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The New Orleans School for the Imagination is home to Trembling Pillow Press, an independent small press specializing in broadsides and books of poetry, fiction and art.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED...
Michael Ford's Olympia Street
“One scientific method of divination is a song whistling between the ears along a footpath, an ancient mixture of aperture and sound, the seeing ear, the hearing eye, along its walkabout, here comes Buddy Bolden & radio Pioneer Reginald Fessenden, the trumpet and its antenna of leaves, beginning at the end as all things do in NEW ORLEANS, a sonorous wave of busted hourglass, one cut nightmare, one cut dreamcast, these violets found on Olympia Street.” – Dave Brinks
MICHAEL FORD New Orleanian Michael Ford likes Absinthe, usually in his backyard, in Mid-City, and has published two previous collections of poetry, Swing One Hand (Ugly Duckling Presse 2003) and Carbon (Ugly Duckling Presse 2006). His works have appeared recently in various journals and magazines including YAWP: a Journal of Poetry & Art, 6 x 6. Olympia Street by Michael Ford [paperback, 86 pgs, $10.00] is available through Faulkner Books and also Arcadian Books in the French Quarter. Copies may also be obtained at Amazon Books online at the link provided below. 
I of the Storm, by Bill Lavender Trembling Pillow Press
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...abuzz with language or like a lake’s surface running at night with 6-inch waves.
It's as if a Greek chorus had found its way into the mouth an everyman in the local bar of the mind, recounting the inner life of America from the assassination of Kennedy to catastrophe of Katrina. I of the Storm is a talk poem of the long dark night of the soul. Lavender's unrelenting colloquial yarn weaves a spell in breathlessly extended lines of vivid verse that refuse to give up, against all odds.
Expansive, autobiographical, philosophical, farcical, musical, utterly engaging, Bill Lavender proves in this book his kinship (great-grand-nephew?) with France's immortal Jacques Prevert. Makes one laugh and cry and sometimes both at the same time. A one-man chorale of invincible life, rising out of floods and exiles and returns.
Bill Lavender is the director of the Low Residency Creative Writing program and coordinator of the Madrid Summer Seminars. His most recent books of poetry include I of the Storm (Trembling Pillow 2007), While Sleeping (Chax Press 2004), look the universe is dreaming (Potes and Poets 2002), and Guest Chain (Lavender Ink 1999). He is the editor of Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, an anthology from University of Alabama Press (2003). He lives in New Orleans with Dr. Nancy Dixon.
Lavender Ink Books can be ordered online at Lavender Ink or through Amazon
Selection of Titles:
Frank Sherlock & Brett Evans: Ready to Eat
Megan Burns: Memorial + Sight Lines
Coming Soon...
YAWP: A Journal of Poetry edited by Dave Brinks.
Le Mage, Issue Four/Avant Gardening, Issue Five (Double Issue)
Release Date, Sept 30, 2008
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