ypolita press

Julia Drescher's Birds of Paradise

2011-11-20T16:56:00.000-08:00

Excerpt:

Was hewn some

‘Unnatural’ being

Hues blended

Doubtfully begun

& ended the gun

was idle I was

too astonished

to shoot

Julia Cohen's 1 + Scattered=Zero

2011-07-24T15:58:00.000-07:00

Cover and inside art by Larry Lorca.

Excerpt:

Everyone I Knew In High School Is Dead

The egg fell onto the flashlight’s head,
a sound colder than outer space. When you
have an accident with an already-dead object
I can’t finish my sentence. I swung a stomach
I wished for one of those strangle bracelets
Grades melted under the radiator like
a doll on behalf of itself. The itch
of washer-dryer tags. We rejected
blood clots, are we tidal waves in the library
I card cataloged you until I could forget
& then find you again in the index
My leaking house, come back out
of the cake basement

and I would open by Jill Stengel

2011-05-22T21:34:00.001-07:00

NOW AVAILABLE:

EXCERPT:

having lost
train of thought

train wreck
collision
airbus crash into water

one, two
twenty-three skidoo

A flies twice weekly

force away thoughts
build little houses of brick
huff-puff wolves, stay out

Michael Slosek's Holding Place

2010-07-30T21:20:00.000-07:00

I hope you haven't been holding your breath. Please breathe.

Excerpt from the title poem, Holding Place

Held to, the dust in the wall
as a day to introduce.

The lines lean in upon
the ones and twos.

For casks in the blood
before dusk makes purpose.

Moving along the one
square, broken from

a house in cards. The seams
no longer visible.

restitutions for a newer bountiful verb by j/j hastain

2010-02-20T15:25:00.001-08:00

Excerpt is hard to replicate as it is all in a beautiful open field style, so I made a jpg of the last page:

Tracks by Logan Ryan Smith

2009-12-13T21:20:00.000-08:00

ypolita press is back! Now Available: Logan Ryan Smith's Tracks. Pre-orders (and regular orders) will now be shipped out in the coming week.

Sample Poem:

Inside the car
I can’t see the tracks
or what’s outside
can only feel the shaking
of the lights and mirrored
windows reflecting my
loose jaw and dumb tongue
vibrating ceaselessly
with all the meat
attached to these
spasmodic bones

I can’t hear anything
but the leper’s senseless jabber
and ghosts’ whirring
and Echo
Echo
Echo squealing
outside
ahead
of the headlights

Because You Are Loved

2009-07-01T10:08:00.000-07:00

Nicholas Manning's Hi Higher Hyperbole now available!

Pink text pages and bound with pink thread. The red heart is an actual doily! Happy Valentines!

Some of the poems in the book have appeared in Fascicle, Free Verse, Parcel, (right after moi), and check out the podcast.

Metempsychose review

2009-06-25T20:31:00.000-07:00

Check out Mark's review of Metempsychose HERE. Ypolita LOVES Ashes, ghosts, and also rubies.

2009-04-12T15:36:00.000-07:00

Pre-orders now being accepted for Nicholas Manning's Hi Higher Hyperbole.

Some of the poems in the book have appeared in Fascicle, Free Verse, Parcel, (right after moi), and check out the podcast.

Metempychose by Matina Stamatakis

2009-02-28T22:29:00.000-08:00

Metempychose by Matina Stamatakis, with artwork by Theoni Tambaki

Available Now!

Some poems from the book can be seen at Turntable and Blue Light, Milk, and Canopic Jar.

From Here

2009-02-22T14:35:00.000-08:00

Kathrin Schaeppi has a short review of Zoë Skoulding's From Here, here. Thanks Kathrin!

From Here

2009-01-11T17:05:00.000-08:00

As part of the Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv year 3, Ypolita Press is happy to release Zoë Skoulding's From Here with images by Simonetta Moro.

If you are involved in Dusie 3, you will get yours soon. If you are not but would like one, here it is!

Paypal button below with a nifty drop down menu. Sample poem below.

I

what I can hold in the eye breaks

at the edges a cluster of paths a zebra

crossing to the other side of the road side-

walks becoming pavements that shadow

pulled across continents the signs point

in all directions at once down

there in the windblown circumference

of light you carry history from a

to b in planetary drifts across a lens

Behind the R by Gina Myers

2008-10-08T20:08:00.000-07:00

Cover art by Dietmar Krumrey. Find more information about Dietmar at perpetualartmachine.com

Pics of the Insides

2008-06-08T12:43:00.000-07:00

Over here at Emma Phillipps' blog. Thanks Emma!

Now available!

2008-04-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

The peach is a vellum cover stock, and so a lighter cover stock (67 lb), the blue is a regular cover stock (110 lb). Text paper is a 60 lb text paper. Size is legal size halved.

Blue
Peach

2008-04-06T18:27:00.000-07:00

You may think that Easter is over, but Easter Sunday is right around the corner!

It may either be peach or it may be blue, or it may be peach and blue...

2008-01-20T11:03:00.000-08:00

Lately, I have been looking for ways to rethink the lyric. Basically, I’ve been trying to reconfigure the lyric for the contemporary mind while retaining some non-commercialized individual presence in the poem. Trying to write new thought constellations has long been important to my process.

Filament Sense by William Allegrezza

2007-12-29T19:51:00.001-08:00

Available January 1, 2008.

Read some poems from Filament Sense here.

Cover art Eruption by Lawrence Yang.

www.suckatlife.com

Gothenburg by Arielle Guy

2007-10-31T23:43:00.001-07:00

$5.00

cover illustration by Michael Cowell
www.michael-cowell.com

From Gothenburg:

“The carnivorous gather, spin straw into gold and then-”

Incredible heat, strangeness of things falling in delicate distance
instruments of Mrs. – what I found when I looked in the drawer
pleasant knuckling of blankets. Sweet coverlet,
true North an insect knows
fine joy, brightness found in the needle northward

- full pattern; I don’t know, conceding in petalled, guess: pleasure of “Atlantic Lectures”-
rue of ocean I didn’t want to end up in alone. Words written in
glass-glow remain in place; natural capacity for sound damp,
I told everyone, stop, guide, - gather to reject,- lose,

apology a rose staining everything, day
possessed of backing, none

by Arielle Guy

More excerpts here.

Coming Soon:

2007-10-07T20:28:00.000-07:00

Gothenburg
from Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire
by Arielle Guy

and

Filament Sense
by William Allegrezza

Order The Frank Poems Now!

2007-06-06T22:11:00.000-07:00

The Frank Poems by CAConrad, available NOW.

The bilingual edition, with German translations by Holger, with assistance from Jonas Slonacker and Sigrid Mayer.

Cover art by Cathleen Miller.

See below for colors and paypal buttons.
Or send me a check, email me at ypolita@hotmail.com for my address.
Or track down CAConrad in Philadelphia.
Also available at Pegasus Books Downtown in Berkeley.

For international orders, click here and tell me what color you'd like in the notes.

International Frank

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2007-06-06T22:07:00.000-07:00

This is a Neon Orange

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2007-06-06T22:03:00.001-07:00

This is a Sunny Yellow (Neon)

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2007-06-06T21:55:00.000-07:00

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2007-06-06T21:29:00.000-07:00

Coming Soon

2007-05-03T07:55:00.000-07:00

http://thefrankpoems.blogspot.com/

The Frank Poems by CAConrad, German translations by Holger, with assistance from Jonas Slonacker and Sigrid Mayer. Cover art by Cathleen Miller.

Available Now

2007-04-01T13:06:00.000-07:00

The Broken Sanctuary:
Nature Poems

Elizabeth Kate Switaj

$3 Print-On-Demand

Read poems from the book here and here.

Free Poetry

2006-10-01T17:05:00.000-07:00

Now Available!

Document(ary) by Carrie Hunter

Print Run of 20 Copies. 24 pps. Color. Free!
After that, print on demand at $3 each.

Five different covers to choose from:

Spiral (shown)
Cow Woman
Rabbit with Camera
Yellow Landscape with Gears
Spiral Jetty from the documentary "Tides and Rivers"

The 20 free copies are gone! Click below to order a print-on-demand copy.excerpt:

Using his son as a stand-in for himself. The story must be told
no matter what fictionalizations are necessary.

“When my father gave me his typewriter, I had absolutely no preferences for what I would write. Anything at all just to be typing. Not because I liked typing but because I liked something about the accumulating print-covered papers.”

spindrift; a seaspray,
magical chairs and a mystery

“Precisely because we said nothing.

We were about to say something.

But we remained on the edge of an impossible confidence.”

ypolita press

2006-09-25T23:17:00.000-07:00

Manifesto. Womanifesto. Humanifesto.

Ypolita: Chaucerian spelling of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. The Hippolyta of The Knight's Tale. But a bit British, with her knitting and needlework, a cup of tea. One breast. Bow and arrow put away neatly.

Ypolita Press seeks to publish texts that mix the lyrical with the abstract, the sensuous with the cerebral, the continuous with the discontinuous, duality with multiplicity, the quiet with the loud, pre-language with post-language. Post-experimental lyricism. The romanticization of the feminine with that romanticization's deconstruction. As well as the romanticization of the masculine with that romanticization's deconstruction. And so too the romanticization of the hermaphrodite with that romanticization's deconstruction.

And enantiodromia. From Wikipedia:

"a concept introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung where the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its opposite. It is equivalent to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system to restore balance.

Literally, 'running counter to,' referring to the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control."