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For its Fall 2006 Season, Pilot Books is proud to present three titles:

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Cruel, Yes, but Company
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a collection of postcards by Friedrich Kerksieck and Aaron James
McNally










Written in their conception as postcard correspondence between the
two poets, this chapbook is masquerading as a stack of five postcards
handwritten on vintage (or new but bad-ass) postcards.  These five
postcard-poems, though only a small excerpt from an impressively
prolific collection, showcase the tender violence of the poems, their
little obsessions with nature and its relation to the humans who move
through (or past) it, their belief that there’s always something of
great meaning to be found when looking just a bit farther (not
harder) past the thing itself and into the beyond, where “a fishhook
moon is gleaming/& cruel, yes, but company.”

All cards are mail-ready.  Package includes one stamp.  


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Brief Weather & I Guess a Sort of Vision
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a chapbook of poems by Anthony Robinson











        cover art by August Herling

This chap comprises the first installment of Anthony Robinson’s
ambitious 81 poems project. These 9-lined poems, flickering both
with moments of chaos and supreme clarity, take the utterly
ordinary quite seriously. Hoping to find meaning in the fleeting and
daily, each poem begins to unveil (to the poet as well as the reader)
the dissolution of a relationship. Robinson provides for each poem a
back-story—or, the literary equivalent of a liner note—that provides
both factual and  emotional citation. These poems bring us the
weather, they bring us bacon and tulips, they bring us the voices of a
myriad of poets and musicians, and they bring us also, as it applies
to love and loss, “a sort of vision.”


review:

Even dead/tired (like I am today) I think Anthony Robinson’s poems
are tops!—by which I mean, they wake me up good!—by which I
mean, they fly!—and this makes me want to disassemble (if I could
disassemble) the whole dogged universe—word by word, line by
line—and give it to him to be put in the proper marvelous (dis)
order—one that’s just like the poems in BRIEF WEATHER & I
GUESS A SORT OF VISION, “which are well-connected and a little
wretched,” not to mention, also, full of guts and jive. Talkative
notational, and stuttering with feeling, there’s no guessing about it—
these poems go full-tilt whatever the weather, nine lines at a time and
adorned “with lovely scribbles.” Prepare to shake your butt. “Glory
be.”
—Matt Hart

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Coming Down in White
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a chapbook by Lori Shine

with art by Kathranne Knight
























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Buy Shine & Robinson together for $12 (plus $3 for shipping costs)




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Spring 2007
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Books forthcoming in 2007 include, but are not yet limited to:

The Book of Flashlights, Clover and Milk
an illustrated chapbook of poems by Joshua Marie Wilkinson,
art by Cecilia Johnson

__________ Versus Recovery
a chapbook-length poem by Sophie Klahr

Go Home and Go to Bed!
a comic by Mary Ruefle