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January 17, 2015
furtherotherbookworks:
At Spicer’s grave: Kevin Killian reading...
At Spicer’s grave: Kevin Killian reading Jack Spicer’s “The Birds” (from LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS). “A worm / in the whole visible world held still.”
tonytobecasual:
I am posting Chris’s reading of a Spicer poem...
I am posting Chris’s reading of a Spicer poem at his grave cause it retained the bands of color that kept infecting the phone while we were there…
furtherotherbookworks:
With a little help from our friends,...
With a little help from our friends, this standing book press was moved from a pallet in the garage and into the laundry room. Now we can knock out cases and boxes in no time! Soon I’ll use it to case in the Mac Low book.
January 13, 2015
Moe’s Books find from our SF trip: Scalapino’s first...
Moe’s Books find from our SF trip: Scalapino’s first book for $6 (was both excited about and incredulous at this price tag). Published by Sand Dollar in 1976.
January 7, 2015
Paranoid Histories Reader
Paranoid Histories Reader
The following reader features excerpts from short essays by Michelle Detorie, Julia Drescher, CJ Martin, and Kurt Newman. Folks planning to attend “Paranoid Histories” at the OMNI this Saturday, 1/10 might like to preview some of this material before the conversation. I’m looking forward to discussing these essays together then!
wiscohisto:
Christmas dinner with poet Lorine Niedecker...
Christmas dinner with poet Lorine Niedecker and family, Town of Koshkonong, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, 1964 (no sound).
Shared with permission of Julie Schoessow.
via: Historic Fort Atkinson, Dwight Foster Public Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Pats genius on the head—-Jesus.
January 4, 2015
tonytobecasual:
"Jimmie has decided to become SENTENCE...
"Jimmie has decided to become SENTENCE STRUCTURE
SAME AS ME LONG LINES”
"A white rabbit absolutely outlined in whiteness upon a black
background.
A ghost
The most
We can say or think about it is it stays…”
— Hannah Weiner, “Little Book 134,” hiding JAPAN
—Jack Spicer, “Partington Ridge” (Homage to Creeley), Heads of theTown…
PARANOID HISTORIES
In his essay “For a Paranoid History, or, Bakersfield: Capital of the Twentieth Century,” historian and artist Kurt Newman writes, “My proposal is this: we should all become a little more ‘paranoid.’ In the process, we should think carefully about whether historiography can really do without…
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