Abraham Lincoln #5


ABRAHAM LINCOLN
issue the fifth
summer/fall 2009
55 pp.

Well, it's ABOUT TIME. Abraham Lincoln #5 comes screeching and hissing out of its dark crevice in the earth just in time for whatever festive, many-feathered seasonal ritual you strange gentle people celebrate. This issue is so tasty you'll want to LICK it. Careful though: it's blistering HOT.

featuring work by
Chris Alexander
Alli Warren
Dana Ward
Catherine Meng
Lytle Shaw
Keston Sutherland
Annie Finch
Joseph Mosconi
K. Silem Mohammad
Elisabeth Workman
Kim Rosenfield
Vanessa Place
Chris Funkhouser
Mark Wallace
Benjamin Friedlander

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Robert J. Baumann's A Man About Town


HEY TIGER PRESS is happy to present to you  Robert J. Baumann's A Man About Town. Poetry-ish chapbook hand-assembled in Kansas with saddle-stitching, wood panel cover, and fine linen paper, 24 pages, signed all over by the author. $6 includes shipping. Paypal anneboyer at gmail dot com or press this button










Praise for  Robert J. Baumann and Robert J. Baumann's A Man About Town:

A city that is wrapped in itself is surely a group of peaked roofs in a blanket, thought Milwaukee to itself. Milwaukee wrapped inside Milwaukee glanced at a bratwurst sent by Robert J. Baumann as a compensatory gift for leaving. Milwaukee had been needy, “bacony as hell”. Then Milwaukee shook it’s several heads. From inside the leaking flaps of Milwaukee’s Iron Vagina, Bob Ueker’s voice hollered out an unintelligible thing. There was no more chorus in Milwaukee, a vacuum where there used to be a man about town. -- Milwaukee


Robert J. Baumann is a overt pervert who likes to twirl the red hat tips of his grandma's garden gnomes around in his butthole, in an Applebee's parking lot, during the lunch hour rush. Kansas, my black eye. He's Detroit all the way--rolling shirtless in broken glass, drinking Malibu Rum and Fanta, doing double dutch, wearing his fave braided metallic terry cloth headband. Behold: the scurvic futureman. -- Jennifer Knox

This book makes me want to climb the highest tree in the Apalachicola National Forest and cry " Robert J.  Baumann', I love you! Write me a letter!" --Willow Ufgood

When they ask about him I say he’s a man about town, that Mr. Baumann. He’s the proud owner of guns, pens and crevice oils, and a slinger of carnal moss. And I am that rancher of soft things and I am not sorry. My fear of this Mr. Baumann inevitably led to my completely active and quick avoidance of bitches and their relatives. I will not be undone by love, nor by nostalgia—this game is authentic and burning, sir. Don’t say the money didn’t warn you. Most sincerely yours -- Kurtwood Smith

"I have never had sex with Robert J. Baumann" -- Chloé Cooper Jones

Dear reader of Robert Baumann's "A Man About Town," Robert is taking his sweet time publishing my chapbook (which is going to fucking freak you when it comes out), but the waiting just got filthier thanks to these sopping epistolaries. Robin Yount and I got hecka blunted and read these poems aloud to each other all morning and we came to the conclusion that this chapbook is more nocturnal emission than Rosie O'Donnell, you know? -- Brandon Brown

Dear Robert J. Baumann,

Thank you, thank you
I wove a rope from gold
and tied a lasso
so heads up
rover
now I pull you
over

With my Julia Roberts mask on,
-- Kari Freitag

In "A Man About Town," Robert J. Baumann writes with a greatness in his
member. Decadence, drug use, and sexual pleasure pulse through the
words as Baumann longs for connections through letters. Forget
Michael J. Fox, I would trade my teen wolf for time in the closet with
Baumann. --Boof

"If I could have a baby with Robert Baumann, I would have that baby. We would name him Gordon Schumway, and we would live on a farm and can peaches. His first word would be "balls.'" -- Cush

Dear Robert J. Baumann, China is forever linked to its ancient civilization, friendly people, and many of the world’s most revered treasures, such as The Great Wall, Terra-Cotta Warriors & Horses, and the Yangtze River. Today, one can also find spectacular architecture and towering skylines in Shanghai and Beijing (site of the 2008 Summer Olympics), a wealth of luxury accommodations, and—as always—exquisite cuisine. Come and see why China is drawing millions of visitors from all over the world. And why each and every one of them returns home smiling! :) Love --The Chinese P. S. No tickee, no wifee.


Can eat Robert J. Baumann's A Man About Town? -- Fat Tina


I texted Texan David Bowie: “I bought your ticket. You are leaving on Thursday.” He did not respond. Prick. And btw, when I say hi to you in the street, at least nod. All my love -- RUT

Robert J. Bauman is the (not evil) Jimmy Carter of poetry. -- Mo Burford

He has the social touch down. He has the world's best social touch I have ever seen. He will social touch people all over. But he doesn't know how to neg. -- Mystery

Maurice Burford & Jess Rowan, Prithee




Abraham Lincoln Press presents Maurice Burford and Jess Rowan's chapbook Prithee, a collaborative serial poem in thirty-four parts.
[sally o' the precious dress]

there is a wealth of water these days
they say

i think to sit here
covered in a hazy gown
with my hair tied

i may accept you
in the way we do a thunder
fearful
wondered
with a tremble not like fear

i cannot suffer though
the years like my father's years
the waiting pile of shot
word from the field

my only cause to kneel these earliest mornings
is for the curve of your stride
the float of your hand

i hear the flags even at their miles

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Abraham Lincoln #4 [SOLD OUT]



ABRAHAM LINCOLN
issue the fourth
winter/spring 2009
66pp.

featuring work by
David Larsen
Clark Coolidge
Rob Halpern
Franklin Bruno
Kristen Gallagher
Mel Nichols
Jennifer Garcia
K. Lorraine Graham
Mike Hauser
Anton Helgi Jónsson (trans. Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl)
Elizabeth Bachinsky
Lanny Quarles
Daniel Bailey
Sandra Simonds
Sharon Mesmer
James Wagner
Kendra Grant Malone
Gary Sullivan

plus a special poetics panel transcription from The Unknown Flarfist

and cover art by Shane Allison


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Abraham Lincoln #3 [SOLD OUT]




ABRAHAM LINCOLN
issue the third
summer/fall 2008
67pp.


featuring work by
Bill Luoma
Jack Collom
Lyn Hejinian
Stan Apps
Shane Allison
Dodie Bellamy
Anne Boyer
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Angela Genusa
Lanny Quarles
Rodney Koeneke
Tisa Bryant
Jennifer Knox
Jordan Davis
Robert J. Baumann
Jim McCrary

plus a special message from Joshua Clover

and cover art by K. Silem Mohammad


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Abraham Lincoln 2 [SOLD OUT]



ABRAHAM LINCOLN
issue the second
fall/winter 2007-2008
58pp.

featuring work by
Rod Smith
Rita Dahl
Cathy Eisenhower
Benjamin Friedlander
Brandon Brown
Tim Yu
Mel Nichols
Tao Lin
Kevin Killian
Lanny Quarles
Mitch Highfill
Maria Damon
Joseph Massey & Jess Mynes
Patrick Durgin
Linh Dinh
Christina Strong
Rachel Zolf
Nada Gordon

a pithy epigraph by Tom Beckett
&
a full-color cover by Anne Boyer


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Mitch Highfill, Moth Light [SOLD OUT]




Abraham Lincoln is proud to present Mitch Highfill's chapbook Moth Light.

"The bird's cry sounds like its name
because the world is on fire."

19 pages
$5.00

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