Meander Scar

	MEANDER SCAR Series
Elements $18 ISBN 978-0-615-35146-9 COMING IN APRIL 2010	Elements \| Deborah Poe Deborah Poe's Elements lyrically enacts structures and histories of 39 elements. Poe's experimental tactics bring "Phosphorus (P)" and "Calcium (C)" alive with the rigor of a scholar and the precision of a musician. Her visual play is as captivating as the politics of extraction she examines. We meet newborns, labor leaders, lovers and scientists. Poe satisfies our need for story, for discovery, for protest. We also encounter linguistic spaces which thwart narrative expectations: information is presented fragmentarily, out of order or elided completely. Through poems such as "Potassium (K)," "Titanium (Ti)," and "Ununtrium (Uut)," the language of science collides with the language of art, and we watch a literary "between space" emerge: earthquake syntax of / language and the mind" merge in "thought-flock constellations." We experience hypnosis in the nerve net // hybridization / a closer experience / with the geological body. A continual catalyst between worlds, Poe's poems push beyond the materials and materiality that initiate them. DEBORAH POE is the author of Elements , Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) and several chapbooks--most recently The Sensual Infrastructure (also published with Stockport Flats Press in 2006). Her writing has recently appeared in journals such as Colorado Review , Sidebrow, Ploughshares , Filter Literary Journal , Denver Quarterly and Copper Nickel as well as in the anthologies A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008) and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007). Deborah is assistant professor of English at Pace University and fiction editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat . For more about her, visit www.deborahpoe.com. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Building Codes \| Belle Gironda Belle Gironda's poems mediate between domestic and public space, using the discourse of architecture and dramas of the dispossessed. She structures each poem anew to test the tensile strength of poetic tropes. In one, you hang by a finger on Bishop's Terrace in Yosemite; in the next, you circle The Mother of Orchards (Umm Al-Basatin) in Baghdad. Gironda navigates borders, recording language's obligations to material conditions. The book's orgasms are triggered by familiar ghosts: Frank Lloyd Wright, Michel Foucault, Ruskin and Byron. But those who haunt us are lesser known folks: Shameeka Johnson-Dixon, Cat Gironda, Robert Harbison or Farley Granger. The book moves us from "Plans" to "Structures" to "Dwellers"; we end in "Occupation." Through out the journey, "pure light" marks world's edges in "quick cuts like breaking glass-> rational space." We appreciate the risks Gironda takes in cultivating empathy. For a REVIEW, click here. BELLE GIRONDA’S poems have appeared recently in Crayon, Confrontation and CRIT Journal. She is the author of two chapbooks: Start Here from St. Andrews Press andVolume 1 Number 4 with the artist Sheila Goloborotko in the High Watermark Salo[o]n Series, from Stockport Flats Press. She worked as an art critic for several years before attending graduate school and was among the editors who transformed The Little Magazine from a print to an electronic journal, one of the first of its kind. Gironda sometimes plays with video and performance, and currently teaches writing in Cairo, Egypt. As Buiding Codes when to press, she enjoyed a month’s residency at Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Germany. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ B_____ Meditations [1-52] \| Matthew Klane Matthew Klane's daily meditations on being and the body politic evolve from Plato's "divided line" into a rotating T-square that boomerangs beyond Darwin, beats around Bush then heads back to Whitman. These experiments ponder geopolitics and the U.S. electorate. In a grand bow to Whitman, Klane's first section, Specimen Days, borrows edicts and shapes them into spatial sonnets. In re Republic, poems bifurcate into two columns. In a bipartisan act, readers read vertically and horizontally as Klane indicts pitfalls of political process and delights in human resilience. Haiku arranged in quadrants form ~~World Series~~, the third section. Here, sound and visual play lead readers diagonally across the page. Can this country redefine itself again? By the final section, Explore Tomorrow Today(TM), a rotating t-axis reorients how meaning is structured with each turn of the page. This is the premier collection in Stockport Flats' Meander Scar Series of experimental poetry. *For REVIEWS of Klane's B____ Meditations, click here.* MATTHEW KLANE is co-editor at Flim Forum Press (flimforum.com). His latest chapbooks include: The- Associated Press, Sorrow Songs, and Friend Delighting the Eloquent. Other work can be found in: wordfor/word, Plantarchy, and string of small machines. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a hypertext, at housepress.org. He currently lives in Iowa City where is is working on a MFA at the Iowa Writers' Worksop.

Building Codes $16 ISBN 978-0-9819267-7-3
B_____ Meditations [1-52] $16 ISBN 978-0-9819267-2-8
Non-PayPal ORDER Form	Meander Scar Series features wordsmiths who carve new pathways. The geological term, flood meander scar, refers to a river’s “experimentation” as high water forges new flow patterns. Post-flood, the mainstream may never frequent these pathways; however, the record of such possibilities intensifies our awareness of how terrain changes. Meander conjures whimsy; scar suggests both injury and healing. Let’s examine forms that enact such fullness.

Elements | Deborah Poe

Deborah Poe's Elements lyrically enacts structures and histories of 39 elements. Poe's experimental tactics bring "Phosphorus (P)" and "Calcium (C)" alive with the rigor of a scholar and the precision of a musician. Her visual play is as captivating as the politics of extraction she examines. We meet newborns, labor leaders, lovers and scientists. Poe satisfies our need for story, for discovery, for protest. We also encounter linguistic spaces which thwart narrative expectations: information is presented fragmentarily, out of order or elided completely. Through poems such as "Potassium (K)," "Titanium (Ti)," and "Ununtrium (Uut)," the language of science collides with the language of art, and we watch a literary "between space" emerge: earthquake syntax of / language and the mind" merge in "thought-flock constellations." We experience hypnosis in the nerve net // hybridization / a closer experience / with the geological body. A continual catalyst between worlds, Poe's poems push beyond the materials and materiality that initiate them.

DEBORAH POE is the author of Elements , Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) and several chapbooks--most recently The Sensual Infrastructure (also published with Stockport Flats Press in 2006). Her writing has recently appeared in journals such as Colorado Review , Sidebrow, Ploughshares , Filter Literary Journal , Denver Quarterly and Copper Nickel as well as in the anthologies A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008) and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007). Deborah is assistant professor of English at Pace University and fiction editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat . For more about her, visit www.deborahpoe.com.

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Building Codes | Belle Gironda

Belle Gironda's poems mediate between domestic and public space, using the discourse of architecture and dramas of the dispossessed. She structures each poem anew to test the tensile strength of poetic tropes. In one, you hang by a finger on Bishop's Terrace in Yosemite; in the next, you circle The Mother of Orchards (Umm Al-Basatin) in Baghdad. Gironda navigates borders, recording language's obligations to material conditions. The book's orgasms are triggered by familiar ghosts: Frank Lloyd Wright, Michel Foucault, Ruskin and Byron. But those who haunt us are lesser known folks: Shameeka Johnson-Dixon, Cat Gironda, Robert Harbison or Farley Granger. The book moves us from "Plans" to "Structures" to "Dwellers"; we end in "Occupation." Through out the journey, "pure light" marks world's edges in "quick cuts like breaking glass-> rational space." We appreciate the risks Gironda takes in cultivating empathy.

For a REVIEW, click here.

BELLE GIRONDA’S poems have appeared recently in Crayon, Confrontation and CRIT Journal. She is the author of two chapbooks: Start Here from St. Andrews Press andVolume 1 Number 4 with the artist Sheila Goloborotko in the High Watermark Salo[o]n Series, from Stockport Flats Press. She worked as an art critic for several years before attending graduate school and was among the editors who transformed The Little Magazine from a print to an electronic journal, one of the first of its kind. Gironda sometimes plays with video and performance, and currently teaches writing in Cairo, Egypt. As Buiding Codes when to press, she enjoyed a month’s residency at Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Germany.

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B_____ Meditations [1-52] | Matthew Klane

Matthew Klane's daily meditations on being and the body politic evolve from Plato's "divided line" into a rotating T-square that boomerangs beyond Darwin, beats around Bush then heads back to Whitman. These experiments ponder geopolitics and the U.S. electorate. In a grand bow to Whitman, Klane's first section, Specimen Days, borrows edicts and shapes them into spatial sonnets. In re Republic, poems bifurcate into two columns. In a bipartisan act, readers read vertically and horizontally as Klane indicts pitfalls of political process and delights in human resilience. Haiku arranged in quadrants form ~~World Series~~, the third section. Here, sound and visual play lead readers diagonally across the page. Can this country redefine itself again? By the final section, Explore Tomorrow Today(TM), a rotating t-axis reorients how meaning is structured with each turn of the page. This is the premier collection in Stockport Flats' Meander Scar Series of experimental poetry.

For REVIEWS of Klane's B____ Meditations, click here.

MATTHEW KLANE is co-editor at Flim Forum Press (flimforum.com). His latest chapbooks include: The- Associated Press, Sorrow Songs, and Friend Delighting the Eloquent. Other work can be found in: wordfor/word, Plantarchy, and string of small machines. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a hypertext, at housepress.org. He currently lives in Iowa City where is is working on a MFA at the Iowa Writers' Worksop.