Thanks too to everyone who purchased a copy of Now and Laters. If you weren’t at the Party, but want a copy of Now and Laters for yourself, they’re available at lulu.com until the end of the month. CLICK HERE

At the end of the month I’ll de-list Now and Laters, to make way for another collection of new and selected poems, tentatively entitled AIN’T GOT ALL NIGHT. Watch this space for more details.

the Creek & the Choctaw did many things
but they never drilld a hole in the Mississippi Canyon.

the oil is already at Oranj Beach Alabama
& is working its way eastward to Appalachicola Bay
hwer 90% of Florida’s oysters liv
& then on to St. Mark’s Wildlife Refuge
hwer my father took us to look at the birds

St. Marks was talkt away from the Spanish
by Andrew Jackson hoo told the commandr
that they were on the same side
against the “Indians” & the “free Negroes”

i believe it was about 1830
that the Choctaws signed away their land
east of the Mississippi to the “United States”
either that or a bullet in the head

so mile by mile the united states
extended its sovrinty to the Gulf

That same postcard also announced that Robert and Darlene are posting poems online now at head-fife.blogspot.com. Do check it out, y’all. Thanks –

PS additional kudos to Deez Beez Letterpress of Hillsville, Virg., for a good-looking postcard.

But don’t let this be a total loss for you: order the copy of Now & Laters you were going to buy at the reading, and sit tight until we get a rescheduled date listed here at buckdowns.com

Two days later, Sunday August 1st, I’ll be Brooklyn to read in the EOAGH Reading Series. That happens at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. Here’s a link to info about Unnameable Books, and here’s one to Tim Peterson’s blog, which will tell you more about EOAGH.

I’ll have copies of Now and Laters at both readings, of course, but why wait? Click on the link and order a copy right now.

Now and Laters

This collection joins some of the newest in new (poems from Tachycardia) with classics from Pontiac Fever and a fresh 24, as well as some previously unpublished pre-Pontiac Fever poems. 56 pp., $12.00.

If you’ll be in Boston or Brooklyn at the end of July, copies of Now and Laters will be available at some buckdowns events. Otherwise, click on the image above to go directly to Lulu.com for ordering online.

Here’s one them, in its postcard incarnation:

Now they’re offering one of the greatest deals in poetry today: order A New Book from Rome before June 14th, and get 13 additional books from the Bootstrap backlist, plus a tasty CD of the rock and roll.

Here’s the letter with the details:

Dear Bootstrappers,

Here at bootstrap, we love the work of John Wieners.  So much so, that we (Jim, Ryan, and Derek) spent countless hours turning his journal into a physical object.  We would like nothing more than for you to read his words.

In fact, if you would like to read this book, here it is, for free–in its entirety:

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If you would like to own the physical object, a 168-page, Scarlett hardcover with gilded design, which also includes ephemera, you will find it available at:

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In fact, we want you to own this book so badly that we are going to make this offer:

If you order it before June 14th (Flag Day), we will send you the following books for free:

Parish Krewes, Micah Ballard 
Soft Launch, Jim Dunn 
Another Alley, Mike County 
The Complete Poems of Catullus, trans. Ryan Gallagher 
The Riot Act, Geoffrey Young 
Rancho Weirdo, Laura Chester 
My Favorite Color is Red: Experiments with Lines 1999-2005, Derek Fenner 
Two Elk: A High Country Notebook, Andrew Schelling 
Plum Smash and Other Flashbulbs, Ryan Gallagher 
Cosmos and Damian: A World Trade Center Collage, David Michalski
I No Longer Believe in Sun: Love Letters to Katie Couric, Derek Fenner 
The Way To Get Here, Gavin Pate 

plus Wiseblood, vol. 1–(bootstrap-friendly indie rock)

That’s 13 books and 1 CD for $50.00.

And you will be supporting a small press that wants to publish more work.
Rumor has it that there are less than 90 copies of A New Book from Rome left; they are destined to become collector’s items as soon as the edition sells out. The other books offered in this mega-package deal are equally eye-popping, visually and verbally.

Do yourself a big favor & get on the Bootstrap bandwagon.

190+ pages of past fragments of future poems, available now at lulu.com.

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