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Christopher Higgs recommends Tierra Whack's WHACK WORLD, Otomo Yoshihide's ANODE, Marlon James's BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF, and a lunch of cucumber, tomato, red onion, feta, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
New issue of Vinyl Poetry has grocery litsts from the home team: Roxane Gay, Blake Butler, and Kyle Minor…plus a bunch of other good stuffs.
Word wizard Robert Kloss is Writer-In-Residence this month at Necessary Fiction, and he’s dedicating his month to doing some badass literary remixes of work from folks like Amber Sparks, J.A. Tyler, Michael Kimball, Me, James Tadd Adcox, and Andrew Borgstrom.
Speaking of Andrew Borgstrom, he has a new chapbook out called Explanations, from the almighty Cupboard.
This piece I read in Thought Catalog by Megan Boyle called “Everyone I’ve Had Sex With” captivated my attention. If you need or want more writing about sex, especially if you like stuff that might make you feel simultaneously uneasy and captivated, you should check out Janey Smith’s “Total Retard (Or How To Run a Successful Home School)” in the Lamination Colony swan song issue.
Next installment of my series “What is Experimental Literature?” coming soon!
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“Julia Cohen’s poems will knock you out with their fresh logics like some moon-governed dream… this collection is half in the world and half in the ‘non-world’ that ‘occasionally rolls over you,’ utterly grounded in the domestic and wildly transformative.” —Elizabeth Willis
“The poetics enacted in Triggermoon Triggermoon is rare in its exuberance and delicate humanity, its wistful acceptance of imperfection as the human condition, imperfection as a kind of pet we grow to love and depend upon. I have grown to love and depend upon this book.”—Bin Ramke
France/tour/détour/deux/enfants (1977-78)
directed by Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville
In 1976, Godard began collaborating with filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville on a series of radically innovative works for broadcast on European television — works that Colin MacCabe termed “probably the most profound and beautiful material ever produced for television.” Displaying the rigorous intellect and irreverent wit that characterize Godard’s films, these richly experimental works break new ground both as video and as television. [more]
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The whole series is available here.
If you desire braincandy/eyefood, check out Kristin Cerda’s excerpt from “{measurable angle [is to (meaning as periphery) is to] tide}” found in the new issue of Out of Nothing.
I’d always intended to write this series of posts, but kept putting it off.
Until now.
First, let me begin by saying that this topic is the focus of my doctoral research work. I’ve been actively engaged in the historical and critical study of issues surrounding this topic for about seven years now. Therefore, I have a shit ton of stuff to say about it. That said, I don’t want any of these posts to be overwhelming. My goal will be to introduce a brief, digestible amount of information for your consideration. I like what Kyle and Lily have been doing with their Geography Thursdays series: brief but compelling punches of thought. Sadly, I can’t promise to maintain their consistent frequency of publication, but because I like their model I’ll try to emulate the brevity.
I want to be clear: what I have to say is meant to start conversation not conclude conversation. I hope y’all will see that my intention is to be descriptive rather than prescriptive. In other words, I will strive to identify tendencies, not truisms. I don’t believe in truth, I believe in interpretation. (God bless Nietzsche.) Thus, I do not pretend to be right; I only pretend to have ideas worth talking/thinking about.
Now then, the focus of my first post arises from a consideration of Lyn Hejinian’s concept of open and closed texts…
Greg Gerke is curating a week-long tribute to Wallace Stevens set to include interviews with and tributes by James Longenbach, James Robison, Ken Sparling, Eleanor Cook (author of The Reader’s Guide to Wallace Stevens), Cooper Renner, Me, William Walsh, Jamie Iredell and others. Check it out.
Because my wife is away, presenting a paper on The Gurlesque at the National Women’s Studies Conference, I’ve been filling the lapses in my workload with movie watching. I’ve also been reading a manuscript by one of our fellow giants, which brilliantly knocks the rotten teeth out of language. But in terms of movies, I’ve watched three over the last three nights. One was blah, one was okay, and one was pretty good.
Here is my working theory of Kanye West: Many years ago, he won the love of some ancient god that no one believes in anymore. When he rejected the affections of this god, he was cursed. Though he would continue to find fame and fortune, he would also be unable to resist a very specific situation. Whenever people gathered together and there was some elephant in the room composed of bullshit that everyone was dutifully ignoring, West would be compelled to open his mouth and say something, and in a style that implies he was the only one who didn’t realize that it wasn’t socially acceptable to speak truth right at this moment. And despite his truth-saying abilities, he would be shunned. Whatever he said would be blown way out of proportion, as if it was the most hurtful thing ever. He would be forced to retreat to Twitter and wonder aloud why he’s cursed in just this way.
“Kanye West is the Cassandra of our Troy” by Amanda Marcotte