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China Cowboy by Kim Gek Lin Short (Tarpaulin Sky Press)

Reveal: All Shapes & Sizes by Bruce Covey (Bitter Cherry Books)

TRISM by Rebecca Loudon (Horseless Press)

cloudfang : : cakedirt by Daniela Olszewska (Horseless Press)

The Soft Place by Kate Schapira (Horseless Press)

Desiring Map by Megan Kaminski (Coconut Books)

Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest and Hope edited by Steve Fellner and Phil E. Young, Editors (Benu Press)

Manhater by Danielle Pafunda (Dusie Press)

Triggermoon Triggermoon by Julia Cohen (Black Lawrence Press)

Snowmen Losing Weight by Noah Falck (BatCat Press)

Homo Sentimentalis by Nicholas Manning (Otoliths)

Invisible City by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (White Sky eBooks)

The Coldest Winter on Earth by David Dodd Lee (Marick Press)

Idylls for a Bare Stage by Magus Magnus (twentythreebooks)

Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room by Betsy Wheeler (National Poetry Review Press)

Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children by Dave Newman (Writers Tribe Books)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

Measured Extravagance by Peg Duthie (Upper Rubber Boot Books)

My Love Is a Dead Arctic Explorer by Paige Ackerson-Kiely (Ahsahta Press)

Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger (Sibling Rivalry)

Doll Studies: Forensics by Carol Guess (Black Lawrence Press)

the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios and j/j hastain (Marsh Hawk Press)

Route by Julia Cohen and Mathias Svalina (Immaculate Disciples Press)

The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture by Charles Jensen (MiPOESIAS Chapbook Series)

The World Will Deny It for You by Janaka Stucky (Ahsahta Press)

A Woman Traces the Shoreline by Sheila Squillante (Dancing Girl Press)

Continental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant (BlazeVOX)

Meeting Bone Man by Joseph Ross (Main Street Rag)

Drift by Alan King (Aquarius Press)

The Silhouettes by Lily Ladewig (Springgun Press)

Sinead O'Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor & Maureen Seaton (Firewheel Editions)

I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place (Les Figues Press)

Fjords Vol.1 by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)

The Bone Folders by T.A. Noonan (Sundress Publications)

O Bon by Brandon Shimoda (Litmus Press)

Thou Sand By Michael Farrell (TinFish Press)

Mother Was a Tragic Girl by Sandra Simonds (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

COMATOSE by J. A. Tyler (Patasola Press)

I'll Give You Something to Cry about: A Gathering of Stories by Corey Mesler (Queen's Ferry Press)

POD: Poems on Demand by Jordan Davis (Greying Ghost Press)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King (Litmus Press)

The Weary World Rejoices by Steve Fellner (Marsh Hawk Press)

C. by Rob McLennan (LRL textile series)

The Bounty: Four Addresses by Kate Schapira (Noemi Press)

The Louisiana Purchase by Jim Goar (Rose Metal Press)

Gardner Remembers...the Lost Tapes by Corey Mesler (Pocket Full of Scoundrel)

Rambo Goes to Idaho by Scott Abels (BlazeVox Books)

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. . . a steady thematic thumping of sex and want, a rhythmic book of push and drive.
—J.A. Tyler reviews Hough & Helix at PANK Magazine

New Titles by No Tell Poets

the new black by Evie Shockley (Wesleyan University Press)

What's This, Bombardier? by Ryan Flaherty (LSU Press)

marrowing by Maryrose Larkin (Airfoil chaps)

My Common Heart by Anne Boyer (Spooky Girlfriend)

Nomads with Samsonite by Timothy Bradford (BlazeVOX)

Call the Catastrophists by Krystal Languell (BlazeVOX)

Answer by Mark DuCharme (BlazeVOX)

Re- by Kristi Maxwell (Ahsahta)

F L O W E R C A R T by Lisa Fishman (Ahsahta)

notational by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (Otoliths)

Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes by Jennifer Tamayo (Switchback Books)

Undercurrent an album of amplified poetry by Brandy Nālani McDougall and Craig Santos Perez

and I would open by Jill Stengel (Ypolita Press)

1 + Scattered=Zero by Julia Cohen (Ypolita Press)

Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens edited by by Nicole Steinberg (SUNY Press)

She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Kitsune Books)

Great America by Trina Burke (Dancing Girl Press)

About Birds by Stacy Kidd (Dancing Girl Press)

Samaritan by Julia Cohen & Brandon Shimoda (Dancing Girl Press)

Saint Monica by Mary Biddinger (Black Lawrence)

Millie's Sunshine Tiki Villas by Grace Cavalieri (MiPOesias)

Sweet Nothing by Nate Pritts (Lowbrow Press)

Sky Poems by Nate Pritts (Greying Ghost Press)

An Antenna Called the Body by Sarah Mangold (textile series)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen (Cinco Puntos Press)

A Beautiful Name for a Girl by Kirsten Kaschock (Ahsahta Press)

The Many Woods of Grief by Lucas Farrell (University of Massachusetts Press)

FABRIC: Preludes to the Last American Book by Richard Froude (Horse Less Press)

Petticoat Government by T.A. Noonan (Gold Wake Press)

How Like Foreign Objects by Alexis Orgera (H_ngm_n Books)

Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls by Erika Meitner (Anhinga Press)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

Applies to Oranges by Maureen Thorson (Ugly Duckling Presse)

bough breaks By Tamiko Beyer (Meritage Press)

The Girl Without Arms by Brandon Shimoda (Black Ocean)

Say So by Dora Malech (Cleveland State University)

Mule by Shane McCrae (Cleveland State University)

Heraclitean Pride by Magus Magnus (Furniture Press)

Tea Party Poems by Nicole Mauro (Furniture Press)

Animal Magnetism by Kim Roberts (Pearl Editions)

The City from Nome by James Grinwis (The National Poetry Review Press)

Deepening Groove by Ravi Shankar (The National Poetry Review Press)

The Book of Evil by Jason Bredle (Dream Horse Press)

On Happier Lawns by Justin Marks (Poor Claudia)

Roseate, Points of Gold by Laynie Browne (Dusie Press)

Smiles of the Unstoppable by Jason Bredle (Magic Helicopter Press)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

petals, emblems by Lynn Behrendt (Lunar Chandelier Press)

People are Tiny in Paintings of China by Cynthia Arrieu-King (Octopus Books)

The Apocalypse Anthology by Steven Karl (Flying Guillotine Press)

Conrad by Michael Gushue (Souvenir Spoon Press)

Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium by Crystal Curry (Slope)

thempark by Michael Farrell (BookThug)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

The Name of This Intersection is Frost by Maryrose Larkin (Shearsman Books)

I-Formation by Anne Gorrick (Shearsman Books)

Pretty, Rooster by Clay Matthews (Cooper Dillon Books)

A Cloud of Witnesses by Jason Stumpf (Quale Press)

Navy Wife by Grace Cavalieri (MiPOeasias Chapbook Series)

We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough by Mike Young (Publishing Genuis)

Another Place of Rocking by Wendy Wisner (Pudding House Press)

Big Bright Sun by Nate Pritts (BlazeBOX Books)

American Amen by Gary McDowell (Dream Horse Press)

American Flamingo by Suzanne Frischkorn (MiPOesias' Cuban-American Poetry Series)

Please Don't Shoot Anyone Tonight by Dave Newman (Wolf Parade Books)

Feelings Using Wolves by Emily Kendal Frey and Zachary Schomburg (Small Fires Press)

Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson (University of Iowa Press)

Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai (White Pine Press)

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Material (as in’ concrete’: glassine — O liquid!) but abstract, say Miro in dialogue with Picasso. That is they’re pretty painterly, the poems, with images that flow past one changing into words . . . pixels . . . serifs. Domestic, lyric, amorous — well why not? “Cracked, however, like the liberty bell.” One can actually read them and be there, just reading, seeing (like you’re really there, really really there. You get to stay yourself.) Steinlike (as in glasses), stained. Stunning. His best book yet.
—Alice Notley

Glass Is Really a Liquid implicates more than one common substance in its continuous, polymath-eyed onslaught of negotiations of weird space: he unmasks hidden kitchens, pistols in napkins, a lurking way of “progressive sleep.” Gestures and feelings in these indexed syntaxes turn to colors, shapes, ideas. “It’s the new year, so everyone drives in the wrong direction,” a poem intones just before its speaker gets shot at by a helicopter “ammo pulsing 3 or 4 or 5 or blue.” In the hypercolor wake of all its gunfire, left wide open, the book still carries on, magnetizing in the same breath as its syllabic destruction a new Bruce Covey skinsuit around the reader’s body, equal parts Holy Shit! and Ouch!
—Blake Butler

In Glass Is Really a Liquid, Bruce Covey presents puzzles in poetry so perfectly constructed so that we may come to find that things are not always as they seem. The ways in which he uncovers and recovers discovery and loss allow us to see as he sees and, like him, "hope the clouds have / Answers hope the clouds have." To read these poems is to embark on a "a beautiful visit, a beautiful injection" of playful artifice but also heartbreaking insight. These poems are so much about this world; they are so much about the next one, too, where "all the little / Animals might congregate after." It's sure to be a lovely affair because Bruce has taken us there.
—Jenny Boully

Bruce Covey’s Glass Is Really a Liquid begins in the aftermath of a catastrophic loss, in a vivid state of stunnedness not unlike that of shock. Poignantly and precisely, Covey catalogs the indefinable aftermath, of what remains for the thwarted left-behind: “a cardboard city full of weeds...” or “stale bread...” [with] “...Marshmallow Fluff on it.” These are poems are expansive, passionate, instinctual, intelligent and funny—crafted as tightly as ski mask.
—Jennifer L. Knox

"Three ice tea & the wave of the future" is a fair example of the things to be found in Bruce Covey's "Restaurant," and throughout his poetry. Or how about "buttonholes / & boxes, stomachs & teeth, awaiting / Fulfillment from a good marketing plan"? Everything in the universe is getting along with each other, or maybe not, but somehow moving forward. "Touch it & burn, but be saved."
—John Ashbery

New Titles by No Tell Poets

RUN by Kim Gek Lin Short (Rope-a-Dope Press)

For People Who Like Gravity and Other People by Chris Tonelli (Rope-a-Dope Press)

Lake M by Brandon Shimoda (Corollary Press)

The Twelve Wives of Citizen Jane by Daniela Olszewska (Spooky Girlfriend)

Seoul Bus Poems by Jim Goar (Reality Street)

I Was the Jukebox by Sandra Beasley (W.W. Norton)

Girl on a Bridge by Suzanne Frischkorn (Main Street Rag)

Conspiracy of Leaves by Wendy Babiak (Plain View Press)

Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young (Word Riot)

Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! by Peter Davis (Bloof Books)

Handmade Love by Julie R. Enszer (A Midsummer Night's Press)

Minimum Heroic by Christopher Salerno (Mississippi Review Poetry Series)

Arby's Combo Roundup by Nathan Logan (MONDO BUMMER)

Heartbreaking Machines by Gina Myers & Nate Pritts (Lazy Frog Press)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

The French Exit by Elisa Gabbert (Birds, LLC)

The Trees Around by Chris Tonelli (Birds, LLC)

Elements by Deborah Poe (Stockport Flats)

Occultations by David Wolach (Black Radish Books)

Up Jump The Boogie by John Murillo (Cypher Books)

These Indicium Tales by Lance Phillips (Ahsahta Press)

LA Liminal by Becca Klaver (Kore Press)

(Ir)Rational Animals by Steven Karl (Flying Guillotine Press)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits by Kim Gek Lin Short (Tarpaulin Sky Press)

from unincorporated territory [saina] by Craig Santos Perez (Omnidawn)

Almost Dorothy by Neil de la Flor (Marsh Hawk Press)

The Devastation by Jill Alexander Essbaum (Cooper Dillion Books)

Like a Sea by Samuel Amadon (University of Iowa Press)

A Cake Appeared by Shane Jones (Scrambler Books)

wild life rifle firewild life rifle fire by Paul Siegell (Otoliths)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

Underground National by Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Factory School)

The Wonderfull Yeare by Nate Pritts (Cooper Dillon Books)

For the H in Ghost by Julia Cohen (Brave Men Press)

Approaching Ice by Elizabeth Bradfield (Persea Books)

Runoff by Clay Matthews (BlazeVox)

Poems for Lainna by rob mclennan (above/ground press)

Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones (Puncher and Wattmann)

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What People are Saying about God Damsel:

Just because fairy tales don’t exist doesn’t mean we don’t need them—need their promise of a happily ever after—need their heightened, fanciful language to infuse our flat, modern vernacular with pomp and poof and oompf—but need especially their infusion of momentous meaning into our seemingly pointless actions and humdrum adult lives. Through that hole of need enters Reb Livingston’s stunning God Damsel: a pyrotechnic, syntactical orgy wherein the speaker’s both creator and victim of a world that mirrors our own in disappointment and loss. She’s a creator of her own language, yet a victim of the limitations of all language. The poems are like the bizarre, hybrid-mutant animals slithering around the island of Dr. Moreau—cross-breeds of humor, whimsy, sharp intelligence, and deep—near unspeakable—sadness. I can hear Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls eerily reciting from God Damsel, like a primer, in unison. Do avoid the dreaded Woe-Dodo, and take a stroll through the puffy pink clouds (careful to avoid the inky-icky black pits) of God Damsel-land.

—Jennifer L. Knox



Reb Livingston (hymnographer, crier of laments, wry chronicler of blockages, seepages and Thingamabobs) combs the spiritual runes, tunes and ruined stockings that remain after traffic between the sexes. God Damsel is a fractured, fractious and funny allegory which just might get biblical on your ass. Check it out.

—Tom Beckett

New Titles by No Tell Poets

Destruction Myth by Mathias Svalina (Cleveland State Poetry Center)

Slaves to Do These Things by Amy King (BlazeVox)

rock. paper. scissors. by Scott Glassman (Ahadada Books) (free e-chap)

They Speak of Fruit by Gary L. McDowell (Cooper Dillon)

Your Name Is The Only Freedom by Janaka Stucky (Brave Men Press)

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PERSONATIONSKIN by Karl Parker
ISBN: 978-0-578-01872-0
Publication Date: November 2009
136 Pages

What People are Saying about PERSONATIONSKIN:

Hilarity in the vault! A man without a face and an ever-shifting position on things: sheer terror and comedy follow where "everywhere, divides."
—Fanny Howe


To read Karl Parker's poems is to revel in the tremendous reach of a mind that, more than any other I've read (more than John Clare, more than Khlebnikov or Kharms or Huerta) can render me awed at the realization that we, each of us, have a person inside our skins with us. Parker enacts this phenomenological remembering with such a wit and lyricism, and such a grief, that I believe him likely one of the smartest, saddest, funniest writers alive. He is without doubt one of my favorite writers. I have been following his work for years. And so will people for years to come.
—Gabriel Gudding


Karl Parker’s PERSONATIONSKIN makes for a strange and auspicious debut. The self in these poems tries on and discards one skin after another while Rome burns in the background—his fiddling indistinguishable from the burning. Joyous and agonized bodies dance through the funhouse, leaving sticky-note poems on distorting mirrors to mark their circular progress: “peel back the skin, back to the everything, the pale tenderest fleshpetal, where we are reeling still.” A broken umbrella in the face of major weather, a map of a landscape in which the difference is spreading: poems to make your flesh creep, to make you feel alive.
—Joshua Corey


Parker's jolting, often baffling assertions keep escorting you to the edge of some political or psychological cliff, where you glimpse an abyss into which a part of you or someone who has stolen your identity may already have jumped—and then yanking you back with a nudge in the ribs. It is funny—the way Samuel Beckett is funny. But wholly original. You don't want PERSONATIONSKIN to end because it keeps getting you to smile at the reasons why you might despair. It is a tender, good-natured, painfully discomfiting, and aesthetically exhilarating book.
—Jim Crenner


There are moments of human interaction that leave one with a sense of cosmic disconnection, as if the earth has stopped spinning, as a record would skip and scratch at a school dance. There is something so delicately transcendent in that shock. It’s like being hung-over and walking out into the twenty-below morning, a gasp. Karl Parker’s poems bring me as closer to that terror and transcendence than any other writer.

I think of Whitman rubbing his hide on tree bark, in both penance and ecstasy. The American elegy is tapered to a wick which burns back on itself. The edges of Parker’s writing shudder, as the skin shudders when it comes in contact with thorns—or caresses. But it is beyond good and evil. Many voices hash this out. There is Beckett reciting Shakespeare, Paul Celan reading Dylan Thomas. Voices plummet from the heavens. They are eloquent and rational, and they hold back tears. The personating fills that void with bodies and consciousness. That brings them even closer to, and makes them the membrane between body and self. They engineer earthly structure to support the weight of regret and hope. Parker’s poems are some of the most delicate and dangerous that exist. In their sublime instants, we are both present and complete.
—William Pettit, Tarano, Italy 3/09

New Titles by No Tell Poets

A Model Year by Gina Myers (Coconut Books)

Don't ever stay the same; keep changing Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney (Spooky Girlfriend Press)

A Nest This Size by Ann Fine (Shearsman)

The Found Titles Project by Mark DuCharme (Ahadada Books, e-book)

Disappears in the Rain by Matthew Thorburn (Parlor City Press)

State(s) of Flux by Steve Karl (Into Copious Unknowns)

Stars of the Night Commute by Ana Božičević (Tarpaulin Sky Press)

RECENTLY CLOUDS by Jess Mynes and Aaron Tieger (Petrichord Books)

Amphisbaena by Ray Succre (Cauliay Publishing)

all the jawing jackdaw by Nava Fader (Blazevox)

New Titles by No Tell Poets

Allyssa Wolf, Night Fast (High Street, 2009)