October 2010
2 posts
November 2010: Proverbs
From the INBOX project
by Jonathan Ball
Possible Interpretation: A rhyme to remember how to avoid a hangover. Red sky at night: shepherd’s delight. Red sky in the morning: shepherd’s warning.
Variant: Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride, but you...
October 2010: X (Angel City) by Joseph Lease
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Broken World (Coffee House Press) and Human Rights (second edition forthcoming from Talisman House).
His poem “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner).
Marjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken World are as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as...
June 2010
2 posts
July 2010: GOATS by Amir Langer
Vladimir and Estragon are waiting, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, but goats and pushovers are very much alive in Amir Langer’s innuendo-riddled, politically charged, circumspectly violent one-act play, eager to vanquish their enemies, inherit the Promised Land, and seize the day, as hot as it may be.
Amir Langer is a Jerusalem-born, London-based software architect specializing in...
May 2010
1 post
May 2010 COOPERATIVE EXPLANATORY CAPABILITIES IN ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT by Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Pil and Galia Kollectiv are London-based artists, writers, and curators working in collaboration. Their work addresses the legacy of modernism and explores the way avant-garde discourses of the twentieth century operate in the context of a changing landscape of creative...
April 2010
1 post
April 2010: 32 SNAPSHOTS OF MARSEILLES by Guy...
32 poems of 32 words on 32 places in Marseilles. Each poem can be read in 32 seconds or less yet contains thought enough for 32 minutes of reflection or more. The author accepts that only 32 people will ever read or see these poems but would not be disappointed to be proven wrong.
20 pages, our biggest title yet.
March 2010
2 posts
March 2010: TRICK by Chris Kraus
“Within months, the street was alive with ambition. With their short ‘80s skirts and high-heels, the Bandito’s waitresses looked more convincing as sluts than I’d ever looked in the clubs. Everyone was going somewhere. Time was no longer so aboriginal. In this new environment, we who just wanted to sleep looked like pale maggots exposed to the sun.”
Chris Kraus is the author of four novels: I...
February 2010
1 post
SACRIFICE PRESS
Sacrifice Press publishes chapbooks of literary texts that strike us as interesting and special. We’re particularly drawn to self-referential fiction, pseudobiblical poetry, captivity narratives, blasphemous short plays, experimental nonfiction, and other textual puzzles.
SACRIFICE PRESS
Corvallis, Oregon
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January 2010
6 posts
February 2010: ASHES GIFTED by Joshua Abelow
Self-obsessed, self-aware, self-referential, self-examining, outrageously self-aggrandizing and endearingly self-deprecating, Joshua Abelow’s ASHES GIFTED is a collection of tongue-in-cheek words and images that could, if it wasn’t such a risky idea, be offered to favorite painters and poets to mix into their work.
I Don’t Want to Name Names
My name is Joshua Abelow. It...
December 2009: GRANDPA ZINN by Chris Wells
In GRANDPA ZINN, Chris Wells tests the Oulipian theory of the textual constraint and its power to produce surreal, subconscious materials. The author, whose presence dominates the seemingly simplistic narrative, makes sure that every letter of the alphabet appears at least once in each sentence, calling attention to the wonderful artificiality of the characters, the situation, and fiction...
January 2010: KITCHEN TIDBITS by Amanda Laughtland
Doing her share to support the wartime manufacture of superior housewives, Amanda Laughtland delivers KITCHEN TIDBITS, an excerpt from Improving Homes and Lives, a longer manuscript inspired by magazine articles and advertisements from 1943. Postcards to Box 464, her collection of eavesdropped and nostalgic poems, will be published imminently by Bootstrap Productions. From her own kitchen table...
October 2009: THE BINDING by Hanoch Levin
A one-act excerpt from the ever-relevant theatrical satire Queen of the Bathtub, THE BINDING marked the rise to notoriety of Hanoch Levin, Israeli playwright, poet, prose master, screenwriter, and stage director. First performed in Tel Aviv in 1970, the play received scathing reviews, won nationwide disapproval, and was deemed blasphemous, unpatriotic, and sickening. Following relentless public...
November 2009: BITTER HERB by Stephanie A. Myers
A self-conscious narrative evoking the famous biblical scene at Mount Horeb, BITTER HERB opens with a personal introduction: a literary convention that soon exposes itself as a clever fabrication. Calling attention to her own unreliability, the speaker stages a curious series of defining episodes—nebulous memories, manufactured phobias, imaginary facts, conflicting versions—that undermine...
SACRIFICE PRESS
Corvallis, Oregon
sacrifice.press@gmail.com
sacrifice-press.tumblr.com