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The Nancy Book

by Joe Brainard

Every page of this book will make you smile or laugh -- not with recognition but with startled joy. Joe Brainard took an unchanging icon of the American Norm and inserted her into countless fashionable and scandalous contexts, subtly metamorphosing something that seemed eternal into absurdly contemporary forms. He is as funny as only a philosopher can be. [-- Edmund White]

From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence.

The Nancy Book is the first collection of Brainard's Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings, with full page reproductions of over fifty works, several of which have never been exhibited or published before.

Siglo Press at http://www.sigliopress.com/books/nancy.htm

*Now available from Ahsahta Press!*

*To and From*

http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/patterson/patterson.htm

*By quilting, quoting, and sampling, Patterson sets a flux of emotion into
transcendent blank-verse sonnets.*

G.E. Patterson's work carries echoes of the New York School's intimacy and
immediacy as it careens through recognizable scenes and diverse emotional
situations, references pared from their specifics and time blurred by the
ambiguous tenses of verbs.

 $17.50
*Cover design: Quemadura*
*Order your copy
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"The intention of these fine poems is to be found in the title *To and From.
*Each poem is surrounded by an arcana of words (mostly commonplace) gleaned
from other poets' poems, words that when strung together slide into the poem
by Patterson himself. His poems are addressed to a mercurial, form-changing
You. The result is paradoxically impersonal, transcending individual and
place. One line captures the whole process: 'That loss you know might become
anyone.' "*—Fanny Howe*

"In this wonderful book, perception's ecstatic transit is lovingly engaged,
and the distance between to and from opens into endless possibility.
Companioned by the speech of the Western tradition old and new, these poems
negotiate 'how . . . we long to think in terms of wholes' and foreground
what Ann Lauterbach has called 'the whole fragment' available in an
instant/instance. Aggresion can't live in the world G.E. Patterson envisions
in this book. We are lucky to have a poet of such tenderness among
us." *—Claudia
Keelan*

 "Here and there . . . ."
                 —T. S. Eliot

". . . for a particular point of view—"
—Lyn Hejinian

* It May Happen
                   *as though it doesn't matter what is real

". . . something almost . . . with asking."
—Brenda Hillman

According to their signs we're in the country
Far off things are being put on the record
Where it may not matter to anyone
If the shadows hide themselves behind rain
The canal opening below the sky
Daytime moving in swirls the painted colors
Or the idea wind sometimes stops and starts
What we might more properly call nostalgia

If we wanted to we could follow later
Without giving up his place in the world
A color postcard folded in our pockets
The light informing us it's afternoon
When what we feel is we remember feeling
Not long ago it was the time before

 (c) 2008 by G.E. Patterson

*Order To and From
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Report on Australia: a collection of poetry written in Chinese by Ouyang Yu

Report on Australia: a collection of poetry written in Chinese by Ouyang Yu (just out in China on Friday 21/3/08, a special issue of Otherland, No. 11, 2008)
Limited to two-hundred copies only, this collection of Chinese poetry written by Ouyang Yu is just released by Otherland Publishing in Wuhan, P. R. China. It is 239 pages in length, containing 147 poems written in Chinese by Ouyang Yu while living in Australia. These are poems that take such issues head-on as nostalgia or non-nostalgia, mental problems, violence, love-making, foreigners living in a foreign country that keep them eternal foreigners. One poem has caused such a controversy that a nationally funded project was scrapped in China.

This book is now available.

To order an autographed copy from Ouyang Yu, please send a money order or cheque in Australian dollars to him at the following address:

Ouyang Yu
English Department, Wuhan University
Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Please address your queries to: ouyangyu[ât]hotmail.com

The Region of Lost Names

Fred Arroyo

Publication Date: March 20, 2008
The University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 978—0-8165—2657—4, $15.95 paper

Praise:

“A haunting and beautifully written story of honor and regret.” — Carla Trujillo, author of What Night Brings

“As Odyssian in its emotional journey as it is wholly original, The Region of Lost Names adds to a restoration of fire, bone and music in American Letters. Arroyo’s aim is accurate, his connection dead center and deep in the heart of the location were memory is made.” — H. G. Carrillo, author of Loosing My Espanish

“Arroyo gives us glimpses into a colorful, complex, world, and delves into themes of identity, loss, belonging, the impact of the past on the present. The poetic language, the sensual details, and vivid imagery add to the pleasure of reading this novel.” — Nahid Rachlin, author of Persian Girls

Short Description:

Remember that the dream of one is the dream of everyone.

As Ernest moves through the fields of Michigan, as Magdalene traverses the jungles of Puerto Rico and the shores of the Caribbean, they discover that their dreams and identities are linked within the framework of their families and their pasts. Together, Ernest and Magdalene must come to terms with the secrets and mistakes made by the previous generation, the histories of disloyalty and abandonment, of secrecy and sorrow.

Ultimately, Ernest and Magdalene must live with more than their memories, they must rediscover the intimacies of the region of lost names.

DLR Poetry Now–International Poetry Festival:

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office
For immediate release:06/03/08: Press Release...

Launch of DLR Poetry Now 2008

DLR Poetry Now–International Poetry Festival: Thursday 3^rd–Sunday 6^th April 2008

DLR Poetry Now was launched on Weds 5^th March at County Hall, Dun Laoghaire by An Cathaoirleach, Councillor Denis O’Callaghan and guest speaker Gerald Dawe of Trinity College Dublin.
The festival which is presented by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council will run from the 3^rd–6^th of April in the Municipal Theatre Pavilion.

The 2008 DLR Poetry Now Festival Programme brings together a superb array of Irish and international poetic talent over a long weekend. The Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney will read at DLR Poetry Now this year, making a return after his collection District and Circle last year won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. He will read with the compelling American poet C.D. Wright, who will be joined at the festival by her countrymen Henri Cole and Brian Turner and by the exciting young New York poet Meghan O’Rourke. From Jamaica and from London come two more dynamic young poets, Kei Miller and Daljit Nagra, while Mimi Khalvati, George Szirtes, Tom McCarthy and Bernard O’Donoghue are some of the mid-career poets bound to entertain and inspire. Young poets Sinead Morrissey and Alan Gillis, both previous winners of the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award will return to read at this year’s festival while Richard Murphy, will talk about his old friend Theodore Roethke, whose centenary falls this year. Jamie McKendrick and Antonella Anedda, fellow translators and wonderful poets, will read in English and in Italian, and on the closing day of the festival the festival will host a very special–and free - event to celebrate the very act of translation, of cultural dialogue, of the diversity and freedom of poetic voices supported by International PEN. The festival will also host writing workshops, a children’s reading, the announcement and presentation of The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2008 for best collection of poetry and the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award For Best First Collection. The festival kick-offs on the 3^rd April with a rousing panel discussion on the question of poetry itself, where it’s read and why it’s needed.

“We hope that you will join us over a long weekend in Dun Laoghaire to celebrate the very best of contemporary poetry with a wealth of Irish and international poets who square up to our complex times with vision, intelligence and beauty”
Belinda McKeon Curator DLR Poetry Now

For more information and details on eligibility and entries please contact:

Carolyn Brown, Producer DLR Poetry Now

cbrown[ât]dlrcoco.ie or (00 353 1) 271 9508

or Laura Larkin lauralarkin[ât]dlrcoco.ie or (00 353 1) 271 9527

The Arts Office, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

A Helen Adam Reader

Edited and with an introduction by Kristin Prevallet

W. H.Auden awarded Helen Adam the New York Quarterly's Madeline Sadin Award for "excellence in craft"; Richard Howard described her ballads as "glittering sorceries"; and Robert Duncan referred to her as "the grain of living poetry that saves me at times." Collected for the first time from books long out of print and archival material gathered and presented by Kristin Prevallet, A Helen Adam Reader includes a substantial selection of ballads, as well as lyric scripts, a short story, interviews, and correspondence. It also includes a DVD which features excerpts from her opera, a recording of her singing ballads, and a slideshow of her collages.

Advance praise for A Helen Adam Reader

Kristen Prevallet has provided an inestimable service by bringing Helen Adam's work into print. Adam was a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and New York poetry scenes where her inspired readings achieved legendary status. Her merging of the bardic tradition and pop culture, mythopoeic lore and urban uncanny represents the most anomalous features of cold war poetics yet exemplifies many of its most characteristic traits. . . . Prevallet's superb introduction and editorial apparatus provide a historical and critical context for reading this remarkable poet. -- Michael Davidson

Adam is the most exuberantly anachronistic of second wave modernist poets. Her magical, macabre, magnificently chilling ballads open a secret door into the Dark with rimes both gruesome and sublime. -- Charles Bernstein This magnanimous scholarly compendium of the work and life of Helen Adam is a recovery and reclamation project of major importance. . . . A Helen Adam Reader is an annotated and elucidating tome of the "real work" and magnifies a rare poetic history. -- Anne Waldman

Helen Adam . . .was the indispensable link between the most ancient traditions of poetry in our language and the development of current American poetry. . . . Now in this book her life and work are brilliantly introduced, selected and annotated by a contemporary poet and scholar who is, as few are, equipped to study all the domains—poetic, sexual, magical, political—of Adam's haunting work. -- Robert Kelly

http://catalog.nationalpoetryfoundation.org/product/index.php?id=84

Publication Date: December 2007
ISBN: 978-0-943373-73-7 paperback, $29.95
978-0-943373-74-4 hardcover, $60.00
Trim: 7 x 10 inches Pages: 492 + xii, with illustrations
Includes accompanying DVD
For further information, contact: Gail Sapiel, Business Manager
Phone: (207) 581-3813 Fax: (207) 581-3886 E-mail: Sapiel[ât]maine.edu
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The First Person thread is a collaboration

Here: http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson

... among electronic book review, MIT Press, and editors Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. It explores a new model for connection between online publishing and traditional edited books in which printed works are not only reproduced electronically but also substantially expanded via responses to the collection (ripostes) and enriched by incorporation into the ebr database. This thread includes almost all the contents of a trilogy of edited collections published by MIT: First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game , Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, and a not-yet-announced final volume. The material in these volumes and on ebr represents a new level of dialogue between creators and critics about emerging forms of fictional and playable experience.
top 2008
02-24-2008
emotional
Jeff Tidball Responds to the Second Person Collection as a Whole
Jeff Tidball contends that the Second Person collection makes too much of the narrative vs. play debate, and pays attention to the mechanics of narrative and play over their affective capabilities.
02-23-2008
originalrip
Dungeons, Dragons and Numerals: Jan Van Looy's riposte to Erik Mona
Jan Van Looy criticizes Erik Mona's history of Dungeons and Dragons as overly descriptive, and Van Looy critiques the game's quantification of the qualitative, i.e., personal characteristics and magic - which were hitherto considered unquantifiable.
02-23-2008
mechanistic
Editors' Introduction to "Computational Fictions," Round One
Editors Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin introduce the first batch of "Computational Fictions" essays to appear in the ebr companion to Second Person, focusing on the conversion of human ludic interaction into computational processes - a necessary condition for computer games.
02-22-2008
coderead
Writing Facade: A Case Study in Procedural Authorship
Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern argue that new media practitioners and scholars should be literate in the code that underlies their objects of creation and study. To this end, they explain how they structured the code of their computer-based interactive drama Facade, which capitalizes on the procedural nature of computers to create a forum for participatory drama that negotiates players' local and global agency within the game world.

... and there's lots more: this "thread" goes back five years!

the true keeps calm biding its story

by Rusty Morrison

http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/morrison/morrison.htm

Selected for the 2007 Sawtooth Poetry Prize by Peter Gizzi

In the aftermath of her father's death, the speaker of Rusty Morrison's
exquisitely formed poems takes a step-by-step accounting of her
transformation as she reconciles herself to loss. This book-length sequence
is the silvery underside of elegy, a lyric of living acceptance paced with
"the linen texture of right silences."

Publishers Weekly:

"In the nine groups of six poems, all titled 'please advise stop,' that form
Morrison's remarkable Sawtooth Poetry Prize--winning second volume, the
now-archaic yet ever-mechanical language of the telegram is used to plumb
the vicissitudes of grief and grapple with the death of the speaker's
father. Each line of these unpunctuated, nine-line poems ends with 'stop,'
'please' or 'please advise,' appealing to some ghostly reader for
assistance. The rhythm and torque Morrison (*Whethering*) creates is
exquisite and evocative. Often dark and aphoristic, these lines shift
between momentary observation ('the water puddle sways like an earthbound
kite stop'), pained seeking ('night might still be floating somewhere above
us its blood supple and aromatic stop') and near action, perhaps in the hope
of relief ('I stare until I consider the scene truly acknowledged stop');
always, anguish is an instrument for change. Most haunting are the poems'
final, pleading words: 'into the dark trees invite the darker birds please
advise.' Morrison's vamp on grief not only draws readers' attention to the
tenuous capacity of language to manage loss, but also leaves the reader
moved by what comes to feel like an intensely intimate work." -- Publishers
Weekly

Visit our website for author statements, bio notes, and more information!

http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/

Grace, Fallen from

by Marianne Boruch

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/0-8195-6863-5.html

"Few readers will come away unimpressed by the supple care Boruch takes in depicting her everyday scenes." -- Publishers Weekly

In her newest book, poet Marianne Boruch explores how our way of going out
into the world acts as a lens on it -- how our perceptions revise reality.
Boruch quietly observes the world and the motions that create the very
essence of being. She finds poetry in the movements of everyday living -- the
first meeting of two strangers, lunchtime at the zoo, two boys riding
bikes -- and expresses these scenes in ways that readers will find in some
cases quieting, and in others, startling or troubling.

Marianne Boruch is the author of five previous collections, including
DESCENDANT (1989) and POEMS: NEW AND SELECTED (2004), and was a finalist for
the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She has taught
in the MFA program at Purdue and semi-regularly in the non-residential
program at Warren Wilson College for twenty years.

PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A REVIEW COPY or TO SEE A PDF SAMPLE FROM THE BOOK
Contact: Stephanie Elliott, Wesleyan University Press, 215 Long Lane, Middletown, CT 06459 USA, (860) 685-7723, email: selliott@wesleyan.edu
Please visit our new Web site:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/

TINFISH PRE-PUBLICATION SALE!!!

Hazel Smith's The Erotics of Geography will be available at the end of this month. This is an exciting multimedia package from Tinfish, which publishes experimental poetry from the Pacific.

Hazel Smith, author of the creative writing text The Writing Experiment shows us how it's done in this spirited book of performance poems, collages, elegies, meditations, explorations of gossip, uncertain identities, bodies and the city, to say nothing of “acts of omission.” An accompanying cd-rom includes performances by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. For more details, please follow this link:
http://tinfishpress.com/hot_off_the_press.html

And while you're there, look around our website! The list price for the book is $18. Our pre-publication price is $10 until the end of February. Send checks to Tinfish Press, 47-728 Hui Kelu Street #9, Kaneohe, HI 96744. aloha,  — Susan M. Schultz

Origin Sixth Series quartet and Coda

...(five issues in all) published as a PDF e-book on CD with nearly 250 contributors and 1,700 colorful pages of poetry, prose, art and photographs. After nearly a year of free reading of the series from the Longhouse website, now is your chance to own your own copy. Please have a look and see if this beauty can fit into your teaching plans, as well as a title to interest friends, colleagues and all libraries. We'd love it if other poets, readers and teachers took up the CD anthology as a companion. Issued in a very limited edition of only 100 copies. Order Now! All orders may be made directly to Longhouse as of February 7. System requirements: the PDF files with high quality resolution best read with Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later version / Windows with Autorun capability / Mac users please first link to Origin-Introduction.pdf for bookmark navigation / Table of Contents now with bookmark links. Decorative CD in C-Pak. Cost: $20 TO ORDER:

You can mail your order with a credit card number and expiration date, personal check, US drawn bank draft or money order.

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Our phone line is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you receive no one, please leave your order by message including your credit card and expiration date. Thanks!

$2.50 First-class U.S. shipping -- international orders, please inquire Thank you for your order!

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To avoid confusion amongst the purists, we have prepared ORIGIN, Sixth Series as a tribute to Cid Corman. No one in his right mind is attempting to do Origin the way Cid would. Impossible. For a rousing history of Origin, please read A Gist of Origin edited by Cid Corman. This sixth series is a four-issue Origin-set that leafed out during the Spring months of 2007, culminating with a 'coda' issue in December. It is the very last of Origin, ever. A small part of this series had Cid Corman's personal touch -- in particular, some of the feature poets names chosen. After Cid's passing, poets were then gathered by editor Bob Arnold as more a celebration to poetry and for Cid. It has became a leafy canopy of many poets from around the world -- ancients to the remarkably young -- and all of the set is published as a PDF file. It's meant to read on the screen, and more, to be now shared as an e-book on CD.

For a complete list of poets and artists see:
http://www.LonghousePoetry.com/origin.html

Peter Robinson

PETER ROBINSON :

Dates for Readings in Britain in February 2008

Tuesday 19th, 7:30. University of Reading English Society.
Reading from The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2006  
Whiteknights Campus, Palmer Building, G09
For further details contact Angus Bell:
ldu05aab[ât]reading.ac.uk

Friday 22nd, 5:00. Trinity College, Cambridge
Reading from The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2006
and to celebrate The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson  
Old Combination Room, Great Court
For further details contact Adam Piette:
a.piette[ât]sheffield.ac.uk

Monday 25th, 6:30. Blackwells, Oxford
Reading from The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba
with both the poet and translator
For further details contact Emmanuela Tandello:
emanuela.tandello[ât]christ-church.oxford.ac.uk

Tuesday 26th, 6:30. Italian Cultural Institute, London
Reading from The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba
with both the poet and translator
For further details contact Liza Zaffi:
lisa.zaffi[ât]esteri.it

Thursday 28th, 3:00. University of Reading
Department of Italian Studies, room 72
Reading from The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba
with both the poet and translator;
For further details contact Daniela La Penna: d.lapenna[ât]reading.ac.uk

Friday 29th, 5:00. University of York
Department of English and Related Literature
Reading with Luciano Erba, Mairi MacInnes and Peter Robinson
For further details contact John Roe: jar10[ât]york.ac.uk

new books available now —

The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2006
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2008/robinson_tlog.html

Selected Poems of Luciano Erba
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8252.html

Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2006/robinson.html

Just out from Otoliths

Flush Contour

Spencer Selby 84 pages, full color ISBN: 978—0-9804541—1-6 Otoliths 2008 $24.95 + p&h URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/1492039 Flush Contour is Spencer Selby’s fourth collection of visual work, containing 72 vibrant color prints of abstract intermedia art.
“Indeed, in Selby’s case I sense a stubborn refusal to resolve the image that also inflects — or infects — some of his written work, which seems to elide the meaning it nevertheless intends, to construct a syntax that implies a certain result then eludes that result for something that is less authoritative, more evocative. The words that appear and disappear in these works, both type- and hand- written, likewise have a protean quality, they seem to be being made before our eyes from the chaos out of which language does actually come; word strings that are generative in the same way that those strings of recombinant amino acids in the warm pre-Cambrian seas were, we are told, generative: of life itself.” from the introduction by Martin Edmond, author of Luca Antara.

Place of Uncertainty

Tom Hibbard 92 pages Cover design by Márton Koppány ISBN: 978—0-9804541—2-3 Otoliths 2008 $12.95 + p&h URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/1696322 A new collection of poetry from Tom Hibbard who has recently enjoyed getting much of his literary work published on and off-line. Poems, reviews, essays and translations can be found at Jacket, Big Bridge, Word For /Word, Moria, Milk, Fish Drum, Cricket, e·ratio, Otoliths and elsewhere. An essay on “Linear/Nonlinear” was published in the 2007 issue of Big Bridge. Also in 2007 Bronze Skull published a prose poem titled Critique of North American Space. Hibbard lives in Wisconsin, U.S.A., where he devotes his spare time to growing pumpkins.

Poemergency Room

Paul Siegell 116 pages Cover design by Reed Altemus ISBN: 978—0-9804541—0-9 Otoliths 2008 $13.45 + p&h URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/ 1711938 “Something HUGE flexes joy here! This is the suicide by cop where banging cymbals rip the portal open! Poetry is the daily political at every mouthful of Siegell as dots connect dimension to dementia! Tell the funeral director I’d like my coffin lined with these pages, preventing a death of the sleeping! Careful, nutjobs, this is a brother of the Vibratory Order! THANK YOU, Paul Siegell, for making some real live fucking magic for us!” — CAConrad, author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006) “Paul Siegell’s are smart, rich poems. Spectacular, defiant iconographs of cells mid-mitosis, a b-boy mid-break dance move, and more. Nine-to-five frustration and transcendence, train rides, road trips, teen tours, rock concerts, and sudden tragedies. Paul Siegell’s poems are full of unexpected significances, each one balanced like a tightrope acrobat always on the edge of ruin. Fluent, aware, visual, wholehearted, Paul Siegell clearly sides with pleasure in the making of poems. Prepare to be challenged, entertained and astounded.” — Jeff Oaks “Paul Siegell’s the most original poet–in sound and sight–to break into print so far this millennium. Siegell owns a megaphone in the contest to be voice of a generation.” — Charles McNair , author of Land O’ Goshen and Book Editor at Paste Magazine “I’m always thrilled by Paul’s work, especially when I can understand it!” — Elaine Siegell, Paul’s mom

In addition, parts one & two of the print edition of Otoliths seven are now available at The Otoliths Storefront. Part one — the b&w & shades of gray part — contains work from Paul Siegell, Sheila E. Murphy, Julian Jason Haladyn, Bill Drennan, Jeff Harrison, Jim Leftwich, Matt Hetherington, Mark Prejsnar, Michael Steven, Geof Huth, Anny Ballardini, dan raphael, derek beaulieu, Raymond Farr, Jordan Stempleman, Vernon Frazer, Mark Cunningham, Randall Brock, Tom Hibbard, Andrew Topel, Andrew Taylor, Anne Heide, Catherine Daly, Karri Kokko, Martin Edmond, John M. Bennett, Lars Palm & David-Baptiste Chirot. 144 pages. Part two is in full color & contains work from Andrew Topel & John M. Bennett, Robert Gauldie, Marko Niemi, Nigel Long, Matina L. Stamatakis, Nico Vassilakis, John M. Bennett, Jeff Crouch, Eileen R. Tabios, Márton Koppány, Katrinka Moore, John M. Bennett & Friends, Alexander Jorgensen, Daniel f Bradley, harry k stammer & David-Baptiste Chirot. 112 pages.

Mark Young

Part, Part Euphrates

a new book of poetry by Arpine Konyalian Grenier:

"With an eternal lack of selfhood and longing for ancestry I am creeping along the sidelines of rhetoric and process hoping for an outcome that transcends my ability to determine the good in it."

Arpine Konyalian Grenier holds graduate degrees from the American University of Beirut and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York. Her work has appeared in How2, Columbia Poetry Review, Sulfur, The Iowa Review, Phoebe, Fence, Verse, Big Bridge and elsewhere, including several anthologies. She has repeatedly been chosen finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Greg Grummer Award, and has authored two volumes of poetry.

poetry / 38 pages / December 2007 / $ 10

Order here: http://tashogi.com/part_part_euphrates.htm

Poetry and the Trace: An International Conference

Sponsor: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Dates: 12 to 14 July, 2008
Venue: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Susan Stewart, Joan Retallack, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Lionel Fogarty

Convenors: Ann Vickery, Rose Lucas, John Hawke

Poetic language speaks of the elusivity, the impossible seductions of the trace — trace of memory, desire, the dreams of an impossible language which encompasses, of a presence which underpins...

The language of poetry, with its rhythms of pulse and silence, the reflective pause of metaphor and the capacity for representation, is inextricably related to the language of memory and desire — both subjective and social.

This conference broadly investigates the relationship between poetry, trace and memory and whether collective and private pasts and subjectivities can find articulation through the flexible forms of poetic language.

Is poetry a mode which at least partially restores the fragments of the past or transforms them to new political and ethical ends? How does poetry negotiate bad histories and bad timing? Whose memory is being voiced or heard? What is the relationship between memory and feeling? How might new technologies impact on structures of memory? Is poetry possible today and if so, what is its future? Can poetry evidence a archaeology of desire while engaging in a politics of ethical relationship?

Papers are invited which consider the theme of the trace in relation to poetry of any kind from classical antiquity to the contemporary. The following list suggests some possible areas for development, but proposals in any area relating to the conference theme of poetry and the concept of trace will be welcome:

Trace; aura; fragment
Mourning and melancholia Is Postmodern Poetry Beyond Mourning?
Canon, Reputation, and Institutionalisation
Is poetry possible in the new millennium?
The Unrecoverable: Gaps, Absence, Silence
The making of history
Memory, repetition, and seriality
Electronic Dreams: Digital memories
Whose memory?: Historicising poetic movements and coteries
Memory, nation, identity
Memory of sensation/the sensation of memory:
Rethinking the Relationship between Word and Affect
Memory and the Body
Memory and Desire
Belatedness
Bad history; bad timing
Poetic compost: recycling the past for present and future uses
Collective memory; cultural memory
Disputed memory; false memories; error and memory
Fugitive memory and the fugacious

Conference papers are 20 minutes in length.
To submit a proposal for the conference, please forward a 200-300 word abstract and brief biographical note as an email attachment to either:
Ann Vickery: Ann.Vickery[ât]arts.monash.edu.au
John Hawke: John.Hawke[ât]arts.monash.edu.au
Rose Lucas: Rose.Lucas[ât]arts.monash.edu.au
A website address will be posted shortly.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 February 2008
Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2008
This conference is being held jointly by Monash University’s School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, and the Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.

alligatorzine  — update autumn  — http://www.alligatorzine.be/

zine#53  — Chris Tysh  — Celine, en garde a vue

zine#52  — Chris Tysh  — Tristessa, a tracer autour

zine#51  — Chris Tysh  — Sonia, quelque chose de liquide ou diaphane

zine#50  — Rachel Blau DuPlessis  — Draft 83: Listings

zine#49  — Rachel Blau DuPlessis  — Brouillon 72: Nanifeste

zine#48  — Rachel Blau DuPlessis  — Brouillon XXX: Fosse

zine#47  — Rachel Blau DuPlessis  — Brouillon 42: Epitre, Studios

Two New Critical Books by Robert Sheppard

IAIN SINCLAIR

http://www.northcotehouse.co.uk/search.php?search_word=Sheppard&submit=Search+%21

This study of Iain Sinclair covers his work as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, taking each of these roles in turn, while stressing the connection between these activities.

THE SALT COMPANION TO LEE HARWOOD

http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/scp/9781844710775.htm

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the work of important British poet Lee Harwood, from his earliest writing as a follower of French Surrealism and New York poetry, when he was a leading light of the 'Underground' poetry of the 1960s, through to his long work The Long Black Veil and his major work since.

TECHNE: James Joyce, Hypertext and Technology, by Louis Armand

2nd corrected edition, with index; ISBN 978-80-246-1382-6 (paperback). 234pp. October 2007. Publisher: Karolinum/Charles University Press. Price: 12.00 (not including postage).
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/techne.html

While this study is concerned with the question of technology in its relation to the work of James Joyce and theories of hypertext, it is also, and more specifically, addressed to a concept of technology arising from the language of Finnegans Wake. Drawing upon developments in communication theory and information technology, this study attempts to map a parallel development in Joyce's uses of language in the Wake, arguing that Joyce's writing provides a model for re-thinking the relationship between technology and "all forms of cultural production."

2008 POETRY FESTIVAL Queensland, Australia

The Queensland Poetry Festival is calling for Expressions of Interest proposals from poets and other performers and artists interested in being part of the 12th Annual Queensland Poetry Festival. The festival is held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane, Australia, over the weekend of 22 to 24 August, 2008. For more information and to download guidelines and an application form please visit http://www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com/. Any queries can be directed to Julie Beveridge by emailing «julesbev[ât]yahoo.com.au»

Now available ...CONTEMPORARY POETICS

Redefining the Boundaries of Contemporary Poetics, in Theory & Practice, for the 21st Century

Edited by Louis Armand * ISBN 0-8101-2359-2 (paperback). 384pp. * Published: December 2007 * Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Evanston. * Price: USD 29.95 (not including postage)
 
http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/contemporary_poetics.html
http://nupress.northwestern.edu/title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-2360-6

Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study — a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics — this volume gathers a body of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate a possible poetics of the contemporary.

Jackson Mac Low, New York city, 1979. Photo John Tranter.

poets JACKSON MAC LOW and GIL OTT:
1979 interview

To read it go to:

http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

Two Wrongs

Ted Greenwald and Hal Saulson

Building on New York's remarkable history of painter and poet collaborations, this striking art and text project features nearly thirty paintings and poems by two seasoned artists.

Because his work always involves linguistic and formal invention, Ted Greenwald has often been associated with the Language Writers, but he is unmistakably a New York poet and even, given his street-wise sensibility and his long association with visual art and artists, a New York School poet.

Typeset and designed by Kyle Schlesinger, the dimensions of the images are true to the original works of art. 250 copies from SPD or Cuneiform at $20 a pop. Limited edition hardcovers are signed by the painter and poet, handbound, and printed on pure cotton rag paper in full colour. Edition of 20 available direct from Cuneiform at $75 a pop. Deluxe hardcover edition is housed in a slipcase and includes a small book handwritten by the author. Edition of 10 (only #1 and  #2 remain) available direct from Cuneiform at $300 a pop.

Book party at Sugar in NYC coming up in 2008.

Cheers,

Kyle

NOTE NEW MAILING ADDRESS:
Kyle Schlesinger
Cuneiform Press
214 N. Henry Street #3
Brooklyn, NY 11222
www.cuneiformpress.com

The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol Reader

Coach House Press
CAD $21.95
ISBN: 1552451879
http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/index.php?ISBN=1552451879

bpNichol was one of Canada's most innovative, eclectic, entertaining,
and, yes, enigmatic poets, making startling interventions in the
development of poetry and profoundly influencing both his own and
subsequent generations of writers.

The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader amasses key texts from the very
broad spectrum of Nichol's work, including both classic favourites and
more obscure treasures. From the early typewriter poetry of
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer and the life-long poem The
Martyrology to the heartbreaking prose of Journal and the whimsical
autobiography of Selected Organs, The Alphabet Game traces the
trajectory of this wildly imaginative and prolific poet.

Ron Padgett, NYC
photo by John Tranter

How to Be Perfect

New poems by Ron Padgett 114 pp. paperback. $15; Published by Coffee House Press:
http://www.coffeehousepress.org/

Prose Poems by Pierre Reverdy, Translated by Ron Padgett; 64 pp. paperback. $15. Published by Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, Distributed by Small Press Distribution, phone: (USA) 800-869-7553,
email: orders[ât]spdbooks.org

The Beat Scene number 51: The Bolinas Poets

Don Allen, Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Tom Clark, Angelica Clark, Larry Kearney, Jim Koller, Joanne Kyger, Lewis MacAdams, Duncan McNaughton, David Meltzer, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh,

AND

Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Gilbert Sorrentino, William Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Jack Kerouac, and Philip Whalen.


64 pages, 8×12 inches
Copiously illustrated in black and white

Four pounds sterling

Editor: Kevin Ring, The Beat Scene,
kev[ât]beatscene.freeserve.co.uk

Photo: Kris Hemensley, Westphalia, 1993. Photo copyright (c) Inge Timm, 1993

Kris Hemensley and the
COLLECTED WORKS BOOKSHOP

British-born and raised in Egypt and Britain, Australian resident poet and chronicler and bookseller extraordinaire Kris Hemensley has at last dipped his toes into the waters of cyberspace with a new blog; relaxed, knowledgeable, passionate about books world-wide.

At: http://www.collectedworks-poetryideas.blogspot.com/