Sawako Nakayasu Poetry Trading Cards Are Here And They're HUGE

This is big. Really big. Never has a 2.5 x 3.5" piece of cardboard loomed so large ... Sawako Nakayasu Poetry Trading Cards are here!



Sawako Nakayasu is the author of Texture Notes (Letter Machine, 2010), Hurry Home Honey (Burning Deck, 2009), and a translation of Kawata Ayane’s poetry, Time of Sky//Castles in the Air (Litmus Press, 2010) as well as Mouth: Eats Color (Rogue Factorial, 2011) with Chika Sagawa. Her translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (New Directions, 2008) received the 2009 Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent.

Her poetry trading card, patterned after a 1992 Topps baseball card design, features a photo by Alan Bernheimer and a new poem ("Huge Shadow") from her newest collection forthcoming from Les Figues Press.

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are available at a discount and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
Fact-Simile Editions
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Very Different Animals By Frank Sherlock On Sale

Is it a book? Is it a painting? It's Very Different Animals by Frank Sherlock and it's officially available at a discounted pre-sale price.



Very Different Animals is an accordion-fold book set in VTKS Animal 2 and Big Caslon and mounted in Blick Studio mini canvasses. Each canvas features original artwork by Philadelphia artist Nicole Donnelly. It is printed in an edition of 100 on reclaimed 120 gsm Arches cotton wove watercolor paper.



Reserve your one of a kind copy of this wild little book today and we'll send you your copy as soon as the paint dries...



Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
Fact-Simile Editions
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Marcella Durand Poetry Trading Cards

 Marcella Durand Poetry Trading Cards deserve a special place in your collection!

Marcella Durand is the author of Deep Eco Pre with Tina Darragh (Little Red Leaves), AREA (Belladonna), Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem), and other books. She was the 2010–2011 CPCW fellow in poetics and poetic practice at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her poetry trading card, patterned after a 1990 Topps baseball card design, features a new poem titled "A Singular Island at Harbor".

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Cards are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are available at a discount and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald

Fact-Simile Editions
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Celebrate Lewis Warsh Appreciation Month

Just in case you haven't already heard: September 2012 is (unofficially) Lewis Warsh Appreciation Month and we here at Fact-Simile invite you to start the celebration with a Lewis Warsh Trading Card!

Not that any of us really need a reason to celebrate the work of one of contemporary poetry's most legendary voices. Co-founder (with Anne Waldman) of Angel Hair Magazine  and co-editor (with Bernadette Mayer) of United Artists Magazine and Books, Warsh is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography.

Ready to join in the festivities of Lewis Warsh Appreciation Month? Here's what you do:

• First, order your Lewis Warsh Trading Card featuring a previously unreleased poem.
• Then, head on over to MIMEO MIMEO and check out "the first magazine ever devoted in its entirety to poet, novelist, publisher, teacher, and collage artist Lewis Warsh."
• Finally, stop by Granary Books and get your hands on some of the awesome recently released Lewis Warsh collages and collage books.

Every Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card is printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are available at a discount and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com

Repo In A (The Musical)

Back in 2008, we here at Fact-Simile Editions published The O Mission Repo [vol. 1]. This long erasure poem takes the first four chapters of The 9/11 Commission Report and processes them through various gestures of elimination and palimpsest. The final chapter of this book, titled "Repo In A" presents what text remains post-erasure over a series of musical staffs.
Nearly four years after the original publication of this text (and on the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth) we are happy to announce that this appropriative gesture has been translated into music.

Click here to listen to the full-length unedited version of "Repo In A"

Click here to listen to the edited version...

Enjoy!

Poetry Trading Card #32: Kenneth Goldsmith

Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card #32 features a new poem from that uncreative genius of conceptual verse: Kenneth Goldsmith.

Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of more than ten books including, most recently the American trilogy: The Weather (2005), Traffic (2007) and Sports (2008). He is also, among other things, the founding editor of UbuWeb, the largest web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet

This new poem ("Fund Family Dly YTD") by Kenneth Goldsmith is featured on the back of August's Poetry Trading Card from Fact-Simile Editions.

Every Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card is printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are available at a discount and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
Fact-Simile Editions
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Poet Trading Card #31: Tyrone Williams

July almost snuck by us but with one day left before the arrival of August, we're pleased to announce that Fact-Simile Poetry Trading Card #31 features a new poem from Tyrone Williams.

Tyrone Williams is the author of  c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008) and The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press, 2009), Adventures of Pi (Dos Madres Books, 2011) and Howell (Atelos Books, 2011). He teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This new poem ("IPO: A Sing-Sing-Along") by Tyrone Williams is featured on the back of July's Poetry Trading Card from Fact-Simile Editions.

These limited-edition poetic collectibles are printed on recycled paper and available for just 99 cents on our website. Subscriptions to the entire 2012 series are just $10 plus shipping and, as always, our 2010 and 2011 Poetry Trading Cards are still available individually or as a complete set.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie Macdonald
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com