- Artist: Harold Barclay
- Title: The State
- Format: BOOK
- Label: Freedom Press
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ISBN-1-904491-00-6
The state is neither an inevitable, nor natural, phenomenon, but the creation of despots. Its history is a history of power, wealth and tyranny. The immortality of the state is the greatest myth of our society. Anthropologist Harold Barclay explains how a powerful elite has hijacked control of society. Through control of agriculture, warfare, trade, labor and other resources the state has seized complete power. Do we really need the state or should we organise society ourselves?
- Artist: Howard Zinn
- Title: You Can‘t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- Format: BOOK
- Label: Beacon Press
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ISBN-0-8070-7127-7
[paperback] - An autobiography from the great activist and historian - a personal history of more than 30 years of fighting for social change - from civil rights and the Vietnam war, to organized labor. A lively, engaging and vastly entertaining political memoir. Now with a new preface.
- Artist: Various Artists
- Title: pine meoquanee
- Format: BOOK
- Label: Digitalis Industries
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_digi_pine_meoquanee
"this is the first annual digitalis anthology of works with multiple writers. contributors include musician friends of digitalis (keith wood, james blackshaw, christina carter, michael donnelly, james barrett, michael anderson, robert horton, and spencer grady) as well as non-musicians (denton harris, michelle angelini, julie cook, sid fallon, kade l. twist, indigo tempesta, paganini jones, and manion a. schwartz).
each book is hand-bound with cloth tape and a hard cover with a design by keith wood. artwork by keith wood, michael donnelly, eden hemming rose, and brad rose is also found on several pages. limited to 120 copies."
- Artist: Various Artists
- Title: February 2003
- Format: BOOK
- Label: Slow Toe (USA)
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slowtoe_feb2003
Features poems by Todd Colby (Riot in the Charm Factory, Soft Skull Books, 2000 and former lead singer of Drunken Boat), Alex Gildzen (Swimming, Submarine Enterprises, 1976), Thurston Moore (Fuck a Hippie but be a Punk, Glass Eye Books, 2001, guitarist with Sonic Youth), Matthew Wascovich (Boxes of Shattered Dishes, Slow Toe Publications, 2003, guitarist with A Real Knife Head).
First Edition, 1,500 copies
122 pages | perfect bound, color cover
"It was a beautiful concept. Get four writers, from different pockets of the U.S. to commit to composing a poem a day during the years shortest month. Then shuffle those poems together like a deck of well-handled cards and see what epiphanies develop.
The four poets involved Todd Colby, Alex Gildzen, Thurston Moore, Matthew Wascovich would seem to have little in common, besides deep humanist resonances, and certain tendencies towards emotional telegraphy. But they all threw themselves into the project. And while the country watched itself being sucked inexorably into Bush War 2, they wrote what they saw and said what they felt.
Each of the writers has personal themes that emerge over the course of the month: movies, recipes, cultural riff-raff, levys Cleveland, email, music. These and other topics are rolled by gentle fingers, prodded by moist tongues, tamped into cigarette-sized abstracts that rub against each other in a variety of ways. Sometimes it seems as though the poets are reading each others minds, each others moods; that they are connected by synaptic veins scrolling across the cold vastness of American February. Their thoughts and words sync up, forced into strange cohesion by the unstoppable forces of grave reality. But thats only sometimes. Mostly, they blow free, letting format and rhythm and content and mood erupt in reaction only to what each of them has written previously.
As though in the thrall of Heraclitus declaration that it is impossible to step in the same river twice, everyone here seems to be making an effort to repeat neither form nor function. All four appear to be highly attuned to the flow of their months work, extremely interested in seeing that their words are headed forward in all ways, dedicated to the idea of a personal, interactive narrative. And it works. It really works.
Everyone whos likely to read this book in the next twenty years lived through this month. And as you read these poems, little bits of the feel of February 2003, the tremors generated by the collapse of common reason, the general grasping-at-straws of the month, will flood your mind. This total commonality of experience between writer and reader has an unexpected effect. It sucks me/you/us into the give-and-take of the narrative flow to a much higher degree than usual. Like assholes talking back to their televisions, we will find ourselves drawn into the communicative subtext of this collection, penciling some of our own thoughts on the period into the margins. Hey, why not? If you bought the book, you can do whatever the fuck you want with it! Live it up.
But I must admit. What is perhaps most noteworthy to me about this volume is that its most arcane bit of underground rock trivia was written not by Thurston Moore (noted archeologist of lame duck rock facts), but by Alex Gildzen. Indeed, Gildzens reference to the early line-up of the Numbers Band may rate as the single best bit of pure information in February 03. But the rest of it still fucking great. To wander in these words, to amble through these minds, to have the opportunity to recast this savage month in new, more fully graspable termswell its just a goddamn treat.
So live it up. Again. And do it right this time."
--Byron Coley, Deerfield MA 5/03
- Artist: Ward Churchill
- Title: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imp
- Format: BOOK
- Label: AK Press (USA)
- Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ISBN_1-902593-79-0
"The record speaks for itself... The "Most Peace-Loving of Nations" has been engaged in brutal military campaigns in every corner of the globe, unceasingly, since its inception. In attempting to forever alter Americans false self-concept, Ward Churchill contextualizes US aggression and the most effective response to it yet-the attacks of Sept. 11th-in a readable format. Churchill has meticulously chronicled both U.S. military campaigns-domestic and foreign-1776-Present and U.S. attempts to violate, obstruct and/or subvert International Law from 1945-Present. Drawing from US military and interventioist history, lessons from Nuremburg and the UN‘s own voting records, the two Chronologies, exhaustively researched and annotated, illustrate a heartwrenching history of senseless butchery and democracy deterred. In this context, the only fitting question for a nation still reeling from the wake-up call of Sept. 11th is, "How can they not hate us?." In his newest offering, Churchill demands that the American public shake off its collective unconscious and take responsibility for the criminality carried out in its name. Introduction by Chellis Glendinning. Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder. A member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM (American Indian Movement), he is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. A prolific writer and lecturer, he has authored, co-authored or edited more than 20 books and 4 AK Press Audio cd‘s."
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