Robert P. Baird

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
Michael Hansen

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.
Robert P. Baird
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.
Robert P. Baird
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.