C&P, First Series--Mead Ranch
Relevant History
Albion Books takes its name from its first home–Albion Street in San Francisco–though the inspiration to use it came from William Blake’s “Visions of the Daughters of Albion.” Each year since its inception in 2008 Albion Books has put out anywhere from four to five limited edition handmade chapbooks of poetry or poetics, plus assorted print ephemera like broadsides, cards, and chaplets. Due to their limited edition size, many Albion productions go quickly out of print–but not before garnering positive notice! The titles were generously featured by Fred Sasaki on the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet, in April of 2010. You can visit his blog entry here. You can also visit the Colorado State University Libraries website and Woodland Pattern for other relevant history.
Petrarch's Sonnet 133 (2009)
Ongoing Projects
Spring/Summer 2010 Second Series titles, most of which are still available, include Laura Walker’s bird book, Nathanaël’s Vigilous, Reel: Desire (a)s Accusation and Jane Miller’s from Seven Mediterraneans. Michael Cross (of the incomparable Atticus/Finch books) has tipped his hat to our production of Vigilous, Reel here.
There are four titles in the 2010/2011 Third Series. Fall/Winter 2010 features Lisa Fishman’s at the same time as scattering and Jonathan Skinner’s Warblers, while Spring/Summer 2011 has brought out chapbooks by C. D. Wright and George Albon. Michael Cross has again generously noted our productions–this time of Skinner’s Warblers and Albon’s Ryman Room–while Rob McLennon has written up Lisa Fishman’s chap here.
The Fourth Series will debut out of Philadelphia in October of 2011 with Dawn Lundy Martin’s chapbook Candy.
Jonathan Skinner's Warblers
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