Litterbug (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Holed up in a hotel near Amsterdam docks, and deterred from venturing into the city in the evenings by wind, wet, cold and dark, I've been passing the time reading Andrew Duncan's ' The Council of Heresy '. A book about difficult modern poetry which makes you laugh out loud - intentionally - can't be bad. Duncan is a dazzling writer, so much so, that ideas of his which may well be spurious, are, at...
BOTH BOTH (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
1. The Wasteland And Other Poems- T.S. Eliot 2. Night Palace- ed. Micah Ballard/ Julian Porier 3. George Oppen A Radical Practice- Susan Thackery 4. Easy Eden- Micah Ballard/ Patrick James Dunagan 5. Forms Of Heaven- Clive Barker 6. Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron- Daniel Clowes 7. Congregations- David Highsmith 8. Disposable A History Of Skateboard Art- Sean Cliver 9. The New American Poetry 1945-1960-...
secondary sound (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
the ie Reader (available in a few weeks) PREORDER HERE . Elena Alexander, Bruce Andrews, Michael Ball, Sandra Beasley, Lauren Bender, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Miles Champion, Norma Cole, CA Conrad, Bruce Covey, Tina Darragh, Ben Doller, Sandra Doller, Buck Downs, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, kari edwards, Cathy Eisenhower, Graham Foust, Heather Fuller, Peter Gizzi, Adam Good,...
HeatStrings (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Poet Tom Raworth recently made one of his periodic swings through southern California and we spent an afternoon with him and other friends at the home of Marjorie and Joe Perloff. I hadn't seen Tom since the last American Poetry conference at the University of Maine in Orono, where the two of us had taken turns photographing Fred Wah as he posed in the clutch of the stuffed bear that stalked the lobby...
Samizdat Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Look out! The inaugural issue of the Cambridge Literary Review has just been unleashed. It contains (among much more) an essay by Stefan Collini, new poetry by John Kinsella, J.H. Prynne, Keston Sutherland, and John Matthias, as well as a big feature on Cambridge Poetry — a feature marred only by my own contribution, "Public Faces In Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry."...
BrandosHat (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
There is a real groundswell of good poetry out there in the world of poetry. Richard Barrett is just one of these poets, and a very promising local poet (Pig Fervour, publ. the Arthur Shilling Press). Here is a poet who is constantly trying out ideas, experimental and open without being dauntingly obscure. In poems such as " the good fortune of being happy in yr work " he's working out what...
Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
The Collected Poems 1956-1974 Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Dorn, Edward The Collected Poems 1956-1974 Another volume plucked from the old Just Buffalo library before the sale. When we were putting our archive together for The Poetry Collection at SUNY Buffalo, I came across a great photo of Dorn Reading for Just Buffalo in 1977. I sent a jpeg of it to Tom Raworth a few years back, which...
Isola di Rifiuti (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
A Wall A YEAR CCLII Unhors’d, a galloping rain slews through, teeth-specious and unsaddled, pulls up lathery and spur- Nick’d at termini. Sluices the gutters ‘like to a bowle of creame uncrudded.’ My job’s To go slop the pigs, is Caedmon’s pretext against the strain of getting Hammer’d with the monks and being ask’d repeatedly to sing, dammit. Some vestigial...
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