JUST PUBLISHED! ATMOSPHERE, a new book of poetry.
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ATMOSPHERE
2026
164 pages
$20.00 / 400 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
ATMOSPHERE
"I’m so glad we’ve found ourselves in the same atmosphere, all of us terrestials hanging by gravity on our blue sphere spinning its way elliptically around a nuclear sun as it has for 4.5 billion years.
Then there are all the other atmospheres: the singular one each of us inhabit, and the one´s we create with each other. Atmospheres of love, generosity, kindness and community, and all the familiar opposites. Just as we cling to what we call Mother Earth, so too do we cling to hope.
Poems exist in their own atmosphere, each one a world of its own, a world we enter to see if the poet gives us something to discover. Perhaps we´ll experience a new atmosphere, one with a little more oxygen, or perhaps an oxygen of a very different kind."
DOING THE WORK: AN ARTIST´S JOURNEY is a limited edition, hardcover 8.5" x 11" book of 256 pages containing more than 200 full color images.
ARN STRASSER
DOING THE WORK:
AN ARTIST´S JOURNEY
A monograph on Arn Strasser´s art by Ury Enriqueza curator of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneio in Queretaro, Mexico. The book presents images from Strasser´s first major exhibition in 1996 to last summer's 2025 solo exhibition at the Museo. Included in the book is an introduction by Enriquez in which she emphasizes themes of architecture, painting and poetry in Strasser´s work. Each series is explained and the book closes with Enriquez's 2025 interview with Strasser.
Price $125
LIMITED EDITION
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POETRY
THE ASYMMETRY OF SILENCE
For this, his sixth collection of poetry, Arn Strasser takes the reader on an emotional journey across time, people and places from a life fully lived. The journey is a varied one...poems of loss, longing and silences, Zen-like meditations, stories of mermaids and make believe poets, fables of lovers, and love songs. Arn Strasser has been called a generous poet, and here we have a book that is generous, filled with an awe for the mysteries of life.
THE ASYMMETRY OF SILENCE
2024
83 pages / Illustrations
$15.00 / 300 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
REMEDIES
2019
140 pages / Illustrations
$15.00 / 300 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
REMEDIES
"Whether decrying the cruelties and injustices of the world or, much more frequently celebrating its beauties and triumphs, Arn Strasser´s lean, elegant poems are marked by precise observation and quiet authority. Here are tributes to artists ("Poem to Lorca", "Indigo") and to nature ("Flowering Quince in Bloom"), tender love poems ("Perhaps", "The Wanderings") and imaginative extravaganzas ("Breakfast with Death", "Roman Holiday"), a rich selection of work by a generous-spirited poet."
MICHAEL PALMA, translator, poet and author of Begin the Gladness and translator of Dante´s Inferno,among other works
TERRAIN
2018
121 pages / Illustrations
$15.00 / 300 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
TERRAIN
Arn Strasser´s fourth collection of poems TERRAIN contains a variety of poetic expressions-- to love and nature, joy and loss, and what it means to be human.
One section titled EVA HESSE IS DRAWING features poems based on artists and writers that covers a diverse spectrum including Eva Hesse, Joan Miro, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mark Rothko.Devotion, a long poem, is a captivating meditation on the experience of being a poet.
TERRAIN is a work from a poet who speaks with an authentic voice, always interesting and challenging.
INCIDENTAL LONGING
"...an exciting, new collection from Arn Strasser...an inspired treasure of poetic expression."
INCLUDING
Samuel Beckett at the Crossroads
Dame from Long Beach
Jazz Piece #19
Poem to Lorca
Song for Lovers
The Modern Mind
We on Earth Becoming
A Poet's List
Einstein Questions the Sea
Ice Storm
INCIDENTAL LONGING
2017
94 pages / Illustrated
$15.00 / 300 mx.
Publisher: Budding Branch Press
TO THE POET LISTENING
"LIVELY, ENGAGING...the latest collection from a poet who displays a keen sense of craft." This collection from Arn Strasser shows a remarkable poetic range. Here we find expressions of love and fear, the experience of parenting, odes to nature, sharp and witty political pieces and more...all told in a unique voice. An added bonus is a delightful story for a cat named Musette. This is a lively, engaging work from a poet who displays a keen sense of craft."
TO THE POET LISTENING
2016
140 pages
$15.00 / 300 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
BEFORE DREAMING
"...a remarkable poetic voice..."
BEFORE DREAMING, a collection of poems by Arn Strasser, allows us to enter a personal world that is at once accessible and layered with interpretive meaning. The poems are characterized by a use of language that speaks to universal questions. Varied in tone, from deeply moving to light-hearted, the works shows a keen sense of structure and rhythm, a testament to a strong poetic style rooted in experience. Strasser shows us the products of a remarkable poetic voice.
ART AND DESIGN
DRAWINGS: ARCHITECTURAL GESTURES
LIMITED FIRST EDITION SIGNED.
In this hardbound book, Arn Strasser presents a series of drawings based on how an architect might produce a spatial gesture at the beginning of the design process. Strasser received a masters in architecture and he brings to this project an architectural sensibility and his work as an artist.
DRAWINGS: ARCHITECTURAL GESTURES
2023
135 pages / Illustrations
$65.00 / 1300 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
A LITTLE BOOK of IMAGINARY FLOWERS
UN PEQUEÑO LIBRO DE FLORES
IMAGINARIAS
"This unique collection of imaginary and sometimes fantastical flowers more than accomplishes artistic poet Arn Strasser´s goal: to bring joy to the viewer. Browse these products of imagination at your leisure: the will soar your spirits." Etta Abrahams
A LITTLE BOOK OF IMAGINARY FLOWERS
2023
135 pages / Illustrations
$15.00 / 300 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
CREATURES I HAVE KNOWN
2022
106 pages / Illustrations
$15.00 / 300 mx.
Publisher: BUDDING BRANCH PRESS
CREATURES I HAVE KNOWN
Meet a delightful set of Creatures with drawings and introductions by Arn Strasser. A GREAT GIFT book!
CREATURES I HAVE KNOWN is a whimsical look at a host of delightful Creatures introduced with line drawings in black and white, and color. Here you will meet TONY THE PARTY ANIMAL, CORKY THE WONDER DOG, STREET SMART SAMMY O'NEILL, and AUNT ADELINE and many more. Beautifully designed, this light-hearted collection of CREATURES makes a perfect gift for any occasion.