Date: Mon, 29 May 95 22:50:56 EDT From: "Ellen Greenblatt" KELSEY ST. PRESS -- Lesbian Titles (1995) 2718 Ninth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 Phone (510) 845-2260 Fax (510) 548-9185 NEW from Kelsey St. Press: THE ROSY MEDALLIONS: Selected writings by Camille Roy The Rosy Medallions is the second collection of writing by lesbian author and performance artist Camille Roy. These startling, witty pieces combine a playwright's keen ear for vernacular speech with a poet's compression. Every line has its physical punch. Robert Gluck writes, "Her nasty, luscious stories and poems make up a dyke coming of age novel, set not in the American family, but in our traveling explosion of body-race-class-gender." The language is droll and exhilarating, tender and skittish and captures the confusion and swagger of teen experiments. Bay Area reviewer Kate Bornstein notes, "We need artists like Camille Roy to shake up our identity and bring us closer to our hearts." "She never fails to keep our interest in lesbian eroticism. Bodies connect, even when they rub one another the wrong way....A new talent worth watching." --- RANDY TUROFF, BAY TIMES "With furiously matter of fact language, Camille Roy cracks open another fresh world view....Roy's work is heralding the arrival of writers who are aware of the complexity of the lesbian situation and the subsequent necessity of speaking in tongues."---EILEEN MYLES, LAMBDA BOOK REPORT 72 pp., $10, ISBN 0-932716-35-0 ISLE Rena Rosenwsser, text, Kate Delos, drawings "A beautifully designed volume, Rosenwasser's Mediterranean explorations are joined by Kate Delos's abstract drawings. The lines of poetry ebb and flow across each page in a natural rhythm that echoes softly throughout the island journey."---SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN Lesbian author's long narrative prose poem is set on the Greek islands; composed of journal entries, guide book prose and personal meditations, the piece resonates with puns and overlays. Rosenwasser continues her explorations of prehistory, place and embodied sensations. "Each island," she writes, "is its own clear page," as she herself, page-like, is inscribed by her own experience. Artist Delos's spare sensual drawings, originally in graphite and wash, are talismans for the text. 56 pp., six color drawings, $12.95, ISBN 0-932716-28-8 Limited signed edition with original color drawing, $40 SIMULACRA Rena Rosenwasser, poems, Kate Delos, monoprints Selected by New American Writing to be among the best of the small press offerings at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Simulacra is a collaboration between a poet and a painter whose monotype series, The De Gracchi, is reproduced in 14 full-color plates. "It's like moving through a portrait gallery, and Delos's deep greens, somber oranges locate the gallery in some Roman catacomb or Pompeiian atrium." ---SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC MAGAZINE 49 pp., 14 color plates, $23, ISBN 0-932716-21-0 Limited signed edition, clothbound and sewn in signatures, $75 ***ORDERING INFORMATION*** Small Press Distribution, FAX (510) 549-2201 Phone (510) 549-3336 or (800) 869-7553 Inland Books FAX 800.334.3892 Phone 800.243.0138 Electronic Orders 800.453.0077 For a complete catalogue, as well as subscriber information, FAX, or write: KELSEY ST. PRESS 2718 Ninth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 Phone (510) 845-2260 Fax (510) 548-9185