He Said it Was Min

Albert Min, "roving, stop" (2011)
Delta Flight 95, JFK to SLC

The other day, on Saturday, something unprecedented happened at dbqp headquarters in Schenectady, New York*: Someone stopped by to pick up a copy of a dbqp publication (derek beaulieu's "db"). Since dbqp's birth as a micropress in Horseheads, New York,† no-one had visited the headquarters of the institution for the express purpose of picking up publications. Some had come by and been plied with publications, but that might have been entirely against their will.

A couple of weeks ago, a young man named Albert Min asked me if he could stop by to pick up a copy of "db." We corresponded a bit to figure out how to do this and to see if it would not be easier to do this when I was in New York City on Sunday, but we set Saturday as the day.

Albert showed up somewhere in mid-afternoon, just as planned, and I handed him a copy of "db." He asked if he could have another, and I handed him a second. Then I talked to him a little about his interest in derek beaulieu (he had just learned of him through my posting about "db") and poetry (he studied philosophy in college, but grew an interest in poetry).

And I asked him about his own work, which is interesting. He takes photographs of his urban landscape (New York City) and slightly alters the text in the pictures (see above), and then he pairs these pictures with paratactic prose.

You can see more of his work at his blog, and I'd write more about showing Albert around and plying him with dbqp publications, but my plane is beginning to descend.

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* There is no other Schenectady, by the way.

† I don't think there's another Horseheads, either.

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