Meeting Eyes Bindery

Meeting Eyes Bindery

Meeting Eyes Bindery, the poetry imprint of Spuyten Duyvil, was organized around the needs and interests of poets,
their smaller collections, the audience that nurtures them, and the specific distributor that caters to that audience,
Small Press Distribution, of Berkeley, California. We encourage you to order these titles directly from SPD and support their
vital and growing influence on book culture.

Winter Letters by Vasyl Makhno

.: A few fire trucks and ambulances have pierced
the stillness that resembles a prosecutor’s message
white - with specks of letters and seagulls -
or the snow on the tops of umbrellas
and accidentally you’ll hit upon a word
that dropped into the tearoom in order to warm up.

A World of Nothing But Self-Infliction by Tod Thilleman

.: Thought
Is white
When it is
Sanctioned—
Black
When caught
Up to

A World of Nothing But Nations by Tod Thilleman

.: Leibniz and then
also Spinoza
monads and modes
“windowless cells”
said W. Lewis
they are already interlocked
in not being unified by Whitehead
and are called “Reality”

Prurient Anarchic Omnibus (Dear Weaver of Disparates) by j/j Hastain

.: our wish
to be unhinged

and thereby

able to acquiesce entirely

Egghead to Underhoof (Our Concluding the Poem) by Tod Thilleman

.: Thinks I
Spoke who’s
Here done? ...
Made (nothing ...)
Young hard-shelled incubates ...

Breathing Bolaño by Tod Thilleman & Richard Blevins

   .: So many novels today feature the poet as protagonist. This poet,
     in fiction or historomance, has already failed as a poet, and so is recognizable.
      In our postmodern culture, these narratives are manufactured, and popularly
      read, in place of poetry and books of poems. In the major novels of Roberto Bolaño,
      young poets, instead of writing, track down their failed poet heroes. His books of
      poems reveal his true identity: he is the poet his characters seek.
                                            RB from the intro to his Corrido of Bolano

Root-Cellar to Riverine /a poem/ by Tod Thilleman

.: We are twinned totemic victual
Actioned by no man’s burdening realm
Meaning sound is also
Sight so
There.

Thread by Vasyl Makhno
translated from the Ukrainian by Orest Popovych

.: From Yehuda Amichai to the New York Group, from the state
of the Union to the stables of Gertrude Stein, violins in their cases and
pregnant foxes in their lairs: Makhno sweeps through the unreal city of
immigrant dreams and resident nightmares and gathers it all into poems
at once compassionate, witty, and saturated with life. As thoroughly
versed in the antics of Ashbery as in the hijinks of Bukowski, Antonych,
Du Fu, Makhno enters the American scene a Ukrainian original, enlarging
our field of vision. Bracing, embracing, and utterly valuable. Gottfried Benn was wrong.
Askold Melnyczuk, founding editor of AGNI

Extreme Positions by Stephen Bett

.: I’m already a big fan of your poems, so these ones
only corroborate that fact. You have great energy and
are full of life and, my god, you sure know how to write.
Michael Stephens, poet, novelist, critic, award winning author

Captivity Narratives by Richard Blevins

.:“If you want to keep a secret, print it in a poem,”
Blevins writes, and fortunate is any reader privy to the
confidences volunteered in these generous, essential pages.
Gary Lutz, Author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive

Light House by Brian Lucas

        .: Lucas’s first book is also the document of an exilic voice,
        original in its wandering, a book composed of spectral floating
                   figures, of coils, knots, and spirals, a book of arabesque (that
                   perfect synthesis of irony and enthusiasm), whose language is
                   limitlessly defined as “an intentional science of ecstasy beyond
                   decay.” Peruse, then, these leaves of Hypnos at the risk of understanding!
                                Andrew Joron

No Wrong Notes by Norman Weinstein

.: The years spent listening to and writing about jazz and Afro-Caribbean
music have led to an awareness of the value of that music, and of poetry
in alignment with it. The Cuban musicologist Fernando Ortiz wrote: “It isn’t
a music of ‘entertainment’ at the edge of daily life; it is a precise aesthetic
version of all of Life in its transcendental moments.”

Transparencies Lifted From Noon by Chris Glomski

.: While the poems in Transparencies Lifted from Noon are written in a
predominately lyric mode, they are actively engaged in pushing loose
narrative threads up against an almost gestural linguistic framework,
one that seeks to radicalize both lyric and narrative alike.

Burial Ship by Nikki Stiller

Part of the Design by Laura Wright

.: The more burning interests are the problems of place and time.
Place has to do with "where am I?" but also with the arrangement
of the words where, am, and I. Who determined this arrangement
in the first place? Rain Taxi

Of All the Corners to Forget by Gian Lombardo

Infinity Subsections by Mark DuCharme

Lunacies by Ruxandra Cesereanu
translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and others

Savoir Fear by Charles Borkhuis

Diary of a Clone by Saviana Stanescu
translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin

Hidden Death, Hidden Escape by Liviu Georgescu

The Maine Book, Selected Poems of Joe Cardarelli

Edited and with an Introduction by Anselm Hollo

Butterflies by Brane Mozetic

translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar