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Phylum Press publishes several pamphlets
and chapbooks each year. Publications include
Shores by Joel Bettridge (2001), 6
by Graham Foust (2001), True to Scale
by Susan Briante (2001), Revival by
Peter Gizzi (2002), Emulation Etudes
by Kristin Prevallet (2002), Cuba by
Michael Kelleher (2002), Dear [Blank], I Believe
in Other Worlds by Lorraine Graham (2003), Vocative
by Anthony Hawley (2004), Language of the
Dog-Heads by Cathy Eisenhower (2001), and Amulet
| Anatomy by Roberto Tejada (2002).
Phylum Press books have been reviewed in the Chicago
Review, Washington Review, and in Shearsman.
Cathy Eisenhower’s Language of the Dog-Heads
was selected for inclusion in the 2002 Bookmobile
Project touring exhibition. A brief commentary about Phylum
Press written by Richard Deming recently appears in the Italian
journal Semicerchio:
Rivista di poesia comparata.
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Shores
/ Bettridge · 6
/ Foust ·
True to Scale / Briante
Revival
/ Gizzi ·
Emulation Etudes / Prevallet
· Cuba
/ Kelleher
Dear [Blank],
I Believe in Other Worlds / Graham ·
Vocative
/ Hawley
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Shores
by Joel Bettridge
(2001)
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from Shores
Up stains hem of sky
Almost a sunrise
Whole lot of water
Heavy with churning
Hope the rain stops soon
Hope the rain stops soon
Just near the sunrise
At this point the birth
Canal curves toward sky
Light seen as a fall
Light seen as a fall
A thread of sunrise
Fetal head from earth
From folds of the plow
Never did find her
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6
by Graham Foust
(2001)
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Night Train
creased, the darkness seemed
exactly
the same—
someone
in one of those houses
was you
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True to Scale
by Susan Briante
(2001)
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from Love in the Time of NAFTA
Driving north on the Periférico, a man looks
up at a billboard and wonders about the name of the color
used to paint a rouge on Brad Pitt’s lips (Vermeil). He does
not, however, notice his wife has not spoken to him for three
hours.
The books she reads are getting longer. She
has lost her faith in bottled water.
The coins she presses into his palm are worth
exactly half of what they were yesterday.
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Revival
by Peter Gizzi
(2002)
Cover, Exploded Knight
by David Byrne
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from Revival
It’s good to be dead in America
with the movies, curtains and drift,
the muzak in the theater.
It’s good to be in a theater waiting
for The Best Years of Our Lives to begin.
Our first night back, we’re here
entertaining a hunch our plane did crash
somewhere over the Rockies, luggage
and manuscripts scattered, charred fragments
attempting to survive the fatal draft.
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Emulation Etudes
by Kristin Prevallet
(2002)
Cover by Ariel Potter
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from The Remains of the Wig
(after Stevens)
The wig is propped atop a building.
With its windows covered,
the birds cannot wake up.
Covering the heads of state
the wig curls into a ball
and fires pellets at the wildlife.
On her hair the wig stayed still
although her mind was always moving.
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Cuba
by Michael Kelleher
(2002)
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from Cuba
5.
Today the water is freezing cold. It makes the bumps on my
skin stand up. I can’t turn it off. It is freezing cold and
I can’t turn it off. I am afraid I am going to freeze to death.
I am afraid I am going to die.
And then it stops. And there is no more water. And there
is no more water for many days to come.
Perth is the rune of mystery.
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Dear [Blank], I Believe in Other Worlds
by Lorraine Graham
(2003)
Cover by Jae Jennifer Rossman
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from Dear [Blank], I Believe in Other Worlds
Everything slides to the side, one stilted to protect from
flooding like the jungle, hundreds of distinct languages separated
and developing apart from new dirt runways and missionaries.
No double bed. Detachment becomes possible even in America
where leaving is easy, a life of credit card scams and bad
credit is a life of romance, impossible like details. At home,
outlined in graphic paste, swimming with groupers, the third
largest in the world, in Appalachia. Clicked into dust I've
learned how to trace, careful of fingers and ears and the
folds in clothes. Trace and move, and here we are, smiling.
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Vocative
by Anthony Hawley
(2004)
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Ascending Song
Field be
More than longing
Hill not
Only overlook
Rocks a puzzle
Step into
Their conversation
Start
Thinking in sloped
Hills see
What steep
Grades can do
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Language of the Dog-Heads
/ Eisenhower · Amulet
| Anatomy / Tejada
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Language of the Dog-Heads
by Cathy Eisenhower
(2001)
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from Travel Guide
There as a woman as an ocean on a map she was mountain-small.
The cartographer had not shaved she could not believe he
had not shaved even in this abominable heat. She waited
and waited for the unshaven cartographer. She waited and
waited for the cartographer, his chin very feral. He was
late, also. The mild heat coaxed a sweat from her—the palm
trees floated over her vision and coaxed a sweat from her.
Look, the woman said, I cannot bear this any longer. Look,
she said, you fucking cartographer, you are very late. Do
you know where we are, goddamnit? she insisted to the man
who had yet to arrive. Do you know where we are? she insisted
to the wind, which had yet to arrive. You have exactly five
seconds to draw a shape and a name that explains why I am
sweating and why you never will visit a barber.
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Amulet | Anatomy
by Roberto Tejada
(2002)
Cover by Thomas Glassford
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EXEDRA
All these conclusions about the lack of something,
the shafts of light, the shifts of desire,
with eyes closed your initial warm kisses caught me looking,
how much the gesture, each contour of your blossoming
skin, firm lines made pink across the brawn and furrows,
the salt, the lofty tone of flesh, as I left to eradicate
the antonyms of becoming here—and living there endless,
the glass brick melting.
In the dream our tribe was called Equivocal, Irreparable,
and I could hardly get this hand around your phallus:
repeating Mud Dog Mother to myself
—while the water of the bodies
in the earth evaporated.
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