March 9th, 2010 / 1:18 am
Snippets

Just finished reading Sandra Simonds’s radical and freaky-chugging Warsaw Bikini from Bloof Books. She rips. Do a look at some poems from the book at Action Yes. “Ransom Note Attached to Wolf’s Ear” alone is worth buying three books: “all the vortex neurons poured through / a diamond shaped keyhole, the back door / of black shards bleed black light.” I want to print the whole of “Let Me Out” on the all above my bed. A book of might, this.

23 Comments

  1. ZZZZIPP

      ON THE ALL ABOVE MY BED I KEEP THE GREAT BEAR, AS WELL AS SATURN, A SPACESHIP, AND A DIAMOND KEY-CHAIN, WHICH I’M VERY PROUD OF.

  2. ZZZZIPP

      ON THE ALL ABOVE MY BED I KEEP THE GREAT BEAR, AS WELL AS SATURN, A SPACESHIP, AND A DIAMOND KEY-CHAIN, WHICH I’M VERY PROUD OF.

  3. V. Wetlaufer

      Totally agree. Simonds is fantastic. That book rocks my socks off. I also am in love with her chap “Used White Wife” from Grey Book Press.

  4. V. Wetlaufer

      Totally agree. Simonds is fantastic. That book rocks my socks off. I also am in love with her chap “Used White Wife” from Grey Book Press.

  5. andrew

      read a bunch of scorch atlas the other day, thought it was pretty dope.

  6. andrew

      read a bunch of scorch atlas the other day, thought it was pretty dope.

  7. mean

      this will sound very mean-spirited, but how does one use words like “freaky-chugging” or “rips” and praise a poem that talks about “all the vortex neurons” and “black shards bleed light”—how does one do this with a straight face? it’s like the literary equivalent of wearing black pants, a black death metal t-shirt, goofy black boots, dying one’s hair three different shades of red, not showering for 3 weeks, and then going to the tea party and being like, “have checks of the album’s latest, Death Thrall to the Zone of Batpiss. mackerel of doom noise, this. would pry from old ma’s decrepits fingers. Buy yes!”

  8. mean

      this will sound very mean-spirited, but how does one use words like “freaky-chugging” or “rips” and praise a poem that talks about “all the vortex neurons” and “black shards bleed light”—how does one do this with a straight face? it’s like the literary equivalent of wearing black pants, a black death metal t-shirt, goofy black boots, dying one’s hair three different shades of red, not showering for 3 weeks, and then going to the tea party and being like, “have checks of the album’s latest, Death Thrall to the Zone of Batpiss. mackerel of doom noise, this. would pry from old ma’s decrepits fingers. Buy yes!”

  9. davidpeak

      oh man i love death metal

  10. davidpeak

      oh man i love death metal

  11. Blake Butler

      sounds pretty good to me.

  12. Blake Butler

      sounds pretty good to me.

  13. Blake Butler

      also: you just said ‘literary equivalent of’

  14. Blake Butler

      also: you just said ‘literary equivalent of’

  15. Rebekah

      Here is an unrelated question. Not intending to hijack the post. But. I am doing so. Maybe.

      I know no one has time to read at AWP, but all us-type folks generally have a compulsive need to take books with us wherever we go. What are people taking to read at AWP?

  16. Rebekah

      Here is an unrelated question. Not intending to hijack the post. But. I am doing so. Maybe.

      I know no one has time to read at AWP, but all us-type folks generally have a compulsive need to take books with us wherever we go. What are people taking to read at AWP?

  17. davidpeak
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  19. I. Fontana

      “double-jointed hermaphrodite” pulled me in…..i’m getting her book. the last book of poetry i bought was by pasolini and my favorite poet ever is lorca (so i’m situated, contextualized).

      but i like fun with words.

  20. I. Fontana

      “double-jointed hermaphrodite” pulled me in…..i’m getting her book. the last book of poetry i bought was by pasolini and my favorite poet ever is lorca (so i’m situated, contextualized).

      but i like fun with words.

  21. Tim Horvath

      Any book I’ve brought to AWP in the past I’ve regretted because it felt like one less book/journal I could feasibly take back without permanent spinal injury. It’s the only place on earth I might go without bringing reading material. That said, I will probably alternate student stories with Skymall en route.

  22. Tim Horvath

      Rethinking my stance…mp3 player’s pretty light. Could pack some audiobooks without undue spinal blowback. I’m thinking maybe Lipsyte’s The Ask, though laughter might dislodge a couple of vertebrae.

  23. Tim Horvath

      Rethinking my stance…mp3 player’s pretty light. Could pack some audiobooks without undue spinal blowback. I’m thinking maybe Lipsyte’s The Ask, though laughter might dislodge a couple of vertebrae.