"DIY", LIKE POETRY, IS A VERB!

Still formatting the next issue of Galatea Resurrects which I hope to release later this week. Meanwhile, I just want to share the announcement from Otoliths below -- not just coz it mentions my book but because it reflects one of my favorite pasttimes: being part of new journals or new endeavors by poets who DIY rather than (just) rely on others. And so -- to more new-book endeavors!


NEW FROM OTOLITHS:

As part of its continued growth beyond the original (print & electronic) magazine & associated chapbooks, Otoliths is pleased to announce the publication of two new books.

DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS by Eileen Tabios
http://www.lulu.com/content/470167

EILEEN TABIOS' publications include 14 poetry collections, an art essay collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, and a short story book. DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS, her 11th print poetry collection, extends a body of work unique for melding ekphrasis with a transcolonial perspective. Here, she introduces her translation of the painterly technique of scumbling to create poems from other poets' words. From other writers' texts, she also extracts sequences of the hay(na)ku, a poetic form she inaugurated on June 12, 2003 to mark the 105th Anniversary of Philippines' Independence Day from Spain.


the allegrezza ficcione by Mark Young
http://www.lulu.com/content/437263

MARK YOUNG's the allegrezza ficcione is a speculative novella about journeys — the contemporary journey of Umberto Allegrezza as he seeks to discover the truth about a legendary journey East from Europe made by an ancestor decades before before Marco Polo. Other journeys are intertwined; the journey made before Tripitaka to bring back the Buddhist sutras to China, the relocation of the Library of Alexandria, the continued existence of the followers of Hassan-i-Sabah. First serialized on the author's blog and now available for the first time in its entirety, the allegrezza ficcione blurs the line between fiction and fact.


Both books are available through the respective link above for $10 plus postage.

The Otoliths' Storefront can be found at http://www.lulu.com/l_m_young