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Current Issue
Abraxas #49, 2015: Poetry, photography and art. Poems by Michael Morris, Ingrid Swanberg, próspero saíz, Matthew Rogers, Sheryl L. Nelms, A.D. Winans, Warren Woessner, Ann Chandonnet, John McKernan, David Steingass, Dave Roskos, George M. Steele Lenny Emmanuel, Lyn Lifshin, Simon Perchik, Lance Nizami and more; plus work from an experimental photo-poem sequence, Brideʼs Brook, by Andrea Moorhead; prose-poems from the newest edition of The Ongoing Saga I Told My Daughter, by Jim Cohn: and artwork by Willard Markhardt. 102 pages. $8 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
A special feature in this issue is the 12-poem selection from the forthcoming book Finding Our Lives Full of People, by Tom Kryss and D.R. Wagner.
Recent Issues
Abraxas #48, 2012: Poetry and art. Poems by Tom Kryss, Andrea Moorhead,Simon Perchik, David Radavich Joseph Bottone, Jeanne Bryan, Roger Mitchell, Sam Magavern, F.J. Bergmann, Warren Woessner, Nathan Whiting, Roselyn Elliott, Ingrid Swanberg, Darlene D. Montonaro, Thomas R. Smith, Eric Greinke, and John E. Cort; paintings by Willard Markhardt. 108 pages. $4 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
In conjunction with this issue we are pleased to present a new online gallery, featuring photographs by Inger Swanberg and Leslie Haber, and paintings by Willard Markhardt.
Abraxas #47, 2010: Poetry and photographs. Continues the new format featuring longer selections of fewer contributors' work, and includes color photographs as an Abraxas first. Roselyn Elliott, próspero saíz, Jami Macarty, marcia arrieta, Ingrid Swanberg, Tom Kryss, Lee Ballentine, Warren Woessner, Joseph Stanton, Grace Butcher, Andrea Moorhead, W.D. Markhardt, Keegan Markhardt. 82 pages. $4 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #46, 2008: Poetry and fiction. This issue initiates a change of format to shorter issues featuring larger selections of fewer contributors' work. Jeanne Bryan, Andrea Moorhead, Joshua Gage, Victoria Dalkey, Ingrid Swanberg, T.L. Kryss, próspero saíz. 68 pages. $4 +3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #44/45, 2006: Poetry, poetry in translation, art, and essay. Features a previously unpublished early long poem by d.a.levy, “WILD horses,” a reproduction of levy’s typescript color palette, and a translation of levy’s “bourgeosie chant,” into German by zachariah mcnaughton. Linocuts by Peter A. Durand; poetry by Marcia Arrieta, Andrea Moorhead, t.l. kryss, Alan Horvath, Karl Young, David Lincoln Fisher, Sharon Chmielarz, Mikhail Horowitz, Warren Woessner, Ingrid Swanberg, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandao (trans. by Alexis Levitan), Gonzalo Rojas (trans. by John Oliver Simon), and more; plus a long essay by Patrick Roney on the poetry of próspero saíz, "Writing the Caesura: The Bird of Nothing & Other Poems" (Ghost Pony Press). 120 pages. $8 + $3 (standard) or $5.00 (expedited) shipping
Books & Chapbooks
Bright Moments: A Collection of Jazz Poetry (Abraxas #20). Jim Stephens, ed. Poetry and prose. Alvin Aubert, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Clayton Eshleman, Anselm Hollo, Jack Kerouac, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jack Micheline, Thelonious Monk, Lisel Mueller, Frank O'Hara, Sonia Sanchez, and more. 74 pages, ISBN: 0-932868-03-7, 1980. $15 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
"An energetic, highly rhythmic oral poetry about jazz, jazz musicians, the jazz experience, Bright Moments lives up to the epiphany of its title. Led off by Stephens's sensitive foreword on the concept and utterance of jazz poetry, the poems themselves jive, jump, run, funk, chant, threaten, and mourn in 'screaming beauty,/ like so many improvisations, solos . . . .' Neither jazz nor poetry fans will be disappointed." (Val Morehouse, ALA Booklist, 15 July 1980)
"The work here is sometimes about jazz, sometimes the thing itself." (Susan Shafarzek, "LJ's Small Press Roundup" Library Journal, 1980)
Darrell Gray, Essays and Dissolutions. Essays and aphorisms on the poetic theory of Actualism. 155 pages, ISBN 0-932868-02-9, 1977. $25 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
"Among other delights, this book preserves the theoretical discovery of Actualism. Even today, much American surrealism reads like stodgy translations from the French. The Actualism movement officially published the map of the junction of European surrealism and the American Whitman-Williams-Codrescu barbaric 'this is where I'm at' lineage." (G.P. Skratz, The San Francisco Review of Books, Dec. 1977)
“. . . [saíz's] understanding of the poems is unique. . . [he] finds traces of indigenous languages Quechua, Aymara, and believes that syntax is most mangled when Vallejo's maternal tongue tries to speak, that one aspect of Vallejo's assault on the Spanish language was a result of the ongoing battle of the mestizo poet. saíz also keenly recognizes the spoken nature of much of the poetry found in Trilce. His translations are street-wise, contemporary, and demotic."
(The Underground Forest / La Selva Subterránea #12, May 1995)
Jim Stephens, The Moving Journal. 7 long poems. Published by Abraxas under the imprint Furious Alto Break, The Moving Journal is a mystical poetic journey gathering myriad American idioms and furthering the poetic tradition of Whitman, Crane, Williams. Chapbook, 36 pages, ISBN 0-932868-04-5, 1980. $8 + $3 (standard) or $5.00 (expedited) shipping
"These are serious poems, dealing with ominous and intentionally mysterious-sounding perceptions. . . . this poet is no fashion monger; his treatment of the subject matter is unique, and he manages to avoid both facile didacticism and glib 'myth-making.'" (Ron Slate, Wisconsin Academy Review, March 1977)
Dennis Trudell, Eight Pages. 5 poems. Chapbook, 1975. $5 + $1 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
F. Keith Wahle, The Part-Time Arsonist. Single poem in covers. 6 pages, 1971. $5 + $1 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Also distributed by Abraxas Press:
Warren Woessner, Exit – Sky. Holy Cow Press. Book, 72 pages, ISBN 978-1-513645-60-5, $16 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping.
David Hilton, Living Will. Poetry. 100 pages, ISBN-10: 1-56689200-7; ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-200-1, Coffee House Press, 2007. $15 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping.
“David Hilton is a nostalgist who fights for actuality; a gifted wordsmith who tries to make his wild lyric impulses behave. I see him on horseback, fighting battles of bardic futility against a cloud of arrows from his own mythical past. Each arrow is a story, each line turns into a song. A tough guy, actually, brave to the end, and unsparing in his passion.”" ― Andrei Codrescu
Warren Woessner, Landing. Poetry. 52 pages, ISBN 0-87886-035-5, Ithaca House, 1973. $8 + $2.50 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Available Back Issues
Abraxas #9, 1974: Poetry and reviews. Philip Levine, Allan Kornblum, Anselm Hollo, Michael Lally, and more. 16 pages, rare. $15 + $2 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #12, 1976: Poetry and reviews. Leonard Nathan, David Hilton, Darrell Gray, Beau Beausoleil, Frans Dousky, ivan argüelles, and more. 76 pages, rare. $20 + $3 (standard) or $5.00 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #14/15, Stairway to the Stars, 1977: A co-production of Abraxas and The Chowder Review. Poetry, prose, and reviews. Joseph Bruchac, Dave Etter, Stuart Friebert, Carol Frost, C.S. Giscombe, Darrell Gray, Michael Heffernan, David Hilton, Will Inman, Ronald Koertge, William Mathews, Victoria McCabe, Leonard Nathan, Myra Sklarew, Peter Wild, Frederic Will, Warren Woessner, and more. 108 pages, rare. $20 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #16/17, 1978: Reviews. Warren Woessner, David Hilton, Ron Slate, Darrell Gray, David Clewell, and more. 82 pages. $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #18/19, 1979: Reviews. John Cort, Rose Drachler, Darrell Gray, George Myers Jr., and more. 84 pages. $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #20, Bright Moments: A Collection of Jazz Poetry, 1980: See 'Books & Chapbooks' above.
Abraxas #21/22, Twelfth Anniversary Issue, 1980: Poetry and reviews. A.R. Ammons, Douglas Blazek, Jim Sorcic, William Stafford, Duane Locke, and more. 168 pages. $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #27/28, 1983: Poetry, poetry in translation, and reviews. Charles Bukowski, Douglas Blazek, Sándor Csoóri, Laura Boss, Gerald Locklin, Alan Catlin, Judson Crews, B.Z. Niditch, Marine Robert Warden, Joel Dailey, T.L. Kryss, and more. 64 pages, $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #29/30, 1984: Poetry & reviews. Robert Fitterman, Nichola Manning, David Hilton, Eammon Wall, Diane Burns, ivan argüelles, Maurice Kenny, Diane Burns, Gerald Locklin, Ron Schreiber, D.E. Steward, Ben L. Hiatt, Guy R. Beining, Kirk Robertson, Arthur Winfield Knight, and more. 88 pages. $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #31/32, 1984: Poetry, poetry in translation, essay, reviews, and letters. Jane Blue, Douglas Blazek, todd moore, C.W. Truesdale, David Chorlton, karl kempton, Michael Andre, Elizabeth Rees, Felix Pollak, John Oliver Simon, Andrei Codrescu, Janet Gray, Joseph Bruchac, Siv Arb, and more. 120 pages. $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #33, 1985: Poetry, poetry in translation, reviews, and letters. Roberta Hill Whiteman, Theresa Pappas, ivan argüelles, Carol Bergé, Robert Schuler, Antler, Thomas R. Smith, patrick mckinnon, Marine Robert Warden, Barry Silesky, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Yves Bonnefoy (trans. by Lisa Sapinkoph), and more. 80 pages. $20 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #34, 1986: Poetry, fiction, and reviews. Achy Obejas, John Perlman, Franz Douskey, Ivan Argüelles, Gerald Locklin, Kent Taylor, A.D. Winans, Rawdon Tomlinson, Lee Ballintine, Lyn Lifshin, Diane Glancy, Maurice Kenny, Douglas Blazek, Kent Taylor, Walter McDonald, John Minczeski, B.Z. Niditch, William Witherup, and more. 80 pages, $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas # 35/36, 1987: Poetry, poetry in translation, reviews, and essays. Roger Mitchell, Mary Crow, Roberta Hill Whiteman, Susan Firer, Kent Taylor, Achy Obejas, Rawdon Tomlinson, Ivan Argüelles, Christina Zawadiwsky, Ken McCullough, Steve Borst, Anselm Parlatore, Albert Huffstickler, Richard Slota; Homero Aridjis, Antonio Machado, and Pablo Antonio Cuardo (trans. by joel zeltzer), José Emilio Pacheco (trans. by John Oliver Simon), and more. 104 pages, rare. $20 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #37, 20th Anniversary Issue, 1988: Poetry and letters. A.R. Ammons, William Stafford, Douglas Blazek, Dave Etter, Dick Bakken, David Hilton, Peter Wild, Will Inman, Warren Woessner, Denise Levertov, Donald Schenker, Laura Boss, Mary Crow, Ivan Argüelles, D.R. Wagner, Tomasz Jastrum, Daniel Bourne, David Clewell, Simon Perchik, D. Nurske, Sam Grolmes, Mark Vinz, and more. 80 pages, rare. $20 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #38/39, First Special Issue of Selections from Vallejo's Trilce, 1990: Poetry, poetry in translation, artwork, and photographs. Includes a 48-page selection of a new translation of César Vallejo’s Trilce (trans. by próspero saíz) based on the original 1922 edition (published in Peru by Vallejo) and an essay on the translation. Judith Roitman, Joseph Stanton, Joel Lewis, Edward R. Smith, Harland Ristau, Ingrid Swanberg, Hans Raimund, Pablo Neruda (trans. by Maria Jacketti), Imre Oravecz (trans. by Bruce Berlind and Mária Kőrösy), Margarita Léon and Antonio Cisneros (trans. by John Oliver Simon), Marcelin Pleynet (trans. by Michael L. Johnson), Liu Shahe, (trans. by Li Xijian and Gordon Osing), and more. 144 pages. $10 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #40/41, Second Special Issue of Selections from Vallejo's Trilce, 1992: Poetry and poetry in translation. Includes 76 more pages from Vallejo's Trilce (trans. by próspero saíz) and a second essay on the translation. Ivan Argüelles, próspero saíz, Andrea Moorhead, John Perlman, Steve Borst, Carl Thayler, William Winfield, Robert Dassanowsky-Harris, David Lincoln Fisher, 9th Century Sanskrit poet Yogeshvara (trans. by Jorn Cort), 8th Century Chinese poets Wang Wei and Tu Fu (trans. by Fuh Shyh-jen), and more. 160 pages, rare. $20 + $3 (standard) or $5 (expedited) shipping
Abraxas #38/39 and #40/41 Trilce set, 1992: ISBN 0-932868-07-X, 124 pages, rare. $25 + $3 (standard) or $5.00 (expedited) shipping (see also 'Books & Chapbooks' above)
Abraxas #42/43, 1997: Poetry and poetry in translation. This issue has a focus on the lyric mode. próspero saíz, Andrea Moorhead, David Hilton, Leonard J. Cirino, Jack Collom, Charles Borkhuis, ivan argüelles, Hugh Fox, John Havelda, John M. Bennett, Michael Andre, David Lincoln Fisher, Edwin Honig, John McKernan, Thomas R. Smith, Marie Uguay and Christian Arjonilla (trans. by Andrea Moorhead), Günther Faschinger (trans. by Patrick Roney), and more. 112 pages. $8 + $3 (standard) or $5.00 (expedited) shipping
Out of Print Back Issues
Last updated - July 20, 2019