Runaway Spoon Press Catalogue

The information listed here is up-to-date as of Spring 2001. Prices and availability are subject to change (some titles are temporarily out-of-print, or close to it). Note: most Runaway Spoon Press Books are saddle-stitched with card-stock covers; the price of each includes postage, handling and taxes; it is, in short, the thing's price--in US dollars, that is.

MIEKAL AND

The Quotes of Rotar Storch
Introduction by Crag Hill
A collection of avant garde collages, illustrations and poetry that playgrounds all of existence
50 pages, 8.5" by 11".   Publication Date: 6 November 1989. ISBN 0-926935-23-2. Price: $8

MIEKAL AND & LIZ WAS

Fluxonyms
A collection of alphaconceptual poetry or: exploratory breakdowns of polysyllabic neologies
30 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 23 February 1989. ISBN 0-926935-09-7. Price: $3

IVAN ARGUELLES

Madonna
23 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 22 June 1998. ISBN 1-57141-043-0. Price: $5

TOM BAER

Roller Rink
One-act play about Hollywood high-rollers
24 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 14 May 1994. ISBN 0-57141-001-5. Price: $3

DENNIS BARONE

Tempura Fugit
22 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 28 June 1998. ISBN 1-57141-044-9. Price: $5

MICHAL BASINSKI

The Flight to the Moon
Eight myth-based circular visual/infraverbal poems about the moon
12 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 16 July 1993. ISBN 0-926935-81-X. Price: $3

Red Rain Too
A visual poetry sequence that recreates the archaeological investigation of ancient American Indian texts
17 pages. ISBN 0-926935-64-X. Price: $3

[Un Nome]
Magnamythic visual infraverbal poems
26 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 24 August 1997. ISBN 1-57141-039-2. Price: $3

GUY BEINING

M-Factor
Wildly socio-techno-sexual adventures in illuscription
30 pages, 8.5" by 5.5".   Publication Date: 2 July 1993. ISBN 0-926935-82-8. Price: $5

Piecemeal
Introduction by Harry Polkinhorn
A both slick and coarse, x-rated dislocational collage sequence that alleys profoundly through just about the whole of modern life and art
308 pages in 8 volumes, 4.25" by 5.5".   Publication Dates: 17 April 1988 (volumes 1 & 2), 16 April 1989 (volumes 3 & 4), 10 December 1989 (volumes 5 through 8). ISBN 0-926935-25-9, 0-926935-26-7, 0-926935-27-5, 0-926935-28-3, 0-926935-29-1, 0-926935-30-5, 0-926935-31-3, 0-926935-32-1, 0-926935-33-X, the last being for the set as a whole. Price per volume: $3; per set: $20

Vanishing Whores & the Insomniac
Haiku of bigCity squalor stunningly illustrated with collages and pen&ink drawings
38 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 27 June 1991. ISBN 0-926935-57-7. Price: $3

JOHN M. BENNETT

Span
Introduction by Ivan Argüelles
Demented lyrics of the everyday
39 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 20 December 1990. ISBN 0-926935-44-5. Price: $3

spinal speech
A collection of burning poodle poems
48 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 24 May 1995. ISBN 0-57141-013-9. Price: $5

Swelling
Illumagistic Introduction by Al Ackerman
The first Runaway Spoon Press collection of burning poodle poetry from the originator of the genre, or: surrealism, animal-urgent
38 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 11 August 1988. ISBN 0-926935-05-4. Price: $3

JAKE BERRY

Brambu Drezi
A spectacular weave of disjunctional poetry, amuletic illumagery and ideas and images out of all known--and several other---worlds
61 pages, 8.5"by 11".   Publication Date: 17 March 1994, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 23 February 1989. ISBN 0-926935-94-1. Price: $7

Equations
Introduction by Harry Polkinhorn
Wildly disjunctional poems about science, mythology, human existence with wonderful accompanying illustrations by the author
43 pages, 4.25" by 5.5".   Publication Date: 16 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-63-1. Price: $3

JONATHAN BRANNEN

Ethernity
Introduction by Dan Raphael
Shaped poems dealing somewhat dislocationally with the eternal verities of summer, the moon, language....
28 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 29 July 1989. ISBN 0-926935-19-4. Price: $5

Sunset Beach
A sexually-charged prose montage that swells "after-words" into summerful major visual poetry
50 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 24 June 1991. ISBN 0-926935-54-2. Price: $5

Warp & Peace
Introduction by G. Huth
A visual poetry sequence exploring the eternal cycle of human destruction and regeneration
18 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 19 April 1989. ISBN 0-926935-17-8. Price: $3

JOHN BYRUM

Conflatio
Introduction by Bob Grumman
A visual poetry sequence about the branching of trees, blood vessels, axons, language, thought itself....
26 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 14 February 1991. ISBN 0-926935-40-2. Price: $3

Text Blocks
Appropriated texts combined with notes to create a lyrosophical text that ends with the word "yond"
52 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 24 April 1995. ISBN 0-57141-004-X. Price: $5

Text Blocks, Drawn
Abstract-expressionist verbo-visual companion to Byrum's Text Blocks
24 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 24 April 1995. ISBN 0-57141-010-4. Price: $5

ARTHUR BULL

25 Scores
Zen-like meditation pieces concerned with listening
25 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 21 December 1994. ISBN 0-57141-006-6. Price: $3

JOEL CHACE

O-D-E
Images, thoughts, sentences, phrases, words broken up, repeated with new matter in ever-slightly-varying combinations which are scatteredly dreamed into "a floating world" that is all music, design and lyrical connotativeness
63 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 30 December 2000. ISBN 1-57141-055-4. Price: $3

DORU CHIRODEA

Alethea Raped
Introduction by Neil S. Kvern, Illustrations by Giulia Orettti
Jaunty, often satirical surrealistic poems about things like "squeaky lobsters" and "caouchouc wethers."
31 pages, 4.25" by 5.5".   Publication Date: 8 December 1989. ISBN 0-926935-36-4. Price: $3

Of Metascrotum and Infradeaths
Introduction by John M. Bennett, Illustrations by Giulia Orettti
Squirming dark poems in a brilliant dark surdiction
36 pages, 4.25" by 5.5".   Publication Date: 20 December 1990. ISBN 0-926935-41-0. Price: $3

nonathambia
Rawly visceral idiolinguistic poetry
26 pages, 4.25" by 5.5".   Publication Date: 20 June 1995. ISBN 0-57141-014-7. Price: $3

DAVE CHIROT

Anar Key Ology
Alley-raw graffiti-influenced visual poems blowtching sunward
21 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 24 October 1999. ISBN 1-57141-015-1. Price: $5

COBBING, GARNIER, and others

Light
One visual poem each by five poets from the US, England, Italy, Japan and France
14 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 23 July 1994. ISBN 0-57141-002-3. Price: $3

PAUL COLLIER

Petril Wava
Microherent poems suggestive of mistranslated troubadour songs
26 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 2 July 1993. ISBN 0-926935-79-8. Price: $5

EDMUND CONTI

Eddies
Visual, infra-verbal and conventional light verse
33 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 17 March 1994. ISBN 0-57141-000-7. Price: $3

The Ed C. Scrolls
Light verse on the Scriptures and related matters
43 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 28 June 1995. ISBN 0-57141-011-2. Price: $3

JEAN-JACQUES CORY

Exhaustive Combinations
A permutation poem using just five words over and over to say, eventually, rich things about POSSIBILITY
26 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 12 June 1996. ISBN 1-57141-022-8. Price: $5

JWCURRY

Re:Views:Re:Sponses:
Technically wide-ranging visual poems which review other technically wide-ranging visual poems
42 pages (including one in full color), 8.5" by 11".   Publication Date: 16 February 1991. ISBN 0-926935-49-6. Price: $10

JWCURRY and STEVEN SMITH

Between
Illustrated by jwcurry and Bob Grumman
A poem that dislocationally follows the moon jouncingly far beyond the conventions of June
30 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 11 March 1989. ISBN 0-926935-12-7. Price: $3

BILL DIMICHELE

Capacity X
Introduction by Laurie Schneider
A combination of non-representational line-drawings and dislocational poems inspired by the multifarious meanings of X
38 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 13 August 1988. ISBN 0-926935-08-9. Price: $3

Heart on the Right
An almost incoherently wide-ranging series of textual poems of the language-poetry school that careen through cyanide darknesses but end "in loyalties only to the DNA of imagination"
33 pages, 8.5" by 11".   Publication Date: 11 September 1992. ISBN 0-926935-71-2. Price: $7

JOHN DOLIS

Bl( )nk Space
Highly literate use of parenthesis-marks and absences (e.g., ) to poetize personally and/or intellectually-charged life-experiences
58 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 6 December 1993. ISBN 0-926935-92-5. Price: $5

Time Flies: Butterflies
Cerebral, often subtly funny excursions through variously meaningful nullities
35 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 15 October 1999 ISBN 1-57141-049-X. Price $5

LLOYD DUNN

Inbetweening
Introduction by F. John Herbert
A multi-paged visual poem dealing with letters and the history of the animated cartoon
56 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 29 July 1989. ISBN 0-926935-22-4. Price: $3

CLIFF DWELLER

This Candescent World
Introduction by John Grey
Purely textual collages composed of found headlines that become highly lyrical, and readable, verse
32 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 21 August 1993. ISBN 0-926935-87-9. Price: $5

JOHN ELSBERG

Broken Poems for Evita
Fissional poems
25 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 24 August 1997. ISBN 1-57141-041-4. Price: $5

Family Values
Wry visual and infra-verbal poems, the former generally consisting of repeated lines that form a rectangular design, the latter of subtly fragmented words
36 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 31 December 1996. ISBN 1-57141-029-5. Price: $5

HARRY D. ESHLEMAN

The Colors in the Sky
Ortholexical verse whose subject-matter ranges from a side-show strongman to blackbirds to the art of poetry to Florida to the colors in the sky.
24 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 21 August 1993. ISBN 0-926935-86-0. Price: $5

GREG EVASON

Nothing
A series of typed/ mistyped/ overtyped/ scrawltyped visual poems counter-conscoiusing the normal mind
60 pages, 8.5" by 11".   Publication Date: 30 July 1991. ISBN 0-926935-53-4. Price: $7

3 Windows
Introduction by Nicholas Power, Cover by Daniel f. Bradley
A collection of dislocational poems darkening out of contemporary urban living
48 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 5 June 1988. ISBN 0-926935-04-6. Price: $3

ARNOLD FALLEDER

The God-Shed
Introduction by Gerald Burns
Lyrical poems that are exclusively verbal but so distinctively both knownstream and otherstream as to seem almost to occur in two sensory modalities at once
39 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 26 June 1991. ISBN 0-926935-50-X. Price: $3

Midrash for Macbeth
Introduction by David Castleman, Illustrated by Gerald Burns
More by the author of The God-Shed of whom Gerald Burns wrote, "Reading Falleder is like looking for the halo ofoil--the ooze-- given off by sentimentality, self-indulgence--that you know is there--and not finding it. The reader is tizzied. Arnold doesn't know (you say) what he's doing. How could he, and break so many rules? It's like Kit Smart at a dinner party falling on his knees and inviting everyone to pray, or a man really proud of his daughter at her Commencement."
59 pages, 8.5" by 5.5".   Publication Date: 5 July 2000. ISBN 1-57141-053-8. Price: $10

HENRY G. FISCHER

This Word
Perhaps the world's only collection of visual poems that rhyme
54 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 18 November 1992. ISBN 0-926935-72-0. Price: $2

NANCY FRYE

Once Water
Quietly forceful free verse about relationships, crickets, womanhood, minnows, death . . . but above all about the divers forms of water
45 pages, 5.5" by 8".   Publication Date: 20 August 1992. ISBN 0-926935-61-5. Price: $5

PETER GANICK

Logical Geometries
Language poems about tendons and "the consequence of dimensions"
26 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 21 August 1993. ISBN 0-926935-83-6. Price: $5

Silence
Minimalist poetry contrasting numeric sequence with chains of disconected words
16 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 1 April 1996. ISBN 1-57141-019-8. Price: $5

PETER GANICK & SHEILA E. MURPHY

-ocracy
Part of an ongoing collaboration that begins here with Section 5: "dust/ priestesses the/ floor of/ putty-mouthed silencers.... densest comparisons..../ your face// treasured cages/ surgically remove/ from their inhabitants/ the credo/ "trust the process"// one relates coned by color/ team-drift....wiser than..../ openers' fitness roles": language-jift at its most mubile.
29 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 13 September 1997. ISBN 1-57141-050-3. Price: $5

PIERRE GARNIER

The Words Are The World
Simple line drawings with simple captions whose "incorrectness" jars all kinds of poetry loose--as when "three" captions a numeral one, a numeral two, and a straight line
39 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 31 December 1996. ISBN: 1-57141-028-7. Price: $5

DAVID GIANATASIO

Bend Backward for Better Reception
Short textual poems with quiet but compelling addle, as in the following, which is quoted in full: "trees, like postage stamps"
30 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 21 August 1992. ISBN 0-926935-69-0. Price: $3

LEROY GORMAN

Heavyn
Miniature fissional haiku: e.g., "fencepo st air to snow"
34 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 19 August 1992. ISBN 0-926935-74-7. Price: $3

BOB GRUMMAN

An April Poem
A multi-paged visual poem about rain and forsythia
16 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 13 April 1989. ISBN 0-926935-16-X. Price: $1

SpringPoem No. 3,719,242
A 12-page-long 6-letter one-word poem
18 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 20 DSecember 1990. ISBN 0-926935-39-9. Price: $1

Of Manywhere-at-Once: Ruminations from the Site of a Poem's Construction (3rd, revised edition)
Part memoir, part journal of a sonnet's construction, part discussion of poetics that begins with the practice of Shakespeare and Keats, moves to that Yeats, Pound, Stevens and Roethke, and ends with that of contemporary visual, alphconceptual and dislocational poets such as Karl Krempton, John M. Bennett and Bob Grenier
190 pages, plus glossary and bibliography; 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 20 December 1998. ISBN 1-57141-045-7. Price: $10

Poemns
a republication of the 1966 edition of the author's first published visual poems: two or three dozen haiku strongly influenced by E. E. Cummings
34 pages, 5.5" by 4.25".   Publication Date: 24 August 1997. ISBN 1-57141-036-8. Price: $3

A StrayngeBook
A wacko, anti-censorship, illustrated bunny-bear book for Very Smart kids and 11 adults whose names cannot be revealed at this time
38 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 6 September 1987. ISBN 0-926935-00-3. Price: $3

A StrayngeCatalogue
An anthology of works from the Runaway Spoon Press and a catalog at the same time, within a comic narrative
34 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 13 February 1989. ISBN 0-926935-13-5. Price: $3

S. GUSTAV HAGGLUND

Jaguar Newsprint
Almost entirely non-representational visual poetry sequence
14 pages, 5.5" by 8". Publication Date: 12 June 1996. ISBN 1-57141-021-X. Price: $5

JEFFERSON HANSEN

Red Streams of George Through Pages
A visual language-poetry narrative about "george a suicide become god."
18 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 16 July 1993. ISBN 0-926935-84-4. Price: $5

SCOTT HELMES

Non-Additive Postulations
One of the very few collections of mathematical poems by one author in the world
24 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 29 December 2000. ISBN 1-57141-054-6. Price: $5

KEITH HIGGINBOTHAM

Carrying the Air on a Stick
Gnomic, usually surrealistic, often funny "clipoems"
31 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 28 June 1995. ISBN 0-57141-017-1. Price: $3

DICK HIGGINS

Scenes Forgotten & Otherwise Remembered
49 pages, 5.5" by 8.5".   Publication Date: 28 June 1998. ISBN 1-57141--042-2. Price: $5

CRAG HILL

American Standard
Introduction by John Byrum
A collection of often-playful, always ingenious-hearted textual poems concerned with the English language
34 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 16 April 1989. ISBN 0-926935-15-1. Price: $3

The Week
A series of sometime epigrammatic, sometimes poetic, always reflective sentences that playground the size of a week
55 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 14 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-59-3. Price: $7

CRAG HILL and BOB GRUMMAN, editors

Vispo auf Deutsch
Verbo-visual art from 17 Austrians and Germans
58 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 26 November 1995. ISBN 0-57141-018-X. Price: $10

VIRGINIA V. HLAVSA

Festillifes
Charming visual poems about Nancy Drew and other aspects of growing up, but also about owls, kingfishers, sycamores--and black holes
21 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 19 August 1992. ISBN 0-926935-73-9. Price: $3

MIMI HOLMES

A Selection of Selves
Textual Accompaniment by Jake Berry
A multi-styled series of onter-related visual self-portraits
50 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 26 June 1991. ISBN 0-926935-51-8. Price: $3

WHARTON HOOD

House of Cards
Introduction by Marshal Hryciuk, Illustrations by Richard Beland
A collection of dislocational haiku concerned predominantly with the pre-dawn a.m. of modern life
59 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 17 April 1989. ISBN 0-926935-18-6. Price: $3

MARSHALL HRYCIUK

The Galloping Syntaxi Strands
Down 'n' dirty sequence of various mixtures of visual poetry, textual poetry, and collages that ranges from recondite interactions with antiquity to the super-ephemerality of stock-market reports and magazines ads
69 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 10 September 1992. ISBN 0-926935-77-1. Price: $7

G. HUTH

Ghostlight
Introduction by Bob Grumman
Haiku-vivid lyrical visual poems
36 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 20 December 1990. ISBN 0-926935-45-3. Price: $3

Wreadings
Introduction by Crag Hill
A collection of alphaconceptual poems, or: metaphorically illuminating Joycean neologies
60 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 27 November 1987. ISBN 0-926935-02-X. Price: $3

Wreadings
Introduction by Crag Hill
A second edition with new poems of a collection of infra-verbal pwoermds such as "throught"
64 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 21 April 1995. ISBN 0-57141-007-2. Price: $3

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