Ruby Street

At last, the final book of interviews: E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Final XIV Interviews + One contains interviews with Ernesto Priego, Catherine Daly, Karri Kokko, Jill Jones, Javant Biarujia, Barry Schwabsky, Peter Ganick, Joseph Lease, Stephen Vincent, Alan Davies, Noah Eli Gordon, the late Mary Rising Higgins, Jessica Grim, & Tom Mandel, plus more than 100 pages of poetry from the interviewed, much of it new (certainly in my case). The interviewers were Tom Beckett, Bruce Holsapple & John Tritica, Thomas Fink, & Sheila E. Murphy. The + One in the title refers to an interview done especially for this final volume by Nicholas Manning with Tom Beckett, the creator & curator of this important resource for contemporary poetics. My thanks again go to Tom for asking and engaging and to Mark for all the book stuff. I haven't yet received my copy, geographical distances being what they are, but I know it will be good.

Well, E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews , curated by Tom Beckett is now available from Otoliths Books Mark Young, who must be the busiest publisher in the world at the moment, says: "In response to popular demand, Otoliths is releasing one of the books from its next round of offerings early, E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews. Tom Beckett's E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S website has become, since its inception in 2005, an important source of information on contemporary poetry and poetics. This book brings together the first eleven interviews from the on-going series, augmented by bionotes and almost one hundred pages of self-selected examples of the interviewees' work. The interviewees (some of whom later reappear as interviewers) are Crag Hill, Thomas Fink, Nick Piombino, Sheila E. Murphy, Eileen Tabios, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, K. Silem Mohammad, Geof Huth, Barbara Jane Reyes, Paolo Javier, Stephen Paul Miller and Jean Vengua.The other ...