Kore Press Short Fiction Award Winner 2007

The Saving Work
Tiphanie Yanique

Short story chapbook, laser printed and hand assembled with unique burn mark on cover.

20 pages, 8.5 x 5.5" paper
Price: $8 ISBN: 978-1-888553-23-5

"Filled with images at once beautiful and stark, The Saving Work is a powerful, poetic study of why we do what we do. Tiphanie Yanique opens a new window into the complexities of island life."

-- Chitra Divakaruni

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Audre Lorde
Photographs by Camille Bonzani
Price: $10 ISBN 1-8885530-10-3

"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it.

Uses of the Erotic shines among Audre Lorde's powerful legacy of speeches and essays, and has influenced feminist thinking for more than 15 years. The false dichotomies that Lorde debunks persist in our cultural imagination: the separation of the erotuc from the spiritual and political. Now, Kore Press brings this essay into stand-alone focus, reprinting it in a fine, handbound pamphlet illustrated with photographs by Tucson photographer Camille Bonzani.  Designed by book artist Nancy Solomon, the essay is offset and letterpress printed in an edition of 1000.

The Fascination Begins in the Mouth: Anger
Mary Gordon
Artwork by Shelagh Mulvaney
Paper; offset prested text sewn into letterpress printed cover. Comes with printed brown-wrapper envelope for sending through mail
16 pp. 5.5 x 9.25 1000 numbered copies
Price: $10 ISBN 1-888553-04-9

First appearing in The New York Times Book Review in 1993, The Fascination Begins in the Mouth: Anger is reprinted as a stand alone piece: an eloquent, poetic, and poinant narrative on anger. Gordon's topic, the uncomfortable yet interesting complexity of human emotion, is visually addressed by the highly charged imagery of the female figure as expressed by artist Shelagh Mulvaney.

Tell Me More
Brenda Ueland
Artwork by Cynthia Miller
Paper; offset printed text sewn into letterpress printed cover.
Comes with printed brown-wrapper envelope for sending through the mail.
13 pp. 5.5 x 9.25 1,000 numbered copies
Price: $10 ISBN 1-888553-03-0

Although she was one of the most prolific feminist writers of the twentieth century (six million published words), Brenda Ueland had only two books published during her 93-year lifetime. More than 140,000 copies of one of those books, If You Want to Write, have been sold by Graywolf Press since Ueland’s death in 1985. The rest of her writing includes articles, essays, and a newspaper column that ran for 30 years in the Minneapolis Times.

Tell Me More: On the Fine Art of Listening is accompanied by the work of Tucson painter Cynthia Miller. Her paintings recall folk art, furniture, and colors that sing. She listens.

Shoreline Series
Barbara Cully
Paper; offset printed text handsewn into letterpress printed cover
28pp. 8.75 x 6.75
Edition of 500, signed and numbered
Price: $10 ISBN 1-888553-05-07

Redshift
Joni Wallace
Cover painting by Nancy Tokar Miller
Paper; offset printed text sewn into offset printed cover
22pp. 5.5x8.5
Price: $11 ISBN 1-888553-12-x

In the poems of Redshift, images from science and mathematics dance with artifacts brought shadowed and glittering from memory. Engines and equations encounter forsythia and the green iridescence of locusts. These poems deeply attend to place and past. Wallace studies her memories in the metaphorical light of redshift—the increasing wavelength of visible light as a celestial object recedes—revealing in the smallest detail, infinity.

Designed by book artist Nancy Solomon, Redshift’s text papers echo the gritty, tactile imagery in Wallace’s poems, paired with a painting by Nancy Tokar Miller, which is at once deeply located and full of movement, playing with opacity and transparency. On the cover, cerulean stripes lick across bare handmade paper the color of Tucson sand.