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Oyster Moon Press Is A Non-Profit, Surrealist Publishing Co-Op Located In Berkeley, California.
If You're After Individual Copies, You Can Find Most Of Our Titles Online At Places Like Lulu, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders.
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Address all inquiries to ewbragg (at) hotmail (dot) com.
When inquiring about potential publishing projects,
please include information about what surrrealism means to the author,
and how (s)he perceives the surrealist movement as it exists today.
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Oyster Moon Press
Current Titles:
Ribitch Martin
The Last Word: Collected Poetry and Prose Volume 1 (1962-1976)
Ribitch was a surrealist, artist, poet, photographer, and storyteller. For the first time ever his complete writings have been collected in two volumes, a project he started and his friends and family finished. This 2 volume collection encompasses 50 years of his creative expression. (2019)
Ribitch Martin
The Last Word: Collected Poetry and Prose Volume 2 (1977-2015)
Ribitch was a surrealist, artist, poet, photographer, and storyteller. For the first time ever his complete writings have been collected in two volumes, a project he started and his friends and family finished. This 2 volume collection encompasses 50 years of his creative expression. (2019)
Séamas Cain
The Mountains of Mourne
THE MOUNTAINS OF MOURNE is a collection of poems in English written over the course of 60 years, published in February of 2019 by Oyster Moon Press at Berkeley, California. With eight photographs by Gloria DeFilipps Brush, marking the different sections of poems. (2019)
Eric Bragg
Out of Odessa and Into Ideation
A collection of automatic texts and stories spanning the years 2002–2013: fully intoxicated with cunning sarcasm, social commentary and the erotic, totally “licking you with my thoughts and thinking of you with my tongue.” (2017)
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Will Alexander & Carlos Lara
The Audiographic As Data
The Audiographic As Data is none other than telepathic conundrum. It is language that renders the visible as invisible and the invisible as visible thus, transmuting both states into incalculable presence. (2016)
San Carlos Surrealist Group
Coprolith: the Newest Journal of the New Surrealism
This complete lump of foul deformity is the result of the temporary hijacking of the oystermoon press by some rather “troubled-spirit surrealists” from San Carlos, California, who held up at gunpoint the illustrious editors in Berkeley, keeping them hostage, and temporarily forcing them to relinquish all publishing rights. If anyone happens to come across any copies of this thoroughly piece-o-shit book, then he or she is advised to immediately incinerate them, and focus instead on the highly esteemed volumes of Hydrolith. So as it were, Coprolith might for a short while have been the proverbial “turd in the punchbowl”, but nevertheless by now this little problem has been fully rectified. (2015)
Hydrolith 2: Surrealist Research & Investigations
“This second issue of Hydrolith is a continuation of what the first volume started, which was and is to assemble a stimulating selection of exclusively recent work by groups and individuals of the international Surrealist movement, to facilitate intellectual exchange and collaboration, enabling us to concentrate the echoes of our commonalities as well as the shadows of our differences. In so doing, this volume aspires to reduce all manner of distances that exist between us. All works in this book are in English, while many of them are translations from the Dutch, French, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish languages.” (2014)
Barnabas Melvin Cadbury Crenshaw
Invasion of the Left-Handed Memarmornes
Readers beware. The brilliant first volume of B.M.C. Crenshaw's spellbinding teen romance series is not for the world-weary – such love letters, tearful trysts, and evictions await in Invasion of the Left-Handed Memarmornes that no fan will make it to the end totally indifferent. Luckily, Crenshaw has prepared loyal readers for the spectacular climax of this book by doling out increasingly hot and heavy passages of midnight reverie and lasciviousness, shot through with lessons about honor and duty, studiousness and distractedness, and satiation and hunger. Finally, we would be remiss if we did not offer one small suggestion before you embark on your amazing adventures with Sarah, Peter and Michael Jackson – bring plenty of tissues. – Sandra F. Bergeron & Maya Frederiksen, NY Times (2012)
Will Alexander
Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents
Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents is a philosophical meditation vertically scripted. It is an extension of Alexander's first book in this mode, Towards The Primeval Lightning Field. Both books in concert, exist as a double exploration, in what, for the author, is a nascent odyssey, concerning the mind at non-limit through cellular transmogrification. (2011)
Ribitch
Carnival of Sleep
Between dream and hallucination, the Carnival of Sleep opens its tent for the unwary somnambulist. Ribitch’s prose and poetry are sometimes dark and humorous, sometimes sublime lamentations of erotic beauty and deeply surrealist in storytelling. They are like ruptured blood vessels, gushing forth a spray of blood droplets, each bearing a different face. Illustrations by the Author. (2011)
Josie Malinowski
West of Pure Evil
The labyrinthine, mercurial worlds of Josie Malinowski’s West of Pure Evil represent a divorce between rhyme and reason, spinning off-key tales of love and pain. Sailors and whores unite to solve ancient, despicable mysteries; an act of aid brings a Fairy Kingdom to its knees; and the tragic Captain Cock is left cold and stiff by a scheming eight-year-old. These myriad poems and stories illuminate the crossover between waking and dreaming, and thereby cast an intimate, surrealist glance at the human condition. (2010)
Hydrolith: Surrealist Research & Investigations
Hydrolith brings together in one volume some of the most exciting recent work from the international surrealist movement. With over 80 contributors from 17 countries around the world, the book contains drawings, paintings, games, comics, photographs, poetry, prose, theoretical and political writings on a huge variety of subjects, including special in-depth investigations of music, space and myth. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the surrealist movement today. (2009)
Eric W. Bragg, Eugenio Castro, Bruno Jacobs
The Exteriority Crisis:from the city limits and beyond
In its corners, streets, gates, bars, squares, boulevards, gardens, parks and cafés, the city maintains some of the focal points of “its” unconscious. These are found and explored everyday by surrealists who obtain the essential experience of surreality in metropolitan life. The concrete experience of exteriority (which in the following collective essay we concentrate only on the city limits and beyond them) requires from us a disposition closely akin not only to the sensible renewal of people, but also to existence and its poetic reserves, and to the revitalization of the interior life that is suffering a process of sterilization because of the convulsive technologization of interiority and the progressive forgetting of life outside.
With texts and photos by: Mattias Forshage, Miguel P. Corrales, José Manuel Rojo, Bruno Jacobs, Guy Girard, Manuel Crespo, Eric W. Bragg, Ángel Zapata, Noé Ortega Quijano, Julio Monteverde, Vicente Gutiérrez, Silvia Guiard, Eugenio Castro.
Edited and introduced by Eric W. Bragg, Eugenio Castro, and Bruno Jacobs. (2008)
The Somnambulist Footprints
The Somnambulist Footprints is the result of a collective project in which several contemporary surrealists and fellow travelers wrote short stories according to their own interests and imperatives, based on their common desire to subvert the very foundations of conventional reality, both on the written page and – more importantly – beyond it, in the open space of consciousness.
Contributing authors: Mariela Arzadun, J. Karl Bogartte, Daniel Boyer, Eric W. Bragg, Mattias Forshage, Parry Harnden, Dale Michael Houstman, Philip Kane, Merl, Ribitch, Matthew Rounsville, Shibek, Andrew Torch, and Xtian.
With illustrations in black and white. Edited and introduced by Eric W. Bragg. (2008)
Eric Bragg
The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey
"The neck that was once a wrist, choked on a wishbone made from a sliver of moonlight, which manifested itself as a seeing eye on the back of the hand that was just like a cheery fireplace on the back of a skull that became a house. Blue sapphire icicles were cried out of this synthetic eye, evoking the cold appearance of a dark witch who kept her animals in cages, who moved her freight elevators up, just like she went down on her dumb waiters, and who sliced off the heads of infidels expecting the interior of their bodies to be an emerald honeycomb of light that would weep strange songs."
The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey is the pairing of a surrealist novel and an automatic text by Eric W. Bragg (www.surrealcoconut.com), that were written nearly seven years apart but which tell the same story, albeit as complementary permutations of each other. Dripping with bile and centered within a gothic sensibility, this journey opens the reader's skull like a freshly cracked coconut.
With illustrations in black and white by Ribitch (www.ribitch.net).
(2008)