SPD TODAY (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
BLUE VITRIOL Alexei Parshchikov $9.50 | paper | 57 pp. Avec Books ISBN: 9781880713020 Poetry. Translated from the Russian by John High, Michael Molnar and Michael Palmer, with Nina Gerkin, Julie Gesin, Katya Olmsted, Eugene Ostashevsky and Darlene Reddaway. Introduction by Marjorie Perloff. "Alexei Parshchikov is undoubtedly the most exciting young Russian poet today. Through this first English-language...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Opposites Attract Challenge Hosted by: Jen's Book Talk To play just read books that have at least one word in the title opposite to another book title's word. You can only use a book once though; not in 2 different sets. And be sure to use some of these with your other challenges if you can! There are many possibilities and combinations to come up with! Also if you have to; use the authors name as...
Nothing to Say & Saying It (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I had a copy, years ago of John Cage’s “III. Communication” from Silence , but I’ve never had a copy of Silence , or of any of his other books. I’ve now rectified that. His influence on the arts has been massive, and one can hear echoes of his process in much that is now. (Even though yes of course Dada and Gertrude Stein were obvious influences on Cage. The question still...
This is Writing? (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Michael Palmer talks about the difference between the 'laws of form' and the 'rules of form'. The latter being able to be learnt, seemingly fixed and in many cases not particularly exciting. While the former, can never be learnt, but also can never be broken if writing good poetry. I like to think of the 'laws of form' as being completely different for each poem. Where one poem might require couplets...
This is Writing? (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Three things have happened lately that have made me think about how politics (not sure that is the right word) interacts with poetry/art and if I should be doing more of that, which in short I think I should. So... 1) I've been reading Michael Palmer's essays in Active Boundaries (New Directions, 2008) all of which so far are as much concerned with politics as with poetry (in his mind they don't exist...
Nothing to Say & Saying It (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
I’m hitting the road this week. Picking G.C. Waldrep up at the Kansas City airport, then heading west down I-70 to Denver, and then on to Ft. Collins for these events: Tuesday September 22th Denver hosted by Jake Adam York G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher Thursday September 24th Ft. Collins hosted by CSU G.C. Waldrep & John Gallaher As I will be away from the blog awhile, I will leave you...
Human's Animal (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Part of a poem for my sister. Happy birthday LCB!! Wasn't it done then undone, by us and to us, enveloped, sid- erated in a starship, listing with liquids, helpless letters– what else–pouring from that box, little gaps, rattles and slants Like mountains, pretty much worn down -Michael Palmer, from "Letters to Zanzotto"
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Yes in a circle the imagined train word after recent word you make them up to come to mean light to shadow day pond as music's mirror trees cut from yarrow stalks would be real in order to seem a reasonably green place a reasonable number of roads some straight, some curved and narrow beside rails whose perfect parallels are nowhere else to be seen but in a sealed and measured space called here and...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Yiddish modernist Celia Dropkin Talking with Yerra Sugarman about Dropkin § Talking with Michael Palmer § Marie Buck’s “The Beheading Game” § A profile of Rodrigo Toscano § John Thompson & the Canadian ghazal § Mónica de la Torre reading de la Torre talking with Charles Bernstein § M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong 26” § Ray...
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
If Not, Not --Michael Palmer They tell each other stories, lies composed as dreams and always in the colors of dreams: rust, chrome yellow, coral, chemical green. Of the dying figures, loosely assembled, by a riverbank. The gatehouse. A journey by train through beautiful countryside, indescribable countryside. I was there cut in half, only to survive. A young dancer, standing at the third-floor window....
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
From a 2004 keynote speech provided by Michael Palmer at the 3rd Annual Sustainable Living Conference at Evergreen State College: ....everything I do seems a form of collaboration, across time, with the voices of poets and others that pass through me as I work. Suffice to say that another, an other, becomes present in a way that is both like and unlike the dialogic work of the poem. My ideal of pure...
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Prelude --Michael Palmer The limit of the song is this prelude to a journey to the outer islands, the generative sentence, waltz project, forms, qualities, suns, moons, rings, an inside-outside then an outside-inside shaped with her colored days. The days yet propose themselves as self-evident, everything there everything here as you are reading in a way natural to theatre a set of instructions that...
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Someone out there must really like Michael Palmer. When I first pickup a new author or book, I often obtain an introduction on wikipedia and then use the links cited to extend from there. And when I clicked on Michael Palmer’s page , I found more information than what’s usually on wiki for major poets, let alone a minor poet who’s writing is generally classified as avant-garde. Meaning,...
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
All poems are easy poems It's just that some are even easier than others These we call the easiest poems of all ......... --Michael Palmer
Shaunarumbling (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Timescape Thomas Nelson (July 14, 2009) by Robert Liparulo About the Author: Robert Liparulo is a former journalist, with over a thousand articles and multiple writing awards to his name. His first novel, Comes a Horseman , released to critical acclaim. Each of his subsequent thrillers— Germ, Deadfall , and Deadlock —secured...
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