December 17, 2009 at 4:23 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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.
December 10, 2009 at 2:37 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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.
December 10, 2009 at 2:26 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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.
December 3, 2009 at 1:02 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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.
December 1, 2009 at 1:26 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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.
November 24, 2009 at 10:09 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Ben Hersey’s new chapbook from Southampton, MA’s Chuckwagon takes the form of a paranoid rant that is both comic and compelling in its mix of hyperbole and urgent terror. For a delusional stream-of-consciousness, Hersey’s This Is What We’re Up Against feels particularly timely.
Deb, erase. Number 1, listen. I know I was seen wearin’ a yamaka and carryin’ the Star of David in
Downtown Boston. I deliberately inserted myself next to some of the people who were not in the graduating class.
Get your heads out of your asses, you know this. This is not – you know? Oh and by the way, Deb? This is not about love anymore. This is not about love. Love is about being smart enough to know what somebody needs especially when they’re unable, or unwillin’ to see it for themselves – this is not, ah – I’m wrapped in a flag.
My home situation at my sister’s house is gettin’ very tenuous.
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