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       How to ORDER Hank's Original chappers?

       This is so very simple that even newd flarfists, food conceptualists, obedience
          r
e-trained sincericists, and contractors paid to build among other things the
          Occupy Poetry Foundation buildings can JUST DO IT!

       Send $7.00 + $2.00 postage = $9.00 for 1 book

                   Send $10.00 + $2.00 postage = $12.00 for 2 books   

                               Send $12.00 + $2.00 postage = $14.00 for 3 books

       WHERE TO? Steve Tills, 107 Washington Street,
       Palmyra, New York 14522

(The snitty cynical snide elliptical post-NEWFORMALFETISH regard for X, Y, and Z "practitioners long on radical
style, histrionic methods and procedures, and narcissistic formal innovation idealization yet short on any serious
original thought and curiosity post-structuralism loved to shun" reflects just a comes-and-goes temporal feeling,
NOT the fixed editorial philosophy of the four slackers on the Editors page. Please permit. It won't kill you.
It's just a thot or a snot.)

 

 

 

 


Tony Leuzzi's _40,000 Crows_
BUY Tony Leuzzi's 40,000 Crows


We all have certain books we come back to again and again when we lose our way, those which remind us why we are here, what we are doing, where we are going, those which help us to make sense of our individual journeys. 40,000 Crows is one of those books. Generous, humble, gentle and curious, this collection of 32 cadae (poems based on the transcendental number pi) picks up where Basho’s haiku left off. I can think of few authors more likely to blush and dismiss such a claim as preposterous. Nor can I find, when I scan my bookshelf, a poet more worthy of such a comparison.
                                                                                                                             – Eric Thomas Norris


                  $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                  Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                  Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 

 

 

 


Jim McCrary's _Not Not_
BUY Jim McCrary's Not Not

This is poming that, well, who knows, it could be his last book. He won’t resist. He may have more coming, but for now, he’s “gonna let it all hang out from his end.” He doesn’t need “hope”; he’s letting go of “fear,” which is hope’s flipside, Fritz Perls wrote. He’s just going to put it up, and he’s been putting up with it for a long time. He thinks to broadcast “vast amounts to many publications,” but with no return address, as he doesn’t, umm, ugh, umm, want to listen to the response. And why should he. It doesn’t matter. And what does matter, really? Maybe just the one thing, that one writes what one writes, and one signs one’s name to it. He writes this, Not Not, and he signs his name to it. I, myself, care, and I don’t care, in some special cases, precisely what friends and best friends write if they have the will and the heart to sign their names to it; that’s perhaps, as the Object Relations folks say, “good enough,” which is okay by my conscience, also. It’s an existential choice and decision and if they sign their names to it, “take responsibility” for it, I do think that that is probably quite good enough. All the rest is Sales, Marketing, Politics, Power, Status, “History,” and so very little “existence,” or should I say “existing.” It doesn’t matter. It all matters.
                                                     – Steve Tills, Publisher/Editor Hank’s Original Loose Gravel Press


                  $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                  Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                  Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 

 

 

 

 


Steve Tills' _Post Maiden_
BUY Steve Tills' Post Maiden


This is poming in the act of commentary becoming an act of art, presenting the best paradox possible: that of fruits and gifts so eminent and entrancing that they are necessary roughage, making Post Maiden an antidote to our pesanteur.
                                                                                                                             – G.E. Schwartz


                  $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                  Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                  Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 

 

 

 



Judith Roitman's _Slackline_
BUY Judith Roitman's Slackline


Dear J —

I don’t know how you did it, but you’ve conjured up this singular world and yanked us into it — and mystified and charmed and moved us all at once. Your abstractions, unlike many others’, don’t leave us feeling out of the loop, wondering why we don’t “get it.” With you, we do get it — because your humanity is so obviously at the center of their creation.

                                                                                                                             – Lee Chapman, First Intensity Press


                  $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                  Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                  Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 

 

Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_BUY Eric Selland's Still Lifes


In ‘redeemable poetic life’ the linguistic move from perception through form to commodification and semi-ultimate silence begs this question: How can we remember and pay homage to the objects whose inherent qualities we have removed in our operation of treating these as ‘materials’? Another way to ask this is, ‘what happened to the world’? Eric Selland, in the short, meditative paragraphs of Still Lifes, does it by letting memory unsheathe itself, and go glinting around all that remains, the present – and presence – being the perfect foil for this novel exercise involving what is beautiful and good as these lock into place at the exhaustive point(s) where they touch the useful and the true. He shows us a world by revealing the ways it happens in us, through us, beyond us and before us, ‘as if we were really there’ in language that is actively ‘here.’ Just so. And away we go.                         – Stephen Ellis

                  $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                  Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                  Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 

 

Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_BUY Aldon Nielsen's Mantic Semantic

This is poming full of big wit and brilliant light.
It will (if asked) take you a way.
Far a ways indeed.
                                             – Jim McCrary



                      $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                      Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                     Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

                                                         

 

 


Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_
BUY j/j hastain's queer phylactery


Hear-now with/in queer phylactery, j/j hastain does and does
not struggle to transcend both gender and authorship but DOES
nonetheless softly, firmly circumvent the hard new Question of
ADDRESSING altogether and from the get-go. Yes, here is poming
for the future spirits of the Body, those Mother Nature will have
sorted out from mindless Christmases Past, Present, and Future.
Dang Nice Work considering you can get it for $7.00 now that “the
Rapture” wasn’t the end of the world just yet.
                                                                                                                         — Steve Tills


                                                         
                      $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                      Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                                                                       Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 


Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_

BUY Alex Gildzen's Percy & Bess

                                            
 


                      $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                      Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                     Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 

 

 

 



Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_
BUY G.E. Schwartz's LVNGinTONGUES

This is poming you can open and read late at night and dig during
that good-good transition period between daytime consciousness
and sleep/dream state, i.e., the most "alert" time for reading/writing...
                                                              
                                                                               
— Steve Tills


                      $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                      Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                     Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com



                                                         

 



Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_

BUY Jim McCrary's Po Doom

 

 


                      $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                      Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                     Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 


   
                                                      

 



Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_
BUY Steve Tills's Mr. Magoo

 

 

 


                      $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                      Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

                     Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com

 

 

 

 


Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_
BUY Steve Tills's Invisible Diction

 

 


                $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

               Or just E-mail me and request copies directly: theenkbooks@rochester.rr.com


                                                         

 

 



Eric Selland's _Still Lifes_
BUY Crag Hill's Yes James Yes Joyce

 

 


                $7.00 plus $2.00 for postage
                Make check or money order for $9.00 to Steve Tills and send to 107 Washington Street, Palmyra, NY 14522

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Actually, Tills really (DOES) like this Tom Beckett interview of/with Kasey Mohammad...And any idiot on the planet can conclude that "Flarf" can no less than other
procedures (deliberate or unintended) DELIVER so-called "original thought."