Sina Queyras's Blog, page 2

And rarely was heard, an encouraging word, still the women don't go away

Is this still the case? I don't think so, but I love this cover. 

Essay: An Excerpt from Lissa Wolsak

An excerpt from An Heuristic Prolusion. 



~ To respond, in making linguistic pavés, to exhilarate transformation, with an art of perceiving movement, within being, within language physiques. And question...can we dispense with our proclivity to sacrificial structures?

To subtend the map via fever-chart. To approach separation itself. An enactment of otherness. To exceed speech...language

Kate Durbin from Anna Nicole Show

ANNA NICOLE SHOW
CNN: Prosecutors presented this video as evidence that Howard K. Stern conspired to keep Anna Nicole Smith in a drug stupor. Stern’s lawyers say Smith was acting for the cameras.
HOWARD: What do you think Anna? Is Riley going to be your new makeup artist? Is Riley going to be your new makeup artist? Have you found a new makeup artist? Cuz your baby. Your other one of your babies

Kate Durbin: from Ravenous Audience

MARILYN: LEFTOVERS



The Clothes
a
black embroidered handbag     a pearlescent Bakelite
clutch     a jewel-encrusted evening bag with a chain
strap     a Lucite
handbag     a clear bejeweled handbag with an
embellished closure      the same bag filled with
matching accessories     a red patent-leather handbag
with a gold closer     an arrangement of 13 of
Monroe’s bags     a wool hat with two

Natalie Walschots on Reviewing

LH: What do you think the purpose of a review is? If you also write about books on a blog, why? What does blogging let you do differently?

NZW: The purpose of a review, be it a book review or an album review, is to
communicate with that text's potential audience, to place the text in
its cultural context, and to engage with both the writer and the
potential readers about the text's success.

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Two Poems from Helen Guri

SUBJECTS ON WHICH MY LOVE DOLL COULD




CONCEIVABLY HAVE OPINIONS




Being secret,
like a leg brace from childhood.



Not having
anything, to eat or worry about.



A bus transfer
sailing through seven seas of air. The resting places

of lost raisins.



The lobster,
boiling. Surgical procedures to revive the senses of

those born blind and deaf.



Common
senselessness,

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mind, Mouth and Page (Gertrude Stein)

AG: Yeah, I think we were talking about that at the end of the last sitting here, when somebody asked me - since Williams, what was done, since Williams, what has been accomplished in poetics? - or, what new thing has been added? - and I was talking about the practice of some poets working out of Gertrude Stein, for whom words were objects, and so it was like the building of little sculptures of

Nina Hagen New York New York

Because Monday morning is better with a little Nina Hagen.

Vandana Shiva on Food Systems

Thank you, thank you. Oh my god, such an evil, evil turn of events.

On Lisa Robertson’s Nilling

BY SINA QUEYRAS

When I said in an earlier last post that I go to poetry to think, Lisa Robertson was the first poet that came to mind. Hers is a poetry that embraces doubt; that is content to extend rather than conclude, yet never drifts in the sense that Barthes describes in The Pleasure of the Text. “In the pleasant displacement of identity,” she writes, “another time keeps shaping what I will