The Ultimate Graphic Novel (in Six Panels) by David Lasky.

This semester I’m taking a class on embodiment. You have a number of options for a final project. One of them is: “The construction of an original piece (or pieces) of art and a 7 page discussion of the impact of one or more of the theoretical works on its production.” How cool is that? What are some good works that deal creatively with the body, or with the collapsing of mind and body? What’s compelling or unique about the work’s approach?

(1) Ross Simonini discusses nonsense and Carl Sandburg at Poetry Foundation.
(2) Johannes Göransson looks at “fashion” and its context on writing at Exoskeleton.
(3) Michael Kimball interviews Padgett Powell at The Faster Times.

TONIGHT IN BROOKLYN: Melville House hosts ‘Publishing In The Age of Blah Blah Blah.’

ONE DAY ONLY: In conjunction with Obama’s State of the Union Address tonight (9 pm EST), Wave Books is offering a supreme discount on the REAL address: STATE OF THE UNION: 50 POLITICAL POEMS, featuring poems by 50 contemporary poets (John Ashbery, Anselm Berrigan, Lucille Clifton, CAConrad, Peter Gizzi, Albert Goldbarth, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Tao Lin, Eileen Myles, Michael Palmer, Wang Ping, Richard Siken, Juliana Spahr, James Tate, Catherine Wagner, Joe Wenderoth, Dara Wier, Rebecca Wolff, John Yau and many more). $5 for a softcover edition, available only through the Wave website here.

Salt labyrinths by Motoi Yamamoto.

The very generous Brad Green has offered to award a copy of Molly Gaudry’s We Take Me Apart to an HTML Giant reader of choice. Because the book is so persuasive in the way it links childhood space with food and movement of time, comment with a food that evokes some long memory of yours. A selected winner gets the book late tomorrow evening.

Opium’s death matches have a refreshing spirit, but I don’t understand this. Are we that competitive?

I’m not sure how to say this, but the new Joanna Newsom album is going to be three CDs/LPs. You can find the first single on the Drag City homepage. It is, um, gorgeous. I feel like most people here probably hate Joanna Newsom. What do you think of Joanna Newsom?

You can now purchase Unsaid 4 online. It’s seriously a monolith: a 500 pp. issue I go back to and back to like a textbook.