Info Ration by Stan Apps ISBN 0-9743554-6-7 63 pages | January 2007 $15.50

How do you want your info rationed? No need to worry, Stan Apps will take care of it for you. When, as he observes, “We all live in unsteady chew-toy hungry mouth of industrial care,” it’s best to leave the intelligence-leaking to an expert—i.e., a poet like himself, who “writes as a form of action, a strangely / Inactive form of action, like imagining jogging.” In Info Ration Apps cheerfully “takes out the hypnotized trash of life, as brunette world-ships splurge commodity,” reminding us that “Coffee is made out of human suffering” and that “there is such a thing as being trained without realizing it.” This little book is just what you need to bolster your self-mystifi cation savvy and stop worrying about that pesky case of false consciousness you can’t seem to shake. Apps speaks for all of us who are members of a big scary occult crypto-corporate shadow government when he declares, “we are the party who are describing your lost cause / we talk about the ugly things you want.” This kind of ugly doesn’t grow on trees, so get out your credit card and take this puppy home. —K. SILEM MOHAMMAD

Traffic by Kenneth Goldsmith ISBN 0-9743554-8-1 January 2007 $16.50

In both form and content, Kenneth Goldsmith's TRAFFIC recalls nothing so much as the extended tracking shot in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week-End, and the book's audacious sustain elicits the same series of responses: surprise, admiration, amusement, incredulity, horror, recognition, terror, boredom, impatience, awe.... —CRAIG DWORKIN

The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces by Raphael Rubinstein ISBN 0-9743554-9-8 January 2007 $12.00

Raphael Rubinstein's THE AFTERGLOW OF MINOR POP MASTERPIECES, a collection of constraint-based poems is the first in a series of ten perfect bound, chapbook length books from Make Now Press, printed in a limited edition of 330.

Strong Measures by Joseph Thomas ISBN 0-9743554-7-4 January 2007 $12.00

Joseph Thomas' STRONG MEASURES appropriates the formalist anthology of the same name, constructing poems under constraint, offering new forms in place of the dry and tired. It is the second of ten perfect bound, chapbook length books from Make Now Press, printed in an edition of 330.

Oulipo Compendium Edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie Revised & Updated ISBN 0-9743554-3-7 341 pages | November 2005 $36.00

Make Now Press of Los Angeles and Atlas Press of London released a revised and updated edition of the Oulipo Compendium in November 2005 in a limited edition print run of 1,000 copies to be released from Los Angeles and 1,000 copies to be released from London. The Oulipo Compendium is a dictionary of mathematical constraints used in the composition of literature. The Oulipo’s foremost concern has been to devise formal constraints and compose a few examples of each for the express purpose of pointing to the potential these formalisms create. Oulipian constraints have been responsible for some of the most original works of literature ever produced.

Writings for the OuLiPo By Ian Monk 0-9743554-4-5 66 pages | November 2005 $16.50

From the hilarious univocalisms of “Homage to Georges Perec” to the dizzying “information” provided in the literally falling “Twin Towers,” Ian Monk demonstrates that Oulipo is by no means only—or even primarily—a French import; on the contrary, its possibilities for Anglophone poets are enormous. Monk’s sheer inventiveness and intellectual agility, his verbal wit and prosodic skill will have you chuckling over his “Snowballs” and marveling at his anagrammatic threnodies. Writings for the Oulipo is a book to savor—good to the last drop!—MARJORIE PERLOFF

Ian Monk’s new collection of poetry and prose is a major breakthrough in English literature. Writings for the Oulipo is powerful, witty, original, and uniquely combines dazzling verbal skills with a robust and raunchy approach to contemporary life. I’ve never read and enjoyed anything like it, and neither have you.—HARRY MATHEWS

Séance Edited by Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener 0-9743554-5-3 217 pages | November 2005 $18.50

Séance is a volume of readings and papers on the subject of the condition of language and narrative in contemporary writing. Pairing poetic formalists and sex writers, language poets and ’pataphyscial researchers, the collection examines the translation of the ordinary into words, from the extraordinary writing of sex to the supposed disappearance of the author. Further sections are on the phenomenological training of the person, radical artifice, and the magic of letters freed from the grid of the page. Among the short stories, poems and essays are texts by Charles Bernstein, Dodie Bellamy, Christian Bök, Dennis Cooper, Robert Gluck, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Jackson, Ben Marcus, Eileen Myles, and Joan Retallack.

The Weather By Kenneth Goldsmith ISBN 0-9743554-2-9 120 pages | 2004 $14.00

Starting at the winter solstice, Kenneth Goldsmith by subtle framing has turned a literal transcript of a year’s worth of radio weather reports into a classical marrative of New York’s four Seasons. A kind of Vivaldi without the birdcalls—and more localized in space and time, as its narrator predicts and endures the frigid cold of the Winter of 2002–03 and the snow storms bearing down on the city from the Great Lakes or from Easther Canada or the Great Plains of the Middle West. Spring includes two weeks of weather from the battlefields of Iraq as the vernal equinox follows two days after the invasion. Summer comes with its relentless humidity and heat and sudden squalls. Fall appears with its hurricanes boiling up from the Carolina coast, succeeded by more tranquil World Series weather and concludes with a descent into the promise of a milder Winter. New York has survived once more.—DAVID ANTIN

Family Archaeology and Other Poems By Ian Monk ISBN 0-9743554-1-0 79 pages | 2004 $14.00

The Precipice and Other Catastrophes By Raymond Federman ISBN 0-9743554-0-2 83 pages $11.00

The Rest By Aram Saroyan $15.00