Catalog of Books

Matt Shears

10,000 Wallpapers - Alter(n)ations #30 - #40

Poetry Chapbook

“Shears creates poems of wonder and wandering, poems of longing and regret. [His] range of voice and unpredictable grace provide an exquisite backbone to the time/place/space that encompasses this vibrant collection.”
—Megan Johnson

“This is very unusual collection of poems, a formidable departure from the nation's workshops. The rhythms and cadences of these Alter(n)ations imitate and celebrate the life forms that inhabit our lives.”
—Alex Kuo

“The speaker in this poem sings like Prufrock, in a lyric that is searing and true, as he searches for the possibilities of pure utterance and perception amidst what is manufactured.”
—Cathy Park Hong

New Years' Special

2 Chapbooks Plus Any Other Book for $25

Choose any other BAP title to go with copies of Matt Shears' 10,000 Wallpapers and Joe Fletcher's Already It Is Dusk from the drop-down menu below, all for only $25!

2 Chapbooks plus any 1 Book

2 plus Carol Guess $25.00 USD 2 plus Christopher Hennessy $25.00 USD 2 plus Jonathan Allen $25.00 USD 2 plus Joe Pan Millar $25.00 USD 2 plus Anne Beck $25.00 USD 2 plus Chris O Cook $25.00 USD 2 plus Greg Slick $25.00 USD

Carol Guess

DARLING ENDANGERED

Lyrical Short Fiction

“It's commonly posed that history unwinds itself, that the events of a people or life reveal themselves to the eye, that the fibers of a story are made loose with investigation and discovery. The opposite, however, is true in Guess's Darling Endangered, in which as you read you are closed tighter, sewn closer, bound better to the life and lives of the narrator, the narrators, the speakers of these stories. The words and images of these pieces—the stairs and stages and studios, the kisses and misses—accumulate like coats, heavy and harrowing and grave, yet all the while precise, lovely, and true.”
—Joseph Young

Christopher Hennessy

Love-In-Idleness

Poetry

“Christopher Hennessy’s poems yearn for a sense of certainty, feel their way for a foothold that, ultimately, may not be there. From childhood poems of family and farm (as unsettling, in their vivid realism, as Roethke’s greenhouse poems) to persona poems of deep erotic longing, Hennessy maintains an artful and risky determination, in each poem, ‘to understand the need its song speaks.’”
—David Trinidad

Joe Fletcher

Already It Is Dusk

Poetry Chapbook

“Joe Fletcher’s world is so rich in language and dense in experience, I wonder where it all comes from. He seems to have lived a thousand lives, each deep in feeling and insight. These are authentic adventures no matter where they take place, and each one brings us closer to the truth. What joy they bring to the reader who loves words and is willing to let go for the ride.”
-James Tate

Jonathan Allen

Superstructure

Art Monograph

Jonathan Allen’s intricate mixed-media works repurpose images and materials from the internet, print media, and everyday life into surreal dreamscapes. These dreamscapes often mix collage, paint, and drawing techniques to evoke a sense of fragmentation, poetry, and complexity.

Allen holds a BA in Visual Arts/Art History from Columbia University. He has exhibited in New York at Caren Golden Fine Art, Oliver Kamm, Socrates Sculpture Park, PS122, Exit Art, Artists Space, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Rotunda Gallery, among others; and in Copenhagen at Wonderland Art Space. Allen’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, NY Arts Magazine, and Wonderland Magazine. He received a 2008-9 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and was awarded a 2009-10 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace residency.

Adam Courtney

Box Project: Series I

Art Monograph

Adam Courtney's work involves constructing environments; sometimes those environments become part of a photograph involving models, sometimes they remain the final product. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Joe Pan (Millar)

Autobiomythography & Gallery

Poetry

“Autobiomythography & Gallery is the best new book of poetry read by this reviewer this year. It is incredibly strong.”
—Matt Soucy, reviewing for Coldfront Magazine

Joe Pan (Millar) is a poet, novelist, and installation artist living in New York City. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published his work in such journals as Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Literal Latte and other journals. The manuscript constituting this first book of poems was shortlisted for the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award.

Anne Beck

state

Art Monograph

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.

Chris O. Cook

To Lose & to Pretend

Poetry

“[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

Greg Slick

Between Scylla and Charybdis: the Art of Greg Slick

Art Monograph

“The beauty of the photography and paintings of Greg Slick is like that of his words. They contain the essence of wit, unique insights into today’s society, and always a kind of humor. It’s a wonderful combination.”
—Minako Yoshino

Greg Slick was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1961. His work has been exhibited worldwide, from New York City to Tallinn, Estonia to Tokyo, Japan. The tension between documentation and representation is central to Slick's painting, photography, and experimental sculpture. In 2003, Slick formed the collective Quinn the Eskimo, curating group exhibitions under its banner. He is currently an Owner/Director of the artist-owned gallery GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art in Beacon, New York. He lives and works in New York City and Beacon, New York.

Emanuel de Cordova

Letters from a Pugilist Poet

Poetry

"It's Rilke with splashes of Denis Johnson, Issa, even a bit of New York School. It's difficult to pin down. Hard-nosed but contemplative and elegant, a virtuoso performance by a poet who dances about in calculated withdraws and attacks."
—The Daily Press

Emanuel de Cordova lives in Florida and New York.