Lynda Schor The Body Parts Shop (Fiction Collective 2) I found a reviewer for this.
A.B. Spellman Things I Must Have Known (Coffee House Press)
Larissa Shmailo A Cure For Suicide (Cervena Barva Press)
Mark DuCharme The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVOX (books))
Michael Turner The Pornographer's Poem (Soft Skull Press) I found a reviewer for this.
Ronald Palmer Logicalogics (Soft Skull Press)
Ben Lerner Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon Press)
Marco Giovenale a gunless tea (dusie kollektiv project)
Nico Vassilakis Text Loses Time (Many Penney Press)
I found a reviewer for the Metcalf books, described below.
Also: In the mid-90's Coffee House Press published the Collected Writings of Paul Metcalf in three handsome volumes. They are presently on sale for $50, and I have an extra set. If any of you would care to dive into a few of his works and tell us what you think, I would be delighted. Let me know if you would like to own the books in exchange for a thoughtful, thorough piece on one of his works.
Metcalf was a mixed genre writer who combined historical facts, fiction, and poetry into works of startling originality. Deeply influenced by the Black Mountain Poets, Metcalf moved the notion of "composition by field" into the 'novel' where time, place, and genre all became fluid.
One example of his writing: "Willie's Throw." The 'poem' is about Willie Mays' famous 1959 catch in deep center field, followed by his wheeling on his left leg to throw out a runner at home plate. Metcalf quotes from Mays, from Homer (after considering that Mays' throw resembled a discus thrower which Homer described), from the actual box score, and so on. The piece thematizes the way reading is always informed by other literary works and by facts outside the realm of 'literature'.
(P.S. Metcalf is a direct descendant of Herman Melville.)
