Small Press Distribution is offering no less than three Kenning Editions titles among their staff picks for a 40% discount, now through October 15th! Including: Ambient Parking Lot, by Pamela Lu, Some Math, by Bill Luoma, and The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. Click on over to http://www.spdbooks.org/pages/events/staffpickssale.aspx

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Kenning Editions proudly announces the publication of Bill Luoma’s Some Math.

In Some Math, the syncopations of poetry meet the (ir)regularity of mathematical equations. Consider the “story problems” of high school math class. When encountering the word “and,” replace it with the addition symbol “+.” When encountering the word “of,” replace it with the multiplication symbol “x.” Now reverse the process. The result is a series of sound poems that both employ and interrogate the global language of systems and networks. Astrophysics. Computer science. Short tetrameters. Long dactyls. 9/11. US military strategy. The energy pathways of acupuncture. The fish ladders of Gmail. The wires and electrodes of torture. The swirling products of global capital. Mathematician Benjamin Pierce called his field “the science that draws necessary conclusions.” You do the math.

Bill Luoma is the author of Works and Days, Dear Dad, Swoon Rocket, and Western Love.

Buy it now from Small Press Distribution or directly from Kenning Editions or Amazon.com or enjoy a discount with your subscription to Kenning Editions.

ISBN: 978-0-9767364-6-2 / $14.95 / 112 pp. paperback / Cover art by David A. Fitschen / Frontispiece by LRSN / Cover design by Quemadura / printed on recycled paper