July 3rd, 2009 / 1:24 am
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Fence 21

fence21Reading 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.

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30 Comments

  1. July 3rd, 2009 / 5:35 am dasg—

      im poor. buy it for me?

  2. July 3rd, 2009 / 1:35 am dasg—

      im poor. buy it for me?

  3. July 3rd, 2009 / 5:48 am ryan—

      that cover is brilliant!

  4. July 3rd, 2009 / 1:48 am ryan—

      that cover is brilliant!

  5. July 3rd, 2009 / 1:52 pm Ross Brighton—

      i second dasg – more re intnl shipping than anything else. Big Joyelle McSweeney fan here though.

  6. July 3rd, 2009 / 9:52 am Ross Brighton—

      i second dasg – more re intnl shipping than anything else. Big Joyelle McSweeney fan here though.

  7. July 3rd, 2009 / 3:05 pm sam pink—

      sean kilpatrick = bad ace motherfucker

  8. July 3rd, 2009 / 11:05 am sam pink—

      sean kilpatrick = bad ace motherfucker

  9. July 3rd, 2009 / 3:36 pm Gene Morgan—

      100% bad as fuck

  10. July 3rd, 2009 / 11:36 am Gene Morgan—

      100% bad as fuck

  11. July 3rd, 2009 / 9:07 pm drew kalbach—

      i think i’m sold

  12. July 3rd, 2009 / 5:07 pm drew kalbach—

      i think i’m sold

  13. July 6th, 2009 / 7:26 pm Colie—

      yay! thanks blake!

  14. July 6th, 2009 / 3:26 pm Colie—

      yay! thanks blake!

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  16. July 8th, 2009 / 3:54 pm Christian—

      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.

  17. July 8th, 2009 / 11:54 am Christian—

      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.

  18. July 14th, 2009 / 2:24 am Nick Demske—

      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.

  19. July 13th, 2009 / 10:24 pm Nick Demske—

      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.

  20. July 26th, 2009 / 4:31 am dave demske—

      I lent Nick my copy and he dog-eared all the pages. Now I have a dog-eared fence.

  21. July 26th, 2009 / 12:31 am dave demske—

      I lent Nick my copy and he dog-eared all the pages. Now I have a dog-eared fence.

  22. July 26th, 2009 / 10:47 pm Blake Butler—

      bad shit

  23. July 26th, 2009 / 10:47 pm Blake Butler—

      :) :)

  24. July 26th, 2009 / 6:47 pm Blake Butler—

      bad shit

  25. July 26th, 2009 / 6:47 pm Blake Butler—

      :) :)

  26. August 9th, 2009 / 3:39 am Nick Demske—

      So I thought every page was noteworthy. So sue me, you bastages.

  27. August 8th, 2009 / 11:39 pm Nick Demske—

      So I thought every page was noteworthy. So sue me, you bastages.

  28. November 3rd, 2009 / 2:10 am dave demske—

      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.

  29. November 2nd, 2009 / 10:10 pm dave demske—

      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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