Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

This has got to be one of the most striking poetry book covers

2009-12-19T16:06:10-08:00

that I have ever seen. Though I have not read the book (Advanced Elvis Course by CA Conrad) yet, I'd predict its camp, its garishness, is a good match for the poetry within. Kudos to Goodloe Byron, CA Conrad, and Soft Skull Press.

2009-12-17T13:26:22-08:00

He admitted the tree with an axe we have to apologize.

A marathon reading of Clark Coolidge's The Crystal Text

2009-12-16T15:47:29-08:00

Saturday, December 19
from noon till quits (around 5?)
Spare Room <http://www.flim.com/spareroom> presents

The Crystal Text

at The Waypost
3120 N. Williams Ave.

free--come or go at will

The readers will be: David Abel, Meredith Blankinship, Joseph Bradshaw, Jen
Burris, Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, Endi Hartigan, Patrick Hartigan, Rodney
Koeneke, Maryrose Larkin, Sam Lohmann, Jesse Morse, Mark Owens, and James
Yeary.

*

Is this the only way I can now speak, arms
on a board to a dumb stone? The silence
of written words is perhaps correct for this
connection. An off-note to think of oneself
shouting against wall of crystal. Better to breathe
on it, dampening and misting its striations. Best
to be writing (whatever?) here in this book
in its presence. The window glass is but a
gross imitation of the crystal, as speech is of poetry.
As a closed book is the strength of a hand
brought to a perfection. Poetry is the closed voice?
--The Crystal Text

Text-Art 2010 Calendar by Andrew Topel

2009-12-15T15:43:40-08:00

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce that our 2010 Calendar featuring the textual artistry of Andrew Topel is NOW ON SALE at http://fact-simile.com/calendar.html

Order your copy of this limited edition 2010 spiral bound wall calendar (just $15 plus shipping) by Wednesday and we’ll be sure to get it to you in time for the holidays.

Yours Truly,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com

P.S. Look for the 2010 Visual Poets in the Buff Calendar, out from BuffVispo.com later this month (photos by Geof Huth).

Indulgent Laugh

2009-12-14T08:52:37-08:00

It’s nothing much: human behavior.

Coo on her window ledge.

It was; it is as mad as a hornet; war trumpet and darts.

It says, blue.

Its ruling passion soon developed a soft, docile scent all its own. .

He would kiss ill feeling.

Stare: What letters, words, poems do you see?

2009-12-13T13:39:05-08:00

Crg Hill

Giving the Alphabet a Facelift

2009-12-11T14:30:53-08:00

An hilarious article from the Onion forwarded to mIEKAL aND: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/alphabet_updated_with_15_exciting

I see some echoes of Geof Huth's glyphs the "new" L.

A ledger

2009-12-11T12:31:48-08:00

Thought predicate

actor and action

ideology based on the box of tools

a room with benches

2009-12-08T11:43:20-08:00

on this and on another occasion

motion

takes a bite of a

present a sharply undulating

brood of wild ducks

about half grown

started off

behind the mother

I drew near the place

they were going to make

their breasts

beaten into spray

kept the race up

quickly out of sight

2009-12-06T11:57:24-08:00

Words have been a nightmare “outer garment,” no reason for any start. Rain–I remember it now–this dream frequently, artificial trees bearing fruit. She flitted before us, now falling upon a moment as if quite disabled, low branch drooping to take her. Eggs upon the dry leaves, bit of bark or broken twig.

2009-12-04T10:48:29-08:00

Poem, for instance, involves not the single words in their whole life,

or as it is suggested by simple acts of perception.

One draws some dozen lines, for one perceives them as divisible.

UbuWeb, Publishing the Unpublishable, 1-50

2009-12-03T12:21:07-08:00

http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub.html
Publishing The Unpublishable, 1-50

http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub.html

What constitutes an unpublishable work? It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting; it could be a work of juvenilia or a style you've long since discarded; it could be a work that falls far outside the range of what you're best known for; it could be a guilty pleasure or it could simply be that the world judges it to be awful, but you think is quite good. We've all got a folder full of things that would otherwise never see the light of day.

Invited authors were invited to ponder to that question. The works found here are their responses, ranging from an 1018-page manuscript (unpublishable due to its length) to a volume of romantic high school poems written by a now-respected innovative poet. You get the idea.

The web is a perfect place to test the limits of unpublishability. With no printing, design or distribution costs, we are free to explore that which would never have been feasible, economically and aesthetically. While this exercise began as an exploration and provocation, the resultant texts are unusually rich; what we once considered to be our trash may, after all, turn out to be our greatest treasure.

The series will conclude when the 100th manuscript is published.

Works by Joachim Georg Schmitt, Franck Leibovici, Christian Bjoljahn & Martin Johs. Møller, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Ryan Trecartin, Erik Belgum, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dana Teen Lomax, Vanessa Place, Vincent Katz, Stephen McLauglin, Vladimir Zykov, Gregory Laynor, James Carpenter, Dannielle Tegeder, Mark Peters, Mairéad Byrne, Barry Schwabsky, Eleanor Brown, Derek Beaulieu, Elisabeth S. Clark, Alan Licht, Kenneth Goldsmith, Raphael Rubinstein, Michael Coffey, Charles Bernstein, Eiríkur Örn Nordahl, Stephen Ratcliffe, Ara Shirinyan, Tom Johnson, Christian Bök, Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch, Jeremy Sigler, Mónica de la Torre, Tan Lin, Michael Scharf, Mary Jo Bang, Brian J. Davis, Brian Kim Stefans, Tim Davis, George Kuchar, Jamba Dunn, Peter Manson, Craig Dworkin, Simon Morris, Kimberly J. Rosenfield, Stephen Dirle, Claude Closky, Doug Nufer, Robert Fitterman and Bruce Andrews.

UbuWeb
http://ubu.com

3 New Titles from Little Red Leaves, including a Tina Darragh and Marcella Durand collaboration, all available as e-books

2009-12-02T14:12:34-08:00

*Tina Darragh's & Marcella Durand's *collaboration, *Deep eco pré (a decade

in the making)*

*Divya Victor's *first long player,* **SUTURES**

*Norma Cole's **Do the Monkey (reprinted from the Zasterle edition)*

All titles are available as both a free pdf download AND in book form for
purchase.

Please see the ebooks page for further details: http://www.littleredleaves.com/ebooks

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When Things Court People

2009-12-02T13:40:34-08:00

He was this idea pushed further by having killed.

Experience the weeping independent of that system.

Meanings are running through the influence of the world,

the salt-torpor of shacks, sunsets.

I’ve seen guys stick their creditors for a crap of paper.

It’s a way of playing a real satisfaction.

Experiment-o Issue 2 Now On-line

2009-11-29T19:59:31-08:00

featuring
Jamie Bradley
Peter Cicariello
K. S. Ernst
Caroline Gomersall
John C. Goodman
Jeremy Hanson-Finger
Gil McElroy
Christine McNair
Sean Moreland
Dominik Parisien

http://www.experiment-o.com/