2011 Subscription: A Year in the Commons

Includes: 3-4 full length collection titles; 3-5 limited-edition signed chapbooks, and surprise merchandise

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$16 • 2011 • 148 pages • ISBN: 978-0-9823387-4-2
Original cover art by Nancy Blum

What would have happened had Thelma and Louise not driven off the cliff but stayed on the road? In Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian's picaresque novella, friendship lives on to follow eros through a polymorphic landscape where their fearless, inquisitive "we" encounters "hunger in two places at once."

The Wide Road is a collaborative investigation of the female body, friendship, writing, community, activism, travel and the nature and possibility of human thinking.

Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian, two of the most honored innovators of language, began writing The Wide Road in 1991. Over the following twenty-years, the co-writing occurred in turn by letters, by walking, in cabins, together and apart, and finally together again. The reader of this original and major work will find that it is no longer possible to distinguish who wrote what. Instead, one finds a joyful new feminist voice breaking out new possibilities for the future of writing.

To purchase only this book for $16 (without the full annual subscription), please visit The Wide Road page.

$14 • 2011 • 120 pp. • 7" x 8.5" • ISBN: 978-0-9823387-5-9

This book by Barbara Henning is an intimate postcard epistle and email exchange between two friends as they consider the practice and process behind Mullen’s poetry. It includes a poem-by-poem dialogue on Sleeping with the Dictionary. A mandatory resource for teachers and readers of Mullen’s books.

To purchase only this book for $14 (without the full annual subscription), please visit the Looking Up Harryette Mullen page.

Belladonna* returns to its chapbook roots and the immediately present with three beautifully letterpressed, hand sewn chapbooks. To be announced and released in conjunction with the May reading at Dixon Place.

An experience in language and music. For the end of seasons and all that is not well. For the remapping of the future. Starting now. In time.

This series looks back in time and across borders, translating or returning to print important and critical feminist avant-garde works. Our first book in this series will be Sunday, Theory: A translation of La Theorie, un Dimanche (1988, Remue-Menage), a multi-authored, multi-genre (theory, fiction) volume of six Québécois Women: Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Gail Scott, and France Théoret. For many years the authors met throughout the day and night, on Sundays, and theorized their feminist avant garde practice of writing. With short contemporary commentary by a diverse range of writers. Translated by Erica Weitzman, Pophana Brandes et al; edited by Rachel Levitsky and Gail Scott.