Sweet Potatoes an amazing collection of fiction praised by the likes of Harry Matthews and David Antin, and Kikuko Otake's Masako's Story: Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima are now on the way to press.

It's been a hectic couple of weeks as Mr. Lou Rowan will soon be coming to Japan to read from his new book at the Four Stories Series in Osaka, and Otake, a survivor of the atomic tragedy at Hiroshima, will be reading from her book at peace rallies and other venues in the United States this summer.

We hope to finish proofing Yoko Danno's retelling of the Kojiki this month and get it to Coach House.

Philip Terry's Oulipoems is now available for order from Small Press Distribution. Click here for more information. The Oulipoems press release/sell sheet is available here.

In addition, you can still go to our shop and order.

Click here to order Philip Terry's latest from Small Press Distribution.

I would like to welcome a new author to the Ahadada fold—Yoko Danno. We are excited to see her voice join our ranks; please join me, Jesse and our fellow Ahadadians in welcoming Yoko Danno to our community.

We've recently added her biography to our author page, check it out here. Yoko Danno was born, raised, and educated in Japan. She has been writing poetry solely in English for more than 35 years. In addition to being a poet, she is also a translator and the editor of the Ikuta Press in Kobe, Japan.

Work continues (and is accelerating) on the Kojiki! See Jesse's notes about it here and here. This weekend, with Yoko Danno's permission, we'll post concept art for the cover and the illustrations contained therein.

Thanks to the folks at Rain Taxi and Lucas Klein for a fine review of Jerome Rothenberg's powerful collection. We're pleased to have brought it out. Here's the link. Enjoy!

We've got a Technorati Profile up now, too!

The 2007 Buffalo Small Press Book Fair took place on March 31, 2007 from noon to 6pm. The event was held at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum on Porter Avenue in Buffalo, New York.

The book fair was a one day event that brought together booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, and regional cultural workers of all kinds in an absolutely amazing venue. Poetry readings, performances, discussions, and related lectures also took place throughout the day. Jessica Smith (who I, disappointingly, didn't get a chance to talk to) wrote up a nice piece here on the event. The fair was a tremendous success-a great crowd rolled in. Karpeles (the venue) was just beautiful. We were blessed with a cool little corner right kind of wedged in between Gustave Morin, Rob Read and Daniel Bradley on one side and BookThug on the other. It was cool, because our books really just sold themselves - a surprising number of people were familiar with the press (more and more every year). Even more were familiar with our authors - thanks to Jerry Rothenberg and Jim Daniels regularly making their way up to Buffalo and Jesse for returning each and every year to establish a readership in Maryland and New York State! All of our titles sold - the new titles as well as those in our catalog - as well as the books of our friends at West House and Ikuta Press. In a day or two, I'll get up a post about all of the people we met and books I snagged. But just wanted to thank everybody who attended the fair and especially the organizers (thanks Chris and Aaron and Kevin and everyone else involved). Snapped lots of pictures, too!

This just in from Chris "Thanks to everyone for a great event! 800-1200 attendees, happy vendors, just about everything you could ask for!"

Ahadada agrees!

Oulipoems is now available for order from Ahadada Books. Click here for more information. Or—go directly to our shop and order.

Copies are on their way to Small Press Distribution - but not available for order yet. We'll keep you updated. For now, order copies directly from us!

"The title of Philip Terry's brilliant book pays explicit homage to the Oulipo; but while he uses many of the group's methods, he invariably goes his own way with them, making poems that are full of an original sense of wit and wonder. He has taken the notion that poetry can emerge from arbitrary procedures and transformed it into a sumptuous variety of explosively novel delights."
                                                                                  —Harry Mathews

Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962 and has been working with Oulipian and related writing practices for over twenty years. His lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors (1999), was highly praised by the Oulipo: "Enormous rigour, great virtuosity—but that's the least of it." Currently he is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex, where he teaches a graduate course on the poetics of constraint. His work has been published in Panurge, PN Review, Oasis, North American Review, and Onedit, and his books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000) and Fables of Aesop (2006). His translation of Raymond Queneau's last book of poems, Elementary Morality, is forthcoming from Carcanet. Oulipoems is his first book of poetry.

We would like to wish all of our readers and website visitors a safe and very happy holidays! For those of you who share in the cold northern climate, Ahadada's got something to warm you up courtesy of Bruna Mori from the land of sand, sunshine and swimming: an online chapbook featuring the aforementioned poet's latest!

Thus, we are pleased to present Tergiversation by Bruna Mori. Tergiversation is the twelfth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Bruna Mori is the author of Dérive (Meritage Press), a book of cityscape poems with sumi-ink paintings by Matthew Kinney, and the chapbooks Tergiversation (Ahadada Books) and The Approximations (2nd Avenue Poetry), homophonic and sensorial translations of the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik.

Her writing has been published in journals Fence, Trepan (California Institute of the Arts), and ZYZZYVA, among others, and presented at venues such as Beyond Baroque, City Lights, and The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

She writes essays—most recently for a Semiotext[e] anthology on Isamu Noguchi's designs for Poston (the internment camp where he was incarcerated). Her articles on artists and writers, such as John Zorn, le thi diem thuy, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, appear in disinfo, Random House Bold Type, and other magazines and anthologies.

Tergiversation  is available as a free download... Click here!

For all of our available online chapbooks, check them out here.