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~~kari edwards~~: NO GENDER
Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards
Edited by Julian T. Brolaski, erica kaufman, and E. Tracy Grinnell

Original exterior cover art, "accumulation of absences," created for kari by Tanya Hollis
Original interior cover collage by HR Hegnauer
$18 • October 2009 • 204 pp. • 7" x 9" • ISBN: 978-0-9819310-1-2
Published in collaboration with Litmus Press • A Venn Diagram Production

kari’s authorial “signature” undoes the authorial body in favor of a visible obfuscation—strikethru: kari never just signed, but rather crossed out hir name and wrote “NO GENDER.” The erasure—well no, the palimpsestic remaking of the name into a symbol for the dismantling of enforced gender codes is a profound and provocative gesture—the name is still visible behind the NO GENDER, as if behind bars... kari’s genius moved others to their own words, art, action—following a mandate of reclaiming the very words we speak and write—writing our selves, our other(ed) bodies, into a foundational postgender post-genre state. This book is the start of what hopefully will be a much longer conversation.
—from the introduction by Julian T. Brolaski & erica kaufman

With contributions from Cara Benson, Frances Blau, Mark Brasuell, Julian T. Brolaski, Reed Bye, Marcus Civin, CAConrad, Donna de la Perrière, E. Tracy Grinnell, Rob Halpern, Jen Hofer, Brenda Iijima, Lisa Jarnot, erica kaufman, Kevin Killian, Wendy Kramer, Joseph Lease, Rachel Levitsky, Joan MacDonald, Bill Marsh, Chris Martin, Yedda Morrison, Eileen Myles, Akilah Oliver, Tim Peterson, Ellen Redbird, Leslie Scalapino, Michael Smoler, Sherman Souther, Eleni Stecopoulos, and Anne Waldman

~~kari edwards~~: NO GENDER is a Venn Diagram Production, which is the collaborative intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural, feminist, and queer work by writers and artists working beyond and between borders.

Purchase NO GENDER & Bharat jiva together for $33,
and receive free shipping on both books.

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117. Kevin Killian
Wow Wow Wow Wow

116. Dodie Bellamy
Mother Montage

115. Kathy Lou Schultz
Biting Midge (Works in Prose)

114. Jean Day
Daydream (The Eponym)

113. Barbara Cole
from ear say

112. Elizabeth Robinson
Rumor

111. Fiona Templeton
Medea in Aia: Part I of the Medead

110. R. Erica Doyle
from Proxy

109. Stacey Levine
Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small

108. Maggie O’Sullivan
Windows Opening

107. Harriet Zinnes
IT IS AS IF

106. Jen Benka and Carol Mirakove
1,138

105. Jocelyn Saidenberg
Dispossessed

104. Evie Shockley
31 words * prose poems

103. Rebecca Brown
Always & Like This

102. Anna Moschovakis
The Tragedy of Waste

101. Patricia Spears Jones
repuestas!

100. Maureen Owen
from Working Papers

99. Laura Moriarty
Ultravioleta Documents

98. Deborah Meadows
The Draped Universe

97. Margaret Christakos
My Girlish Feast

96. a. rawlings
W I D E R

95. Kate Colby
from A Banner Year

94. Elizabeth Willis
All The Paintings of Giorgione

93. Laynie Browne
Desires of Letters

92. Rae Armantrout
Fetch

91. Marjorie Welish
Art and Language Writes an Epitaph

90. Sharon Mesmer
Vertigo Seeks Affinities

89. Dawn Lundy Martin
The Undress

88. Melissa Buzzeo
Near: a luminescence

87. Laura Elrick
Permeable Structures:
A Performance Essay in Stereo (excerpts)

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from Penury

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from Nothing to Say

84. Kim Rosenfield
10 Perfumes

83. Kathe Izzo
Public & Private Love

82. Rachel Zolf
from Human Resources

81. Nathalie Stephens
You But for the Body Fell Against

80. Stacy Szymaszek
hyper glossia
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79. Mairead Byrne
Kalends
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78. Fernada Laguna, Gabriela Bajerman, and Cecilia Pavón; translations by Urayoán Noel
Belleza y Felicidad

77. Karen Weiser
Heads Up Fever Pile

76. Martine Bellen
NYC Stories / Lessons of the Microscopist

O.O.P. — 75. Lisa Robertson
First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant

O.O.P. — 74. Erin Moure
Befallen I

73. Monica de la Torre
Doubles: An Excerpt

72. hassen
Salem

O.O.P. — 71. Mercedes Roffe
Theory of Colors

O.O.P. — 70. Lyn Hejinian
Lola

69. Corina Copp
Play Air

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118 Westerly Terrace

67. Eileen Tabios
The Estrus Gaze(s)

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Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering

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Untitled, Woman On Ground

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THE REINVENTION OF TRUTH

63. Latasha N. Nevada Diggs
Manuel is destroying my bathroom…

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You and Me Story

61. Jaimy Gordon
A Month of Love

60. Belladonna* Bilingue
Women’s Work in Translation (v. 2)

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Women’s Work in Translation (v. 1)

58. LourdesVasquez
May the transvestites of my island who tap their heels

57. Maria Negroni
Art and Fugue

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GONG

55. Catherine Daly
Surplice

54. Nada Gordon
SOng of My OWnself

53. Joanna Fuhrman
Belladonna* Moraine

52. Susan Briante
Neotropics: A Romancein Field Notes

51. Jen Benka
A Revisioning of the Preamble

50. Leslie Scalapino
‘Can’t is ‘Night’

49. Veronica Corpuz
Unititled

48. Michelle Naka Pierce
48 Minutes Left

47. Anne Tardos
A Noisy Nightingale Understands
a Tiger’s Camouflage Totally

46. Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Money Machine: Selected Poems

O.O.P. — 45. Joan Larkin
Boston Piano

O.O.P. — 44. Julie Patton,
“Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna

O.O.P. — 43. Summi Kaipa
from Was.Or Am.

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Something Bright, Then Holes

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Castle, Diamond, Swan

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Cape Cod Diary

O.O.P. — 39. Suzanne Wise
from The Blur Model

O.O.P. — 38. Eileen Myles
We, the Poets

O.O.P. — 37. Caitlin Mcdonnell
Dreaming the Tree

O.O.P. — 36. Alice Notley
IPHIGENIA

O.O.P. — 35. Lauren Gudath
Animal & Robot

O.O.P. — 34. Tonya Foster
A Swarm of Bees in High Court

O.O.P. — 33. Zhang Er
Cross River. Pick Lotus

O.O.P. — 32. Jennifer Moxley
The Occasion

O.O.P. — 31. Chris Tysh
Mother, I (fragment of a film script)

O.O.P. — 30. Tina Darragh
from rule of dumbs

O.O.P. — 29. Rosmarie Waldrop
Trace Histories

O.O.P. — 28. Bhanu Kapil
from The Wolf Girls of Midnapure

O.O.P. — 27. kari edwards
a diary of lies

O.O.P. — 26. Anne Waldman
[THINGS] SEEN/UNSEEN

O.O.P. — 25. Carla Harryman
DIMBLUE and Why Yell

O.O.P. — 24. Gail Scott
Bottoms Up

O.O.P. — 23. Jocelyn Saidenberg
Dusty

O.O.P. — 22. Norma Cole
BURNS

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Put A Feather In It

O.O.P. — 20. Abigail Child
Artificial Memory vol 1 & vol 2

O.O.P. — 19. Lynne Tillman
from Weird Fucks & “Dead Talk”

O.O.P. — 18. Cheryl Pallant
Spontaneities

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PAMPA

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Commingled : Sight

O.O.P. — 15. Adeena Karasick
The Arugula Fugues VII-VIII

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The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time / Reverse Mermaid

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The Neck of Lee Miller

O.O.P. — 12. Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Draft 43: Gap

O.O.P. — 11. Kathleen Fraser
Soft Pages

O.O.P. — 10. Lisa Jarnot
Nine Songs

O.O.P. — 9. Laura Wright
Everything Automatic

O.O.P. — 8. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Audience

O.O.P. — 7. Beth Murray
12 Horrors

O.O.P. — 6. Laura Mullen
Translation Series

O.O.P. — 5. Fanny Howe
from Indivisible

O.O.P. — 4. Eleni Sikelianos
from The Book of Jon

O.O.P. — 3. Cecilia Vicuña
trans. Rosa Alcalá
Bloodskirt

O.O.P. — 2. Camille Roy
Dream Girls

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Eating Belief

Bharat jiva
kari edwards

Featuring original cover art by Frances Blau
$15 • September 2009 • 132 pp. • 7" x 9" • ISBN: 978-0-9819310-0-5
Published in collaboration with Litmus Press • A Venn Diagram Production

This writing is the New Brave. Few writers have so given in to the entropic forces that disentangle our bodies in the end, while at the same time furiously pooling social content into observable patterns. And there are thousands! Millions! Billions! In biological systems, DNA nucleotides are linked by enzymes in order to make long, chainlike polynucleotides of defined sequence. In writing, the sub-social is linked by signs that make ringlets of undefined sequence. Only we can make think to make thought from it. It cannot be conceived of in advance. It cannot be found on the web. No se vende ni se compra. edwards’s radical neo-communitarian impulse is something that’s blood-borne, but not bloody, something that’s keen & observant, but not oculocentric. Like Antonin Artaud, edwards sought to make Writing = Life.
—Rodrigo Toscano

Radical rishi poet-seer-sage kari edwards’s stunningly powerful and erudite essay-rant-manifesto-‘swarm of / messages’ calls a nation of docile bodies to account: ‘no more… protecting the audience from/exploding stigmatas, tracer bullets and the / shit of the dead.’ Deploying lyric thrust ‘to detonate the heart,’ blown bodies, categories and lines enact new ‘delicious fractal’ social contracts for reducing suffering in the body public/private and generating ‘growth in the sky of mind.’ Read this book and you’ll never go back.
—Rachel Zolf

Read CAConrad's review on PhillySound: Mortified before kari's Bharat jiva.
November 27, 2009

Bharat jiva is named a Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller
September / October 2009

Bharat jiva is a Venn Diagram Production, which is the collaborative intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural, feminist, and queer work by writers and artists working beyond and between borders.

Purchase Bharat jiva for $15.

Purchase NO GENDER & Bharat jiva together for $33,
and receive free shipping on both books.

The Belladonna Elders Series
The Elders Series is a celebration of Belladonna’s 10th year in which each perfect-bound book
is an anthology and conversation between the guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts.

The Elders Series books have been selected for... The Best Poetry Picks of 2009
Selected by Bob Holman for About.com

"Emma’s unstoppable spirit is the nerve that drives [The Elders Series #4], that and her brilliant writing, her mind. To engage with this book is to engage the unknowable, yet to know a little tenderness of this artist in the making."
—Bob Holman and Margery Snyder for About.com

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BOB GLUCK &
SARAH SCHULMAN

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EMMA BEE BERNSTEIN,
SUSAN BEE &
MARJORIE PERLOFF

ETEL ADNAN,
LYN HEJINIAN &
JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE

M. NOURBESE PHILIP,
GAIL SCOTT &
KATE EICHHORN

CARA BENSON,
ANNE WALDMAN
& JAYNE CORTEZ

JANE SPRAGUE,
DIANE WARD &
TINA DARRAGH

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Area
Marcella Durand

$15

A wonderful book of presence where sentences point to new directions of meaning among planets, colors, mechanics, botanic and language itself. A new configuration of feelings and knowledge exposed in the most renewed poetical process of sensing life as it flows. A brilliant book about a new location for our notion of space and time.
—Nicole Brossard

Alyson Singes
Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall has emerged over the past decade as one of the most brilliantly inventive poets of our time, with an approach to acoustic performance that is nothing short of sensational. Alyson Singes overlays Chaucerian sound patterning onto contemporary sites; a dazzling, politically charged realization of diachronic vernacular, the old emerging from the new like mist from a deep fissure.
—Charles Bernstein

Letterpressed & hand-sewn
Limited edition of 75
Signed by the author

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mauve sea-orchids
Lila Zemborain
Translated by Rosa Alcalá & Mónica de la Torre

$14

Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros. She banks imagination and memory against the seep of loss, the dull insistence of oblivion.
—Forest Gander

Open Box (Improvisations)
Carla Harryman
Featuring original art by Elizabeth Jameson

$12

GRNN alert just in—Joseph Cornell is doing the can-can over the delicious debris organization in Harryman's OPEN BOX. This dance of demi-characters—half half, semiquaver, three hooks quarter—places (a State) under an obligation not to maintain armed forces. Next up: removing oneself to another place; migration.
—Tina Darragh

Four From Japan
Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and Takao Arai

$14

Introduction and translations by Sawako Nakayasu
Additional translations by Cole Swensen, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Chet Weiner, Yu Nakai,
and Malinda Markham

Published in collaboration with Litmus Press.

Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes
Erica Hunt

$8

In this book, which begins with a love poem and is encased in sepia images of her blind ancestor standing next to an empty chair, Erica Hunt continues her rigorous and beautiful practice—unflinching, lyrical, politically astute, bodily-located, unpredictable language.

The Putterer's Notebook
Akilah Oliver

$8

Part of an ongoing series of historico-political notetaking, this radical and incomparable poet continues to question subjectivity, identity, race, gender, geography, travel and the rest of the wrought contemporary landscape.

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