Paul Cunningham's Blog, page 8
May 14, 2017
May 3, 2017
With a brilliant intro from poet Rachel Zavecz, my interview...
With a brilliant intro from poet Rachel Zavecz, my interview with Aase Berg is now live at FANZINE! Her new book, HACKERS (trans. by Johannes Göransson) is also available from Black Ocean)
AASE BERG: My view on horses has developed through the years. When I wrote With Deer,
it was merely an intellectual image, but later on I started riding and
had my own horses and I realized that the practice of communicating with
a horse is poetry without words. You have to grow into the horse’s body
to be able to ride. It’s like dancing, or sex. But the horse is also a
symbol of the oppressed. It’s oppressed in itself—the humans control the
horses completely—we control their reproduction, their food,
their space. And the horse is always protesting in some ways—destroying
the fence, running away, sometimes refusing to do what you ask them to
do. But it’s a mild protest. If they wanted, they could easily kill you.
It’s a communicative protest, not an aggressive one. That fascinates
me.
March 20, 2017
radioactivemoat:
The Spring 2017 issue of Deluge has finally...
The Spring 2017 issue of Deluge has finally arrived! It features work by:
“I designed this mystery to be heavy / grieving against earwigs / my lived-in routines / I’m desperate for a blow up in my life”
-GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE
“When the red cloud comes / hang yellow satin over the windows”
-ZACHARY ANDERSON
“One woe man’s terrorist / is another’s brofest tourist”
-ROSE KNAPP
“we need a better word / for our lucha / we need a Latinx”
-WILLY PALOMO
“I will look for you inside this / movie they show at school. A guide / to know my own body. I want / to understand when to balance & / when to paint over my footsteps left / on the walls. I want to be good to someone else / someday. To keep coming up.”
-JULIA COHEN & ABBY HAGLER
“sinking wet fingers in our early blood / cat-masked in our sleeping bags / next to the closet”
-JESSIE JANESHEK
“THIS IS THE SOUND OF HONEYSPIGOT, HONEYSPIGOT.”
-ALEX GREGOR
“Now the play is free to follow its own viral genius. It gathers in the bladder ducts. It strip-mines the genitals for diamonds and rare earth metals. Then it vaults, limb-by-limb, toward the heart and head.”
-TOBY ALTMAN
“sugar tongue lights at / the touch of enamel, remembering / the taste of a hornet / that never belong to me”
-DANIELLE SUSI
“A copper sun has replaced the slate / moon, the police tape blows in the / breeze, people walk around it, someone / has swept the sidewalk, the garden needs / weeding”
-SHIRLEY JONES-LUKE
“How thin must I keep my coverage in order to feel all this horror?”
-ANNIE GRIZZLE
“a florescent halo of data / floating through static / tangled into her hair / a terabyte, an sd card, a cloud / archives of text / overworked articles analyzing / the historical implications of deleted tweets”
-EMILY GIGLER
“But please, mister owl, / I beg you not / To make you a schema / Of me.”
-MICHAEL SAJDAK
“Dare I talk about the delirium involved in all-day drives?”
-TYLER FLYNN DORHOLT
“the highway, its inbuilt purpose, hearing static chew pop songs / on the radio like lumps of gum with dirt in them, gazing through / frames grayed by runny splays of what were once shiny flying bugs”
-BEN GROSS
“women burned / in lacerated sleep / along the wharves / burned / coitally / from her own / lung / & ribcage”
-ISABEL BALÉE
“Then, the clock inside her strikes”
-SHARI CAPLAN
“a zone of opinions wombs this birth object / my bot plays with it / the palmworld covers its mouth / birth object you will always be here, the palmworld says, / nested in a comment thread”
-PETER COLE FRIEDMAN
“what else is there / already used three breaths / all parts pleasure and fear / lots of folks with jobs / will produce this child of queers / who knows”
-DAVY KNITTLE
“The left thrives when people are unhappy. / The right wants everyone to have the same memories.”
-ANDREW WEATHERHEAD
“There are kinds of anger / you can’t avoid / being placed on you.”
-CHARLIE D’EVE
“Through the trees to endure the leveling march of industry / to pass on.”
-JONATHAN LARSON
READ ALL OF DELUGE 8 [HERE]
February 23, 2017
automani:
POPULÄR POESI NR. 30+31 / 2016
Tema nr. 30: LUST...
POPULÄR POESI NR. 30+31 / 2016
Tema nr. 30: LUST
Tema nr. 31: ÖGAT
Medverkande: Bengt Berg, Lena Bergholm, Julia Bernardtz, Fanny Björne, John Bowers, Carl-Michael Edenborg, Olof L. Eriksson, Leonard Franzén, Kerstin Gansmark, Mats Gustavsson Nimmerfors, Leif Holmstrand, Erik Hultin, Anna Hultman, Roy Isaksson, Frida Jonsson, Andreas Kitell, Ricky Lindén, Daniel Lindbom, Adam Lundvall, Eva B Magnusson, Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson (UKON), Nina M. Olsson, Joy Panos Stauber, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Eva Ribich, Håkan Sandell, Amanda Saveland, Sara Sheikhi, Niklas Simonsson, Jimmie Svensson, Pär Thörn, Sara Tuss Efrik, Karl Daniel Törnkvist, Agnes Vittstrand, Cornelia Wadstedt, Emelie Eleonora Wiman-Lindqvist, David Zimmerman, Sara Östman.
February 22, 2017
February 10, 2017
February 8, 2017
***Shipping March 20***$14.95“Hackers, brilliantly
translated...
***Shipping March 20***
$14.95
“Hackers, brilliantly
translated by Johannes Göransson, is a feminist bio-poetics against
patriarchy, surveillance, climate change, and war. Aase Berg deploys her
playful, nano-tight language to depict the female body as a site of
deviance and resistance, as a magnet for mud, trojans, terminators,
rabbits, hackers, intestinal parasites, Lexus, Polaris. I can’t help
thinking that Berg and Kim Hyesoon, a South Korean poet, exist in
parallel worlds. They both wage war against the global patriarchal,
neoliberal order by obliterating any flesh-based, biome-based, or
electronic-based boundaries.”
— Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War
February 7, 2017
January 17, 2017
“The tree of sores possesses a stomach, the tree of sores...
Many thanks to Maggie Woodward & Jeffrey Lance for featuring an excerpt from The House of the Tree of Sores in Issue 24 of Yalobusha Review!
I LOVE the artwork by Kat Lyons! Contains new poems & stories from
V.T. Wayne, Alisha Ebling, Christopher Lowe, Austin Sanchez-Moran, &
Tara Isabel Zambrano, Chip Sinton, Adam Greenberg, Denise Jarrott, Mark
Neely, Mc Hyland, and Elizabeth Onusko!
Obama commutes Chelsea Manning sentence - BBC News
Fantastic news! Though she should have never have been put through hell in the first place I’m so glad that Obama finally did the right thing here
