Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Monk Books is a poetry press founded in October 2010 with a mission to make books as deliberate and artful as the texts within. We publish the best of contemporary and out-of-print poetry in elegant, limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides.
WICHMAN COMETH
by Ben Pease
Limited edition chapbook containing selections from “Chateau Wichman” and original artwork.
“The bottom line is that Ben is doing with this project exactly what poetry can do best, that no other medium can approach, historically and contemporaneously.” —LEVI RUBECK, BOMBLOG
“Pease’s Wichman cometh straight from the humming myth machine itself.” —DAWN MARIE KNOPF, THE FASTER TIMES
Release Date: June 2011 | Print Run 200 copies | $10 paper
THE FORMAL FIELD OF KISSING
by Bernadette Mayer
Limited edition chapbook reprint of Mayer’s classic translations of Catullus and Horace, among others—featuring parallel text of Latin and Greek. For this new edition, a new introduction has been written by Dorothea Lasky.
Release Date: June 2011| Print Run 200 copies | $10 paper
MYSTERY AND SOLITUDE IN TOPEKA
by Mark Strand
Limited edition chapbook containing new prose poems and original artwork.
“Mark Strand is our Maestro of the Mysteries, both in word and in his lithographs of brooding islands, his horizons of life, death, and dream. The new prose poems distill allegory, metaphysical wit, melancholy, and sumptuous irony. Kafka would have recognized these tales in which Pleasure and Pain commit the same crime, and in which an hourglass speaks.” —ROSANNA WARREN
Release Date: February 2011 | Print Run 200 copies | $20.00 paper [ BOOK TRAILER ]
