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    Red Mare Catalogue    
   
To order send $7 to SuZi, P.O. Box 831544, Ocala, Florida, 34483

    
    At a time when mass-produced mega novels and impulse buy checkout counter "gift books" are dominating publishing, Su Zi has created a very limited edition series with hand-printed covers folded lovingly around the words inside. The fonts are irregular, the stitching slightly jagged, the passion of both poet and producer unfiltered.
 
 

NaturalHistoryOfTheBrokenWorld

The Shape of Breathing  (2011) by Jean Roelke.

I watched children made of neon colored light
        swing in the night, hid thunderstorms in my desk.

The mysteries of electricity gnawed like silent worms,
        and then a garden, planted with stones and wishes,
                watered with pure sounds of hunger,
                        grew a stairway.
 
 
Chiffon_Thumb

Chiffon  (2010) by Lyn Lifshin.

it's the way my
brown couch hoards
the last dead cat's

fur, lasts longer
than the cat did.  And
then the long hair

strands of my mother's
hair in a brush, 17
years after she

could touch it

 
 
 

TwoSeekersAndARightTurn

Two Seekers and a Right Turn  (2009) by Lola Haskins.

I asked only to reach the known, and
seeking it, found lands so terrible
it had been better they sank into the sea.
If I had not gone back...  But gulled
by my own rapture I sailed again,
swollen Viceroy of all, looking for
the paradises I described before.
 
 

NaturalHistoryOfTheBrokenWorld

A Natural History of the Broken World  (2008) by Marie C. Jones.

Sharp little birds of pain hop across the body's snow.  Sleep
rustles faintly in the reeds of the pond.  They sway, but do not
bend.

The little birds of pain hop diligently across the body's frozen
pond.  Full winter moon.  Its pale gaze.  In its cocoon, the
diapaused silkworm is waiting for better days, as we all do.
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
 

 
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