Nada Gordon, Author . Faux Press $13.95 (108p) ISBN 978-0-9710371-9-9
"In an exposed position with little chance/ of retreat, the ponies' best defense is nakedness and lightsome lyric," writes Gordon in "Paeonies," a spirited, strident paean to being spirited and strident. With her "balladry/...
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Nada Gordon, Author Detour Press $10 (96p) ISBN 978-0-9627762-3-6
A total of four books issue this month from one of New York poetry's most esteemed duos, Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan. Gordon's small-format Foreign Body, which made the cover of the SPD catalogue this season (SPD distributes all four books), ...
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Nada Gordon. Roof (SPD, dist.), $14.95 paper (114p) ISBN 978-1-931824-49-1
Gordon (Folly) enjoys a reputation as a member of the controversial, arguably silly Flarf Collective, which makes poems from awkward, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate language discovered through Web searches; it's no surprise, then, to find in...
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Nada Gordon, Author, Gary Sullivan, Illustrator Spuyten Duyvil $12 (124p) ISBN 978-1-881471-66-0
The latter-day romantic heroine of Gordon's book-length series, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker Than Night-Swollen Mushrooms? (title courtesy of Keats), assumes various sub-personas, calling herself ""I,"" ""`I'"" and ""i,"" speaking variously
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Nadia Gordon, Author, Nada Gordon, Author Chronicle Books $11.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3462-9
The scion of a wine family is found murdered; chef Sunny McCoskey's friend Wade Skord is a prime suspect; and the glassy-winged sharpshooter (an insect) is threatening Napa Valley produce, not to mention Sunny's organic restaurant, in Sharp...
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Gary Sullivan, Author, Nada Gordon, Author, Nada Gordon, Joint Author Granary Books $17.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-887123-54-9
But the duo's tour-de-force is surely Swoon, an electronic literary courtship that spirals into real life in a manner Griffin & Sabine never manage. In March of 1998, Nada posted a query on a poetry discussion list, and Gary replied ""backchannel
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