I’m thrilled to announce that depress, the print deploy­ment of dig­i­tal emu­nc­tion, is launch­ing today with the pub­li­ca­tion of Joshua Baldwin’s Poems and Fake Book Reviews. Josh’s fake book reviews have long been one of my favorite fea­tures of this site, and I couldn’t be hap­pier that a book full of them con­sti­tutes the first emis­sion of what promises to be a wildly spo­radic pub­lish­ing enterprise.

Poems and Fake Book Reviews includes fif­teen fake book reviews (includ­ing six not avail­able online), “Red Hook Frag­ments,” “Los Ange­les Series,” and “Four Archi­tec­ture Poems.” The forty-​page, limited-​edition chap­book fea­tures a let­ter­press cover, teal end­pa­pers, and strik­ing illus­tra­tions by the author. All that, plus ship­ping and han­dling, for just ten dol­lars. Buy one now!

For more infor­ma­tion, check the new depress web page:

http://www.digitalemunction.com/press

A Ques­tion Mark Above the Sun: Doc­u­ments on the Mys­tery Sur­round­ing a Famous Poem “by” Frank O’Hara 

Sports­man and DE alum­nus Kent Johnson’s provoca­tive spec­u­la­tions about the prove­nance of “A True Account of Talk­ing to the Sun at Fire Island” are joined in a new volume with his “critical novella” on con­tem­po­rary British poets, Cor­roded by Sym­bol­ysme, which orig­i­nally appeared in Chicago Review. I would pay the $20 that Punch Press is charg­ing for one of its 100 lim­ited edi­tion copies just for a print of the cover alone, which I hereby nom­i­nate pret­ti­est of the year. When you throw in the charm of Pro­fes­sor John­son, you have quite a deal. Sub­scribe here.

Work this week means my blog­ging will be nearly non-​existent, but Chris­t­ian Loren­zen talks to Lorin Stein, Daniel Nester, and me about the Paris Review recalls in today’s Observer.

Unexpected news for poetry fans, from the Wash­ing­ton Post’s big spy story:

Soon, on the grounds of the former St. Eliz­a­beths mental hos­pi­tal in Ana­cos­tia, a $3.4 bil­lion show­case of secu­rity will rise from the crum­bling brick wards. The new head­quar­ters will be the largest gov­ern­ment com­plex built since the Pen­ta­gon, a major land­mark in the alter­na­tive geog­ra­phy of Top Secret Amer­ica and four times as big as Lib­erty Crossing.