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James Day Leavitt’s Like a Warped Mirror is now available from Nine Point Publishing for $30. CLICK HERE to order your copy before they’re gone!

Printed entirely on letterpress, handmade marbled endpapers & string-bound in Halifax, Nova Scotia, this beautiful edition is limited to 26 signed & lettered copies.

Like a Warped Mirror is a poem in four parts spanning the entirety of one’s life. Each part is aptly titled BIRTH, LIFE, DECLINE, & DEATH. The work proves Leavitt’s ability to observe, filter, refine, & finally, convey with brilliant poesy the experience of Life in its myriad of facets.

Collectible and Timeless, this edition is the first of Nine Point Publishing’s letterpress chapbooks. In the tradition of the exceptional and rare small presses that produced equally exceptional and rare editions, such as Limberlost Press, Gotham Book Mart, & Black Sparrow Press, Nine Point Publishing strives to produce editions of this same exceptional and rare caliber.

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James Day Leavitt, Like a Warped Mirror, a poem in four parts, typeset and printed on a 1950′s Heidelberg Windmill letterpress by the Dunstan Press in Scarborough, Maine, marbled endpapers and stitch binding by Rhonda Miller in Halifax, Nova Scotia

• Available October 1, 2011 on our website
• Book release reception & reading, October 20, 2011 at Mayo Street Arts in Portland, Maine from 7-9pm, open to the public, cash bar

Robert Gibbons, This Time, an extensive collection of poetry from this veteran prose poetry heavyweight, hardcover with dust jacket, a limited edition is possible

• Available October, 2011 on our website and other online retail outlets

Larry A. Fader & John Cage, 120’00″: An Interview on Zen Buddhism (circa 1976), serialized in Omphalos 11, 12, & forthcoming 13

• Available Spring 2012

There will be many more titles coming out next year, so stay tuned!

Omphalos 12 has been shipped to Bridgton Books, Cherry Alley Cafe, & The Celtic Exchange. The rest to follow shortly.

INTRODUCING OMPHALOS 12

FEATURING

Maggie Belisle
Derek Brown
John Cage
Mia Cartmill
Michael T. Corrigan
Mark DeCarteret
Lisa Dombek
Larry Fader
Robert Gibbons
Lesley Kimball
James Day Leavitt
Andrew Periale
James Priest
Gary Rainford
Martin Steingesser
Tobey Ward


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Omphalos 12 will be shipping this week!

NOW AVAILABLE!

Title: Rhythm of Desire & Resistance
Author: Robert Gibbons
Edition: 50 copies, 26 signed/lettered
Method: Offset
Binding: Stapled
Size: 5.5" x 7.5"
ISBN: 0982426321

Publish Date: May 9, 2011
Price: $14

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Cover Image: Marc Chagall, Les Amants au ciel rouge (Lovers in the Red Sky), 1950
oil on canvas; 25 5/8 in. x 26 1/8 in. (65.09 cm x 66.36 cm);
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Wilbur D. May; &copy 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris


After quite a hiatus during a very trying time in my life, Nine Point Publishing is in the process of publishing two books and the next issue of Omphalos. All three will be released within the next two months and I hope you all find the publications compelling and worth buying.

Omphalos 12 will feature several writers, some familiar to Omphalos and some not. The featured artist in Omphalos 12 will be Jody Fallon from central Pennsylvania.

Like a Warped Mirror, by James Day Leavitt, is currently about to be rolled through Dunstan Press‘s 1950′s Heidelberg Windmill Letter Press, and limited to 26 signed and lettered copies. The pages and cover and beautiful marbled endpapers will then be mailed up to Rhonda Miller in Halifax, Nova Scotia to be string-bound by hand. The final product should hopefully be completed by early June.

The Rhythm of Desire & Resistance, by Robert Gibbons, is a book of twelve prose poems that will be published in time for Robert’s reading at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, MA on May 13th. This edition is limited to 50 copies, 26 of which will be lettered and signed by the author. A very exciting note regarding this book is that Robert received rights from the Artist’s Rights Society (New York/Paris) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to use Marc Chagall’s “Les Amants au ciel rouge (Lovers in the Red Sky)” on the cover of the book! It’s a beautiful painting that is mentioned in one of the poems in the book and very fitting for the Spirit of the Book.

So please don’t think we’ve abandoned hope or forgotten about you or ourselves. We certainly have not! And now that the bookstore will be passing away, I hope to spend most of my time working to publish fine writing and artwork in fine editions and ephemera much more often!