Ken Sanders Rare Books E-Catalogue #10. Utah Poetry & Presses

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1 Ken Sanders Rare Books E-Catalogue #10 Utah Poetry & Presses

2 1) Kenneth W. Brewer. Whale Song: A Poet's Journey into Cancer Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, First Edition. ISBN: pp. Octavo [21.5 cm.] Maroon cloth backstrip and boards with silver lettering. Fine. Hardcover. [12229] $30 This collection of poems was penned as the author was battling cancer in his Cache Valley home. A poet of the first order, and an incredible individual, Ken Brewer is greatly missed by all those who were familiar with the man, and his work. Kenneth W. Brewer ( ) was the Utah Poet Laureate, and a retired professor of English. Mr. Brewer has had several volumes of poetry published, as well as hundreds of poems appearing in literary journals and reviews over the last thirty plus years. "I keep hearing that poetry is dead in this country, but I refuse to believe that. When we must confront immediate crises, we seldom write novels or short stories; we write poems, or we sing, or we pray. Upon being told my life was about to end, I wrote the first poem as if it were a boat of words launched toward places I have never been."

3 2) Kenneth W. Brewer. To Remember What is Lost Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, / pp. Octavo. Blue cloth. Fine/Very good. Light bumping to head of jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. Holograph letter from the author to the inscribee (Keith Wilson) laid in. Short resume of the author laid in. Ex-libris poet Keith Wilson. [7193] $50

4 3) Alex Caldiero. AhBhGh [Salt Lake City, UT]: Kinde Nebeker. 5/15. 21pp. Duodecimo [16cm]. Green linen. Light soiling to front board. Near fine. [47017] $200 Designed by Kinde Nebeker. Scarce Caldiero work. Caldiero was born in Sicily, raised in Brooklyn, and attended Queens College. Well known for his performance works that integrate poetry with music, dance, and art--and for his appearance in the independent motion picture Plan Ten from Outer Space--Caldiero has performed at the New School for Social Research, the Pritchard Art Gallery, the Salt Lake Art Center, and on Brazilian TV. He has been published both in Italy and the United States, reviewed in Village Voice and the New York Times, is anthologized in Text-Sound Texts, featured in Utah: State of the Arts, and is included in the Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes. He is currently a Poet/Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University.

5 4) Alex Caldiero. Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance: Six Days on the Colorado River Thru Cataract Canyon Salt Lake City, UT: Saltfront, First edition. 93 pp. [23 cm]; yellow and black illustrated wraps. New. Paperback. [49312] $ ) Gordon Ball. Dark Music Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, First edition. 81pp. [19cm] New. Pictorial wraps. Paperback. [33178] $12 "Luminous, Delicate as the dust on the butterly's wings & graceful as its flight, Gordon Ball so fluently unwinds the silken spools of memory." - John Tytell "All is not lost as long as such transmission of dharma graces us." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

6 6) Rob Carney. Weather Report Shepherdstown, WV: Somondoco Press, Second printing. 72pp. Square quarto [23 cm] White illustrated wrappers. New. Paperback. [12440] $15 Carney is the winner of the 2004 Utah Book Award for Poetry 7) Shira Dentz. black seeds on a white dish Exeter: Shearsman Books, First edition. ISBN: pp. Octavo [23cm] Paperback. NEW. [23938] $15 From the publisher: The poems in black seeds on a white dish spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focus by destabilizing everything in its reach, loss disables rigidity Shapes themselves, including punctuation, become a language throughout.

7 8) Kimberly Johnson. Leviathan with a Hook New York: Persea Books, First edition. SIGNED by author on the title page. 69pp. [21.5cm] Royal blue paper covered boards with gold stamped titles on the spine. Cream colored dustjacket with intricate illustrations on the front. New. Hardcover. [32241] $23 From the publisher: Kimberly Johnson's dazzling first collection is rooted in the land and language she inherits, then claims for her own. Informed throughout by Milton's Paradise Lost, Johnson's poems burst with the flora and fauna of a magnificently imagined landscape, and gain their power from the incomparable language she uses to describe it. This language is itself an organism in her writing, grown from its own seed, its vowels blooming like necessary globes/with sharp, consonantal edges. Her voice is wholly new and unique; Leviathan with a Hook heralds the arrival of one of the new standard-bearers of American verse.

8 9) David Lee. The Porcine Canticles Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, Later printing. SIGNED: 108 pp. [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. New. Paperback. [39702] $14 Signed by author on title page. This is the best-loved title from Utah's first poet laureate, David Lee. 10) David Lee. My Town Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, Later printing. 137 pp. [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. New. Paperback. [39703] $15 Lee s splendid ear for idiomatic, vernacular speech imbues his work with a kind of red-dirt, hog-wallow lyricism, with the direct and uncompromising impact of common talk. Bloomsbury Review

9 11) Stefene Russell. The Possum Codex Salt Lake City, Portland and Honolulu: Otis Nebula Press, First edition. SIGNED. 96pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Pictorial wraps. New. Paperback. [44660] $15 Signed by Stefene Russell on the half title page. From Otis Nebula Press- "The Possum Codex is the second installment in a Danteinspired trilogy, following Russell's 2013 chapbook Inferna. Structured in four parts, The Possum Codex is a sort of seasonal long-poem as well as hallucinatory pilgrim s progress undertaken in the Rust Belt landscape of the Middle West, through haunted blue-collar bars and magic circles drawn in overgrown city backyards, with the speaker of the poem bereft of a guide, left only to follow intuition and nature itself, including the sometimes supernatural animal of the title. Stefene Russell is a St. Louis-based poet, actor, and arts journalist. She is also a member of Poetry Scores, a collective dedicated to translating poetry into other mediums, including visual art, film, and music. Her books include the poem/essay/cd art book Go South for Animal Index (Poetry Scores, 2007) and a chapbook, Inferna (Intagliata Press, 2013).

10 12) Th0mas R. Peters Jr. Certain Birds Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, First edition. 76pp. [20.5cm] Pictorial wraps. NEW. Paperback. [33177] $12.99 An edgy, sometimes humorous, and mostly profound collection of poems by Post-Beat author Thomas R. Peters, Jr. Peters' other books include Listen to My Machine, 100 missed train stations, Over the roofs of the world, and The Book of Silence. 13) Joel Long. Knowing Time By Light Salt Lake City: Blaine Creek Press, First edition. 57 pp. [20.5 cm] NEW. Paperback. [22869] $18 Joel Long s new poems are a waft of sea breeze over the high desert. These poems are intelligent, nuanced, and readable, sparkling with crisp imagery and wit. If it s been awhile since you ve enjoyed a book of poetry, try this one for refreshment. -David Lee

11 14) Rasoul Shams (editor). Sand & Sky: Poems from Utah Salt Lake City, UT: Rumi Publications, First edition. ISBN: pp. Octavo [23cm]; illustrated wraps. New. Paperback. [51382] $12.95 From rear cover: This anthology of poems from Utah presents a sense of place, time, and people as well as expressions of life and love in the American west.

12 15) Nate Liederbach. Negative Spaces: Stories Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, First edition. 80 pp. [20 cm]; Illustrated wraps. NEW. Paperback. [37523] $9.95 Nate Liederbach is the author of the story collection Doing a Bit of Bleeding, the forthcoming Tongues of Men and Angels: Nonfictions Ataxia, and co-editor, with James Harris, of Of a Monstrous Child: An Anthology of Creative Writing Relationships. 16) Kildem Soto; Colton Lamar Kindred; Phoenix; Rose; Chandler Jordana; Israel Lawton; Preston Zubal; M.R. Divine; Lauren Breeze; Aaron Wolcott; Elena Rogers; Hector Ahumada. The Wanting to Drown Swim Team Salt Lake City, UT: Trash House Publishing, /50. Octavo [21.5cm]; Wrap colors vary between copies. Japanese stab binding. Black and white illustrations on front wrap. Limited edition number on back wrap. New. Paperback. [53577] $10 Printed in a limited run of 50 and distributed at the event featuring the authors.

13 17) Swenson, Paul. Iced at the Ward, Burned at the Stake Salt Lake City: Signature Books, First edition. 82pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black illustrated wraps. New. Paperback. [3077] $14.95 Paul Swenson is a well-known Utah journalist, film critic, and writer. He is the former editor or associate editor of Utah Holiday magazine, the Salt Lake Observer, and The Event; a former staff writer for the Deseret News. He follows in the footsteps of sister May Swenson, who is among the most anthologized American poets. 18) J. A. Christensen. The Deep Song Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Poetry Society, Inc, First edition. 80pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Natural beige cloth over boards with black ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and an Indian design stamped in black on the front cover. Very good condition. In a good only dust jacket, with numerous small losses from the edges. The front inside flap is detached, but present. Hardcover. [41796] $15 J. A. Christensen is from Gunnison, Utah. This is the author's third book of poetry.

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