New book:  BIRD EFFORT by Ronald Baatz

I think Ronald Baatz is one of America's finest poets.
I know that many will agree with me when I say so.
You probably know Baatz already but if you don't you
should read this book as an introduction, since it is as good
as his other books, and they set a very high standard. 
A book consisting of fifty beautiful, short poems with birds
as the central theme.

I don't know how many times I have read these wonderful
poems during the process of putting this book together but still
I like to have the book close by or in my pocket when travelling.
I love these minimalist poems.

I think this chapbook will one day come to be regarded as
somewhat of a classic - a chapbook that people later will try to
locate, only to find that a mere 225 copies were made and all
are gone.

Ronald Baatz is not so keen on writing about himself or on me
trying to present him. He wrote once: "the only bio i ever give is
that i've been living in the same farmhouse close to twenty years."


Here at Kamini Press we are very proud to present
the fourth chapbook in our poetry series
 

BIRD EFFORT

by Ronald Baatz



32 pages of  poems.
First edition of 225 copies out of which 125 are signed by the poet.
Twenty-five special copies contain an original signed water color & ink
painting by Henry Denander

Mini-chapbook format, in wraps.
Cover artwork by Henry Denander.

$ 6 (plus $3 shipping all over the world)

Limited edition with signed artwork $15 (plus shipping)

Stockholm.

A Baatz Bibliography:

-ALL THE DAYS ARE Tideline Press 1974
-AFTERNOON PLUMS RISING Tideline Press 1982
-STRANGE BREAKFAST Permanent Press 1987
-LUCKY SO BEAUTIFUL Wolfscat Press 1989
-RAVAGED Clark Street Review Press 2000
-MT TREMPER HAIKU Flypaper Press 2000
-AT HERRING COVE Lockout Press 2002
-WHITE TULIPS Tideline Press 2003
-IN A CLAY PIG’S EYE Seastone Editions 2005
-ON THE BACK PORCH Concrete Meat Press 2006
-FISH FORK Seastone Editions 2008
-OUT OF HIS CHILDHOOD Zerx Press shared chapbook with Mark Weber 2007
-CEMETERY COUNTRY Zerx Press shared chapbook with Mark Weber 2008
-NEXT EXIT: SEVEN Kendra Steiner Editions shared chapbook with Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal 2008
-THE COMPANIONSHIP OF THE PLUM Kendra Steiner Editions shared chapbook with Bill Shute 2008
-THE ELEPHANTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE Cross+Roads Press 2008
-THE WORMWOOD REVIEW three special sections issues: 104, 140, 144
“Second Hand”, WR #104 1986; “Out in the Late October Garden”, WR #140 1995; “Every Winter”,
WR #144, 1997
-YELLOW SILK anthology of erotic arts and letters Harmony Books 1990
-THE BOOK OF EROS anthology of arts and letters from Yellow Silk
Harmony Books 1995
-SEVEN HUNDRED KISSES anthology of erotic writing from Yellow Silk HarperSanFrancisco