Jared Stanley's Blog, page 9
November 17, 2009
Could Do
But anyway, really I love Matt Roberts' band
The Mantles – it's fantastic good, and like all New Zealand music in the '80s. Young Reverb Old Reverb.
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But anyway, just have books about condors and academics and Iceland. Hoping for a big shipment of Will Alexander books soon. I just stare at this reading, over and over.
November 12, 2009
Five things about Richard Greenfield's Poems
In Tracer, the idea of the lyric 'voice' is put to rest, not for some literary reason, but because the world is inevitably, always, more
Applause at negative daybreak
coming out of the meadowland
headlock of pity
the morning after
post lyric
o, o
interrupt me—
Throughout Richard's work, the landscape is always reinserted back into history, and vice-versa; it is always peopled – because the Anglo-American prohibition against the pathetic fallacy (the inscription of human emotion on...
November 9, 2009
Me. You. Me. You. Me. You
New work at Likestarlings – I'll be in an ongoing poetry 'conversation' w/Siddhartha Bose, starting with Anthropogenic Poem . This seems to occur in chapparal.
November 8, 2009
More Drones Drone
I've been talking with my students about the Drones, those sad, deadly, flying narwhals ridden by cowboys in storage containers near Las Vegas. Here's a story from On The Media about them.
Dry Immersion Sunday Dawn
I really need to write about the recent desert adventures. Here's some contrails in the sunrise, courtesy of Chris Woodcock:
November 6, 2009
Not Time
Dearest Friend-in-the-Art Lauren Levin's new chapbook has dropped:
http://www.boxwoodeditions.org/nottim...
November 3, 2009
Talking to Tom Chivers.
A Blog Conversation about the Crashaw Prize, Readings, insular poets between myself and Tom Chivers author of How to Build a City, today on the Salt Blog
Have a look over HERE
November 1, 2009
Richard Greenfield
Richard Greenfield will be coming to read at UC Merced as part of the Merritt Writing Program's Write! Look! Listen! reading series. If you're in Merced, please come – it should be quite an event. Richard's new book, Tracer, is just out from Omnidawn Press, and it's a craggy, complex and beautiful read.
Info:
Richard Greenfield / Thursday, Nov. 12th / 7:30 pm / Kolligian Library 355 (TBA)
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In other news, I'm back in the (Bike) saddle, thanks to Advil. Coming back into town, a coyote crossed the...
October 27, 2009
Dry Immersion Roving Symposium
Had quite some times in the desert this past weekend, with some land artists, photographers, marines, circus people, a beetle, some cactus, and a few graduate students. Breakthroughs were made. More to follow.
A Couple of Book Made of Forest Reviews
Some things said about my book:
At Bookslut
Let me tell you, the wind is really fast, today. A neighboring Cedar of Lebanon seems to have lost half of itself in the gusts.
