Thursday, December 20, 2007

Bob Perelman
4 early books:

Braille

a.k.a.

Primer

To the Reader

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Liam O’Gallagher
has died

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Peter O’Leary
on Robert Duncan’s
Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

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Talking with
Kenneth Goldsmith

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4,000-year-old text
pulled from Ebay

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The “All Girl Poetry Slam

Girl?

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Beat Girl

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William Burroughs
& the crying of lot 22

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Close reading,
but “not too close”

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Talking with
Christian Bök

Bök
on Steve McCaffery

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John Ashbery,
two poems in tiny print

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Ange Mlinko
on
art, class & taste

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Alice Walker’s archives
go to Emory

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Not hiring
Yevtushenko at Oxford

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The “caveman” writes verse

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Troy Jollimore
calls the criticism of Robert Hass
beach reading

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Full-page ad,
New York Times,
June 20 2007

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Maybe the only document on the web
that calls me Ronald

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Lisa Robertson:
Draft of a Voice-Over
for a Split-Screen Video
Loop

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Year-end lists of best books of ‘07
by Charles Bernstein, Rae Armantrout,
Afaa Michael Weaver, Cate Marvin & Patricia Smith

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Avant-garde poetics radio blog

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Transliteracy

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Censoring Robinson Jeffers

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Moscow bookseller Boris Kupriyanov
faces 2 years in prison
for selling “pornography

(
Baise Moi, Lydia Lunch, etc.)

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Dub poets look to Africa

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Remembering
Ezenwa Ohaeto

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Brainless macho trash
but with pretty pictures

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“What we owe the New Critics”
& what we owe their publishers

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A translation of The Táin

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& an alternative Gawain,
one that’s fun to read aloud

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A feminist bookstore
in
Istanbul

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The cost models of academic journals

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It’s a mistake
to edit the self-indulgence
out of Berryman’s work

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The NY Times obit of Diane Middlebrook

A British obit of Diane Middlebrook

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Miles Champion:
3 poems
that make very different use
of the space of the page

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A noisy interview
with Umberto Eco

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Reading, that unpunished vice

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A grand buildup
to a sloppy, sentimental poem

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An “index of joy
(PDF)

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Where the Writers Guild of America
got its new radical core

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Donald Revell’s
elegy
for Barbara Guest

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Gerald Stern
on Muriel Rukeyser

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The life & verse of
Edward Arlington Robinson

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Poet populist Peter Payack

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Ted Kooser
on Linda Gregg

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Another article
celebrating the life & writing
of
South America’s most important
English-language poet

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A review of Alison Pelegrin

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Freaked by the atheism
of Philip Pullman

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A dismal year for books?

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A world without reading

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Winsome Duncan / Lyrical Healer

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John Greenleaf Whittier
at 200

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A profile of John Mahoney

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Talking with W.D. Snodgrass

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Delaware’s annual
John Milton Memorial
poetry celebration

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Using YouTube
to combat
Canadian © revisions


Does poetry even need ©?

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Shopping for books
with Michael Jackson

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An art house
in my home town

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Wrapping up
Art Basel Miami

Looking at it
from the far end
of the country

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Fight to save the Barnes
collapsing?

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Trying to talk with
Daniel Libeskind

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Two members
of the Mark Morris Dance Company

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The year in dance

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The year in (geriatric) jazz

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Enforcing the laws of nature

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Ramin Jahanbegloo
& the “crimes” of philosophy

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Ibn Warraq,
”Enlightenment fundamentalist”

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Surreal state

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This year’s quotables

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January 26
10:00 AM to 1:00 AM
(not a typo)
2008 Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon
Milwaukee