September 8th, 2011 / 11:37 am
 Author Spotlight

Mark Leidner on Collaging

on the occasion of the release of Mark’s second book, Beauty Was The Case That They Gave Me, which is absolutely the shit (for a taste, two of the poems appear here), and available now from Factory Hollow, and for which the cover appears as such:

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16 Comments

  1. September 8th, 2011 / 3:40 pm John Sakkis—

      Morning,

      I just received this at SPD yesterday morning. It really is a fantastic cover, at a glance the poems as well. And definitely the best title I’ve heard in a while. Congrats Mark. 

  2. September 8th, 2011 / 3:47 pm mimi—

      “churned butter this morning”

  3. September 8th, 2011 / 4:38 pm Adam Robinson—

      He hired a documentary film crew because 30 years from now he doesn’t want to wake up and wonder what he did with all that time.

      Nice. Funny like Leidner’s air conditioner that calls a grandma a true bitch. 

  4. September 8th, 2011 / 4:42 pm dole—

      This book is so great.  Poetry is Saved!

  5. September 8th, 2011 / 4:47 pm alanrossi—

      man, that video rocks. 

  6. September 8th, 2011 / 5:53 pm Ben Mirov—

      this is the best

  7. September 8th, 2011 / 6:37 pm Ken Baumann—

      Country collagin.

      They taught me how to think.

  8. September 8th, 2011 / 7:47 pm Adam J Maynard—

      curiously moving

  9. September 8th, 2011 / 9:16 pm lorian long—

      ‘memoirs of a secret agent’ is really great.

  10. September 8th, 2011 / 9:31 pm Noah Falck—

      I really like this gentlemen in the country. 

  11. September 8th, 2011 / 11:45 pm mark leidner—

      lol

  12. September 9th, 2011 / 12:08 am mimi—

      i like the lily pad one 
      the lovely loop-i-ness and little-hops of it

  13. September 9th, 2011 / 2:49 am Duke Ewing—

      To repeat–this is fucking great. I will now purchase this book. Thank you.

  14. September 10th, 2011 / 2:23 am MJ—
  15. September 10th, 2011 / 4:40 pm Ethan—

      “I went to Harvard, so… ah…” ~ dude wearing a HARVARD T-shirt

  16. September 13th, 2011 / 5:55 pm Carla—

      I would watch this TV show every week. Mark Leidner, start doing one-man comedy shows. I’m waiting.