Research Catalog

Title

Elixir / Lewis Warsh.

Author

Warsh, Lewis

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022.
• Berkeley, California : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; Newcastle upon Tyne : Inpress Books
• Elmwood Park, New Jersey : G & H Soho
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Warsh, Max
• Gordon, Jada
• Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
• G & H Soho (Firm), printer.
• Prestige Printing (Brooklyn, N.Y.), printer.

Description

130 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Animated by a poignant blend of humor, pathos, joie de vivre, and nostalgia, Elixir is an extended meditation on everyday life and the passage of time. Fragments of narrative, overheard dialogue, song lyrics, and slant memoir surface and recede throughout. Examining the inseparable entanglement of the quotidian and the profound with wit and candor, these poems are personal, direct, and elusive at the same time."--Publisher

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Poems.

Note

• "Cover artwork: Lewis Warsh, La Disparitum #2, 2009, collage on board, 15 x 20 inches. Cover design by Max Warsh. Book design and typesetting by Jada Gordon and goodutopian. The type is Bell MT. Printed and bound at G & H Soho. Covers printed offset at Prestige Printing and letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse" -- colophon

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Berg Coll 22-307 bound in publisher's printed stiff wrappers.

Contents

Night sky -- Stowaway pantheon -- Old flame -- Almost nothing -- Grand Hotel -- On Johnson Road -- Last judgement -- Here we are -- Au gratin -- Agency of the letter -- Anything you say -- Shelter Island -- State of grace -- Intermezzo -- Not guilty -- Silence of the yams -- No tomorrow -- Show of hands -- New pants -- As a teenager -- On the Western front -- Hall of mirrors -- Second Chance -- The open air theater moves indoors -- To the lighthouse -- Blue Moon -- Intermission -- Noblesse oblige -- ln spite of everything -- Steve's -- Silent movie -- Rapid response -- One drink minimum -- Don't tell anyone -- Weak in the knees -- Not far -- Someone I Know -- Single occupancy -- Night insects in the trees -- Life of the party -- Elixir -- First Communion.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-307

ISBN

• 1946433934
• 9781946433930

OCLC

1310621473

Author

Warsh, Lewis, author.

Title

Elixir / Lewis Warsh.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022.

Distributor

Berkeley, California : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; Newcastle upon Tyne : Inpress Books

Manufacturer

Elmwood Park, New Jersey : G & H Soho

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition, First printing, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Biography

"Lewis Warsh (1944-2020) was a key poet of the second generation New York School and--as a teacher, poet, mentor, and publisher of Angel Hair and United Artists Books--a significant figure in New York poetry communities for over 50 years. He authored over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including Out of the Question: Selected Poems 1963-2003 (Station Hill Press), One Foot Out the Door: Collected Stories, A Place in the Sun (both from Spuyten Duyvil) and Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books). With Ugly Duckling Presse, he published Alien Abduction and the chapbook Flight Test; his final book, Elixir, is forthcoming from UDP in 2022. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council of the Arts, The Poet's Foundation and The Fund for Poetry. Mimeo Mimeo #7 was devoted to his poetry, fiction and collages, and to a bibliography of his work as a writer and publisher. He taught at Naropa University, The Poetry Project, Bowery Poetry, SUNY Albany and Long Island University (Brooklyn), where he was director of the MFA program in creative writing from 2007-2013. He lived in Manhattan and in Western Massachusetts."--Publisher.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-307 bound in publisher's printed stiff wrappers. NN

Location of Other Archival Materials

Copy in Berg Coll 22-307 separated from Lewis Warsh papers (Berg Coll MSS 35928); Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Local Note

Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook and zine collection.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Warsh, Max, cover designer.

Gordon, Jada, compositor.

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

G & H Soho (Firm), printer.

Prestige Printing (Brooklyn, N.Y.), printer.

Warsh, Lewis, former owner.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-307

JFD 23-186