new from No Press: Stahl, Way and Yellowism

No Press is proud to announce the release of three new publications:

“Exercizes (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)” by Ola Ståhl — a trio of typewriter-based visual translations of Céline; published in a limited edition of 60 copies (only 28 of which are for sale). Each copy if handsewn into hand-typed, found paper covers.

“Uncreative Manifesto (2005)” by Nyein Way — a manifesto of conceptual writing from Myanmar and the basis for Way’s investigation of the international potential of conceptual writing. Produced in a limited edition of 80 copies (of which only 38 are for sale).

“Manifesto of Yellowism” by Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets. The key document in the emergence of “Yellowism“, the internationally notorious “autonomous phenomenon in contemporary culture.” Produced in a limited edition of 80 copies (of which only 38 are for sale).

All three of these limited edition items are now available for $6 total (including postage); please email derek@housepress.ca to order copies.

new from NO PRESS: “Last Words from ‘Sentences My Father Used’” by Charles Bernstein

No press is proud to announce the publication of Last Words from ‘Sentences My Father Used’ by Charles Bernstein.

Produced in a limited edition of 80 handbound copies, Last Words from ‘Sentences My Father Used’ is produced on 4 gate-folded long, narrow pages.

“Last Words from ‘Sentences My Father Used’ takes the final word in each of the 179 lines of “Sentences My Father Used” from Controlling Interests (New York: Roof Books, 1980, reprinted 2004). It is published here for the first time and will be collected in Recalculating (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).” — Charles Bernstein.

Last Words from ‘Sentences My Father Used’ is available for $5. Please email derek@housepress.ca to order.

new from NO PRESS: “A Marriage Tract by Marie Stopes” by Sheila Heti

new from NO PRESS:

“A Marriage Tract by Marie Stopes” by Sheila Heti.

Published in an edition of 80 handbound numbered copies, only $4ea.

from the author’s afterword:

“At one point in my novel, Ticknor, the character of George Ticknor reads a “marriage pamphlet” which is handed to him by a woman in the street. I wrote up the marriage pamphlet but I never put it in the book. One Christmas, I turned it into a little hand-sewn pamphlet and sent it to dozens of friends. This is the pamphlet’s second iteration. The text was borrowed and adapted from the writings of Marie Stopes (1880—1958), a controversial birth control reformer and sex education advocate. [...] This pamphlet is dedicated to the young men and women who once gathered at 1223 Bathurst Street in Toronto, where we were joyously developing a “morality… in a time of innocence … insufficient to bring [us] happiness through the course of [our] life.” —Sheila Heti

to order, email derek beaulieu at derek@housepress.ca

news

In addition to getting married, taking a few day honeymoon in San Francisco and working on several essays and pieces of writing, the latest news around here includes:

Conceptualist ostranenie: A dialogue between Derek Beaulieu (Canada) and Natalia Fedorova (Russia), now posted at Jacket2

a new chapbook of mine entitled Untitled (for billy mavreas) is now available from Puddles of Sky Press. A link to the press’s Facebook site is here.

I recently had an article on concrete poetry in the latest issue of Uppercase magazine

26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt) is still available in both print ($20) and digital ($0) editions.

No press is proud to announce the publication of “4am” by Eryk Wenziak, “Helvetica Neue” by Emma King, “2 poems” a leaflet by Kye Kocher, “The Winnipeg Cold Storage Company ” by Jon Paul Fiorentino and “Scrapple” by Jacob Spector (and a few more!) … rob mclennan reviews a few recent No press editions here.

new from No press: THE NOBLE GASES by Eric Zboya

No Press is proud to announce the publication of

THE NOBLE GASES
By Eric Zboya

The Noble Gases is excerpted from a larger manuscript entitled “The Periodic Table” in which Zboya represents every element in a braille-influenced representation of each element’s name and atomic layout. A minimal, elegrant suite of visual poems.

Published in a limited edition of 50 copies (25 of which are for sale) each copy is printed on linen paper and handbound.

Copies are available for $3.00 each (including postage).

To order, please contact derek beaulieu

new from No: THE LUCID CLUSTERS by Claude Gauvreau

No press is proud to announce the publication of:

THE LUCID CLUSTERS: POETICS OF CLAUDE GAUVREAU
Translated, and with an introduction by, Ray Ellenwood

Noted Quebecois author, playwright, poet and artist, Claude Gauvreau (1925-1971), was one of the Automatistes in Montreal and a signatory of Refus global. THE LUCID CLUSTERS is a selection of Gauvreau’s commentaries on poetics from his correspondence and addresses such fields as dada, Surrealism, Lettrisme and the OuLiPo. THE LUCID CLUSTERS marks the first time has work has been published west of Toronto in a solo edition.

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Ray Ellenwood, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto, is an award-winning translator and author of Egregore: A History of the Montréal Automatist Movement. In 1998, he organized a symposium, exhibition and concert at York University to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Refus global, and he continues to write and publish extensively about the Automatistes.

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Published in a limited edition of 100 copies (only 50 of which are for sale)
40 pgs, hand-bound

Copies are available for $10.00 each

To order copies, please contact derek beaulieu.

New from No Press: COPYS by Craig Dworkin

No Press is proud to announce the publication of

COPYS
By Craig Dworkin

‘My idea for these poems is that they be like cigarettes. On the one hand, briefly intense and repaying as much focused contemplation as you want to give them — each is in fact composed according to a rigorous and elided formal logic — but then also, at the very same time, merely discardable amusements: quickly read and easily forgotten, thrown away without a second thought as soon as they are finished.’ — Craig Dworkin

Originally published in the UK by Matchbox in May 2007, No press is proud to return this rarely-seen edition to print.

Published in a limited edition of 50 copies (25 of which are for sale) each copy consists of 34 loose cards in a hand-typed envelope.

Copies are available for $8.00 each (including postage).

To order, please contact derek beaulieu

Huth reviews Barwin’s new no press pamphlets

American visual poet Geof Huth has reviewed Gary Barwin’s “Four Panels” and “Six Panels”, both recently published by No press.

readings and pamphlets

At each of my scheduled speaking engagements this spring (St.Catharines March 10/11, New York City March 29, Philadelphia March 31, Lethbridge April 8, Manchester April 30 and more to come) I will be handing out a series of poetic leaflets. The series is still expanding, but so far includes:

“I Want to Have a Chuck and Di Party Like My Parents Did in the 80s” – Elizabeth Bachinsky

“Special Containment Procedure 001″ – Jonathan Ball

“Kern 12″ – derek beaulieu

“Measurement” – Jason Christie

“from How to be Everywhere” – Warren Craghead III

“Proud Fiends / I Lace Words” – Jon Paul Fiorentino

“Viau’s Corsets” – Helen Hajnoczky

“Errors to Correct before Reading” – Bronwyn Haslam & Samuel Garrigó Meza

“The National Research Council Official Time Signal” – Emma Healey

“On Sadness” – Jake Kennedy

“finally” – Billy Mavreas

“Pain Extracts” – kevin mcpherson eckhoff

“Home” – a.rawlings

“Business Casual” – Kyle Schlesinger

“Alphabetica 11″ – Eric Zboya

“from The Tolerance Project” – Rachel Zolf & co.

each leaflet is produced in edition of 50 copies (25 of which will be available for distribution) — keep an eye out!

“Four Panels” by Gary Barwin

No press is proud to announce the publication of FOUR PANELS by Gary Barwin.

A beautiful visual poem presented as a 4-panel suite…

Published in an edition of 50 copies (25 of which are for sale), this teeny-tiny leaflet sells for $1.00

To order, please contact derek beaulieu.