press links Spring/Summer 2008 Aram Saroyan's Complete Minimal Poems is reviewed in Forward. The New York Times Sunday Book Review featured Richard Hell's full-page review of Aram Saroyan's Complete Minimal Poems. Hell writes: "This beautifully designed collection contains a poetry that shivers with itself, like something just born. Anyone interested in art made from words should have it." The NY Times-affiliated blog, The Book Design Review, also praised Complete Minimal Poems, writing that UDP's misison statement "should make all readers want to get out their wallets..." Dear Body: by Dan Machlin is reviewed in Rain Taxi. Afield by Anthony Hawley is reviewed in Galatea Ressurects Dear Body: by Dan Machlin is reviewed in Book Slut. Winter 2008 —Final Nite by Steve Dalachinsky is reviewed in Galatea Ressurection —Coldfront reviews The Development of Aerial Militarism and the Demobilization of European Ground Forces, Fortresses, and Naval Fleets —Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland is reviewed in Publishers Weekly and in Three Percent —Barrelhousemag reviews Dear Body by Dan Machlin. —Joshua Cohen conducts a Q&A with Aleksandr Skidan in Forward.com. —Onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn features Michael Ruby's new Web book, Fleeting Memories. —Kate Greenstreet interviews Kate Colby about Unbecoming Behavior in the march issue of Bookslut. —Rigoberto Gonzalez profiles UDP and reviews Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers on the Poetry Foundation Web site. —G.L. Ford's Landscapes of Fire and Music is praised in th U.K. culture mag Gold Dust (pdf download) —Paper Children by Mariana Marin is reviewed in the new issue of Zoland Review. —Behind the Lines has a piece about Paul Scheerbart's The Development of Aerial Militarism and the Demobilization of European Ground Forces, Fortresses, and Naval Fleets —Ron Silliman writes about Ideals Clearance (and calls Henry Parland "one of the most interesting new poets of 2007") —The Drug of Art by Ivan Blatny is one of the Best Translations of 2007, according to three percent and was selected by Eliot Weinberger as a top-ten book on Ready Steady Book. —Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan was seleced by Bob Holman and Margery Snyder as one of About.com's top 10 poetry books of 2007. Fall 2007 —The Nation has a review of The Drug of Art by Ivan Blatny in the December 24 issue. There is also a review in the Poetry Project Newsletter. —Harp & Altar features The Drug of Art by Ivan Blatny in an essay/review. —Aram Saroyan is interviewed on Shikow. —The New York Sun reviews new books of OBERIU translations, some of which first appeared in UDP chapbooks. —Aram Saroyan's Complete Minimal Poems is the subject of a review article by Curtis Faville in the October issue of Jacket Magazine. —Dan Machlin's UDP book Dear Body: is reviewed in Sink Review. —Read Richard Scheiwe's write-up of UDP in Sink Review's Láb Nötes. —91st Meridian, a Web publication of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, has posted a 2006 interview with two UDP editors. —Aram Saroyan, (Complete Minimal Poems, UDP 2007) is featured in a story on the Poetry Foundation's Web site. —Mark Lamoureux reviews Carbon by Michael Ford in Boog City (pdf) —Galatea Ressurects #7 features reviews of: After You, Dearest Language by Marisol Limon Martinez (read review) Nets by Jen Bervin (read review) The States by Craig Foltz with Ellie Ga (read review) Catalogue of Comedic Novelties by Lev Rubinstein (read review) New Translations: Osip Mandelstam (read review) Summer 2007 —6x6, "the most fashionable, talented, and prescient zine-journal of its time," is reviewed in NewPages. —Time Out New York features UDP in an article on DIY publishers. —The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure by Elizabeth Reddin is reviewed in Artvoice. —Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan is reviewed in several places: click here for reviews. CMP is also rated in the top-ten best-selling books of the month from Small Press Distribution. Spring 2007 —O TO 9 Special edition is given the Specific Object 2006 Publication of the Year Award —0 TO 9 is written up in The New York Times, Art Review and Artforum. —Evangeline Downs by Micah Ballard (along with Micah's poems from 6x6 #5, the infamous burned issue) is reviewed by Guillermo Juan Parra in Galatea Resurrects. —Osip Mandelstam: New Translations is reviewed by Julie R. Enszer in Galatea Resurrects. —In The Los Angeles Times, David Streitfeld mentions UDP (in conjunction with one of our new partner bookstores, Unnameable Books in Park Slope), in his column on the current state of independent bookselling. (Feb 7, 2007, L.A. Times) —The States by Craig Foltz is reviewed in the online quarterly, Umbrella editions. Fall 2006 / WINTER 2007 —The Final Nite and other poems is reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, Culture Catch, and allaboutjazz.com —Saint Ghetto of the Loans is reviewed in Galatea Resurects #4 —Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers is reviewed in The Boston Review —Chinese Sun is reviewed on The Center for Book Culture site —Brian Kim Stefans' reviews seven new poetry books in the current issue of the Boston Review, among them UDP books by Brent Cunningham, Aaron Kiely and Eugene Ostashevsky. —O TO 9 is reviewed in Art on Paper (September/October 2006) —0 TO 9 is reviewed in Modern Painters (September 2006) <download a PDF of the 0 TO 9 reviews> Summer 2006 —After you, dearest language by Marisol Limon Martinez is reviewed by Joyelle McSweeney in the print edition of Rain Taxi. ("...Martinez's book works as both a dream index and an index of dreams. Martinez converts the associative impulse of the Surrealists to a literal cross-reference, a gesture which is also this book's unique contribution to the abecedarian trend...") —The Best of My Love by Aaron Kiely is reviewed by Jane Sprague in the print edition of Rain Taxi. ("At times the lines in this collection are so stripped of ornamentation they seem dystopic, fatalistic, bereft. But these are intelligent poems, and they present their concerns openly, like a person with arresting self-awareness and humility so bold it shocks you.") —Saint Ghetto of the Loans by Gabriel Pomerand is reviewed in the online edition of Rain Taxi. READ REVIEW —Saint Ghetto... is also reviewed in Publishers Weekly ("...consists of toughly enigmatic texts matched by graphic pen-and-ink interpretations of them on facing pages, drawing on everything from mathematical symbols and Hebrew script to dice, guitars and mice. Reading this book rekindles the radical mid-century: exciting, unintelligible and essential...") — Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers by Lidija Dimkovska (translated from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid) is reviewed in Publishers Weekly ("...Dimkovska pins readers to the wall with rapid-fire linguistic energy...") — UDP is included in an article about the Brooklyn independent-press scene in The Village Voice. Spring 2006 —Bird & Forest by Brent Cunningham is reviewed in the online edition of Rain Taxi. READ REVIEW Winter 2005-2006 —Iterature by Eugene Ostashevsky is reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Jan. 23 edition. READ REVIEW —Read a review of Soft Hands by Stan Apps online in GutCult magazine. —Listen to an interview about UDP that played on the National Public Radio program Morning Edition in Buffalo, NY. Fall 2005 —Guillermo Juan Parra reviews Living Go and Dream by Julien Poirier in Venepoetics —Audio interview with Julien Poirier, followed by Julien reading from Living Go and Dream —Chicago Postmodern Poetry profiles Jen Bervin —Ken Rumble reviews Brent Cunningham's Bird & Forest in The Desert City Spring/Summer 2005 —Publishers Weekly reviews Bird and Forest (Brent Cunningham). Click HERE to read the review. —Chris Vitiello reviews The Blue Notebook (Daniil Kharms), Novelty Act (Maureen Thorson), O New York (Trey Sager) in the new issue of GUTCULT —6x6#9 is reviewed in Poets&Writers Magazine and New Pages —Charles Bernstein selects three UDP books for his list of Notable Books: Summer 2005. Jen Bervin's Nets, Dmitri Prigov's Fifty Drops of Blood, and Lev Rubinstein's Catalogue of Comedic Novelties. Winter 2005 —An audio interview with Dmitri Prigov, author of Fifty Drops of Blood, is posted here. (In Russian) —See a happy subscriber's response to his recent delivery on Zachary Shomburg's blog. (Shomburg co-edits Octopus magazine.) — Jen Bervin's Nets is reviewed as the "special feature" in the new issue of Double Room. —6x6 #9 is discussed at length by Ron Silliman in his blog. —Karen Weiser's Placefullness is reviewed by Noah Eli Gordon in the current issue of the Poetry Project Newsletter. Fall 2004 —Charlie Foos' Bending Spoons is reviewed in the current issue of Octopus Magazine. Summer 2004 —AUFGABE, RAIN TAXI and JACKET MAGAZINE REVIEW NETS —PEN AMERICA ACKNOWLEGES POKER Joshua Beckman's translation with Tomaz Salamun of Salamun's Poker (UDP 2003) is one of four finalists for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation — Jen Bervin's Nets is featured in a review by Ed Park in the Voice Literary Supplement, June 3 issue, p. 73. (It's also online at villagevoice.com; search for "Bervin.") Spring 2004 —Catalogue of Comedic Novelties and Fifty Drops of Blood are the focus of a lengthy review by Patrick Henry in the Moscow Times. —Nets and Fifty Drops of Blood are "New and Noteworthy Books" on newpages.com. —Rain Taxi (Spring 2004) includes a half-page review of Poker. —UDP's Eastern European Poets Series was the subject of a feature article in Mini Mag, a project of Muse Apprentice Guild. Winter 2004 UDP was featured this month in the first installment of Poets and Writers Magazine's new Small Press Points column. Kevin Larimer wrote: One look at the books published by Ugly Duckling Presse (www.uglyducklingpresse.org ) is sufficient proof that the Brooklyn-based nonprofit arts and publishing collective has no reason for an inferiority complex. What started in 1993 as the Ugly Duckling , a low-budget literary magazine with the short-lived subtitle Journal of the Russian and the Absurd , has grown into…not a swan exactly, but a fully functional small press that has published other periodicals, including 6x6 and the Emergency Gazette ; art books; and books of poetry—from handmade, letterpress volumes to perfect-bound titles with print runs of 500 to 1,000 copies. Recent offerings from Ugly Duckling Presse (the extra e is a nod to Kafka, of course) are the first titles in the Eastern European Poets series: Genya Turovskaya's Calendar , Alexander Vvedensky's The Gray Notebook, and Ilya Bernstein's Attention and Man . Poker by Tomaz Salamun was one of several books reviewed by Noah Eli Gordon in his "Recent Roundup" in the Feb/March 2004 issue of the Poetry Project Newsletter. He wrote: To turn the calendar back a few decades, the first complete translation of Tomaz Salamun's Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003, $10), his 1966 debut—translated here by Joshua Beckman and the author—restores the sequential structuring to many of these poems, which previously appeared only in part, and always out of context, in the various selected editions of his work. The beautiful letter-pressed cover lends the book a tactile dimension that parallels the way in which the wonderfully mystical, synaesthetic, and visionary poems of this book make a strange yet immediate sense. If you are interested in reviewing any UDP publications, please contact us at udp_mailbox@yahoo.com, and we'll happily send review copies.