Gordon Massman
The Essential Numbers
1991-2008
ISBN: 9780977901999
Poetry | 6"x8", 184 pp, pbk |
June 2009
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Responses to The Essential Numbers
"This is the kind of book you can’t ask for until you have it."
—Blake Butler, HTML Giant
"Oh good, now, NOW, there is something to talk about -- something that, timid people be damned, will enforce response on multiple fronts. . . . In the same way that there is much to be discussed and discovered -- not to mention felt, as being supreme among the beings -- in the works of artists like Joel Peter-Witkin, Hans Bellmer, Paul Mccarthy, David Hamilton, et al. -- there is a similar immanence in even the very gesture of Mr. Massman's work, despite the anti-disclaimer on the back of the book, which is all the more invitation, right?"
—Brandon Shimoda, The Alps, The Inland Sea
About Gordon Massman
Gordon Massman divides his time between Medford, MA, and the island of Frenchboro, ME. Poems from The Essential Numbers have appeared in The Numbers (Pavement Saw Press) as well as in Exquisite Corpse, The Harvard Review, The New York Quarterly, Pleiades, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere.
Read an interview with Gordon at Trickhouse
Readings & events
(reverse chronological order)
July 17, 2010, Philadelphia, PA
NPP Presents
Tarpaulin Sky & Spork Press
Readings by Ana Bozicevic, Jake Levine, Gordon Massman, Kim Gek Lin Short, and Andrew Zornoza. 6:00 PM @ Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom (in Center City)
April 23-25, 2010, Manchester, VT
3rd Annual Manchester and the Mountains Poets and Writers Weekend Featuring readings, panels, and workshops with Elena Georgiou, Gordon Massman, Christian Peet, and Kim Gek Lin Short, among other fab writers. Along with musical guests Red Heart the Ticker Sponsored by Greater Manchester Arts Council
April 19, 2010, NYC, NY
Gordon Massman at The New York Quarterly Reading Series
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St.
Greenwich Village
212.989.9319
$7 cover gets you a free drink.
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
www.nyquarterly.org
April 10, 2010, AWP, Denver, CO
Action Books, Apostrophe Books, Black Ocean, Slope Editions, and Tarpaulin Sky Press Present Jessica Baran, Crystal Curry, Julie Doxsee, Sandy Florian, Lara Glenum, Johannes Goransson, Joe Hall, Lucy Ives, Paul Foster Johnson, Gordon Massman, Zachary Schomburg, Abraham Smith, Shelly Taylor, and Amy Wright.
7-10 PM
Plus Gallery
2501 Larimer Street
April 8, 2009, AWP, Denver, CO
TSky Press authors Gordon Massman and Andrew Zornoza join TSky Staffer Megan DiBello, along with other great readers for Fact-Simile, Monkey Puzzle Press, Fast Forward, Bombay Gin, and Zero Ducats.
Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge
930 Lincoln Street
Free Event- No Passes Required
10:30 p.m.- 1 a.m.
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