Weak Link

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.

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Rodefer in Chicago or, There’s No Accounting for (British) Taste

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.

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Eclipservice

December 10, 2009 at 2:28 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

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

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FWOE on UBU

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.

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Pterodactyl (I), 2009

December 3, 2009 at 1:06 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

c/o Brandon Downing

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Robert Blanchon at Fales Library

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.

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Stuart Sherman

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.

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