Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Recently Received
Books (Poetry)
Homero Aridjis, Solar Poems, translated by George McWhirter, City Lights, San Francisco, 2010
Charles Bernstein, Umbra, Chax, Tucson, 2010. Translations of Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Osip Mandelstam, Bernard Noël, Paulo Leminski, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Régis Bonvicino, Catullus, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Claude Royet-Journoud, & Victor Hugo
Zachary C. Bush, The Silence of Sickness, Gold Wake Press, Breinigsville, PA, 2010
Ken Chen, Juvenilia, foreword by Louise Glück, Yale Younger Poets, New Haven, 2010
Tom Clark, Feeling for the Ground, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2010
Sandy Florian, On Wonderland & Waste, Sidebrow Books, San Francisco, 2010
Elisa Gabbert, The French Exit, Birds LLC, Austin, Minneapolis, New York, Raleigh, 2010
Gizelle Gajelonia, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Bus, Tinfish, Kāne’ohe, HI, 2010
Dereks Henderson & Pollard, Inconsequentia, BlazeVOX, Buffalo, 2010
Barbara Henning, Cities and Memory, Chax, Tucson, 2010
Donora Hillard, Theology of the Body, Gold Wake Press, Breinigsville, PA, 2010
Pattie McCarthy, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, Apogee Press, Berkeley, 2010
Tenney Nathanson, Ghost Snow Falls Through the Void (Globalization), Chax, Tucson, 2010
Denise Newman, Wild Goods, Apogee, Berkeley, CA, 2010
Alice Notley, Reason and Other Women, Chax, Tucson, 2010
Charles Plymell, Eat Not Thy Mind, foreword by Mike Watt, Glass Eye Books / Ecstatic Peace Library, Northampton, MA 2009
Elizabeth Robinson, Also Known As, Apogee Press, Berkeley, 2010
Jaime Robles, Anime Animus Anima, Shearsman, Exeter, 2010
Kaia Sand, Remember to Wave, Tinfish Press, Kāne’ohe, HI, 2010
Afzal Ahmed Syed, Rococo & Other Worlds: Selected Poems, translated from the Urdu by Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Wesleyan, Middletown, CT 2010
Chris Tonelli, The Trees Around, Birds LLC, Austin, Minneapolis, New York, Raleigh, 2010
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, edited by Ben Mazer, introduction by Stephen Burt, Belknap Harvard, Cambridge, MA 2010
Kevin Varrone, G-Point Almanac: Passyunk Lost, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2010
Anne Waldman, Matriot Acts, Chax, Tucson, 2010
Carol Watts, This is Red, Torque Press, Southampton, UK, 2009
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Selenography, Sidebrow Books, San Francisco, 2010
Books (Poetry Anthologies)
Camille T. Dungy, editor, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA 2009. Includes Phillis Wheatley, Elizabeth Alexander, June Jordan, Clarance Major, Jean Toomer, Alice Walker, Claude McKay, Gerald Barrax Sr., Margaret Walker, Arna Bontemps, Rita Dove, Indigo Moor, Richard Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Harryette Mullen, Marilyn Nelson, Carl Philips, Ishmael Reed, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Cyrus Cassells, Ed Roberson, Cornelius Eady, Melvin Dixon, Reginald Shepherd, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, C.S. Giscombe, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, Melvin B. Tolson, Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, Al Young, Janice Harrington, many more
Books (Other)
Harold Abramowitz, Not Blessed, Les Figues, Los Angeles, 2010
Martine Bellen, 2X², BlazeVOX, Buffalo, 2010
Stephen Burt & David Mikics, The Art of the Sonnet, Belknap Harvard, Cambridge, MA 2010
David W. Huntsperger, Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry: Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010
Brenda Iijima, editor, )((Eco(Lang)(Uage(Reader)), Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs / Nightboat Books, Brooklyn & Callicoon, NY, 2010. Includes Karen Leona Anderson, Jack Collom, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Laura Elrick, Brenda Iijima, Peter Larkin, Jill Magi, Tracie Morris, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Julie Patton, Jed Rasula, Evelyn Reilly, Leslie Scalapino, James Sherry, Jonathan Skinner, & Tyrone Williams
Robert Kelly, The Logic of the World and Other Fictions, McPherson & Co., Kingston, NY, 2010
Tan Lin, Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking, Wesleyan, Middletown, CT, 2010
Sarah Rosenthal, A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area, Dalkey Archive, Champaign, IL 2010. Includes interviews with Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Kathleen Fraser, Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Glück, Barbara Guest, Truong Tran, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr & Elizabeth Robinson
Lewis Warsh, A Place in the Sun, Spuyten Duyvil, New York, 2010
Journals
Cannot Exist, no. 6, Madison, WI, March 2010. Includes Jordan Stempleman, Lewis Freedman, Monica Mody, Bob Heman, Steve Gilmartin, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Mary Kasimor, Jordan Dunn, David Buuck & Juliana Spahr, Crag Hill, Michael Bernstein, Mairéad Byrne, Nicholas Ranikar, David Wolach & the Nonsense Company
Other Media & Formats
Chain Chain Chain, by Rae Armantrout, Fact-Simile, Santa-Fe NM 2010 (3.5-by-2.5 inch trading cards in the grand baseball card manner with photo horizontally on one side backed by an excerpt from Waldman’s masterwork. The card is reminiscent of Topps’ cards circa 1960.)
ROVA & the Nels Cline Singers, The Celestial Septet, CD of compositions by the ROVA Saxophone Quartet (Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs & Jon Raskin, all on various saxophones) & the Nels Cline Singers (Nels Cline, guitars; Scott Amendola, drums; Devin Hoff, bass), New World Records, New York, 2010
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Jacket 39’s feature,
A Multitude of One: Celebrating Nathaniel Tarn
edited by Shamoon Zamir
Nathaniel Tarn:
Gondwana
Nathaniel Tarn:
Extracts from the Sarawak (Borneo) Field Journal
(photos by Nathaniel Tarn)
Joseph Donahue reviews
Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers, by Nathaniel Tarn
Doris Sommer:
America as Desire(d):
Nathaniel Tarn’s Poetry of the Outsider as Insider
Janet Rodney, portfolio 1
Lisa Raphals:
Reading Nathaniel Tarn’s House of Leaves
Ruark Lewis portfolio
Peter O’Leary reviews
Selected Poems 1950–2000 by Nathaniel Tarn
Joseph Donahue reviews
The Architextures, by Nathaniel Tarn
George Economou reviews
Nathaniel Tarn: At the Western Gates, 1985; and
Nathaniel Tarn: The Desert Mothers, 1984
Richard Deming:
Speaking Places:
Nathaniel Tarn and the Poetics of Voicing Culture
Carolee Campbell, A Postcard for Nathaniel Tarn
Nathaniel Tarn in conversation with Daniel Bouchard
Janet Rodney, portfolio 2
Shamoon Zamir:
Scandals in the House of Anthropology:
notes towards a reading of Nathaniel Tarn
Eliot Weinberger:
Oranges & Peanuts for Sale, reviewed by Nathaniel Tarn
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Steve Benson’s reading / performance
at the Medium & Margin Conference in Berkeley
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Steve’s text, a note on his project
& the conference proposal
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Is this what you call the Jewish avant-garde?
Bernstein’s writing is intoxicating
Rae Armantrout: “Paragraph,”
“Soft Money,” “Outage”
Talking with Bruce Andrews
A video of Hissa Hilal
A profile of Hilal
A bright light for women’s rights
With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue
Gary Sullivan on Lynn Behrendt,
Nada Gordon on Vanessa Place
A recording of Lynn Behrendt & Vanessa Place
at the Bowery Poetry Club
Geof Huth on Behrendt & Place
Harryette Mullen wins the Jackson Prize
Fanny Howe reading at the Bowery Poetry Club,
April 3
Ben Friedlander, also reading at the BPC on April 3
Talking with Alan Halsey
The magical awkwardness of Joe Ceravolo
WILLA:
Women in Letters & Literary Arts
Talking with Erin Belieu & Cate Marvin
A gender breakdown of
literary editors’
2009 “bests” lists
Stephen Burt on the poetics of motherhood
Swede Dreams:
Daniel Burnbaum on OEI
On Lucille Clifton:
Evie Shockley, Sharon Mesmer,
Mairéad Byrne, Mendi Lewis Obadike,
Theresa Senato Edwards, Julie Phillips Brown,
Cara Benson, Tara Betts, Kazim Ali,
Shanna Compton, Deborah Poe,
Naomi Shihab Nye, Aimee Nezhukumatathil,
GE Patterson & Alicia Ostriker
Clifton’s Voices
Luce Irigaray:
This Sex Which is Not One
Peter O’Leary on Robert Duncan’s
The Origin of Old Son
Thom Donovan on CA Conrad
Philly’s next “flash reading”
is of the work of George Oppen,
April 11
Nominate the 2010
Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere!
Inspiration is key for Bill Corbett!
Craig Morgan Teicher on Bin Ramke’s
Theory of Mind: New & Selected Poems
First 100 days, best 100 days?
Downloadable walking tours
focused on poetry
for Chicago & DC
Cathy Park Hong:
“Ballad in A,” “Our Jim”
Source Material: A Journal of Appropriated Text
(a big zip file of a PDF that is not made much smaller
for having been compressed)
Margaret Atwood on Twitter
Ed Sanders in the Wall Street Journal
(neither a typo nor an hallucination)
James Wagner’s one-paragraph reviews:
Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season
Sarah O’Brien’s Catch Light
Ange Mlinko’s “Squill”
Talking with Eiríkur Örn Norđdahl
Michael McClure’s
Mysteriosos, and Other Poems
2 books by Dan Beachy-Quick
The “most representative poets”
of the 20th & 21st centuries:
Gregory Corso & Barbara Guest
7 Philadelphia-area poets to savor
14 poems read by these 7 poets
Daisy Fried
heads up Litapalooza
at Penn State Brandywine,
April 6
Another big AWP reading this Friday
Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Eileen Myles
Friday night @ CUNY
Talking with Paul Siegell
The most widely spoken language in the world:
Globish
You could vote for
Neil Gaiman, Patti Smith, Banksy, Mary Karr or Dave Eggers
for Time magazine’s list of the “100 most influential people of 2010”
or you could just be flat out appalled
at the 200 “finalists” you are given to chose from…
Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza
in Denver, April 7
This year’s edible books
One more reason I do not drink
How Portsmouth became a literary haven
May 3 & 4 @ CUNY,
The Annual Chapbook Festival
Devin Johnston:
“Static,” ‘Thin Place”
Joel Oppenheimer’s “The Dancer,”
illustrated by Robert Rauschenberg,
published by Jonathan Williams
Andrew Joron, Rachel Loden, C.S. Giscombe
at the de Young in SF, April 23
George Quasha:
Preverbs & axial poetics
Mendelsohn’s Cafavy
The poetry of Black Bart
Beltway Poetry Quarterly’s new issue
celebrates DC’s many literary organizations
Matthew Dickman’s “Fire”
Donald Revell:
“Homage to John Frederick Peto”
Timothy Green’s American Fractal
Amérique, une révolution poétique,
with Olivier Brossard, Yves Di Manno,
Auxeméry & Christophe Lamiot Enos,
Saturday, April 10, Paris
The poetry & poetics of Kitasono Katue
Simone White’s House Envy of All the World
Talking with January Gill O’Neill
O’Neill’s Underlife
“A Woodstock of the mind”
Emily Warn: “The Word”
Talking with Marcela Sulak
C.J. Laity on Gurlesque
On the Squirrelesque
No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets
Norris Church Mailer:
A Ticket to the Circus
Siri Hustvedt is The Shaking Woman
4 books by Bay Area poets
5 collections by major Quietists
21 poets recommend recent favorites
Strangest Robert Creeley reference
that I’ve seen in some time
Ron Padgett into French
Matvei Yankelevich’s Boris by the Sea
Mark Haddon talking with Paul Farley
A profile of Mark Haddon
Jim Murdoch’s “Lonely City”
Talking with Shelley Puhak
A longer Puhak interview
Heretical Texts fest in Philly, April 10
with Allison Cobb, Kate Schapira,
Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Simone White,
CA Conrad & Franks
Talking with Ned Balbo
Gary Snyder in action in Acton
A profile of Charles Plymell
The Best Canadian Poetry
(in English)
11 ways to celebrate National Poultry Month
A 12th way would be to peruse a month’s worth
of tattoed poets on Tatoosday
with accompanying poems on
Bill Cohen’s BillyBlog
Your quintessential “national poetry month” article
Another that focuses on the poet laureate program
Penn’s book store is also doing
a poem a day online this month
April is also
International Pwoermd Writing Month,
devoted of course to writing
“words” that are themselves poems,
e.g. Mark Young’s fruitful
ne(tar)ine
William Blake
hiding in the tangerines
Taking with T.J. Beitelman
Writing novels – it’s all in the planning
Talking with Kate Durbin
Durbin’s The Ravenous Audience
Talking with Marie Ponsot & Ed Hirsch
Edward Hirsch is ripe
Jonathan Galassi on Jenny Holzer
Elizabeth Bishop & The New Yorker
Talking with Louise Glück
Talking with Kimiko Hahn
David Foster Wallace:
“Updike…has never had an unpublished thought”
Roth’s fake interviews
Arguments for the Lost Man Booker Prize
Literary ladies of the Beijing subway
Spencer Reece, “Gilgamesh”
Talking with Robert Fanning
Fanning’s American Prophet
Talking with David Rigsbee
Tina Chang doesn’t do lofty
Criticism is always dying
The Herb Vandecker story
Paper Before Print:
The History and Impact of Paper
in the Islamic World
Some prize-winning book designs
E-book pricing model is changing
in fits & starts
Amazon, B&N surrender control of pricing
Brit publishers howl over Amazon demand
that no website be allowed to undersell them
Why does Congress
want me to shun my local bookstore
& shop online instead?
Bookstore décor made from old books
The death of a bookstore
that opened with great backing
less than one year ago
Boston Library opens the kimono on branch use
How green is an iPad? Or a book?
E-readers & eye strain (duh)
E-book royalties are the next battle line
From free books to e-books:
publishers struggle with going digital
Self-censorship hurts communications research
Harpers Studio closes up shop
The Great West Coast Newspaper War
Talking with Anna Halprin
Chris Smither
has the Global Financial Crisis blues
(but it don’t say if he’s playing the blue guitar)
Farrah Field on Laura Marling
Peter Brook puts Shakespeare’s Sonnets on stage
A sculpture of Charlie Parker
Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in Red
Rothko is back
& superb
John Gallaher on liking vs. discerning in Red
Thriving on the “Who wrote Shakespeare” scam
The most hated film-maker in America
Anish Kapoor’s new tower of London
Nancy Spero:
The Torture of Women
The Turbulence Project capsizes
Jack Goldstein
& the CalArts Mafia
A bronze statue, taller than Liberty,
in the nation of Senegal
Lego, already
Welcome to Marwencol
Recession forces art world to get creative
PaceWildenstein breaks apart
A new Pompidou
An online art book: The Mural in America
A second look at Roman Vishniac
Displaced arts journalists strike back
Don’t Piss on Me & Tell Me It’s Raining
The meaning of a “bad Koons”
The Top 30 exhibitions of 2009
David Slivka has died
Ronald Clyne’s covers for Folkways Records
The AP obit on Ed Roberts
Terry Teachout tackles
“10 books that influenced my thinking” meme
(Edwin Denby, Fairfield Porter & novels
by New Critics…)
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