Baksun Books, a small press in Boulder, Colorado, was created by Jennifer Heath in 1995 in order to de-commodify the word and provide opportunities for poets and writers to publish work that would otherwise be ignored by the mainstream, commercial marketplace.

Baksun Books relies on grants and individual donations for printing and distribution. We do not ask writers to self-publish. Proofreading, editing, artwork, design, administration and publicity are services provided free of charge to the author. Any proceeds made from book sales go straight to the author and not to Baksun Books.

Baksun Books cannot accept solicitations from authors. We publish rarely and do not make our selections from query letters or manuscript submissions.

 Baksun Books titles are available through Small Press Distribution. Our books include:

 
  • On Laughter: A Melodrama, collaborations between Lyn Hejinian and Jack Collom
  • Blue Yodel, Blue Heron, CD of poetry and music by Jack Collom, Dan Hankin and Sierra Collom
  • Wild West Wind: Remembering Allen Ginsberg, a memoir by Susan Edwards
  • First Presence, stories by Jane Wodening
  • Mona Lisa's Veil: The Selected Poems of Randy Roark, by Randy Roark
  • La Niña: Urban Fairy Tales, comic by Sarah C. Bell,
  • Corner Bar, by Jack Collom and Jennifer Heath
  • Book of Gargoyles, stories by Jane Wodening
  • The Inside Story, stories by Jane Wodening
  • The Task, poems by Jack Collom
  • Holy Mole Guacamole! folktales about food for children, by Renee Fajardo and Carl Ruby (available exclusively through Amazon.com)
  • On the Way Here, short stories by Tree Bernstein
  • Where Hunger is A Place, sonnets by Laura Wright;
  • 1x1 A Portrait, poems by Rachel Levitsky
  • Your Essential Nature, Nita Morrow Hill
  • A Life in Pencil, poems by Ghada Kanafani

Baksun Books is proud to present its newest book, Uncontained: Writers and Photographers in the Garden and the Margins, edited by Jennifer Heath, and featuring eighty-six writers and photographers. The book was launched on October 6, 2007, by the Left Hand Reading Series in collaboration with EcoArts at Naropa University.

Uncontained is a paean to gardens – cultivated Nature – and to Nature in the margins – those places where life defies cultivation and appears as surprise and renewal. The book unites emerging, seasoned, traditional and avant-garde writers and photographers, sharing their visions about and relationships to these strips of environment and their contents. The gardening life reveals many secrets about beginnings, endings and our existences in between. The margins – from greenbelts to the cracks in sidewalks – reveal where humans have been, what we have destroyed and Nature’s small, steady triumphs despite and among our intrusions. In the garden, we become aware of time and history. And while gardens may not seem to be “ecology, in fact, they can be the places where we first learn to love Nature. As wilderness disappears, what’s left are the margins and planted spaces that preserve a bit of Nature, keeping it in trust for the future.

Uncontained is available through SDP Books -- http://www.spdbooks.org and was funded by The Boulder County Arts Alliance Neodata Endowment and The Boulder Arts Commision.