Weak Link

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:23:46 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:37:28 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:28:56 +0000

Everything you probably didn’t want to know about the 70s and 80s, all scanned and uploaded, care of Craig Dworkin.

FWOE on UBU

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:26:23 +0000

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.

Pterodactyl (I), 2009

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:06:04 +0000

c/o Brandon Downing

Robert Blanchon at Fales Library

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:10 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:26:30 +0000

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.

GTFBITBP 5th Place Reader’s Choice

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:20:25 +0000

I would like to think Anselm Berrigan, Craig Dworkin, Stan Apps, and Joseph Mosconi for making Get the Fuck Back Into That Burning Plane the greatest book. Check out the rest of Third Factory’s Attention Span 2009 to get the dips on what frothed the dock of yesteryear.

Credit

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:12:44 +0000

Buy Credit. Mathew Timmons. Blurbs.

Ben Hersey’s This Is What We’re Up Against

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:09:32 +0000

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.