Investigations by Marton Koppany

I intend to continue the thread on creating readers, much in my thoughts these days (read the comments that have been added in the past two days), but tonight I have limited time -- preparing to work on growing 16-17 year old readers (weaving the Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence play "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," with "Resistance to Civil Government, " selections from Walden, and Emerson's "Self-Reliance"). I also intend to revist another previous thread -- Publishing Vision -- which I also can't get out of my head.

As much as I love the electronic community I am engaged by -- we sow connections wherever we can here in rural America -- I love even more the surprises that fill my mailbox, that technological throwback. Today's delight: Investigations & Other Sequences by Marton Koppany, poet, translator, and editor residing in Budapest, published by Ahadada Books. How do they find us?

In a few words: this is as good as minimalism gets -- simple and profound, humorous and gut-wrenchingly serious, language at perhaps its finest (pun intended).

For more information, click to www.ahadadabooks.com You've got to love a press whose logo is Marcel Duchamp's infamous urinal "sculpture."