I'm just going to paste this email from Michael Cross:

Atticus/Finch is honored to present, after much anticipation, our seventh chapbook: Lisa Jarnot’s Iliad, Book XXII. As has always been the case in American history, there’s much to be learned from Homer’s tale, and, as most of you are already aware, Jarnot’s treatment makes this story all the more salient. Crisp, cutting lines turn one after the other as she paces Achilles’ race after Hector! The pathos! The tragedy of force and the hysteria of its telos! And the similes here are truly epic—short blasts balanced on the music of the line, holding still (i.e. buzzing, energized, polysemous (read: rest)). All in a single, thick (some 50 pages!), elegant edition (every damn book meticulously made by my own two hands!)! Don’t sleep: the entire A/F back catalog is sold out. This one will go fast, so get out an envelope and cut a check!

Dick Cheney writes of Jarnot’s project:

Homer’s Iliad succeeds in expressing to the millions who “just don’t get it” why we noncombatants owe gratitude, honor, and life pensions to those who go to war on our behalf. The book is visionary: for “Helen,” read “weapon of mass destruction;” the rest falls into place. Bravo to the brave soldiers, and let’s hope it doesn’t take them ten years to get back.

Visit www.atticusfinch.org to take a peek at the cover and read sample poems from the book (click on the book’s title for all the details).

These books will not be available in your local bookstore, nor will they be carried by SPD (though we LOVE SPD!). These books are mail-order only. Let’s meet square in the middle: I make the books by hand, you order by hand. I like seeing drawings, pictures of the kid, creative packaging, but mostly, I like hearing a voice in the upper limit of your handwriting! From composition and production to ordering, each one of these books has passed through loving and careful hands!

Send $7, check, money order, or well-concealed cash to:
Atticus/Finch Chapbooks
c/o Michael Cross
State University of New York at Buffalo
Samuel Clemens Hall #306
Buffalo NY 14260-4610

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Lisa Jarnot
Monday, April 3 at 7 PM
Holloway Poetry Reading
UC Berkeley