C.J. Martin's Blog, page 23
October 23, 2014
Wallace Stevens, “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”
Wallace Stevens, “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”
October 22, 2014
furtherotherbookworks:
Head over to rob mclennan’s blog, where...
Head over to rob mclennan’s blog, where he has generously posted a note on Sarah Campbell’s We Used To Be Generals, as well as an interview with the author. From the interview:
“In this book, I’m interested in how the individual proceeds with the inheritance of the ‘generals’ that used to be. The ‘used to be’ registers in oblique snapshots in the poems: the friendship that rescues and then ebbs, expeditions to far-flung places, the ‘back to back’ grind of one person and their relation to the company they keep/work for. Also, it’s a bit about aging and the deaths that come before dying.
"What else? A person’s relation to him/herself, which is, if not epic, then at least the longest relationship from which there’s no ‘breaking up.’ By rotating the cast of personal pronouns, I want to unfix the ‘I’ so that it doesn’t anchor the speeches, no matter how specific they sound. I understand self-expression as composite, uncertain, stolen, and shared.”
October 20, 2014
The windmill is all cleaned up! New rollers, new belt and hoses,...
The windmill is all cleaned up! New rollers, new belt and hoses, now all we need is a job! Suggestions?
October 18, 2014
matlaporte:
People seem to be getting up
From the middle of nowhere
Garbage grinding
No birds...
People seem to be getting up
From the middle of nowhere
Garbage grinding
No birds singing, probably too cold
Although if I were a bird
Sing like crazy keep warm
Everything in place, especially brain,
For work and nightmare of work
- from “Complete Works” by Ted Greenwald, in La-Bas, issue 8, 1977
October 11, 2014
Devin King, THESE NECROTIC ETHOS COME THE PLAINS
Devin King, THESE NECROTIC ETHOS COME THE PLAINS
October 10, 2014
secretlittlegem:
Robert Grenier’s poster-poem-map, originally...
Robert Grenier’s poster-poem-map, originally printed by Lyn Hejinian’s Tuumba Press in 1979. 500 copies. 40”x 49”. Comes rolled in a tube.
http://jacket2.org/commentary/robert-grenier-cambridge-mass-reissue
October 7, 2014
OTWF
Brando’s hands on the pigeon’s body . a note we could hit but couldn’t hold bright green leaf and freeze . big love . little diamond . like you could stand up for everyone at once by making oneself exceedingly small as the measure of loneliness . measured the distance from my bed to the past…
October 6, 2014
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