Books
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Crawlspace
$20.00 | 7″ x 9″ (12.7 x 20.32 cm) | Black & White on Cream paper | 72 Pages | Contents include 1 compact disc, and 1 pair of 3-D glasses. Publication Date: December 2, 2007
CRAWLSPACE is a collaboratively written book-length poem originally commissioned by Doug Nufer for presentation at OseoO Gallery’s Leg to Stand On reading series in 2005.
The book is packaged with 3-D glasses for viewing the cover as well as a bonus compact disc, The Crawlspace Audio Companion. The recording comprises a complete reading of the poem by the authors, set within an innovative sound collage. It also features the voice work of Stanley Shiebert, Librarian in the Arts, Recreation & Literature department of the Seattle Public Library.
The first edition of “Crawlspace” was printed in an edition of 200 copies.
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Things Keep Happening
7″ x 10″ (17.78 x 25.4 cm) | Black & White on Cream paper | 104 pages | Publication Date: September 22, 2012
The long, book-ending title poem, “Things Keep Happening” was published as a 100 copy handmade chapbook in 2003. Collected here for the first time with two sections of connected shorter poems, the book traces a set of figures including a space commander, a dying grandfather, an airline attendant, a old west sheriff, an antelope, and a disconnected narrator, as they interact in a landscape of fragmented language, dreams, and memory. The collision and compression of these voices combine to create a portrait of personal and public loss that unfolds and builds through the course of the volume.
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Maniac Box
8.25″ x 6″ (20.955 x 15.24 cm) | Full Color Bleed on White paper | 68 pages | Publication Date: September 22, 2012
In the year 2000, the author wrote twenty-seven film treatments and sent them to every movie studio he could think of foreign and domestic.
Despite his tenacity, the project was, from all accounts, a complete failure, and lead to a minor personal and financial breakdown. Originally published in 2001 as a limited edition chapbook, this newly revised Maniac Box is printed in lurid color and features movie posters for each of the twenty-seven film treatments.
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Transmissions from the Institute
5.5″ x 8.5″ (13.97 x 21.59 cm) | Black & White on Cream paper | 132 pages | Publication Date: September 22, 2012
In 1999, the author moved into an old apartment building in Seattle, Washington that once served as a bank during the Alaskan Gold Rush. Soon he began to hear strange sounds and voices coming out of mysterious pipes in the subterranean bank vault.
Though he never discovered the true source of these sounds, he was able to record and transcribe them through some D.I.Y. electronic wizardry. He then wrote and recorded transmission responses of his own, sending them back out into the world.
This book is a written record of these response transmissions.
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Spaces Where Spaces Are
5.5″ x 8.5″ (13.97 x 21.59 cm) | Black & White on Cream paper | 106 pages | Publication Date: September 22, 2012
Many of the poems in C.E. Putnam’s third book got their start in stolen work moments from 1997-1998 whilst working various jobs in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Spaces Where Spaces Are also includes the sixteen part post-apocalyptic diary poem, “Periodic Zone: Log,” and the text/poem companion for the art opening “Recent in Origin: A visual anthem for the wet frontier” as well as twenty never before published handbills promoting the show.
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XX Elegies
5″ x 8″ (12.7 x 20.32 cm) | Black & White on Cream paper | 182 pages | Publication Date: September 22, 2012
XX Elegies is a broken-lyric re-versioning of John Donne’s Elegies, Donne’s fabulously strange and disturbed poem series of sex and death, longing and loss. It is presented here for the first time with Donne’s original text and includes letters of correspondence between the two authors regarding their collaboration.
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The Papier-Mâché Taj Mahal
Price: $14:00 | 5.5″ x 8.5″ (13.97 x 21.59 cm) | Black & White on Cream paper | 100 pages | Publication Date: September 22, 2012
C.E. Putnam’s first book. Contains the poems: “Young Caedmon”, “Oregon”, “Dad is Two Heroes”, “What Ever Happened to Uncle Wayne?”, “Selected Mediterranean Diaries from a Day in July”, “Pushed Forward, Not Nebraska”, and many more.
Chapbooks
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The Bunny Manuscript Episode 3
Published by Little Red Leaves Textile Series | 4.5″ x 5.5″ (11 x 214.5 cm) | Black & White on White paper hand-sewn fabric cover | 36 Pages | Out of print | Publication Date: April, 2014
The Bunny Manuscript (Episode 3) is an excerpt from a longer work in progress, entitled The Bunny Manuscript. This weird volume is a time/space-travelogue composed of lessons, tales, lyrics and images of characters including Herf, the BUNNY, FOOT, Ben Franklin, Spooky, Yaks and Evol Ghosts.
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Frolic: Selected Cosmic Sex Earthly Love Poems (1994-2007)
Out of print | 5.5″ x 7″ | Black & White on White paper | 82 Pages | Edition of 50 | Publication Date: February 2007
Never before available to the American Market! A section of cosmic sex earthly love poems published in tandem to a February reading in Seattle’s Subtext Reading Series.
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Things Keep Happening
Out of print | 5.5″ x 4″ | Black & White on Cream paper | Hand bound | 80 Pages | Edition of 100 | Publication Date: 2003
Chapbook of the poem “Things Keep Happening”, later published along with supporting poems in 2012 as a part of the C.E. Putnam back catalog release. Features illustrations and a map marking areas of textual creation and and taking off / landing points.
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Recent in Origin: a visual anthem for the wet frontier
Out of print | 2″ x 4.25″ ″ | Black & White on white paper | 16 Pages | Edition of 50 | Publication Date: May 2002
Text composed as a companion to the collaborative art show at the SAW gallery in Seattle, WA, featuring work by Mary Gross (painting), Meghan Trainor (sculpture), Joseph Dierker (sounds).
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Did you ever hear of a thing like that?
Out of print | 4.25″ x 8″ | Black & White on Cream paper | Hand placed full color stickers | Hand bound | 16 Pages | Edition of 50 | Publication Date: 2001
This chapbook was published as a companion to the “Sting like a Box” exhibition at the JettSett Gallery, Chicago, IL USA. May 12, 2001.
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The Maniac Box
Out of print | 8.5″ x 5.5″ | Black & White on white paper | Hand cut vinyl cover | 80 Pages | Edition of 50 | Publication Date: 2001
The first edition of Maniac Box: 27 film treatments. Later, revised and published with movie posters in lurid color as part of Back catalog release in 2012.
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Another 13 Bottles
Out of print | 2″ x 4.25″ | Black & White on white paper | 16 Pages | Edition of 50 | Publication Date: February 2001
Another 13 Transmissions from the Institute.
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13 Bottles
Out of print | 2″ x 4.25″ | Black & White on white paper | 16 Pages | Edition of 50 | Publication Date: August 2000
13 Transmissions from the Institute.
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Go-go! Topless Mini-Poem Poetry
Out of print | 2.25″ x 2.25″ | Black & White on parchment with transparencies | 12 Pages | Edition of 10 | Publication Date: May 1999
Just another adult-novetly poetry project by C.E. Putnam. Vest-pocket sized.
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Communal Bebop Canto
Out of print | 4″ x 6″ | Black & White on white paper | 80 Pages | Edition of 300 | Publication Date: September 1998
An experimental renga written collaboratively from 2pm to 10pm on November, 26 1997, in Arlington, Virginia.
Japanese linked poetry. Developed from shorter sequences, renga had an ancestry in the continuing of one part of a poem by one poet with a second part by another. In other words, two lines of seven syllables added to three lines of five. Seven and five.
Three a penny fire shovel, hot cross buns.
Three cheers for John eating his bread and butter.Play led to earnest. At first impressive stanzas were sought. Later the greatest renga master emphasized the integrity of sequences. Emphasized variety in impressiven ess of stanzas, and variance in closeness and distance of connection.
Three cyclists like a school of delicate fish sway in your lights darting home.
Three days later he is transferred to another class.