An Establishment of Change

I've just wrapped up three projects and feel pretty damn good about it. But a lot remains on the plate, so today provides a tiny respite from the slavish sweatshop that is Round Bend Press.

I'm particularly pleased with this effort--the re-publication of K.C. Bacon's An Establishment of Change: Poems, 1974-1994 which first appeared in 1994 as a hand-made, paper and glue craft-book published by Bacon himself through his Irvington Press. The book was a limited edition that was mainly given away. Today, it is available at Lulu, the wonderful Print On Demand store where the entirety of Round Bend's bibliography is held.

The book has also been set up at Amazon, and will appear there within a week or so. Buy it today or wait until the Amazon page is up, but do buy it and marvel at poems like this one:


The Hangover

This morning I awoke
to find the pain of a small bird
nesting in my head.

(1978)

Can the poet's self-inflicted suffering be stated any clearer? Or truthfully?

I don't think so, which is why I selected this book as Round Bend's first excursion into new territory, i.e., the publication of work other than my own.

The cover painting is the poet and artist's Yellow Interior.

TS