July 3rd, 2009 / 1:24 am
Print Journals
Fence 21
Reading and enjoying muchly the new issue of Fence, #21, which is full of fresh and good and fun, one of their best issues of late. It has some wonderful work from Giant friends Sean Kilpatrick, Colin Bassett, Janaka Stucky, as well as new by Rachel Sherman, Dean Young, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Ben Black, and a roundtable on nonrealist fiction with Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Joyelle McSweeney, Kate Bernheimer, and Eric Lorberer, and a lot more. I haven’t read a piece yet that I haven’t enjoyed and felt cooled by.
While you are at it, the friends at Fence are still offering a really great deal in that if you subscribe for 2 years (only $30, which is a steal), you get a free book of your choice (another $15 value, at least) from their excellent of array of past titles, including, among my favorites, Joyelle’s Flet, Daniel Brenner’s The Stupefying Flashblubs, Aaron Kunin’s The Mandarin, and their many new titles. If I weren’t already a subscriber, and have most all of their books, I would have done it again now twice.
Not sold yet? Fine. If that won’t do it, try on this sentence cut from Kilpatrick’s poem (1 of 3 from him), ‘Gay Trade.’:
Same old fears kind of save the day, / or make you look vacuously sane / in this light, eyelid small, giving / handshakes of solid milk, warmed / by crack-lighters drying your reflection / on a buried clothesline.
If you aren’t ready now, you never will be.
Tags: fence magazine, joyelle mcsweeney, sean kilpatrick
im poor. buy it for me?
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that cover is brilliant!
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i second dasg – more re intnl shipping than anything else. Big Joyelle McSweeney fan here though.
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sean kilpatrick = bad ace motherfucker
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July 3rd, 2009 / 11:36 amGene Morgan—
100% bad as fuck
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i think i’m sold
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yay! thanks blake!
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July 26th, 2009 / 6:47 pmBlake Butler—
:) :)
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[...] ups to Blake Butler, who gave big ups to this issue of Fence over at the htmlgiant blog, which I eat a healthy dose of everyday. Always various, crunchy, and [...]
Indeed. Janaka’s poems are so good they hurt. And I’m particularly delighted to see the Evenson/McSweeney, et al AWP panel in print. Especially becuase I missed the flesh version.
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I plan on constructing a fence around my house completely out of issues of fence magazine because I don’t know how to live my life right and because I want to become more literary upon entering and exiting my yard which i don’t have because I live on the third floor of an apartment.
you get it, though.
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I lent Nick my copy and he dog-eared all the pages. Now I have a dog-eared fence.
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July 26th, 2009 / 6:47 pmBlake Butler—
bad shit
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So I thought every page was noteworthy. So sue me, you bastages.
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This is the coolest, most amazing thing ever: Fence Books is delighted to announce the winner of the 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series, selected by Joyelle McSweeney from an excellent bunch of finalists: a self-titled manuscript by Nick Demske, to be published in the fall of 2010. Nick Demske lives in Racine, Wisconsin, and works there at the Racine Public Library. Visit Nick at nickipoo.wordpress.com.
I bet it was cuz they liked my pun about the dog-eared fence.
I also bet he won’t give me any royalties.
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