- Belladonna Books
Belladonna Books began as a project of Belladonna*/Belladonna Series (See
Belladonna Series ) in 2000. David Kirschenbaum, a frequent attendee to the early Belladonna Reading Series, and the publisher of Boog Literature, offered to co-publish commemorative literature for each monthly event. The first publications were by kari edwards, for the May 4, 2000 reading atBluestockings (bookstore) . Following the edwards postcards, Belladonna Books began publishing photocopied 'chaplets' for each reading, in short runs of 50 - 126 stressing the energy of the moment in time when they are produced. Therefore, most titles quickly go out of print.History of Publications
Postcards
kari edwards , "go this way quickly" & "every amerikan amusement park" (May 2000)Broadside
Kristin Prevallet , "Still Life of Pigeons" (December 2000)Numbered 'Chaplet' Volumes
published in 2000:
1. Mary Burger, Eating Belief
2. Camille Roy, Dream Girls
3. Cecilia Vicuña, Bloodskirt, trans. Rosa Alcalá
4. Eleni Sikelianos, from The Book of Jon
5.
Fanny Howe , parts from Indivisible6. Laura Mullen, Translation Series
7. Beth Murray, 12 Horrors
8.
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge , Audience9. Laura Wright, Everything Automatic
2001:
10.
Lisa Jarnot , Nine Songs11.
Kathleen Fraser , Soft Pages12.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis , Draft 43: Gap13.
Nicole Brossard , Le Cou de Lee Miller/The Neck of Lee Miller14.
Lee Ann Brown , The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Reverse Mermaid15. Adeena Karasick, The Arugula Fugues VII-VIII
16. Aja Couchois Duncan, Commingled : Sight
17. Lila Zemborain, PAMPA
18. Cheryl Pallant, Spontaneities
19.
Lynne Tillman , chapters from Weird Fucks and “Dead Talk”20.
Abigail Child , Artificial Memory vol 1 & vol 22002:
21. Deborah Richards, Put A Feather In It
22. Norma Cole, BURNS
23. Jocelyn Saidenberg, Dusty
24. Gail Scott, Bottoms Up
25. Carla Harryman, DIMBLUE and Why Yell
26.
Anne Waldman , [THINGS] SEEN/UNSEEN27.
kari edwards , a diary of lies28. Bhanu Kapil Rider, from The Wolf Girls of Midnapure
29.
Rosmarie Waldrop , Trace Histories30.
Tina Darragh , fron rule of dumbs31. Chris Tysh, Mother, I (fragment of a film script)
32.
Jennifer Moxley , The Occasion33. Zhang Er, Cross River . Pick Lotus
34. Tonya Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court
35. Lauren Gudath, Animal & Robot
36.
Alice Notley , IPHIGENIA2003:
37. Caitlin Mcdonnell, Dreaming the Tree
38.
Eileen Myles , We, the Poets39. Suzanne Wise, from The Blur Model
40.
Lydia Davis , Cape Cod Diary41.
Elaine Equi , Castle, Diamond, Swan42. Maggie Nelson, Something Bright, Then Holes
43. Summi Kaipa, “One: I Beg You, Be Still” from Was.Or Am.
44. Julie Patton, “Car Tune” & Not So Bella Donna
45.
Joan Larkin , Boston Piano46.
Minnie Bruce Pratt , The Money Machine:Selected Poems47.
Anne Tardos , A Noisy Nightingale Understands a Tiger’s Camouflage Totally48. Michelle Naka Pierce, 48 Minutes Left
49. Veronica Corpuz, Unititled
50.
Leslie Scalapino , ‘Can’t is ‘Night’51. Jen Benka, A Revisioning of the Preamble
52. Susan Briante, Neotropics: A Romance in Field Notes
2004:
53. Joanna Fuhrman, Belladonna* Moraine
54. Nada Gordon, SOng of My OWnself
55. Catherine Daly, Surplice
56.
Caroline Bergvall , GONG57. Maria Negroni, Art and Fugue
58. LourdesVasquez, May the transvestites of my island who tap their heels
59. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation(v.1)
60. Belladonna* Bilingue: Women’s Work in Translation(v. 2)
61. Jaimy Gordon, A Month of Love
62. Rachel Daley, You and Me Story
63. Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Manuel is destroying my bathroom…
64. Joan Retallack, T H E R E I N V E N T I O N O F T R U T H
65. Renee Gladman, Untitled, Woman On Ground
66.
Nicole Brossard , Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering2005:
67. Eileen Tabios, The Estrus Gaze(s)
68. Susan Howe, 118 Westerly Terrace
69. Corina Copp, Play Air
70.
Lyn Hejinian , Lola71. Mercedes Roffe, Theory of Colors
72. hassen, Salem
73. Monica de la Torre, Doubles: An Excerpt
74.
Erin Moure , Befallen I75.
Lisa Robertson (poet) , First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant76. Martine Bellen, NYC Stories/ Lessons of the Microscopist
77. Karen Weiser, Heads Up Fever Pile
78. Belleza y Felicidad
79.
Mairead Byrne , Kalends80. Stacy Szymaszek, hyper glossia
81. Nathalie Stephens, You But for the Body Fell Against
82. Rachel Zolf, from Human Resources
2006:
83. Kathe Izzo, Public & Private Love
84. Kim Rosenfield, 10 Perfumes
85.
Ann Lauterbach , from Nothing to Say86. Myung Mi Kim, from Penury
87. Laura Elrick, Permeable Structures: A Performance Essay in Stereo (excerpts)
88. Melissa Buzzeo, Near: a luminescence
89. Dawn Lundy Martin, The Undress
90. Sharon Mesmer, Vertigo Seeks Affinities
91. Marjorie Welish, Art and Language Writes an Epitaph
92.
Rae Armantrout , Fetch2007:
93. Laynie Browne, Desires of Letters
94. Elizabeth Willis, All The Paintings of Giorgione
95. Kate Colby, from A Banner Year
96. Margaret Christakos, My Girlish Feast
97. a. rawlings, W I D E R
98. Deborah Meadows, The Draped Universe
99. Laura Moriarty, Ultravioleta Documents
100. Maureen Owen, From Working Papers
101. Patricia Spears Jones, repuestas!
102. Anna Moschovakis, The Tragedy of Waste
103. Rebecca Brown, Always & Like This
104. Evie Shockley, 31 words * prose poems
105. Jocelyn Saidenberg, Dispossessed
106. Jen Benka and Carol Mirakove, 1,138
107. Harriet Zinnes, IT IS AS IF
108. Maggie O’Sullivan, Windows Opening
109. Stacey Levine, Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small
110. R. Erica Doyle, from Proxy
111. Fiona Templeton, Medea in Aia: Part I of the Medead
2008:
112. Elizabeth Robinson, Rumor
113. Barbara Cole, from: ear say
114. Jean Day, Daydream (The Eponym)
115. Kathy Lou Schultz, Biting Midge (Works in Prose)
116.
Dodie Bellamy , Mother Montage117. Kevin Killian, Wow Wow Wow Wow
Letterpress Series
Rosa Alcalá, Some Maritime Disasters This Century
Marcella Durand, Anatomy of Oil
Akilah Oliver, The Putterer’s Notebook
Erica Hunt, Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes
Perfect-Bound Books
Four from Japan: Contemporary Poetry & Essays by Women, ed. Sawako Nakayasu(published in collaboration with Litmus Press)
Carla Harryman , Open BoxLila Zemborain, Mauve Sea-Orchids
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