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Deep Cuts

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Deep Cuts

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book cover featuring drawings of a snake and two pigs facing off against a godlen background with the title centered in white text

The Romance of Happy Workers

Cover of "Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard," by Ron Padgett, which features a photograph of a man wearing a sweater, tie, pants, and Converse sneakers, all in black and white.

Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard

Cover of "Fugue State," by Brian Evenson, which has smears of neutral colors and unreadable typography in the lower right corner.

Fugue State

Cover of "The Pink Institution," by Selah Saterstrom, which has the image of a pink pig superimposed in front of a black and white photo of a group of people in 1800's fashion.

The Pink Institution

Cover of "A Toast in The House of Friends," by Akilah Oliver, with a photograph of a sunset or sunrise in the background and silhouetted trees in the foreground.

A Toast in the House of Friends

Cover of "Coal Mountain Elementary," by Mark Nowak, which features a photo of a man in the dark, lit from behind by lamps, wearing a mining uniform.

Coal Mountain Elementary

Cover of "The Meat and Spirit Plan," by Selah Saterstrom, featuring a discolored purple photo of a woman wearing a cloak and a hood with devil horns.

The Meat and Spirit Plan

Cover of "The California Poem," by Eleni Sikelianos, featuring a landscape photograph contained in a grid.

The California Poem

Cover of "The Book of Medicines," by Linda Hogan, featuring a drawing of a green turtle overlaid on a crescent moon.

The Book of Medicines

Cover of "Shut Up Shut Down," by Mark Nowak, which features an image of an industrial machine which is flying an upside down American flag from the top, and the entire image is shaded in red.

Shut Up Shut Down

book cover featuring artistic image of a man sitting on a chair looking at the camera against a wall. Image centered on the cover with title and author above and below image.

You Never Know

Cover of "Margaret & Dusty," by Alice Notley, which features a close-up photo in black and white of a woman's face.

Margaret & Dusty

Cover of "How to Be Perfect," by Ron Padgett, which features a detailed drawing in muted colors of a bird perched on some sort of wall mount.

How to Be Perfect

Book cover featuring image of the tops of dead trees reaching into a white sky from a ground point of view with author and title in skinny black text centered

You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake

Cover of Bob Kaufman's "Cranial Guitar," featuring a vague sketch of a guitar, shaded in blue with a yellow center, and the left side in a shade of bright yellow.

Cranial Guitar

Cover of "Clifford's Blues," by John A. Williams, featuring a drawing of a Black man wearing a tuxedo and playing the piano.

Clifford's Blues

Cover of "Circle K Cycles," by Karen Tei Yamashita, focusing on brightly colored images of temples, statues, and city life, as well as a drawing of a woman smiling widely.

Circle K Cycles

Cover of "Teducation," by Ted Joans, which features an illustration of a crouched over figure that has the head of a fish and the body of some kind of monster.

Teducation

Cover of "Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things," by Dick Gallup, which features a rough illustration of three cherries with a white background.

Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things

Cover of "Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire," by David Mura, which shows long bungalow-style houses with lit windows that show different people going about their business.

Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire

Cover of "Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry & Prose," which features a black and white image of the back side of a man playing a piano.

Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose

Cover of "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah," by Patricia Smith, which features a desaturated image of a Black woman staring at the camera, holding a baby doll.

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Cover of "Civil Disobediences," with 14 separate black and white photos of the Statues of Liberty, all from the same angle.

Civil Disobediences

Cover of "Captain Blackman," by John A. Williams, featuring black, green, and red-reminiscent of a flag. The cover also features a picture of a Black solider carrying a rifle.

Captain Blackman

book cover featuring black and white drawing of a person walking dogs on a cobblestone street during a storm with birds surrounding them and purple strips of color with the title and author

Why We Live with Animals

Cover of "The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead," by Eleni Sikelianos, which features collage style images: a close-up of someone's eyes, a person on a bicycle, and a man laying down. The rest of the background is a checkered patterned in varying cool tones.

The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead

Cover of "Paul Metcalf Volum I," by Paul Metcalf, which features an black and white image of a man lighting a pipe.

Paul Metcalf, Volume I

Cover of "Half in Shade," by Judith Kitchen, which is an black and white photograph of a lady sitting on a fence, wearing a suit, and has her feet propped on a tire.

Half in Shade

book cover featuring painting of a lightbulb and screw hanging from threads on a wall next to a firefly and polaroid on a green wall background

Truth, War, and the Dream-Game

book cover featuring multicolored background of black, orange, yellow, pink, and blue tones with a crayon texture with the title and author in white text

Things I Must Have Known

Cover of "The Cosmopolitan," by Donna Stoneipher, which features a wild flower holding a bird that's feathers are a painting of a lady's face.

The Cosmopolitan

Cover of "Rounding the Human Corner," by Linda Hogan, which features a closeup of a horse's face and eye and the rest of the cover gives the appearance of looking felt-like.

Rounding the Human Corners

Cover of "Paul Metcalf Volume Two," by Paul Metcalf, which features a black and white image of a man in glasses smiling at the camera and leaning against a railing.

Paul Metcalf, Volume II

Cover of "Netsuke," by Rikki Ducornet, which features the interior of a Victorian that looks into a room that is lit by sunlight.

Netsuke

Cover of "Legends from Camp," by Lawson Fusao Inada, which features a black and white photo of a man, woman, and a little boy, and the rest of the cover is a bright red.

Legends from Camp

Cover of "The Iovis Trilogy," by Anne Waldman, which has a faint yellow mandala design at the top of the page with a tribal statue in front of it, and the rest of the cover is in black.

The Iovis Trilogy

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