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The Yesterday Project
Literary Nonfiction. THE YESTERDAY PROJECT finds Ben Doller and Sandra Doller undertaking a seemingly simple, stripped-down, though thoroughly brave and highly personal blind collaboration. Each separately wrote a document recording the previous day, every day, for 32 days, without sharing their work over the summer of 2014 in the shadow of a diagnosis of life-threatening illness: Melanoma cancer, Stage 3. The resulting work is a declaration of dependence a relentlessly honest chronicle of shared identity and the risks inherent in deep connection. "Like a complex game, the secrets of a relationship translate across an invisible barrier, combining into a beautiful third voice, the voice of a couple in crisis and reawakening, the book of that voice." Thalia Field "Even while we read the poetic reminiscences of meals and outings and activities, we also see what is ached for, what is missing. We get two sides to the same glorious coin and witness, through an elegant and sacred literary communion, how two lives are one." Jenny Boully"
Sandra Doller
Biography of Sandra Doller, currently Assistant Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at Cal State San Marcos, previously Founder/Publisher/Editrice at 1913 a journal of forms & 1913 Press and Founder/Publisher/Editrice at 1913 a journal of forms & 1913 Press.
Leave Your Body Behind
"Chosen as the 2013 NOS Les Figues Press Book Contest Editors' Selection"--title page verso.
Man Years
Poetry. "Sandra Doller is a pinball wizard, her attention to ricocheting through America's flashy dystopias where, as she points out, 'The award goes/to the inventor of the situation/we're now in.' We pose briefly in the 'trauma tutu we've toted' and then we're off again 'like a Bumstead falling down a stair.' If you're looking for 'rested totality, ' you won't find it. MAN YEARS keeps you up and ready for anything" Rae Armantrout."
Oriflamme
Poetry. The expansiveness of the poems in Sandra Miller's extraordinary first book requires a different page: one in which white space frames and shapes the physicality of each poem, title, and word. Among Miller's influences are the Russian avant-garde artists of the turn of the twentieth century; her poems are as sculptural as the page permits, in "packets" rather than stanzas that move visually as well as narratively through the work. Passionate, these are poems that are battle standards in the defense of art, poetry, and the intelligence of the ear. "Delicate and sure, spare and very, very precise," is how Cole Swensen describes them. "They haunt. They break your heart. They make you want to live. ORIFLAMME marks a new direction in American poetry. No one else is doing anything like it, yet."
Poets on Teaching
"Here is an astonishingly generous gathering of poetic energies and imaginations aimed toward turning more and more classrooms into scenes of transformative engagement with the prime instrument of our humanity, language. The essential work of exploratory play with words is presented in heartening variety in its necessary wildness, surprising pleasures, gravitas, illumination. This book is a catalogue of invention: visionary, pragmatic, surprising, fun---useful because it's inspiring and vice versa. The poets' essays are themselves an affirmation of the vital presence of poetry in our culture, proof and promise, Q.E.D."---Joan Retallock, coeditor, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, and author, The Poethical Wager --Book Jacket.
Currently & Emotion
LONDON
Dead Ahead
In his third book, Ben Doller troubles the blast zone where evolution and manifest destiny collide. Working from primary sources including Captain William Dampier's pirate narratives and the Widow Ching legend (as immortalized by Borges), Dead Ahead develops a semi-psychological narrative along the lines of description, variation, embodiment, and pastiche/"piracy." While Dampier is (in)famous for both his practical and linguistic piracy--stealing words into the English language such as "barbecue" and "avocado"--the Widow Ching famously commandeered the pirate fleet of her husband yet ultimately relinquished her power in response to nature's signs and portents. Doller sets about bringing these sources together in a 21st-century collagist text, a critique of language, naturalness, and empowerment. With meditations on common, colonizing objects--such as the porch, the column, and the city--the poems in Dead Ahead look straight on at the pleasures of stealing, the perils of travel, and the ends of the earth.
Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, Or a Sonnet--
How does a love poet fall out of her marriage and back in love with the world? What happens when you grow up to be the "kind of person who..."? These fairytales are for the heartbreakers as much as the heartbroken, for those smitten with wanderlust, for those who believe in loving this world through art. A singular flow of bewildered brilliance, Emily Carr's swiftly flowing sequence of love poems--divorce poems, really--engages the very real problem of falling out of love because (admit it!) you never think you will. No matter how many times it's happened before. Imagine it: not limiting love to the erotic but embracing endeavor, struggle, social change, and political action. Love as conscio...
Memory of the Prose Machine
Memory of the Prose Machine consists of page-long blocks of disjointed but playful prose alternating with quotations from outside sources on the nature of memory, memoir, and story-telling. It is short and weird. The words don't make much sense as such but the book as a whole is very purposeful in its thrust: it is an alternative memoir, the kind that questions the way we process and then record memories.--Dennis James Sweeney.
