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A Pictorial History of the Great Outdoors is an anthology loosely organized around the outdoors.

Jessica Savitz's poems are imbued with a strange, skeptical mysticism, in which a visionary impulse is interrupted, again and again, by anxious self-reflection. The mute orders are given voice, as Whitman directed, "without check with original energy," while emblems of over-refinement are returned to the realm of the organic: "Speech comes out fur-lined." Savitz's buoyant, melancholy, ungainly voice, with echoes of folklore, medieval romance, Spanish surrealism, Delta blues, Black Mountain poetics, and teh motley metaphysics of contemporary life, is a marvel of invention. Savitz is a genre unto herself.

&Now is an anthology of short fiction that attempts to explore the boundaries of the written word and challenge the form of the 19th century novel.

Traces of many books masque themselves inside Gretchen E. Henderson's "Galerie de Difformite." With the head of a novel and the body of a poem, this extraordinary work interrogates the nuanced concepts of ability/disability, voyeurism/exhibition, deformity/normality--all with a wry sense of self-representational humor. Lushly designed with crowdsourced images, text deconstructions, and enough narrative tomfoolery to make Tristram Shandy blush, the "Galerie" is both funhouse and curiosity cabinet, art catalogue and "choose your own adventure." This bestiary of the novel-as-poem-as-essay-as-art grows outside of the bounds of the Book and, in the process, redefines deformity for the digital millennium.

This lushly illustrated book -- Beyond Burnham: An Illustrated History of Planning for the Chicago Region -- provides a fascinating account of a century of visionary planning for metropolitan Chicago. From Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett's famed 1909 Plan of Chicago to the push for superhighways and airports to battles over urban sprawl, the book showcases an illustrated portrait of the big personalities and "big plans" they espoused. *

Introduction by Wayne Allen Jones- Charlie Newman's poetry comes at you from a ragged left margin, but two lines into any poem and you realize there is nothing ragged about the left of charlie's writing or his vision. His lines, images, ironies, and voice ring with precision and rhythm of tool steel hammers pounding on the hull of the sunken freighter of the body politic looking for survivors...

The Continental Caper is a mystery novel told in large type interspersed with images of cut hair and images related to hair styling.

This is Chester Alamo Et Costello's book of photography of his grandfather. It tells his grandfather's entire history.

Catalog of available works from Sara Ranchouse Publishing, 1998. Catalog includes romantic fiction, adventure and detective fiction, art publications, and ephemeral material. Also includes DUZ magazine and its predecessor, DuDa magazine. New (1998) publications include "Lubb Dup" by Ann Tyler; "Roland and Jacque", "Radical Document", and "Hootchimama" by Liese A. Ricketts; and "Misdirection" by Kevin Riordan.

Not Just Another Pretty Face is a collection of paintings and photographs, accompanied by brief descriptions of the experience of creating the piece by both the artist and the subject. It is meant to complement an exhibit from 2003 at the Hyde Park Art Center.