Some "Hiccups" To Warm Up For The Chris Mason Show This Sunday


Most Baltimoreans interested in poetry and music know of venerable Chris Mason of The Tinklers and Old Songs, but for those who don't this Sunday's show and publication party for his new book Hum Who Hiccup out on Narrow House Press would be a good introduction. The book collects most if not all of the chapbooks he's written over the last few years.
Poet extraordinaire and critic Charles Bernstein says "Chris Mason has fabricated a set of visual charms, small and intense constellations of words that make & do, bounce & hop, zap & slap. These are dreams of poems more than poems of dreams, sweet & filled with delight".
Here is a taste from the "Hiccups" portion of the book:
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carbon puddle loveselectric spark lovescloud
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race of men who weepNor Norse Navajosleep
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this dialectickids cursing teacherssucks
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airplane noise fueled bydinosaur flesh nowgone
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what's with young Dogwood?clay soil? bugs eat leaves?so?
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large penis paradeGreece's goofy GodsSpring
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Published on March 08, 2011 16:04
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