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The Eidetic Afterlife Hypothesis:
A reinterpretation of death and dying
J. Martin Strangeweather
In cooperation with Santa Ana Literary Association, we present to you The Eidetic Afterlife Hypothesis. For those who experience anxiety regarding the subject of death, this book is a strange light in the darkness. There is another way of understanding the afterlife, a way that is sensible and measurable as well as impartial and universal, hidden in plain sight beneath the broad categories of theism, agnosticism, and atheism.
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CAULDRONS
K.R. Morrison’s debut chapbook… CAULDRONS is everything it was meant to be and more. Dive in to this elegantly crafted book of thirteen poems cutting close to the heart, the heart of love, of family, of feminism, and the heart of deepest and most private spellcasting.
Mrs. Jones Will Now Know
Wanderer, educator and Beat translator, Moroccan poet El Habib Louai presents the reader with thoughtful verses here in his debut collection dedicated to the disenfranchised.
poems about
something & nothing
Karl Kempton, visual poet master and connoisseur, presents his latest creations on life, love, and spirit in face of troubled times. The key to great mysteries awaits the bearer of this book.
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Lumen de Lumine
(Out of print)
Norman Dubie is the author of thirty collections of poetry. He lives in Tempe, AZ, where he works with young poets and novelists. This current title, which he thinks of as a fragment, wanted to complete his previous book of aphorisms, The Clouds of Magellan. Dubie’s most recent book of poetry, The Quotations of Bone won the International Griffin Poetry Prize.Lumen de Lumine sets the stage for prophecy and revelation, using alchemy and aphorism, mixing history and literature, weaving a cosmic tapestry that questions the perimeter of time itself.
Paris Blinks
Paris Blinks, Sharon Coleman’s collection of fifty 50-word fictions, brings the reader face-to-face with the intimate workings of Parisian life in deeply revealing snippets. Ride a bicycle through the streets of a city Sharon has built, steeped in history, reflection, and lost moments.
Lost Frames
COMPENDIUM OF POETRY AND ART
The LOST FRAMES COMPENDIUM is a catalogue of work loved by the artists and perhaps unnoticed by the general public. Until now.Inside, the reader will find new and familiar names; originally published as an eBook supplement to Big Bridge Magazine, issue #17.Designed especially to accommodate the large format art pieces, Paper Press has now made this invaluable volume available in print.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Steven Lee Carlson - Moss Gardens & Standing Stones
Missy Church - Since & Wreckage
Robert Freeman - Morning, Treasure, Apple Game
Lance Gravette - Lost Paintings
Carrie Hunter - Four Poems
Joel Landmine - Four Poems
El Habib Louai - Significance, The King, Their Version
Shali Nicholas - Barbie’s Boot, Fernando, Summer
H.K. Rainey - One. Two. Three.
Frank Reardon - Four Poems
Paul Corman Roberts - Six Poems
Simon Rogghe - Conception & Legacy
Simon Rogghe & Zarina Zabrisky - Two Poems
Michael Rothenberg - from Nightmare Of The Violins
John Swain - Romain, Hillsides, Erie
William Taylor Jr. - World, Poem, Women
Rachael Winn Yon - Shades & Folly
Zarina Zabrisky - Manifesto, Poem, Fiction
CHURCH Retrospective
Missy Church has selected the best of her books published throughout the years, here presented in a new format and design. Readers will find a rootsy and haunted America throughout her work, with weeds pushing up through the cracks. Rust Belt white knuckle memories. San Francisco perversions. The Retrospective shows it all without remorse. These poems are unvarnished, leaking, and dead.
Notes from an Orgy
Paul Corman-Roberts has seen the future and it has more going for it than you think it does, trying to hitch one last ride to transcendence against all the odds. NOTES FROM AN ORGY is a chronicle of the ecotone that lies between our sordid past and a dark future whose contrasts shine a curious and improbable light.
Cineplex
Formento’s surregional verses convey the thrill and tragedy of New Orleans; the loss of a mentor-hero, second sight of the poet’s father in a dream, an animal inventory of Bayou Barataria, the joy of compost. CINEPLEX calls out the demons that terrorize our lives from the inside.
Murder
Through the eyes of a private journal writer, poet Michael Rothenberg reports on the continual worldwide injustices, tragedies and killings we are forever made to bear witness to on the streets and via the media. What can be done? With compassion and humor, “Murder” begins the investigation.
Death at Sea
In Death at Sea - Poems, Youssef Alaoui-Fdili presents a collection of poems about romance and despair on the high seas, set in the 19th century. Tones of Melville and Poe and Verne and Hodgson ring throughout. Youssef’s reveries are diverse, at times conversational, always opium-soaked.
Blue Demon
Youssef Alaoui
THE BLUE DEMON: A novella in the tradition of Nineteenth Century literature. The crew of a Spanish merchant ship discovers they have a stranger among them: a Moor with an odd nickname and worse yet, debilitating agoraphobia. The ship is thrown far off course by a cyclone and stranded in a giant kelp field. Added to their misfortune, an invisible visitor snacks on the crew at night, using their half-rotted heads like puppets, beckoning to them from the water.The crew must make an effort to understand their odd crewmate before they can vanquish their assailant together. Classic horror in the style of Edgar Allan Poe and William Hope Hodgson.
Paper Press Special Editions
Armadillo Heart
(Limited run)
Armadillo Heart is based on a conversation between two writers. An armadillo is an armored creature. The weary and guarded heart is like an armadillo.
"My heart is an empty nest
My heart is a side show attraction
My heart is vacant lot
My heart is the California drought
My heart is the Bowery filling up with old bums
My heart is land-filled
My heart is a she-bear"
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I Will Always
(Free Download)
Naughton constantly questions herself and the universe in terms of highest and basest desires. What is exploitation or manipulation? Idolatry is perfected in social media of the 21rst Century. But, the plastic sheen is fake, isn't it? These aphorisms utilize disillusionment and pop culture to extract greater truths.
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Dig, If You Will
(Limited run)
"A short chapbook of a long love, when your sweetheart was never sweet but you keep unwrapping him like a hard candy from the bottom of your purse."
Heartbreaks, missteps, longing, a faraway beloved. These themes percolate through the walls of a prison cell and a bedroom in this rarity by Cassandra Dallett. Catch a poet at her most vulnerable. We've all been there. Decorated throughout with bold flowers, tears, and spilled ink.
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Big Bridge Editions
Lindsay's Book
(Out of print)
Lindsay's Book is Michael Rothenberg's poem about love and death. The book includes a sequence of 8 images by artist James Spitzer.
Invisible Idylls
(Out of print)
BIG BRIDGE PRESS PRESENTS A RARE WHALEN TEXT. FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOANNE KYGER: INVISIBLE IDYLLS by the Reverend Philip Whalen. Sam, Shorty, Peter, Gwendolyn, May Margaret and Chandler. They all live exquisitely sturdy and grandiosely intelligent lives.Sam, Shorty and Peter have terminally minimal money between them and reside within the vast holdings of The Laetitia Norton Feinschreiber Memorial Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, with its memorial museum and library, stables, squash courts, swimming pools, sculpture studio, and the music library housing the Ernestine Pratkredl Feinschreiber Memorial Baroque Organ which overlooks the lotus pond with its expensive imported ducks from Kashmir. Still, its inhabitants have barely enough money to take a bus downtown.
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