Lithic Press is an independent publisher of poetry.
Forthcoming
Transitions by Basil king
Transitions is a book of poetic recollections and homages to the painters and poets, to the writers and makers he knew and studied while at Black Mountain College.
Desert Kin by Wendy Videlock
Feathered, scaly, bristled, dusty and soft, Wendy Videlock becomes the place she writes about. She is also the cat inside the fox, the lightness of the moth, the heart of the horse. Come fly and trot and sniff and dig around with her in “Desert Kin.”— no time with these beautiful words will be wasted. –Craig Childs, author of The Wild Dark
New Titles
Attending Void by Jason Morris
The poems in Attending Void incorporate scientific understandings of the world and yet, want more. Morris lets his inclination for the abstract enter the conversation in a conscious search for something deeper, lighter, higher; these poems go where any insight may be found.
Of Flesh and Frequency by Ava Koohbor
Sound, when composed as texture,
becomes a felt presence, a living
phenomenon with its own modes
of change: birth, life, and death.
Reading Writing Reading by Patrick James Dunagan
“Being a poet” for me always comes back to reading and writing—how those two basic activities interrelate and eventually define the activity of poetry. I’m never asserting too much of my own “perspective” in what I write; rather, I’m usually riffing off something I’ve read or heard, either in the air or in my head. Faulkner’s explanation of it, “I listen to the voices,” has served as a continuous touchstone for many years; it was an early doorway into writing poems. I believe we read in order to learn how to write.
Rock Notes by Clark Coolidge & Tom Clark
“ROCK NOTES, a mythic early 1970s collaboration by two of the late 20th century’s most provocative poets, has finally come to light. Akin to a “lost” recording by the Velvet Underground the writing of these enlightened bards, like so much of that fine, fine music they would herald, sings and resounds, clangs and crashes, bangs and beatificates. Clark and Tom loved rock ‘n’ roll knowing it would never die. Thanks to this ear-splitting publication, neither will they.” –Thurston Moore
Tambourine by Jessica Loos
Tambourine is the new collection of poetry by San Francisco poet Jessica Loos. Loos is best known for her improvisational performances with music, including collaborations with Marco Eneidi, Cecil Taylor, Drop D, Mario Sacasa, and many others. She plays the tambourine and also makes collages. Loos grew up in New Jersey, went to University of Maine, Orono, and had a wild run in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she became a member of The Living Theatre and a contributing writer for High Times magazine. She has an MA/MFA from New College of California. She also taught there, as well as at Academy of Art University. She lives in San Francisco where she organizes poetry and music events.
The House Begins An Alphabet by Marina Lazzara
Ultimately, this book is a deep privacy: the necessary self in need of a collective.