“Book of Books” by Tara Tavi is a vibrant collection of altered books turned into small worlds that lead the viewer past paintings and into shadowboxes. These are stories nested within stories. The trapdoors are the books themselves, the stories they tell, the images they show and the physicality of a rectangular prism of printed …
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The fifty-two new poems in The Enormous Room by painter and poet Richard Brown Lethem were written during the last two years as the author re-settled in Northern Maine after his Covid hiatus in Southern California.This collection documents that transition, in particular, the radical quality of color in nature as an emotionally charged element as well as …
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At the begin of the year Bamboo Dart Press released Peter Wortsman’s The Laboratory of Time book of cut up poetry which has garnered praise from more corners than there are around the entirety of yer town. Now, that book has come to life as a 31 minute piece of music employing the poems from …
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Stephanie Barbé Hammer is an award-winning novelist, short fiction writer, and poet. Her most recent novel is the Foreword Indie recognized magical realist mystery Journey to Merveilleux City (Picture Show Press). Her other titles for Bamboo Dart Press are City Slicker: encounters with the outside and Rescue Plan. A former New Yorker, Stephanie moved to California in 1986 and has …
An unnamed narrator attends an elite but perennially freezing private girls’ school in New York City during the 1960’s. At first almost invisible, she evolves from seven-year-old witness to fifteen-year-old actor as she navigates a Halloween party, observes a classmate’s sudden hair growth, and encounters two eccentric teachers. Zombies, fetal pigs, Shakespeare, and cigarettes make …
Lavina Blossom’s first book for Bamboo Dart Press is a dream. A collection of 32 poems that owes its vocabulary to a separate book of poems taken from the writer’s bookshelf–usually the first and last lines in that collection. The author set herself the challenge of creating a coherent poem from each word set without borrowing …
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In What We Leave Behind, Peter Wortsman’s fourth book of cut-ups, he lets the words run wild, in some cases, as in French poet Guillaume Apollinaire’s Calligrames (1918), letting words break ranks and dance on the page; in other cases, coupling word and image; and finally, succumbing to the lure of the visual in collages …
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What began as countless daily texts from Brutus to make Stevo laugh at work soon evolved into their final collaborative venture. The pair’s original scheme, Stevo working at a fortune cookie factory swapping standard fortunes for Brutus’ quotes, failed when he was fired for refusing to wear a hair net. They quickly moved on to …
Some artists don’t or can’t tour. They don’t meet and greet. They are not on Ex or Insta or some sort of Abra app dopamine delivery. They work a few jobs maybe, or raise kids, and tend to that art thing in the late eves, between things. So the artist is not here, near or …
Patrick John Brayer was raised on an egg ranch in the steelmill town of Fontana, California. Think Hell’s Angels, think Sammy Hagar, think Shelton Brooks. Developing a unique style of writing early on as an answer to his inability to speak, he went on to receive an education in music from an array of dirt parking …
