February 25th, 2009 / 4:14 pm
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‘Steve Reich Hears a Pentecostal Preacher’ by Adam Robinson, from ‘Adam Robison’

It’s not quite available for the masses yet, but to get you hype for the forthcoming release of Adam Robinson‘s debut book of poems, pleasantly titled ‘Adam Robison and Other Poems’ (and forthcoming in the next few months from Narrow House Press) we’ve got two special treats lined up.

The first is said book’s publisher’s new blog: Narrow House press blog, which is a pleasant introduction to the group and their releases, which span from records to full length poetry books.

Secondly, culled from what might be quite a length of dirty video recordings captured this weekend at the post-510 Reading Series bar assault (in which your current blogger and said ‘Adam Robison’ aka ‘Magic Acorn’ were asked to ‘stop wrestling in the bar or leave’), is Adam Robinson’s fine drunken performance of his poem ‘Steve Reich Hears a Pentecostal Preacher.’

Please enjoy (and thanks to Michael Kimball for the sweet capture).

You should have seen him breakdancing a few minutes later. It was a poem in itself. Though the guys at the pizza shop were less thrilled with Adam and some other weird dude screaming about dick and pouring water on each other in a beer haze. Poem video life.

Also, for your consumption, the brilliant introduction to ‘Adam Robison,’ published here at Otoliths, which contains the paragraph:

So what’s the story, Anne Carson? I mean, what’s my story? I’m riding my bike home with a video camera strapped to the handlebars, through the glittering downtown into the crumbling neighborhoods of Baltimore’s east side.

I, for one, am quite excited.

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11 Comments

  1. Michael

      I have the break dancing and the poem battling the flowers and the dick touching. I’ll put it together soon.

  2. Michael

      I have the break dancing and the poem battling the flowers and the dick touching. I’ll put it together soon.

  3. Matthew Simmons

      I have now found God.

  4. Matthew Simmons

      I have now found God.

  5. christopher higgs

      I second your enthusiasm. That piece in Otoliths is uber titillating.

  6. christopher higgs

      I second your enthusiasm. That piece in Otoliths is uber titillating.

  7. Justin Sirois

      Oh, just wait.
      The book cover is going to blow your mind.

  8. Justin Sirois

      Oh, just wait.
      The book cover is going to blow your mind.

  9. Jim
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  11. esra rashed

      i need c.v about poet steve reich