How This Man Breaks (Gold Wake Press, 2009)

Check out my new e-chap, HOW THIS MAN BREAKS, at Gold Wake Press.



Best,
ZCB

Review of SPIN by CL Bledsoe (Ghoti Magazine)

READ A MINI REVIEW OF MY LATEST MINI-CHAP, SPIN, by CL BLEDSOE (author of Anthem and editor of Ghoti Magazine).

NEW REVIEW OF ANGLES

GO HERE FOR GRIEVOUS JONES' REVIEW OF ANGLES OF DISORDER.

2nd Interview at Orange Alert (2009)

CLICK HERE.

'Angles..' available at St. Marks Bookshop (NYC)

Last night, while killing time a little bit of time between a great pierogi meal at Veselka and going to see Paranormal Activity, Krista and I spotted my book-- ANGLES OF DISORDER-- on the shelves at the St. Marks Bookshop! We were both thrilled to see copies of my book in one of the best (if not the best) independent bookstore in New York City. A great feeling! I have dreamed, for at least two years, of my poetry sitting on those shelves...

P.S.-- Paranormal Activity was incredibly scary!

--
ZB

SPIN, my latest solo chap from KSE

"SPIN is Zachary C. Bush’s fourth chapbook for KSE, but his first solo chap for us, and it’s a powerful work that launches a new and exciting phase in ZCB’s writing. Zachary’s past work has been both experimental (in the best sense of that word, as in flexibility and open-mindedness) and rooted in some of the more painful aspects of life, but often viewed with a surrealist eye and told with a sharp verbal wit. And we cannot forget that, wherever Zachary is living, he is a child of the American South. As a Southern experimentalist with a great sense of craft, Zachary has always had an instantly recognizable style.

Now that he has been living in Jersey City, New Jersey, and he has absorbed the greater NYC experience—-working and going to school in NYC, and getting to know the New York arts and culture scene along with his partner, acclaimed photographer Krista Schlueter—-he’s gained a sense of detachment from the Southern experience, and he is able to write about it in a way that is rich, full of piquant particulars, dense yet supple, and dripping with atmosphere.

Zachary has always been a master of poetic form—-when we worked on our two collaborative chapbooks, SHANTI and INTERVALS—-we would each toss the other stanzas of different numbers of lines, line length, rhythms, densities, and image clusters, and Zachary could always maneuver whatever was tossed at him with the finesse of a tennis pro. Also, he is a poet who creates a new and different verse form for each new work. This is not the place to rehash the old “form is never more than an extension of content” debate; let’s just say that Zachary treats each page, each stanza as a blank canvas that can be filled, or not filled or partially filled, in an infinite number of ways, and with his deep study of poets as diverse as Charles Bernstein and John Milton, he has a poetic bag of tricks that’s more full of different techniques and structures and stances than we could ever imagine.

SPIN also contains serious and thoughful analysis of family dynamics, of the nature of society and what constitutes “sanity” in an insane world. He even takes on the nature of God here! ZCB often uses a long, rich, densely packed line that he described to me as “chunky” when he read these poems aloud to me in May at his Jersey City apartment, the window open and the poetry existing in a space shared with the sounds and smells and texture of the city. The poems in SPIN are part of a larger suite of related work, and KSE plans to issue a second chapbook in this series in early 2010 or late 2009.

These poems are unlike anything Zachary C. Bush has ever published and also unlike anything KSE has previously issued. I consider this a major work, and if you’ve ever appreciated ZCB’s previous large-and-diverse body of work, you’ll definitely want to grab this while you still can."


-Bill Shute
Poet
Editor
Publisher
Kendra Steiner Editions


HOW TO BUY THE CHAP:

In the US, books are $4 each postpaid, or you can get any three KSE chaps for $10 postpaid. Send a check (or well-concealed cash) made payable to Bill Shute, 14080 Nacogdoches Rd. #350, San Antonio, Texas, 78247. Outside the US, you can get any book for $5 postpaid, payable via paypal. Just write to django5722 (at) yahoo (dot) com and request a paypal invoice. For your 3-for-$10 deal, you can choose from any of these other in-print chapbooks:

Reviews / Blurbs of ANGLES OF DISORDER

"ANGLES OF DISORDER, published by BlazeVOX [books], a haunting collection that blurs the line between poetry and prose and that takes the reader into any number of disquieting and hyper-real landscapes and mental environments. Zachary’s varied poetic output is too good to be true. He is working in so many poetic forms here, wearing so many masks of persona, touching upon so many areas of experience and of consciousness that if I were banished to a desert island for a year and all I had to read was ANGLES OF DISORDER, I’d never be bored AND I’d probably be a better poet myself because of it. Don’t miss it."

-Bill Shute, Kendra Steiner Editions.


"Angles of Disorder is an open door to a whole new way of poetic thinking in the 21st century.” --Louis E. Bourgeois, VOX PRESS.


“Zachary C. Bush’s ANGLES OF DISORDER is like a fairy tale devoured by science, language re-constructed into formulas and translated back into bold prose / poetry.” --J. A. Tyler, author of SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (ghost road press, 2009).


“No matter what angle they come at you from – surreal fable, realistic vignette, experimental lyric– Zachary Bush’s poems gleam with razor-edged intelligence and imagination. In taking the measure of darkness and disorder, this varied and impressive collection creates brilliant light and unexpected order.” --Eric Nelson, author of Terrestrials.