Quale Press

01/02/2024

Just to state a fact: Quale Press will not be inclined to join pre-SuperBowl festivities in Kansas City. However, we will channel Firesign Theater and perform a version of How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All by simultaneously eating blue crabs in Baltimore while dancing in the streets of Detroit. When we reach AnywhereAtAll, we will break out in a rousing rendition of "Whatever, It Is, I'm Against It."

But if you do go to Kansas City, possibly in search of Taylor Swift, go check out the Small Press Distribution table in the Book Fair, and two of our recent titles.

24/11/2023

The Leaves Are Something This YearNew and Selected Prose PoemsBy Ed Barrett “Nothing gold can stay,” lamented Robert Frost in his short poem on the transitory nature of the good and the beautiful. What we prize above all is fleeting. What we value cannot be boxed away forever. It must be spent, ...

24/11/2023

First review on Ed Barrett's excellent book.

The Leaves Are Something This YearNew and Selected Prose PoemsBy Ed Barrett “Nothing gold can stay,” lamented Robert Frost in his short poem on the transitory nature of the good and the beautiful. What we prize above all is fleeting. What we value cannot be boxed away forever. It must be spent, ...

24/05/2023

Finally in stock, a new book of prose poems by Gian Lombardo available for any sort of public consumption. As the promo material for this book states: "These Prose Poems Are the Next Best Thing to a Cure for Dyspepsia."

http://www.quale.com/Start_GL.html

08/03/2023

Something tells me that Quale will be nowhere near Seattle now and in the near future. Where we actually are is anyone's guess...

17/01/2023

New from Quale Press! A translation of Bertrand's Gaspard de la Nuit that's readable and captures his poetry. And includes over 300 images, mostly Gothic-inspired.

(Available in paperback or hardcover editions.)

http://quale.com/Gaspard_LB.html

04/12/2022

Coming very soon...

16/09/2022

Just realized that Quale has been in existence for 25 years. Happy silver anniversary to us! Sorry to say, but a massive blowout celebration is not in the immediate forecast. In the meantime, we will maintain steadfast quietude and deal out abundant sarcasm as the situation demands. If you want to help us out, buy our books (go to www.quale.com).

Over and out.

The intro page for Quale Press listing new titles.

09/06/2022

Effective August 1 Quale Press's "distributor" (and we use the term very loosely) Small Press Distribution (SPD) will be raising annual fees to presses to $420 a year and $50 to "list" new titles. In return for this privilege, SPD lists Quale's titles for sale at its physical store and its online store, also taking a substantial percentage of book sales. There is really no sales representation going on. Even Amazon does not charge an annual fee or a fee to list titles to sell online. Looks like Quale's days at SPD are numbered and we need to shift to selling our books directly from our website. There have been problems with management the last couple years at SPD and its governing board has spent an unaccounted amount of money that now will be shouldered by small presses.

All we can say right now is Small Press Distribution? Small Press Bu****it.

25/04/2022

The maybe not-so-benevolent ruler of Quale Press has three prose poems up at Wet Cement Press.

https://www.wetcementpress.com/wcpmag2-giam-lombardo

Gian Lombardo’s recent book of prose poems is Bricked Bats. Lately, he also translated Maurice de Guérin’s The Centaur & The Bacchante. More often than not, he’s looking at Long Island Sound.

21/03/2022

Something's going on in Philly this week. Could someone bring us back a cheesesteak?

06/09/2021

And another book from Quale. A collection of prose poetry odds and ends and sods by Gian Lombardo.

http://quale.com/Bricked_GL.html

06/09/2021

Newly dropped by Quale! Newest standalone translations of Maurice de Guérin's "The Centaur" and "The Bacchante" in thirty years. Two excellent early examples of prose poems with extended narratives.

http://quale.com/Centaur_MG.html

16/04/2021

Our fearless director has translations of Bertrand and de Guérin in this excellent anthology.

Also new from BWP: "Beginnings Of the Prose Poem-All Over the Place" - Edited by Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville. Available now for order! We are hoping that the readers of this anthology will both encounter something new, and feel inspired to remember other texts admired and loved, perhaps more poetically than prosaically. Even as the prose poem occupies a controversial space, hovering between genres, its reach is vast, as is the selection here from Blake in the late 18th century to Kharms in the 1920s. The multiply diverse tones range from the ironic and sharp-witted to a lyric flow, and the poets, from the more familiar to the less so, from the occidental to the oriental, from the expected, like the cubist prose poets Jacob and Reverdy, and from the well-known writers, like Colette, Wilde, Rilke, and Kafka, to the less expected: novelists like Joyce and Woolf, and the lesser-known in a joyous mixture of voices.
ISBN: 9781733892476
155 pages $19.95

24/03/2021

Not the best of times to have a business beginning in the letter "Q" for branding. Oh, f**k.

Please buy our books anyways. We have nothing to do with the deep state.

24/02/2021

Sad to learn that Jack Allman passed away on Sunday Feb 21. Quale published a collection of his prose poems, Algorithms, and short stories, A Fine Romance.

http://quale.com/Algorithms_JA.html

04/01/2021

05/06/2020

Hey, a review of Harry Crosby's Seeing With Eyes Closed!

http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2020/06/harry-crosby-day.html

Yes, today’s the anniversary of Harry Crosby’s birth (June 4, 1898). He’d be 122. He died in 1929, age 31, alas (and alas) by hi...

03/03/2020

Small Press Distribution has also capitulated and won't be at AWP. Instead they are selling all books this week at 35% off. Use the code and support Quale and buy a ton of our books there.

03/03/2020

Having a helluva AWP in La Marais.

01/03/2020

AWP? Quale will be everywhere and nowhere there. Remember the Quale, that's all we have to say.

14/02/2020

Quale will be so into AWP this year, we will be crawling around Le Marais in Paris shouting the wonders of the bookfair to every tourist we meet.