Stray Dog Press

2009-10-09T08:02:00.001-07:00

BankerWessel's design of A Sky That Is Never the Same is featured in Dirty Fingernails: A One-of-a-Kind Collection of Graphics Uniquely Designed by Hand.

About Dirty Fingernails:

The artists featured in Dirty Fingernails, make a concerted effort to do projects that require them to step away from the computer to create one-of-a-kind designs for clients and themselves. They demonstrate that good design doesn’t have to be clean—in fact, the messier the better. From silkscreen prints to collages created from photocopies, to hand-drawn lettering, each designer explains their process and why they’ve chosen to work in their chosen medium. It’s an inspirational collection that will make even the most computer-savvy designer drool.

From Dirty Fingernails:

BOOK RELEASE!

2009-05-11T02:30:00.000-07:00

Stray Dog Press will be celebrating the release of A Sky That Is Never the Same

Monday, 18th of May, 9 pm

@Hornstull Strand

http://www.hornstullstrand.se/

S.C. Hahn will be reading, and there will be books available for purchase.

If you can't make it, make sure to order your copy from straydogpress@gmail.com.

UPDATE
A History of the Confederacy of the Unconscious, a poem from A Sky, has been posted on the Dossier Journal blog. Check it out.

The House of Your Dream

2009-04-19T03:23:00.000-07:00

Omaha, a prose poem by S.C. Hahn appears in the newly released The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry.

from the product description-

The House of Your Dream...is unique in its diversity and includes voices from Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. Poets include Nin Andrews, Robert Bly, Aleš Debeljak, Russell Edson, Marie Harris, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Peter Johnson, Kim Kwang Kyu, Morton Marcus, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Simic, Tomas Transtromer, James Wright, and many others.

New York Stories Update

2009-04-01T15:40:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately New York Stories, the English language bookshop in Vasastan, is closing its doors, so A Sky that is Never the Same will no longer be available there. However, you can order your copy from straydogpress@gmail.com.

New York Stories

2009-02-18T02:35:00.000-08:00

A Sky That Is Never the Same is now on sale at the English language bookshop New York Stories in Vasastan(Odengatan 100). The price is 250:-. GO CHECK IT OUT!

2008 Nebraska Book Festival

2008-10-15T14:13:00.000-07:00

Stray Dog Press editor, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, will be reading from A Sky That Is Never the Same at 9:15 am in the Gilmore Room at the Museum of Nebraska History in Lincoln, Nebraska as part of the 2008 Nebraska Book Festival.

Stray Dog Press will have a table, and books will be for sale all day Saturday.

More Covers!

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Each one is unique.

A Sky That Is Never the Same is now available!

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Don't they look great? Stray Dog was very lucky to have BankerWessel design this book. The book has been printed in an edition of 200 copies, and each one has a unique cover, hand stamped at the BankerWessel studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Please email straydogpress@gmail.com to order your copy. We will be posting about upcoming events and information about where you can buy A Sky... so check back soon!

About Stray Dog

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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.

A taste of what's to come...

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A Sky That Is Never the Same.

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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...

2007-05-10T07:40:00.000-07:00

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)