Brooklyn Arts Press

Brooklyn Arts Press, BAP, is a small literary press devoted to publishing art monographs and poetry books by emerging artists. Experimentation, innovation, and devotion to formal and historical aspects of art are all honored here, as these traits supply the means by which all works are created and diverge. We hope to serve the community by placing books of varying aesthetics side by side, and by subverting the current notion that artistic camps exist in vacuums, apart from the culture in which they reside and apart from other camps. Language and imagery will be used to whatever ends, by whatever means, by the voices that manipulate them, which are by nature numerous and diverse.

BAP was founded in 2005 as an organization designed to publish emerging poets and artists. Our staff is comprised of unpaid loyalists, whose editorial resolve, time, effort, and expertise allows BAP to publish 5-6 new books a year.

New Art Monograph

Anne Beck

state

state began with whimsical pictures & apocalyptic visions of a high-tech synthetic mechanized culture. It became loose social history & critique. The original manuscript is a handmade artist’s book made of casein, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink, graphite, collaged bits of etching & drypoint on watercolor paper, and bound in found printed suede. Anne Beck sees her work as a visual journal inspired by latent structures, indiscernible figures, forms that wax and wane, and images and thoughts that coalesce and dissipate. Underlying her work is a belief that the personal and universal are not quite mutually exclusive, a reality that is vital to our ability to communicate and connect.

New Poetry Book

Chris O. Cook

To Lose & to Pretend

“[Cook's book] is evidence of a fine mind at work, a collection of poems that never settles for the obvious. His work probes the apathy and alienation of his generation, wielding poetics like a cudgel to extract the essential from the incoherence of pop culture vapidity that we have accepted as our metaphor. Startlingly honest, unafraid of humor, these poems force you to sit down and take notice.”
— Cheeni Rao