PUBLICATIONS
Colliding With Orion
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Colliding with Orion Writing from Life is not your typical sanitized writing text with dusty examples from the “masters.” This work is fierce—Wise tells it like it is, warts and all. Writing from Life means exactly that, real life, written by real people with real flaws and problems. So in the spirit of shared risk, he offers authentic writing examples with anecdotes which share their autobiographical connections in a section he calls THE WRITER. Wise then gives a close reading of the piece (or group of pieces) to teach techniques which are mechanically in action within the work in a section called THE CRAFT. Each discussion closes with THE INVITATION where he hopes to have triggered recollections of moments and situations from a reader’s own life, so that he/she may address the blank page because, as Wise says, from one writer to another, everyone lives a life worth writing about.Colliding with Orion addresses various ways to enter poetry (both form and free verse) as well as short stories with frequent notes in sections called CONSIDER THIS which offer tips on such topics as performance, revision, characterization, and much more!
"Through the detailed explications of his own poems and stories based upon events from his own life, he immerses his reader deep into the intricate "mechanisms" of poems and stories, explaining the complex elements and terms of artistic craft so clearly in his examples that they hardly seem "complex" at all." - Larry D. Thomas, Member, Texas Institute of Letters, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate |
Colliding with Orion Audio CD
This CD is 24 tracks of Chris Wise reading selections for Colliding with Orion Writing From Life.
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Sable Books proudly announces the release of Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women, an anthology of work featuring poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, Tony Hoagland, Thylias Moss, Fady Joudah, Jaki Shelton Green, Hélène Cardona, Zeina Hashem Beck, Chris Wise and the work of 100+ poets in response to globally oppressive physical, psychological, emotional, and systemic violence against women. Red Sky is a collection of work by established and widely published poets as well as new and emergent voices around the world.
Confetti of Decay
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A contemporary crown of sonnets. A crown is a sequence of sonnets addressing a single theme. Each sonnet explores a different aspect of the theme and must follow a specific format.
Confetti of Decay takes on the theme of society's diversions and decay. The current edition is printed as pictured, on white card stock, saddle stapled. |
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Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man
A biopic crown of sonnets written in the first-person point-of-view of Joseph Merrick. Included is a black and white picture gallery of Joseph Merrick and some of the people he came in contact with.
The current edition is printed on tan card stock, saddle stapled.
The current edition is printed on tan card stock, saddle stapled.
$12 PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING
Real Time
This chapbook's speaker is living somewhere between 7 years of bad luck, bad choices, and bad behavior. This gritty free-verse work is unapologetic in its explorations of poverty, depression and the body as commodity.
The current edition is printed on lime-green card stock, saddle stapled.
The current edition is printed on lime-green card stock, saddle stapled.
$12 PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING
Fuck Poems Anthology
Includes Chris' "Bruised", "Where Sun Don't Shine", and "Buffet Etiquette"
Fuck Poems informs the carnal and vulgate with the poetic and creative agency they were born from, insisting that the art is as vital as procreation.
In the tradition of Sappho and Catallus, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, yet relentlessly contemporary, this collection will titillate and infuriate, arouse and denounce, appropriating the inappropriate until the normal dissipates. Instead of being limited to representations of previously published work, this anthology presents original work and ends with an epic collaborative fuck poem (orgy poem?)—insisting that the emphasis remain on the creative act and not the individual contributor.
Fuck Poems, through the lens of its titular topic, addresses, subtly or overtly, the overarching issues of our day: technology and capitalism, academia and writing, the body and the text. This exceptional poetry anthology boasts 50+ contributors, living legends among them, hailing from all over the globe. Lavender Ink dares commit this anthology to paper and e-devices, but do you dare own it?
Fuck Poems informs the carnal and vulgate with the poetic and creative agency they were born from, insisting that the art is as vital as procreation.
In the tradition of Sappho and Catallus, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, yet relentlessly contemporary, this collection will titillate and infuriate, arouse and denounce, appropriating the inappropriate until the normal dissipates. Instead of being limited to representations of previously published work, this anthology presents original work and ends with an epic collaborative fuck poem (orgy poem?)—insisting that the emphasis remain on the creative act and not the individual contributor.
Fuck Poems, through the lens of its titular topic, addresses, subtly or overtly, the overarching issues of our day: technology and capitalism, academia and writing, the body and the text. This exceptional poetry anthology boasts 50+ contributors, living legends among them, hailing from all over the globe. Lavender Ink dares commit this anthology to paper and e-devices, but do you dare own it?
Civilized Beasts
Animals Beautiful, Brutal Poetry in Motion So many are endangered Yet the Wildlife Conservation Society Fights on their behalf This poetry menagerie joins the cause Civilized Beasts is a poetry for charity anthology. Poets and artists from all over the world have come together to donate their time and their work to help save our wildlife. If you purchase this book, all of the profit earned will be donated to The Wildlife Conservation Society to aid them in their cause. Weasel Press invites all our readers to join us in our celebration of poetry and to help us in our global commitment. http://www.wcs.org/ Poets include: Larry D. Thomas B. H. Tang Kevin Gillam Chris Wise BanWynn Oakshadow Arian Mabe Marge Simon Jason Huitt (Lunostophiles) Eduard Dragomir Szabo Sandi Stromberg Renee Carter Hall Edwin 'Utunu' Herrell George Squares Ceò Amy Fontaine Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden Winston Derden Carolyn A. Dahl Kenket Dwale Joyce Parkes Stefano "Mando" Zocchi Dominique Goodall Televassi David Andrew Cowan Altivo Overo Kits Koriohn Denise Clemons Jack Warren Lynn White Bruce Boston Laura "Munchkin" Govednik Weasel