Here’s an excerpt from a piece Aaron Talwar wrote on founding Dark Coast Press in Seattle. The whole essay is linked below…
“We named the new baby Dark Coast Press, after a line in Ezra Pound’s First Canto (‘Elpenor, how art thou come to this dark coast? Cam’st thou afoot, outstripping seamen?’ And he in heavy speech: ‘Ill fate and abundant wine!’) Yes, we knew he was talking about Africa. But Seattle made quite a good stand-in for one shadowy coast for another. We set out under the banner of literary fiction, fiction, poetry, essays, and experimental works. But our list will most certainly include every genre under the sun as we continue to grow. Simply put: we publish books that we like, period.”
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/atalwar/2010/07/the-apparent-insanity/
