in the mail

I've been stockpiling mail the last six months, so my desk now sports a teetering stack of recently received books. When I have more time, I'll add asterisks and exclamation points to lengthier reviews of these; in the interim, a list of goodies:

• Audun Lindholm, publisher of Gasspedal, mailed me six chapbooks: Soldatmarkedet by Monica Aasprong, Z by Pål Norheim, The Democracy Destination: Iraq by Das Beckværk, Sirkusformer by Kestr Aschnitz, Blomster by Peter Waterhouse, and Langz by Annelie Axén. He also included a recent issue of the Norwegian literary criticism magazine Vagant.
  
• A Handmade Museum by Brenda Coultas (Coffee House Press, 2003).
  
• Crepuscule on Mission Street by Aaron Peck, a Nomados Press chapbook.
• Remainland by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson (Action Books, 2005).
  
• Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith (Outside Voices, 2006).
  
• a selection of Puddle Leaflets from Max Middle.
• a box of blueberry soup from Tobias in Sweden.
• a hefty envelope from derek beaulieu, including several chapbooks from No Press in Calgary and a few Nyhil Press publications by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl.
• a postcard and announcement about A Beepliographic Cyclopoedia from jwcurry, whose bpNichol Cerebration I was sorely disappointed to miss this past weekend.
• Serie A edited by Paal Bjelke Andersen and Jørn H. Sværen (H Press, 2005).

Much to say about all of these! Check out the publisher links, and I'll expand soon.