Hanging Loose Press Hangingloosepress.com 231 Wyckoff Street Phone: (347) 529-4738 Brooklyn, NY 11217 Fax: (347) 227-8215 For immediate release: HANGING LOOSE TO PUBLISH MARK PAWLAK’S NINTH POETRY COLLECTION, RECONNAISSANCE Brooklyn—Reconnaissance: New and Selected Poems and Poetic Journals 2005– 2015, the ninth poetry collection by Mark Pawlak, “among the very best poets working today,” will be published by Hanging Loose Press on April 15, 2016. Reconnaissance brings together a decade’s worth of Mark Pawlak’s work exploring the nexus of Japanese poetic journals and American observational poetics. These new and selected poems owe allegiance to the early experimental books of William Carlos Williams (e.g. Spring and All) as much as to the Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagan and to Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior. They join aspects of poetry with the daily, or near daily, “takes” of journal writing, but differ from traditional diaries or journals by emphasizing the act of writing itself in collaboration with the day's account. Mark Pawlak is the author of eight previous poetry collections, and the editor of six anthologies. His most recent books, from which selections appear here, are Natural Histories (Červená Barva Press, 2015) and Go to the Pine: Quoddy Journals 20052010 (Plein Air Editions/Bootstrap Press, 2012). His poems have appeared widely in such anthologies as The Best American Poetry and Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust; and in many literary magazines, including, among others, New American Writing, Mother Jones, Poetry South, The Saint Ann’s Review, and Solstice. His work has been translated into German, Polish, and Spanish, and has been performed at Teatr Polski, in Warsaw. He supports his poetry habit by teaching mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he is Director of Academic Support Programs. He lives in Cambridge. (continued on back) Advance Praise for Reconnaissance: New and Selected Poems and Poetic Journals “Pawlak’s work succeeds in eliminating an undiscriminating “I” for an observant and
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