Now It Can Be

Early Bird, Bern Porter Special Offer

Now It Can Be—

Why Did It Fail Before?

by Bern Porter

Edited by Mark Melnicove and Fredrik Averin

Hung up? Fed up? Downtrodden? Uptight? Overworked?

Underpaid? Too busy to say? Too busy to think without a phone in your hand?

Do you ever wonder if you are your best self?

Are you metaphorically and/or literally gambling your life away?

Have you ever wished for a different kind of self-help book to embark you on a new kind

of journey toward discovery, understanding, and recovery?

How to Order

Trade paperback edition, 199 copies. $50/ea.. ISBN: 

Limited paperback edition, 23 copies. $150/ea. ISBN:

Order by August 15, 2023 and receive: 

•10% discount 

•Free shipping (for U.S. addresses, media mail)

Expedited and international shipping, if requested, will be billed at cost.

Description of the Book

Over two-hundred self-help found poems created by Porter in the analog days of the 1950s-80s, now resurrected in this collection, just in time for the digital age! 

Published in trade (numbered 24-222) and limited (numbered 1-23) editions. 

Get yours while they last.

The trade and limited editions are issued with… 

•a book bag label; 

•pictorial dust jacket; 

•facsimile of Bern Porter's business card from the late 1960s; 

•rubber-stamped bookmark; 

•numbered, education physics card; 

•two rubber-stamped, circular seals; 

•and white pencil, foil stamped with an altered Bern Porter found.

Additionally the limited edition is issued with: 

•a canvas bag; perforated sheet of artist's stamps; 

•two versions of a 1947 Harry Bowden photograph of the newly married,

soon-to-be-divorced Bern Porter inspecting a found object while seated in his Sausalito, CA gallery (Schillerhaus); 

•and rubber-stamped, blank check signed and endorsed by Bern Porter.

How to Order

Further Information:

Bern Porter  Author

Mark Melnicove and Fredrik Averin Editors

How This Book Came to Be: The Idea of This Book