Monday, April 27, 2009

Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon by Mel Nichols, New from Edge Books!

Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon
Mel Nichols
ISBN: 978-1-890311-30-8
98 pgs, Cover by the author

Regularly $17.50
$12.00 direct from Aerial/Edge
Free shipping!



Mel Nichols' first full-length collection, Catalytic Exteriorization
Phenomenon, takes its title from an early formulation of Jung's
concept of synchronicity. Imagine an edgy cityish Niedecker-- that
kind of lyric sense, writing from the trash in the street, the storms
among the power lines. Nichols seeks, like much good poetry, to
illustrate and sing the porous, immediate, particular interchange
betwixt inner and outer life. Rob Fitterman writes: "Maybe we had it
all wrong. Maybe it’s all exterior. Maybe certain hierarchies fall
when everything—found and unfound—gets in. Maybe not as things, but as 'as octopus/on the porch/snow/still/now/a comma/a ticket/a timetable.' Or maybe 'We are going to get serious [page break] about project management/we are going to spend a lot of money on project/management software to prove it.' Maybe we are. Maybe Mel Nichols' Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon is just that." Nichols is a member of the Flarf Collective. She lives in Washington, DC and teaches Digital Poetics at George Mason University. Her previous chapbooks include Day Poems (Edge), Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha), and The Beginning of Beauty, Part I: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge).

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Dreyer/Inman @ Bridge Street 4/26, 7 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

P. INMAN
&
LYNNE DREYER

SUNDAY, APRIL 26th, 7 PM


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,
five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Tuesday May 5, 7:30 pm
Corcoran All-Stars
curated by Doug Lang
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 17, 3:00 pm
John Coletti & Buck Downs
@ DC Arts Center

Tuesday, June 9, 8:00pm
Buck Downs & Joe Ross
@ Bridge Street Books

Saturday, April 18, 2009

New at Bridge Street in Poetry & Theory

VERSED, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, HC 123 pgs, $22.95. "Look -- I'm cooperating! / I can pull myself apart / and still speak"

THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT 1929-1940, ed Fehsenfeld & Overbeck, Cambridge, 782 pgs, HC $50. "My dear Tom / The discrepancy between mind and body is terrible."

HEGEMONIC LOVE POTION, Jules Boykoff, Factory School, 104 pgs, $15."Do cops hate puppets?"

THE BOOK OF FRANK, C.A. Conrad, Chax, 150 pgs, $16. "they waited to see what Frank would do"

THE CAVE, Clark Coolidge & Bernadette Mayer, Adventures in Poetry, 70 pgs, $16. "He tells us techniques are disappointed now. Six men in plastic."

BODY LANGUAGE, Mark Cunningham, Tarpaulin Sky, 120 pgs, $14. "Regeneration? It comes and goes."

REASON, FAITH, AND REVOLUTION: REFLECTIONS ON THE GOD DEBATE, Terry Eagleton, Yale, HC 185 pgs, $25. "Knowledge is simply one moment or aspect of our bodily collusion in reality, a moment which modernity falsely abstracts and enshrines."

THE WINTER SUN: NOTES ON A VOCATION, Fanny Howe, Graywolf, 198 pgs, $15.
"My father worked for social justice and was eviscerated."

WE SAW THE LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA AND POETRY, Daniel Kane, U Iowa, 270 pgs, HC $39.95. Writers and filmmakers discussed include: Anger, Duncan, Creeley, Brakhage, O'Hara, Leslie, Ginsberg, Chaplin, Frank, Warhol, Malanga, Ashbery, Burckhardt, Jarnot, & Reeves.

CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Factory School, 94 pgs, $15. "time for total reconstruction"

POETRY STATE FOREST, Bernadette Mayer, New Directions, 196 pgs, $17.95. "oops, we're in orono!"

APOCRYPHAL LORCA: TRANSLATION, PARODY, KITSCH, Jonathan Mayhew, U Chicago, HC 222 pgs, $45. An exploration of Lorca's afterlife in U.S. poetic cultures. Includes examinations of the Lorca in/of Hughes, Blackburn, Creeley, Spicer, O'Hara, Duncan, Koch, Rothenberg, and others.

LOVE LESSONS: SELECTED POEMS OF ALDA MERINI, trans Susan Stewart, cloth 130 pgs, $19.95. "There are nights/ that never/ happen."

GIRL SCOUT NATION, Yedda Morrison, Displaced Press, $12.99. "Maybe body?"

HEARTH, Simon Pettet, Talisman House, 178 pgs, $17.95.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: LIFE AND LABOR IN PRECARIOUS TIMES, Andrew Ross, NYU, HC 264 pgs, $27.95.


SOME BESTSELLERS:

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JACK SPICER, ed Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, Wesleyan, HC 465 PGS, $35.
SAGA/CIRCUS, Lyn Hejinian, Omnidawn, 150 pgs, $15.95.
RADICAL VERNACULAR: LORRINE NIEDECKER AND THE POETICS OF PLACE, ed Elizabeth Willis, Iowa, cloth 308 pgs, $39.95.
THE ALPHABET, Ron Silliman, U Alabama, 1062 pgs, $39.95.
COLLAPSIBLE POETICS THEATER, Rodrigo Toscano, Fence, 160 pgs, $19.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA, Kevin Davies, Edge, 146 pgs, $15.
HUGHSON'S TAVERN, Fred Moten, Leon Works, 88 pgs, $15.95.
ADORNO'S NOISE, Carla Harryman, Essay Press, 182 pgs, $14.95.
PICTURE PALACE, Stephanie Young, 114 pgs, ingrimmus, $15.
BICYCLE DAY, Mel Nichols, Slack Buddha, 32 pgs, $6.
CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Farfalla, 50 pgs, $10.
50 YEARS OF RECUPERATION OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, McKenzie Wark, cloth 78 pgs, 30 color illustations, $24.95.
MAXIMUM GAGA, Laura Glenum, Action, 112 pgs, $16.
THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 111 pgs, $13.95.
THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, Allen Ginsberg, ed Bill Morgan,$30.
SICK PLANET, Guy Debord, trans Nicholson-Smith, Seagull, 94 pgs, $16.95.
GRAVE OF LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Alice Notley, Wesleyan, 366 pgs, $22.95.
NTERVIEW WITH ROBERT CREELEY MAY 1998, interview by Brent Cunningham, Hooke Press, 28 pgs, $10.
NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY, ed Michael Almereyda, FSG, cloth 272 pgs, $27.
DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16.
GERTRUDE STEIN: SELECTIONS, Gertrude Stein, ed Joan Retallack, U Cal Press, 352 pgs, $19.95.

There are currently two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date.

I.e. Series 4/18-- Rae Armantrout, Laura Sims, Valzhyna Mort

April 18- Rae Armantrout, Laura Sims, Valzhyna Mort

The i.e. reading series
is held at

LOF/t
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net

Saturdays - 8 p.m.

DCAC in The Washington Post

Written up: Rob Halpern/Ryan Walker reading last month.

Tomorrow:
Sunday, April 19, 3:00 pm
Adam Good & Jon Lee are WE ARE SCIENCE, & Thom Donovan
@ DC Arts Center, 2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Armantrout & Nichols 4/17, 8 pm


THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS

A reading & publication celebration

RAE ARMANTROUT
for Versed from Wesleyan University Press
&
MEL NICHOLS
for Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon from Edge Books

Friday, April 17, 8:00pm

Bridge Street Books is located at 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW-- 5 blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, next to Four Seasons in Georgetown. Phone 202 965 5200.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Sunday, April 19, 3:00 pm
Adam Good & Jon Lee are WE ARE SCIENCE & Thom Donovan
@ DC Arts Center

Sunday, April 26, 7:00 pm
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 17, 3:00 pm
John Coletti & Buck Downs
@ DC Arts Center

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Darragh & Kunin Friday 4/10, 8 PM



THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS

TINA DARRAGH
&
AARON KUNIN

FRIDAY, APRIL 10th, 8 PM

Please join us Friday April 10th @ Bridge Street Books for a reading by Aaron Kunin & Tina Darragh.

Tina Darragh lives in Greenbelt, Md. Her books include on the corner to off the corner, Striking Resemblance, a(gain)2 st the odds, adv. fans - the 1968 series, and Dream Rim Instructions. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including the seminal "Language"-oriented anthology, In the American Tree(edited by Ron Silliman).

Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of a collection of small poems about shame, Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books); a chapbook, Secret Architecture (Braincase); and a novel, The Mandarin (Fence). He lives in California and is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College.

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, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.



UPCOMING READINGS:

Friday, April 17, 8:00pm
Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, April 19, 3:00 pm
Adam Good & Jon Lee are WE ARE SCIENCE, & Thom Donovan
@ DC Arts Center

Sunday, April 26, 7:00 pm
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books

MELANIE NEILSON & JESSICA GRIM Saturday, April 11th 8 pm

the i.e. reading series welcomes

MELANIE NEILSON & JESSICA GRIM

Saturday, April 11th
8 pm at

LOF/t
120 W. North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net

Melanie Neilson is the author of three books of poetry, including: Natural Facts, (Potes and Poets, 1997); and Civil Noir (Roof Books, 1991), and two unpublished collections, Minor to Major (2007), and Magnanimous Horizon (2009).

Jessica Grim’s books include Vexed (online from ubu editions, 2002) which has just been published in print by BlazeVox, Fray (O Books, 1998), Locale (Potes & Poets Press, 1995), and The Inveterate Life (O Books, 1990). Recent work appears in Primary Writing, Exchange Values, and OCHO. She lives with her family in Oberlin, Ohio, where she’s a librarian at the college.

Friday, March 27, 2009

A belated Happy Birthday to Cecil Percival Taylor, born March 15 or March 25, 1929. 80!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours.

fyi

The January 26, 2009 Publishers Weekly reviews Orders Is Orders by L. Ron Hubbard in a starred review, that says, "Hubbard's stunning writing ability and creative imagination set him apart as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century."

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Upcoming Readings - Raworth! &&

the i.e. series welcomes

TOM RAWORTH
LAUREN BENDER
ROB HALPERN

Saturday, March 7th-
8:00 pm at

LOF/T
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net
*

The John Ashbery Poetry Series presents

Rod Smith
and
Ann Lauterbach

Tuesday, March 10
Bard College
Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Olin, Room 102
*

Adam Good
& Jon Lee
present
We Are Science

Saturday, March 14th, 8 pm
Washington Improv Theatre’s annual TOURNAMENT OF THE FIST
The Source
1835 14th St NW
Tckts: $10
*

Experimental Frequencies

Rod Smith (words)
& Obetrol (sounds)

Saturday, March 14, 7:30 pm
Kensington Row Bookshop
3786 Howard Ave
Kensington, MD
*

Sunday, March 15, 3:00 pm
Rob Halpern and Ryan Walker
@ DC Arts Center
*

Sunday, March 22, 7:00 pm
Mark Cunningham, Ann Gorrick, and Maryrose Larkin
@ Bridge Street Books

Monday, February 23, 2009

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Friday, February 20, 2009

MELANIE NEILSON and SARA WINTZ
SEGUE READING SERIES @ BOWERY POETRY CLUB
Saturday, Feb 21, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
308 BOWERY, just north of Houston
$6 admission goes to support the readers

Melanie Neilson was born in Humboldt, Tennessee, grew up in Southern California, and lives in New York City. She edited Big Allis magazine for many years with Jessica Grim and Deirdre Kovac, and is the author of Civil Noir (Roof) and Natural Facts (Potes & Poets).

Sara Wintz’s writing has appeared in Ecopoetics, Cricket Online Review, Interrobang?!, and on Ceptuetics. She co-directs, with Cristiana Baik, :the press gang:, publisher of Intricate Systems, by Juliana Spahr and One Might, by Karen Volkman. She lives in Brooklyn and works at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Welish & Smith @ Georgetown, 2/19

Please join us at Georgetown University

Thursday, February 19th
a reading and seminar by

ROD SMITH
&
MARJORIE WELISH

Seminar: 5:30PM Room 462 ICC
Reading: 8:00PM Copley Formal Lounge

Marjorie Welish is the author of several books of poetry, including Word Group (2004), Isle of the Signatories (2008) and a limited edition collaboration with James Siena, Oaths? Questions? (Granary Books 2009).

Rod Smith's latest collection, Deed, was published by The University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2007. He is also the author of Music or Honesty, Poèmes de l'araignée (France), In Memory of My Theories, The Good House, The Boy Poems, and Protective Immediacy.

Visit http://lannan.georgetown.edu/ for more information on this and other events in the Lannan series.

UPCOMING READINGS:

DCAC, March 15th, 3 pm
Rob Halpern and Ryan Walker

Bridge Street Books, Sunday, March 22nd, 7 pm
Mark Cunningham, Ann Gorrick, and Maryrose Larkin

Friday, February 13, 2009

Eisenhower, Smith, & Thorson @ DCAC 2/15 3pm

I N Y O U R E A R

@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, February 15, 2009

CATHY EISENHOWER
ROD SMITH
&
MAUREEN THORSON

Guest Curator: Doug Lang

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

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Flarf & Folly


Flarf: From Glory Days to Glory Hole
by Gary Sullivan, The Brooklyn Rail


Nada Gordon's Folly
by Mark Wallace, Thinking Again

11/02 J.H. Prynne et Pierre Alferi @ Centre Pompidou

Double Change et les Revues parlées du Centre Pompidou
vous invitent à une lecture de

J.H. Prynne et Pierre Alferi
le mercredi 11 février à 19h30 (précises)
au Centre Pompidou, Petite salle, niveau -1

Entrée libre

J.H. Prynne est, selon Peter Ackroyd, « sans doute le poète le plus impressionnant et le plus doué en Angleterre aujourd’hui, un écrivain qui, à lui seul, a transformé la langue ». Sa poésie, espiègle et austère à la fois, sans êtredirectement politique, accueille le monde contemporain dans toutes ses dimensions et modifie notre regard sur lui en éclairant les choses, par ses glissements de son et de sens, d’une lumière nouvelle. Pas d’entretiens, nul épanchement : sans se cacher, Jeremy Prynne se met peuen avant. Sa venue à Paris est un événement. Il donnera une de ses très rares lectures, où il tentera de faire entendre la « voix du poème », celle du poète étant pour lui un accident biographique sans intérêt. Ses poésies complètes ont été réunies en un volume aux éditions Bloodaxe : Poems (1999, 2e édition 2005). Parmi ses titres récents, Field Notes: ‘The Solitary Reaper’ And Others (Barque Press, 2007) et To Pollen (Barque, 2006)

Pierre Alferi, a publié des poèmes, des essais, des romans, des traductions et réalisé des cinépoèmes et des films parlants. Il a dirigé la Revue de littérature générale avec Olivier Cadiot et la revue Détails avec Suzanne Doppelt, et collaboré à des disques et des performances avec Rodolphe Burger (Kat Onoma). Parmi ses publications récentes, les livres La voie des airs et Des enfants et des monstres (P.O.L) et le Dvd Ca commence à Séoul réalisé avec Jacques Julien (P.O.L / Dernière bande). Pierre Alferi est l’auteur d’une traduction du livre Pearls That Were (« Perles qui furent »), de J.H. Prynne, parue partiellement en 2000 dans la revue Quaderno.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Eisenhower/Nichols/Smith Feb 7 i.e.

The i.e. reading series
Feb. 7- Cathy Eisenhower, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith

L O F Studios
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201

www.loadoffun.net

Saturdays - 8 p.m.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Picasso & Truth

The Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Picasso and Truth

Sundays, 2:00 p.m.

The Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lecture
series will be presented by T.J. Clark

March 22: Object
March 29: Room
April 5: Window
April 19: Monster
April 26: Monument
May 3: Mural

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Sycamore & Fink Dec 2nd 7 pm





Tues 12/2 @ 7 PM

A Reading & Book Party





Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
&
Jennifer Fink


"Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth."
—San Francisco Bay Guardian

Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

202 965 5200

Monday, December 01, 2008

Court Indicts Bush on High Treason Charge

Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception

This just in.

Clearing Without Reversal by Cathy Eisenhower, new from Edge Books



NEW FROM EDGE BOOKS


Clearing Without Reversal

Cathy Eisenhower
ISBN: 978-1-890311-27-8
80 pages, Cover by the author
Design by Justin Sirois

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge (regularly $15)

We are deceived at every level by our behavior. You are grammar and the city is syntax. This book has the brilliant, vulgar, infinite, intimate, alluring vivacity of the real. If you search these poems for meaning that can be summarized, you will find multiple meanings, all of them capable of confounding any summary by proposing its own opposite, its own doppelganger, its own disguise, its own cohort. Cathy Eisenhower brandishes the whip. The psyche rises as a mist from things that are wet. --Doug Lang

These poems glow in the dark. And are so sharp—("fleet of heart"). And every here word is true—startlingly ordered, uncannily combined, in harsh light—("the time it takes / to wash the fire from your face")—bringing truth back again to beauty—not an easy beauty, but a smart one, hard-won, and permanent. --Cole Swensen

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Vitiello's Irresponsibility reviewed at Coldfront by John Harkey

“Establish the minimum and then have just more than it.”

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

IN MEMORY OF MY THEORIES, SUNDAY NOV 16th, THE LYCEUM, ALEXANDRIA, VA



IN MEMORY OF MY THEORIES

AVANT-GARDE POETRY MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Sunday November 16th 4-9 PM

Organized by &
Featuring Rod Smith
The Washington City Paper's Best Poet of DC

Charles Bernstein
Anselm Berrigan
Croniamantal
Nada Gordon
Tom Raworth
Gary Sullivan
Rodrigo Toscano


Mel Nichols, Chris Nealon, Mark McMorris, Doug Lang, Bonnie Jones
P. Inman, Adam Good, Heather Fuller, Buck Downs, Tina Darragh
Lauren Bender, Michael Ball

The Lyceum
201 S. Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

Hosted by M. Magnus. This event is part of the APAA's Guest Artist series at the Lyceum. Poster designed by Justin Sirois.

Friday, November 07, 2008

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Thanks, everyone



That's Tim Davis, in the orange shirt.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

5 poems at LocusPoint

Edited by Sandra Beasley, the DC section also includes five by Maureen Thorson, Ethelbert Miller, and several others.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Friday, October 17, 2008

Sunday, October 19, 3:00 pm

Anne Tardos, Stacy Szymaszek, and Doug Lang


@ DC Arts Center
2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan
(south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

This Sat, Oct. 18th, 4:00, at the Bowery Poetry Club:

Drew Gardner -- poetry, guitar
James Ilgenfritz -- bass

with Ted Pearson

Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
308 BOWERY, just north of Houston
Kareem Estafan reviews Mohammad's Breathalyzer at Sustainable Aircraft.

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Tova Wang interview.

My favorite poem in Issue One is by Tom Jones.

Monday, October 06, 2008

Friday, October 03, 2008

SARAH PALIN IS CREEPY AND DUMBER THAN A BAG OF HAMMERS



We here at Ghostbrain stand by our previous assessment.

& thanks for all the orders for clearing without reversal!

Quote of the day goes to Jean-Luc Godard:
"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."

Monday, September 29, 2008

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008

New at Bridge Street

Ordering and discount information at the end of this post.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN #3, ed Mohammad and Boyer, 67 pgs, $5. Luoma, Collum, Hejinian, Apps, Allison, Bellamy, Norodahl, Genusa, Quarles, Koeneke, Bryant, Knox, Davis, Baumann, & McCrary.

GOD'S LIVESTOCK POLICY, Stan Apps, Les Figues Press, 80 pgs, $15. ""The largest mega-church of mom agreeing."

STATE OF THE UNION: 50 POLITICAL POEMS, ed Beckman & Zapruder, Wave Books, 112 pgs, $14. Ashbery, A Berrigan, Caples, Clifton, Coleman, Conrad, P Gizzi, Hillman, Knox, Lederer, Lin, Myles, Ping, Rohrer, &&&.

BILL, Bill Berkson & Colter Jacobsen, Gallery 16 Editions, cloth, unpaginated, $25. "Blood! No doubt about it!"

LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT, Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, Palm Press, 128 pgs, $15. "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN LIBERATED"

GLAD STONE CHILDREN, Edmund Berrigan, Farfalla Press/ McMillan & Parrish, 84 pgs, $16. "This is no ordinary/ a-sexual reproductive/ history of the sponge."

THE YALE ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH POETRY, ed May Ann Caws, Yale, 646 pgs, $30. New in paper.

80 BEETLES, Mark Cunningham, Otoliths, 88 pgs, $10. "That his colleagues at the news thought his death was news is indeed an important piece of news."

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA, Kevin Davies, Edge, 146 pgs, $15. "I'm not convinced these candidates exist / let alone deserve Secret Service protection"

SPOOKY AS IT IS W/OUT MEANING TO, Croniamantal (music) Buck Downs (words), CDR, edition of 50 w/ small booklet, $8.

A SICK PLANET, Guy Debord, trans Nicholson-Smith, Seagull, 94 pgs, $16.95. New translations of two texts: "The Decline and Fall of the 'Spectacular' Commodity-Economy," and "The Explosion Point of Ideology in China." The title essay, dating from 1971, is previously unpublished. "When the pitiful masters of a society whose wretched destiny is now discernible . . ."

AREA, Marcella Durand, Belladonna, 90 pgs, $15. "They document it from space."

THE ROUTE, Patrick Durgin & Jen Hofer, Atelos, 198 pgs, $13.50. "I am poor and momentary and resent your guilt"

THE CONSEQUENCE OF INNOVATION; 21ST CENTURY POETICS, ed Craig Dworkin, Roof, 304 pgs, $29.95. Essays by Evans, Bernstein, Rasula, Cole, Biglieri, Ngai, Goldsmith, Stefans, Mohammad, Sullivan, Gottlieb, Sherry, Bergvall, Gilbert, Clune, & Perloff.

PARSE, Craig Dworkin, Atelos, 300 pgs, $13.50. "_Plural Interjection_ semicolon"

THE BIRTH OF BIOPLOITICS, Lectures at the Collège France 1978-1979, Michel Foucault, Palgrave, cloth 346 pgs, $28.95. "In actual fact, the state must be blind to economic processes."

THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, Allen Ginsberg, ed Bill Morgan, Da Capo Press, cloth 470 pgs, $30. "I expect to know this week."

THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 111 pgs, $13.95. New in paper. "Too much spectacle conquers the I."

CITY OF CORNERS, John Godfrey, Wave, 96 pgs, $14. "But it's still only a breast"

3, Ted Greenwald, Cuneiform, 168 pgs, $15. "You're the other / It's personal / You know / You're the other"

CHAOS, TERRITORY, ART: DELEUZE AND THE FRAMING OF THE EARTH, Elizabeth Grosz, Columbia, cloth118 pgs, $22.50. "Framing is how chaos becomes territory."

ABSOLUTELY EDEN, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, United Artists, 90 pgs, $14. "Oh yes, the Romancer means it."

MOTH LIGHT, Mitch Highfill, Abraham Lincoln, 20 pgs, $5. "It was unknown. I love unknowns."

NIGHT SCENES, Lisa Jarnot, Flood, 70 pgs, $13.95. "This is the best way to do things."

WAKE UP: A LIFE OF THE BUDDHA, Jack Kerouac, intro Robert A F Thurman, cloth 146 pgs, $24.95. "But there was no other way; his relationship with the world had to be snapped."

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, Tao Lin, 104 pgs, Melville House, $14.95. "The hamster lived in Manhattan."

POETRY AS RE-READING: AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE POETRY AND THE POETICS OF COUNTERMETHOD, Ming-Qian Ma, Northwestern, 300 pgs, $32.95. Authors examined include Zukofsky, Oppen, Rakosi, Cage, S Howe, Hejinian, Andrews, and Bernstein.

VERB SAP, Magus Magnus, Narrow House, 72 pgs, $12. "pop-pop-pop"

AETHEL, Donato Mancini, New Star, unpaginated, $21. "Can Poetry Be Matter?"

CHARLES OLSON AT THE HARBOR, Ralph Maud, Talon, 224 pgs, $19.95. "And that's all we get from Clark about this special occasion."

GOODBYE MR SOCIALISM, Antonio Negri in conversation with Raf Valvola Scelsi, Seven Stories, 256 pgs, $15.95. "All of this is extremely dangerous."

RADICAL VERNACULAR: LORINE NIEDECKER AND THE POETICS OF PLACE, ed Elizabeth Willis, Iowa, cloth 310 pgs. $39.95. Dafvidson, Pinard, Sikelianos, Skinner, Penberthy, Robertson, Pritchett, Armantrout, Robinson, Jennison, DuPlessis, Weinberger, Breslin, Waldman, Middleton, & Quartermain.

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"Best thought, worst thought"
Vol 1 No 1

Featuring
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Your Problems with FLARF

"Mohammad Vs Mesmer"

A review of "Dalek Boner and Steepleflower"

Michael Magee's Latest Apologies

"I Google Myself"

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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Breathalyzer in Publishers Weekly


Breathalyzer
K. Silem Mohammad. Edge (SPD, dist.), $15 paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-890311-23-0

Mohammad's methods place him (with Katie Degentesh, Gary Sullivan and others) in the recent school of poets called Flarfists, who derive their work from Internet searches and treasure outlandish “bad” or tasteless lines. After three books and countless provocative posts on his popular blog, lime-tree.blogspot.com, Mohammad may no longer count as an enfant terrible, but his poetry retains its destructive force. Sometimes baffling, often offensive, on occasion ingenious, Mohammad highlights cheesy, clunky or trashy locutions in a frontal attack on our notions of poetic craft, culture and taste. His works can morph into perverse self-portraits: “some people think I'm a gluttonous porcine/ furry man-killing goldmine made of sweet gold.” Some titles mock icons of culture as in the parodies of Frank O'Hara with which the volume concludes. Others pile on such celebrities as Celine Dion or try hard to violate taboos (“Mom forced me to drink her shimmering oriole juice”). Sometimes Mohammad attacks both sense and grammar: “subtext beef guilt philanthropy blanket/ titanium seagull prong.” The outlandish vagaries of Mohammad's new work will stoke the fires of those who have found thrills and controversy in Flarf so far. (May)

Breathalyzer

by K. Silem Mohammad

80 pgs, cover design by Anne Boyer

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