Danielle Schwartz
Corollary Press
The website: http://www.corollarypress.org/Corollary_Press/Home.html
Corollary Press is a small press based out of Philadelphia, that publishes work by artists and poets: Christopher Stackhouse, Lynn Xu, Jason Daniel Schwartz, Pamela Lu, Bahnu Kapil, Summi Kaipa, and Craig Perez.
Corollary publishes by writers of color, Christopher Stackhouse is an African-American painter and poet He does lyric meditations on the visual line in Slip. Slip is currently sold out, and Stackhouse was also co author of Seismosis which was published by another press.
as a mark is made it becomes an image
as you make a mark you become the image
of an image making a mark—remaining
frames your tree as what was once now gone
the “ephemeral monument” to phosphorescence or
the vapor, the audience, the contrast, the sophist-
ication swollen by a bee sting, sort of reddish,
a pyrotechnist “walking the finale”—
(Slip)
Bhanu Kapil’s: an Indian émigré did a hybrid memoir of displacement, colonialism, and mental illness in Water Damage. I have read her work in The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers and was really moved by it. Kapil’s work is also sold out. Kapil and Stackhouse seem to be this presses most popular writers. Here is a small section of Water-Damage,
Imaginal technology for the map of the day is timed to open. In this way the psychiatrist can work economically with three kinds of black space at once. An economy is a system of apparently willing but actually involuntary exchanges. A family for example, is really a shop-front; a glass plate open to the street. Passers-by might mistake it for a boucherie, splashed as the customers/butcher are with blood. Transactions are frozen in place beneath a chandelier of the good knives.
(Water-Damage)
The editor of the Press is Sueyeun Juliette Lee, who is also a writer. Lee grew up three miles from the CIA, and now lives in Philadelphia, where she edits Corollary Press. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Press, 2008) and UNDERGROUND NATIONAL (Factory School, 2010). An essay on the craft of teaching poetry is forthcoming from the University of Iowa's anthology Poets on Teaching (2010). All of the books at Corollary Press are hand-bound, using an Asian stab-stitch binding technique. Many of the covers were letter-pressed using an antique Adama platen press. Visually the books look beautiful. You can see them attached to this link, http://www.corollarypress.org/Corollary_Press/Mission_and_Titles.html
It looks like they have just redone their website, switching over from bog to website. The website has more of a style to it with the home page being the definition of the word Corollary. I found the website easier to monitor than the blog, it is nice to see how small presses develop.
