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NYQ Books
The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 2015
Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10113
E-mail: info <at> nyquarterly <dot> org
Web: www.nyqbooks.org
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions:
no
Reading period: none, no unsolicited manuscripts Payment:
royalties and copies Contests: no Year Founded: 2009
Distributors: Ingram, SPD Number of titles per year: 12 Number
of titles in print: 14
Publisher’s description: NYQ Books presents an eclectic assortment of full-length volumes of poetry by poets previously published in the pages of The New York Quarterly magazine. Our catalog also contains, or will soon contain, mixed genre and books on the craft of poetry. NYQ Books was established in 2009 as an imprint of The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc. Its mission is to augment The New York Quarterly magazine, founded in 1969 by William Packard, by providing an additional venue for those poets already published in the magazine. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
Recent titles:
Poems
by Grace Zabriskie
2010 :: $16.95
An impassioned potpourri of images and speech rhythms, of places and
figures, spiced by independent wit and indelible memories choreographing
choruses of contradictions. "The Castle Builds Itself," says one poem; in
that spirit Grace Zabriskie has built herself from her father's New Orleans
café to LA. This visual artist and poet of three decades so loves life that
she makes all kinds of games of its parts and pieces, projecting her womb as
a cupboard, a scene shop as the world, a house as a man's woman, and even
herself as the East Pacific Rise. Her social satire is quick and clever; her
dramatic irony is as bright as sunlight. She's too spritely a spirit and too
accomplished an artist to leave anything human out. —F. D. Reeve
Hints and Allegations
by Amanda J. Bradley
2009 :: $14.95
Amanda Bradley's Hints and Allegations is a tense, taut, and deeply
personal work that takes the reader on a Dantesque exploration of the heaven
and hell of daily experience, or, as the book partitions them, Disturbance
and Equilibrium. From the daily observations in the superficially prosaic
lives in 'Apartment Building 3:00 AM,' where 'the dishes were done by hand/
with detergent containing aloe' through the agony of 'now that I fear this
fight will never end, anesthetize me,' in her poem, 'Ambivalence,' Bradley
coolly dissects grief, anguish, and suffering, then doles out an
uncompromising medicine of emotional truth teaspoonful by luminous
teaspoonful. —Fred Yannantuono
Songs from an Earlier Century
by Ira Joe Fisher
2009 :: $14.95
Critics often talk about the voice of a poet. In Ira Joe Fisher's case, many
of us already know his literal voice, having begun our weekends with it as
we listened to The CBS Early Show. Now we have an opportunity to hear
Fisher's poetic voice. Not a man for all seasons—but a man of the seasons
and the memories they evoke. If "the lopped-off moon ... on the jagged rags
of clouds" or "The tasseled yellow at the top of laddered leaves" or " a
smokey-ghost wind works the surface (of Lake Sunapee) like a mason's
apprentice" are your kind of lines, then Ira Joe Fisher's Songs from an
Earlier Century is your kind of book. —Rodger Martin