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An open book spread. The left page has a yellow woodcut print of two people holding hands under stars next to a poem. The right page has a red woodcut print of a person in a hat next to a poem.

The Arch of the Rainbow

Oceanward Summer 1971 campers and counselors, 1972.
 
Thirty-nine hand cut block prints were used to illustrate the book. Each page features a woodcut print next to a poem made by one of the campers or counselors of Oceanward Summer in 1971.                                                                                                 

A green book cover with a collage of two younger girls and dozens of paint-brush strokes.

A Girl's Life

Johanna Drucker & Susan Bee, 2002.
 
A Girl’s Life is a graphic melodrama of romance, crime, and passion in which girls “struggle to survive the snares and pitfalls of contemporary life.” Darkly comic and fiendishly noir, the mood of this book is expressed in colorful prose, lurid collage, and wildly adventurous typography.

Half red, half orange book cover with the title in english written vertically and the Chinese translation next to it.

Cheating

Yin Lichuan, 2022.
 
Cheating collects the early writings of contemporary Chinese poet Yin Lichuan, including three erotic poems and her novella "Cheating". A founding member of the Lower Body Poets, Lichuan's writing focuses on harrowing psychological intrigue and the devastation of desire, her verse as uninhibited as her prose.

Black book cover with the blue VHS logo and the title of the book below it in the same color.

VHS: Poems. Vol. 4

Mitsu Okubo, 2023.
 
Book of poems written using the spines of VHS boxes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Sand-colored cover with the title and author written in the bottom right corner.

Typewriter Poems

Peter Finch, 1972.
 
Typewriter Poems gathers together twenty-two practitioners of the art of the typewriter poem–which relies on the limitations imposed by the machine to produce its form–in this slim volume of experimental letters.

A book cover with an all-over log print and a photo of a man in front of a log cabin in the center.

Log Rhythms

Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein, 1998.
 
Susan Bee sets and illustrates a long serial poem by Charles Bernstein, offering a running visual dialogue with the poem's textual acrobatics. Together they explore the psychopathology of everyday life.                                          


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