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Walk the Red Road, Misha Nogha, teksteditions
, Paperback, ISBN 978-1-927367-27-8: $18.95,
Electronic, ISBN 978-1-927367-29-2: $12.00
Cover photo (neolithic petroglyph) by
Jeff Pedersen. Interior illustrations by Ferret.
From Prayers of Steel, the stories vibrate
with cyberpunk intensity, combining fragility and violence, displaying
an underworld of dystopian imaginings. The stories and prose poems from
Ke-Qua-Hawk-As remind us of our true human creature selves and our natural
heritage through vibrant language, signaling a hyper-reality woven from
dream states, mythical places, and animal avatars. Two volumes in one,
Walk the Red Road collects all the short stories and prose poems originally
released in Misha Nogha’s two previous collections of fiction.
"The prose poem Walk The Red Road
is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably
to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang
period." - Brian Aldiss
“Misha’s writing is like Jack Kerouac
on rollerskates.” —KW Jeter
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MAGPIES
& TIGERS, Misha Nogha, Wordcraft of Oregon , LLC:
Original trade paperback, $10, black ink/colored coverstock, perfectbound,
5.5 X 8.5, 84 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-877655-49-4, 1-877655-49-X, LCN: 2007930088
Cover art by Jessica Soo Hyun Ni, Cover design by Katherine James,
Interior
digital art by Michael Chocholak
Unsurprising in one whose love for nature
rises from the very center of the earth, there is a sharp, angry edge
for those who would defile the natural beauty of of the world. In
her "Jaguar Moon" one of the most chilling and provocative poems in the
volume, a computer game like Amazon Trail blurs into magical realism where
a demi-godlike jaguar warns, "Adios Corporate Consumosaurs! I emailed your
memento mori/ when I sent your programmers to picnic/ in the nanoforest"
... "as the jungle juice runs down your chins/ while you drink it fresh
in your mourning cups / Burn the jungle and burn me/ I lap the red
river at your virtual threshold." Above all, these are powerful conjure
poems, some of the best speculative work I have read this year." - Sandra
Lindow, Star*Line
“Misha Nogha’s poetry is like the good parts of life—and the good parts
of life are often the most dangerous parts, if you’re paying attention.
Most people are uneasily aware they’re gradually losing touch with something
vital—Misha’s poetry will put you back in touch with that vitality.” -
John Shirley, The Other End and Living Shadows
“Misha Nogha knows not only the animal without but the animal within,
and her words sing with this mystery.”
- Annette Curtis Klaus, Blood and Chocolate and The Silver Kiss
“Misha Nogha’s writings are a kaleidoscope of haunting images. As one
poem says, “all realities are spoken here.” Small flashes of color reveal
the wild immanence of nature; the image of a trotting wind-horse calls up
the wideness of the world. Traveling territories seen and unseen, this poetry
by a postmodern metaphysician speaks to readers in discordia concours of
spectacular wordplay.” - Carol McGuirk, Florida Atlantic University,
Co-Editor of Science Fiction Studies
“A true shaman of the written word, Misha Nogha reminds us of our true
human creature selves and our natural heritage through vibrant language,
signaling a hyper-reality woven from dreamstates, mythical places, and
animal avatars.” - Richard Truhlar, The Hollow and Parisian Novels
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Red Spider White Web (1999 novel... Wordcraft of Oregon
, US, cover by Joey Zone
, ISBN: 1-877655-29-5)
available from Wordcraft of Oregon
or Amazon.com
Red Spider White Web (1990, novel... Morrigan Publications,
England, cover and art by Ferret , Trade Edition ISBN: 1 870338 85 5,
Special Edition ISBN: 1 870338 90 1) out of print
Winner of the 1990 ReaderCon Award and
finalist for the Arthur C Clarke Award.
"Misha's Red Spider White Web is, quite simply, everything cyberpunk
should have been but wasn't, everything contemporary techno-dystopias
should be but aren't. Instead of middle-class white men struggling with
their love-hate relationships with dangerous but beautiful cybertoys,
Misha offers society's most disenfranchised victims struggling for survival
against the technotopic juggernaut. Instead of cyberpunk's typical anti-heroic
misogynist-nerd, she gives us a feral female artist struggling to create
something meaningful and lasting in a world established to destroy and
dispose of her. The book is bleak, intense, and more accurate in its critique
of contemporary U.S. culture's cruelty and ignorance than any book I have
ever read." - Dr. Elyce Helford, Editor/Author, Enterprise Zones
"Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed,
there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become
a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up
to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the
21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come.
In more ways than one." - John Shirley
"We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's
black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right
on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind...
the underworld of the century's imaginings." - Brian Aldiss
"Red Spider White Web is startlingly visual... Its pages reveal a series
of starkley painted images that go to work on your mind like the pictures
on a tarot deck." - James Blaylock
"Imagine Arthur Rimbaud writing cyberpunk and you'll have some idea
of what to expect. Misha plunges you into a nightmare near future without
explanation, without warning. If you're looking for escapism, this is
not the book for you." - Henry W. Targowski
"Visceral, unrelenting, and achingly lyrical, Red Spider, White Web
is arguably the greatest cyberpunk novel ever written. At the same time,
calling this novel "cyberpunk" doesn't quite do it justice. As with any
work that transcends categorization, one of the ways it achieves this high
level of quality is through unpacking and, when necessary, destroying the
very tropes that buoy the more traditional cyberpunk novel... Reading this
novel is like driving across a burning bridge — there is little time to breathe,
and yet once on the other side, you realize you're never going to forget
the experience." - Alan DeNiro
""The writing is a wonderful mix of fragility and violence, kind of
a cross between Janet Frame and William S. Burroughs." - Craig L. Gidney
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Ke-Qua-Hawk-As (spring 1994, prose poems, short fiction...Wordcraft
of Oregon , US, cover and art by Ferret , ISBN: 1-877655-13-9) out of
print
"Her prose flashes knifelike or glows
cooly depending on what kind of fire she wants to emit." - Michael Bishop
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Prayers of Steel (1988, short fiction...Wordcraft of Oregon ,
US, cover and art by Ferret ) out of print
"Misha's writing sounds like barbed
wire being dragged across a raft of hydroelectric wire." - Conger Beasley,
Jr.
"As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry." - John Shirley
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Dr
Ihoka's Cure (1993, non-fiction, Pezmantle Publications, USA, cover
by Richard
Schindler ) out of print
"As a layman I wasn't quite familiar
with new breakthroughs in RNA/DNA manipulation not to mention Ihoka's
highly technical jargon laced with esoteric medical terminology. However,
with Misha's testimonials as well as those of other Ihoka patients I began
to piece together a rather appalling picture of what Ihoka was driving
at. His controversial and amoral uses of gene splicing seemed to suggest
a Brave New Moreauvian nightmare". --Mary Denning (in Science Fiction Eye
, Issue 13, Spring 1994).
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In Progress
Yellowjacket (novel)
Hear the soundtrack highlights at Soundclick
Alruna (fantasy novel)
Jack
Jinx (novel... prequel to YellowJacket)
The Bell Factory (novel... sequel to Red Spider White
Web)
Boneseed (prose & photography with Alex Wright)
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Anthologies
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Walking the Clouds
An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
includes an excerpt from Red Spider
White Web
In this first-ever anthology of
Indigenous science fiction Grace Dillon collects some of the finest examples
of the craft with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal
Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors. The collection includes
seminal authors such as Gerald Vizenor, historically important contributions
often categorized as "magical realism" by authors like Leslie Marmon Silko
and Sherman Alexie, and authors more recognizable to science fiction
fans like William Sanders and Stephen Graham Jones. Dillon's engaging
introduction situates the pieces in the larger context of science fiction
and its conventions. 272 pp. / 6.00
in x 9.00 in / 2012
Paper (978-0-8165-2982-7)
"Dillon’s superb anthology, the first devoted to indigenous SF, highlights
long-overlooked authors alongside better-known figures such as Nalo Hopkinson
and Leslie Marmon Silko. Every piece is a perspective twister and a thought
inducer built on solid storytelling from ancient and newer traditions,
and the anthology will encourage readers to further investigate indigenous
speculative works." —Publishers Weekly
"Don’t read these because they’re stories by Native American writers.
Read them because they’re damn good stories by damn good writers." —Charles
de Lint
"Walking the Clouds offers a history
and shows the state of the art of science fiction from the other side--from
the Indigenous and the colonized, the dispossessed and the genocided.
It shows that it is long past time for the genre to uncircle the wagons
and attend to those who have already survived the apocalypse." --Dr. Mark
Bould, founding co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television Journal
available from The University of
Arizona Press
or Amazon
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The Wesleyan Anthology
of Science Fiction
includes Chippoke Na Gomi.
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected
in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions
are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use.
Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic
speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the
emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They
also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively
expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth
century to the digital age of today.
"No institutional library should be
without this truly phenomenal volume, and non-academic readers will greatly
appreciate the bargain-basement price on the trade paperback edition."—Publishers
Weekly
“This is an excellent collection of
one of world literature’s greatest treasure troves: the science fiction
short story in English. The stories form a kind of history of the genre,
and are a continuous reading pleasure.”—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of
the Mars Trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt
“The key word here is megatext. The
Wesleyan Anthology presents the best sample from today's sf megatext—the
‘fictive universe that includes all the sf stories that have ever been
told,’ as the Wesleyan's editors neatly put it—that I could imagine fitting
between two covers. Every story feels necessary to the whole. And the whole
is a lure for readers, for teachers who want to inspire their classes, for
all of us who care about understanding the turbulent world about us.”—John
Clute, editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
available from Wesleyan University Press
or Amazon
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The 2008 Rhysling Anthology
includes Jaguar Moon and Valadinne the Renegade
Mythic, speculative, macabre, science fictional, weird, fantastic,
dystopian, dark, cosmic, magical, surreal, astrological, elfin, supernatural,
futurist, spiritual, horrific, mystical, astronomic, grotesque, ethereal,
folkloric, utopian, scientific, terrifying, starry, spectral-regardless
of the differences in their emphases, the 96 poems published in this, the
31st-annual RHYSLING ANTHOLOGY, have two things in common: in privileging
the imagination, they explore realms and ideas that hover outside the confines
of our largely rational and empiric daily realities; and of all such poems
published in 2007, the explorations undertaken herein are the most innovative
and nuanced-and the most masterfully articulated. 176 pages, ISBN-10: 0809573490
ISBN-13: 978-0809573493
available from Amazon
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Reckonings
includes Memekwesiw
and Sakura
The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document
transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories
are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present
a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two
to three stories by a select number of both famous and lesser known Native
women writers in what is now the United States. Here you will find much-loved
stories, many made easily accessible for the first time, and vibrant new
stories by well-known contemporary Native American writers as well as fresh
emergent voices. These stories share an understanding of Native women's lives
in their various modes of loss and struggle, resistance and acceptance,
and rage and compassion, ultimately highlighting the individual and collective
will to endure against all odds.
Reckonings features
short stories by: Paula Gunn Allen, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Beth E. Brant,
Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Reid Gómez, Janet
Campbell Hale, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Misha Nogha, Beth H. Piatote, Patricia
Riley, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Anna Lee Walters.344 pages;
20 illus.;
6-1/8 x 9-1/4;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-510925-2ISBN10: 0-19-510925-2
available from Oxford
University Press
or Amazon
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The Closets of Time
"Wherever I go, when away from home, I always have a notebook with
me so that I can capture phrases or ideas which I’ll possibly use later
in my fiction or poetry. One such phrase came to me on a streetcar on my
way home from work – “the closets of time”– and it resonated with what I
was reading – the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The phrase stayed with me for the
rest of the day, until late evening, when it gave birth to the idea behind
this anthology.- Richard Truhlar
CONTRIBUTORS: Gary Barwin. Melody Sumner
Carnahan. Beverley Daurio. Michael Dean. Brian Dedora. Paul Dutton. Brian
Evenson. Karl Jirgens. Lesley McAllister. Misha Nogha. Lance Olsen. John
Riddell. Stuart Ross. John Shirley. Steven Ross Smith. Lola Lemire Tostevin.
Richard Truhlar. ISBN-10: 1-55128-133-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-133-9
5.75 x 8.5 in, 176pp, paperback $17.95
CAD $16.95
USD
available from The Mercury Press
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Stand Magazine - Native American
Special Issue
includes Memekwesiw and
Walk the Red Road
Edited by Mike Gidley including works by Gerald Vizenor, Misha Nogha,
Carter Revard, Lance Hensen, Rachel Farebrother, Mick Gridley and John
Whale
available
from Stand
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Angel Body and Other Magic for the Soul
includes The Carnelian Cat
"For the past twenty years the American
small press Wordcraft of Oregon has built up a stable of authors that
reads like a speculative fiction who’s who. Many have gone on to be widely
published, or be acclaimed as winners or nominees of major literary prizes
including the Pushcart, Rhysling, Readercon, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C.
Clarke and Stoker awards.
Now twenty-five writers, artists and
poets from the Wordcraft stable have come together in a major new anthology
in celebration of this US publisher’s achievements. From Chicano bioterrorists
to restless vampires, supermodel wannabes to singing angels, each piece
in this collection takes the reader into uncharted territory as only the
best speculative fiction can."
Contributors: Lee Ballentine, Conger
Beasley Jr, Mark Bilokur, Bruce Boston, Andrew Darlington, Denise Dumars,
Scott Edelman, Brian Evenson, Ernest Hogan, Thomas E. Kennedy, Sandra
Lindow, Misha Nogha, John Noto, Andi Olsen, Lance Olsen, Dan Raphael,
Mark Rich, Lorraine Schein, Richard A. Schindler, Steve Sneyd, W. Gregory
Stewart, Don Webb, Tom Whalen, Nathan Whiting, and Thomas Wiloch
edited by Chris Reed & David Memmott
(2002, Back Brain
Recluse /Wordcraft of
Oregon , ISBN: 0 872588 05 0)
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Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native
American Storytellers
includes Memekwesiw
Incorporating traditional oral
tales into modern narratives, the writers featured in this collection
represent a wide range of tribes and cultural backgrounds, and demonstrate
the vibrancy and diversity of Native American writing. The characters
in these stories are as enduring as those that have been passed down in
legend, as they capture the spirit of Native America, past and present.
edited with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer
(1996, Anchor Books, ISBN: 0-385-47952-2)
available from Amazon
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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook
of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
includes Wire Movement #9 and Wire for Two
Tims
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary
landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer.
Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery
argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary
culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic
engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions
of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science
fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes
clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde.
Contributors include William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo,
Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany, Misha, Richard Kadrey, Lucius
Shepard, Lewis Shiner, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary,
Jean-François Lyotard, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley,
Pat Cadigan, and Bruce Sterling
405 pages, ISBN-10: 0822311682
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Air Fish , edited by Richard
Singer and Joy
Oestreicher ,
(1993... contains "The Stone Badger" ISBN: 0-9631755-2-1)
Bone Saw 1 edited by John Bergin
and James O'Barr
(1992... contains "Ankoku Buto" with art by Michael Manning.
ISBN: 1-879450-62-3)
Looking Glass Anthology of Native American Writers edited
by Clifford
E. Trafzer
(1991... contains "The Stone Badger")
Innovations, Anthology of Contemporary Literature edited
by David Detrich
(1991... contains "Mudhead")
Unter Die Haut Anthology of Five Women Writers edited by
Karen Ivancsics and Peter Hiess (1990... contains "The Angel of Hearth
and Home")
Hard Times Fiction Anthology, edited by Beverly Daurio
(1990... contains "Walk the Red Road" ISBN: 0920544-75-4)
ViolaTusk 4 edited by Clair Hague, Claine Keily , and Russell
Milledge
(1990... contains "Tsuki Mangetsu", "Ankoku Buto", and "Das
Devonian Tag")
Der Riss Im Himmel edited by Karin Ivancsics (1989... contains"The
Koi")
An Illuminated History of the Future edited by Curtis White
(1989, Illinois State University/Fiction Collective Two,
ISBN: 0-932511-25-2... contains "The Koi")
Witness Anthology of Experimental Fiction edited by Ronald Sukenick
(1989... contains "Chippoke Na Gomi")
Near to Now #2 (1987... contains "The Koi" with art by Ferret
)
Oregon East (1981... contains "Saturday Afternoon on the
St. Croix River")
Oregon East (1980... contains "Master of the Horse" and
"Watercolor")
Magazines
Red
Dog Journal #5 (1996... contains "Reptilian Dreams" with art by Dan
Frenette)
Border/Lines edited by Stan Fogel, Joe Galbo, and Sophie
Thomas
(1993... contains "Chippoke Na Gomi")
Rampike - various issues including
Vol.7, No.3, 1992... contains "Julian He-Crow Discovers
the Writing Between the Molecules" by Don Webb and Misha
Vol.7, No.1, 1990... contains "Sanpuru"
Vol.6, No.3, 1988... contains "Das Devonian Tag"
Vol.6, No. 2, 1988... contains "Prayers of Steel"
Vol.6, No.1, 1987... contains "The Koi"
Back
Brain Recluse #19 (summer 1991... contains "Chippoke Na Gomi" with
art by Dave Mooring)
Dog Factory (1991... contains "Muisak")
Memes issue 6 (1991... contains "Walk The Red Road")
Memes issue 4 (1990... contains "Badger Man")
Triage vol 2 (1990... contains "Zen Zen")
Ice River #6 (1990... contains "Ke-Qua-Hawk-As" with art
by Mark Bilokur
)
Ice River #1 (summer 1987... contains "Prayers of Steel")
Surrealist Oregon (Thumbscrew #5) edited by Todd Mecklem
(1989... contains "Sardonicus is the Govenor of Oregon. I'm Here in the
All-American City. Where the Wolves Run Wild. Like Wolves")
Psypherboria (1988... contains "Ankoku Buto")
Get Smart (1988... contains "Tiger in the House")
Electrogenesis (1988... contains "Wire for Two Tims")
Voice of Zewam (1987... contains "Walk the Red Road")
New Pathways Vol.1, No.2 (May 1986... contains "The Wishing
Well")
New Pathways Vol.1, No.4 (Sept 1986... contains "The Foolproof
Plan" with art by Donald Reagan)
Factsheet Five - various issues with various artists including
Ferret , Joey Zone
, Mark
Bilokur , Ernest Hogan
, Richard
Schindler , Kurt Drain, and Michael Chocholak
(including "Wire Movement #9", "Cat's Iron", "Corn King", "Comic Book Character",
"Deux Ex Machina", "Animal Who Eats Winter", "Oka Golf Course", "Tiger
Quoll", "Pahuska in the Whitehouse", "The Ridden Word", among others)
Music
"Walk the Red Road" comprises the liberetto to a composition
by Arie van Schutterhoef for The Schreck
Ensemble
"Wire
Movement #9", "Prayers of Steel", "Electroballistics", Metal Vision",
& "Daruma" comprise the liberettos to compositions by Jonathan Golove
M&M Music with Michael Chocholak
- Misha's voice and performance on silver, clay, and bamboo flutes, saxinette,
and 800 lb drain tile appeared on various releases including "Skomorokhi",
"Future Selves", "Les Oiseaux", "Ear Tracks", "Owl Man Dreams", "The Latest
Models", "Das Devonian Tag", "Prayers of Steel", "Creative Memory", "Epidarus",
"Concho (with Conrad Schnitzler
)", "All Fires the Fire", "Smoking Face (with Richard Truhlar )", and "Blood
Musics"
Selections of Misha's
music and performances can be heard at Soundclick
Also
Jaguar Moon shamanic
ecopoem for the invisibleNetworks
Convergence
Cathexis
by Michael Manning (1997 graphic art erotica... contains "Ankoku Buto"
by Misha with art by Michael Manning)
"End Game " limited edition t-shirt
(sold out) by Misha and Ferret
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