Gouache and pen on canvas (detail).

Sorry Nature
Current Poem/Paintings by Brian Strang

Jan. 4th through 29th

OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday January 4th
3pm-6pm

Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery (@ Columbus)
San Francisco, CA 94111

Sorry Nature
Current Poem/Paintings by Brian Strang

Jan. 4th through 29th

OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday January 4th
3pm-6pm

Canessa Park Gallery
708 Montgomery (@ Columbus)
San Francisco, CA 94111

Tune in to the CANESSA READING 11/16/08:

CLICK HERE TO VISIT ARCHIVE AND LISTEN

Also, check out new poems from WORK magazine. Click

HERE

11" x 14" gouache and ink on paper.

READING ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear Fellow Poets & Followers of Poetry:


On Sunday, November 16th at 3PM we will have a
gathering poets--two of whom are also wonderful painters.

Come join us at Canessa Gallery at 708 Montgomery Street
X street Columbus to hear:

Brian Strang
Valerie Witte
&
Brian Lucas

Seasonal fruit and snacky type things will be provided. Beverages too.
A modest $2-3 donation generously accepted.
Questions: write Tiff at: tiff_dressen@yahoo


BRIAN STRANG lives in Oakland and teaches English composition at San Francisco State University and Merritt College. He is the author of Incretion (Spuyten Duyvil) and machinations (a free Duration ebook) and several chapbooks, including recently Human-Sized and Inhabitants, a chapbook of poem/drawings. Both are from Peter Ganick's small-chapbook-project. Recent poem/paintings can be seen at his website, Sorry Nature and at Deep Oakland. His poems, reviews, essays and translations have appeared in many journals including New American Writing, The Denver Quarterly and Ur-Vox. Recently, his work appeared in translation in the Portuguese journal DiVersos.
In January, Canessa will feature the second solo show of his poem paintings.

VALERIE WITTE received her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Faultline, Switchback, the Southwestern Review, and elsewhere. She spends her daytime hours editing computer books in Berkeley.


BRIAN LUCAS, back from six years in Bangkok, Thailand now lives on the island of Alameda. He is the author of Light House (2006 from Meeting Eyes Bindery/Spuyten Duyvil, 2006), and has recently completed a manuscript called Circles Matter. He has been collaborating with Andrew Joron, and together they have created a chapbook entitled Force Fields (forthcoming from Hooke Press) which features a poem from Joron and drawings from Lucas. His work has been published in such magazines as Sulfur, Conjunctions, Hambone, Talisman, Beard of Bees, Gut Cult, and Galatea Resurrects. He paints more often than he writes, and co-edits 2ND MYND with Brian Strang!

Pen and gouache on paper, 14" x 11."

Another show coming in January at Canessa Park. Stay tuned for details.

Click HERE to read DISRUPTION by Jorge Melícias (traslated from Portuguese by Brian Strang and Elisa Brasil).

A beautiful and disturbingly vivid work up now at Duration Press.

Jorge Melícias was born in 1970. He is the author of the following books: THOSE WHO LIGHT THE ROOFS (1996-1998), forthcoming; INITIATION TO REMORSE (2004, Cosmorama); THE LIGHT IN THE LUNGS (2000, Quasi); THE CIRCUMSCRIBED KING (2003, Quasi); INCUBUS (2004, Quasi); THE LONG BLASPHEMY (2006, Objecto Cardiaco). He has translated, among others, Baudelaire, Lautrémont, Saint-John Perse, António Gamoneda and Leopoldo Maria Panero. His poems have been translated into various languages, Spanish, English and Serbo-Croatian, and have been published in various reviews. He is a co-editor of Cosmorama.


I used Wordle to create the collage above from my preface.

Gouache and pen on canvas, 16" x 20."

20" x 20," Gouache and pen on canvas.



20" x 20," Gouache and pen on canvas.

I'm now on Deep Oakland:

Deep Oakland

Gouache and ink on paper, 11 x 14.

INCRETION, 71 pp. of poetry and prose, is now available at Small Press Distribution!

Click HERE to purchase from SPD.

"Brian Strang's INCRETION is a probe into the genuine state of things, seeking definition and measure amidst the blood-and-circus reversals of regime, market, vestigial culture. Where the first world hits the last wish--this is the challenged territory he would have us know, and face."

--George Albon

14" x 11," gouache and ink on paper.

Three new ones for summer. All are 8" x 11," gouache and pen on paper.

Summer offering to Ra. Gouache and pen on canvas, 12" x 36."

Gouache and pen on paper. 9 x 11".

Another image from INHABITANTS, a 38-page fine art chapbook of black and white drawings, available now for $12 from small chapbook project-2, a series devoted to fine art c-books. Order from small chapbook project-2, 45 Ravenwood Road, CT 06107-1539. Email Peter Ganick (pganickz AT gmail.com ) to receive the backlist [$8 each] or other new scp-2 cbooks.

Gouache and pen on paper, 11 x 14".

More images from INHABITANTS, a 38-page fine art chapbook of black and white drawings, available now for $12 from small chapbook project-2, a series devoted to fine art c-books. Order from small chapbook project-2, 45 Ravenwood Road, CT 06107-1539. Email Peter Ganick (pganickz AT gmail.com ) to receive the backlist [$8 each] or other new scp-2 cbooks.

INHABITANTS, a 38-page fine art chapbook of black and white drawings, available now for $12 from small chapbook project-2, a series devoted to fine art c-books. Order from small chapbook project-2, 45 Ravenwood Road, CT 06107-1539. Email Peter Ganick (pganickz AT gmail.com ) to receive the backlist [$8 each] or other new scp-2 cbooks.

I started this blog with the words of noted scientist Albert Hoffman:

"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans," he said. "The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature."

He died April 29th at the age of 102.

ADMITTANCE 18" x 24" gouache on canvas

New poem up at

Left Facing Bird

GHOSTGIRLFLOWER SERIES






Pen, gouache and pencil on paper. 14" x 11."

A new chapbook, Human-Sized, from Peter Ganick's small-chapbook-project:



"human-sized holes hover
in the heat"

A Portuguese translation of my poem "number eight" (from Incretion) is now up at Estrada do Alicerce, Ruy Ventura's popular site in Portugal:

Estrada do Alicerce (Ruy Ventura)

18" x 24" Latex, gouache and pen on canvas.

2 x 18" squares. Latex, gouache and pen on wood.