when we saw the smoke it was like we were about to choose a new pope

Greying Ghost Catalog Update #110209

2009-11-02T16:47:00.006Z

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Still Available:
[click price to order]

The Deviants by Jack Boettcher { N E W }
"If James Tate were to somehow mate with the remnants of a demolition derby, The Deviants would
eat its baby. Jack Boettcher is a craftsman and reading these poems is like walking into his shoppe
and running your fingers over all the sharpened surfaces. Each poem contains a tight suture of wit
and brutally evasive humor. The Deviants will read, and re-read and re-re-read until it all just disappears
and you, the reader are left "a decommissioned weapon / holding up a lily / in a ceasefire no one respects."

chapbook | $7.50 ppd

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Hank Williams by Peter Berghoef
"What does Hank represent? Beats me. Seems more like a drunken retelling of a lost weekend, composed
over a honky tonk piano, written by Cormac Mccarthy's Llewelyn Moss. Somewhere in this poem is a pick-up
chase and a case of spilled beer over by a pond-side campfire. This is why I love Berghoef's writing."

pamphlet | $2.00 ppd or free with the purchase of any GG chapbook

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When I Moved To Nevada by James Iredell
""When I Moved to Nevada" is filled with snow, drugs, stars, bars and music. It made me think (though it's
very different) of Jon Leon's "Hit Wave" but, really, this book is very and wonderfully Denis Johnson. Good
Denis Johnson. If you're a fan of Jesus' Son then Jamie's chapbook is definitely for you." -- Rauan Klassnik

chapbook | $7.00 ppd

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I Am In The Air Right Now by Kathryn Regina
"An unfeigned sky-ride that specks down flints of candor from the thinned air. I Am In The Air Right Now
is the story of a floatist who, while riding alone in a hot-air balloon, finds she is able to re-imagine the
pieces of the world from which she has fled. Soon the balloon's basket is crowded with the likes of boys
named Pedro, a horse, flat tires, and bears. An utterly original story from a rising voice in the field."

chapbook | $6.50 ppd

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Help! by Adam Fieled
"Adam Fieled's Help! is writ with the din that blows eastward from Alleghany range to the eavesdropper's ear
in Philadelphia. Inspired by the classic Beatles album, Help! could be the pouring of a soul into a very small cup,
or the a bunch of little souls spilling from the cup onto the floor. His poems talk to You directly. They welcome
you into their kitchen. They help you with your coat and build a fire. They feed you and then they leave you."

chapbook | $4.00 ppd

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Borrowed House by Brooklyn Copeland
"Welcome to Borrowed House - a collection of poems antsy enough to have been written one hundred years ago,
and only now sprung from the dusty congressional archives. They will embrace you like a panther unto its prey.
And amidst the embrace they will roll their eyes at the growing piles of strangers because a hotel is nothing
more than a borrowed house."

chapbook | $6.50 ppd

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Naturalistless by Christopher Rizzo
"A few years back my wife and I were hanging with Chris Rizzo at this bar called Charlie's Kitchen over in Harvard
Square. After a few beers he pushed over this packet of poems called "Spare Parts" and says "let me know what
you think." I remember going home and reading it and saying "i wish i could write this good." I didn't write a poem
for five months. "Naturalistless" is the ultimate compendium of his spare parts. These poems are whole sentences
chopped down to two words, joined. It is both a refreshing poetic statement and a future bookshelf mainstay. Also, Christopher Rizzo is the man behind the unparalleled Anchorite Press."

pamphlet | $3.50 ppd or free with purchase of any GG chapbook

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First Print by Corduroy Mtn.
"We like hats. We like hats so much we threw ours into the literary magazine ring. When we all became embarrassed
by our haircuts, what we found was some truly excellent, original, and eclectic material written by a bunch of strangers.
First Print comes as a 5x7 chapbook with hand stamped covers (each one is different!), a broadsheet, a photograph,
and a Jack Boettcher quote. Printed on high quality linen paper with color inserts.

Features work by: Peter Berghoef, Shane Jones, Brooklyn Copeland, Forest Roth, Blake Butler, Mandy Billings, Brandon
Shimoda, Sommer Browning, Adam Maynard, Joshua Ware, Drew Kalbach, B.J. Love, Kevin Wilson, Kendra Malone, Jac Jemc,
Eric Amling, and James Iredell

chapbook | $6.00 ppd

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At The Pulse by Laura Carter
"Like a conversation between two dinner guests - one in the bustling din of a dining room, the other across town in the burgundy dust of a soup kitchen open at the crack of dawn. These collection of poetic pulses interpret the grind and the ornate and the fierceness and the irreversible gait of life's intoxication through a sheer veneer of waggish curiosity. At The Pulse is astonishingly brilliant. "

chapbook | $6.00 ppd

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Stands As Mediation by Thomas Hummel
"A cyclical translation of Gertrude Stein's Stanzas In Meditation, Thomas Hummel, through his mad experiments, had
produced ten poems that refuse to pay rent. They squat in the abandoned factories and the houses of its workers and
stand in front of the windows with the lights on. And though you're not quite sure if they're laughing at or with you,
the fact they are laughing is reason enough to befriend them. Roll over Gertrude and wake her up."

chapbook | $7.00 ppd

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The Pond by Zachary Schomburg
"We've all lived near a pond at some point. We've all stuck a finger in its surface and wondered what the hell was under
there. Perhaps after an accident the pond gets drained and gaggles of neighborhood kids then find their bikes and balls
and other bits of tossed ephemera. The Pond is like a catalog of all that: of yesterdays both dreamt and recollected
with clarity."

chapbook | $5.00 ppd

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Coming Soon!
Eric Amling - Total Surfdom
J Michael Wahlgren - Credo
Mathias Svalina & Julia Cohen - Sugar Means Yes
Andrew Terhune - Helen Mirren Picks Out My Clothes
Dan Boehl - Les Miseres et les Mal-Heurs de la Guerre
Kristen Orser - Folded Into Your Midwestern Thunderstorm
Krammer Abrahams - Boots Walking In America
Sommer Browning & Brandon Shimoda - The Bowling
Troy Urquhart - Springtime Sea Bathing
Jon Cone - The Plesyre Barge
Judson Hamilton - No Rainbow
Michael Bible - Gorilla Math
J.A. Tyler - Our, Us, & We
Corduroy Mtn. #2

There will also be reprints of Shane Jones' I Will Unfold You With My Hairy Hands and
Peter Berghoef's News of The Haircuts!!

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Please note that supplies are limited. In most cases, there are only 5-10 copies left.
I will keep a close eye on orders and update the website frequently. Also, you can
join on facebook.

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Greying Ghost will be reading submissions until the end of the year.
You can read our guidelines HERE

& don't forget you can always send your work to Corduroy Mtn.

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We have a lot of great books coming out and a very tiny office so help us clear some
space on our shelves by buying a book or two! All packages come with a fistful of inserts and whatever else
I can cram into the envelopes!

Thanks for reading!
-carl

HELP SPREAD THE [PRINTED] WORD!

Jack Boettcher's THE DEVIANTS now available!

2009-10-25T14:44:00.001Z

Jack Boettcher
The Deviants

Chapbook

"If James Tate were to somehow mate with the remnants of a demolition derby, The Deviants would eat its baby. Jack Boettcher is a craftsman and reading these poems is like walking into his shoppe and running your fingers over all the sharpened surfaces. Each poem contains a tight suture of wit and brutally evasive humor. The Deviants will read, and re-read and re-re-read until it all just disappears and you, the reader are left "a decommissioned weapon / holding up a lily / in a ceasefire no one respects."

5.5" x 7" Chapbook with hand-ripped,
hand stamped covers with decorative inlay paper!
Printed in an edition of 120.

Click here for images of the cover.

$7.50 postage paid in USA/Canada.
everyone else, email for a shipping quote.

Order @ Greying Ghost
& Add to Goodreads

Facebook

2009-10-08T01:53:00.002Z

keep an eye on the Facebook Group page. I'll be posting more news on its wall there on a more frequent basis. this blog will mostly be photos of releases. friend us or whatever the phrase is.

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2009-10-08T01:22:00.002Z

Jack Boettcher's The Deviants is now available for pre-order!

Via Boston Globe

2009-10-01T14:27:00.002Z

Supply limited, demand eternal, graveyards fill up - The Boston Globe

two words: The Moon

late 70s/early 80s boston bands:

2009-09-29T02:50:00.003Z

dakley-love

2009-09-28T21:46:00.002Z

excellent review of The Country Where No One Ever Dies By Ornela Vorpsi (Dalkey) by Josh Maday in THE COLLAGIST.

also, in the LA Times, a classy review of The Book of Jokes by Momus

phtgrphs

2009-09-23T00:50:00.000Z

CRDRY MTN NWS

2009-09-20T16:27:00.001Z

Rich Ives and Len Kuntz added to The Corduroy Mtn.!

Holy Shit: Pavement Reunion Is Real!

2009-09-17T01:01:00.001Z

Holy Shit: Pavement Reunion Is Real!

Shared via AddThis

Bill Cosby describing the game of buck-buck

2009-09-16T01:40:00.003Z

Let's Make A Story has been updated.
read it up and down and send along a line. you will feel a renewed sense of self-worth in doing so.

Corduroy Mtn. will be updated on the sunday,
or, the day of suns, for all ya'll borderline pagans.

and now, another installment of "Our Town":

authentic hanging grounds potting soil

2009-09-14T18:13:00.003Z

huzzah! at last, internet access is mine. laptop is now fixed which means i can take advantage of the wifi-ness of salem. mostly, i've grown quite fond of this place and the derby wharf lighthouse. the later of which you can sit and watch inebriated people on boats try and find the marblehead docks. it is also a grand reading spot. so far, only a few awkward goth lads. the fifth annual pagan touch football benefit was a hoot.

another funny/somewhat frightening common occurrence is when our cat, who is mostly black, sits in one of the window, she draws a lot of oohs and ahhs from the locals as they walk by. if she ever went outside she'd be snatched up in a pillowcase and stoned. like, with rocks, not hallucinogens.

here's a little bit of the local flavor:

live from the witch trials!

2009-09-08T14:31:00.003Z

the office has done been moved. while there's no desk yet and everything is still in boxes and spread out on the floor (so i guess i do have a desk) Greying Ghost is back in operation! all orders will be shipped either today or tomorrow. thanks for everyone's patience.

since we don't yet have internet at home, corduroy mtn will be put on hold. i'll be reading whatever has been sent in the next few days and anything accepted for publication on the website will be up at a later date. i probably won't be getting internet for a little while as i'm going to really hunker down these next few months and the ball rolling on book production again. a few things have already been formatted and a few other things have been proofed and a few other things need some revisions...so i'll be catching up on that end first.

sorry if this sounds rushed, i am at the library and i have 7 minutes of internet time left. after which i'll probably just end up walking down the various alleys and poking my head into the hundreds of witch shops here in salem. this town is amazing. if you haven't been yet, i highly recommend Derby Square Books. it is a little slice of slickened heaven.

call for subs (non-lunch content)

2009-09-01T16:55:00.002Z

we be taking submissions! spread the word!

light at the end or the bottom or the top of the tunnel

2009-09-01T15:03:00.003Z

a quick update on GG happenings. our move so far has been quite brutal (re: u-haul, moving in general). luckily the light at the end or the bottom or the top of the tunnel is big like a full moon! tonight we will be officially moved in, but since we had to magically cram our stuff into a temporary storage unit, book production is on hiatus until the weekend, when i'll be assembling the boettcher book, hopefully.

// humid jeans \\

2009-08-21T21:39:00.003Z

monster interview with adam robinson of publishing genius. some great behind-the-curtains glimpses into the jones/pg/penguin journey. if anyone can recommend a good source of information regarding copyrights and lit ownership, please pass it my way...

this weekend i'll be knocking out the covers to jack boettcher's The Deviants. they're the best covers i've ever done. hand stamped magic! this sumemr has been a bit slower then i'd anticipated especially with us moving into a new place and all. so i apologize for behind the sched.

all will be well!

new noo

2009-08-18T02:01:00.002Z

check us out in the new issue of Noo Journal.
niiiice!

butter words [spread content]

2009-08-15T23:31:00.001Z

Let's Make A Story mentioned in The Rumpus!

hitting the rainy streets

2009-08-13T22:47:00.002Z

attn folks in the seattle/pacific northwest region: you can now grab yourself some Greying Ghost chapbooks at Pilot Books! niiiice!

also, we've gotten some great lines for our Let's Make A Story project. if you can string along a few words into a sentence, send it in and we'll post em. you don't have to be a big fancy writer-type. any and everyone can help!

deep thoughts while waiting for ink to dry.

2009-08-13T00:30:00.005Z

i am a firm believer in reincarnation. most likely in a previous life, i died at a Who concert. i suspect the Isle of Wight show from 1970. this would explain the uncanny false-flashbacks i get when they show their Isle of Wight performance on the tv. either that, or i made jumpsuits or floral shirts with tassles for a living in a previous life.

if only the ad wizards could've gotten their hands on the spanish civil war!

2009-08-13T00:08:00.002Z

between this, and this, i now believe people in the advertising industry have a real good sense of humor.

Corduroy Mtn. News!

2009-08-11T22:03:00.000Z

you're gonna miss my spell on you

2009-08-09T02:28:00.003Z

all orders this month will come with a free pamphlet!
who says i don't treat you right?

hairy and the hendersons

2009-08-07T01:56:00.003Z

re-did the site a bit.

lineup for Corduroy Mtn. has been finalized.
all parties have been notified.
more details forthcoming!

also, got the cover illustration for Shane Jones'
Hair Hands reprint:

many thanks to the immensely talented
ria brodell for the artwork.

due out late october/early november!

2009-08-05T02:11:00.003Z

still a great party tune.
also, never knew the DC5 had a sax man.