Neurosuite by Margherita Guidacci
Translated by Marina La Palma
1975
200 copies printed
Italian Old Style and Centaur typefaces
History: Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. From the beginning, we linked our editorial policy to a poetics of allowance that encouraged women to write directly from their own creative imperatives. Other founding goals were to publish a list that reflected the cultural variety in this country and to publish first books by unvetted writers. In the eighties, we instituted a series of cross-genre collaborative works between poets and visual artists. A decade later, as our list included more established writers, we created the Frances Jaffer Book Award for a first book to assure continued support of emerging poets. Our early books were handset and printed two pages at a time on a basement letterpress. Now we are exploring the interactive capabilities of the electronic media. At the heart of the Press remain the pleasures of the written page, books that can be held and carried, and ongoing participation in a continually changing poetry community.
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Frances Jaffer Book Award : The Frances Jaffer Book Award for a first book of poetry that is experimental in spirit and practice was established in 1999 in honor of Bay Area poet and editor, Frances Jaffer (1921-1999). The winning selection is published by Kelsey Street Press.
Selection Process.
KSP receives manuscripts that have been nominated by writers working in a range of exploratory styles and living in diverse parts of the United Sates. The judge remains anonymous until the selection is final. We will be considering manuscripts for this award sometime after January 2009.
Winners
Winner, 2003
Occupied by Carol Mirakove
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, this year's judge, writes: "Occupied is porous to life, a life Mirakove expresses with a strict beauty of witness, of demand."
Winner, 2001
CUSP by Jocelyn Saidenberg
Barbara Guest who selected the book writes: "CUSP is a poem of exceptional sensibility and ardor."
Winner, 2000
Unknowne Land by Eléna Rivera was nominated by Myung Mi Kim and selected by Kathleen Fraser, the first judge of the series.
Of her choice, Fraser writes: the book "is a brilliant, mature, deeply engaging work, whose Question is constructed through its unfolding shape. . . .Rivera's writing is contemplative and thickly quiet, then bell-clear."