Joan Retallack Poetry Trading Cards Make Great Gifts

Happy Holidays from Fact-Simile! December's Poetry Trading Card features new work from Joan Retallack, author of such essential critical and contemporary poetic texts as AFTERRIMAGES (Wesleyan, 1995), Memnoir (The Post-Apollo Press, 2004) and The Poethical Wager (University of California Press 2004).

As always, these limited-edition poetic collectibles are just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the 2012 series are now available for just $10 and, for you collectors out there, all 2010 and 2011 cards are going fast.

Happy Holiday Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
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November's 2011 Poet Trading Card Features Bhanu Kapil

This post is a bit overdue, but we here at Fact-Simile neglected to mention that November's Poetry Trading Cards are in and they feature new work from poet, teacher and humanimal Bhanu Kapil.

Bhanu Kapil's works of cross-genre literary experimentalism include: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (Nightboat Books, 2011)

These limited-edition poetic fetishes are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping and, for you collectors out there, our 2010 cards are still available.

Or, better yet, order any Fact-Simile title and we'll include a card of your choice free of charge!

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
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Beverly Dahlen Trading Cards

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce that September's Poet Trading Card (#21 in the series) features San Francisco poet Beverly Dahlen.

Co-founder of the groundbreaking feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever and author of the ongoing serial poem, A Reading, Beverly Dahlen is a poetic force whose contributions to the field inspire and resonate across an ever widening spectrum.

These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website.

Subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping and, for you collectors out there, our 2010 cards are still available.

Best Regards,

Travis & JenMarie
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Charles Alexander is July's Trading Card (#19)

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce #19 in our ongoing poetry trading card series: Arizona poet, printer and book artist Charles Alexander.

Alexander's recent books of poetry include Four Ninety Eight to Seven (Meow Press, 1996), Etudes: D & D (Quarry Press, 1997), near or random acts (Singing Horse Press, 2004) and Certain Slants (Junction Press, 2007).

Now -- with this previously unreleased poem from his work in progress With, In, and Of -- Alexander is at it again. These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website and subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
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Poetry Beats Patriotism

We here at Fact-Simile are celebrating the Memorial Day Weekend in style with CAConrad Trading Cards!

The 17th installment in our monthly Poet Trading Card Series features this phenomenal Philadelphia writer at his very best as he commemorates, in verse, one of America's most beloved heroes: Elvis Presley.

As always, these limited-edition collectibles are available for a song (just 99 cents) on our website and subscriptions to the entire 2011 series are just $10 plus shipping:

For those collectors who can't stand to have an incomplete set, today's your lucky day: we've reduced the price of last year's Poet Trading Card series to just 8 bucks. At that price you can frame them, trade them or put them in your bike spokes! Poetry Trading cards are summer fun for everyone.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie
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Nathaniel Tarn is the 1st Trading Card of 2011

We here at Fact-Simile are pleased to announce that we will be continuing our Poetry Trading Card series in 2011. And so, without further ado, we present #13 in the series: poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator Nathaniel Tarn.

With a publication history that spans the last half-century, Nathaniel Tarn has left an indelible mark upon the pages of modern literary history. Recent titles include Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions), Avia (Shearsman) and The Embattled Lyric (Stanford University Press).

Now, with this latest, previously unreleased, poem, Nathaniel Tarn once again takes to the field. This limited-edition poetic collectible is available for just 99 cents (plus shipping) on our website.

Subscribe today to receive a new trading card in the mail each month during 2011. And, of course, 2010 cards are still available individually or as a complete set!

Best Regards,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
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