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NEW TITLE: The Pink, by Kyle Schlesinger

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Kenning Editions is pleased to announce the publication of THE PINK, a chapbook of poetry by Kyle Schlesinger. THE PINK offers a sequence of short poems with a detourned ear and an earnest intelligence. Condensing the remarkable craft of the long series Schlesinger collected as his debut volume, 2007’s HELLO HELICOPTER, THE PINK reminds us that, as in language, “There are plenty of rivers in the sea / But you can’t step on the same fish twice.” An admired poet, editor, and publisher, Schlesinger has lectured and published extensively on topics related to poetics, visual communication, and artists’ books. He lives and prints in New York.

“THE PINK: the color of course, or the recurrent carnations among the gathered leaves of this little bouquet, but also the sheer force of the form, the shear of a kind of textile cut, jagged and precise—a kind of coup de grace—not just between lines but also opening the serrated space between letters to reveal the ‘hue’ in ‘house’ or to separate the ‘ink’ from the ‘inkling,’ the ‘blue’ from the ‘print.’ To distinguish, in other words, the abstract plan from the material written form. In that linguistic pinking, Kyle Schlesinger cuts both into and against the weave, an angular slide into the inframince space of ‘the leading of a phrase’ (both the leading question of rhetoric and the spacing of letterforms), somewhere ‘between the chair and the thought of it’ (where chair is the French for ‘body’), or ‘the sensation of a concept’ and ‘the concept of a sensation.’ Here is the world, of words, in miniature, through rose-colored magnifying glasses.” ―Craig Dworkin

ISBN: 978-0-9767364-4-8

$7.50

24 pp. Saddle-stitched chapbook

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ddcover Kenning Editions is proud to announce the first full-length collection in English by Mexican poet and literary activist Dolores Dorantes. sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre: a bilingual edition of books two and three of Dolores Dorantes, by Dolores Dorantes. Translated by Jen Hofer. A copublication of Kenning Editions and Counterpath Press.

sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre are books two and three of Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes lifelong project titled Dolores Dorantes. These works consist of fragmented interlocking sequences of poems that create a scaffolding to frame Dorantes’ vivid explorations of the intensely personal and intensely social questions that inhabit the space called “Dolores Dorantes.” Dorantes writes, “May be / I had to forget how…” ; it is from within the particular experience she offers that we might, perhaps, begin to remember why.

“The desire of poetry, surrounding certain texts, is to unbind itself, moving according to its own architecture without explanations or reasoning. Dolores Dorantes is a visionary book whose absent parts reclaim the author and haunt the reader. It contains spectral dimensions, whether one considers the relationship between poet and translator (collaborators, really) who shadow each other across the pages, or if you stop to notice the interplay (intertext) Dorantes allows her readers.”–Guillermo Juan Parra

Dorantes was born in Veracruz in 1973 and has lived most of her life in Ciudad Juárez, where socioeconomic violence and politically-charged daily brutalities have informed her radically humane and beautifully incisive work as a poet, journalist, and cultural worker. Dorantes is a rare presence in Mexican literary communities, in that she takes a wide-ranging international stance toward poetry and poetics while refusing to accept state support from a government she cannot respect. She has published four book-length works of poetry in Mexico, and is a founding member of the border arts collective Compañía Frugal (The Frugal Company), which counts among its activities publication of the monthly poetry broadside series Hoja Frugal, printed in editions of 4,000 and distributed free throughout Mexico.

ISBN: 978-0-9767364-2-4. $14.95 Order from SPD, 2CO, Amazon, via subscription, or from Counterpath.

hw-spdscan Hannah Weiner’s Open House continues to enjoy a warm reception, including from Ron Silliman, who, on his weblog, calls it “a wonderful collection” that “accomplish[es] something major.” Thom Donovan’s exhaustive and lucid account of the Poetry Project’s celebration of Weiner’s “vision” and legacy is a featured article in The Fanzine, and James Kalm has posted a video “report” on the event in one, two, three parts. An interview with the editor of Hannah Weiner’s Open House, Patrick Durgin, is forthcoming in the literary journal Crayon. American Book Review and Aufgabe also plan to run reviews of the book in their forthcoming issues.

ISBN 0-9767364-1-1 $14.95 Order from SPD, 2CO, or Amazon.

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Kenning Editions was founded in 1998 to publish KENNING: A NEWSLETTER OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY, POETICS, AND NONFICTION WRITING (ISSN 1526-3428). In thirteen issues, the newsletter featured work by authors such as Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Jackson Mac Low, Nathaniel Mackey, K. Silem Mohammad, Sawako Nakayasu, Leslie Scalapino, Juliana Spahr, and Brian Kim Stefans. It also published symposia, chapbook editions, and more than one broadside insert.

In 2006, Kenning Editions devoted itself exclusively to publishing high-quality trade paperback volumes of new and archival writing by authors whose work reflects the diversity and innovation for which the newsletter came to stand.

The press is edited and published by Patrick F. Durgin.

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May 21, 2008

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