The Runaway Spoon Press Catalogue, Part Two

BILL KEITH

Wingdom
Introductions by Pierre Garnier and Bob Grumman
Visual poems about both actual flight and art as a form of flight--and about all that both kinds of flight allow us to experience
22 pages. ISBN 0-926935-91-7. Price: $5

KARL KEMPTON

Fission
Introduction by Bob Grumman
A collection of one-word alphaconceptual poems, or: one-word orthographic explorations of the language.
56 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 4 January 1988. ISBN 0-926935-01-1. Price: $3

Charged Particles
Voyages into the very letters of words to get at the heart of nature, life, and the quest to free "ego" of its "e"
41 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 21 June 1991. ISBN 0-926935-52-6. Price: $5

A Pond of Stars
Introduction by Will Inman
A collection of lyricking textual poems dealing with nature, archaeology and ecology (and, scorchingly at times, techno-industrial anti-ecology)
52 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 24 February 1989. ISBN 0-926935-11-9. Price: $3

Portrait of Texture
A series of visual illumages investigating the alphabet and textuality
20 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 15 October 1999. ISBN 1-57141-047-3. Price: $5

Rose Window
A visual illumagery sequence featuring the alphabet as a series of rose windows
30 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 15 October 1999. ISBN 1-57141-048-1. Price: $5

The Voices of Aden
Deeply ethical reflections transmuted to lyrical verse
20 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 2 July 1993. ISBN 0-926935-85-2. Price: $5

Rune 6: Figures of Speech
Typoglifs semi-representationally schematizing such archetypes as the priest, the scribe and dancers at the highest visio-lyrical level
27 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 6 December 1993. ISBN 0-926935-89-5. Price: $5

Rune 7: Poem, a Mapping
A masterful collection of typoglific investigations of the poem as toy, as rapture, as magic, as cosmos
30 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 6 December 1993. ISBN 0-926935-90-9. Price: $5

M. KETTNER

Full Penny Jar
Introduction by Noemie Maxwell & Nico Vassilakis
Haiku of ordinary objects wrenched into new resonances with each other
52 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 8 December 1989. ISBN 0-926935-35-6. Price: $3

DAVID KOPASKA-MERKEL

Underfoot
Introduction by G. Huth, Illustrations by Sheila Kopaska-Merkel
A collection of mostly ortholexical verse whose subject matter is sometimes gothic, sometimes sci fi, but which ranges everywhere
44 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 15 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-60-7. Price: $3

MARTON KOPPANY

To Be Or To Be
Subtle conceptual poems like the title-poem, which investigates various ways of considering being and nothingness
45 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 31 December 1996. ISBN 1-57141-026-0. Price: $3

RICHARD KOSTELANETZ

Fields/Pitches/Turfs/Arenas
Introduction by Harry Polinhorn
A collection of minimalistic but richly sense-turning visual poems
36 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 13 February 1991. ISBN 0-926935-48-8. Price: $3

MoRepartitions
Minimalist word-play poems
28 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 17 March 1994. ISBN 0-926935-97-6. Price: $3

Repartitions IV
Single words broken into grag/ragm/gmen/ents of fascinatingly poetic resonance
20 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 12 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-67-4. Price: $3

JIM LEFTWICH

Khwatir
A long idiolinguistic multi-meaning prose text
43 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 28 June 1995. ISBN 0-57141-016-3. Price: $3

JONATHAN LEVANT

Five Days Shy of February
Levant, loose just shy of total linguistic irresponsibility in family matters, and breaking huge chunks of poetry off them
30 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 24 August 1997. ISBN 1-57141-040-6. Price: $5

Oedipus the Anti-Aociopath (or Autumn Angst)
Introductions by Pat Ronald, Carmen Wooster (who is misrepresented as "Carmen Webster"), Martin Arbagi, Carol Gunther, Judith Kitchen, Richard Rosen, Quentin R. Howard, John Horner and James Brooks
10 poems, 9 introductions
24 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 15 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-62-3. Price: $5

NANCY LEVANT

Generations of Sara
A short story about a daughter with poems about a love affair
20 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 23 May 1995. ISBN 0-57141-012-0. Price: $5

DAMIAN LOPES

Transentence
Acute observations of the everyday in slightly gnomic but accessible verse
28 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 21 December 1994. ISBN 0-57141-005-8. Price: $3

Unclear Family
A visual poetry sequence about the breakup of a family
24 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 15 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-65-8. Price: $3

STEPHEN-PAUL MARTIN

ADVANCINGreceding
Introduction by Lloyd Dunn
A multi-paged visual poem dealing with the many varieties of two-dimensional space
44 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 21 July 1989. ISBN 0-926935-21-6. Price: $3

The Flood
Introductions by Harry Polkinhorn and Richard Royal
A hilarious conflux of Noah and Reagan in visual poetry of the highest ingenuity and originality
88 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 9 September 1992. ISBN 0-926935-70-4. Price: $7

Until It Changes
Introduction by Eve Ensler
An absurdist stream-of-consciousness visual poetry narrative which eschews grammatical progression for a kind of stacking and unstacking
48 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 12 August 1988. ISBN 0-926935-07-0. Price: $3

JOHN MARTONE

far human character
Fingerprints coalescing with hurricanes and other inter-schematizations of textual and visual imagery that subtly map into the vagaries of the human psychology
16 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 27 June 1991. ISBN 0-926935-56-9. Price: $3

primer
A collection of short haiku-like poems mostly about eay-to-day family life
58 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 22 December 1994. ISBN 0-57141-008-2. Price: $5

Trousseau
Introduction by Larry Eigner
Delicate but fully-charged visual poems of childhood, Judaism and medieval times
40 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 17 February 1991. ISBN 0-926935-46-1. Price: $3

James McGinness

The Grass Poems
Illustrated by Wes Disney
Short lyrical poems in equal partnership with Franz Kline Grass jutting into all sorts of human shapes
47 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 14 May 1997. ISBN 1-57141-035-X. Price: $5

MICHAEL MELCHER

Parallel to the Shore
Meditative lyrical poems
19 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 15 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-68-2. Price: $5

DAVID MILLER

Commentaries (II)
Cutting-edge visual poetry sequence specializing in over-printing and the lyrical smear.
10 pages, 11" by 8.5". Publication Date: 25 March 2000. ISBN 1-57141-052-X. Price: $5

GUSTAVE MORIN

Rusted Childhood Memoirs
Visual poems accurately described by their title
17 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 17 March 1994. ISBN 0-926935-96-8. Price: $7

JACK MOSKOVITZ

Artist as Autist
Introduction by Crag Hill
Arrestingly primitive black cut-outs and dislocational poems which combine in a powerful vision of psychological alienation
59 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 16 April 1989. ISBN 0-926935-14-3. Price: $3

Isis Slices
Disjunctional poems about the darknesses in affairs of the heart--with collages by the author
31 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 15 February 1992. ISBN 0-926935-66-6. Price: $3

SHEILA E. MURPHY & PETER GANICK

-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, 8.5" by 5.5". Publication Date: 13 September 1997. ISBN 1-57141-050-3. Price: $5

JUDY MURRAY

The Soft Sighs of If
Warm-hearted but odd-eyed lyric poems of "lemon flies," "marshmallow moths," and "playing if with no cards"
24 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 22 August 1992. ISBN 0-926935-75-5. Price: $3

OBERC

Demons
Raw plaintext poems of barroom/bathroom/bedroom and parallel rooms of the mind by one of Bukowski's most talented followers
12 pages, 8.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 31 December 1996. ISBN 1-57141-027-9. Price: $3

MARK PETERS

Falling Down
Language poems nonetheless achieving poignancy without sentimentality out of experiences with slow learners
27 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 24 August 1997. ISBN 1-57141-038-4. Price: $5

HARRY POLKINHORN

Summary Dissolution
Introduction by Dick Higgins
A collage sequence combining a dislocational textual narrative with visual imagery from music, anatomy, philately and similarly wide-ranging and seemingly discompanionable subjects
58 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 10 August 1988. ISBN 0-926935-06-2. Price: $3

Teraphim
Visual poems by a leading burstnom poet/critic
60 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 26 November 1995. ISBN 0-926935-98-4. Price: $10

BERN PORTER

Neverends
Introduction by Erika Pfander
A collage sequence whose subject is existence, from lightning through shoe advertisements to flowers in bloom
50 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 16 April 1988. ISBN 0-926935-03-8. Price: $3

Numbers
Introduction by Erika Pfander
A waggish collage sequence concerned with the varied ways numbers take part in everyday life
52 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 29 July 1989. ISBN 0-926935-20-8. Price: $3

Signs
Introduction by Erika Pfander
The final volume of Porter's four-volume investigation of human communication
46 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 31 December 1996. ISBN 1-57141-025-2. Price: $3

Symbols
Simple-seeming but eye-opening collages by the master
42 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 28 June 1995. ISBN 0-57141-015-5. Price: $3

BERN PORTER and MALOK

Vocrascends
A satirical/lyrical high-art/crude collage sequence by two legends of the mail art scene
32 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 12 February 1991. ISBN 0-926935-42-9. Price: $3

BETTY RADIN

Dreamdance

Visual poetry sequence graphically and textually making knowable secrets of the ballet. . . .
15 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 13 September 1997. ISBN 1-57141-031-7. Price: $5

Hot Taters & Razzmatazz
Visual poetry sequence sputtering with colloquialisms out of Victorian England
10 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 13 September 1997. ISBN 1-57141-032-5. Price: $5

ARNE RAUENBERG

dislimitation
Visual poetry from Germany
30 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 24 April 1995. ISBN 0-57141-009-0. Price: $5

GLENN RUSSELL

The Plantings
Introduction by Greg Boyd
A collection of short, montage-illustrated surrealistic fables concerned mainly with metamorphoses
47 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 5 December 1989. ISBN 0-926935-34-8. Price: $3

GREGORY VINCENT ST. THOMASINO

Igne
Microherent songs of literature, philosophy and life
20 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 24 August 1993. ISBN 0-926935-88-7. Price: $3

JACK SAUNDERS

The Husband of the Writer's Wife
Plaintext poems in tone and manner resembling Bukowski but with a plaintive belligerance against all Literary Establishments unique to Jack--albeit with solidly authentic and moving glimpses of his family
32 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 13 May 1997. ISBN 1-57141-040-6. Price: $5

STACEY SOLLFREY

Turning Sights in a Circular Driveway
Introduction by John M. Bennett, Illustrations by Louis Steven Allam
Breeze-fresh dislocational poems concerned with the everyday world of ice-skating, tv, laundromats. . . .
32 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 9 December 1989. ISBN 0-926935-24-0. Price: $3

FICUS STRANGULENSIS

Transmorfations
A collection of poems each of which consists of a word or phrase that is visually altered, step by step, until it becomes a new word or phrase--with poetic ties to the original word or phrase
37 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 31 December 1996. ISBN 1-57141-024-4. Price: $5

DAVID STARKEY

A Year With Gayle, And Others
A disjointed narrative about Gayle and others in sometimes aphoristic, sometimes lyric, sometimes who-knows-what lines, one for each day of the year
27 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 2 July 1993. ISBN 0-926935-78-X. Price: $5

LARRY TOMOYASU

Mockingbird/Litmus
Weird but resonant (and frequently funny) juxtapositionings of visual images and mundane but unexpected texts
32 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 20 December 1990. ISBN 0-926935-47-X. Price: $3

NICO VASSILAKIS

Artaud What
An aburdist collage sequence
17 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 17 March 1994. ISBN 0-926935-93-3. Price: $3

Dornobber
Introduction by M. Kettner, Calligraphic Illustrations by John M. Bennett,> Translations into Greek by Helen and Mary Bournas
A wild short surrealistic poem about dirt, pigeons, mothlight and . . . dornobbery
33 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 9 December 1989. ISBN 0-926935-37-2. Price: $3

JOHN VIEIRA

Points on a Hazard Map
Lyric poetry at times visual, at times infra-verbal, about "ignorance whitened" and much else.
32 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 15 October 1999. ISBN 1-57141-046-5. Price: $5

Reality Slices
A collection of textual and visual poetry
34 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 1 April 1996. ISBN 1-57141-020-1. Price: $5

Self-Portrait with Demons
Mixture of visual and textual poems
50 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 14 May 1997. ISBN 1-57141-033-3. Price: $5

DIANE WALD

Double Mirror
Jump-cut poems, their lines in alphabetical order, their subject a human relationship
37 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 9 April 1996. ISBN 1-57141-023-6. Price: $5

PAUL WEINMAN

Photo Script
Introduction by Mike Gunderloy, Illustrations by Walt Phillips
Satirical poems of social comment starring the famed White Boy
52 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 20 December 1990. ISBN 0-926935-43-7. Price: $3

IRVING WEISS

Number Poems
Visual poems and list poems about numbers
70 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 22 August 1997. ISBN 1-57141-037-6. Price: $5

Visual Voices
Visual poetry variations on poems written before 1900, with commentary
145 pages, 8.5" by 11". Publication Date: 24 October 1994. ISBN 0-926935-95-X. Price: $20

SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH

Few
Visual and language poetry
31 pages, 5.5" by 8.5". Publication Date: 17 March 1994. ISBN 0-926935-99-2. Price: $5

TOM WILOCH

Decoded Factories of the Heart
A collection of surrealistic haiku with collages
52 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 23 March 1995. ISBN 0-57141-003-1. Price: $3

Neon Trance
Yet more often macabre, always surrealistically-resonant haiku from the master of the genre
30 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 14 May 1997. ISBN 1-57141-034-1. Price: $3

Night Rain
Introduction by Robert Frazier
Elegantly dislocational haiku interwoven with grandly surrealizing collages
53 pages, 5.5" by 4.25". Publication Date: 26 June 1991. ISBN 0-926935-55-0. Price: $3

CHRIS WINKLER

Viscosity Induction
Introduction by Jake Berry
Bawdy absurdist non-narrative collage sequence
26 pages, 4.25" by 5.5". Publication Date: 22 February 1989. ISBN 0-926935-10-0. Price: $3