The eohippus Tract Series is a growing library of pamphlets seeking to disseminate works of opinion, idea, and the otherwise uncategorizable text.

Tract Series Excerpts:

From tract series #5: “To begin, I wanted to engage with language (dialogically and/or dialectically) of milk consumption and commercial dairy practices. (I think I want(ed) a relationship with an abject subject.) There is a time to present and, like Reznikoff, allow the reader to come to her own conclusions (she does anyway, right?). And then, as David Cope says, there is a time to kick down the door so the poem does not recede into the closet. Or as Eileen Myles puts it, where was the A=I=D=S poems? No subject object verb agreement, no.”

From tract series #4: “According to the Western psyche human worth is summoned through conflict, through the clashing of fragments across the ozone. History then accrues as the perfect cholera of density, so that its necessity transpires through heaps of counted bodies which configures in the rational mind as honed embryos in the system.”

From tract series #3: “I dislike nature shows: the animal porn, the emphasis on ‘the hunt,’ the sly suggestion that ‘animal’ naturalizes or justifies human brutality. I dislike the way one is expected to assume that there is a logical and natural distinction between ‘the cultivated’ and ‘the wild,’ or the implication that cultivation is less violent than wilderness.

From tract series #2: “Is the highly formalized language of newspapers or legal documents normal? This language is successful, in the sense that is is accepted by society. Perhaps it would be better to begin by arguing that poetic language consists of any language that is noticeably different from the language of successful prose.”

From tract series #1: “When Nature stopped being a language, or at least in the reciprocal sense, or at least in the deictic sense (as when a flower turns a particular color in order to attract a certain kind of bee), we were left only with the cultivation of the sign, and the despair over the seeming arbitrariness of the word…”


Tract Series #5
The Secret of Milk
Cara Benson
$7.00





Tract Series #4
Inalienable Recognitions
Will Alexander
$7.00




Tract Series #3
How Hate Got Hand
Michelle Detorie
$7.00
Currently Unavailable
Available Again Soon!



Tract Series #2
Handbook of Poetic Language
Stan Apps
$7.00
2nd Printing




Tract Series #1
Theory of Language
Amanda Ackerman
$7.00
2nd Printing