Lunar Chandelier Press
What They Wrote
Go here to read Charles Bernstein on the kind of poetry he wants. https://jacket2.org/category/commentary-tags/john-godfrey
Nada Gordon listed
Toni Simon | Earth After Earth | Lunar Chandelier | 2012
as "surreal new-sentence prescient-sci-fi psychedelia." Go here to read
her other choices and see what books poets and critics liked
http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/attention-span-2012-nada-gordon/
Lunar Chandelier Press is very, very pleased to announce the publication of Radio at Night: Recent & Selected works by Laurie Price. Soon to be available here at this site and SPD. Julie Harrison designed the book which features a collage by the author and interior photgraphs, also by Laurie Price.
Pierre Joris has this to say about Radio at Night:
For someone who loves to listen to radio at night, it is a great & magic pleasure to follow Laurie Price’s “secret longitude” through a syntax all her own driving through nomadic folds cathexing Second Avenue to Essaouira & words to images where the circumstances are always “another other,” providing “a theory of reality the mind can’t frame,” because this is a poem & thus unframable, but always open on the night & the day to come.
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Lunar Chandelier Press is pleased to announce that Tiny Gold Dress by
John Godfrey is available here (look to the right) and from SPD. Julie Harrison designed the book which includes a cover drawing by artist Basil King. http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780984607648/tiny-gold-dress.aspx.
Poet Charles Bernstein has this to say about Tiny Gold Dress.The evanescent lilt of everyday ruminations percolates through these wistful poems, ear bound to ambient eye's wry regrets and tender hopefulness. Perception becomes an aroma of reflection and infatuation in John Godfrey's fractured songs. Here, now: good as gold.
Anne Noonan of Soho Letter Press designed Earth After Earth by Toni Simon, which includes a gorgeous, tinted cover drawing by Toni Simon and twenty-five "drawings by the author" (as Lewis Carroll wrote on the frontispiece of his book about Alice's adventures underground)
Jerome Sala wrote this about EAE:
Toni Simon’s Earth After Earth, like classic apocalyptic writing, not only offers oblique prophecies of what’s to come, but captures the present, through the perspective of its alchemical, twilight language and dreamlike art.This verbal/visual text portrays a midnight world full of psychic threat, yet how beautiful its demons and angels, its “forest people,” “clairvoyant asteroids” and other denizens appear as they glow fiercely within its Dante-esque, black lit landscapes.The end may be nigh, but it’s sublime.
Kristin Prevellet wrote of Earth After Earth:
Earth After Earth is an enigmatic prose poetry text which resonates with classic sci-fi futurism and oddness, yet when attended to closely, provokes and informs us by imagining the alternative realities of an altered present. Earth After Earth proposes that the other place and time is poetry- explored to the imaginal limits. Earth After Earth is illustrated with Toni Simon’s quixotic black and white drawings which figure as portholes to a dream.
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Other Books
Anselm Berrigan wrote of Vyt Bakaitis's Deliberate Proof
The voice deployed by the poems...has this mesmerizing surface of tranquility..musical, adaptable, wise, urban (in its nether stream of quickness)..astonishing and valuable poetry.
John Godfrey said this:
Vyt Bakaitis writes poems from the ground up. With a unitary subjectivity, demonstrates expertise in wordplay. His poem, like a soliloquy, seems to open up while at the same time drilling inwards.
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Vyt Bakaitis
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Poet Robert Kelly wrote of petals, emblems:
Lynn Behrendt wields like Shakespeare an exuberant dismay at the wretchedness of life, and smites us with joy at the muscular way she says so.
Brenda Coultas has this to say:
At turns both delicate and demanding...petals, emblems is an organic and dangerous work constructed from within and written with a fierce intellegence...she is a powerful and grieving guide to an undeworlds constructed of language and light.
And Nada Gordon writes:
The affect-drenched poems in...petals, emblems leap of beauty's edge right to the electrified grid of being..."
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Ann Lauterbach wrote of Homework:
"...for Joe Elliot, doubt is a flexible, porous scrim through which the vagaries of human knowing pulse and stretch toward the great quotidian ensemble of unknowns.... Lucid and surprising..."
Nick Piombino has this to say:
With thise spare,yet eloquent poems, Elliot is inviting us instead to "escape back into the world," a world "fabricated by a variety of voices, that are all solitary, all inevitably yours."
Brendan Lorber writes:
"...Let the dissolute self's secret chatter dissolve into the ungroomed friendliness of shared meditations and so be human life enriched."
