BeauportI Want to Make You Safe
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O BonO Bon
Brandon Shimoda
 
BeauportHow Phenomena Appear
to Unfold

Leslie Scalapino
 
BeauportBeauport
Kate Colby
 
Time of SkyTime of Sky &
Castles in the Air

Ayane Kawata
Trans. by Sawako Nakayasu
 
bharatjivaPortrait of
Colon Dash Parenthesis

Jeffrey Jullich
 
bharatjivaBharat jiva
kari edwards
 
No GenderNO GENDER
edited by Julian T. Brolaski,
erica kaufman,
and E. Tracy Grinnell
 
HyperglossiaHyperglossia
Stacy Szymaszek
 
From Dame QuicklyFrom Dame Quickly
Jennifer Scappettone
 
Face Before AgainstFace Before Against
Isabelle Garron
Trans. by Sarah Riggs
 
Animate Inanimate AimsAnimate, Inanimate Aims
Brenda Iijima
 
fruitlandsFruitlands
Kate Colby
 
four from japanFour from Japan
Kiriu Minashita,
Kyong-Mi Park,
Ryoko Sekiguchi,
Takako Arai
Trans. by Sawako Nakayasu
 
counter daemonsCounter Daemons
Roberto Harrison
 
emptied of all shipsEmptied of All Ships
Stacy Szymaszek
 
inner china Inner China
Eva Sjödin
Trans. by Jennifer Hayashida
 
mudraThe Mudra
Kerri Sonnenberg
 
another kind of tendernessAnother Kind of Tenderness
Xue Di
Trans. by Keith Waldrop,
Forrest Gander, Stephen Thomas,
Theodore Deppe and
Sue Ellen Thompson
 
euclid shuddersEuclid Shudders
Mark Tardi
 
notebooksNotebooks 1956-1978
Danielle Collobert
Trans. by Norma Cole
 
house seen from nowhereThe House Seen from Nowhere
Keith Waldrop
Excerpt



bharatjivaBharat jiva

kari edwards

2009 • 132 pp. • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-0-9819310-0-5
Original cover art by Frances Blau

Lambda Literary Award finalist. March 16, 2010.
SPD Best-Seller. September - October 2009.
Transdada Blog.
Jacket2 review by Cara Benson. November 7, 2011.
New Pages review by Catherine Daly. May 1, 2010.
X Poetics blog by Robin Tremblay-McGraw.
Galatea Resurrection review by Tom Beckett. April 30, 2010.
Galatea Resurrection review by Eileen Tabois. April 30, 2010.
Mappemunde Blog report by Tim Peterson. October 14, 2009.
PhillySound review by CAConrad. November 27, 2009.

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Bharat jiva a penultimate comment on the banality and glimmering potential holdout of humanity. Philosophy of philosophy, planetary biological religious cosmic consideration afloat on the tension of gerunds manifesting without always an I, yet I speaks (“did I not say”). There is agency in the dynamic vibrational circumstances through an accumulation of modifying phrases that eventually land on a sentence’s subject, but not always and not definitively, and the subject transmogrifies through sediment layering accumulation.

—Cara Benson for Jacket2; November 7, 2011
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This writing is the New Brave. Few writers have so given in to the entropic forces that disentangle our bodies in the end, while at the same time furiously pooling social content into observable patterns. And there are thousands! Millions! Billions! In biological systems, DNA nucleotides are linked by enzymes in order to make long, chainlike polynucleotides of defined sequence. In writing, the sub-social is linked by signs that make ringlets of undefined sequence. Only we can make think to make thought from it. It cannot be conceived of in advance. It cannot be found on the web. No se vende ni se compra. edwards’s radical neo-communitarian impulse is something that’s blood-borne, but not bloody, something that’s keen & observant, but not oculocentric. Like Antonin Artaud, edwards sought to make Writing = Life.

—Rodrigo Toscano

 

Radical rishi poet-seer-sage kari edwards’s stunningly powerful and erudite essay-rant-manifesto-‘swarm of / messages’ calls a nation of docile bodies to account: ‘no more… protecting the audience from/exploding stigmatas, tracer bullets and the / shit of the dead.’ Deploying lyric thrust ‘to detonate the heart,’ blown bodies, categories and lines enact new ‘delicious fractal’ social contracts for reducing suffering in the body public/private and generating ‘growth in the sky of mind.’ Read this book and you’ll never go back.

—Rachel Zolf




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Bharat jiva is a Venn Diagram Production, which is the collaborative intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural, feminist, and queer work by writers and artists working beyond and between borders.

 



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