Ken Sanders

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E-Catalogue #10

Utah Poetry & Presses

1) Kenneth W. Brewer.

Whale Song: A Poet's Journey into Cancer

Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2007. First

Edition. ISBN: 0942688961. 104pp. Octavo [21.5 cm.]

Maroon cloth backstrip and boards with silver lettering.

Fine. Hardcover. [12229] $30

This collection of poems was penned as the author was

battling cancer in his Cache Valley home. A poet of the first

order, and an incredible individual, Ken Brewer is greatly

missed by all those who were familiar with the man, and his

work.

Kenneth W. Brewer (1941-2006) was the Utah Poet

Laureate, and a retired professor of English. Mr. Brewer has

had several volumes of poetry published, as well as hundreds

of poems appearing in literary journals and reviews over the

last thirty plus years.

"I keep hearing that poetry is dead in this country, but I

refuse to believe that. When we must confront immediate

crises, we seldom write novels or short stories; we write

poems, or we sing, or we pray. Upon being told my life was

about to end, I wrote the first poem as if it were a boat of

words launched toward places I have never been."

2) Kenneth W. Brewer.

To Remember What is Lost

Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1982. 82/500.

55pp. Octavo. Blue cloth. Fine/Very good. Light bumping

to head of jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author on the

front free endsheet. Holograph letter from the author to

the inscribee (Keith Wilson) laid in. Short resume of the

author laid in. Ex-libris poet Keith Wilson. [7193] $50

3) Alex Caldiero.

AhBhGh

[Salt Lake City, UT]: Kinde Nebeker. 5/15. 21pp.

Duodecimo [16cm]. Green linen. Light soiling to front

board. Near fine. [47017] $200

Designed by Kinde Nebeker. Scarce Caldiero work. Caldiero

was born in Sicily, raised in Brooklyn, and attended Queens

College. Well known for his performance works that

integrate poetry with music, dance, and art--and for his

appearance in the independent motion picture Plan Ten

from Outer Space--Caldiero has performed at the New

School for Social Research, the Pritchard Art Gallery, the

Salt Lake Art Center, and on Brazilian TV. He has been

published both in Italy and the United States, reviewed in

Village Voice and the New York Times, is anthologized in

Text-Sound Texts, featured in Utah: State of the Arts, and

is included in the Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes. He is

currently a Poet/Artist in Residence at Utah Valley

University.

4) Alex Caldiero.

Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance: Six Days on the

Colorado River Thru Cataract Canyon

Salt Lake City, UT: Saltfront , 2016. First edition. 93 pp. [23

cm]; yellow and black illustrated wraps. New. Paperback.

[49312] $13.95

5) Gordon Ball.

Dark Music

Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2012. First edition. 81pp. [19cm]

New. Pictorial wraps. Paperback. [33178] $12

"Luminous, Delicate as the dust on the butterly's wings & graceful

as its flight, Gordon Ball so fluently unwinds the silken spools of

memory." - John Tytell

"All is not lost as long as such transmission of dharma graces us."

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

6) Rob Carney.

Weather Report

Shepherdstown, WV: Somondoco Press, 2006. Second

printing. 72pp. Square quarto [23 cm] White illustrated

wrappers. New. Paperback. [12440] $15

Carney is the winner of the 2004 Utah Book Award for Poetry

7) Shira Dentz.

black seeds on a white dish

Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010. First edition. ISBN: 9781848611283. 94pp.

Octavo [23cm] Paperback. NEW. [23938] $15

From the publisher: “The poems in black seeds on a white dish spring from

the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy

the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focus—by destabilizing

everything in its reach, loss disables rigidity… Shapes themselves, including

punctuation, become a language throughout.”

8) Kimberly Johnson.

Leviathan with a Hook

New York: Persea Books, 2002. First edition. SIGNED by

author on the title page. 69pp. [21.5cm] Royal blue paper

covered boards with gold stamped titles on the spine. Cream

colored dustjacket with intricate illustrations on the front.

New. Hardcover. [32241] $23

From the publisher:

“Kimberly Johnson's dazzling first collection is rooted in the

land and language she inherits, then claims for her own.

Informed throughout by Milton's Paradise Lost, Johnson's

poems burst with the flora and fauna of a magnificently

imagined landscape, and gain their power from the

incomparable language she uses to describe it. This language is

itself an organism in her writing, grown from its own seed, its

‘vowels blooming like necessary globes/with sharp,

consonantal edges.’ Her voice is wholly new and unique;

Leviathan with a Hook heralds the arrival of one of the new

standard-bearers of American verse.”

9) David Lee.

The Porcine Canticles

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1984. Later

printing. SIGNED: 108 pp. [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. New.

Paperback. [39702] $14

Signed by author on title page. This is the best-loved title from

Utah's first poet laureate, David Lee.

10) David Lee.

My Town

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995. Later printing.

137 pp. [23 cm]; illustrated wraps. New. Paperback. [39703] $15

“Lee’s splendid ear for idiomatic, vernacular speech imbues his

work with a kind of red-dirt, hog-wallow lyricism, with the direct

and uncompromising impact of common talk.”

–Bloomsbury Review

11) Stefene Russell.

The Possum Codex

Salt Lake City, Portland and Honolulu: Otis Nebula Press, 2015.

First edition. SIGNED. 96pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Pictorial wraps.

New. Paperback. [44660] $15

Signed by Stefene Russell on the half title page. From Otis Nebula

Press- "The Possum Codex is the second installment in a Dante-

inspired trilogy, following Russell's 2013 chapbook Inferna.

Structured in four parts, The Possum Codex is a sort of seasonal

long-poem as well as hallucinatory pilgrim’s progress undertaken

in the Rust Belt landscape of the Middle West, through haunted

blue-collar bars and magic circles drawn in overgrown city

backyards, with the speaker of the poem bereft of a guide, left only

to follow intuition and nature itself, including the sometimes

supernatural animal of the title.”

Stefene Russell is a St. Louis-based poet, actor, and arts journalist.

She is also a member of Poetry Scores, a collective dedicated to

translating poetry into other mediums, including visual art, film,

and music. Her books include the poem/essay/CD art book Go

South for Animal Index (Poetry Scores, 2007) and a chapbook,

Inferna (Intagliata Press, 2013).

12) Th0mas R. Peters Jr.

Certain Birds

Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2012. First edition. 76pp. [20.5cm]

Pictorial wraps. NEW. Paperback. [33177] $12.99

An edgy, sometimes humorous, and mostly profound collection of poems

by Post-Beat author Thomas R. Peters, Jr. Peters' other books include

Listen to My Machine, 100 missed train stations, Over the roofs of the

world, and The Book of Silence.

13) Joel Long.

Knowing Time By Light

Salt Lake City: Blaine Creek Press, 2010. First edition. 57 pp. [20.5 cm]

NEW. Paperback. [22869] $18

“Joel Long’s new poems are a waft of sea breeze over the high desert.

These poems are intelligent, nuanced, and readable, sparkling with crisp

imagery and wit. If it’s been awhile since you’ve enjoyed a book of poetry,

try this one for refreshment.”

-David Lee

14) Rasoul Shams (editor).

Sand & Sky: Poems from Utah

Salt Lake City, UT: Rumi Publications, 2017. First edition. ISBN:

9780985056827. 142pp. Octavo [23cm]; illustrated wraps. New.

Paperback. [51382] $12.95

From rear cover:

“This anthology of poems from Utah presents a sense of place, time, and

people as well as expressions of life and love in the American west.”

16) Kildem Soto; Colton Lamar Kindred; Phoenix; Rose; Chandler

Jordana; Israel Lawton; Preston Zubal; M.R. Divine; Lauren Breeze;

Aaron Wolcott; Elena Rogers; Hector Ahumada.

The Wanting to Drown Swim Team

Salt Lake City, UT: Trash House Publishing, 2018. 1/50. Octavo

[21.5cm]; Wrap colors vary between copies. Japanese stab binding.

Black and white illustrations on front wrap. Limited edition number

on back wrap. New. Paperback. [53577] $10

Printed in a limited run of 50 and distributed at the event featuring the

authors.

15) Nate Liederbach.

Negative Spaces: Stories

Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2013. First edition. 80 pp. [20 cm];

Illustrated wraps. NEW. Paperback. [37523] $9.95

Nate Liederbach is the author of the story collection Doing a Bit of

Bleeding, the forthcoming Tongues of Men and Angels: Nonfictions

Ataxia, and co-editor, with James Harris, of Of a Monstrous Child: An

Anthology of Creative Writing Relationships.

17) Swenson, Paul.

Iced at the Ward, Burned at the Stake

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2003. First edition. 82pp. Octavo [23 cm]

Black illustrated wraps. New. Paperback. [3077] $14.95

Paul Swenson is a well-known Utah journalist, film critic, and writer. He is

the former editor or associate editor of Utah Holiday magazine, the Salt Lake

Observer, and The Event; a former staff writer for the Deseret News. He

follows in the footsteps of sister May Swenson, who is among the most

anthologized American poets.

18) J. A. Christensen.

The Deep Song

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Poetry Society, Inc, 1969. First edition. 80pp.

Octavo [22.5 cm] Natural beige cloth over boards with black ink stamped titles on

the spine and front cover, and an Indian design stamped in black on the front

cover. Very good condition. In a good only dust jacket, with numerous small

losses from the edges. The front inside flap is detached, but present. Hardcover.

[41796] $15

J. A. Christensen is from Gunnison, Utah. This is the author's third book of poetry.

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