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Float Paperback - 2012

by Abel, David

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Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2012. First printing. 141 pp., tall 8vo. Signed by the author. New.

The first full-length collection by poet, editor, bookseller, and publisher Abel; a book of collage texts spanning twenty-five years of work. Blurbs by Andrew Joron ("There is a darkly musical design behind the bright stars of these texts"), Beverly Dahlen ("This stunning, wry collection is a tonic"), and Norma Cole ("Alluring, captivating, it's a must-read!").
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  • Title Float
  • Author Abel, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First printing
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chax Press, Tucson, AZ
  • Publication date 2012
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 003367
  • ISBN 9780925904294 / 0925904295
  • Category Poetry
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Poetry

About Passages Bookshop Oregon, United States

Specialising in: Artist's Books, Broadsides & Ephemera, Fine Printing, Modern Art, Poetry
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Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Recently settled into our new location in NW Portland, we are open by appointment or chance. Proprietor: David Abel, info@passagesbookshop.com

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From the publisher

" This stunning, wry collection is a tonic, triggering memory and the knowledge that we all enter poems in medias res-- from anywhere. Rhythmic fragments or grand paragraphs, FLOAT becomes its own mixing board. At times you hear it almost disappear, then reappear as ' total sound.' In a long poem titled ' Times of Day, ' one vertical, vital string, the words ' Zoo / Cage / Jazz' track to John Cage because of interventions earlier in the book, a startling elegy within and without. Cooked or raw, from the title to the end notes, possibilities abound. Alluring, captivating, it's a mustread!" -- Norma Cole

About the author

Writer and editor David Abel is the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. A founding member of the Spare Room reading series, now in its twenty first year, he was also a cofounder of Thirteen Hats, a collective of Portland writers and artists; and a member of the Four Wall Cinema collective. His recent publications include a chapbook of poems, Equifinality, from Crane's Bill in Albuquerque, NM; and two artist's books based on verbal performance scores -- XIV Eclipses, published by Couch Press in Portland, and Selected Durations, published by the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada in Reno. The first volume of an ongoing hybrid genre work entitled Sweepis forthcoming from Chax Press.

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