Last month, I talked with Kristina Marie Darling over email about her new book Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011)—topics ranged from the Romantic fragment to mourning rituals to collaboration to erasure. Darling is also the author of the poetry collection Night Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Ragdale [...]
Archive for August, 2011
YouTube Delivers People
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, Carlotta Fay Schoolman, Patrick Carrie, Richard Serra, YouTube on August 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A cute update on the classic:
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 9)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Jackson released Off the Wall. Magazine released their second album, Secondhand Daylight.
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 22 / 41, Derek White & Carlos M. Luis’ ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calamari Press, Carlos M. Luis, Derek White, J. A. Tyler on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click through to read the full review of Derek White & Carlos M. Luis’ ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos, the twenty-second in this full-press review of Calamari books.
Oodles of Odes to Gass
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Habitatio, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Life Sentences, Reading Rilke, The Pedersen Kid, The Tunnel, William Gass on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In celebration of William Gass’s birthday week I have rounded up all six odes/celebrations/appreciations I have written about Gass and his work in the last year. I’ve also included an excerpt from a forthcoming essay on Gass and influence, referring to the novella “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.” Happy 87th, dear [...]
Printers’ Ball 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amy yee, artifice, busted books, Center for Book & Paper Arts, Chicago Underground Library, Chicago’s Office of Tourism and Culture, danielle champman, dunk, feathrproof, Fred Sasaki, james tadd adcox, Kindle, MAKE, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, Printers' Ball, The Economist, Zach Dodson on August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This past Friday was Printers’ Ball–a great annual tradition in Chicago at Columbia College put together by Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine with the Center for Book & Paper Arts, the Chicago Underground Library, Columbia College Chicago, and MAKE magazine–under the organizational energies of Fred Sasaki. The event was covered by Amy Yee of The [...]
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 8)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on August 2, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Martin Scorsese was directing Raging Bull. Michael Cimino was going over budget and over schedule on Heaven’s Gate.
THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, A Duet: Part II; in which we discuss foundlings and feminists, the exhaustion of forms, Twin Peaks, and how literature can’t compensate for a lack of toilet paper.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2011 | 10 Comments »
A dual post by John Domini and Amber Sparks on John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor. Part Two: our Hero & Heroine Attempt Some Further Understanding, Distracted by Much Laughter, Astonishment, & Musing Aloud, of the NOVEL’S Next —is’t Two? is’t Three? — Hundred Pages. JOHN: Above is my lame attempt to mimic John Barth, in [...]
John Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann: A Word-Hoard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Word-Hoard, Big Other, John Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann, John Madera on August 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I tend to be skeptical whenever somebody recommends a writer to me, especially, for some reason, when it’s a poet being recommended; and it’s usually a contemporary, or near-one, that I am usually having foisted upon me—my perception of the dynamic here duly noted—so when a friend, who hardly reads much literature of any kind [...]
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