::SIX GALLERY PRESS::BOOKS::

	Aleph-Bet, An Alphabet For The Perplexed Text by Joshua Cohen Art by Michael Hafftka Judaism/Art/Literature Pre-order at Amazon Writer Joshua Cohen and artist Michael Hafftka interpret the twenty-two letters of the “Aleph Bet,” the Hebrew alphabet. Through their images and texts, Cohen and Hafftka engage these letters, in form and in function, in manners both mundane and mystical. The images, and the three texts (two stories entitled Naming and Shabbos Dinner, with Letterforms, and the essayistic A Metaphysical Disquisition Upon the Nature of the Hebrew Sophiyot), together formulate a challenge to the Second Commandment, which forbids representation, in a style at once traditional and modern, expressively mindful of what it means to lack faith and yet, in the turn of a phrase, at the stroke of a paintbrush, refusing the consolation of cult.
View the illustrations	coming soon (2008) Amritanubhava Jnaneshwar George Franklin Michael Hafftka In 2008 Six Gallery Press will publish a new version of Amritanubhava by George Franklin with illustrations by Michael Hafftka. The Amritanubhava (The Nectar of Self-Awareness), by the 13^th century Indian poet Saint Jnaneshwar, along with Jnaneshwari, Jnaneshwar’s verse commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, remain to this day the most celebrated revered works in the Maharati literary tradition. George Franklin is a poet who has spent a number of years in an ashram in Maharastra. The text will be accompanied by thirty six illustrations, or “illuminations”, by Michael Hafftka, representing the letters of the medieval Maharastri “Modhi” alphabet in which the poem was originally written.
	Arab on Radar Poems by Angele Ellis Amason Angele Ellis’s poems have appeared in Mizna, Grasslimb, and Pittsburgh City Paper, and are forthcoming in Voices from the Attic, Volume XIV (The Carlow University Press). Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press, 2007) is her first book of poetry. She was a prizewinner in the 2007 RAWI Competition for Creative Prose for “Desert Storms,” an excerpt of a novel in progress. Arab on Radar was written in response to a post-9/11 world. This first book of poetry reclaims the author’s Arab-American identity, and reaffirms the power of imagination in the wake of political and personal crisis.
	coming soon (2008) Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors Poems by Peter Klappert with drawings by Michael Hafftka Circular Stairs by Peter Klappert was published in 1975 by The Griffin Press. Six Gallery Press will be publishing a new edition with drawings by Michael Hafftka. the drawings were created for the poems in 2007. To see the drawings click here.
	Conscious/Unconscious Michael Hafftka Fiction/Literature Amazon Hafftka began writing Conscious/Unconscious in 1973 and completed it in 2006. Conscious/Unconscious is a book of short stories narrated in the first person, weaving an inner life made real by paradoxes and conflicting drives. The 27 drawings created for this book are not illustrations of the stories, but rather add another dimension to the written words. Hafftka is a visual artist represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum, The MoMA, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, et al....
	Death Poems Che Elias Fiction/Poetry Amazon A new collection of poetry and fiction some of Elias' texts from his middle period which were unpublished up til this point. Death Poems is funny, fierce and maddening. Some of his best writing.
	footnotes tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Introspective Extroversion Amazon footnotes" collects 32 years worth of material by the jack-off-of-all-trades known (sometimes) as tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE. It rewrites, comments on, & excerpts from his 1st 9 books - covering everything from concrete essays to mad scientism to practicing promotextuality to scripts to rebuttals of critics to lists to autobiography, etc.. using texts, drawings, photographs, etc.. A MASSIVE compilation relevant to film & video making, performance, experimental language use, neoism, & much, MUCH more...
	Jacob's Ladder 2 ed. Tim Miller Amazon Fiction/Poetry/Interviews 280pp, trade paper The Dosoevsky tribute, uniting all of us to the underground where it is more rational to be splenetic.
	Jazz 2: Parents Jiri Klobouk Fiction Amazon Six Gallery Press is proud to present the Re-Release of Jiri Klobouk's groundbreaking text from the 1960s a truly unique approach to writing at that time, or any other. A truly amazing book "Jazz 2: Parents" is a long awaited return to print for Klobouk!
	King Everything Kristofer Collins Fiction/ Poetry Amazon King Everything collects Kristofer Collins best poems, the ones he chose to have preservered from several of his earlier collections and manuscripts. It is lucid, funny, beautiful and tightly written.
	Limit Point Michael Brodsky Fiction Pre-order at Amazon Limit Point is a collection of stories. A veteran avant-garde novelist, playwright and translator of Beckett's Eleutheria, Brodsky (Detour) resurfaces with this beguiling collection of two novellas, one short story and three short-shorts... All the work here is drenched in a weary angst, but Brodsky's joyful relief in writing—despite uncertain posterities—comes through on every page. — Publisher Weekly September 24, 2007 It should be obvious to serious readers, then, that Brodsky…is a sensitive, original, and insightful writer, one of the best produced by this country in the last 30 years. — Harvey Pekar, Village Voice, August 20-26, 2003
	Meddles Into Preclusion (Collected Poems) Che Elias Poetry Amazon 140pp, trade paper Meddles Into preclusion Collects Che Elias Best Poems The ones that he wishes to have preserved. Ranging From his Early Stream Of Consciousness Verse To his later More Complex Prose Pieces. The Collection completes the daunting task of gathering them all here for the first time These pieces in particular had Never Before Been Presented As A Whole Piece, the author hopes that they are represented as a consistent Entity.
	Mercury, the Dime Michael S. Begnal Poetry Amazon Written in 1992-93, this long poem represents an important step in the poet's evolution. Is it a lyrical post-Beat vision of America, or the deployment of self-distancing tactics and imagery in the growing knowledge of the illusion of such a notion? Both. This well-produced volume features an original cover design by graphic artist Kim Decker.
	Naked Prayers John Reoli Poetry Amazon Naked Prayers collects John Reoli's best poems over the last few years, A decidedly unqiue collection.
	Paradise, or the part that dies Dana Killmeyer Fiction Amazon Dana Killmeyer's First Book. is one of the finest in years... a funnny, brilliant and enthralling take on life and personal growth, Paradise, Or The Part That Dies is written in an affirming prose style which shifts from straight and clear to darkly mystical.. One of the best discoveries of the year.
	Regionrat Richard Laskowski Fiction Amazon 448pp, trade paper Excerpted from Tim Miller's review: "Regionrat is essentially a tale of friendships, relationships, parties, drugs, and death, that takes place in the first three or four months of 1995. Such material could have easily been mangled by a lesser author--it could have descended into a dry memoir, a vapid and uninteresting story of self-indulgence, or it could have simply been boring. After all, how many novels about high school does there need to be? Thankfully Laskowski sidesteps all of these pitfalls."
	Shannon in the Coal Town Victor E. Navarro, Jr. Fiction Amazon A novella from the author of Victorious Delusions... Shannon In The Coal Town is the first book from 6GP's Imprint Convergence - Navarro's vivid prose illustrates a simple love story in a Pennsylvania Mining town.
	Still Life With Psychotic Squirrel C B Smith Fiction Amazon Six Gallery Press is proud to announce the RE-release of CB Smith's cult classic Still Life With Psychotic Squirrel-A landmark underground novel in the vein of Tom Robbins and William S Burroughs.
	Streets for Two Dancers Robert Gibbons Poetry. Amazon 116pp, trade paper From the author: "Most of the pieces in Streets emanate out of my commute to and from work: car, ferry, walk, subway. Each mode of transportation allows opportunities for language to rise up to meet events at different speeds. For example, the bulk of the poems arose from my walk beginning at the waterfront in Boston, through the Financial District, past some of the oldest buildings in the country, to the subway."
	COMING SOON (SPRING 2008) Sum Yonat Hafftka Poetry 66pp, trade paper Israeli born Yonat Hafftka immigrated to the US at the age of 22. She has been writing poetry in English since and SUM is her first published book. Ms. Hafftka is an executive at Quigo, Technologies, Inc. in NY.
	The Abacus Che Elias Fiction Amazon Che Elias's 4th novel and finest work to date, tells the tale of his own upbringing and downfall in contemporary West Virginia, Written in a straight forward though far from mainstream style which is a great departure from his early work yet still cutting edge, a moving portrayal of retribution in the tradition of Breece D'j Pancake and William Faulkner.
	The Book of Assassinations Robert Gibbons Poetry. Amazon 132pp, trade paper From Alice Clemente, reviewer: "The poems of Robert Gibbons, like many by his mentor, Baudelaire, are gem-like petits poemes en prose. Some of them oneiric, others more direct reflections of daily experience, they speak sensitively, often eloquently, to life's many epiphanies. Streets for Two Dancers and The Book of Assassinations testify to a life close to books, art, nature and, above all, the depths of the human spirit."
	The Condemned Noah Cicero Fiction Amazon Noah Cicero's The Condemned is surely one of the most important books of the year. The Second to Be Published by the acclaimed author ... A series of unforgettable images of the Lives, Loves and Hates of many inhabitants of Youngstown Ohio... Beautiful, Maddening... Obscenely Funny!
	coming soon (spring 2008) The Fall of Miss Alaska Poems by George Franklin George Franklin studied poetry at Harvard with Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Robert Fitzgerald. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, and in two anthologies, First Flowering: The Best of TheHarvard Advocate, and Roof: Poems From the Naropa Institute. The Fall ofMiss Alaska is his first book of poems.
	The Lakes of Coma Michael S. Begnal Poetry Amazon 68pp, trade paper: $8.99 USD The poems in The Lakes of Coma range across America and beyond, taking in a wide array of subject matter-from small town unrest to the realities of life in the city, human relationships, race, sex, and becomes an examination of modern-day society to the very limits of language itself. The writing is original, laden with vivid imagery and passages that form a unique mode of expression. Along with shorter pieces such as "Steady Bombing" and "Sensualist Notes," The Lakes of Coma also includes the long major poem "Mercury, The Dime" (coming in 2005 in its full, unexpurgated form). This collection, Begnal's first, represents a poetic vision more than ten years in the making.
	The Last Great Glass Meat Million John Thomas Menesini Poetry Amazon 112pp, trade paper The Last Great Glass Meat Million is a collection 7 years in the making. The book can be described as an autobiographical pome novella, wherein the documentary-style material was written at different times under different circumstances, it reads as a whole, following a powerful thread from beginning to end. The strength is in the detailed observation of the dead and dying american smalltown.
	The Pagan Ellipsis Che Elias Fiction Amazon 328pp, trade paper Includes introductions by Kane X. Faucher and John Thomas Menesini Elias' fourth book extends his current whimsical linguistic rampages through a collagist mysticism that challenges the very conventions of narrative. Themes of sexuality intersperse with diaphanous naturalist themes to produce what is perhaps Elias' most "musical" examples of his prose.
	The Rite of Passage Joseph McCullough Poetry Amazon 96pp, trade paper Perhaps the best way to characterize McCullough's work is to let the work itself speak: "Perfect as itself and its imperfections, as within ourselves a mind learning of the earth and its position in a universe simultaneously becoming a self of one and global society, by rising to a level of self intraspection where ideas flow."
	The Terror of Loch Ness Che Elias Drawings by Michael Hafftka Fiction/Art Pre-order at Amazon “The Terror of Loch Ness” is a spiritual resolution born from an extreme experience of rape, psychic devastation and violence. Che Elias's sentences can often be interpreted in several ways, while the gut-wrenching story and the essence remain specific. Given the intensely emotional and cathartic nature of The Terror it is altogether appropriate, if not artistically necessary, for Elias and Hafftka to express such extremes honestly by wielding a pen, or a brush, with total abandon. Reviewed at MUNGBEING.COM
	coming soon (2008) West Virginia A novel by Che Elias with drawings by Michael Hafftka In West Virginia, the protagonist relives a traumatic experience in the quest for rehabilitation and purging through a dialogue in which even the room is a participant. West Virginia, like The Terror of Loch Ness, describes an inner mental space bound by terrifying constrictions and expanded by vistas of the imagination. To see the drawings click here.
	Wheeling Che Elias Fiction Amazon Early stories written by Che Elias in between his novels "Juliet..., Remember" and "The Pagan Ellipsis"--These early pieces present a uniquely off kilter view of the world --Which later carried through in works Such as "The Abacus" And "Death Poems".