Aerial/Edge
is an independent publisher of poetry and poetics based in Washington,
DC. The first issue of Aerial appeared in 1984. Edge
Books began publication in 1989.
Aerial is
focused primarily on the avant garde and the experimental,
broadly defined, following from
recent North American experimentation by such groups as Black
Mountain, New York School, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, San
Francisco Renaissance, and antecedents including John
Cage, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams.