THE BEGINNING IN

THE BEGINNING IN is a chapbook by Lesley Yalen published by minutes BOOKS. A pre-printing of 26 copies with hand-drawn covers was made for a reading at the Green Street Cafe on December 8, 2010. The first printing of 100 copies (hand-sewn and -numbered by the author) was first available at AWP. It has since been trimmed to a seven inch square and is available here for $7 (+ shipping) or with other minutes BOOKS, at the CUNY Chapbook and Juniper Festivals, and in the best bookstores: Flying Object, Amherst Books, Ada Books, and (soon) Pilot Books. (To be added to any of these or other lists or for all inquiries, email minutesBOOKS At gmAil dOt cOm)

Friday, February 18, 2011

Reading THE BEGINNING IN

Lesley Yalen will be reading from THE BEGINNING IN tomorrow night at Ada Books in Providence at 6 p.m. You can read a from THE BEGINNING IN in notnostrums. Also, because today is Lesley's birthday, could very well read her poem "-ALGIA" in Octopus #13. And, of course, if you don't already, you will want to get her first chapbook, THIS ELIZABETH, from Eric Baus' Minus House press, before it's too late. You can read more about Minus and his house in Baus' own NEGATIVE NOON, available now from minutes BOOKS. (Buy it together with THE BEGINNING IN and save paper and paper money.)

Trimming THE BEGINNING IN

In honor of Reb Joshua Bolton's birth(yester)day, seven by seven copies of THE BEGINNING IN were trimmed to their appointed size: 7" by 7". It happened, on the one ton paper cutter atFlying Object, like this: