’These plays were written over three decades, but sound as though exhaled in a single furnace blast. The blast is Mission Control explaining to America’s Favourite School Teacher why she must be immolated in a space ship for the corporatocracy. It’s Poe’s emanated astral self dictating a coded travelogue of Hell through the porthole of a labia-pink coffin, and King Worm being hailed erect on his golden throne in Bohu Tohu. What we hear, of course, is the blast of Jesse Glass. He has the lyricism of a sociopath, the invention of a polymath, and the pipes of some chthonian bully deity.’ Tom Bradley

Price £14.00

145pp

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The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems

Jesse Glass

Published by West House & Ahadada Books 2006

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Jesse Glass’ work has been hailed by poets as diverse as Jerome Rothenberg, William Bronk & Jim Daniels for its insight into human nature and its exploration of forms. He uses collage, fragmentation and Oulipo-like processes along with a keen understanding of poetic forms and traditions that stretches back to Beowulf and beyond. Glass finds his subject matter in larger than life figures like Phineas Gage -- the man whose life was changed in an instant when an iron bar was sent rocketing through his brain in a freak accident -- as well as in ants processing up a wall in time to harpsichord music in order to steal crystals from the inner lip of a cowrie shell.

Price £10.00

176pp

ISBN
1-904052-18-5

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Trimorphic Protennoia

Jesse Glass

Published by Elephantine 2002

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Poems.

Price £6.00

34pp

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Hippototescopo

Johan de Wit

Published by West House Books 2000

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Poems with footnotes. ‘Johan de Wit suspects that the guilty will not listen and his answer is to create formally autonomous literary texts, a pure poetry that is as solid as the world. The co-existence of the text and footnotes splits the poem along two axes of reading in a way which creates a multi-systemicity and opens up language itself as a medium.’ (Robert Sheppard) Typeset at Five Seasons Press.

Price £7.50

64pp

ISBN
0-9531509-4-1

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A Worldly Country: New Poems

John Ashbery

Published by Ecco 2007

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Boards, dustjacket.

Price £18.00

76pp

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And The Stars Were Shining

John Ashbery

Published by Noonday 1995

Edition 1st paperback

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Brief als from William Corbett to Lee Harwood laid in.

Price £15.00

100pp

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And The Stars Were Shining

John Ashbery

Published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 1994

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Boards in dustjacket. Name & date on fly.

Price £18.00

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April Galleons

John Ashbery

Published by Carcanet 1988

Edition 1st UK

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Boards in dustjacket. Bookplate.

Price £10.00

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