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Poetry books, chapbooks and anthologies published by No Tell Books, LLC (www.notellbooks.org). Current and forthcoming authors includes Jill Alexander Essbaum, Shafer Hall, Laurel Snyder, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Bruce Covey, PF Potvin, Rebecca Loudon, Ravi Shankar, Reb Livingston and others.
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The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor
Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden, the second volume of No Tell Motel's Bedside Guide explores the multi-faceted aspects of desire and appeal. Including poems by Kristi Maxwell, Bruce Covey, Alison Stine, Evie Shockley, Jennifer L. Knox, Rebecca Loudon, Robyn Art, David Lehman, Didi Menendez, Charles Jensen, Jen Tynes, Clay Matthews, Kate Greenstreet, Aaron Belz, Carly Sachs, Margot Schilpp, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, kari edwards, Michael Quattrone, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Simon Perchik, Ron Klassnik, Peter Jay Shippy and many others.
Print: $16.99
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Harlot
Few poets' roots go deeper than the Romantics; Jill Alexander
Essbaum's reach all the way to the Elizabethans. In her Harlot one hears Herbert and Wyatt and Donne, their parallax view of religion as sex and sex as religion, their delight in sin, their smirking penitence, their penchant for the conceit, their riddles and fables, their fondling and squeezing of language. But this "postulant in the Church of the Kiss" is a twenty-first century woman, a "strange woman" less bowed to confession than hell-bent on fairly bragging of threesomes and more complications than were wet-dreamt of in Mr. W. H.'s philosophy. — H. L. Hix
Print: $15.00
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Shy Green Fields
Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s Shy Green Fields is in company with books by poets who wrote about glorious ordinary days in extraordinary times. In a pillowbook of a hundred seven-line poems, this life, as it is written, has the shadow of Robert Creeley’s A Day Book behind it, and the shadow of Federico Lorca in his famous, reiterated line, “Green, I love you, green, …” a specific, and pacific, emotional response in difficult political times. Behm-Steinberg’s book is, likewise, carnal, primal, and intellectual. Shy Green Fields exults in experience, “Such versions!”
--Jane Miller
Print: $15.00
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The Myth of the Simple Machines
The gorgeous simplicity of Laurel Snyder's language makes all the possibilities—and the impossibility—of living stand out starkly. Her machines are thought machines, memory machines, the machines of false and daily logic, and we recognize them all. And, of course, they don't work this time either, but Snyder has found the poignancy in this, and more than that, she has found its meaning. A startling and touching book.
--Cole Swensen
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Never Cry Woof
Santa Fe… the swagger of the ransom of the made-up funeral "Leave me alone Tony Randall" All accidents are intentional, but they're still accidents, buddy… "The planets that are our brains orbit fitfully" Look at Richard playing the piano with that shitface grin.. I've gotta go steal some whiskey now to drink with Ol' Roison the Beau… Take a look at a teenage harmony… "I got angry at the wastebasket there… " Some poets have images passing through their eyes like melting ore until their sockets seal shut … Shafer, hand, foot, etc … "his lungs are well supplied with blood" "Lemme get one of them Roman Coin datebooks" With rocks, salt and nails… We don't have to take this one down Garth… "To own a boat must be a pleasure"
-- Eddie Berrigan
Print: $15.00
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Elapsing Speedway Organism
"These poems revel in the precision of their own comic-constructed logic. It is a matter of fact that anything may turn into anything and hold, feelings encouraged to burst - "the impossibility of tidiness." I'm all for poetry that, like Covey's, wants to pull down the sky."
— Anselm Berrigan
"I admire these multi-tasking, speed of light, postmodern poems: the “deferential machinery” of their precise absurdities and comic veerings, and the surprises ignited in almost every line. Each text is wild yet exact. Pulse and synapse quickening, cerebral, dabbling in the erotics of geometry, but also cartoony, this is lip smacking word art for a hungry 21st century citizenry."
— Amy Gerstler
Print: $15.00
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The Attention Lesson
PF Potvin is a writer, musician, and ultramarathon runner who heralds from northern Michigan. He has taught at a variety of colleges and language schools in the U.S. and Chile. He holds a BA in English from St. John's, an MFA from Bennington College and travels whenever possible to support his writing. Discover his latest adventures at pfpotvin.com.
Print: $15.00
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Navigate, Amelia Earhart's Letters Home
"Electric, stinging, sweet. Do you like the phrase "from the missing diary"? Letters, lists? There was a meme going around a while ago: "Name a book that made you giddy. A book that made you sad." If I were asked today? Navigate. Written in a fever, Navigate, Amelia Earhart's Letters Home will make you cry and spin. Read it in one sitting (walking the wing), then again. Don't forget to breathe."
-- Kate Greenstreet
"Rebecca Loudon has not merely evoked Amelia Earhart, she has inhabited her.
These spare, elegiac poems ache with a devastating beauty. They will remind you of what you've lost, and fill you with lovely, terrible hope."
-- Susan Butler
Print: $9.00
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The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel
These poems will do ANYTHING. Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden from No Tell Motel (www.notellmotel.org), this anthology includes seductive poems by over 80 of today's most discreet poets including Aaron Anstett, Bruce Covey, Catherine Daly, Denise Duhamel, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Amy Gerstler, Noah Eli Gordon, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Cynthia Huntington, Kirsten Kaschock, Amy King, Shin Yu Pai, Lance Phillips, P.F. Potvin, Standard Schaefer, Ravi Shankar, Heidi Lynn Staples, Allyssa Wolf and others.
Print: $16.99
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Wanton Textiles
What the authors are saying about this book:
"A tour-de-force that channels D.H. Lawrence and the Happy Hooker, basting together bawdy pun with epistemological speculation."
— Ravi Shankar
"Pornography for your underpants."
— Reb Livingston
Reb Livingston is the author of Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, forthcoming) and Pterodactyls Soar Again (Whole Coconut Chapbook Series, 2006). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2006 and literary magazines.
Ravi Shankar is the founding editor of Drunken Boat and poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University. He has published a book of poems, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove, 2004), which was named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards.
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