The Requisite Update, Complete with Anthropomorphisation & a Reference to Color & Prosperity

Okay, so you may have been wondering where Shadowbox Press has been. Well, it's been sleeping. It's been traveling to lands distant & near with only a daypack on its back. And it's been doing a lot of thinking.

So, for the time being, Shadowbox Press is going to keep on doing just that. It's not that it got tired -- hardly. It's just got other things on its mind, & has been a little short on pocket change these past few months.

While it doesn't plan to sleep through the New Year, it just might have to, in order to rejuvenate its fund-slim bones. And, who knows? Maybe, come 2010, a lovely windfall will land at its feet, & color & prosperity will be restored to all the land.

In the mean time, Shadowboxers, don't be a stranger. Keep your eyes on the road & sky, & keep doing things that make your solar plexus hum. And always keep a light on for whimsy & intrigue; you never know when they might stop in for a cool beverage & a light snack.

Sakes alive,

The management

An Introduction to the Archetypes

by Susan Slaviero

"I am seedsown."
© 2008, 24 pp.
5.5x8.5, staple-bound
cover art by Melissa Culbertson
cover design by C. Tibbetts
$6 (S&H incl.)

from "Deconstructing the Papesse":

Hypothesis. One can (just as easily)
expire in a convent as in a parade.
There was a horse involved.
There was no horse.

The Musculature Of Small Birds

by E.M. Bertram, Ed.

Includes work by John Rauschenberg, Brent Goodman, Elizabeth Hartsig, Nicole Callihan, Allen Braden, Jen Lyons, Dave Snyder, Ivy Alvarez, Anna McDonald, Ruthann Robson, Ralph Black, Ann Cefola, Dan Rosenberg, Rebecca Wee

One for sorrow, two for joy

© 2007, 52 pp.

5.5x8.5, staple-bound
w/library card & pocket
cover image by Jaffa Aharonov
$7 (S&H incl.)

*NOTE: 30% of the sales from this chapbook will be donated to a non-profit organization that benefits immigrants & refugees.

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from Rebecca Wee's "Auld Lang Syne":

lifting from the just-born year like swans' wings.
Like feathers. Confetti. The damage undone.

constellations gathered along the ecliptic

by Craig Santos Perez

"THE MAIN PURPOSE OF LANGUAGE is to prohibit"
© 2007, 24 pp.
5.5x5.75, staple-bound
cover design by C. Tibbetts
$5 (S&H incl.)

from "[WATER-SONG]":

houses built over water, waves at the window--

water doesn't recede completely anymore after a flood

water can't be removed without disrupting the entire surface

Flood

by Woody Loverude

"Many things will change."
© 2007, 36 pp.
5.5x8.5, staple-bound
cover art by Mr. Smiley Man
$5 (S&H incl.)

from "Dear Manhattan" (ii):

Today's horizon's mine for darkness
& we both thrived underwater for months,
weeds tugging our ankles, sharks at our backs.
We ignored prized friends & other winnings.
The reasons for our withdrawal gather in red tide.

Fuel In Vacant Lots: Essays On Queer Existence

by E.M. Bertram, Ed.

Includes work by Jen Alabiso, Woody Loverude, Zachary Jean Chartkoff, Jaffa Aharonov, Kim Schneidman, E.M. Bertram

for those fumbling through & those who make it to the other side

© 2007, 28 pp.

5.5x8.5, hand-stitched
cover art by Jaffa Aharonov
$5 (S&H incl.)

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from Jaffa Aharonov's "Ballad of a (Bearded) Lady Man":

Let me explain.  A few months ago, I decided to no longer hide the fact that I am a naturally hairy and (arguably) female bodied person.  I am now living life as a thoroughly scruffy and ambivalently gendered person.