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Making the experimental possible and probable, the Tender Buttons catalog proves small works can have big impact: four Guggenheims, six landmark texts, and one National Book Critics Circle finalist — all when women are given paper of their own.
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the Telaraña Circuit
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola
THE TELARAÑA CIRCUIT is Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola's first book of poems, a deeply felt and sustained investigative thought-web of material and immaterial memory.
August 1st, 2023
$22 • ISBN: 978-0-927920-21-6, paperback
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Cunt Norton
Dodie Bellamy
"I think this could be the most joyful book on Earth."
—Ariana Reines
September 1, 2023
$18 • ISBN 978-0-927920-23-0, paperback
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Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola reads from THE TELARAÑA CIRCUIT at the Poetry Project. New York City, May 19, 2023.
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Dodie Bellamy's Cunt-Ups—first published in 2001 and recipient of the Firecracker Award for Innovative Poetry—was immediately a controversial and celebrated work.
Using the “cut-up” method of William S. Burroughs, Cunt-Ups is a work of sex magick, based on source texts from old lovers and Jeffery Dahmer transcriptions. The resulting spell queers everything around it. Enjoy!
17th Anniversary Edition of Dodie Bellamy’s Cunt-Ups. Introduction by Sophie Robinson.
Cover art, “Hedgehog Touching Herself,” and Interior art “Hedgehog Touching Herself Some More” by Michelle Rollman. Book design by Wayne Smith.
$18 • 2019 • 80 pp
ISBN 978-0-927920-17-9 paperback
When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each of the fifty poems investigates the relationship between a singular event in Sachs’ life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe. Published by Tender Buttons Press, Year by Year Poems juxtaposes Sachs’ finished poems, which move from her birth in 1961 to her half-century marker in 2011, with her original handwritten first drafts. In this way, she reveals her process of navigating within and alongside historical events such as the Moon Landing, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., streaking, the Anita Hill hearings, the Columbine shootings, and controversies around universal health care. In Year by Year Poems, Lynne Sachs realizes the long anticipated leap from her extraordinary career in filmmaking to this, her first book of poems.
With an introduction by Paolo Javier, former Queens poet laureate and author of the book Court of the Dragon.
$19 • 2019 • 64 pp
ISBN: 978-0-927920-20-9
Lynn Martin's wild embodiments of landscape are here published posthumously. Like the scorpions and Appalachian mountains very much alive in these poems, Martin's work announces a new magical understanding of the spirits present in our daily environments through an unrelenting generosity towards the simple and "known unknowns" of the universe.
$18 • 2019 • 88 pp
ISBN: 978-0-927920-15-5