U N D E R C O N S T R U C T I O N
A work in progress, compiled by David Fern (Bristol, England), with commentary by Bill Shute (San Antonio, Texas). Last updated 11/24/09. Comments on each chapbook will be added gradually over the next year or two. KSE has been a labor of love on the part of everyone involved, and this bibliography documents the fruits of that love. And we’re still at it, releasing new chapbooks every month. We’ll add those as they are released. Send any questions or additions or corrections to us here at the KSE blog.
NOTE: RELEASE NUMBERS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT ORDER OF RELEASE OR ORDER OF COMPOSITION, except in the larger picture. For instance, #5 was surely written and released before #18, but #11 might not have been.
KSE #155, Jim D. Deuchars, “Monongahela: Abstract Destruct.” Issued 12 January 2010.
KSE #154, Bill Shute, “The Twenty-Fifth Life of Alcyone.” Sound Library Series, Volume 49. Issued 1 January 2010.
KSE #153, A.J. Kaufmann, “Vagabond Vacancy.” Issued 1 January 2010.
KSE #152, K.M. Dersley, “Many Septembers.” Issued 10 December 2009.
KSE #151, A.J. Kaufmann & Bill Shute, “Twombly’s Siracusa.” Issued 3 December 2009.
KSE #150, Michael Layne Heath, “Loons of a Dogman.” Sound Library Series, Volume 48. Issued 25 November 2009.
KSE #149, A. J. Kaufmann, “Via Alighieri.” Cinema Poetry Series, Volume 3. Issued 15 November 2009.
KSE #148, Misti Rainwater-Lites, “Vegas the Hard Way.” Issued 10 November 2009.
KSE #147, Bill Shute, “Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees.” Cinema Poetry Series, Volume 2. Issued 15 October 2009.
KSE #146, MK Chavez & Mira Horvich, “Pinnacle.” Issued 10 October 2009.
KSE #145, A. J. Kaufmann & Bill Shute, “Blues for Duffy Power.” Issued 20 September 2009.
KSE #144, Zachary C. Bush, “Spin.” Issued mid-August 2009.
KSE #143, A. J. Kaufmann, “Symbolisme Psychédélique.” Sound Library Series, Volume 47. In memory of Sky Sunlight Saxon, issued simultaneously with KSE #142 in early August 2009.
KSE #142, Bill Shute, “Plink, Plonk & Scratch.” Sound Library Series, Volume 46. In memory of Sky Sunlight Saxon, issued simultaneously with KSE #143 in early August 2009.
KSE #141, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal & Cynthia Etheridge, “Overcome.” Issued mid-July 2009.
KSE #140, Bill Shute, “Subtraction.” Issued early July 2009.
KSE #139, A. J. Kaufmann, “Antiquewhite Rain.” Sound Library Series, Volume 45. Issued early July 2009.
KSE #138, Bill Shute, “The Stumble.” Sound Library Series, Volume 44. Issued June 2009.
KSE #137, Aleathia Drehmer, “Circles.” Issued June 2009.
KSE #136, Bill Shute, “More.” Sound Library Series, Volume 43. Issued May 2009.
KSE #135, Bill Shute, “Stereo Action.” Sound Library Series, Volume 42. Issued late April 2009.
KSE #134, Ronald Baatz, “Headlights From The Otherside Of The World.” Issued May 2009.
KSE #133, Bill Shute, “This Day Without.” Sound Library Series, Volume 41. Issued early April 2009.
KSE #132, Doug Draime, “Knox County.” Photographs by Lena Ozuna. Issued April 2009.
KSE #131, Bill Shute, “Acres.” Sound Library Series, Volume 40. Issued March 2009.
KSE #130, Misti Rainwater-Lites, “Odd Years.” Issued March 2009.
KSE #129, Mira Horvich & Bill Shute, “Suspension.”
KSE #128, Bill Shute, “Hours Past Sunset.” Sound Library Series, Volume 39.
KSE #127, Brad Kohler, “Dog Nights, Dog Days.” Issued March 2009.
KSE #126, Michael Layne Heath, “Grey Rage (Dyed)”. Issued February 2009.
KSE #125, Bill Shute, “Marking Time.”
KSE #124, Michael Jacobson & Bill Shute, “A Gift of Stars.” Issued December 2008.
KSE #123, Bill Shute, “We’ll All Get By.” Sound Library Series, Volume 38.
KSE #122, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal. “Still Human.” Issued late December 2008.
KSE #121, Bill Shute, “Leaf Blowers.” Sound Library Series, Volume 37.
KSE #120, Jack Henry. “Empty Houses.” Issued January 2009.
KSE #119, A. J. Kaufmann, “Satori in Berlin (X-Berg Songs).” Issued December 2008.
KSE #118, Bill Shute, “Venetian Sage.” Issued January 2009.
KSE #117, Zachary C. Bush & Bill Shute, “Shanti.” Creel Pone Sound Study #10.
KSE #116, Misti Rainwater-Lites, “Next Exit: Ten.” Issued November 2008.
KSE #115, various artists, “KSE Last Poems.” Issued November 2008.
KSE #114, Jim D. Deuchars, “Allegheny Rising.”
KSE #113, A. J. Kaufmann & Bill Shute, “Beyond the Blue Rocks: Meditations on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.”
KSE #112, MK Chavez & John Sweet, “Next Exit: Nine.”
KSE #111, A. J. Kaufmann, “Poznan City Gospel.”
KSE #110, Christopher Cunningham, “In Gambler’s Blood.” Sound Library Series, Volume 36. Each copy came with a different original watercolor by Mr. Cunningham.
KSE #109, Stuart Crutchfield & Bill Shute, “Electronic Myth.” Creel Pone Sound Study #9.
KSE #108, Debbie Kirk, “Broken.”
KSE #107, Doug Draime, “Bones.”
KSE #106, A. J. Kaufmann, “East-West Train.” Sound Library Series, Volume 36.
KSE #105, Ronald Baatz & Bill Shute, “The Companionship of the Plum”
KSE #104, Richard Wink, “All Along The Wensum.”
KSE #103, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, “Garden of Rocks.”
KSE #102, A. J. Kaufmann, “Siva In Rags.”
KSE #101, Bill Shute, “Face to Face.” Sound Library Series, Volume 34.
KSE #100, Ronald Baatz & Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, “Next Exit: Seven.”
KSE #99, Aleathia Drehmer, “Thickets of Mayapple.”
KSE #98, Adrian Manning, “Wide Asleep, Fast Awake.” Sound Library Series, Volume 33.
KSE #97, Stuart Crutchfield, “Ozzified.”
KSE #96, Jim D. Deuchars, “Pieces of Eight.”
KSE #95, Bill Shute, “Quartet: Improvisations on the Mandukya Upanishad.”
KSE #94, Doug Draime, “Love and Blues in Oregon.”
KSE #93, Bill Shute, “Transparency.” Sound Library Series, Volume 32.
KSE #92, Bill Shute, “Shore Access.” Sound Library Series, Volume 31.
KSE #91, Bill Shute, “Afterglow.” Sound Library Series, Volume 30.
KSE #90, MK Chavez, “Visitation.”
KSE #89, Hosho McCreesh & Caleb Puckett, “Next Exit: Eight.”
KSE #88, Bill Shute, “Luna Americana.” Creel Pone Sound Study #8.
KSE #87, Doug Draime, “Last May (1968).”
KSE #86, Bill Shute, “Slash & Burn.” Sound Library Series, Volume 28.
KSE #85, Hosho McCreesh, “37 Psalms from the Badlands.”
KSE #84, Bill Shute, “Pulses of Time.” Creel Pone Sound Study #7.
KSE #83, Glenn W. Cooper, “Rimbaud in the City.”
KSE #82, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, “Keepers of Silence.”
KSE #81, Bill Shute, “Still.” Sound Library Series, Volume 29.
KSE #80, KM Dersley & Adrian Manning, “Next Exit: Six.”
KSE #79, Bill Shute, “44 Harmonies.” Sound Library Series, Volume 27.
KSE #78, Michael Layne Heath, “Sacred Grounds.”
KSE #77, Bill Shute, “Red Diptych (for Antoni Tapies).”
KSE #76, Zachary C. Bush & Bill Shute, “Intervals.” Creel Pone Sound Study #6.
KSE #75, K. M. Dersley, “Blue Velour.”
KSE #74, Bill Shute, “Don’t Look Back.” Sound Library Series, Volume 26.
KSE #73, (NUMBER NOT USED–#73 was accidentally used on some copies of Bridge To Nowhere, which is actually #70)
KSE #72, Bill Shute, “Texture and Accident.”
KSE #71, Bill Shute, “Objectless (For Kazimir Malevich).”
KSE #70, Bill Shute, “Bridge To Nowhere.” Sound Library Series, Volume 25.
KSE #69, Christopher Cunningham, “Next Exit: Five.”
KSE #68, Misti Rainwater-Lites, “Lullabies for Jackson.”
KSE #67, Bill Shute, “Norwich Unveiled.”
KSE #66, Zachary C. Bush & Brad Kohler, “Next Exit: Four.”
KSE #65, Bill Shute, “Aligned Into Memory.” The following description was posted at the KSE blog on September 8, 2007 regarding this book: What is KSE #65, you may ask if you’ve been keeping track? Well, that is a small-run and small-sized (half our regular size–it’s 4″ by 2.75″) piece of mine called ALIGNED INTO MEMORY. Recently I’ve been studying pre-WWII avant-garde graphic arts (especially the work of H.N. Werkman), and I was also very much inspired by the visual art-and-text combinations I saw when visiting the Rhode Island School of Design in August. What I did with this piece was to take an old poem of mine called “Aligned Into Memory” from an early chapbook that had limited distribution (most copies distributed in Canada, never distributed by Volcanic Tongue), do some editing to it, and work it into a visual field, spreading the poem over five small pages. I’ve sent a few of these to poet and artist friends, and the rest will be sent to Volcanic Tongue as a free gift to anyone who buys any Kendra Steiner Editions chapbook from VT. Stuart and I have integrated visuals into the text of some of our books—-TELESMA CHARGING, FANTASMATA 2007, UPSIDE-DOWN, and PYTHAGORON TWO—-and I expect we will continue to experiment in that area. Author’s note, April 2009: I never did send any copies of this to Volcanic Tongue. About 10 copies were sent to friends and regular customers. I don’t even have one, so this would probably be the rarest KSE item, along with the pre-KSE version of Four Texas Streams, of which only a dozen exist.
KSE #64, Doug Draime & Misti Rainwater-Lites, “Next Exit: Three.”
KSE #63, Stuart Crutchfield & Bill Shute, “Telesma Charging.” Sound Library Series, Volume 24.
KSE #62, Bill Shute, “Larkspur Variations.”
KSE #61, Stuart Crutchfield, “Pith.”
KSE #60, Bill Shute, “In Perspective.” Chosen as one of the “best reads of 2007″ in Arthur Magazine!
KSE #59, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, “Without Peace.”
KSE #58, K. M. Dersley, “Retrospective Forecasts.”
KSE #57, Mark Weber, “Four Poems From New York City.”
KSE #56, Thomas Michael McDade & Bill Shute, “Next Exit: Two.”
KSE #55, Doug Draime & Bill Shute, “Next Exit: One.”
KSE #54, Michael Casey, “The Bopper.”
KSE #53, Michael Ceraolo, “More Euclid Creek.”
KSE #52, Doug Draime, “Eyestone.”
KSE #51, Bill Shute, “Cactus Barrier.” Cinema Poetry Series, Volume 2. NOT PUBLISHED.
KSE #50, Thomas Michael McDade, “Thrill and Swill.”
KSE #49, Bill Shute, “Rocket Attack USA.” Cinema Poetry Series, Volume 1.
KSE #48, Bill Shute, “San Antonio Good Friday.” Creel Pone Sound Study #5.
KSE #47, Bill Shute, “Upside Down.” Creel Pone Sound Study #4.
KSE #46, Bill Shute, “Fantasmata 2007.” Creel Pone Sound Study #3.
KSE #45, Brad Kohler, “Energy Fools the Magician.” Sound Library Series, Volume 23.
KSE #44, David Keenan & Bill Shute, “Within Hod, Within.” NOT PUBLISHED.
KSE #43, Bill Shute, Symphonie Rouge. Creel Pone Sound Study #2.
KSE #42, Bill Shute, Fire of the Actual.
KSE #41, Stuart Crutchfield, “The Circus Crows Have Landed.”
KSE #40, Stuart Crutchfield & Bill Shute, “Pythagoron Two.” Creel Pone Sound Study #1.
KSE #39, Bill Shute, “Atonement.” Sound Library Series, Volume 22.
KSE #38, Bill Shute, “Yantra.”
KSE #37, Byron Coley & David Keenan & Bill Shute, “Voluntary Quicksand (In Memory of Richard Brautigan).”
KSE #36, Bill Shute, “Come on, React!” Sound Library Series, Volume 21.
KSE #35, Brad Kohler & Bill Shute, “Exacta Box.”
KSE #34, Stuart Crutchfield, “Shack Simple.”
KSE #33, David Keenan, “High All The Time.” Sound Library Series, Volume 20.
KSE #32, David Keenan, “Just Another High.” Sound Library Series, Volume 19.
KSE #31, Bill Shute, “Illusion of Motion.”
KSE #30, Stuart Crutchfield, “March.” Sound Library Series, Volume 18.
KSE #29, Stuart Crutchfield & Bill Shute, “Stream (Salmon and Blood).”
KSE #28, Bill Shute, “Stop and You Will Become Aware.” Issued October 2006.
KSE #27, David Keenan & Bill Shute, “More Ragas.” An unofficial “sequel” to David Meltzer’s 1959 book “Ragas.”
KSE #26, Bill Shute, “The Lost Tribe: Surviving in the Bush Jungle.”
KSE #25, Bill Shute, “Search.” Sound Library Series, Volume 14.
KSE #24, Stuart Crutchfield & Bill Shute, “Window on the Sea.”
KSE #23, Bill Shute, “Dream Scene.” Sound Library Series, Volume 10.
KSE #22, Bill Shute, “Trip Wire.” Sound Library Series, Volume 7.
KSE #21, Bill Shute, “Don’t Let Me Stand In Your Way!” This was a horizontal format book.
KSE #20, Bill Shute, “C0lors in Rhythm.” Sound Library Series, Volume 12.
KSE #19, Bill Shute, “Groove.” Sound Library Series, Volume 15.
KSE #18, Bill Shute, “Sliced Tomatoes.” Sound Library Series, Volume 11.
KSE #17, Bill Shute, “Twist.”
KSE #16, Bill Shute, “Chill.” Sound Library Series, Volume 13.
KSE #15, Bill Shute, “Ground.” Sound Library Series, Volume 17.
KSE #14, Bill Shute, “Maya.”
KSE #13, Bill Shute, “Envy.” Sound Library Series, Volume 9.
KSE #12, Bill Shute, “Sonnets for Bill Doggett.” Six blank-verse Petrarchan sonnets inspired by time spent in Massachusetts and New Jersey, written in Massachusetts in 2006.
KSE #11, Bill Shute, “Spirit.” Sound Library Series, Volume 6. These poems were inspired by the poetry of Frank Samperi. This sequence was adapted for vocal-piano by composer Paul Marbach, and his setting of the poems, also titled “Spirit”, was recorded (featuring Kendra Shute, alto vocalist) and posted on the internet and distributed on CDR. The recording has been downloaded over 500 times!
KSE #10, Bill Shute, “Balance.” Sound Library Series, Volume 8. This suite of poems was going to be published in its entirety in THE COLONIAL #2. Unfortunately, that fine art-literary-culture mag never made it to a second issue!
KSE #9, Bill Shute, “Extension.” This was never distributed by Volcanic Tongue, only locally.
KSE #8, Bill Shute, “So Long: A Journal.”
KSE #7, Bill Shute, “Happening.” Sound Library Series, Volume 5. This was never distributed by Volcanic Tongue, only locally.
KSE #6, Bill Shute, “Blue Bottle.” Sound Library Series, Volume 4.
KSE #5, Bill Shute, “Red Butterfly.” Sound Library Series, Volume 3.
KSE #4, Bill Shute. “Prototype.” Sound Library Series, Volume 2. Released April 2006.
KSE #3, Bill Shute, “Silhouettes.” Sound Library Series, Volume 1. Issued April 2006. First printing of 39 numbered copies, sold primarily via Volcanic Tongue. Other printings exist, done 10 or 15 at a time to distribute/sell at readings and book fair appearances in support of TWELVE GATES TO THE CITY. Estimated number of copies in circulation is 75.
KSE #2. Bill Shute, “Starlight 1927 Remix.” Issued April 17, 2006. One printing of 33 copies, all numbered and autographed. Available primarily through Volcanic Tongue. David Tibet found it to be “remarkably beautiful, poignant, and kind in heart and spirit.” Horizontal format, approximately 11″ wide by 6 1/2″ high. All copies w/ lemon yellow covers. After the warm reception given to “Four Texas Streams,” and the acceptance of the Kendra Steiner Editions concept, I felt that I could finally produce a work that was exactly what I wanted it to be, direct from my mind onto the page, in open-field composition, with NO commercial considerations whatsoever. That’s what Jandek, my mentor, did with Corwood Industries, his record label, and that’s what I wanted to do with KSE. And I did with “Starlight 1927 Remix.” To some extent, this work grew out of my interest in the Burroughs/Gysin book THE THIRD MIND, the idea that meaning can be extracted from found texts through cut-ups and various aleatory procedures. Also, however, I used the model of audio sampling, where the music is created from found elements, but structured and layered by the hand of the artist. All WORDS in the seven poems are taken from the understandably obscure 1927 book by C. W. Leadbeater, STARLIGHT: SEVEN ADDRESSES GIVEN FOR LOVE OF THE STAR, perhaps the last gasp in Leadbeater’s campaign to represent J. Krishnamurti as a kind of new messiah. It’s a curious book full of hollow rhetoric, but as I read it I felt that SOMETHING VERY WORTHWHILE was bubbling under the surface but was held back by the empty-but-loud writing. So I broke the work, as one would crack an egg, and I took that egg and prepared it and made, I hope, something unexpected and delicious. Remember, I did not use a cut-up technique, I composed a new work, but restricted my vocabulary to words used in Leadbeater’s text. This chapbook has never been reprinted, and because of its large size it does not fit in my usual KSE mailing envelopes, so only the longest-term KSE readers probably have one. Issuing this chap was a liberating event for me—-now it was clear that I could produce EXACTLY what I wanted to and that there was a small but appreciative audience for even the most seemingly outre work. With that established, I could then pursue my work with the comfort of knowing that I could bypass the stupid egomanical gatekeepers of the “alternative” poetry world and get the work directly to the readers and to my poet peers. So I got to work, KSE became an ongoing concern, and I began to think about other poets I could throw into the mix. That would come later in 2006…
KSE #1. Bill Shute, “Four Texas Streams.” Issued March 2006. First printing of 12 copies on 8×11 heavy-stock blue paper, distributed to friends locally. No mention of KSE on first printing. Some textual differences from KSE version. Second printing, first with KSE designation, of approximately 75 copies. This printing began the standard 8″ vertical x 5 1/2″ horizontal KSE format used in almost all future chapbooks. Third printing followed with another approximately 75 copies. Other un-numbered printings do exist. Total number of copies distributed probably between 220-250. “Four Texas Streams” also appears as an appendix at the end of my book POINT LOMA PURPLE (Palm Springs: Word Mechanics, 2007). Earlier printings can be spotted by the use of thinner paper (20 or 24 lb.) for both text and for cover. “Four Texas Streams” was picked up for distribution by Volcanic Tongue in Glasgow, Scotland for distribution and began our relationship with VT, which continued for about 2 years.
