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EDITED WORKS



The Silver Age
Author: Fanny Howe
Editor: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 32 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9991646-2-9
Released: July 11, 2025


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Writings After THE SUBURBS OF EDEN
Contributors: Eileen Myles, Joshua Edwards, Julie Speed, Lynn Xu, Mo Eldridge, Zoe Kurland
Editors: Anthony Opal / Ballroom Marfa
Booklet, 48 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9991646-4-3
Released: September 15, 2025


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Iurodstvo
Reflections on Foolishness
Author: Ken Feit
Editor: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 24 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-9-8
Published: December 10, 2020

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ST iv & LT v
Two Showings
Author: Julian of Norwich
Editor: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 24 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Middle English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-7-2
Published: February 7, 2023

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To Ask Forgiveness of the Birds
The Words of Father Zossima
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translator: Constance Garnett
Editor: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 42 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-2-9
Published: August 31, 2020

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Versions of Jonah
The Ancient Story of Jonah in Arabic,
Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, and English
Editor/Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 48 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Languages: Arabic, Ethiopic,
Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-4-3
Published: September 1, 2022

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Live Oak, With Moss
Reconstructing the Early Calamus Sequence
Author: Walt Whitman
Editor: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 48 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-7-4
Published: December 8, 2020

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The Economy Magazine Anthology
MMXII - MMXV, Volumes One through Seven
 Authors: Armantrout, Rae et al.
Editor: Anthony Opal
Booklets, 7 vols, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-3-6
Published: September 18, 2020

Purchase: $35


“The Economy Magazine was an online literary journal that ran from 2012-2015,” says the back of each volume, and collected here are the poems that ran. The lineup of poets is impressive, as are the range of moods and methods covered, from the mournful to the droll. As a whole, the Anthology makes for a nice introduction to 20 or so contemporary poets—and the design and presentation of the poems also make a good excuse for buying the collection.

I’ll let the spirit—the humor and existential exhaustion—of the anthology find expression in these lines from Michael Robbins’s “To Anthony Madrid”:

Distant is our exit, unmoving the traffic;
useful are the implements of a trade;
movies in 3D are intolerable. . .
Long the line for coffee, great my need;
the shaven adepts set their gods in grain;
no right turn on red.

-TOM BOWDEN, “Review: The Economy Magazine Anthology, Vols. 1-7” (Book Beat, The Backroom)