Visit to EAI
Went to Electronic Arts Intermix today to meet with Leah Churner, the Media Art Collection Manager. It ruled. EAI rules. Leah rules.
Brad Flis’s Peasants
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
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.
