Edgewise Press — Richard Milazzo

Edgewise Press, founded in 1995 by Richard Milazzo, Howard B. Johnson, and Joy L. Glass, is dedicated to publishing quality books with an emphasis on art, art criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, fiction and verse. It maintains editorial seats in New York and Paris. All of its books are first edition paperbacks, sewn, bound and printed in Turin, Italy, with a two-color front and back cover and a black and white photograph of the author on the frontispiece.

Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press, Evergreen Review, Blue Moon Books, and Foxrock, wrote the following about Edgewise when the Press was only three years old, in 1998, in a letter to Francis Ford Coppola: “I thought this might be an interesting and even personal venue for you to publish something that has possibly been somewhere in the back of your mind, such as some of your concepts about filmmaking or anything that comes to mind that you might find rewarding to do.

“Edgewise is a very modest enterprise thus far as size is concerned but its books are getting to the right places and their very demeanor, simple, yet interesting, gives them a special cachet. And, as you can see by the enclosed list of upcoming titles, and from the diversity of areas and prestigious authors within their own fields, this Press is making an important contribution to our intellectual and literary well being. So, do think about this, and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.”

EP 1 ALAN JONES
Long After Hannibal Had Passed with Elephants:
Poems and Epigrams

EP 2 BRUCE BENDERSON
Toward the New Degeneracy: An Essay
(cultural criticism)

EP 3 PETER HALLEY
Recent Essays, 1990-1996 (art)

EP 4 NANNI CAGNONE,
The Book of Giving Back: A Poem
(Italian with an English translation)

EP 5 JONATHAN LASKER
Complete Essays, 1984-1998 (art)

EP 6 CID CORMAN
Tributary: Poems
With Paintings by Beauford Delaney

EP 7 B.H. FRIEDMAN
Swimming Laps: Stories and Meditations

EP 8 ABRAHAM DAVID CHRISTIAN
La Salle des Pieds Perdus: Drawing/Zeichnun (art)

EP 9 REMO GUIDIERI
Too Late Too Early. An Essay
(philosophy and aesthetics)

EP 10 RACKSTRAW DOWNES
In Relation to the Whole:
Three Essays from Three Decades 1973, 1981, 1996 (art)

EP 11 DEMOSTHENES DAVVETAS
Architecture of Tears: Stories, Poems, Aphorisms

EP 12 MARY DE RACHEWILTZ
For the Wrong Reason. Poems

EP 13 JOHN T. SPIKE
Dissimilar Revelations:
Essays on Neolithic Art, Fra Angelico, Velázquez, Goya, and Cézanne

EP 14 VIK MUNIZ
Natura Pictrix:
Interviews and Essays on Photography

EP 15 SAINT CLAIR CEMIN
Fragments of a Mind:
Stories and Comments on Art, 1987-2004

EP 16 ENRICO PEDRINI
Irreversibility and the Avant-Garde.
An Essay on Physics and Modern Culture

EP 17 NANNI CAGNONE
Index Vacuus. Poems
(Italian with English translation)

EP 18 ROBERT BURKE
Every Occupation in America:
Photography and Reflections on Earning a Living

EP 19 JOSEPH MASHECK
The Carpet Paradigm:
Integral Flatness from Decorative to Fine Art

EP 20 PETER NADIN
The First Mark: Unlearning How to Make Art

EP 21 ROSS BLECKNER
Examined Life: Writings, 1972-2007 (art)

EP 22 JOSEPH NECHVATAL
Towards an Immersive Intelligence:
Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology
and Virtual Reality, 1993-2006

EP 23 ANDREW McCARRON
Mysterium: Poems

EP 24 BRUNELLA ANTOMARINI
The Maiden Machine:
Philosophy in the Age of the Unborn Woman

EP 25 PETER HALLEY
Selected Essays, 1981-2001 (art)

EP 26 PETER NADIN
Taxonomy Transplanted: Art, Language, Farming

EP 27 In the Language of Barbarians, I Would Tell You Stories
Edited and with an Introduction by Richard Milazzo
Authors: Brunella Antomarini, Bruce Benderson, Ilya Bernstein, Edward Burns,
Peter Carravetta, Carmen Firan, Andrew McCarron, Peter Nadin, Mary de Rachewiltz, Annie Reiner,
Andrew Sângeorzan, Paolo Valesio, Robert Viscusi.
(a portfolio of writings: philosophy, travel, aesthetics, art,
cultural theory and criticism, language, agriculture, poetry, fiction)

EP 28 RACKSTRAW DOWNES
Nature and Art are Physical: Writings on Art, 1967-2008

EP 29 DONALD BAECHLER
Victim of Improvement: Telegrams, Stories, Letters, Monologues, Interviews, 1985-2006 (art)

EP 30 JONATHAN LASKER
New Complete Essays, 1984-2019 (art)

EP 31 PETER NADIN
The Mark Series: Method and Manual – Art, Poetry, Farming, Ceramics, Film, 2003-2018

EP 32 BARBARA PROBST
Matters of Uncertainty: Thoughts on Photography and the World Behind It, 1997-2020

EP 33 ROBERT C. MORGAN
Chinese Ink Artists: The Presence of What Is Not

Abraham David Christian
La Salle des Pieds Perdus: Drawing / Zeichnung

THE GIFTS / I DONI: GOLD / ORO, FRANKINCENSE / OLIBANO, MYRRH / MIRRA
Authors: Nanni Cagnone and Demosthenses Davvetas
Artists: Saint Clair Cemin, Abraham David Christian, Alessandro Twombly, Not Vital
(The Gifts includes the memoir:
Streets of Gold: From Palermo to New York and Back Again
Richard Milazzo)
(art, literature, travel, memoir)

Richard Milazzo
Jonathan Lasker: Expressions Become Things –
From Sketch to Study to Painting

ROSS BLECKNER
My Life in The New York Times (art)

ROSS BLECKNER
A3: Our Lives in The New York Times (art)

MEG WEBSTER
Salt from the Dead Sea (art)

SAL SCARPITTA and JOAN BANKEMPER
Scarpitta / Bankemper:  5 + 10.
(videos, prints, essays)

DANIEL ROTHBART
Seeing Naples:  Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius.
(travel, art, essays)

PETER NADIN
The First Mark / Taxonomy Transplanted / The Mark Series
(art, poetry, farming, ceramics, film)

For a more detailed list of publications, go to edgewisepress.org