Tender Omnibus
Full collected works of the first twenty-five years of Tender Buttons Press.
Includes books by Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, Harryette Mullen, Agnes Wiley, Rosmarie Waldrop, Hannah Weiner, Jennifer Moxley, Dodie Bellamy, Michelle Rollman, Laynie Brown, India Radfar and Katy Bohinc. With a preface by Katy Bohinc and Introduction by Lee Ann Brown.
Cover design by Cassandra Gillig. Interior design by Katy Bohinc.
$30 • 2016 • 620 pp
ISBN: 978-0-927920-14-8 paperback
TENDER OMNIBUS INCLUDES IN FULL:
Bernadette Mayer's SONNETS (The 25 year-old classic that started it all~!)
Anne Waldman's NOT A MALE PSEUDONYM (Waldman's love letter to Bernadette Mayer)
Harryette Mullen's TRIMMINGS (republished in the S*PeRM**K*T trillogy)
Agnes Lee Dunlop Wiley's AGNES LEE (a wonderful written history of one woman's life in the early 1900's)
Rosmarie Waldrop's LAWN OF EXCLUDED MIDDLE (republished in the Curves to the Apple trilogy)
Hannah Weiner's SILENT TEACHERS REMEMBERED SEQUEL (late Clairvoyance!)
Dodie Bellamy's CUNT-UPS (Sex Magick!)
Jennifer Moxley's IMAGINATION VERSES (Moxley's debut & reinvention of Lyric)
Laynie Browne's POLLEN MEMORY (early eco-poetics)
India Radfar's THE DESIRE TO MEET WITH THE BEAUTIFUL (be seduced by Sanskrit and Greek lyric traditions)
Michelle Rollman's THE BOOK OF PRACTICAL PUSSIES (before Cat memes there was Michelle Rollman)
Katy Bohinc's DEAR ALAIN (This book should be banished!)
Also included are selections from forthcoming TENDER BUTTONS PRESS publications by Julie Patton & Truck Darling