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on Oct 29, 2009 in Grand Piano “The Grand Piano continues to amaze...” – David Meltzer “...language, history, textuality, and temporality” – Robin Tremblay-McGaw § The Grand Piano is an experiment in collective autobiography. Order all ten volumes, individual co...
on Oct 28, 2009 in Recently Received Recently Received Books (Poetry) Aaron Apps, Parrhesia, Lulu.com, no location, 2009 (free PDF here) Mary Jo Bang, The Bride of E, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis 2009 Alan Bernheimer, The Spoonlight Institute, Adventures in Poetry, New Yor...
on Oct 27, 2009 in Ben Friedlander Modernism Schools of poetry Of all the links I posted on Tuesday of last week, the most disturbing (to me) was not Paul Zukofsky’s sad thrashing about with regards to his father’s work & its potential to support the violinist in his old age, distressing as that is, but...
on Oct 26, 2009 in Passings links Rae Armantrout’s poetry Entertainment Weekly on the National Book Award § Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad § Rachel Zolf: the MFA as an institution within larger state apparatuses Tendencies begins Oct. 29 @ CUNY with Zolf, Robert Glück &...
on Oct 25, 2009 in passing Steve Richmond 1942 – 2009...
on Oct 22, 2009 in Summer Brenner Fiction I have always thought of Summer Brenner as a poet who sometimes writes fiction, so I was surprised to see in the front matter to I-5: A Novel of Crime, Transport, and Sex, that Brenner has published six novels to just two volumes of verse, and that s...