CUZ Editions
Published by Will Patton, Mette Madsen, and Richard Hell, and edited by Hell.
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Each of these CUZ books is 5" x 7" and printed in an an edition of 537 copies.
WEATHER
by Richard Hell, 1998, 17 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-0-X
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[Signed by the author and cover artist, edition of 26 lettered A-Z: SOLD OUT.]
Weather by Richard Hell is a twelve-poem-long series of variations on, or mutations of, one short set of lines. The perfect cover art was created for the book by Christopher Wool. Read an excerpt...
Richard Hell
Hell's most recent book is the novel, Godlike. Preceding that was Hot and Cold, a collection of "essays poems lyrics notebooks pictures fiction" published by powerHouse Books in 2001. His novel Go Now was published by Scribner in 1996. He's also the author of Across the Years (poems, Soyo, 1991), Artifact (notebooks, Hanuman, 1992) and The Voidoid (novelina, Codex, 1996), among other books. [Most of these books are described and excerpted and many are for sale on site at Hell Lit and Rare Hell Lit.] Richard first became known as a musician in the mid '70s. His albums include Blank Generation, Destiny Street, Time, and Spurts.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN WORDS
by Susan Noel, 1998, 34 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-1-8 $20.00
Also available signed by the author and artist in an edition of 26 lettered A-Z at $50.00.
Autobiography In Words by Susan Noel is a prose poem in 54 numbered sections. It's influenced by Nietzsche, Cioran, and Wittgenstein, except it's all about being a big mess. The author describes it as "pseudo-aphoristic paragraphs," and "confessional poetry which confesses nothing." Its exactitude regarding murk is pleasing. Cover art and drawings by Mette Madsen. Read an excerpt...
Susan Noel
Susan Noel has been writing since the late '70s (not counting highschool, where she kept daily notebooks in different colored flair pens to match her eyeliner). She has published in The Massachusetts Review, Rocky Ledge, Bombay Gin, The World, and various other little magazines. Her only other book, Bronze Age, was published by Rocky Ledge Cottage Editions (1980). She's been in school since 1984, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural studies, and writing a book about cults and counterculture in the Sixties, focusing on the philosophical implications of the Manson Family. Miss Noel was born in Lexington, KY, grew up in many central and midwest cities, and now resides both in New York and in Pittsburgh. [1998]
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WILLIEWORLD
by Maggie Dubris, 1998, 67 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-2-6
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WillieWorld by Maggie Dubris is a 59 page poem/prosepoem drawn from the author's ten years' experience as a full time paramedic in New York City's 911 system. Cover art by David Wojnarowicz. Read an excerpt...
Maggie Dubris [her website: Maggie Dubris]
Maggie Dubris is a poet, 911 paramedic, and guitarist/songwriter for the band Homer Erotic. Her writing has been published in Cuz, Exquisite Corpse, The World, and other literary magazines. Homer Erotic's full length CD will be released in Spring 1999 by Bobby Previte's Depth of Field label. Maggie is working on a novel called Skels. [1998]
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SITTING PRETTY
by Michael DeCapite, 1999, 32 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-3-4 $20.00
Also available signed by the author and artist in an edition of 26 lettered A-Z at $50.00.
Sitting Pretty by Michael DeCapite is a love story about a guy and his father and the misery of Prog Rock. It takes place at a race track in Cleveland. Maestro George Schneeman created the classy cover collage especially for the book. Read an excerpt...
Michael DeCapite [his website: Sparkle Street]
DeCapite is the author of the acclaimed 1998 novel Through the Windshield (check it out), and has nearly completed a new one, RUINED FOR LIFE! [1999]
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LASSITUDES OF FIRE
by Will Patton, 1999, 36 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-4-2
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Lassitudes of Fire by Will Patton is a crazed and soulful, lonesome, funny, and violent compilation of Will's notebook jottings (including some drawings) going all the way back to his earliest days in New York as a vagrant and actor. Cover art by the author. Read an excerpt...
Will Patton [his fan website: Will Patton Collection]
Will Patton is an actor who has won Obie awards for his roles in a Sam Shepard and a Richard Foreman play. He's also appeared in many films, including No Way Out, Desperately Seeking Susan, and Armageddon. [1999]
CHALDEA and I Dig Girls
by Nick Tosches, 1999, 44 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-5-0 $50.00
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Chaldea/I Dig Girls by Nick Tosches is "a purse-book of breath from dead places, of gutters that run through paradise and gods who dwell in madness, of ancient wisdoms and ancient rhythms come back to town in kid-mohair britches. Chaldea is Newark. Chaldea is the place of all dark magic, deep within the lake of the heart; the place of resurrection, annihilation, and the breezes of all that is forbidden..." It comprises 25 poems and a story. Read an excerpt...
Nick Tosches [his website: Exit Wounds]
Nick Tosches is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction cartographer of underworlds. His books include Hellfire, Power on Earth, Cut Numbers, Dino, and Trinities. He lives in New York. [1999]
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LOVE POEMS
by Rene Ricard, drawings by Robert Hawkins, 1999, 40 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-6-9 $100.00
Also available signed by the author and artist in an edition of 26 lettered A-Z at $500.00.
Love Poems by Rene Ricard, with drawings by Robert Hawkins, is a unique collaboration between the notorious and brilliant poet (who's also all three of those things as a writer on art), and his penetratingly sharp and inspired artist colleague. Read an excerpt...
Rene Ricard [a site devoted to him]
Rene Ricard is the author of the books of poems Rene Ricard 1979-1980, God With Revolver, and Trusty Sarcophagus Company (painted/drawn poems). [1999]
Robert Hawkins
Robert Hawkins holds no degrees, lives in New York, and has paintings available from the Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery. [1999]
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POEMS I GUESS I WROTE
by Ron Padgett, 2001, 40 pp. ISBN 0-9666328-7-7
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Poems I Guess I Wrote by Ron Padgett is a book of eighteen poems ranging 1965-1999 that have two things in common: they're written by Ron Padgett but he's not completely sure. As the author says in an introductory note to the book, "Leafing through old notebooks and folders of my writing, I have, from time to time, found certain poems that stop me in my tracks. The evidence that I wrote these poems--my handwriting, the font of the typewriter I had at a particular time, the marginal scribbles and revisions, the stylistic gestures, and so on--is undeniable. The odd thing is that I have no memory, or at most a tiny inkling of a memory, of having written them..." Cover art and drawings by George Schneeman. Read an excerpt...
Ron Padgett [his website: Ron Padgett]
Ron Padgett is among the six or seven poets who've done the most to keep poetry in America interesting in recent decades. He came to New York from Oklahoma to attend Columbia in the early sixties, arriving at roughly the same time as his Tulsa friends Dick Gallup, Joe Brainard, and Ted Berrigan. His books include Great Balls of Fire, Toujours l'amour, Triangles in the Afternoon, and New & Selected Poems. The most recent is The Straight Line, a collection of his writings on poetry. [2001]
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