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t. kilgore splake | the poet tree

Monsieur K. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:52:24 +0000

Here another of our longtime favourites and companions; t. kilgore splake, the bardsmith of the Upper Peninsula. In twenty years splake has become a legend in small press circles for his writing and photography. His artist supporters believe that splake possesses an original creative vision as well as exhaustive working habits. He is a celebrated photographer, editor, Pushcart Price nominee poet and a vigorous mountain & cliff climber.

Here at Kamini Press we are very proud to present the sixth chapbook in our poetry series

The Poet Tree

by

t. kilgore splake

34 pages of poetry. Cover art by Henry Denander. All 150 books signed by the author in Calumet, Michigan. Twenty-five of the books come with a signed water color by Henry Denander. Mini-chapbook format, in wraps.

Signed edition $9 incl. shipping all over the world

Limited edition with signed artwork $18 incl. shipping all over the world

Sweden, please pay SEK 60 per book to Bankgiro 5889-0781, price including postage. 125 SEK for the limited version. Email to reserve. Books are also to be found at Bokmagasinet, Stockholm.

The spirit of the Beats lives on the far reaches of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the person of t. kilgore splake. He is a seeker after Truth with his spare, jazzy, plain spoken style, in a materialistic age where abstraction and buzz words have replaced a poetry of, and, for the people. Read splake and remember what real poetry is supposed to be all about. -Alan Catlin

t. kilgore splake was born as Thomas Hugh Smith in 1936, in Three Rivers, Michigan. While teaching at Kellog Community College in Battle Creek, splake began writing poems. In 1989, he chose to take an early retirement as a college professor, to live in creative poverty and find his poetic voice. Upon retirement, he moved to Michigan’s upper peninsula, living for ten years in Munising, before moving to Calumet in the Keweenaw peninsula.

in twenty years splake has become a legend in small press circles for his writing and photography. His artist supporters believe that splake possesses an original creative vision as well as exhaustive working habits.

Tom Kryss | Sketch Book

Monsieur K. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:54:33 +0000

Here at Kamini Press we are proud to present another of our favorite poets and his new book:

Tom Kryss

Sketch Book

It was the fine poet and writer John Bennett who many years ago, on his Vagabond website, introduced us to Tom Kryss. Since then he’s been a favorite artist, illustrator and poet. Please study Kryss’s long list of books, chaps, broadsides and art, look at the bottom of this page. There is something about Tom Kryss’s tone and voice that makes him very special. Have you seen his art? Have you seen his The Book of Rabbits – one of the most beautiful children’s books you’ve ever seen?

Tom Kryss is a true outsider and he was part of the Cleveland poetry scene in the Sixties around d.a. levy; the Cleveland scene back then had more outsiders per square meter than any other poetry scene in America.

Let me quote John Bennett from Vagabond: “You want your young genius poet of the 20th Century? Scrap Rimbaud. I give you Tom Kryss. What Tom Kryss does, more than any poet I know, is strip away excess and cut to the bone. He staked out a modest turf and then hunkered down and stayed there. He has not squandered time and blurred his focus chasing down publishers and polishing his image. So that what he writes is unencumbered and fraught with the particular, which is the unique, which is the only way to get a handle on the universal. What he writes always gives you something and never takes anything away. “

Sketch Book is his new book from Kamini Press, number 5 in our Poetry Series. 40 pages of prose poems. Cover art by Tom Kryss. All 150 books signed by the author in Ravenna (this American town with the beautiful Italian name). Twenty-five of the books come with a hand-tinted and signed print by Tom Kryss. Author portrait painting by Henry Denander.

Signed book including postage all over the world.

Signed book with artwork including postage all over the world.

Please

use the PayPal button above or send cash in a brown envelope to Kamini Press, Ringvägen 8, 4th floor, SE-117 26 Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden pay SEK 63,-/125,- (including postage) to Bankgiro 5889-0781, or get the book from Bokmagasinet, in Stockholm.

Tom Kryss | Painting by Henry Denander

Tom Kryss Books and Broadsides

Cleveland Poems, Chicago Poems & Other Shit – Free Love Press – Cleveland 1967
Look at the Moon Then Wipe the Light from Your Eyes and Tell Me What you See – Runcible Spoon – Sacramento 1968
Nuclear Roses and Quiet Rooms – Open Skull Press – San Francisco 1969
Dialogue in Pale Blue (with r.j.s.) – Broken Mimeo Press – Cleveland 1969
The Book of Rabbits (Krulik Ksiega) – Ayizan Press – Cleveland 1969
Sherwood Anderson’s Blue’s – Gunrunner Press – Milwaukee 1970
Sleep Like Yellow Thunder – Second Aeon Publications – Cardiff, Wales 1970
Dog’s Body – No Deposit No Return – Victoria, B.C. 1970
New Majiks (Selected Poems & Rabbits) – Radical America – Cambridge, MA 1970
Sunflower River – Dead Angel Press – Portland, OR 1972
I Am the One Who Walks the Road (with Douglas Blazek and Don Cauble) – Dead Angel Press – Portland, OR 1972
Music in the Winepress, Parrots in the Flames – Vagabond Press – Ellensburg, WA 1976
Falling through the Cracks – Fuck If I Know Press – San Francisco 1984
Coltrane Spins a Note – Black Rabbit Press – Cleveland 1990
Dusty Dog #6 – (John Pierce, Publisher) – Zuni, NM 1992
Strange Attractors – Zerx Press – Albuquerque, NM 1993
Current Outsider (Tribute Sampler) – Vagabond Press Home Page – Ellensburg, WA 2000
Just Blue Skies: Poems for & after d.a. levy (An Electronic Chapbook) – d.a. levy Home Page; cooperative presentation of Ghost Pony, Kaldron On-line, Light and Dust Mobile Anthology of Poetry 2001
Downwind from the Fires of Nothingness – Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA 2001
7 Poems & a Eulogy (with Steve Ferguson) – Ferguson Press – Cleveland 2003
Sunflower Wars – Bottle of Smoke Press – Leesburg, VA 2003
Death March (Poems for All #296) – 24th Street Irregular Press – Sacramento 2003
Sunflower River for Jim Lowell (Bottle #2) – Bottle of Smoke Press – Bear, DE 2004
Wiring Tutorial for Unshielded Twisted Pair (with Matthew Wascovich) – Slow Toe Publications, Cleveland 2004
Entrance Level Opportunities - (Six Pack #4) – Bottle of Smoke Press – Bear, DE 2004
Horse – Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA 2004
Two for the Asphodel – Costmary Press – Kent, OH – November 2004
Here’s Wishing You Good Work in 2005 (assorted rabbits) – Jeff Maser, Bookseller – Berkeley 2004
The Music Box Store (printed by Jason Davis of Verdant Press for Jeff Maser, Bookseller – Berkely 2005
Brotherhood – Bottle of Smoke Press – Dover, DE 2005
Real Time – Costmary Press – Kent, OH – June 2005
Sunlight – Bottle of Smoke Press – Dover, DE – October 2005
Spring into Winter – Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA 2005
Encyclical (Bottle #4) – Bottle of Smoke Press – Dover, DE 2006
Real (Poems for All #617) – 24TH Street Irregular Press – Sacramento – May 2006
The Search for the Reason Why – Bottom Dog Press – Huron, OH 2006
In a Time without Sunflowers – Bottle of Smoke Press – Dover, DE 2006
Unchained Melody – Letters Bookshop – Toronto 2006
Rabbit (illustrated coaster) – Bottle of Smoke Press – Dover, DE 2006
Further Downwind from the Fires of Nothingness (Measured Steps #5 with John Bennet and d.a. levy) – Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA 2006
At the Beginning & the End (Measured Steps #7 with Alan Horvath and d.a. levy ) – Kirpan Press – Vancover, WA 2006
Where the Rainbow Ends (Measured Steps #8 with Jake Marx and David Pishnery) – Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA 2006
The Certificate of Nemeth Racz (Bagozine #55) – Word e Print – Cleveland – January 20, 2007
Dusk (Populist Poems #12) – Bottom Dog Press – Huron, OH 2007
In Reserve – Costmary Press – Kent, OH – February 2007
Be the Poem (Bagozine #56) – Word e Print – Cleveland – February 17, 2007
The Last Leaf (Bottle #5) – Bottle of Smoke Press – Dover, DE 2007
Morel, the Clown (Bagozine #60) – Word e Print – Cleveland – August 18, 2007
Was Lauft Er? (GPP Anthology) – Green Panda Press – Cleveland – August 2007
The Case for Hope – Costmary Press – Kent, Ohio – January 2008
The Attempt Itself – Green Panda Press – Cleveland – May 2008
Stop, Look, What’s That Sound – Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA – June 2008
Tree Challenged - Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA – August 2008
Again – Costmary Press – Kent, Ohio – December 2008
They Know Me at the Library – Costmary Press – Kent, Ohio – January 2009
Tell What It Is To Be a Man – Costmary Press – Kent, Ohio – January 2009
Light Dark Light - Iniquity Press / Vendetta Books – Manasquan, New Jersey – February 2009
Two Poems and a Print – Costmary Press – Kent, Ohio – February 2009
Roses That Bloom - J.W. Curry – Ottawa, Canada – March 2009
At the Edge of the Forest – Yellow Pepper Press – Douglasville, GA – March 2009
Roses that Bloom – Kirpan Press – Vancouver, WA – April 2009
A Selection of Poems – This Passing World website – Portland, OR – June 2009
The Little White Elephants of Senegal – Grey Sparrow Press – Kent, Ohio – August 2009
Birds Don’t Talk - Costmary Press – Kent, Ohio – August 2009

Kamini Press
poet Tom Kryss wrote this letter in 1967, in support of da levy and Jim Lowell; who were under indictment by local authorities in Cleveland for the selling and dissemination of alleged obscene poetry. A collection of testimonials in behalf of Lowell, gathering anti-censorship discourse from American authors such as Charles Olson, Hubert Selby Jr., Charles Bukowski, Denise Levertov, James Laughlin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others, was published, with proceeds ploughed into Lowell’s defense fund.

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Ronald Baatz | Bird Effort

Monsieur K. — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:42:57 +0000

BIRD EFFORT

by Ronald Baatz

32 pages of poems. First edition of 225 copies out of which 125 are signed by the poet. Twenty-five special copies contain an original signed water color & ink painting by Henry Denander. Mini-chapbook format, in wraps. Cover artwork by Henry Denander.

incl. shipment cost world-wide

incl. shipment cost world-wide for the limited edition with signed artwork.

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I think Ronald Baatz is one of America’s finest poets. I know that many will agree with me when I say so. You probably know Baatz already but if you don’t you should read this book as an introduction, since it is as good as his other books, and they set a very high standard. A book consisting of fifty beautiful, short poems with birds as the central theme.

I don’t know how many times I have read these wonderful poems during the process of putting this book together but still I like to have the book close by or in my pocket when travelling. I love these minimalist poems.

I think this chapbook will one day come to be regarded as somewhat of a classic – a chapbook that people later will try to locate, only to find that a mere 225 copies were made and all are gone.

Ronald Baatz is not so keen on writing about himself or on metrying to present him. He wrote once: “the only bio i ever give is that i’ve been living in the same farmhouse close to twenty years.” Here at Kamini Press we are very proud to present the fourth chapbook in our poetry series. Henry Denander

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use the PayPal button above or send cash in a brown envelope to Kamini Press, Ringvägen 8, 4th floor, SE-117 26 Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden pay SEK 50:- (including postage) to Bankgiro 5889-0781, or get the book from Bokmagasinet, in Stockholm.

Glenn W. Cooper | Some Natural Things

Monsieur K. — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:42:16 +0000

SOME NATURAL THINGS

poems by Glenn W. Cooper

32 pages of poetry, mini-chapbook format, in wraps. Cover artwork by Henry Denander. First edition of 100 copies, all signed by the poet. This is the first title from Kamini Press and the first book in the Kamini Press Poetry Series.Please click the cover to enlarge.

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Glenn Cooper lives in Tamworth, Australia and for many years he’s been widely published in the small press and beyond. This is Glenn Cooper’s sixth book of poetry.

GERALD LOCKLIN says: I have thought very highly of Glenn Cooper’s work for many years, he’s a throwback to the glory days of the Wormwood Review. A first-rate poet in the debut of a very attractive new series.

ANN MENEBROKER says: Glenn Cooper’s poems are a walking companion in the rain. Something to think about under an umbrella. The poems are reflective of our losses, but also include the humor that grows like a palm tree in the snow. Glenn is ever the student, contemplating the forces of life which we have no control over. He says it best himself, the poignant need to write about “the small pleasures, just to make life beautiful.” And he does.

DAVID BARKER says: I highly recommend Glenn Cooper’s SOME NATURAL THINGS. A light touch, deep resonance. He writes about rain better than anyone I’ve ever read. As if rain was his dead sister. A beautifully designed little book that reads like a big book.

ADRIAN MANNING says: Congratulations on the first Kamini Press publication. The chapbook itself is beautiful – a top class publication, and the poetry from Glenn Cooper is fantastic. I recommend it to anyone.

JEFFREY WEINBERG says: A fantastic book…Fine poetry..Gorgeous design and print job.

T.K.SPLAKE says: …the cooper poem “gravy” is one of the best writings I can remember in the past long while…

STEVENALLENMAY of Plan B Press writes on his blog: The beauty of this blog is when I happen across the “globalization” effect of small presses, take for example the new small press out of Sweden Kamini Press. Poet/artist and now publisher Henry Denander has created a new line of finely made chapbooks. One of the first is by Australian poet Glenn Cooper. His poetry is well written. The chapbook is very handsome indeed. Cover art by publisher, overall completely worth checking out.

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN at The Guild of Outsider Writers: Sparse, rainy day influenced poems. In ‘The Sandy Bottom Exposed,’ Cooper makes the correlation between the health of a local river and the health of the community: “the old timers say the river has never looked so bad/so sick/and the crime rate is up around here too/ so maybe there’s some truth to what Jung says.”

These poems are more philosophical than whimsical and not asking to be taken lightly, as many nature poems I have read prior to this I am more likely to skip over for stating the obvious; but not these, he writes about the real natural world, ecology, and the affect on his psyche and his relationships. He reflects on the fragility and also the overwhelming power of nature, sometimes told through the experience of watching a small child, as in ‘Four Year Old Collecting Eggs.’

These are beautiful poems that never get bogged down by over-sentimentality, many poems dealing with the topics of love, nature, fragility and getting older. Highly recommended.

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Samuel Charters | The Poet Sees His Family Sleeping

Monsieur K. — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:41:45 +0000

THE POET SEES HIS FAMILY SLEEPING

poems by Samuel Charters

34 pages of unpublished poems. First edition, 200 copies, all signed by the poet. Mini-chapbook format, in wraps. Cover artwork and author portrait by Henry Denander.

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Samuel Charters began his life with small presses in the 1950s in New Orleans when he shared a rundown French Quarter building with Gypsy Lou and Jon Webb and made his first magazine appearance in an issue of their ground-breaking magazine The Outsider. Beginning in the mid-1960s his poetry chapbooks, broadsides, and literary essays were published by Berkeley’s Oyez Press, many designed and printed by the legendary Graham MacIntosh. With their own Portents press, he and his wife Ann published small pieces by, among many others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. With Ginsberg they created the book Scenes Along The Road, the first look at the story of the Beat Generation.

In the other world of publishing he has written innumerable books on jazz and the blues, as well as novels, biographies, translations, and travel memoirs, and worked with Ann on the first biography of Jack Kerouac. He is also responsible for the poetry section of their college introduction-to-literature textbook Literature And Its Writers, now in its 4th edition. Their current project is the authorized biography of Beat novelist John Clellon Holmes. His own most recent book is the first history of New Orleans jazz, A Trumpet Around The Corner.

A sample poem from The Poet Sees His Family Sleeping:

Conundrum

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There is no hell,
but I stumble there – often.
No heaven,
but I journey there – sometimes.

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Gerald Locklin | The Plot of Il Trovatore

Monsieur K. — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:41:06 +0000

THE PLOT OF IL TROVATORE

and other poems

by Gerald Locklin

32 pages of poems. First edition of 300 copies out of which 125 are signed by the poet. Twenty-five special copies contain an original signed water color & ink painting by Henry Denander. (First come first served…) Mini-chapbook format, in wraps. Cover artwork and author portrait by Henry Denander.

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The Limited Edition is SOLD OUT

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Gerald Locklin is the author of over 125 books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction and criticism with over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews and interviews published in periodicals.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI wrote about Locklin: “I have never been let down. I have been picked up, lifted up, tossed into that rare area: excellent writing with verve, writing that laughs, writing that reads easy yet says something. That’s a good package.”

MARVIN MALONE wrote: “His poems are about real people and places that illustrate with common language the classic themes of love, envy, honesty, integrity etc. He is pro-people.”

EDVARD FIELD: “The male spirit in him remains honest, bighearted, sentimental, generous, gentle, vulnerable, but sassy in the face of adversity – qualities that could be applied to as few American poets as to presidents. I think of him as a wonderful, protective big brother every sensitive little boy needs.”