Monday, May 14, 2007

About Stray Dog

Stray Dog Press is intended to be a home for the unheard of, the odd, the promising, the gonna-be, the might-have-been. We wish to publish the way that we read, without the limitation of genre, subject matter, or language. We prioritize both the personal and the international. We want translations, poetry, fiction, art, forgotten histories, collaborations, and cultural studies outside of the academic mold. We want what's current and what's hopelessly out of date. We want to make books that stand on their own, but also enrich each other by being a part of the same project.

Stray Dog Press, edited and founded by Nebraska native Elizabeth Clark Wessel, is based in Stockholm, Sweden and has two tongues: it's a bastard of the American Midwest and the Swedish capital.

Friday, May 11, 2007

A taste of what's to come...

Thursday, May 10, 2007

A Sky That Is Never the Same.

Our first book, A Sky That Is Never the
Same, prose poems by S.C. Hahn, will
come out in the fall of 2007.

S.C. Hahn is a native of Nebraska and lives in Stockholm,Sweden. His prose poems, poems, essays and articles have appeared in journals and anthologies in the U.S. and Great Britain.

Inspiration...

From Max Hayward's introduction to Poems of Akhmatova (tr. Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward):

Apart from literary salons and gatherings, there was another place at which the Petersburg intelligentsia met: the celebrated Stray Dog, a cabaret artistique... There was a small stage from which poets of all the contending "schools" came to read their verse to an after-theater crowd: Blok, Bely, Bryusov, Khlebnikov, Mayakovski, Kuzmin, Gumilev, Yesenin... The public often went there just for the "show," and it was the scene of many notable encounters.... The atmosphere of the place, the decor, and Akhmatova's feelings at a certain moment about the society for which it was a venue are poignantly evoked in her poem "We're All Drunkards Here..." (p. 13, Poems of Akhmatova)