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Magra Books presents writers who are up to the all-encompassing challenge of producing books that strive to make “news that stays news.” Writers who are passionate about language, language that knows no borders.
"the poems that they make in hell are done with mirrors"
from Toward Morning: Selected Poems
by Bruce Boyd
edited by Bill Mohr
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#poetry #venicewest #thenewamericanpoetry #californiapoet
"Pink is a direct result of rusting. / I’m gnawing on material like candy."
from Pretty Punks: Poems, Portrait & Play
by Jessie McCarty
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#poetry #narrative #drama #southernlit #queerlit #irish #english
"A chime sounds / and because I’m using language / I know that I’m awake."
from The Cartographer's Lament
by Dennis Phillips
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#poetry #DennisPhillips #time
Two men dancing as they are superimposed over an arial shot of a city at night.
“‘I’ll have what you want—’: never an opening line that reassured me … I preferred the less direct approach…”
#daybooks #RobertCrosson #essays #collage #CourtneyGregg
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A line drawing of an abstract face speaking to a larger seated figure.
“Look! What is there in my bare room? Nothing. Not even the shadow of a mirror. In my poor life, what do I have? Nothing. Not even the shadow of a woman. Nothing, not even a little bit.”
#radioplay #CorradoCosta #doodles
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Book art for Toodle-oo by Paul Vangelisti and William Xerra, published by Magra Books. The design features a collage of cut-up printed text fragments and a partial image of a human eye seen through vertical strips of paper. The title “Toodle-oo” appears in large roman at the top, followed by “Paul Vangelisti & William Xerra” in an italic serif font. At the bottom, the Magra Books logo shows a hand-drawn fish carrying an envelope in its mouth. The overall color scheme is black and white.
"As soon as the music starts the story's older than you think."
#poetry #PaulVangelisti #collage #WilliamXerra #artistbook #librod’artista
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Book cover for Desert Sequence by Dennis Phillips, published by Magra Books. The background features a pencil or charcoal drawing with abstract desert-like textures—vertical and horizontal hatch marks suggesting sand, grass, or windblown terrain. In the lower left corner, a simple hand-drawn fish appears, carrying an envelope in its mouth. The text reads: “Dennis Phillips — Desert Sequence — Magra Books.”
"The way is clear and the stations mapped / hold tight your relics and effigies / the plumeria are in blossom."
#poetry #DennisPhillips #CourtneyGregg
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The title "For a Curved Surface" and author attribution "Ray Di Palma" and the logo for Magra Books imposed over black and white photos of two staircases. One is a spiral staircase, and the other is a straight staircase.
"NO PREXIES NO PROXIES / Get out and learn something / Get in and do something / Get out get in get in get out get get get"
#poetry #RayDiPalma #collages
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A watercolor drawing of a satyr's head and torso, close up, on cotton rag paper. On top of the image is the text " Epigrams; Marcus Valerius Martialis" and at the foot of the image is the Magra Books logo, including the black and white image of a trout with a book in its mouth.
"A bartender and a butcher, a bath and /
a barber. A game board with pieces, /
and my own small selection of books..."
#poetry #translation #Martial #ArtBeck #GiulianoDellaCasa #epigrams #Latin #classics
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Advertisement for Martha Ronk's book The Unfamiliar Familiar featuring line art from the inside of the book and the Magra Books logo.
"It shadows you in an alternate universe of everything exactly the same
exactly the same corridors into which darkness echoes its own expansion;"
#poetry #literature #noir #chapbook #martharonk
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