I've seen Make-Up live.

The Stories of English by David Crystal; Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems by Noelle Kocot; Other People's Lives by Ray Davies; Down with the Ship by Ryan Murphy; Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys; Love, Peace & Poetry: Turkish Psychedelic Music, Various Artists; The Concerto Form by Anthony Hawley; SHAKE by Joshua Beckman.

THO WOE

It's spelt though. Did I miss an undelicious invitation postmarked in the 1950s? Has it got sign exchange value (along with the ampersand)—or is it douchebag nonsense?

These are the orthographic questions I cannot answer.

Cannibal: Volume One, Issue One

from Matthew Henriksen:

Cannibal: Volume One, Issue One

Our first issue will be ready to ship April 1st.

Cannibal is 88 pages, hand-bound, with a screenprinted cover. Send your check to Matthew Henriksen/95 Clay Street, 3L/Brooklyn, NY 11222. Don't send or write the checks to Cannibal because he doesn't live here. Paypal options are fuzzily in the works. Questions?

Cannibal, 88 pages, $8
One year: $15

The First Issue:
Geoffrey Babbit
Andrea Baker
Zach Barocas
Jim Behrle
FJ Bergmann
Edmund Berrigan
Anne Boyer
Jenna Cardinale
Laura Carter
Adam Clay
Clayton Couch
Bruce Covey
AnnMarie Eldon
Jane Gregory
Anthony Hawley
Brian Howe
Brenda Iijima
Lisa Jarnot
Shannon Jonas
Erica Kaufman
Alex Lemon
Tao Lin
Rebecca Loudon
Joe Massey
Andrew Mister
K. Silem Mohammad
Valzhyna Mort
Gina Myers
The Pines
Emma Ramey
M.L. Schultz
Sandra Simonds
Laura Solomon
Gabriella Torres
Jen Tynes
Dustin Williamson

I'm feeling better.

Лев Сергеевич Термен

The World Health Organization has called for a five-year moratorium on theremin playing.

Octavia Butler has apparently fallen and died.

Fast Food Nation

I'm a little depressed.

I'm burning my former self in effigy.

I'm melting Viper Jazz, Zbigniew Herbert, Jean-Luc Godard, Rubber Soul, Karel Čapek, Nicanor Parra, Gary Lutz, Jean Follain, Anton Chekov, The Feelies, Vasko Popa, "The Precession of the Simulacra," Franz Schubert, Antonio Machado, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier), and Dušan Makavejev.

I'm going to buy a snowglobe.

Ernest Ansermet

cf.

   The sky is not yellow, it's chicken.

   The sky's yellowly chickened not.

outside the coven

Sometimes it drags. People can scarcely be aroused and they wear secret hats. Every place: a bulbous reluctance.

newest concern:

Flarf must be a gift from the gods.

I just got an email from a friend. He claims (we can analyze his "claim" later) that he has never to his knowledge read a Flarf poem. But he writes that yesterday he had six hours to kill, so he caught up on the comment boxes on Silliman's blog. And now he's hot-wild to read some Flarf, some genuine Flarf, the real thing, the good stuff. He says he hasn't been this excited since a couple of weeks ago, awaiting the domestic release of the Arctic Monkey's CD.

I'm just glad to hear from him again. Especially since he owes me money.

Excess elimination defeats surprise.

Shit wisely.

 

Tom Raworth this Friday at 6 PM at Café Royale.

Melville House is publishing Tao Lin's story collection BED.

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We got a copy of this in yesterday from a rep. It's priced as used—we wrapped its jacket in a Brodart sleeve—but it's not.

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In Memory of My Feelings

by Frank O'Hara

This book, originally published by the Museum in 1967 to honor its late curator, was edited by the poet Bill Berkson, who had been a close friend of O'Hara's and was then a guest editor in the Museum's Department of Publications. Berkson invited thirty artists who had known O'Hara, ranging from Willem de Kooning to Claes Oldenburg, from Joan Mitchell to Jasper Johns, to produce works to accompany his poems. The book was issued in a limited edition as a set of folded sheets held loose in a cloth-and-board folio that was itself contained in a slipcase. Now, for the first time, the Museum has republished In Memory of My Feelings in a conventionally bound edition, and with a newly designed paper jacket instead of a slipcase. In every other way, however, this book is an exact facsimile of the edition of 1967. Includes 49 black and sepia illustrations.

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I can't afford it. I bought the Dada book instead.

Necessary homage: I bought the new Ray Davies record.

Congratulations, Zach.

Yes. With eggs, beans, and grilled tomato.

White Guys from Massachusetts

Thanks to Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher for a wicked good night. If you stop by, check out the Bootstrap Press titles and Derek's just-out (it arrived yesterday, via Memphis, straight from the printer) My Favorite Color Is Red. It's cool. According to the Jim Side, this is a quintessentially boring poetry blog post. I did it.

DEREK FENNER & KATIE COURIC

Proszę

TONIGHT!

Hello to my friends in Arkansas and Nebraska.

An Above Average Night

Human cannot live on one bookstore or one reading series alone.

Thanks to everyone for coming, especially Messrs. Massey and Foust.

TONIGHT AT 8

THESE LETTERS ARE TWINKLING. NO OPENING ACT. FREE ADMISSION. SEATING IS LIMITED.

Pegasus Books Downtown
(510) 649-1320

This Is Not a Statement

Maybe if people want I'll bleed on them. Maybe I'll fascinate you, my five readers, with my former story as innocent reader. The tale of August 2005, when I learnt that "blog" was a contraction of "web log." How I learnt what foetry was. What I was wearing when I first read Jim Behrle's cartoons. (I looked up to him, I idolized him. I wanted to be just like him but still look like me.)

All Poets Welcome

We've got several copies of All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s for $9.00. It comes with a 35-track CD featuring . . . lots of people. Click the cover left for details.

Overheard in Conversation

"It's like a snowglobe with a mini kind of Mount Rushmore, but with the faces of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and Rae Armantrout. And you never have to shake it."

"It's a strategy of writing that makes every other kind of poem seem both narrative and lyrical. Are you going to finish that?"

"No. No, I don't think so. He's probably just busy, and he's probably waiting for you to call him."

THIS FRIDAY, 8 PM

THESE LETTERS ARE TWINKLING. NO OPENING ACT. FREE ADMISSION. SEATING IS LIMITED.

Pegasus Books Downtown
(510) 649-1320

& NEXT MONDAY

BOOTSTRAP PRODUCTIONS' first West Coast Tour:
Plum's Favorite Cosmos is High Country Red

RYAN GALLAGHER      DEREK FENNER

02/20/06
7:30 PM

{lime tree}

Yes.

My new favorite blog.

From my vocabulary, listen to ACTIONBOOKS poets Lara Glenum and Aase Berg 01/08/06 reading here.

It's a streaming .ram file. What you can do.

Morning

Fascicle 2 maintains its proportions. How?

I don't know who Silliman's eight trade publishers are. I haven't counted, but I suspect fewer.

Also, again, School of Frankie Avalon is left out.

And tensions remain.

A Letter from Tony Tost

Dear Friend,

You are invited to check out the second issue of Fascicle, an online journal that focuses on a global and historical view of innovative poetry. Included in its 400+ pages:

* A portfolio of new poems from China edited by Zhang Er, from the forthcoming Talisman Anthology of Chinese poetry. Focusing on poets born since 1960, this portfolio also features some of the most interesting contemporary poets as contributing translators, including Charles Borkhuis, Caroline Crumpacker, Mark Wallace, Rachel Levitsky and Joseph Donahue.

* A supplement to Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery's Imagining Language (MIT Press 1998), one of the most fascinating and distinctive anthologies of recent memory. The supplement, compiled by Tony Tost, includes an interview with Jed Rasula, as well as poetry, prose and art by Ronald Johnson, Kurt Schwitters, Andre Breton, Edna Sarah Beardsley, Jacob Boehme, Eugene Jolas and others.

* A selection of new collaborative work by Lyn Hejinian & Anne Tardos, Aaron McCollough & Kent Johnson, Geraldine Monk & John Donne, Hank Lazer & Pak, Brian Howe & Marcus Slease, among others.

* Critical essays and prose, including Lisa Jarnot on Robert Duncan; Tom Orange on Clark Coolidge; Dodie Bellamy on Narrative & Body Language; Laura Moriarty on A Tonalist Thinking; Clayton Eshleman on Hart Crane, Andrew Joron & Jeff Clark; Stan Mir on Brian Kim Stefans; Nate Pritts on Robert Penn Warren; Graham Foust on Poetry's Neighborly Enemy Mind; Morgan Lucas Schuldt on Harryette Mullen; and more.

* Peter Cole interviewed by Leonard Schwartz.

* Visual work by Anne Tardos, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, and Michael Winkler.

* Plays by Chris Vitiello and Andrew Schelling.

* Translations of Francis Ponge (tr. Serge Gavronsky), Laura Solórzano (tr. Jen Hofer), Ernst Herbeck (tr. Gary Sullivan), Bertolt Brecht (tr. Pauline Fan), Andrea Zanzotto (tr. Wayne Chambliss), Hans Thill (tr. Tony Frazer), among others.

* Poetry and prose by Andrew Joron, Laura Moriarty, Lee Ann Brown, Stephanie Young, Rodrigo Toscano, Brenda Coultas, JL Jacobs, Mary Burger, Carl Martin, Matthew Henriksen, Brenda Iijima, Mairead Byrne, Lance Phillips, and many others.


Hope you'll enjoy!

Sincerely,

Tony Tost

Даниил Хармс

Daniil Kharms
from The Blue Notebook
translated by Matvei Yankelevich
Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003

Massey Vibrato

Virgules LRSN

The barnes of my existence: Jack and Kendrick. Were we sandwiches, they'd eat.

I want to write poetics as badly as I want to join a marching band.

I Don't Like Alberto Gonzales

The attorney general.

He reminds me of Cheney: fatherly, quasi-warm, explaining to you protectively how the world is—yet only as he wants you to know it, what he wants you to think it is.

I reckon Bush is first man protected. Obviously.

 It's supposed to hit 75° F today. . . .

It's supposed to hit 74° F today. Weird.

I had another dream last night I was in Jönköping, lost.

Ta Det Ryan Gallagher

It's supposed to hit 70° F today. Weird.

I had another dream last night I was in Jönköping, lost.

The Concerto Form

Beautiful cover. Copies will be available it is hoped in the sooner than later days. And Tanya's just confirmed. March 10 look good.

Bunny's Cut n' Save

One-legged.

4.3

New

SPORK.

Cruel in the Sky

From Typo Magazine:

After many months of sweat and tears, TYPO 7 is alive. Curated by Johannes Göransson, this issue highlights Modern Swedish Poetry and features the work of:

EDITH SÖDERGRAN
GUNNAR BJÖRLING
HENRY PARLAND
GÖRAN SONNEVI
GUNNAR HARDING
ANN JÄDERLUND
JACQUES WERUP
LARS MIKAEL RAATTAMAA
JOHAN JÖNSSON
AASE BERG
JAN SJÖLUND
JENNY TUNEDAL

TRANSLATED BY:
BILL COYLE
JOHANNES GÖRANSSON
ROGER GREENWALD
RIKA LESSER
KRISTINA SIGLER

P.A.T.D., Snacka Skit

How many legs has a poet got?

S.F. Antiquarian Book, Print, & Paper Fair

Feb. 25 & 26. I've got a couple of passes. These will save you $7 X 2 = $14.

If you want them, tell me.

Nonpotable Water

Thank god the 16th century is over.

Bless the self-sufficient, the dogmatic, the exclusive.

Eat more cornflakes.

Pity all cool, interesting, intelligent, fun people, for what they will never know.

Swallow lots of saliva.

Status Report

Pestilence and death.

Effing Press

If your eyeballs are attached to a head to a body a thrown stone or taxi, bus or BART ride from downtown Berkeley: We got in beautiful new chapbooks this morning from Effing Press.

Olafsson Beserker

Open Source

Heard Christopher Lydon on the radio tonight talking with the screenwriter Danny Rubin and others (e.g.) about the film Groundhog Day. Lydon's valuable.

If you need telling, good luck.

32 (or 33)

    eyeball-worthy.

11

  eyeball-worthy.