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.
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 inDowntown 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.
Went to Electronic Arts Intermix today to meet with Leah Churner, the Media Art Collection Manager. It ruled. EAI rules. Leah rules.
Out now from Patrick Lovelace Editions, Brad Flis’s Peasants presents us with a simultaneously original and eclectic voice, a new old-new, a new you. A poetic history of the military-industrial complex told form the bottom of the pile, Flis’s book contains perhaps the greatest poetic treatment of the American war on terror; his “Ground Zerodiade” restages Mallarmé’s famed unfinished closet play and puts the plethora of public admin-speak in the mouths of the eponymous hole and Lee Boyd Malvo, the confused accomplice of John Allen Muhammed, the beltway sniper. Pick up a copy, lovingly designed by Dirk Rowntree, at the Model Homes webpage.
Marie Buck’s Life & Style, out now from Brooklyn-based Patrick Lovelace Editions, is a fabulous debut from one of the more interesting poets using Internet collagist techniques. Written in the vein of Flarf poetry, Buck’s poems often present a more rigorous and complex, and less reactionary and cosmopolitan, synthesis of source and content. She salvages old forms and sentiments with new language and situations, not with an eye toward satire but with a razor-blade to the inner thigh of your cynicism. Beautifully designed by Dirk Rowntree, copies of Life & Style are available through the website of Model Homes, the excellent poetry journal she runs with Brad Flis.
