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BlazeVOX Books was founded shortly after BlazeVOX magazine in 2004, in order to offer collections to authors involved with the magazine. The press geared up substantially with a shift to print-on-demand publishing for most titles in 2003. In 2004 we published 18 new titles, and 24 in 2005 (including two magazine issues in book format, and one... more »
  • Buffalo, NY, BlazeVOX.org
  • member since August 1 2007

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  • Walking Dreams: Selected Early Tales
    • Rated 5 stars

    “"A man tries to piece together the events of the day he nearly died. Another believes that a friend has betrayed him, or is it that he has betrayed himself? A woman tries to escape the life she has known, but finds it following her. The eight stories of disorientation and metamorphosis in Mark Wallace’s Walking Dreams all concern characters who feel trapped and want to change who they are. The unconventional shape of these tales distorts time, place, and character to create an eerie and threatening atmosphere. The result is a series of surprises– some serious, some comic–in which the boundary between the real and the imagined breaks down. In the tradition of what British writer Robert Aickman called “the strange story,” Walking Dreams explores a world that is poetic, horrifying, and very much like our own.

    ""Mark Wallace writes like an avant-garde poet who knows how to tell a good story. Or like a fiction writer who knows how to fill his prose with cutting edge poetry. You finish Wallace’s fiction with much more than you began with, the sense that your reading intelligence has been scrambled into a new kind of clarity, a new kind of pleasure that can only be fully sorted out over time."" -- Stephen-Paul Martin"”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Nonexistence

    Nonexistence

    by Kenji Siratori
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Roofing and Siding

    Roofing and Siding

    by Douglas Manson
    • Rated 5 stars

    “"As his “mewling gato with a dewy nose,” Manson tips us to the vulnerable flesh of our worlds as much as to the conversational implicature of our words. In this “music of the fires and the chutes,” we hear Hart Crane throttled to the “bubble-fluff concentration” of a tone, whose source is unique, whose interior integrity broadcasts news to all. Listen when this “bird of rooftops” changes tune, and hear an urgent song, for ears, for heart, for shelter.

    Jonathan Skinner


    Out of a variety of sonic materials—echoes, “clackings,” puns, “lashings,” poundings, “drillings,” rhymes and cacophonies—Douglas Manson builds an unhinged house, the necessary product of a “post-Cold-War war” world. If, as Heidegger tells us, “Language is the house of Being” and “Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home,” then Manson is both builder and guardian. But he does not stay comfortably at home. Roofing and Siding hunkers down for the winter and it goes on pilgrimage. It sings and scoffs at the same time. Fascinating and frightening to inhabit: there is a jungle in this house.

    Sasha Steensen


    i’ve arrived at a blurb. i’m not exactly a hundred percent satisfied. it’s really short, and while it does justice to the scope of the project, the shifting identities, the wide soundscapes, it does not attest to the attention to detail, the microscoping. as in the first poem, “Chaff,” the view is wide from faraway, but up close it shrinks and shrinks. my blurb doesn’t address the shrink, the elusive interior:

    Sidereal high, a real wide worldview.

    Matthew Klane
    "”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Victory

    Victory

    by Clarice Waldman
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Lost Atlas of Desire: Mapping the Old World and the New, containing an historical Gazetteer and Pastiche, Eleven Illustrative Plates, and a Guide to Parts Unknown
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Reading Gaol

    Reading Gaol

    by Javier Rube
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Naming God

    Naming God

    by Jennifer J. Thompson
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Morphology

    Morphology

    by Ruth Lepson
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Ladders In July

    Ladders In July

    by William Allegrezza
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Holiday Idylling

    Holiday Idylling

    by Vernon Frazer
    • Rated 5 stars

    “In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after seven years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws.

    We have chosen Ezra Pound as our Editor-in-Chief and it is by his methods we strive to keep things new. It is our century and we look to this, as Creeley once noted, what else is one to do, make it old ? We are proud to present fine pieces of textual art in economically feasible formats.

    So we are here and after five years we have seen many journals come and go, blogs come up from groundbreaking listservs, good friends die and good friends experience births … war, injustice and seemingly limitless stupidity come into power and now simmering softly as Duck Soup. We have seen many things, good and bad, and I am sure things will get worse before they get better. Our poetic voices are irrelevant in today’s political arena. So with that, we shall practice our poetry in the time that we have. Even through the darkest of times, the best minds blaze forward!”

    BlazeVOX [books] wrote this review Saturday, August 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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