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Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:50:47 -0700
From: Jordan Stempleman
Subject: Kamau Brathwaite: CowPasture Update

from Kamau, in London
……. So far, after all our efforts, there has not been a single word/response
from Govt/Airport Authority, and the rumour grows louder that whats going on
at CP is not yet the ROAD but a ?new/old initiative of which the road is
PART - a golf course for the Airport’s tourists. To have created so much
havoc, thrown off so many people from the pasture, destroyed a rare
environment, thwarted my perhaps last opp to find a hoom in Barbados and set
up that Institute - all for a secret golf course! it makes you want to turn
to ’sterner’ other measures - at least you can see how these things come
about - not that we have that kind of psychology/raw material in ‘Paradise’

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And a hearty thank you for today's class! The reading was terrific, even despite some friendly but authoritative heckling from yours truly. This is a class I'm really going to miss. Take care of yourselves and keep reading, writing, and yes, publishing. As for that last point, please come chat if you'd like to start up your own publishing concern. The fine tradition of mimeo and laser printed work continues, and isn't expensive. A wonderful way to create community and spread word(s).

You know where to find me. I'm the one who can't graduate!

aloha, Susan

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I've been sending this around and around. Please forward it to friends.

TINFISH DOCKET


Tinfish Press has a number of fine volumes of poetry coming out this year and into the next. In order to defray the printing costs, which are considerable, we are asking that you purchase some existing books from us (see http://tinfishpress.com) or simply offer a modest donation to the press, which is now non-profit.

Here are the books that are coming:

Cribs, by Yunte Huang. Huang’s first book of poems, which moves vertiginously between baby cribs and word cribs, English and Chinese.

Surgical Bru ez, by Sherman Souther. Souther is a retired surgeon who earned his MFA at Naropa and lives on Kauai.

Composite Diplomacy, by Padcha Tuntha-obas. Tuntha-obas is a Thai writer in English whose book looks at the lyric through Thai and English lexicons.

Growing Still, by Deborah Meadows. Marvelous lyrical, philosophical meditations from Meadows, whose book Representing Absence came out recently from Green Integer.

Poeta en San Francisco, by Barbara Jane Reyes. Like many of our books, this one examines the bi-furcation of the diasporic experience, this time from the Philippines, through language and the poet’s wandering through San Francisco and its history.

When the Plug Gets Unplugged, by Kim Hye-sun, translated by Dee Mon Choi. A book of poems about rats by an important feminist South Korean poet.

Tinfish 15: more of Tinfish’s selection of experimental work from the Pacific region.

If you would like to give money toward one of these forthcoming publications, we will thank you on our website.

Donations of $50 or more come with a free Tinfish publication of your choice. Any help you can offer to publish work from the Pacific region is much appreciated.

aloha, Susan

Susan M. Schultz
Editor, Tinfish Press
Kane`ohe, HI 96744