C.J. Martin's Blog, page 73
April 1, 2012
Reading on Dona Stein's Poetry Radio
Reading on Dona Stein's Poetry Radio
March 31, 2012
"That's one's life
To lack work (of small groups)
Home one night before that
Lonely physical..."
That's one's life
To lack work (of small groups)
Home one night before that
Lonely physical memory
& just before words
& that's why
& even earlier
Walking, frozen
- from Rhyme Eats the Words ("Climatology" section)
March 30, 2012
Finally made it to the Juan Pascoe show in San Antonio, which...
Finally made it to the Juan Pascoe show in San Antonio, which worked out to be a kind of mini-Artemio Rodriguez show as well, since the two have collaborated so frequently. It was amazing… Here's Rodriguez at work!
Blurb for new Ted Greenwald book
Two paths diverge (in syntax, shape, sound), and Ted Greenwald takes both, driving like a bat out of helix. In "Comma Fork," thought gets taken for a ride: "Doublecross the mind / Double yellow lines / Pass where broke"—and it's partly the swindle of that double that tensions these poems. This book is tricky. Nature's unfixed, unfixable ("Nature, suddenly / Elastic utterance"), and speech naturally bends in the snow-drift / language-drift / lane-drift: "Say the show / Fork over the road / Looks snow // As they drift / Pile up." In "Moving Parts," it's exactly that pileup that Greenwald sifts: "Look out / Front window / Scene piles / Blue Blue." A view of life in pieces, and he makes his arrangements. Like the pop songs he sometimes cribs, "Moving Parts" is a trash-heap of musical speech, complete with the periodic audience-frenzying bridge ("Little bit softer now," "Got to got to"). Though his geography says otherwise, in lines like "It's been goodbye so long" Greenwald even takes a turn for the George Jones. And it's as heartbreaking as it is hilarious (as it is mind-blowing), but the point is these are poems to get your parts moving.
(This is a working draft, but it's basically done. Amazing long book… Excerpt from "Comma Fork" in the most recent Mimeo Mimeo.)
March 29, 2012
March 27, 2012
Crane Giamo's opened a new wing of Delete Press!...
Crane Giamo's opened a new wing of Delete Press! Here's to gun-shot book art: Pocalypstic Editions!!
March 25, 2012
"Romantic lease
Secret life
Cleared up spiritual
life so
now rather like cards
over..."
Romantic lease
Secret life
Cleared up spiritual
life so
now rather like cards
over here
Perdue
wearing the day part
- from Rhyme Eats the Words ("Suicides" section)
March 24, 2012
Creeley on Dickinson, New College '85 (bench listening,...
Creeley on Dickinson, New College '85 (bench listening, 3/22/12)
March 21, 2012
"Plain free limits
expressive of tone
Maybe it stands into oppositeness
as consonants
(walk..."
Plain free limits
expressive of tone
Maybe it stands into oppositeness
as consonants
(walk through)
So much iciness w/the poem
A last fed spring
- from Rhyme Eats the Words ("Climatology" section)
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