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| [oldish] News, Notes & Updates Re: Contributors, Authors & Friends |
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Edited by TSky contributor Daniel Kane, Don’t Ever Get Famous is a collection of new essays focusing focusing attention on the vibrant New York poetry scene of the 1960s and ‘70s, on the poets who came after what is now known as the New York School. Bernadette Mayer, Hannah Weiner, Clark Coolidge, Anne Waldman, and Ron Padgett are just some of the poets who extended the line that John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler started. In Don’t Ever Get Famous, a range of writers and scholars examine the cultural, sociological, and historical contexts of this wildly diverse group of writers. These poets, many of whom are still writing today, changed American poetry forever, and this book provides the first large-scale consideration of their work. Contributing writers include Andrew Epstein, Jed Rasula, Jon Panish, Harry Thorne, Daniel Kane, Linda Russo, Lytle Shaw, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Bob Perelman, Nick Selby, Patrick Masterson and Paul Stephens, Gary Lenhart, Lorenzo Thomas, Ange Mlinko, and Andrea Brady. Book launch/reading December 16 at the Bowery Poetry Club - more info on our readings page. |
Give Up Poetry. 5.5" x 7", pamphlet sewn, 32 pages. 80# textured coverstock, French flaps. Title stamped in acrylic. The prose poems in Give Up have gathered together as if trying collectively to defy the book's title in their persistent search—at times frantic, naïve, misdirected—for what's been forsaken or lost or given foolishly away and by now is likely out of reach. These poems are insatiable for what they won't allow themselves to have. They are uncomfortable in their own skins. They grow quiet in a crowd and slip to the corner to watch and see who wonders where they've gone. These poems meant well. They always wanted to be popular and courageous. Better looking. Better endowed. They admire the guile of mystics and pole-vaulters. They intended to learn kickboxing. They meant to ride motorcycles. They meant to have their shit figured out by now. from "Somebody":
Poems from Give Up may be found in New Millennium Writings, No. 16; Quick Fiction No. 9 (where "Almost Anything" is reproduced online); The Literary Review Vol. 49 No. 3; Cairn 39; Gulf Coast, and online at Pilot. |
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[ click here for more pictures ] Gringostroika Gringostroika is #2 of the wee chap series. Each chapbook is unique, employing various found objects or ephemera (some of the book clippings are over a hundred years old) to collage the cardstock covers. Gringostroika is a powerful & necessary poem/chapbook--"wee size" or other-- and it is thrilling to see it produced and distributed with such verve. If you would like to hold and read it yourself, or if your would like to read great work by dozens of other great writers, then please visit & support www.dusie.org Jules Boykoff is the author of Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006) and The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006). He lives in Portland, Oregon, United States. |
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Action Books. “In her marvelous debut, Sandy Florian tackles the “clang and bang” of our inattention with a linguistic instrument so fine the pages appear to have been etched. Think Dürer offering up the bits and achingly rich pieces of his Melencolia I, or Schongauer filling the air with his intricate demons. Through the unfurling of its “ellipses and et ceteras,” its “ostinato poundings,” its “serrated anima,” Telescope will teach your eyes something new.” Read excerpts from Telescope (formerly titled Cantos) in Tarpaulin Sky. |
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Edited by Danielle Pafunda & Jeffrey Salane |
A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer Poetry. 5.5" x 7.5", pamphlet sewn, 32 pages. Inked acetate over storm-blue 50% recycled coverstock. French flaps. Back cover is a reverse image of the front. A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer offers poems of remarkable presence and surprise. A cast of old world and postmodern narrators cohabit these spare fables, at once deranged, shrewd, naive, and mildly heroic. One woman filibusters her own wedding. An exasperated economist shouts to whomever is listening, “Our great middle class sways on a stool. I apologize. I apologize.” These lyrics slip through De Chirico landscapes, postures and frames of reference, playing hide and seek as “a film projected onto a running horse.” We find our own grandparents here, exhausted but alert, discussing turnips and wars before we were born. The known world, the solid world opens irreparably onto “cave flowers in bouquets of yellow steam” or “static from a sermon.” A carpenter plays a xylophone with two hammers. A Marxist makes use of a burning palace for his “sensible reading lamp.” Beyond its ironic tensions, A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer evokes an abiding tenderness and wonder. These are love poems—written by everyone to no one in particular.
Poems from A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer: "The Auction" and "Poem" at Slope; "New Mexico" at Tarpaulin Sky; "Diurne" at The Highest Number. Other poems may be found in New American Writing, 23; Verse, Fall 2006; Black Warrior Review, 32.1; Pool, 5; Transfer, 90; and Poetry Flash (Spring 2006). |
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Dana Teen Lomax’s work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely “discourses” but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where “the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$.” Curren¢y is nothing less than an oppositional archeology of consumer culture as it reproduces its logics on and in our bodies—both personal and body-political—against a field of possibilities increasingly threatened by the privatization and colonization of the life-world. Writing a radical biopolitics—a “biopoethics”—would be that practice that articulates itself in resistant song, and, that in Lomax’s expanded field, of necessity also dances, in paroxysms full of both rage and desire. —David Buuck Perfectbound, 82 pages. $15.00 ISBN 0-9743181-7-5 |
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Begun in response to Words of Mass Deception used to justify the US occupation of Iraq, The Nines are prose poems/essays derived from appropriated critical, scientific, and instructional texts (dealing with linguistics, Monet, breakdancing, and swine, among other topics). An act of resistance against narrative’s still-popular stranglehold on meaning-making, an indictment of the privileging of the intellect over the senses, The Nines parody the systems that would have us measure “knowledge and skills such as comprehension, vocabulary . . . geometry, physics, social deconstruction, and the Mayan calendar—only to discover the answer is B) Rod McKuen and Mary Oliver.” Hand sewn, 36 pages. $10.00 ISBN 0-9743181-6-7 |
Marcel Duchamp once said: “It all started with Gustave Courbet.” Should the avant garde of today pay for the mistakes of its inspirational predecessors? In The Present Work, movement and moment, Marcel Duchamp and Gustave Courbet, crows and poets, progress and chance, all toggle back and forth between each other, contesting history, primacy, ideas of beginning and ending. The continuum is broken, parts become autonomous. The moment is separate from all other moments—it drops out of the line, out of the set, out of the continuum. The Cast of Characters includes a Scrap of Paper, Definition, Back Home, Interjection, Martini, Synopsis, Transcript, unknown soldiers of poetry, and many more. Hand sewn, 28 pages. $10.00 ISBN 0-9743181-8-3 |
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NEW from CALAMARI PRESS Good, Brother, by Peter Markus The long-awaited re-print of Peter Markus’ Good, Brother is here at last. When it was first published in 2001 by AWOL Press, Good, Brother achieved somewhat of a cult status and burned through its initial print run. Calamari Press is now bringing it back to you in a revised and illustrated version. You can read what Brian Evenson and Peter Conners have to say about it, and check out sample stories here. |
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Including TSky Editor Christian Peet as well as Scott Withiam, Deema Shehabi, Karla Kelsey, Sean Singer, Deborah Poe, Leslie McGrath, Peter Conners, Terri Witek, Liliana Valenzuela, Fady Joudah, Mark Rudmanwith, Martha Plimpton, Christiana Langenberg, Chandra Prasad, Stephan Clark, Robert Vivian, John Briggs, Masha Tupitsyn, Ahmad Saidullah, Joan Frank, G.K. Wuori . . . & Oh, about 125 other people. No kidding. Check it out, HERE Edited by Ravi Shankar, et al |
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Texts & Art by Trevor Dodge, Toshiya Kamei, Thomas O’Connell, Stephen Graham Jones, Rochelle Ratner, Robert Majzels, Rob Walsh, P.F. Potvin, Peter Markus, Norman Lock, Noah Eli Gordon, nick-e melville, Nelly Reifler, Michael Boyko, Malcolm de Chazal, Liesl Jobson, Lance Olsen, K.S. Ernst, Kim Chinquee, Kathryn Rantala, Justin Torres, Julianna Spallholz, Joshua Cohen, Joseph Salvatore, Joseph Musso, Jonathan Dixon, John Olson, Jason Bernard Claxton, James Sanders, Irving Weiss , Guy Beining, Grace Vajda, Girija Tropp, Edward Kim, Eduardo Recife, Edgar Omar Avilés, Doug Martin, David-Baptiste Chirot, Daryl Scroggins, Danielle Dutton, Dana Kooperman, Cooper Esteban/Renner, Claire Huot, Christian TeBordo, Carolyn Kuebler, Carlos M. Luis, Brian Evenson, Anne Pelletier, Allison Paige, Ali Aktan Askin, Alexandra Chasin, and Aaron Cohick. Edited by Derek White & Robert Lopez |
