New for June 2015
Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-FIve Years of Contemporary
Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
edited by Tom Devlin
Can you say, "Embarrassment of Riches?" Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-FIve Years of
Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels
is a 776 page hardcover overflowing with rare and hard-to-find comics
published in out of the way nooks and crannies by some of the world's
finest cartoonists, comickers and mangakas, including Chester
Brown, Kevin Huizenga, Seth , Julie Doucet, Jillian Tamaki, Joe Sacco,
Joe Matt, Kate Beaton, Adrian Tomine, Seiichi Hayashi, Shigeru Mizuki,
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Tove Jansson and plenty more – pretty much everyone
who published with D &Q during their first quarter century.
It is also filled with family-album-style photos of these self-same
creators side-by-side with each other as well as with D&Q staff,
and more interviews and appreciations – by the likes of Jonathan Lethem
and Margaret Atwood, no less – than can shake a stick at (not
that you
would want to). Here
are some pics to give an idea of what's in store. Quite a
treat!
retail price - $49.95
copacetic price -
$41.75
The Complete Eightball (#1-18)
by Daniel Clowes
This month's new arrivals also includes another mega-massive tome that
– at least as originally scheduled (it arrived six months late) – also
celebrates s 25th Anniversary. Fantagraphics has collected the
long
out-of-print first eighteen "comic book" issues* of the series that
saved Dan Clowes's life while entertaining and enlightening a
generation of comics readers (and creators!). This slipcased set
of
two hardcover volumes, reproduces each issue in facsimile form exactly
as they were originally published between 1989 and 1997. There
are
over 450 pages of classic Clowes comics here, along with a smattering
of new material in the form of notes, cover images and a tad
more.
While we can't say this won't put a big dent in your wallet, we have
done our part here at Copacetic by offering it at a hefty discount
which works out to a per-issue cost of just over $5. (* Issues 19
through 21 comprise David Boring,
which has been long available in book form from Pantheon; #22 became Ice Haven, ditto; #23 became The Death-Ray, available from D
& Q; all three graphic novels are in print as of this writing.)
retail price - $119.99
copacetic price -
$93.49
Optic
Nerve #14
by Adrian Tomine
Another issue in the low key anti-comics/business-report cover format
("the business of comics is business, and the best business is business
as usual") continues to present Tomine's disenchanting comics.
Empathic readers will cringe with embarrassment at the painful reveals
of the fully fleshed characters that populate the two stories
here.
The first, of suburban middle class pathos, recorded in fine full color
detail in Tomine's mature style; the second, of PTSD alienation, is
dedicated to Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and is rendered in a more gritty black
and white that bears obvious marks of Tatsumi's influence, while
remaining clearly Tomine's own.
retail price - $6.95
copacetic price -
$6.25
Blobby Boys Two
by Alex Schubert
The second volume of the Clowesian isolate comic strip world created by
Alex Schubert. Blobby Boys are those whose hearts have been
crushed
and broken from the start and so figure it's up to them to help others
achieve the same. Here are their latest adventures in bringing
ennui
to the world. Introduction by Frank Santoro!
retail price - $10.00
copacetic price -
$9.00
King-Cat
Comics & Stories #75
by John Porcellino
It's here: The long-awaited 75th issue of John Porcellino's
long-running (20+ years, and counting), self-published,
my-life-in-comics-project, King-Cat
Comics and Stories!
This extra-big, 44-page issue is devoted to the life and times of the
central fixture of John's life that he has chronicled in the pages of
King-Cat, his feline companion from 1992 to 2007, Maisie Kukoc.
This
may be Porcellino's most affecting work yet.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00
Blammo #8
1/2
by Noah Van Sciver
27 pages of comics in full color, monochrome, duotone and black &
white cover violent fantasies, hopes, dreams, dejections, diary
entries, comics mash-ups of personal and popular, American history and
more; by the cartoonist Seth has called, "probably the next Clowes or
Crumb or (Chester) Brown." Bonus extra: includes one-page
strip of
Noah VS. talking to John P. on the phone... and John is driving!
retail price - $6.00
copacetic price -
$5.40
Kilgore Quarterly #5 & #6
edited by Dan Stafford
We
are happy to add fellow retailer Kilgore Books' own in-house comics
anthology to the Copacetic offerings. This is a series where the
reader really gets their money's worth. #5's "handwritten"
interview
with Anders Nilsen -- which could just as easily be described as
"hand-drawn", as images abound -- is worth the price of admission alone
and then there are plenty of comics in the 28 pages on hand here,
including work by JT Yost, John Kuebler, Mister V, Sam Spina, Katrin
Davis, Noah Van Sciver, Alex Nall, and William VanDenBerg. #6 is the
biggest – and may be the best – issue yet. On hand in this
issue's 36
pages we have an amazing and enlightening hand-drawn interview with
Eleanor Davis along with all new work by Alex Graham, Susan Choi,
Meg
Golding, Amara Leipzig, Sarah Lenten, Joe Leonard, Alex Nall, Rich
Sparks, Matias San Juan, Ryan the Truck, and Noah Van Sciver. Kilgore
Books & Comics only prints a few hundred of these so grab these
before theyre gone!
retail price - $3.00@
copacetic price -
$3.00@
The Oven
by Sophie Goldstein
A science fiction take on a contemporary dilemma. Staying in a
mainstream society that controls and limits your life choices, or
heading "outside" to a zone of increased personal freedom but
commensurately increased personal responsibility and decreased creature
comforts. All cleanly and precisely delineated in what is fast
becoming Ms. Goldstein's trademarked style. This story was
originally
serialized over the first six issues of Maple Key Comics,
in black and white. Here it takes on an entirely new life with a
judiciously æsthetic use of bright orange spot color that permeates the
entire design. Check it out here. Nice, right?
retail price - $12.95
copacetic price -
$11.75
Howard #1
by Bill Wehmann
In twelve full color pages, Bill Wehmann employs line and -- crucially
-- color to explore the quantum mechanics of consciousness. Following
Dash Shaw, in Howard
Wehmann uses color in an extradiagetic
fashion, to provide an additional, commentarial layer analogous to that
of a film's musical soundtrack. The quandary explored in these
pages
is that constituted by the necessity of relying on one's own natural
sensory apparatus in processing perceptions and the difficulty this can
entail when confronted with sensory input that conflicts with the
constructs and expectations of "reality" in the person experiencing
them. In our increasingly mediated world, in which our
experiences are
ever more artificial, created, manufactured, assembled, programmed,
computer-generated, electronically-transmitted, etc. the natural
reality that the human sensory apparatus has evolved to perceive and
interpret is altered and distorted in innumerable ways that inevitably
confuse and disturb ages old neural pathways. The sequence and
arrangement of the visual data provided in these pages serve to
communicate that Howard is just beginning to figure this out...
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00
Items
from our June 2015 listings may now be purchased online at our
eCommerce site, HERE.
New for May 2015
Frontier #7
by Jillian Tamaki
The number seven yet again proves its potency as this issue is the
fullest realization of the Frontier format yet. It presents a
single
work by Tamaki, "Sexcoven." A tautly through-composed work that
carries readers to a heretofore undisclosed location in the symbolic
realm in order to provide them with a new perspective on 21st century,
internet-connected consciousness, "Sexcoven" is a tale that reveals a
paradox whereby hyperconnectivity can lead to a dropping out.
Tamamki
exposes a hole in the fabric of the web through which people can fall,
landing in a desert both literal and figurative, yet shows that even in
the desert, connection remains and true escape remains illusory, as the
consumerist society maintains. The systemic logic of capitalism
emerges as hardwired in those who grew up amidst its plenty, who appear
able to obtain sustenance only within its framework. Frustration
with
limitations and the elusiveness of transcendence are the core
themes.
Resignation seems the only sane response, but the mad search continues,
out there, in the desert...
retail price - $7.95
copacetic price -
$7.95
Super
Mutant Magic Academy
by Jillian Tamaki
It's a big month for Ms. Tamaki, as not only do we have her amazing
issue of Frontier, but we now have the in print fruition of her long
running web comic, Super Mutant Magic Academy. 225 one-page
strips
followed by an all-new 44-page epiloguical novelette, all by Jillian
Tamaki, all in-print for the first time (well, not counting the FCBD
preview). Anyone not hep to what this is all about is hereby encouraged
to get up to speed by visiting mutantmagic.com.
retail price - $22.95
copacetic price -
$20.00
Pope Hats
#4
by Ethan Rilly
Pope Hats #4 is a wow;
different from the previous issue in almost every way. This issue
is
oversize, full color (as well as monochrome) and filled with short
stories rather than the ongoing saga of Frances and Vickie, which will
resume next issue (yeah, it's going to be awhile...). The deft
characterization that we have come to associate with Rilly's work is
here in spades. Every story here is worthy of your attention, but
the
real standout is the centerpiece of the book, the harrowing tale of
"The Nest." A subtle yet devastating tale of urban alienation,
mental
illness, hope, despair, confusion, doubt and faith that centers on
parenting and delivers insights one would not think possible in a
creator of so few years. All in a beautifully designed package of
the
kind you've come to expect from AdHouse Books.
retail price - $7.95
copacetic price -
$7.50
A
Mysterious Process
by GG
A Mysterious Process is the latest from the mysterious Canadian comics
creator, GG. In page after page of tightly composed and
rigorously
rendered art, vertically formatted to resemble the scroll, this
beautifully printed 36 page risograph guides the reader through a
contemporary, Canadian dark night of the soul, comics style, in which
the pain of identity confusion is carefully shaped through composition
and clarified in line. You may read this comic on the Comics
Workbook Tumblr, for which it was originally created, but, of
course, it's not the same as holding and reading the comic itself...
retail price - $10.00
copacetic price -
$10.00
Dream
Fossil: The Complete Short Stories of Satoshi Kon
by Satoshi Kon
Over 400 pages of amazing manga by the brilliant mangaka and famed
anime director Satoshi Kon, none of which -- to the best of our
knowledge -- has appeared before in English translation in North
America. While Kon is best known in the west for his anime
features,
Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress and Perfect Blue, he
started out in manga, and served as an assistant to Katsuhiro Otomo
during his creation of the original Akira manga. Anyone familiar
with
this acclaimed series will note many similarities to Akira in the
artwork produced for the fifteen stories collected in this volume,
which date from the same period. Make sure to give this one the
once
over. You won't be disappointed.
retail price - $24.95
copacetic price -
$21.75
Mr
Arashi's Amazing Freak Show
by Suehiro Maruo
When Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show was first published in English in
1992 -- by the aptly named Blast Books -- it blew many a mind;
nothing
like it had been seen before. Originally published in Japan in
1984,
it is one of Maruo's major works as well as being the first of them to
make it to North American shores. Simultaneously horrific,
surreal and
perverse, entirely drawn with a meticulous attention to detail it is a
work of unrivaled strangeness. Out of print for years, it has
just
been reprinted by Blast at an amazing inflation-free price!
retail price - $10.95
copacetic price -
$10.00
Pablo
by Julie Birmant & Clement Oubrerie
It was bound to happen, and now the day has arrived. A comics
biography of Pablo Picasso. This is doubtless only the first, as
a
life and career as prodigious as that of Picasso can hardly be
exhausted at one go. In fact, it appears that Birmant and
Oubererie
have limited the years covered in Pablo
to Picasso's early years in Montmartre. Nonetheless, these few
years
managed to inspire one of the lengthiest comics bios yet, as Pablo runs
a whopping 342 full color pages. Should there be a decision
to
continue, a comics bio of Picasso's full life could easily run in the
thousands of pages! This is likely a job in need of a massive
cohort
of comickers... Oubererie, known to Copacetic regulars as the
artist
on the wonderful Aya series, has turned in another amazing work
here.
Clearly demonstrating his understanding of color once again, in
contrast to the stunning, saturated tones he employed in Aya to convey
the magic and mystery of life in Côte d'Ivoire, here in Pablo, he has
stuck with muted tones suffused with greys and browns to capture the
mood of Montemartre. Do yourself a favor and take a moment to
leaf
through and vicariously experience those days when art changed forever.
retail price - $27.50
copacetic price -
$25.00
Incidents in
the Night, Book Two
by David B.
Originally published in France in 2013, the second volume of this
intriguing series by the inimitable David B. has now been translated by
Brian and Sarah Evenson and published in the US courtesy of Tom
Kaczynski's Uncivilized Books. This volume of Incidents in the Night
sports a cover featuring a character that long-time David B. fans will
recognize as his brother as he appeared in the second half of his
masterpiece, Epileptic,
and marks somewhat of a return to the terrain explored there.
This
time around, the author employs different sorts of narrative
strategies, most notably that of detective story. Don't expect
the
mystery to solved, however!
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77
Palookaville
#22
by Seth
We were initially blinded by the reflective green foil cover of this
issue. Once our eyes adjusted, it was possible to make out the
details. The latest issue of Palookaville shows Seth moving in an
ever
more design-centric direction. Highlights
in this collection
of
all new work
include continuity comics – more "Clyde Fans," the second chapter of
his auto-bio comic, "Nothing Lasts," – as well as a photographic
look
at Seth-designed real world barbershop (!?!) run by his wife that is
accompanied by an apocryphal quasi-comics history of of said barbershop
(sort of). Only Seth could pull something like this off...
retail price - $22.99
copacetic price -
$20.00
Black River
by Josh Simmons
Another happy-go-lucky lark by that fun-loving cartoonist, Josh
Simmons. Join him as he brings to pen and ink life -- and then,
in
many cases, to a grimly delineated grisly death -- a rag-tag team of
survivors -- but not for long! -- wandering through a post-apocalyptic
landscape in search of some kind of meaning, which -- naturellement!
-- they will never find, instead only suffering and death at the hands
of a monstrous sadist or deranged psychopath. Nice, green-edged
pages
in this softcover volume designed by Sammy Harkham.
retail price - $18.99
copacetic price -
$17.00
Non Partum
by Rachel Masilamani
This 20 page, full color, magazine-size comic book is the first print
edition of an ongoing work. Non
Partum
is a multi-layered investigation in comics form that touches on many
aspects of life but is centered on pregnancy in a way that reflects how
a woman's life can also be so centered. It is part memoir,
part
sociological study, part cultural critique; all intelligently
approached, skillfully explored, absorbingly told and beautifully
rendered. Non Partum
is
currently being serialized on Mutha Magazine. A theme running
through
the episode presented here - which originally appeared as "The Subject"
- is overcoming the inherent frustration of dealing with the often
poorly designed, rule bound systems - and their occasionally less than
thoughtful representatives - that govern our interactions with the
institutions which we all must deal with in order to prevail.
This
edition sports a new, original cover and a bonus pin-up page of the 40
weeks of pregnancy as represented by appropriately scaled herbs,
grains, legumes, vegetables and fruits, both created specifically for
this edition!
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00
Mutual Paradise #5
by Lizzee Solomon
Mutual Paradise is back with
another fleshy, oozing, squirting and plopping issue! 12 stories
in 36
pages, all contained in one monochrome wraparound cover. Ranging
from
single panel cartoons like "Sad GIrls," "Doritos Locos," and "Two Boys,
One Butt," up through short-stories and quasi-memoirs like "Lara's
Shitty Day," "When Girls Like Boys," and "I Used to Work at a Gallery,"
this issue is filled with the kind of comics you won't find anywhere
but in the pages of Mutual Paradise.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00
Eel
Mansions
by Derek Van Gieson
Anyone who has been pining away all these years for another work along
the lines of Dan Clowes's first full-length foray into the comics
medium, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in
Iron, which was originally serialized in the first 10(?) issues
of Eightball,
might find what they're looking for in Derek Van Gieson's supernatural
soap opera noir. Situated in Mill City, a grimy place inhabited by new
wave satanists, secret government agents, abducted family members,
booze-hounds, record store clerks, conspiracy theorists, murders, and
cartoonists, Eel Mansions is
a trippy comics tale that assembles an eclectic menagerie of graphic
tropes that range far and wide through the work's 224 pages.
Rendered
for the most part in a chisled pen and ink style that is a mix of
Georges Rouault, Ben Shahn, Tove Jansson and Dan Clowes; well, kind
of... Give it a look next time you're in, and see what you think.
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77
Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater
by Alex Degen
Alex Degen explodes on the scene with... Mighty Star! What is the
Cancatervater? Why are there all these people with apple stems
where
their heads should be? What's going on here? Who
knows! We do know,
however, that you'll have fun figuring it all out in these 172 pages of
cleanly delineated, black & white, pen and ink, pantomime
comics.
In an unusual twist, the "cover blurbs" for this book have been placed
on the copyright page! Perhaps Mr. Degen is being unduly
modest. In
any event, as browsers might miss them, we'll share them here: "Mighty
Star is a psychedelic smear of an adventure epic: a silent
superhero
tale bathed in the rays of early manga vocabulary, seemingly infinite
narrative possibility and opaque philosophy. This cute, cartoon
homunculus looms menacingly!" -- Zack Soto "Alex
Degen is one of the smartest and funniest cartoonists in the
game.
Every page in the book is filled with about two dozen triumphs and
upsets in humor, design, pacing... A real pleasure to pore over."
-- Michael DeForge
retail price - $15.00
copacetic price -
$13.75
iTunes Terms and Conditions, Part A & Part
B: The Unabridged Graphic Adaptation
by R. Sikoryak
If this isn't the unlikeliest comic book adaptation of all time, we
don't know what is. R. "Masterpiece Comics" Sikoryak's iTunes Terms and Conditions, Part A &
Part B: The Unabridged Graphic Adaptation
is Just In @ Copacetic (And, yes, Part C is forthcoming). Drawn
--
semi-miraculously -- in four 24-hour bursts (and subsequently
retouched), this 36 page comic adapts this cumbersome text employing 36
judiciously chosen classic comics templates by artist greats ranging
from Steranko to Jack Kirby to Osamu Tezuka to Charles Schulz to Dan
DeCarlo to Todd McFarlane to Frank Miller to... well, you get the
idea.
retail price - $8.00
copacetic price -
$7.50
Masculinities
by Cindy Crabb
This new 28 page zine by long time zinester of Doris
fame, Cindy Crabb presents a collection of seven interviews she herself
conducted on the subject of constructing an alternative, contemporary
masculinity, not just expected, pro-feminist outlooks, but also "the
subtle, overlooked things that are sometimes the very strongest of
changes." Cover by Icky!
retail price - $4.00
copacetic price -
$4.00
Items
from our May 2015 listings may now be purchased online at our
eCommerce site, HERE.
New for April 2015
Unflattening
by Nick Sousanis
Believe it or not, it's been over twenty years since the publication of
Understanding Comics, which
established the breakthrough realization that the most effective way to
truly explain how comics work is in comics form. Now,
at last, we have the next generational iteration of this
understanding: that the most effective way to explain how comics
in specific - and consciously thinking in and making images in general
- are changing the way we represent our world and understand ourselves
is also in comics form. Unflattening,
just published by Harvard University Press, is the book form of
Sousanis's Columbia University dissertation, "Unflattening: A
Visual-Verbal Inquiry into Learning in Many Dimensions" - the
first ever presented at the university entirely in comics form.
This work challenges the primacy of words over images in Western
culture and asks readers to view them as equal partners. A book
for our times, indeed. Here
is a thoughtful reaction to the original dissertation by Sydni Dunn at
Chronicle Vitea. Learn more about Unflattening, and catch up with Mr.
Sousanis at his website, Spin, Weave & Cut.
retail price - $22.99
copacetic price -
$20.00
Crickets #4
by Sammy Harkham
The Wait Is Over! Crickets #4 is here. 48 pages; magazine
size; cardstock cover; heavy newsprint interior. Written and
drawn by Mr. Harkham (w/ Kevin H. assists!). This issue is
nearly entirely devoted to continuing the epic saga, "The Blood of the
VIrgin," which began in #3. This issue finds Seymour & Co. on
the set and off, making the film, dealing with actors, directors and
producers. The home front is not neglected, as the reader is made
privy to moments that Seymour is not. "The Blood of the Virgin"
is an omniscient third-person narrative in the classic tradition of the
late-nineteenth century naturalistic novel, but set in Vietnam-war era
Los Angeles and told in comics form; not something you encounter every
day, to say the least. This is a comic book to savor, enjoy, put
away and then, when the time is right, pull out and read again, filled,
as it is, with page after page of comics that make you glad you know
the language.
retail price - $8.00
copacetic price -
$7.50
Maple
Key Comics #6
by Joyana McDiarmid & Co.
This issue wraps up most of the ongoing story lines, bringing to a
(temporary) conclusion a run of six on time issues containing in toto over 1500 pages of engaging
and enjoyable comics of every stripe -- all in the course of a
one year period. Quite an accomplishment!
retail price - $18.00
copacetic price -
$15.95
Revenger
#1
by Chuck Forsman
It's here: the first issue of PIX 2015 special guest, Charles (aka
Chuck) Forsman's new, ongoing - "close to monthly" - full color
action(violent)adventure comic book series. Back cover by Ben
Marra. Look for #2 next month!
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$4.44
The
Weight #1
by Melissa Mendes
The first issue of PIX 2015 special guest, Melissa Mendes's ongoing
serialization of a graphic novel inspired by a short memoir written by
her grandfather that was written shortly before he passed away last
year. His life - and this comic - begins on a depression-era farm
somewhere in America...
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$4.44
2x S! + 4X Mini-Kus
by Teri Ekhebom, Amanda Vähämäki, Lala Albert & Marie Jacotey
Yes, we've just received our latest and most plentiful shipment of
Latvian comics – via John Porcellino's Spit and a Half distro – and
there's quite a variety on hand, with comics from around the world,
most notably, Portugal, Finland, France and the Americas. These
pint-sized comics pack a full color punch and bring great comics to a
wide readership, enabled in part by the publisher's outreach to and
partnership with a variety of national European arts
organizations. Well worth a look next time you're in.
S! - retail price - $12.00@
copacetic price -
$12.00@
Mini-Kus - retail price - $5.00@
copacetic price -
$5.00@
4X Retrofit Comics
by Jack Teagle, Niv Bavarsky, Box Brown & Laura Knetzger
And, yes, here's another small press comics bonanza courtesy of a
single publisher, this time around the Philadelphia-based Retrofit
Comics, which also has been able to produce such an abundance of work
through a partnership, in this case with the Washington, DC-based
retailer Big Planet. Both the quantity and even more importantly,
the quality of the comics released under the Retrofit imprint have
dramatically improved since they've teamed up with Big Planet, so it
seems that partnering up has a lot to recommend it!
retail price - $4.00 - $12.00@
copacetic price -
$3.60 - $10.00@
Gyo
by Junji Ito
Here it is: the complete collection of the horrific precursor to
Junji Ito's cult classic, Uzumaki. Gyo presents page after page
of pen and ink terror, as nature runs amok, shocking and terrifying the
population of this coastal community. This volume also includes
two bonus horror tales by Ito: " The Sad Tale of Principal Post,"
and "The Enigma of the Amigara Fault," making for 400 pages of classic
horror manga in all.
retail price - $22.99
copacetic price -
$20.00
Donald
Duck: "The Pixilated Parrot"
by Carl Barks
The greatness continues! 1950 was the year of Carl Barks.
Along with the title track this volume includes the mega-classics, "In
Ancient Persia," "The Magic Hour Glass," "Big-Top Bedlam," the lesser
know but nonetheless classic Christmas tale, "You Can't Guess," and
perhaps the greatest summer vacation comic book story ever penned,
"Vacation Time." Also on hand are a lone ten-pager from WDC&S
#117 and three low-profile tales that accompanied "Vacation Time" in
the pages of Vacation Parade #1: a one-page written but not drawn
by Barks, and two tales that are drawn but, unusually, not written by
Barks; one featuring Grandma Duck, and one Donald and his
Nephews. And, finally, there are the standard end notes about
each of the tales, each penned by a noted Barks scholar. A summer
vacation read for the ages...
retail price - $29.99
copacetic price -
$25.75
Harvey
Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad Magazine and Revolutionized Humor in
America
by Bill Schelly
The life of one of Comics' indisputable geniuses finally gets the
in-depth treatment it deserves in this illustrated - and illuminating -
640 page biography from comics historian, Bill Schelly, which we are
currently offering at a special introductory special price. Can't
wait to dive right in? No need to, you can start right now, with
this PDF
preview.
retail price - $34.99
copacetic price -
$29.75
How To Be Drawn
by Terrance Hayes
How To Be Drawn has
arrived! The latest volume of poetry by Pittsburgh's own
MacArthur Fellow, Terrance Hayes, this 100 page collection is divided
into three parts, each composed of ten pieces (decalogues?) --Troubled
Bodies; Invisible Souls; A Circling Mind -- followed by an epiloguical
closer. While firmly grounded in Hayes's own personal landscape,
the thirty-one poems collected here roam the world, from "Russia's
red-light districts" to New York's Chinatown, explore histories and
cultures, and celebrate a cornucopia of creators and creative forms --
most abundantly, musicians and music; most succinctly, writers and
writing; and, most centrally (and, from the vantage point here at The
Copacetic Comics Company, most intriguingly) visual artists and drawing
-- each and all in the service of constructing a suitable place for
now, in which necessity will not be throttled, and compassion
thrive. This collection is unquestionably the most formally
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word is judiciously chosen and placed. Each piece will be a
delight to those who treasure the form. Sample a poem -- one that
coalesces some of the volume's themes -- now, HERE.
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