C.J. Martin's Blog, page 39

widenerlibrary:In honor of National Poetry Month we present...

widenerlibrary:

In honor of National Poetry Month we present the first book of poems by the phenomenal poet and critic Susan Howe. Widener owns the mimeographed copy of Hinge Picture, published in an edition of 300 by Telephone Books in 1974.

Want this… Really interesting discussion of it here:...

Want this… Really interesting discussion of it here: http://bombmagazine.org/article/7463/dodie-bellamy

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The light of this | Jacket2

The light of this | Jacket2

"Somebody thinks/ he owns the place/ the visible world/ at the top of that rd./ Access to it were/..."

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Somebody thinks/ he owns the place/ the visible world/ at the top of that rd./

Access to it were/ fast/ asleep & some days/ give *you* access/

Watch it/ on TV. Become/ a painter/

Pulled over/ heart, trip to/ buzzards & the poem/ will need buzzards/

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4-7-14

4-7-14:

eyelashleye:

the brain is a rhythm machine . bah dum . all creation is the effort of attention . and associative history . this second of my life I didn’t sell . I made . look harder . the fossil . the naked bee . hard enough and the direction reverses . the bee taking off the light in the walkway at dawn…

jeandonnelly:from my book Anthem (Green Integer)

jeandonnelly:

from my book Anthem (Green Integer)

jeandonnelly:Etel Adnan, from The Arab Apocalypse

jeandonnelly:

Etel Adnan, from The Arab Apocalypse

Just bought this lying press for a couple of upcoming projects:...

Just bought this lying press for a couple of upcoming projects: a book from Bob Gluck and Chris Komater that we’ll put out with FOBW, and a Ted Greenwald book I’ll bind for Cuneiform Press.

4-4-14

4-4-14:

eyelashleye:

“the poem ends/ when the sound of it is finished” — e.willis

Drown these beds . Land of Nod . leaf-weight needling light . mirrors in the back of the throat . the scent in the dark is a heaviness I recognize like a word I got this far by swallowing . jars of it . and became one…