new from above/ground press: Tribeca: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by Joe Blades

Tribeca: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

by Joe Blades

with a new afterword by the author

$5

in tompkins square

no one bothers us

with our bag-wrapped vodka

here in the night

in tompkins square

even though we don’t sit

near trashcan fires

or have cardboard

bedding under plastic

we sit pulling grain

watching cops on avenue a

behind our backs

an open-columned shrine

faith · hope · charity · compassion

carved in lintel stones

we leave the bottle

empty in its paper bag

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

November 2017

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Tribeca was originally produced through above/ground press in an edition of 300 copies, May 1997. It subsequently appeared in the anthology Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Fredericton NB: Broken Jaw Press / cauldron books, 2003), edited by rob mclennan.

Joe Blades is currently is a PhD Interdisciplinary Studies student at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton where he also earned a MEd in 2012. A participant– researcher in Canadian Studies in the Balkans since 2004, Blades has authored seven poetry books, with three of them also published in Serbian translation. His writings are in over 50 anthologies as well as more than 30 chapbooks the most recent of which is november poems (dusie kollektiv 8 & BS Poetry Society).

This is Blades’ fifth chapbook with above/ground press, after In the Valley of the Shadow of Poets' Corner (1994), Tribeca (1997), wriding (2000) and “t sea ache,” produced as STANZAS #19 (February 1999).

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com