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Showing posts with label passing. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
70 years later
Auden on David Jones’ Anathemata
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Barbara Jane Reyes on
Raúl R. Salinas
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Pierre Joris,
promoting Diasporic Avant-Gardes
edited by Carrie Noland & Barrett Watten
With a 20% discount offer
(an $18 savings!)
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Fernando Perez
on poetry vs. baseball
Perez’ career stats
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“Please don’t apologize for pissing me off”
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“For Harry Potter with gratitude.
Truman Capote January 1978”
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P. Inman,
talking at the Other Room
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John Yau on Michael Gizzi
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T’he American Avant-Pastoral:
Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Ronald Johnson –
Joshua Corey’s PhD dissertation, downloadable
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Pierre Joris’ recording
of KRCB’s David Bromige tribute
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“LaChiPo” – a listserv
for Latino/Chicano poetics
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Poems from Uche Nduka
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Palindrome poems
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Bookishly appy with your iPhone
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Bed bugs in your review copy?
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A gallery of images of
Eliot the editor
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Joyce Johnson’s Door Wide Open
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Eileen Myles on Can Xue:
needing to go wild to survive
Myles on poetry, madness
& Jimmy Schuyler
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Orhan Pamuk’s “Distant Relations”
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The naked book club
An article thereon
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Is a return to prudery in the offing
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Judd Morrissey’s
The Last Performance
Morrissey’s website
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LitFUSE 2009:
a poetry festival near Yakima, WA
with George Bowering, Carolyne Wright, Charlie Potts
& much more
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Vispo on the road
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Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism:
September 24 & 25 @ CUNY
The participants
(a stunningly all-star cast)
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Nada Gordon’s Interests
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“Antique Roadshow” for books
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How to prune your book collection
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Jane Satterfield back in the UK
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Michael Palmer:
“We must count in Babylon”
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Eliot Weinberger, modernist
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Rachel Loden’s Dick of the Dead
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Allen Ginsberg’s Ted Kennedy
Joyce Carol Oates on Teddy
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Phillysound focuses on Garrett Caples
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September 18 in Lawrence, KS,
Stacy Szymaszek & Megan Kaminski
at the Wonder Fair
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Gertrude Stein’s
Tender Buttons
& Three Lives
online
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Who killed the bookstore in Salisbury, UK?
Oxfam!
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A map of indie bookstores
in the Bay Area
In list format
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Michael Theune reignites the poetry wars
using the old sucker punch
of denying any SoQ/post-avant split
to then attack the post-avant
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Dean Young
on the Tony Hoagland-effect
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Translating quietist poetry into Arabic
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Ange Mlinko:
“The flexibility of language is its greatest asset”
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Jerome Rothenberg:
a return to the book
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“When I see books
I see an outdated technology”
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A site just for library book sales
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MFA poems with barcode traces?
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Introducing Botsotso
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Michel Foucault’s
“Speaking and Seeing in Raymond Roussel”
(reg. req.)
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Poetry & Self-Exile
(reg. req.)
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September 12 in Baltimore:
Doug Lang & Tina Darragh
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Lorine Niedecker in Brazil
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Michael Greenberg’s short essays
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Nick Cave:
The Death of Bunny Munro
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The other Munro
removes book from Giller competition
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Awards, literary & otherwise
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Charles Bernstein talking with Ken Jacobs
“The Day the Moon Gave Up the Ghost”
“Painted Air:
The Joys and Sorrows of Evanescent Cinema”
Jacobs reading “Painted Air”
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Remembering The Holy Barbarians
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James Finnegan’s
Ars Poetica Library 2009
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Google offers 1,000,000 ebooks
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXX
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Close-reading of non-existing texts
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Charles Alexander:
The book stops here
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Jeanie Thompson’s
The Seasons Bear Us
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Talking with Dick Jones
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A blog on the WPA Writers Project
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Wanting to be the Christo & Jeanne-Claude
of the written word
(Isn’t that what Kenny G does?)
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Gloompot in Algiers
Talking with Paul Bowles, 1952
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A novel about poetry
“that’s actually about poetry”
Inside Nicholson Baker
you’ll find Nicholson Baker
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Can there be a “national literature”?
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Discursive rules of the underworld
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Another WWI poet goes online
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Patricia Smith’s “Ethel’s Sestina”
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Fred & Susan Chappell reading
Fred Chappell’s “nested” poetry
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Doctorow’s pack rats
The collectors
Fat Ulu & Kumu Kahua’s
The Statehood Project
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Paul Siegell’s jambandbootleg
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Reconstructing Carver
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A Swiss army knife of contemporary fiction
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Arts offer an easy target
as states cut budgets
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Barry Schwabsky on Dan Graham
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Store,
by Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies
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The Plum Academy:
An Institute for Situated Practices
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John Clare:
identity theft in Union, NJ
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Wendell Berry
& “The Peace of Wild Things”
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New star writer at
the House of Mouse
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The camera arts & Hollis Frampton
Frampton’s films on Ubuweb
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What’s not inside
Warhol’s time capsules?
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The curious success of
Simon Crump’s Neverland
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Motivations for creating derivative works
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Salinger “sequel” sucks,
says the judge
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Bedri Baykam
at Alphonse Berber Gallery
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Annie Leibovitz’ $24M debt
is due today
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Robert Frank’s “elevator girl” comes forward
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A Guy Webster retrospective
A gallery of his work
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Fighting over Frida
A gallery of attributed works
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Saving modernist architecture,
one house at a time
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Lola Schnabel’s gypsy jamboree
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The trailer
Rachel Maddow, music critic
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Fred Frith:
The acoustic occupation of space
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Joe Maneri has died
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Talking with Quentin Tarantino
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Top ten books about Lenin
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In a Materialist Way –
Pierre Macherey’s selected essays
(reg. req.)
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Ray Brassier:
Alien Theory:
The Decline of Materialism
in the Name of Matter
(reg. req.)
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Corporate bulimia on Wall Street
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CLR James & African-American Liberation
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UC Faculty walkout – September 24
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
In 1973, the one prisoner with whom I worked whom I absolutely knew in my gut was railroaded was a North Carolina moonshiner by the name of Cecil Lovedahl. Part of a group of returning WW2 vets who had taken up the manufacture & distribution of hootch, which was not only illegal, but horning in on what an older coterie of politically connected moonshiners thought was their monopoly, Lovedahl found himself at the wrong end of a plot to break up his goup. He had been riding in the back seat of a car that was involved in a fatal accident, killing the driver. The local pols saw it as an opportunity to break up the newcomers and charged Lovedahl with murder, though nobody could say why anyone in the back seat of a car would murder the driver while speeding on a dark mountain road. To escape a worse fate, his attorney (I forget whether he was a public defender or court-appointed) pled Lovedahl guilty over his own protestations in court, and he received a life sentence. Inside, Lovedahl deteriorated & attempted suicide several times, up to & including swallowing a box of straight pins. He would have been quietly released a couple of years later except for the fact that the prosecutor had risen quite high in state politics, with some thoughts of going even higher.
In my job at the Committee for Prisoner Humanity & Justice, I managed to arrange an out-of-state parole plan for Lovedahl through the Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco, but I still had to persuade the North Carolina political establishment, and especially that pol, that putting Lovedahl on the streets 2,500 miles from home wasn’t going to come back to haunt him. There was only one person I knew who might be able to accomplish this, so I called Ted Kennedy’s office in Massachusetts. Without even once asking “What’s in it for me?” Kennedy made the call, and Lovedahl got his parole. That might have been the end of the story but Lovedahl broke parole – after 20 years in prison, he found Delancey Street’s restrictions hard to take – & headed to Nevada, where he was arrested as a parole violator. An extradition hearing was held, but it was easy for the Washoe County public defender to show that Lovedahl should never have been convicted in the first place. Free so long as he remained in Nevada, Lovedahl stayed there the rest of his life.
I’ve always wondered just how many times over 46 years in the U.S. Senate Kennedy made those kinds of phone calls. He was not only the one senator in 1973 who might have made that gesture, he was also the only one who could have gotten that result. I fear that the same may have been true as recently as last week.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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