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Caller & Other Pieces by Tom Raworth

New from Edge Books:

CALLER AND OTHER PIECES
by Tom Raworth

48 pgs, perfectbound, cover by the author

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Caller and Other Pieces is Raworth's first collection since the Collected Poems of 2003. Comprised of 14 pieces with the long poem "Caller" at its center, this book evinces a striking formal and tonal variety-- from the classic Raworth rhythmic and roving perceptual matrix, to the comedic one-liner, to the parodic end-rhyme, the visual, and even a bit of nouveau-zaum. Caller and Other Pieces again demonstrates that Tom Raworth's accomplishment is essential to the poetry of our time.

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Top 40 (or so) Most Played, Jazz

Profoundly Blue No. 2-Edmond Hall's Celeste Quartet-Complete Edmond Hall Blue Note Sessions
Wailing Wall-Andrew Hill-Smokestack
Fish 'n' Rice-Andrew Hill-Dance with Death
Verne-Andrew Hill-Smokestack
Spiritual-John Coltrane-Village Vanguard 11-01-1961
You Go To My Head-Anthony Braxton & Ran Blake-A Memory Of Vienna
Hold 'em Joe-Sonny Rollins-On Impulse!
Crepescule With Nellie-Steve Lacy-More Monk
Ah-Leu-Cha (-2 !)-Charlie Parker- Complete Savoy Sessions
Here Me Talkin' To Ya-Louis Armstrong -Vol. 4 Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines
My Favorite Things-John Coltrane -Live Trane: The European Tours
Body And Soul-Thelonious Monk- In Italy
The Griots-Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Things Ain't What They Used To Be-Cecil Taylor-Jumpin' Pumpkins
Carvin' The Bird-Charlie Parker-Dean Benedetti Recordings
The Griots (Alt Take)-Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Maputo-Steve Lacy-Work
North Of The Sunset (Take 1)-Thelonious Monk-Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo
Light Blue-Schlippenbach- Monk's Casino
Let's Do It-Billie Holiday-The Lady Sings: God Bless The Child
Skylark -Anthony Braxton & Stuart Gillmor -14 Compositions (Traditional)
Four-Anthony Braxton & Ran Blake-A Memory Of Vienna
The Way You Look Tonight-Mal Waldron-Mal-2
Lazy Mae -Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane-Dig It!
Black Monday- Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Rockin' Chair-Derek Bailey-Ballads
Not So (Alt Take)-Andrew Hill-Smokestack
Let The Little Sunbeam In-Derek Bailey, Denio, And Palmer-The Gospel Record
Duplicity -Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Diga Diga Doo-Duke Ellington -The OKeh Ellington
Someone to watch over me-Bill Evans & Lee Konitz-Play the arrangements of Jimmy Giuffre
Don't Stop The Carnival-Sonny Rollins-G-Man
Best Black-McKenzie's Candy Kids -Shanghai 1925 Langmix
Ring Starmines-Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser-Wireforks
Don't Get Around Much Anymore-Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington-The Making of the Great Summit
Stompy Jones-Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators-Duke Ellington: Back Room Romp
I Love You-Tal Farlow-The Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions
Peg O' My Heart-Jack Teagarden -1939-40
Sugar Hips-Dizzy Gillespie-1953-1954
Sportee's Jump -Todd Rhodes-1947-1949
Epistrophy-Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron -Japan Dream

Chomsky on Why Bush Does Diplomacy Mafia-Style

Shank: So when the United States considers a potential invasion you think it's under the premise of gaining control? That is what the United States will gain from attacking Iran?

Chomsky: There are several issues in the case of Iran. One is simply that it is independent and independence is not tolerated. Sometimes it's called successful defiance in the internal record. Take Cuba. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it too. But the government won't allow it. It's attributed to the Florida vote but I don't think that's much of an explanation. I think it has to do with a feature of world affairs that is insufficiently appreciated. International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

Orange/Miller/Doyle i.e. 3/3

The i.e. series welcomes-

Tom Orange, Sandra Miller & Ben Doyle

Saturday- March 3rd - 7 pm

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

Ultravioleta Docs

Creeley to Olson, 1/29/61:

Hey! I'm still

a hick!

(I hope.)

Loscil - Plume

My pick for record of 2006.

Free web only release by Loscil, Stases.

Plume reviewed at Cyclic Defrost.

La guerre, un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne se massacrent pas. --Paul Valéry

3 on P. Inman

Wallace on Inman

Laura Steele on M'event

a different table altogether

Face to Face: Allen Ginsberg

Terrific long interview with Allen from 1995 on Ubu.

& a Cage interview from '85

Stephen Montague: You are seventy years old on September 5. What are the best and the worst things about being your age? What are some of your reflections?

John Cage: Well, I have a friend named Doris Dennison, who is seventy-four and whose ninety-six-year-old mother lives alone in Oregon and is still taking care of herself. Doris called her one day and asked how she was. Mrs. Dennison said: "Oh, I'm fine, it's just that I don't have the energy I had when I was in my seventies."

a note from Frank Sherlock

a conversation with ALICE NOTLEY on trance, tarot, and poetry

Kaplan Harris Flarf pictures

More She Male Presidential Hopefuls

5 little known things about me.

Now that the meme's basically dead (I think) . . .

1. The first concert I ever saw was Kiss. . . . the opening band? Bob Seager.

2. The first reading I ever organized was for Ron Silliman at Bridge Street in 1988. He read from What for a crowd of 50. He wore a Jesse Jackson for president button.

3. I don't really smoke cigarettes. It's all done with mirrors.

4. The line I sometimes use in my piece "Snips," at readings, that inevitably gets a huge laugh, "If it's not sex, why are you thinking about it" is stolen from Kevin Davies.

5. I don't have a B.A. but do have an M.F.A., thanks to Carolyn Forché.

Flarf at Dionysus & DCAC pics

Thanks to Michael Ball, Cathy Eisenhower, Adam Good,
Dionysus, DCAC & all the Flarfers & FlarfOrchestrators!
& to everybody who came out! Great Time!

Nada Gordon also has some photos up.

Lang/Zuravaleff + Shattered Wig 2/23

Doug Lang & Mary Kay Zuravleff

Friday, February 23 at 7:30pm, at Westmoreland Church

One Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD
(intersection of Western and Mass Ave)

For public transport, take the Red Line Metro
to Friendship Heights and Ride-On Bus #29
to Westmoreland Circle. For more information: 301 229-7768.

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Shattered Wig Night of Great Psychic Warmth

Friday, Feb. 23rd

The Degenerettes
Kate Porter & Adam Good
Wheatie Mattiasich
Theresa Columbus
Blaster Al Ackerman

Doors open at 9pm, cost of admission is a mere
$5. At the 14 Karat Caberet on 218 W. Saratoga,
Baltimore, MD.

in memory of emmett williams (1925-2007)