For the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the Twin Towers:
Brad Flis’s poem, “Ground Zerodiade,” from his book Peasants.
Steve Zultanski’s Cop Kisser and Pad are both amazing and available. Cop Kisser assembles 18 longish poems from the past few years, including “Anal Cars,” “This and That Lenin,” and my personal favorite, “All My Women.” Along with Pad, Cop Kisser establishes worn-out masculinity as a cipher that history both creates and decodes, interprets without the knowledge that it itself wrote it in the first place–not unlike a good Tyler Perry vehicle. Ch-ch-ch-check it out!
Peasants and Life & Style available at SPD
Brad Flis’s Peasants and Marie Buck’s Life & Style are finally available for sale at Small Press Distribution. Buy a copy for yourself. If you work at a bookstore, order a bunch of copies for your customers. They will thank you for it.
Weak Link
La Perruque Editions of Slack Buddha Press has released Rob Halpern’s latest chapbook Weak Link. The new chapbook sees Halpern’s continuing with formal and stylistic preoccupations similar to those in Disaster Suites, from Palm Press. Halpern’s use throughout Weak Link of a bracketed em-dash serves variously to punctuate, to elide, to trace the erasure of some parenthetical, and to denote caesura—it works brilliantly to bring the possibility of other voices, other discourses, into play in the poem without attempting to appropriate to speak for or on behalf of those impossible voices and instead to attempt to trace the point where they become inappropriate, to where the poem’s discourse becomes inappropriate to itself and to another. Another fine addition to Halpern’s lyrical project.
Rodefer in Chicago or, There’s No Accounting for (British) Taste
Good review in the recent Chicago Review by Britain–USA transplant John Wilkinson of USA–Britain–Paris transplant Stephen Rodefer’s new selected, Call It Thought, out now from Carcanet. You can’t get it on the CR site, so you have to procure the hardest of copies.
Eclipservice
Everything you probably didn’t want to know about the 70s and 80s, all scanned and uploaded, care of Craig Dworkin.
FWOE on UBU
Wonderful UbuWeb has put up the wonderful 2004 tour cd-r “NZZNZZZZNNZNZNNNN” by Northampton, MA’s wonderful Fat Worm of Error. FWOE is probably the only band you wish you had ever heard of. You will kick yourself for never having even heard of them.
Robert Blanchon at Fales Library
At turns playful, brave, probing, and profound, the exhibition marks the transfer of major holding of Blanchon’s estate into the publicly accessible archives of the Fales Library at New York University. It also concludes a multi-year collaboration between the artist’s estate and the nonprofit advocacy organization Visual AIDS to collect and present the work of the late photo-based conceptual artist.
Stuart Sherman
STUART SHERMAN
Screening + Discussion
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 6:30 pm
Please join EAI for a special evening devoted to the work of Stuart Sherman, featuring a conversation between playwright and director Richard Foreman and artist Paul Chan, moderated by Jay Sanders.The discussion will be preceded by a short screening program surveying Sherman’s work in film, video, audio, and performance, introduced by Andrew Lampert of Anthology Film Archives.
