poet I know who touches
base with us after three years, five years, a month after that? with a
note like we are the best of friends (so we are) and here's something
he'd like us to read. It's 100% natural and likewise ready to be
published. This was one such occasional meeting.
2008. Schelling, Andrew, translator. Anonymous.
In the morning mail one day came these two new translation surprises
from the ancient lovers by Andrew, and by the afternoon we had the
little booklet sized up and printed pretty, and he had copies back in
Colorado in a day or two giving them away, the only way. Fine and
bright fold-out booklet. New and limited.
2008. Andrew Schelling, Lal Ded,
b. 1320, Kashmir. Just short
of a dozen translated poems that suggest a deep allegiance to
the Kashmiri form of Siva worship, in foldout chaplet style and
bound in elegant screenprint wraps with textual band.
: Andrew has been a visitor here (with a brother
residing in Vermont) many times and a constant correspondent with me,
probably through the good words about one another via Cid Corman. We've
stayed tied together. Longhouse seems to publish something by Andrew
once a year and none of it is ever planned. Either he sends something as
a general reading and gift and I see it as something I must publish, or
else I request something, or he has something he'd like published and
is Longhouse interested? All I know is a lot of "something" has been
happening for a good many years. Lalleshwari (1320-1392), also known as
Lal Ded, is the creator of the mystic poetry called Vatsun or Vakhs.
Known as Lal Vakhs, her verses are the earliest compositions in Kashmiri
language and are an important part of the history of Kashmiri
literature.
2008. Mark Terrill. Superabundance. A native of
California and former merchant seaman who has been writing, translating
and scraping by in Europe since the early 1980s. We offer here
a sheaf of nine new poems in pumpkin wraps with decorative band.
: first the translation booklet earlier in the year,
then new poems by Mark that I often read in large bunches, say 20-30
poems at a clip and I chose and edit a booklet up. If it all floats in
my hands after I'm done, we're on. Mark continues a grand tradition of
ex-patriot while making travels in Europe — a sly eye that can also cry.
2008. Lars Amund Vaage, The Institution Poems. the Norwegian novelist and
poet's second collection with us - facing the hardships and duties
of a loved one. Many poems wrapped up into royal papers. $15
/ very
limited signed
: earlier in life we published the sheep farmer poems
by the novelist and poet Lars Amund Vaage, a booklet I will always love.
Lars Amund was born and raised on the western side of Norway and is a
country boy. He has made his living as novelist and translator (Lorine
Niedecker and others) and poems from time to time comes into his playing
field. This collection concerns a daughter and her health and
livelihood and a father's struggle and passions.
2008. Wilson, Peter Lamborn and Pir
Zia Inayat-Khan. Ghazal
from the Divan-i Ghalib. Fine firebrand red with floating cloud band. Three color fold-out
booklet. No one's like Peter Lamborn Wilson to yesterday into
today, exquisite selection of poems here. New and limited.
: Peter Lamborn Wilson doesn't own a
computer, it seems, and all communication has come by handwritten
letters from some quiet spot on earth, respectfully. These translations
included. We carry on with it all.
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