February Trading Card featuring Christian Bök

Fact-Simile is pleased to present the next installment in our 2010 Literary Trading Card Series, featuring experimental Canadian poet Christian Bök!


Every month during 2010 and beyond we will release a limited edition trading card featuring new work from a notable contemporary literary figure.

Patterned after classic baseball card designs, each collectible card will be available for just 99 cents on our website or FREE with any purchase of a Fact-Simile title/item. Collect the whole set! Trade them with your friends! For the price of a song on iTunes, you too can own a piece of literary history.

Many Thanks and Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
The Editors @ Fact-Simile Editions
http://www.fact-simile.com/
travis@fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com

The All New Recently Received

We've been receiving some really great texts for review from writers and small presses across the country and, inevitably, we will not be able to address every single one with the full attention that it deserves. For this reason, we've decided to implement a Recently Received list to keep our readers updated on all the exciting work available from our contributors and the greater community beyond:

Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, Elizabeth Marie Young, Fence Books 2009
Also Known As, Elizabeth Robinson, Apogee Press 2009
amphisbaena, Ray Succre, Cauliay 2009 (Interactive CD/E-book)
The Black Automaton, Douglas Kearney, Fence Books 2009
Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, Macgregor Card, Fence Books 2009
Ghosts of Breath, Howie Good, Bedouin Books 2009
The Mecox Papers, Anselm Parlatore, Wyandanch Lane Press 2009
My New Job, Catherine Wagner, Fence Books 2009
The Orphan and Its Relations, Elizabeth Robinson, Fence Books 2008
One Day There Will Be Nothing To Show That We Were Ever Here, Scott Alexander Jones, Bedouin Books 2009
Stranger, Laura Sims, Fence Books 2009
Umbra: The Sculpture Poems, Anselm Parlatore, North Fork Press 2010

We will be featuring reviews from this list in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

If you're interested in writing reviews for Fact-Simile, please contact us. We will be accepting submissions for issue 2.3 until March 20th.

More soon...

Fact-Simile Literary Trading Card Series

It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce the official launch of Fact-Simile's Literary Trading Card Series!

Every month during 2010 and beyond we will release a limited edition trading card featuring the work of a notable contemporary literary figure. Patterned after classic baseball card designs, each collectible trading card will be available for just 99 cents apiece on our website or FREE with the purchase of any Fact-Simile title/item.

That’s right: you can own a piece of literary history for the price of a song on iTunes! So go ahead...indulge. And remember to tell all your friends!

This month's featured writer is none other than the almighty Anne Waldman with a previously unpublished excerpt from her epic poem Iovis.

Many Thanks and Happy Reading,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
The Editors @ Fact-Simile Editions
http://www.fact-simile.com

Sonnet 86

I was feeling a little stuck with this translation project I'm working on and was looking for some inspiration this evening in, of all places, my Dover Thrift Edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, when I discovered the original photograph above (of Robert Creeley and Bobbie Louise Hawkins) marking sonnet 86. My best guess is, I picked the book up in Boulder at a second-hand bookshop where it had found its way from the collection of Bobbie Louise. In the spirit of serendipity, I would like to share with you the sonnet 86:

Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all-too-precious-you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors, of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence.

But when your countenance fill'd up his line,
Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine.

Announcing The Equinox Chapbook Series

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce the official release of our first annual Equinox Chapbook Series. This project has been more than 8 months in the making so, without further delay or undue ceremony, I give you:

The winner of Fact-Simile's Equinox Chapbook contest, Point of Intersection is a 4.5" x 6.5" portfolio style chapbook consisting of 12 new poems from Buffalo poet Joseph Cooper. Each unique book is hand-bound in scarred and branded leather. Point of Intersection was printed in an edition of 100 with additional vegan copies available while supplies last.


Brooklyn poet Matt Reeck's midwinter, runner-up in Fact-Simile's 2009 Equinox Chapbook contest, is a 6 foot long accordion folded text with accompanying magnifying glass. midwinter bound in hand stamped bookboard and printed in a limited edition of 45.


Some Colors Will Touch Regardless is an elegant Japanese-bound collection of cascading hand-colored pages from Colorado poet Travis Cebula. Runner-up in Fact-Simile's Equinox Chapbook contest, this limited edition of 30 books is bound by a single string of waxed thread in a heavy black folio.


Each title is available individually on our website for $15 plus s/h or $40 plus s/h for the complete set. Available while supplies last. Please don’t hesitate to contact us directly if you do not have a PayPal account or prefer to purchase a book via alternative means.

Happy Reading,

Travis & JenMarie (a.k.a. The Editors)
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com
travis@fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com

Fact-Simile 2.2 is Alive!

As most of you probably know by now: Fact-Simile 2.2 is live! This issue features a collaborative interview with Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop as well as a wide array of innovative work from new voices nationwide (and beyond):

Dale Smith
Duane Locke
Peter Davis
Ray Succre
Monica Peck
Billy Cancel
Mark DeCarteret
John Cross
Francesco Levato
Andrew McEwan
Michael Alfaro
Mark Terrill
Anne Gorrick
Adam Strauss
Felino Soriano
George Moore

Please take a moment to download a PDF at the address above or peruse the ISSUU online.

Also, it's not too late to order your 2010 Calendar featuring the textual artwork of
Andrew Topel. Supplies, as they say, are running low!

But don't worry. We've got lots of great things planned for 2010 including the release of last year's Equinox Chapbook winners and a trading card series that will launch next month with
work from Anne Waldman. More on those matters soon...

Until then,

The Editors
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com
travis@fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com

Cooper and Cebula at the Dikeou January 9th

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to join us for the Equinox Chapbook Reading/Release party at The Dikeou Collection in Denver on Saturday, January 9th at 7 p.m.

The evening's festivities will begin with readings by Joseph Cooper and Travis Cebula, winner and runner up of the Fact-Simile Equinox Chapbook Contest. A reception and book signing will follow, during which the winning chapbooks will be available at a discounted price. Please mark your calendar for Fact-Simile Editions' first poetry event of the new year.

We hope to see you there!

Best Regards,

JenMarie and Travis
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com
jenmarie@fact-simile.com
travis@fact-simile.com