please support LRS...he just lost his job and he's still putting out books...help a homie out by buying a chapbook! they're cheap and pretty!

NEW BOOK FROM TRANSMISSION PRESS!

Mike YOUNG's MC Oroville's Answering Machine

"Yr not dreaming, yes, number 11 in the fantastic Transmission lineage is here. However, you may feel like yr dreaming when reading this book. Yr head might lift off from yr shoulders, and you better hope you got some kind of tether. Otherwise, yr head, bouncing around the stratosphere, might end up in one of Mike's poems. And, also, at least as far as I know, you probably wouldn't survive. Good luck with that.

So, you see, what you got yrself here is a fine book of poetry. Feel that plush poetry-y seating. Notice the spacious back seat. Smell that new poetry smell. And that engine. Holy shit, does that engine v-room like the dickens. I do believe this is something you could live with a very long time and never want to trade in. What do you say?

This book is printed on different colored coverstock, in an edition of 150, and is available for sale thru PayPal, which is off in the side bar. It's a mere $3.50.

By the way, I just found out I'm losing my job. But I went ahead and put this book out and will put more out. I guarantee you that. Don't, you know, let that INFLUENCE you into actually BUYING some of the books I'm publishing.

No, seriously. Don't. See if I care.

Transmission Press LOVES you.

But don't feel guilty."

"Dear Friends, Fans, Sycophants, and True Believers!

You may be asking yrself where the fuck has Transmission Press been? And to that I answer: Where the fuck have YOU been? And to that you should answer: Touche. We could go on like this, but what's the point? I mean, yes, duh, it's been something like 8 months or so since the last Transmission Press publication. And that sure does seem like a real long time, don't it? But, I figure, given the poetry world has a whole different sense of "time" then I must be doing alright here. I mean, have you ever been to a poetry reading? Yeah? So you know when a poet is given 15 minutes that that poet ALWAYS takes 45. So, considering that kind of time signature, I actually feel like Transmission is WAY ahead of the curve. Anyway...

Where were we? Hello, how are you? I'm fine. The Giants suck again, but I'm fine. Really, it's not a big deal.

Anyway, I hope yr doing well because we here at the Transmission Press have a brand new book for you that you NEED. If yr not already familiar with Sarah Menefee's poetry, then that's a shame. But if you are, you arleady know that Sarah Menefee is a remarkable poet of intimacy, insight, empathy, image, and music. IN YOUR FISH HELMET is no exception, and if you haven't read her previous books, this would be a fine start. Of course, after reading IN YOUR FISH HELMET, you should find everything else by Menefee that you can get yr hands on and DEVOUR it.

Go to transmissionpress.blogspot.com for more amusing facts and to PURCHASE the book!

Here's the first poem from IN YOUR FISH HELMET:

__________________

CHROME


someone who came to me the other night


was the one whose tall truck cab


I climbed into: picked me up somewhere


when I was a teenage girl



we kissed and made out: then we talked: I was afraid to go all the way





I completed it the other night: he took out his fine cock


and we fucked: forty-odd years later



the same emotional time





I married one


a truck driver become a gambler


too illiterate and proud to work





how bright with chrome it was


how big!



how did he find me again?




there was no bully in him: so fucked-up


something human was said: and kind





I’m a girl of eleven: the one


of fifteen or seventeen


in a constant fever: sex and romance


a wild and mysterious thing


forbidden: my secret




and there he comes again


and I’m not afraid




running downtown


under the day moon: round mother-of-pearl




I am fourteen"

THE MOVEABLE ONES

LRS told me that The Moveable Ones is almost sold out (no shit!), so go to Transmission Press to order your copy (at the bottom of the barrel malt liquor price of $3.50)...what some people have said about The Moveable Ones

"THE ONE THAT AMAZED ME THE MOST WAS JOHN SAKKIS' THE MOVEABLE ONES."
—Alan Davies

"[You] have a way of putting in the things that in other contexts would seem cheap (such as some internet lingo and such) but your poems enliven it, give it back to us in the sort of strangeness that it is. I'll be looking forward to the next thing on the Sakkis roster!"
—Michael Slosek

"i loved the first page..."
—Susan Gevirtz

"you're my fav poet!!!"
—Mom

"The highly prosodized units with broken lines in The Movable Ones really sizzle...They feel spoken, epistolary and often incredibly artful, imparting details of daily life, love, family, travel, sex and war, as well as the history of individuals and their efforts to transcend, mythologize and survive modern times. The work is careful, subtle and yet hot."
—Laura Moriarty

"Thats 7/8ths of a beer....plus, your my brother, poetic crap spills from your mout randomly like, all the time."
—James Sakkis

"cool poems"
—Carrie Hunter

"THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME! I'm gettin' me one!...I want everyone to read your new chapbook!"
—CA Conrad

"what does "exenterates" mean?"
—Angelos Sakkis

"i forget"
—John Sakkis

"The attention to the small sounds, so to speak, a la Zukofsky, is evident throughout the book--and exciting to see how clearly you can work through these...The pieces that attract me are the ones where the lines move as private narrative into each other, where names are named...It reminds me of the Zuk of late A and 80 Flowers, that even though the music of the lines are dense, they seem separated or stranded from each other...Mostly, however, the book impressed me. These pieces of yours are powerful, and your ear is attuned to the urgency of what you need to say. So, if I have not told you before, I got into reading it."
—Benjamin Hollander