SUCCESS! pdf

David Baratier, Jeffery Beam, John M. Bennett, John Berndt, Dan Breen, David-Baptiste Chirot, Mark Dickinson, David Baratier, Jeffery Beam, John M. Bennett, John Berndt, Dan Breen, David-Baptiste Chirot, Mark Dickinson, Adam Good, Diana Bellessi translated by Cathy Eisenhower, Raymond Farr, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Amira Hanafi, Jeff Harrison, Amy King, Richard Kostelanetz, M. Magnus, Megan McShea (with John Eaton), a.e.m., Tom Orange, Ross Priddle, Ric Royer, Cole Swensen, Chris Toll, justin sirois, Irving Weiss

Noah Eli Gordon reviews Deed at Rain Taxi

Raworth Christmas Card

Breathalyzer!

Breathalyzer

by K. Silem Mohammad

80 pgs, cover design by Anne Boyer

Click here to order via Paypal.

Regularly $15.00

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge


Just out from Edge, K. Silem Mohammad's latest, Breathalyzer-- a stylish, stylized, poetic steroid of a book poised to pulverize your boredom and perilize the aesthetic tendencies of the overly under-aestheticized. It's fun too!

Two rather different reviews of Deed

Joshua Clover in The Nation

Ohio reviews Deed

New @ Bridge Street

Downs/Rothschild @ DCAC

Sunday, December 16, 3:00 pm
Buck Downs & Doug Rothschild
@ DC Arts Center

2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan
(south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)
Admission $3, FREE for DCAC members

Shattered Wig!

ON

Friday, December 7th, 9:30 PM

IT'S

Shattered Wig Night
at The 14Karat Cabaret

WITH

Blaster Al Ackerman
Mel Nichols
Rod Smith
& John Dierker's Quartet Offensive

218 West Saratoga St.
Downtown Baltimore
Maryland 21201
410-962-8565
Doors open at 9:00 p.m.
Showtime: 9:30 p.m.
$6 at door

Sirois/Pringle Ruthless Grip 12/8, 8 PM

Saturday, December 8, 8:00 pm

Kathryn Pringle & Justin sirois

@ Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, Maryland

Critical Cities on Petroleum Hat

Petroleum Hat is a collection of odd fragments that takes on the glittering surfaces of mediated culture in a combination of chance-generated spontenaeity and constructedness, resulting in a poetics which tries to take on contemporary media culture on its own terms rather than from the position of “poetry” that expresses “sincere emotions”.

All about Flarf.

Podcast at poetryfoundation.org featuring interviews & readings.

Laura Moriarty on Deed at A Tonalist

i.e. reading series

CHRIS MASON DAVID BEAUDOUIN BERNARD WELT

Saturday, December 1st - 8 pm

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Deed

Now available from U Iowa Press.

To order from Bridge Street Books email rod@bridgestreetbooks.com w/ your address and cc#. Or, if you prefer, we'll bill you. It's $16 postpaid.

Also just out, in the same series, Complex Sleep, by Tony Tost.

Bar Rouge 11/26 8 PM

Monday, November 26th, 8:00 p.m.

Laurel Snyder, Hugh Behm-Steinberg,
Rod Smith, and Mel Nichols

Bar Rouge
1315 16th Street NW Washington, DC

Smith/Davies @ DCAC, 11/18

I N Y O U R E A R R E A D I N G S E R I E S
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, Sunday, November 18, 2007

KEVIN DAVIES
&
ROD SMITH

Admission is $3.00.

District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site at http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm

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Swensen/Phillips @ Georgetown, Thurs 11/15

Lannan Literary Series
Thursday, November 15th.

CARL PHILLIPS
&
COLE SWENSEN

Georgetown University, 37th & O Streets NW
Seminar: ICC Bldg Room 462, 5:30PM
Reading: Copley Formal Lounge, 8:00PM

Amanda Hess at The City Paper on Deed

“There’s no comment on that one,” says Smith. “It doesn’t seem to need one.”

New Bloof

Drunk by Noon by Jennifer L. Knox +
For Girls (& Others) by Shanna Compton
for $25 plus shipping

Comp. is back in print!

Click to paypal it for $11. That's $4 bucks off the retail, postpaid.

& remember:

"The unconscious is structured like a Shriners convention."

Andrew Hill-Mal Waldron Duo à Montréal 1988

Jothan Callins - Winds of Change

C A C O N R A D
A M Y K I N G
B R U C E C O V E Y

Saturday, November 3rd at 8 p.m. -

i.e. reading series

CARRIGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore MD
410-727-1953

Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest

from Alternet:

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.

A googlenews search turns up only 20 stories, very few U.S., no major media:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1122708036

Poetry Daily feature on Deed

The day before was Terry Winch. & a few days before that, Alice Notley. Huh.

Will Alexander

As you may have heard, poet Will Alexander is quite ill with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. He's spent his life largely off the poetry grid, taking on odd jobs, and has no financial support or, needless to say, health insurance.

The San Francisco organization Poets in Need is coordinating efforts to raise money for him (and other writers in trouble). You can make a (tax-deductible) contribution to them and send it to:

Poets in Need
PO Box 5411
Berkeley CA 94705

For those around New York, there will be a benefit reading for Will at the Bowery Poetry Club, Thursday November 1, 6-8 pm.

PO E T R Y R E AD I N G

R OB E R T F ITT E R M AN

and

M E L NI CH O LS


Bowery Poery Club 308 Bowery NYC

This Saturday, October 27 4 PM

$5

Giuliani Says U.S. Will Be Prepared for Space-Alien Attack

This is not from The Onion.

New York Times on In the Pines

To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything.” To read such poems requires a similar discipline.

Inman & Champion 10/20, & Graham 10/21

P. INMAN & MILES CHAMPION

Saturday, October 20th, 8 pm

i.e. reading series

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD

&

Sunday, October 21, 3:00 pm

MILES CHAMPION, P. INMAN, & LORRAINE GRAHAM
@ DC Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

Celebrating John Ashbery

Folger Shakespeare Library
201 E. Capitol St. SE

November 5th, 2007 7:30PM

Celebrating John Ashbery

John Ashbery's work bends and breaks contemporary structure in search of the reality that exists behind truth, the realities that inform the nature of all things. Folger Poetry celebrates Ashbery's long history in poetry with readings of his work by poets Ann Lauterbach, Ron Padgett, James Tate, and Dara Weir, ending with a reading by Ashbery himself. Co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America.

Readings include a moderated conversation, light-fare reception, and book sale and signing. Call 202.544.7077 for more information. Tickets are $12.00.

If it is a rose, it will come into bloom sooner or later.
--Goethe

Counterpath Online

2 new guppys of mine there.

Armantrout, Doyle, & Miller 9/23 7 PM

RAE ARMANTROUT
BEN DOYLE
& SANDRA MILLER

7:00 PM, Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave.
(202) 965-5200

Located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, 5 blocks from
the Foggy Bottom Metro station (blue & orange lines).

Student Tasered for Asking Questions

Doug Lang on Tina Darragh

Nicolas Manning on Nada Gordon

Susan Howe WBAI shows at Penn Sound

the coils go off

The Perfect American

His overheated distilleries moved absentee shins, penetrated infrasonic creameries of fire during divinity's effete, Battle-planed plenitude and excremental, orotund fixating; an alcohol-island of Seagram casement, condensed and burgeoning, unholiness-Fried kidskin.

exactly the shittiest thing that culture can foist on itself

it's a decent few minutes watching a cute animated rat hop about

I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER soon

Dragomoschenko on Creeley

good one!

i.e. reading series 9/1

One of several collaborations with Alexandra Smith, circa 1995.

Rain could dampen lawns

Ron & Flash @ Bridge Street

How has your first book changed your life?

This woman was in love with him.

. . . a rationalized, expansionist, centralized, spectacular and clamorous production faces an entirely different kind of production, called "consumption," that is characterized by its ruses, its poaching, its secrecy . . .

kick yourself

I don’t

The fuzz on

some other

hard
to be
Tarzan

you humiliated

snuffs up

the grease
I love

English Makes You Fat

According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic, speaking English as a second language makes you fat.

Bilingualism was once considered a leading cause of mental retardation. American psychologists in the early twentieth century argued that filling up a child’s brain with a useless immigrant language like Italian or Yiddish meant less room for actual knowledge. They also found a strong correlation between speaking two languages and criminal behavior. Their solution was simple: switch to English, leave the language of crime and ignorance behind, become 100% American, and don’t look back.

speaking of Washington

Here comes George, In Control

also, Doug Lang's DCPoetry Blog

Millions were dead; everybody was innocent.

A special Ghostbrain toast to Tom "TKO" Orange-- who went & done got his PhD.

The story of Anne's cat Ulysses and Wanda Landowska's performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier

america wet pony bless us more

Sight by Hejinian & Scalapino

After almost two years Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino's book-length collaboration from Edge is available again.


click here to order via paypal

Sight
Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino
120 pgs, Cover design by Ree Hall

Regularly $15.00 -- just
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge




sight and meaning
Hejinian EPC
Scalapino Wikipedia

Le Quartanier

Extrait :


Commence n'importe où.


Alarmes. Anneaux concentriques.


Miroirs tous aux angles. Des fragments s'agrègent. Amas.


L'écrivain après que ses mots sont morts.


"... après que la bombe est lâchée."


Silhouette esquissée sur le sol.


Le temps passe.


"Leur destin est de demeurer."


Sortie, suppression. Entaille sur plat de cuivre.


Que désignait un alphabète... Que condensait un index utopique...


Syntaxe effacée.

Happy Bastille Day

*we could tape silence & not play it back*

I love how she pronouche 'sexy'!

The Dangerfield Conundrum

A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry

George Bowering
Maxine Chernoff
Katie Degentesh
Gabriel Gudding
Rachel Loden
Ange Mlinko
K. Silem Mohammad
D. A. Powell
Ron Silliman
Gary Sullivan

Man Robs Bank Disguised as Tree

Police say the suspect used duct tape to attach tree branches onto his body as a form of camouflage. He then walked into the Citizens Bank on Elm Street and demanded money.

P.O.S.T.M.O.D.E.R.N C.U.L.T.U.R.E.

Jussi Parikka, Insects, Sex, and Biodigitality in Lynn Hershman Leeson's Teknolust

Stephen Voyce, The Xenotext Experiment: An Interview with Christian Bök

Marc Botha, How To Lose Your Voice Well

Annette Schlichter, "I Can't Get Sexual Genders Straight": Kathy Acker's Writing of Bodies and Pleasures

Steven Helmling, How To Read Adorno on How To Read Hegel

The World Narrowed to a Point

Liquor and love
when the mind is dull
focus the wit
on a world of form

The eye awakes
perfumes are defined
inflections
ride the quick ear

Liquor and love
rescue the cloudy sense
banish its despair
give it a home.

Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude

JULES BOYKOFF - SQUELCHING DISSENT

Professor Boykoff on David Barsamian's Alternative radio.

Narrow House presents:
There Were One & It Was Two:
Annotated Artifcacts from the Doubles Museum
by Rick Royer with sound by John Berndt

Book/CD release party
June 29, 2007
7 p.m.
FREE

The Red Room
425 E. 31st St.
Baltimore, MD
(410) 243-6888

Naropa Summer Writing Program

I'll soon be in Boulder teaching, reading, paneling, partying, hiking, & Kerouac festivaling:

Week Two: Lineages of the New American Poetry and Beyond
Monday, June 25–Sunday, July 1, 2007

Eric Dolphy would've been 79 today.

Nautical homophonic puns (a flarf primer)

Good post over at This Cruellest month.

TOM RAWORTH RECEIVES MAJOR AWARD

Tom Raworth has been awarded Italy's prestigious Antonio Delfini Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. The ceremony will take place in Modena on 23 June. An illustrated limited edition of Raworth poems has been published to mark the occasion. The only previous Anglophone poet to receive the prize is Robert Creeley.

Raworth's recent Caller and Other Pieces and the classic Ace are available via paypal from Edge Books.

issue the first

Pennylicious

Thinking of going to DePaul, think again.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. --Steve Lacy

Looking fwd to Flag Day.

Truthout too optomistic again. Somebody, please, crack that Libby nut.

ART

Sudden Spider at Ideolexicon

New at Bridge Street

Raging Caging

eviltrailmix

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your favorite cartoon character?”

Deed, forthcoming, September '07

Cover photo: Thrift Store Washington, Tim Davis.

CONTENTS

The Good House 4

The Spider Poems 36

The Given

Barnes & Chernobyl 54
Poem 55
1/43/97 56
The Given 57
Moist Feelings: A Love Poem 58
Identity is the Cause of Warts 59
Ted’s Head 60
Specifically the Luminous 61
The Strength 62
Floorboard 63
the love that is truly a refuge
for all living beings 64
XCVII ("she knows who she is") 66
The Narrative Quiescence 68

Homage to Homage to Creeley 70

the wild

A 3D Exquisite Corpse

Water Walk, 1960

John Cage on What's My Line?

/ Ubu Editions

Third Series
Spring 2007

Bruce Andrews Divestiture - A (1994)
Steve Benson The Ball // 30 Times in 2 Days (2005)
Maurice Blanchot The Last Man (1957)
Mairéad Byrne SOS Poetry (2007)
Terence Gower & Mónica de la Torre Appendices, Illustrations & Notes (1999)
Dick Higgins Horizons (1984)
Bernard Nöel The Outrage Against Words (1978)
Severo Sarduy Big Bang (1973)
Claude Simon Properties of Several Geometric or Non-Geometric Figures (1971)
Rosemarie Waldrop Shorter American Memory (1988)
Robert Wilson A Letter For Queen Victoria: An Opera (1974)
Monique Wittig Les Guérillères (1969)

Palast on Goodling Testimony

And now, not bothering to understand the astonishing revelation in Goodling's confessional, they are missing the real story behind the firing of the US attorneys. It's not about removing prosecutors disloyal to Bush, it's about replacing those who refused to aid the theft of the vote in 2004 with those prepared to burgle it again in 2008.

Ron Silliman & Tom Mandel at Bridge Street Books

SUNDAY, MAY 27th at 7 PM

RON SILLIMAN
& TOM MANDEL

A reading and publication celebration for

The Age of Huts (compleat)

& To the Cognoscenti

& The Grand Piano

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW
WASHINGTON, DC

202 965 5200

the i.e. reading series welcomes

Ron Silliman & Tom Mandel

Saturday, May 26- 8 pm at

Dionysus
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

www.ieseries.wordpress.com

Test Reading Series Toronto 3/16/07

My recent Toronto reading is online at ourmedia. Thanks to Mark Truscott.

Bender's Yockadot pics

Andrews/Nichols Baltimore/DC 5/19&20

Mel Nichols & Bruce Andrews

i.e. reading series
Saturday, May 19th- 8 pm

Dionysus
Restaurant & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore,MD
410-244-1020


I N Y O U R E A R R E A D I N G S E R I E S
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, Sunday, May 20, 2007

District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site at http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm.

Five Lyrics

Five poems of mine just up on Web Conjunctions.

Mark McMorris has almost 24 full seconds of clapping.

Flickring

Willis/Kuhl 5/12

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Saturday, May 12, 2007, 8:00PM
Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Kuhl

& also:

Beth Joselow & Terence Winch May 18th Chapters 7 PM
Bruce Andrews & Mel Nichols May 21st DCAC 3 PM
Ron Silliman & Tom Mandel May 27th Bridge Street 7 PM

Doug Ireland: What Sarkozy's Victory Means

... in a major campaign speech just days
before the election, Sarkozy surprisingly devoted 20
minutes of his discourse to a violent denunciation of
the May 1968 student-worker revolt (Sarko was only 14
at the time of that rebellion.). The heritage of May
'68, Sarko thundered, must be "liquidated.

Keyword analysis for Snips:

2 - 66.67% displexity
1 - 33.33% unswart german

YOCKADOT POETICS THEATRE FESTIVAL 5/5

SATURDAY MAY 5th, Alexandria, VA
at the US Patent and Trademark Offices, near the King Street Metro (Blue Line).

3 PM, ongoing--

Text performance art by Mark Greenwood. Adam Good will lead improvisitional tours around the USPTO site intermittently throughout the festival.

4 PM Show: Dominion Stage--

A BEVY OF WELCOMES and THE GUNFIGHT: two comic shorts by Brent Cunningham.

SOP DOLL! A Jack Tale Noh Drama by Lee Ann Brown (author of Polyverse, and The Sleep That Changed Everything) and Tony Torn (noted stage and screen actor).

7 PM Show: Yockadot's poetics theatre troupe under the direction of Enoch Chan--

Excerpt from VERVE ON VERGE, a "jigsaw puzzle play" by Ellen Redbird, poetics theatre theorist and publisher of Nerve Lantern. HOURS by Thalia Field, author of Ululu (Clown Shrapnel), and Incarnate: Story Material.
BAD I.O.U, a brand new play by Tina Darragh, author of Dream Rim Instructions, and Striking Resemblance.

USPTO Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria VA 22314. Near the King Street Metro station (Blue Line).

This semi-religious spectacle that the Nazis are well known for staging, especially to pot one ball with another prod my little black cat was faith strewn to stomach to the whole Constitution into the melting witness a feral, semi-nomadic subsistence the heat and stir-in of the dead favorite opposite, stones, root there-there sun of Graceland Harbor friend, we sew this nude deficit and soul, coup-like, a harrow's no. Close file. Fresh.

Byrne/Davis/Stine @ Bar Rouge 4/30

Monday, April 30, 8pm

Mairéad Byrne, Jordan Davis and Alison Stine

Bar Rouge
1315 16th Street NW
Washington D.C.

uh-oh = woohoo

I saw Buck read today & I said "read Buck read!" Missed Ryan, Jeremy, etc though dernit.

Lee Ann's a-comin' to town, & plus which there's Yockadot Toscanomania Saturday night. Then later the Balmer currrrazies w/ Blaster Al and Blaster Thurston and Blaster Franks too.

MAYBE YOU HAD TOO MUCH TOO FAST

MAYBE YOU HAD TOO MUCH TOO FAST

I gave her Miranda too much
while she's wasting my her away

Much like IBM, you have to wonder

why

You fucked
President Clinton

too slow

YOCKADOT POETICS THEATRE FESTIVAL

FRIDAY Night, April 27th
St. Elmo's Coffee Pub

8pm. "The Poetry Reading as Performance/ The Poem as Theatre." Featuring Mid-Atlantic poets Jeremy Gardner, Chris Casamassima, J.D. Smith, Ryan Walker, and Buck Downs. 2300 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria Virginia 22301.

SATURDAY Afternoon, April 28th
Gunston Arts Center

4pm. Dominion Stage presents comic shorts by Brent Cunningham, as well as Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn's modern Noh drama, Sop Doll. 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington, Virginia 22236

SATURDAY Night, April 28th
Del Ray Artisans Gallery

8pm, New York poet Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theatre. Performers will include Rodrigo Toscano, Tom Orange, Rod Smith, Cole Swensen, Gregory Stuart, Kelly Brown, Jeremy Gardner, and Jason Conger.

9:30pm, Ffrummsbo!—a mini-festival of text performance art from the flourishing Baltimore-Buffalo corridor: with Blaster Al Ackerman, John Eaton, Megan McShea, John Berndt, Rupert Wondolowski, David Franks, Buffluxus, and Kevin Thurston.
2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301

MONDAY evening, April 30th
George Mason University

7:30 pm. Seminar on "Sop Doll" with author Lee Ann Brown, cast and crew from Dominion Stage, and folklorist Peggy Yocum.
Johnson Center, Gold Room. 4400 University Drive Fairfax, Virginia 22030

All events are free of charge. Donations accepted.
Please see the festival website for details and directions: www.yptfest.org
or call 703-400-2984

Andrew Hill's last concert 3/29/07

POETRY BATTLE 2007

They say I should be afraid of
Gutstein cuz he's so strong.














I say he should try
Ban Roll-On.

DUPLESSIS & PERELMAN at Bridge St 4/22

SUNDAY April 22nd, 7 PM

RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
&
BOB PERELMAN

Bridge Street Books 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, 5 blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro station (blue & orange lines).

Send Tim Your Self Portraits

I need as many copies of Bob Dylan's LP "Self Portrait" as possible, for a sculpture I am making. I've been buying them on Ebay, but have artificially driven up the price by buying so many.

If you have an old copy, no matter how bad the condition, please send it to me at

Tim Davis
101 North Road
Tivoli, NY 12583

And I will be eternally grateful.Please feel free to forward this to any interested party.

David Markson, The Last Novel

David Markson, The Last Novel. I recommend it, with the caveat that I don't think "it pulls it off"-- what it sets out to do, I think, is cause some emotional connection to a doubly or triply removed character named "Novelist" as he "remembers" or re-remembers various literary anecdotes almost all of which are interesting and a good number of which are priceless. The anecdotes are more than worth the price of admission. No doubt, one is actually not supposed to feel the connection but to feel "Novelist" as a ghostly presence, or something, and his unimportance, or something, in the vast terrain of literary history, etc. Whatever, I didn't. But the anecdotes are great, and his phrasing of them is terrific. I did't need a narrative tease, or really understand why it was, occasionally, there. In order to call it a novel? perhaps. & I'm still making up my mind on what to make of the Wastelandish conclusion(s). Will likely read it again. This is not a negative review, it's a puzzling book, & at that level, I'll take it back, certainly does pull it off. Me think puzzling good. Like they say.

Am now reading Vonnegut's Slapstick for the first time since high school. It holds up.

Hi ho.

Andrew Hill: 1931-2007

Thu, 9 Nov 1995 01:16:44 -0500
Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group
Sender: UB Poetics discussion group
From: Rod Smith
Subject: Re: granted (Jameson) but

Tenney--
Eric Wirth addresses the question you raise re the "power" of the writer &
reader in an essay in _Aerial 6/7_-- basically in agreement w/ your
assertion-- he considers that in the dada text (using Coolidge as example)
there is "a preemptive fusing of relations." I go back & forth on this tho I
don't see how "opacity" is aggressive-- it can be used as such certainly, but so can any other technique. It seems to me the strength of the opaque text is
that it makes no pretense of clarity & leaves the reader free to respond on
their own terms as they will. If the rules are broken in the writing then
certainly they can be broken in the reading. This is where I find validity
in critical claims about reader interaction w/ l.p.-- such writing "honors" the reader's subjectivity by admitting its own.

I have a recollection of Jameson dismissing Cage in one sentence in his _Postmodernism_. Pretty boring. Dan Barbiero addresses "the Perelman issue" at length in a piece in _Aerial 6/7 as well.

I think your remarks abt "euphoria or mania" in the amer tree are important points-- Mayer & Coolidge being exemplars-- Mayer often talking abt exploring states of consciousness. & certainly there's only one Hannah. I think of Ted B. etc. as the hardest partiers. & "Howl" am I remembering it right?-- was written on mushrooms. & the recent visitation of David Ayre certainly made exceptional use of "mania." I'm still tired of grumpy virgins.

--Rod



Tenney Nathanson wrote:
"there are certainly big problems w Jameson's take on Perelman's work
(insurmountable, were it a question of buying or not buying the goods).
Minor point: I think it's worth noting that the

Tonic Closing