Blake Butler

http://www.gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com/

Blake Butler lives in Atlanta. His third book, There Is No Year, is forthcoming April 2011 from Harper Perennial.

For their 6th issue, the always excellent Birkensnake is looking for strangers to cull the content for versions of an entire issue, as an experiment in curation: “We hope that many prospective editors will become involved in this project, and that there will be a large number of different Birkensnake 6s.”

Giveaway of Daniel Bailey’s Hallelujah, Giant Space Wolf

I have an extra copy or two of Daniel Bailey’s brand new and very excellent Hallelujah, Giant Space Wolf, now out from Mammoth Editions. Leave a comment and I’ll randomly select a winner to receive.

“I don’t know how many poets could write a book bringing together meth, Barney, racecars, black metal, God, and the Lakers in one massive feral hymn, but Daniel Bailey is the only one I’d trust. Water into wine is fine but this man can do it to dogshit. Hallelujah Giant Space Wolf is hilarious and true and beautiful. Hail holy spazzlord Bailey.” —Blake Butler

“If Daniel Bailey’s poems were people, they would be the kind of people that you love to get drunk with but you’re always a little afraid that they might try to slit your throat. When you tell them about Emily Dickinson feeling the top of her head come off, they reach for a saw. Still, you can’t help but love them. They’re a blast! They’re always a step away from going to jail or running into your parents or causing you to rearrange the furniture in your loneliest apartment. Daniel Bailey’s poem-people are in a gang called The Space Wolves and they are really, really excited about learning something from this terrible, amazing, gigantic world, even if that means that we’ll need a mop for all of the blood.” —Peter Davis, author of Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

  • Contests / 47 Comments
    April 24th, 2012 / 1:01 pm

    Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape starring John Hurt [2001]

    Film / 10 Comments
    April 23rd, 2012 / 4:00 pm

    If there’s any one good way to make writing even more irrelevant in the world it’s by doting over ceremonial bullshit that never meant anything in the first place.

    Wittgenstein’s Mistress Rejection List

    via Biblioklept

    Behind the Scenes / 12 Comments
    April 17th, 2012 / 1:19 pm

    Dan Hoy’s Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

    ORIGINS ARE THE FUTURE

    Dan Hoy’s Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Featuring Def Leppard, Bad English, Bonnie Tyler, Orbital, Bon Jovi, Belinda Carlisle, The Sugarcubes, Shakespeare’s Sister, Journey, Roxette, The Bangles, Heart, Alphaville, The Knife, Air Supply, Duran Duran

    thepinupstakes.com

    Film / 4 Comments
    April 5th, 2012 / 4:39 pm

    Dennis Cooper Papers

    A wonderful gallery display of Dennis Cooper’s papers in Amsterdam [click link to view in full].

    Author Spotlight / 3 Comments
    March 30th, 2012 / 8:11 pm

    10 minute documentary by Errol Morris on champion chicken wing eater, El Wingador, at the Times.

    What is the most you’ve ever eaten in one sitting?

    when was the last time you threw up on yourself & why not now