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A Fixed, Formal Arrangement
Allison Carter

Les Figues Press, 2008

In A Fixed, Formal Arrangement Carter uses the short prose form to render the liminal space of between-ness. What exactly is spare time? Is a comma as servile as they say? Is a garage located inside or outside? What is the world, and why/how does it exist around you? These are the best questions of literature, and these short, serial pieces are brilliantly precise and heart-achingly poignant in their strange explorations. A Fixed, Formal ...

Dies: A Sentence

1 review
Susan McCabe (Introduction) Vanessa Place

Les Figues Press, 2005

best new work of (actual) literature!
Truly Dies: A Sentence is the most beautiful and astounding work of literature I have read in ages. This is a must read for those who are fans of Joyce, Stein, Hemingway, Eliot, Gass, Calvino--and also for those who love war literature.

Grammar of the Cage

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Pam Ore

Les Figues Press, 2005

distressing, beautiful, and direly necessary
A former zookeeper, Pam Ore's poetry is a lyrical, soul-piercing examination of the way language shapes our often heartless behavior towards the environment. Ore shares with the reader her fierce drive to reconcile her identity as a poet-a human being with a special mastery of language-with her shared culpability with the mistreatment and extinctions of other animal species. In her poem "XXX, ...

God's Livestock Policy (Trenchart, Parapet)
Stan Apps

Les Figues Press, 2008

Poetry. Introduction by Michael Magee. Art by Danielle Adair. God s Livestock Policy is Stan Apps self-ordained: mini-Bible / sort of a commentary on the real Bible. Employing satire as incisive as that which one might find in e.e. cummings and The New Republic, Apps poems problematize God, configuring the deity as a grasping extension of Man s urge for sovereignty, a populist construct by which we are roped, doped, and branded. Heaven here is a ...

Chop Shop (Trenchart: the Parapet Series)
Stephanie Taylor

Les Figues Press, 2007

Chop Shop chronicles, in full color, Los Angeles artist Stephanie Taylor's interdisciplinary, site-specific installation of sculpture, photography, rhyme and song. With an introduction by Vanessa Place, a conversation with Juli Carson, an essay (in German) by Susanne Prinz, and additional visual art by Danielle Adair, experience "a lusty, rusty, busty in full titular view, this voom-va-va-voom makes a gal leery, like the peek-a-boo of a cutie ...

Inch Aeons (Casements Series)
Nuala M. Archer

Les Figues Press, 2007

INCH AEONS is a meditation on the form of meaning, the nature of nature, and the locality of tradition in an over-wired-world. Here, award-winning poet Nuala Archer adopts, breaks and recreates the limits of haiku, evoking moments of collision and convergence, from "Beyond Conception / Without Regeneration / Big Bang's Leave let Be" to "Am-Is-Are Was-Were / Has-Have-Had Do-Does-Did Shall- / Should Can-Could Will-Would." These are poems, ...

Requiem

1 review
Introduction by David L. Ulin) Teresa Carmody

Les Figues Press, 2005

Praise for Reqieum
Guilty of laconic eloquence, the people that inhabit these pages say a lot in a short space. The author has the uncanny ability to capture the inner monologue so that one gets an incrediblly strong sense of what the characters are up against. The pieces are gripping, heartfelt, provocative inquiries into the nature of equity, grief, God, family and connection. It is a sinner's guide to ...

Voice of Ice/ Voix De Glace (Trenchart: Parapet)

1 review
Alta Ifland

Les Figues Press, 2007

life, the passions, the intensity
The Voice of Ice is part of Les Figues Press' ThrenchArt: The Parapet Series. It is a book of prose poetry written and translated by Alta Ifland, traveling through her life drawing out feelings that we all have experienced at one time. The first poem is Birth, Death is the last and her journey is all that is found in-between. The poems take you to a dream state, a place where life drifts away and ...

A Happy Man And Other Stories / Der GlÃ¼ckliche Und Andere ErzÃ¤hlungen
Axel ThormÃ¤hlen

Les Figues Press, 2008

Fiction. Translated from the German by Marianne ThormÃ¤hlen. Introduction by Judith Freeman. A HAPPY MAN AND OTHER STORIES OR/ODER DER GLÃ?CKLICHE UND ANDERE ERZÃ?HLUNGEN draws together nine small fictions by German author Axel ThormÃ¤hlen. Jochen, the titles story's hero, is a man content in the face of others' discontent and their foolish fear of mortality. Like Jochen, many of ThormÃ¤hlen's characters live in deceptively simple, but ...

In the Plain Turn of the Body Make a Sentence: Two Plays by Sissy Boyd
Sissy Boyd

Les Figues Press, 2006

Boyd's signature style, her love of ellipses, comes from a distrust of language and a rejection of the hierarchies it brings in tow, writes playwright and director Guy Zimmerman in his Introduction to this new book by Sissy Boyd. In Green Shoes, a dancer returns to the studio of an artist to reclaim his obsessive drawings of her. Then. The body portrays the sadness and tragic memory loss of Ma, an aging dancer, reviewing before rehearsal with ...

The Noulipian Analects

Les Figues Press, 2007

THE NOULIPIAN ANALECTS is a comprehensive, alphabetical survey of constraint-based writing in modern English, in the tradition of Oulipo. The Analects extend questions of form, content, and the social, aesthetic, and political reverberations of constrained writing. More encyclopedically, the Analects are 'An Alpha Bestiary of Exogenously Exotic Essays and Dazzlingly Delectable Design, Complexly Charismatic Constraints and Occasional Oulipian ...

A Story of Witchery
Jennifer Calkins

Les Figues Press, 2006

Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play parts in A Story of Witchery, a new book-length narrative poem and modern-day fairy tale by Jennifer Calkins. Here we meet Emily, our "small and weedy" protagonist, an orphan complicit (perhaps) in her own abandonment, and who is caught up, as poet Amy Gerstler writes in her Introduction, in a story "entwined with science facts and twisted clinical fictions." In language rolling and tripping with spare ...

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