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March 17, 2013
furtherotherbookworks:
Rachel Blau DuPlessis & C.J. Martin...
Rachel Blau DuPlessis & C.J. Martin | 2012 | 13” x 19” Archival Inkjet Print | Signed
The second in a series of broadsides engaging visual art by poets. This time around, I had the pleasure of sitting with a collage by Rachel Blau DuPlessis for a September poem. Called simply “3,” this 2010 collage is part of DuPlessis’s turn to visual art in recent years, and my response lights off from one of WCW’s late tercets in “The Descent.”
Printed in an edition of 25 copies.
March 16, 2013
furtherotherbookworks:
Norma Cole & C.J. Martin | 2012 |...
Norma Cole & C.J. Martin | 2012 | 17” x 22” Archival Inkjet Print
This is the first in a series of broadsides engaging visual art by poets. For this piece, I asked Norma Cole to send a collage or drawing, to which I’d respond w/a July poem. Her collage, Nicht War Rosie, takes its title from Tom Raworth’s 1979 Poltroon Press book, Nicht Wahr, Rosie?
Printed in an edition of 25 copies.
March 15, 2013
furtherotherbookworks:
Julia Drescher | Hands Chalk the Walls |...
Julia Drescher | Hands Chalk the Walls | 2012 | 16 pgs.
From Kevin Killian’s 2012 entry on Attention Span:
Drescher is a new writer to me but apparently she’s been writing quite a bit in Texas, where, she writes, “vulture [is] // the first / new word // learned here.” Her writing is enough to strip flesh from a bone, and in this book at any rate she is concentrating on surfaces, what’s behind them, what obscures them—like the old Pentimento concept that Lillian Hellman wrote about in her memoir. The back cover presents a typical Cy Twomblyesque abstracted drip of pinks and grays and ochres, and the front cover carves words out of it by framing its colors with a maquette of white cut to reveal the letters hidden within. “Hands chalk the walls”—reportage of revolutionary graffiti event, or H.D.-War Trilogy affirmation of alwaysness? “Slick wreck I // weathered // longing / swell / a sea / in pencil.” I’m reading the evidence both ways, including the possibility that it’s the game we used to play as kids, challenged to turn (say) “face” into “head” in five moves.
March 14, 2013
furtherotherbookworks:
A taste of what’s coming from Further...
A taste of what’s coming from Further Other book Works: Paul Klinger’s _Rubble Paper, Paper Rubble_. The text is made by taking rubbings from historical markers around the state of TX, and the alligator print is Paul’s own vigil strange (it is literally a printed alligator corpse). Stay tuned…
March 12, 2013
americanspokenlanguage:
“I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A V /
BECAUSE IT...
“I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A V / BECAUSE IT IS LIKE THAT / I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A B / BECAUSE I AM BESIDE THAT / A KING. / I LOVE MY LOVE WITH AN A / BECAUSE SHE IS A QUEEN / I LOVE MY LOVE AND A A IS THE BEST OF THEM / THINK WELL AND BE A KING, / THINK MORE AND THINK AGAIN / I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A DRESS AND A HAT / I LOVE MY LOVE AND NOT WITH THIS OR WITH THAT / I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A Y BECAUSE SHE IS MY BRIDE / I LOVE HER WITH A D BECAUSE SHE IS MY LOVE BESIDE / THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE / NOBODY HAS TO CARE / THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE / BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT THERE. / AND WITH AND WITHOUT ME WHICH IS AND WITHOUT SHE SHE CAN BE LATE AND THEN AND HOW AND ALL AROUND WE THINK AND / FOUND THAT IT IS TIME TO CRY SHE AND I.” [—gertrude stein]
March 10, 2013
COMPLINE: COMPLINE PREORDERS: HELP US HELP YOU!
Compline is on the verge of publishing two HUGE long-players this spring, the ordinary by David Brazil and The Antidote by Jackqueline Frost, two of the most anticipated books to come out of the Bay Area in recent memory, and, incredibly, “first books” by both authors.
In order to…
March 7, 2013
supersuperette:
Craig Dworkin reading with Myung Mi Kim for...
Craig Dworkin reading with Myung Mi Kim for Small Press Traffic, hosted by Michael Cross at The Bay Area Public School December 14th, 2012
March 5, 2013
Untitled #15, 3-3-13
Untitled #15, 3-3-13
My Helen Adam talk from the Berkeley Conference on Ecopoetics
My Helen Adam talk from the Berkeley Conference on Ecopoetics
Rob Halpern’s talk on Oppen from the Berkeley Conference...
Rob Halpern’s talk on Oppen from the Berkeley Conference on Ecopoetics
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