Small-Press Bundle: Three New Titles Every Month
Join Woodland Pattern's subscription program and help us make large, sustaining purchases from poetry publishers! Each month, you will receive THREE small-press poetry titles, curated by our staff, packed with love, and delivered to your home. (In addition to receiving a discount on the bundle, subscribers get free shipping!)
Sign up by November 15th to receive the December bundle described below!
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Our December bundle features titles from two longstanding and essential presses, Noemi Press and Rescue Press, and a press known previously for its journal and chapbooks and now releasing its first full-length title, Bone Bouquet.
From Noemi Press you’ll receive an astonishing work by Nawal Nader-French, a record of how the mother’s textile became sound (2023). Both lucid and challenging this book is “a lamentation, a memory, a deconstruction and reconstruction of the author’s mother’s life through an examination of the complex multilayered textile/text/sound axis.”
From Rescue Press we’ll be sending you Jed Munson’s Commentary on the Birds (2023). Moving adventurously between lyric and expository modes, this brilliant book explores the ecology of the Korean DMZ. Erica Hunt’s endorsement of the book offers an imagination of the range of movements it contains: “formally innovative—and precise—Munson pairs image-texts that wind through surprising apertures, ways of seeing, and looking, the hidden and delayed vision.”
Our third November title, and the first from Bone Bouquet, is Ashna Ali’s newly-released The Relativity of Living Well. Beautifully produced, this book’s intimate poetic voice “chronicl[es] the mitigation years of pandemic through an increasingly hostile geopolitical present.” As Divya Victor writes, “Ashna Ali’s debut sings the body as it rises from the siege of ableist paradigms to bring it closer to being loved and farther away from its imprisonment.”
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Our incentive for starting this program is to offer assistance to publishers affected by Small Press Distribution's recent and sudden closure. You can learn more about the crisis and get updates on how to help small presses from CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses). Thank you for helping us support the small-press ecosystem from which new voices in American poetry most frequently emerge!
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Past Bundles
November
Ahmad Almallah, Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023)
Marcel Durand, To husband is to tender (Black Square Editions, 2021)
Rodrigo Quijano, An Inherent Tear (Wendy’s Subway, 2024)
October
Henry Dumas, Knees of A Natural Man (Flood Editions, 2020)
Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun (Belladonna*, 2018)
Afrizal Malna, Document Shredding Museum (World Poetry Books, 2024)
September
Anaïs Duplan, I Need Music (Action Books, 2021)
Paul Killebrew, Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge (Canarium Books, 2023)
Precious Okoyomon, But Did You Die? (Wonder, 2024)
August
최Lindsay, Transverse (Futurepoem, 2021)
Jennifer Elise Foerster, The Maybe-Bird (The Song Cave, 2022)
Alice Notley, Early Works (Fonograf Editions, 2023)
July
Safaa Fathy, Where Not to Be Born (Litmus Press, 2024)
Bhanu Kapil, Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Kelsey Street Press, 2024)
Hannah Weiner, Hannah Weiner's Open House (Kenning Editions, 2006)